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Is The Odyssey sustaining our attention?
Babylon Bee: Odysseus Finally Returns Home After 20 Years And Oh No! Penelope Is Out Of Baking Powder And Needs Him To Run Out Again Real QuickWell, Christopher Nolan's screen take on the adventures of Odysseus is prompting a lot of commentary. Friends of mine went to the movie and had a hard time sitting through it. VDH, with his background in the history of this period, offered a great take on the hullabaloo surrounding the film before it even opened. And the Tablet magazine offered both pro and con takes on Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey': Epic for Our Times or Epic Failure? with lots of detail and opportunity for comment. And that's just the beginning of the arguments. But does the movie tell us anything else about our culture? How many people have read the original?
I ran across a YouTube short which stated (without documentation) that our average screen focus has plummeted from 150 seconds to 47 seconds over 20 years. And it provides a reason for this.
But what about page focus? Michael Smith: Reading vs. Visual CultureI just finished an interesting book by a favorite author of mine, and I was thinking how mentally engaged I get when I read a book that interests me as contrasted to the passive nature of watching a movie in a theater or from a streaming source. It occurred to me that one of the quiet tragedies of our increasingly online and visually oriented culture is that we are slowly losing one of the greatest gifts reading has to offer: the opportunity to create an entire world inside our own minds. That may sound like nostalgia talking, but I don’t think it is. It is one of the reasons great literature has survived for centuries while countless spectacular films are forgotten within a few years. Reading is not simply entertainment, it is a full- contact participation sport because when we watch a movie, virtually every creative decision has already been made for us. . .He suggests that reading, especially great works, involves a collaboration between the author and the reader. Though maybe some readers take the collaboration a bit too far, ignoring the intent of the author. Did Christopher Nolan take his "collaboration" with the author too far before he put in his version of the Odyssey on the screen?
Further thoughts from another Substack by Michael Smith: Our Own Odyssey What if less reading is a symptom, not a cause?
I remember a time when I was in college when I was relating a story about the wisdom of my grandfather, a man who spent his entire life on his farm in rural Mississippi. During the conversation, I used expressions that were perfectly ordinary where I grew up because that was simply the way we communicated. As I talked, I noticed the young lady I was speaking with beginning to look puzzled. She had grown up in a large metropolitan area in the Northeast and, as far as she was concerned, I might as well have been speaking a lost language. . . That memory came rushing back to me this past week after two seemingly unrelated things crossed my eyeballs. The first was an article in The Atlantic - - yes, The Atlantic, of all places - - titled The End of Reading Is Here by Rose Horowitch. The second was a video shared on "X" by one of my longtime favorites, Mary Katherine Ham.Here's the video:
And here's what the young woman is trying to understand:I have been saddened by this https://t.co/fVUcGbMpg7
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) July 10, 2026
Back to Michael Smith's Substack:Them: "America has no culture."
— 🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 (@MericaCulture) July 25, 2026
Ella Langley: "Hold my beer" pic.twitter.com/9Bxvwyms1l
. . . I don’t think the young woman in Mary Katherine Ham’s video was stupid. I think she was missing tools. Understanding language requires much more than recognizing individual words. It requires background knowledge, sustained attention, abstraction, inference, and an intuitive sense of where another person’s thoughts are headed before they finish the sentence. Those abilities are not genetic gifts. They are cultivated over years of reading, conversation, observation, and participation in a culture where large numbers of people share the same stories, symbols, assumptions, and historical references. Lose enough of those common reference points and communication begins to resemble my college conversation all those years ago, except this time there is no opportunity to notice the confused expression, no chance to rephrase the thought, and no shared experience from which to build a bridge.
I suspect this is where the internet has changed something far more significant than we appreciate. For nearly all of human history, communication happened face to face. If someone misunderstood you, you knew it immediately. You changed your wording, pointed at an object, drew a picture, laughed, gestured, or approached the idea from another direction until understanding emerged. Communication was an ongoing negotiation between human beings. The internet stripped away much of that feedback while simultaneously allowing each of us to inhabit our own algorithmically curated world. Two people born the same year, living in the same city, and speaking the same language can now possess remarkably little shared cultural knowledge because they have spent years consuming entirely different information, entertainment, history, and assumptions. We usually call that political polarization. I think it is something much deeper than politics. We are gradually losing the shared context that makes communication itself possible.
If that is true, then perhaps we have mistaken cause and effect. We commonly assume people stopped reading books and therefore lost the ability to understand complex writing. I wonder if the relationship actually runs in the opposite direction. What if people are reading less because the cognitive environment that once made deep reading rewarding has begun to disappear? Long-form writing assumes readers can hold multiple ideas in their minds simultaneously, recognize historical references without stopping, infer meaning that is implied rather than stated, and connect one paragraph to the next without constant repetition. Those habits develop inside a culture rich with common stories and shared assumptions. As that common culture fragments, long-form reading becomes more difficult and less rewarding. Schools respond by assigning excerpts instead of books. Writers simplify their prose. Publishers shorten their articles. Readers receive even less practice handling complexity, making the next generation of serious reading more difficult still. That isn’t a conspiracy. It’s a feedback loop.
The biblical story of the Tower of Babel has always fascinated me for that reason. Whether you view it as literal history or enduring metaphor, its central lesson isn’t merely that people began speaking different languages, they suddenly lost the ability to coordinate because they no longer shared understanding.I think this essay is worth reading and thinking about. Maybe even discussing.
The long strange trip is, of course, the Odyssey. The Christopher Nolan film dropped, to mixed reactions from conservative reviewers. Along with reviews, it gave rise to a number of entertaining memes. It was a rather slow week, so there were leftover memes–the World Cup, the buffalo, and so on. But the largest number of memes attacked socialism. Socialism has always been a target in meme-world, but with the Democratic Party going full commie, the memes are in overdrive. Oh, one more thing: the phrase “explosive diarrhea” entered the lexicon.
— 3rdnlong Chiefs' Poet / Songwriter (@Writer3rdnlong) July 17, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)ALL judges need to have been raised in the USA.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 25, 2026 11:17 AM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2026 11:17 AM (yGLqz)
How many people know there's something to read that existed *before* the movie?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2026 11:20 AM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2026 11:20 AM (TedUv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2026 11:20 AM (yGLqz)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2026 11:21 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: The Streisand Effect at July 25, 2026 11:21 AM (vDZgA)
In the subtitles they replaced the word 'homeless' with 'unhoused' even though one can hear the Japanese seiyuu use the English word 'homeless.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2026 11:24 AM (yGLqz)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 25, 2026 11:24 AM (HnIBa)
The situation overall is far worse today.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 11:24 AM (wi3nN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2026 11:25 AM (yGLqz)
When I first went into a deli I ordered a tuna sandwich and the clerk asked me if I wanted it on a hard roll. I said no I want it on fresh bread.
My co-employees loved to tease me. They would leave a note on my desk around lunch that said 'Wanna Goweat? '
And when I first had to wash my clothes I asked someone in my building if there was a Washateria close by. They looked at me like I was nutz. It's Laundromat you redneck😃
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:26 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 25, 2026 11:28 AM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 11:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:29 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 11:32 AM (rHgXV)
Quite so. Part of the Progressive Left's project has been to destroy "Shared Culture," which bound us together despite our regional differences. E.g., the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Greek mythology, etc. together with a common interpretation of same. None of this Jacques Derrida nonsense. If every interpretation is uniquely valid, then nothing is shred or common among all of us.
Posted by: RS at July 25, 2026 11:33 AM (GYx3d)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 25, 2026 11:34 AM (wTZkm)
In the subtitles they replaced the word 'homeless' with 'unhoused' even though one can hear the Japanese seiyuu use the English word 'homeless.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2026 11:24 AM (yGLqz)
And the proper term for them is "bum".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 11:34 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 25, 2026 11:34 AM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2026 11:35 AM (bkuEU)
What a cute song. I've never heard it before.
Thanks KT!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/
I didn't know it had reached #1 on top 100 Billboard chart until I looked up what was #1 a few weeks ago and that was the song. I only listen to my downloaded music or 70's 80's Sirius channels in my truck.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:36 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 11:38 AM (xSAlF)
Them: "America has no culture."
___________
"Them" are the same people who would say we need to appreciate Somalian culture.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 11:38 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 11:39 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 25, 2026 11:39 AM (NnhvP)
Thanks, KT. .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 11:41 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Click Clack Language at July 25, 2026 11:41 AM (ftsic)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:26 AM
How did they react to "Pinch the tail and suck the head."?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2026 11:43 AM (c/EJw)
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A lot of people even in 2026 profess bewilderment about progressive policies “it makes no sense” and “why would they want to do that” or this or not do that.
And much of it would appear inexplicable if one believed they weren’t trying to tear shit up. If you start with a different set of assumptions, everything they do makes perfect sense.
Border, language, culture looms large. Shared language and history. Cultural norms. Intact families, the basic building block of a functioning society. Etc etc, ad infinitum ad nauseam.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 11:43 AM (wi3nN)
I was having this exact thought yesterday. I finished a long book on the American Revolution, and then tried to find something to watch on Netflix. I gave up after trying a few things because nothing held my attention. I'm lucky if one thing in 10 holds my attention, whereas most books do. It isn't that I've selected the subject matter, because I do that for movies and shows as well.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Click Clack Language at July 25, 2026 11:41 AM (ftsic)
My brother and sister kittehs are named Bogey and Bacall. None of the staff at the Vet's office have a clue where those names come from.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:44 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2026 11:44 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Northernlurker
It's the oar-smiting from the benches that makes you a sailor.
I read it in ninth grade (called "Junior High" back then), then a smidge in Attic while in college. Then read the whole shebang aloud to my wife when we was a-courtin'. Then, the recent condensed version for YA (still pretty racy) to a girl I was 'school-sitting' (quick dose of home schooling while her parents went off to work and the bus wasn't due yet).
I think it's like Atlas You-Know-What: overwrought, wordy, needs an editor blah-blah-blah but you still need to go through it every couple seasons so you don't forget the characters. And then you bump into a line from it somewhere and you're flying through the gulch again, between the maelstrom and the rock.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 11:45 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 11:38 AM
To be fair, if we had sufficient learing laid on us, we would.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2026 11:45 AM (c/EJw)
ALL judges need to have been raised in the USA.
Posted by: AZ deplorable
This.^^^^^
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2026 11:46 AM (sl73Y)
Or you're a racist for not understanding it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2026 11:47 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2026 11:48 AM (JFPBr)
The situation overall is far worse today.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 11:24 AM (wi3nN)
Communist Goals For The USA as red into the congressional record in 1963. The communists have exceeded their wildest dreams.
https://tinyurl.com/4eku54s8
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2026 11:48 AM (hmYU4)
Ella Langley has nice elbows. Can sing too
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2026 11:48 AM (/hT+7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2026 11:49 AM (JFPBr)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2026 11:50 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2026 11:52 AM (JFPBr)
That this particular system of rule of law, individual rights, freedom of worship, private property, and the rest of it is so wildly successful it is obvious that is why they hate it so much.
“Presumption of Innocence” we take for granted. Or we used to anyway. I was astonished to see all those Ivy League cocksuckers on the TV hand wave all that away in order to advance their own political goals.
Anonymous accusations from 40 years ago? Well you gotta resign, obviously.
Sometimes you’ll hear leftists talk about “human rights” but they don’t want you to notice they mean “group rights”.
You are NOTHING unless and until you are part of a particular group.
“You ain’t really black unless you vote for me” said Joe Biden. The guy really is a fucking idiot, but he understands and articulates this sort of nonsense very well, at times.
Individual rights has probably always been a completely foreign and alien concept, and around the world even today
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 11:58 AM (wi3nN)
The report famously asserted, “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might have viewed it as an act of war.” It also insists that “…academic excellence [is] the primary goal of schooling [and it] seems to be fading across…American education.”
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2026 11:59 AM (c/EJw)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 25, 2026 12:00 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 25, 2026 12:03 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2026 12:06 PM (/hT+7)
Thanks, KT. .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 11:41 AM (xSAlF)
I think that's a general problem with movies/novels that source Greek or Roman myths.
Surprise! The same people who can't/won't take Christianity seriously, can't/won't take gods and goddesses in an ancient narrative. It's almost always played for the laughs.
Whereas a world with gods, popping in and out of human life like you'd pop into a Dairy Queen for a swirl cones would be frightening as hell.
I'd be interested in seeing an Odyssey or Iliad or Aenid like that.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2026 12:06 PM (iJfKG)
There are multiple people reporting overwhelming no shows. Most attendees are complaining that they end up with bad seats only to find out that theater is mostly empty.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is fake and gay, like Ellen Page.
Homer's Odyssey deserves far better.
Posted by: ironwolf32 at July 25, 2026 12:06 PM (Ih5Xj)
As a business major, I liked to go elsewhere with my electives.
Took a couse on greek mythology, read Metamorphese, The Illiad, The Oddysey, a bunch of comedies, Euripedese (?), all well over fifty years ago. Enjoyable change of pace.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2026 12:06 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Russian Hands, Roman Fingers at July 25, 2026 12:07 PM (JM9I6)
Divide everything up, increase ethnic tensions and hostility, ensure blacks and others remain mired in dysfunctional communities, and destroy the education system, sure. It’s too depressing to think about.
Get your kids completely out of government schools if at all possible. There is no other alternative
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 12:07 PM (wi3nN)
Posted by: Common Tater
___________
The sanctity of the individual is, from what I can tell, unique to the west, and maybe Christianity.
Here's a passage from Darkness at Noon that has stuck with me:
"There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles. One of them is Christian and humane, declares the individual to be sacrosanct, and asserts that the rules of arithmetic are not to be applied to human units. The other starts from the basic principle that a collective aim justifies all means, and not only allows, but demands, that the individual should in every way be subordinated and sacrificed to the community—which may dispose of it as an experimentation rabbit or a sacrificial lamb. The first conception could be called anti-vivisection morality, the second, vivisection morality."
And completely OT, this is why Spock's "needs of the many" quote has always pissed me off.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2026 12:10 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:11 PM (yiEEK)
We're going to "The Odyssey" tomorrow morning.
My excitement and anticipation have been appropriately dialed down, so I shouldn't particularly disappointed.
I've read the "The Odyssey" a few times before. Always a good read.
I'll probably do it again and we see TO tomorrow.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2026 12:11 PM (iJfKG)
There are multiple people reporting overwhelming no shows. Most attendees are complaining that they end up with bad seats only to find out that theater is mostly empty.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is fake and gay, like Ellen Page.
Gotta source for those claims?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: wcgreen at July 25, 2026 12:11 PM (u5BVN)
Posted by: Harry Truman at July 25, 2026 12:12 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 12:12 PM (gsYaF)
Gotta source for those claims?
I mean other than the Ellen Page one. That's spot on.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 12:12 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:36 AM (KC5Lt)
Fistbump!
I also like Classic Vinyl and Prime Country.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 25, 2026 12:12 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Joy Reid at July 25, 2026 12:13 PM (5rh/l)
There are multiple people reporting overwhelming no shows. Most attendees are complaining that they end up with bad seats only to find out that theater is mostly empty.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is fake and gay, like Ellen Page.
Homer's Odyssey deserves far better.
Posted by: ironwolf32 at July 25, 2026 12:06 PM (Ih5Xj)
My friend is running the 70mm and digital IMAX shows at a large theater. The theaters have been sold out (physically) at every show. AND, the theater is charging 3.00 more to see the 70mm or IMAX presentations. Two regular digital screens as well. It's crazy.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2026 12:15 PM (hmYU4)
complaining about attempts to tie things to white supremacy is one of the leading hallmarks of white supremacy.
Posted by: anachronda at July 25, 2026 12:15 PM (qdr3M)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
I) am not sure if that is it, or if it is that no real majority supported the woke jackassery, just that the loudest voices had all the support of the MSM and every other channel, and normies were silenced and isolated. The shoes selling out may be that normal people are deeply thirsting for any way to hit back and show displeasure without being cancelled and fired for being a rassishaterxenophobe.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2026 12:16 PM (rbvCR)
Meanwhile, Obama visited a practice session for the WNBA Allstar game where he met Caitlin Clark.
After telling her not to let all the nonsense get her down, to the surprise of no one, he quickly turned to talking about himself.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 25, 2026 12:16 PM (J4Dwc)
She wasn't convicted of calling the kid a racial slur she was convicted of calling the Somali man (unrelated to the Somali kid that stole her stuff) the racial slur.
The same guy had charges against him dropped one month before the Hendrix case of raping a 16 year old. And after those charges are dismissed...he immediately starts hanging out in a kid's park filming people?!?
Why were the charges dismissed? I can't find an explanation. The girl still seems to be saying the Somali guy raped her so she didn't drop the charges.
Posted by: Riker at July 25, 2026 12:17 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 12:17 PM (Ia/+0)
There are multiple people reporting overwhelming no shows. Most attendees are complaining that they end up with bad seats only to find out that theater is mostly empty.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is fake and gay, like Ellen Page.
Homer's Odyssey deserves far better.
Posted by: ironwolf32 at July 25, 2026 12:06 PM (Ih5Xj)
My friend is running the 70mm and digital IMAX shows at a large theater. The theaters have been sold out (physically) at every show. AND, the theater is charging 3.00 more to see the 70mm or IMAX presentations. Two regular digital screens as well. It's crazy.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2026 12:15 PM (hmYU4)
Yeah, people I've talked to who have seen the movie say the IMAX theaters were totally packed with people though there were a few front row seats available.
I can't even imagine trying to watch a movie in IMAX on the front row.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2026 12:18 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 12:18 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2026 12:18 PM (sKqQm)
Translators tried to dodge that by saying they're actually localizers, adapting it for a new culture rather than just translating. That was quickly flipped to "wokalizers" by the Internet and I think they're back to saying they're translators now.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Person who likes to say Point Of Order at July 25, 2026 12:19 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ironwolf32 at July 25, 2026 12:06 PM (Ih5Xj)
AI slop: Elliot Page being fitted with Mycenean armor
youtu.be/jG-qekubNcI
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2026 12:19 PM (rbvCR)
Saving Private Ryan
Interstellar
The Martian
The Odyssey
Hollywood has spent hundreds of millions trying to get Matt Damon home.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2026 12:19 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Duh at July 25, 2026 12:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Never made it through even the Illiad.
Decision it was one of those things you read to show others you have good taste. Or to show how edumacated you are.
And yes KT, the Biblical account of the tower of Babel is a true account.
Just as the creation account, the garden of Eden, Noah's flood, Abraham, the plagues in Egypt and the Red Sea crossing, etc, through our Lord's birth, ministry, death and resurrection.
It will be the same for the events surrounding His return.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 25, 2026 12:21 PM (/XKEa)
My excitement and anticipation have been appropriately dialed down, so I shouldn't particularly disappointed.
I've read the "The Odyssey" a few times before. Always a good read.
I'll probably do it again and we see TO tomorrow.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2026 12:11
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'Fake, if you limbo under the low, low bar of modern expectations you can be entertained, and it's a fast-paced three hours, but it has no staying power in the imagination (IMHO), unlike the source material.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2026 12:21 PM (kpS4V)
Divide everything up, increase ethnic tensions and hostility, ensure blacks and others remain mired in dysfunctional communities, and destroy the education system, sure. It’s too depressing to think about.
The goal is feudalism and no resistance from the peasantry. Who has historically resisted the most against unfree governments? White men. So minimize that population by all means possible, bring in races and ethnic groups more known for unthinking compliance, and pretty soon you can get used to people saying "yes, my lord" to you.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2026 12:22 PM (QZThv)
The news story mentioned they had 28K people on public assistance including...500 illegals. The number today? 2M people and I can't find any reasonable numbers for how many of them are illegals.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2026 12:23 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2026 12:23 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 11:58 AM (wi3nN)
Individual Rights are the basis of all Morality.
Denial of individual rights is the core of all Evil.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:24 PM (yiEEK)
Boston thug
Sneaky fucker
He is likely terrible in the Odyssey
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2026 12:24 PM (sKqQm)
Critical Drinker says it's basically Avatar, a movie everyone saw that made infinite money and which made zero impact on the actual culture. Nobody quotes it, nobody references it, it's a non-entity.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2026 12:24 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Person who likes to say Point Of Order [i/]
It's a fair cop.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)
Did you tell that to all the European fans of Men's Metric Kickball standing in line for brisket at Buc-ee's?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 12:25 PM (2Ez/1)
However, there is some push back.
Continued ...
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2026 12:25 PM (yTvNw)
So even if it's not historically accurate, it's capturing a lot of eyeballs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2026 12:25 PM (u0Ymi)
Good for her!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2026 12:26 PM (kpS4V)
It cost $250M to make, so films normally need to double that to break even. Its at $384M so far.
Oppenheimer cost $100M and made just under $1B.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Person who likes to say Point Of Order [i/]
It's a fair cop.
Upon further reflection, I withdraw my agreement. It is NOT a fair cop. The selling of a woman's athletic shoe is trivial, but what it portends is not. Yes, I really did spend more time thinking about this.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 12:32 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2026 12:34 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2026 12:34 PM (/hT+7)
So even if it's not historically accurate, it's capturing a lot of eyeballs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2026 12:25 PM (u0Ymi)
See my post at 67. Sellout crowds.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2026 12:35 PM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2026 12:35 PM (/hT+7)
I heard the Honda Iliad conks out right after Priam gets Hector's body back from Achilles.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 12:37 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 12:38 PM (F9jFo)
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Stupid is as stupid does
She seems as dumb as a box of rocks
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2026 12:38 PM (0TVIV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2026 12:38 PM (/hT+7)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2026 12:10 PM (XvL8K)
This cuts to the heart of why Marxism is a crude, satanic copy of 1st century Christianity. When a choice to sacrifice is made by an individual acting out of his own free will who understands all the ramifications of his or her actions, it is one of the highest and noblest endeavors possible.
But when that choice is made by a government against an individual’s wishes, it becomes an instrument of great evil.
“No man has greater love than that he lay down his life for his friends.” This we all acknowledge.
Yet it is an abomination to say “No State has greater love than that they slaughter their own citizens for the good of the State.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:38 PM (yiEEK)
Right. I haven't seen Avatar and I know exactly as much about it as people who have. It's not like The Matrix which still gets commonly cited today in a million different ways. This Odyssey is likely to go the same way.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2026 12:40 PM (QZThv)
The left is getting more consistent about this though - look at their arguments as to why illegals/immigrants shouldnt spend jail time for rape...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2026 12:40 PM (sKqQm)
There is resistance to this dumbing down and endless reliance on centralized technology. Home schooling. The move, especially by younger people, to reduce dependence on digital devices and their demands. Books by Martin Shaw (the story teller, not the actor) sell well.
Malcolm Guite's first volume of the poetic epic of the King Arthur legends sold out fast, a second printing was much bigger and sold out. The publisher is rushing a third, still bigger, run to meet current demand. It only came out in April. And it is selling to young people, not just aged nerds like me. Young parents are reading it to their kids and the kids are eating it up according to comments and reviews. The sources Guite lists in an appendix is generating renewed interest in medieval literature. Not just the stories but the culture that created them.
These things give me a glimmer of hope despite the darkness being foisted upon us and our culture.
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2026 12:40 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: JAZZY CROCKETT at July 25, 2026 12:41 PM (Cv/v8)
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Well, OK. It’s entirely schizophrenic with a bath salts chaser to watch “minorities” (coached by leftist twats) try to malign the structures and systems that provide for their sustenance.
Cassius Clay decided to poke around the continent of Africa when he was boxing overseas. When a reporter asked what he thought about his old stomping grounds all he said wss “I’m glad my daddy got on that boat!” LOL
I don’t “hate” government, but it is sobering to place your very survival in the hands of the sort of clowns these days who manage to get elected or appointed. What could go wrong? They insist upon themselves, and claim superiority in smarts or whatever, yet they are some deviant combination of incompetence and wicked malevolence.
They like to talk about “sustainable” an awful lot, though curiously never about a national government $38 trillion in the hole and borrowing & spending more. On stupid shit.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 12:42 PM (qs4KZ)
I am not surprised - the public is always disappointing me.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2026 12:43 PM (0TVIV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2026 12:34 PM (/hT+7)
I recently saw a discussion of the plot of Avatar: the critic panned it because it was also the plot to Disney's Pocahontas
then he took the plot of Pocahontas and scratched out the proper nouns and replaced them with the ones from Avatar to prove his point.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2026 12:43 PM (rbvCR)
It's also part of the source tale of The Lone Ranger! JS Mill and Jeremy Bentham get credit as founding libertarians, but in that respect they sure aren't. It's dangerous to study just a little philosophy. At my school we didn't have a "101."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 12:43 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 12:43 PM (Ia/+0)
2) adult literacy:
I used to tutor adult literacy one-on-one. I quit because it was too hard on me physically. A good portion of those who sign up for literacy classes don't really want to learn to read-- they want help with their medical correspondence, & other business-related matters. And that's fine, but it surprised me.
Posted by: mnw at July 25, 2026 12:43 PM (RCjYY)
92 Whatever you think of Nolan's film, it's doing boffo box office.
So even if it's not historically accurate, it's capturing a lot of eyeballs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2026 12:25 PM (u0Ymi)
When it came out, Avatar was the highest grossing film of all time.
A few years later, it’s a mostly forgotten juvenile embarrassment.
PT Barnum: No one ever went broke Underestimating the taste of the American Public.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:44 PM (yiEEK)
Someone once observed that there are only six plots that get re-skinned for every new story.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 12:45 PM (guGkK)
Reading along seeing people just hammer this movie and then, what do they do?
Go give the movie maker their money to watch it.
As an aside, it wasn't the Greek and Roman philosophers that the founders of this nation adhered to when founding it. They neither believed in nor followed after pagan gods.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 25, 2026 12:45 PM (/XKEa)
100%. The real qualitative difference in today's Marxist morons is that they believe they can substitute their political system and nothing else will change except what they want to change. We have a century+ of data proving otherwise, but we're the "science deniers".
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)
Boston thug
Sneaky fucker
He is likely terrible in the Odyssey
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2026 12:24 PM (sKqQm)
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I thought he reached his apex in Team America, World Police
Posted by: Trey Parker at July 25, 2026 12:45 PM (oT0kA)
A few years later, it’s a mostly forgotten juvenile embarrassment.
How can it be forgotten; it won't go away. They'll keep making them like they made Rocky movies, until they stop printing money.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t)
AYFKM? Telemachus *still* doesn't have his driver's license?!?!?!
Posted by: Odysseus at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Annie Amphora at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 12:45 PM (guGkK)
I always thought Campbell was overstating the hero's journey importance.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (rbvCR)
then he took the plot of Pocahontas and scratched out the proper nouns and replaced them with the ones from Avatar to prove his point.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2026 12:43 PM (rbvCR)
Right idea, wrong film. As James Madison and I have joked often, Avatar is almost a scene by scene ripoff of the children’s eco-fantasy cartoon “Ferngully”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (yiEEK)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (QZThv)
*** shifty eyes ***
Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (V0/Sp)
What shared context? Diversity is our strength. Yeeting shared context is the whole point. Sending a Normal to a post-modern university will reset her context into communications black hole.
Lack of concentration due to hours of training into passive awareness via endless scrolling contributes to a naturally low context culture losing the utility of pronouns because the listener lost track of the subject and object, not just because the cultural Marxists have deliberately worked to deconstruct simple 1:1 communication.
This is why a large and growing part of the country can only "communicate" in emotional trigger words and emotis and is increasingly alienated from reason.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Second Only To Turkish Women at July 25, 2026 12:48 PM (JM9I6)
122 What's a Grecian urn? I never got a straight answer to that.
Posted by: Annie Amphora at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (JM9I6).
20 bucks, same as in town!
(I had to say it)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:48 PM (yiEEK)
That plot also predates Pocahontas (a movie which itself is probably best known today as a way to call Elizabeth Warren names).
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2026 12:49 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 12:49 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: The Movies Blow Chunks at July 25, 2026 12:50 PM (ftsic)
Posted by: Archimedes at
Fair cop comment made me look. I agree with your reconsideration, was not a fair cop.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2026 12:51 PM (sl73Y)
I read both, on my own in the Fitzgerald translation (dating myself, I know) and preferred the Iliad. Never warmed to Homer's Ulysses. Basically burns through all his men on the way home. Even though that's a given, it never appealed.
Posted by: YellowBird at July 25, 2026 12:53 PM (MEbkQ)
I think Trump is negotiating with them again.
Posted by: mnw at July 25, 2026 12:54 PM (RCjYY)
Some of whom are very quick to chastise football fans for watching NFL games because woke. I guess they don't see the hypocrisy.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 25, 2026 12:54 PM (J4Dwc)
It's been pointed out regularly that movies originally became popular because they were the first places in most of the country to have air conditioning outside of factories that needed the climate controlled (the original reason Willis Carrier did the thing).
Meanwhile, the BBC had an activist woman on who said rather than buy an air conditioner and make the baby Gaia cry (before we abort it?), you should, and I quote, "paint your windows with yogurt". I guess the smell when you fill your house with yogurt and its 85 degrees will make you forget that you're hot.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2026 12:54 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (yiEEK)
Didn't Cameron direct Ferngully as well?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2026 12:56 PM (lFFaq)
San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shananhan was involved in a serious car accident last week, the team announced on Saturday.
Shanahan broke his nose, three ribs, his hand, needed over 40 stitches in his face and suffered a severe concussion in the accident, according to ESPN.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2026 12:56 PM (2WIwB)
A lot of it may be the hair style but she reminds me of a young Linda Ronstadt in that video. And that's not a bad thing.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 25, 2026 12:57 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:44 PM (yiEEK)
I can't wait for the "Barbie" sequel!
Posted by: American Public at July 25, 2026 12:57 PM (ftsic)
I think you may want to look to the header of this blog for the actual source of that quotation.
Barnum is unfairly maligned. He was a major Republican functionary, and mayor of Bridgeport when it was a conservative stronghold. Certainly never the Babbitt depicted by this line.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 12:59 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: one hour sober at July 25, 2026 12:59 PM (J4Dwc)
This is a direct repudiation of 'W's (including Ted Kennedy and John Boehner) asinine "No Child Left Behind" policy that mainstreamed retards and thugs into the class room alienating good teachers into early retirement, and causing a generation or two to go stupid due to "teaching" to the lowest common denominator.
I'm glad to see a resurgence in a bifurcation of this society into mouth breathers and Producers. We have all heard of Pareto Law (80:20), but with AI society can still function with a 95:5 Principle of Factor Sparsity.
I encourage homeschoolers to conquer at whatever they do.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 25, 2026 12:59 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:47 PM (yiEEK)
Didn't Cameron direct Ferngully as well?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2026 12:56 PM (lFFaq)
I have no idea who *did*, but Jimmy wasn't involved.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2026 01:00 PM (vDZgA)
They were cap & ball percussion cap revolvers, miraculously modified to fit brass cartridges, I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 01:02 PM (qs4KZ)
A well reasoned explanation. Thanxs.
Spock's version has always reminded me of the kid throwing himself on a grenade to save his squad. Stalin's version is vile.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2026 01:02 PM (2WIwB)
You sure as shit have a lot of excuses for not knowing things.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 01:03 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2026 01:03 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2026 01:00 PM (vDZgA)
Never watched either, but I could have sworn I'd read when "Dances With Aliens" came out that he'd also been responsible for Ferngully. Maybe people were just noting the similarity.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2026 01:03 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: banana Dream - mmmm siren milk at July 25, 2026 01:03 PM (3uBP9)
One way to stop Mahomes is to construct a roster with suspect WRs.
Posted by: mnw at July 25, 2026 01:03 PM (RCjYY)
@LeadingReport 51m
Parsley and cilantro reportedly now linked to cyclospora outbreak in North Carolina, per NYP.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 25, 2026 01:04 PM (diia5)
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Never watched either, but I could have sworn I'd read when "Dances With Aliens" came out that he'd also been responsible for Ferngully. Maybe people were just noting the similarity.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2026 01:03 PM (lFFaq)
This title will never not be funny.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2026 01:05 PM (vDZgA)
But the time, he's taking the back way, avoiding Scylla and Charybdis entirely.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 01:06 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2026 01:06 PM (2WIwB)
Or the US military ran out of things to drop.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 25, 2026 01:06 PM (rgGn5)
Is he related to Jerry Rice? Definitely starting to see dynasties in football. Aren't the Mannings on the third generation now?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 25, 2026 01:06 PM (lFFaq)
Other areas: more recently published books of classic poetry and literature and they are selling. Renewed interest in hands-on hobbies and activities. Increasing amount of home schooling. An upsurge of interest and conversion in the traditional Roman Catholic church, despite the last few Popes. Not just the motions but seeking understanding of the reasons Christianity is so valuable to individuals and society.
Posted by: JTB at July 25, 2026 01:07 PM (yTvNw)
By the way he's two stepping round the room
Okay, in defense of the confused blogger, I'll join her and say this lyric is unclear.
You have 3 people: an observer, a two-steppin he, and a she from Texas.
Why is it obvious that "she" is from Texas? I surmise it's because "he" is outrageously flirting with her, and Texas girls then must be very attractive. But if the only clue that she's from Texas is his attention directed toward her, I must say the blogger's confusion is legitimate. Should one assume from this song that if a girl attracts a man's attention, that girl has to be from Texas?
Posted by: bradc at July 25, 2026 01:08 PM (CtpVw)
Posted by: Community Notes at July 25, 2026 01:06 PM (rgGn5)
Could be. Rumor has it that the most recent payloads dropped on Iran consisted exclusively of I'm With Her T-shirts in assorted colors and sizes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 01:08 PM (guGkK)
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"It takes a child to raze a village" --- Florence King
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 25, 2026 01:10 PM (XeU6L)
I don't like audiobooks for NEW reads, but I have developed a fancy for using audiobooks of things I've read dozens of times as background while gaming, painting, etc.
Last year I got the audiobook for one of Heinlein's "juveniles" - Starman Jones. Early on our hero hitches a ride with a hovertrucker to a spaceport, stops off at a diner along the way. The waitress addresses the trucker as "honeychile".
The reader pronounced it (phonetically) as "honey" + "chili". As in, not the dish, but the country of Chile. Now, I grew up in the South but I don't think "honeychile" as a drawl of "honeychild" is all that mysterious. At all.
Yet. That glaring mistake made it through reading, performing, and any editing that may have happened after (are audiobooks edited?).
I read a lot of technothrillers and have some as background, and I'm not going to do more than roll my eyes a bit at someone not knowing that "MK-48" is usually pronounced as "mark 48", not "em kay 48".
But I guess I should be happy that blondo is at least trying to explain and solve her confusion. Right?
Posted by: Dale at July 25, 2026 01:10 PM (f45WX)
Pretty sure Rashee Rice & Jerry Rice aren't related. If they were, I think it would've been widely reported, and it hasn't been.
Posted by: mnw at July 25, 2026 01:11 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Community Notes at July 25, 2026 01:06 PM (rgGn5)
I'm not really buying into that. First of all we bombed the crap outta Vietnam for years and never ran out. And second, do not underestimate the power or agility of American industry when given a contract, with incentives, to build more and do it quickly.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2026 01:14 PM (2WIwB)
i was never so bored. I may have even died and my hell has been my existence since
Posted by: Pants in the Wind at July 25, 2026 01:16 PM (LOZbR)
In the Heroes Journey, the main character has to go on a long journey and fight through many challenges which change him and enable him to overcome and triumph.
In the Big Lebowski, the main character goes on a long journey and has many difficult challenges. However, he isn’t changed at all, only those around him are changed, and everything just works out. The Dude Abides.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 01:16 PM (yiEEK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 01:08 PM (guGkK)
Heh.
A good psyops mission.
A million tee shirts saying I'M WITH STUPID!
and a arrow pointing to the ayatollah.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2026 01:16 PM (2WIwB)
"Just when I thought I got him to fall in love with Tennessee
I shoulda known better than to take him back to Abilene
I put him right back into her arms
I wasn't a match for that kind of spark"
this establishes the context
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2026 01:17 PM (0JWOm)
I would posit that last night's lull had more to do with planning .
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2026 01:17 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2026 01:02 PM (2WIwB)
A little known fact is that sometimes the "kid" gets thrown on the grenade by his squad. If he's a dipshit. Again, a little known fact.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 25, 2026 01:18 PM (HnIBa)
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How do you feel about 'World war eleven"?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 25, 2026 01:19 PM (XeU6L)
"He's from Texas. I can tell by the way he's two-steppin' around the room" (I can tell he's from Texas by the way he dances)
vs.
"He's from Texas, I can tell. By the way, he's two-steppin' around the room." (I can tell he's from Texas just by looking at him. Oh, by the way, did you know he's dancing around the room without your knowledge?)
Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at July 25, 2026 01:20 PM (JuaQi)
Maybe Iran is realizing that Trump is prepared to accept high gas prices and all that that entails for the election. I think Iran has been counting on Trump quitting before the election.
Posted by: mnw at July 25, 2026 01:21 PM (RCjYY)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
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Posted by: Caffiend at July 25, 2026 08:01 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 25, 2026 08:03 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)
From what I saw, his jokes were basically for himself to mock the press to their faces.
But he should have went full Norm--over explaining why the joke is funny to make them suffer more.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2026 08:06 AM (3cUTc)
No covfefe for me. I am drinking a hot cup of Char Teas' "Winchester Breakfast" blend, although I am drinking it in a very hefty mug advertising Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee. Arbuckle's was a famous coffee purveyor of the 19th and early 20th centuries, often called "The coffee that won the West." In order to preserve freshness, they developed a way to coat their beans in an egg wash and they also included a stick of peppermint candy in each bag.
The original company no longer exists, but a revived operation is in business today. I picked up a pound as a gift for a lady friend, and she says it's very good. But YMMV, of course.
arbucklecoffee.com
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 08:08 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 08:11 AM (wxb/S)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2026 08:12 AM (jehhT)
And I've still got this nasty cold, although it has boiled itself down to a blocked right ear, raw throat and a chest full of mucus.*
Trivia note: Beatles' manager Brian Epstein's memoir was called A Cellarful of Noise, a nod to the cramped basement of the Cavern Club in Liverpool. John Lennon sneered that, given Brian's predilections, it should have been titled A Cellarful of Boys.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 08:13 AM (qRla/)
Prayers said for all.
r hennigantx, and all the others who mourn, special prayers. Remembrance honors the departed.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2026 08:13 AM (h7ZuX)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
St James, Apostle and martyr, pray for us.
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I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:14 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2026 08:06 AM (3cUTc)
That would have been hilarious.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2026 08:14 AM (h7ZuX)
1) A few weeks ago after Mass, one of the priests asked my grandson if he was considering the priesthood. Thy had not discussed this previously.
2) My grandson had a telecon that lasted for about 1-1/2 hours with a former Superior General of a religious order discussing the vocation of priesthood.
3) Last week, my grandson told the family that he wants to go to Seminary after high school.
Please continue to pray for "LH" while he continues to discern the vocation being a priest in the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:22 AM (ksbjf)
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2026 08:23 AM (/hT+7)
Posted by: Bob McCallister, 1967 at July 25, 2026 08:23 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Spirit of Jack Chick at July 25, 2026 08:25 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 08:25 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2026 08:26 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:14 AM (ksbjf)
MP4, nice to see you so early! You are in my prayers.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 08:25 AM (FGA9/)
Thank you, both. It's been a rough week, though not even close to some of the misery others of the Horde are experiencing. I really must get a note off to Grammie.
Being remembered and prayed for means more than I can say.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 08:30 AM (qRla/)
{grammie}
Condolences to Capt. J. and her family
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 08:30 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:14 AM*
Am slowly working my way through the book.
Currently pondering the phrase "... every good thing and every perfect gift..." in Chapter 1.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Spirit of Jack Chick at July 25, 2026 08:25 AM (JM9I6)
Fortean Times magazine did a cover story on Chick last year, I believe. I'd have to take some time to dig it out.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 08:31 AM (qRla/)
I wanted to catch Miley or Publius on a live thread, but I never could, to encourage them. Elderly patients don't metabolize medication very quickly, and when they get a lot of meds, or have lots of anesthesia, it clouds their minds and they act strangely. Many families think this means dementia has set in, or that some latent personality traits are showing themselves suddenly, but often (not always, of course) when their body catches up and enough of the chemicals are flushed out, their clarity returns.
Such good news for this family.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 08:31 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 08:32 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 08:32 AM (FGA9/)
Back to writing, but I'm around. Dropping in here and there.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 08:32 AM (qRla/)
Prayers to all who need them 🙏🙏🙏
I am still doing fine - pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. I am incredibly blessed!
Finished up the latest stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild; DD#3 and hubby started IVF last month. First attempt didn't take, so they will be trying again next month. Prayers for a successful procedure and subsequent pregnancy would be greatly appreciated! I am hoping that I will live long enough to see at least one more grandchild born.
We will be going out to California at the end of next week to visit DD#1 and her family - the grandsons are getting bigger every day. We can't wait to see them again 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 25, 2026 08:33 AM (SRRAx)
Howdy, Dash!
Would humbly request prayers for Marshall, a long-time friend and HS classmate of Mrs MKC, who is currently hospitalized with heart failure.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 25, 2026 08:34 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)
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Good old Chandler!
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2026 08:34 AM (GD0B3)
Back to writing, but I'm around. Dropping in here and there.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 08:32 AM (qRla/)
Mine does too. However, the liturgical calendar was revised.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:36 AM (ksbjf)
Thank you for asking. It has been a hard week. We both will be glad to meet with the doctor on Tuesday and find out what we are facing.
MrTea is still working so that is very good for him to go and do/think about other things.
I'm all over the place. Fine one minute and weepy the next. Trying to be strong for our son, who does not understand but knows something is really wrong. He and his dad are very close, and he does a lot of M's care.
But, God is good, and He is faithful. And I know He hears our prayers. Ps 103 is my go-to right now.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 08:37 AM (FGA9/)
I am still doing fine - pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. I am incredibly blessed!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 25, 2026 08:33 AM (SRRAx)
God is good! You are a walking miracle! Prayers for successful pregnancy for DD#3. Babies make us happy.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2026 08:37 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2026 08:38 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)
Please continue to pray for "LH" while he continues to discern the vocation being a priest in the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:22 AM (ksbjf)
What a wonderful young man! I have a young nephew who graduated from Texas A&M this year. Early on he asked to be the Chaplain for his unit (I’m not quite clear how the Corps is organized); by his senior year he was designated student chaplain for his entire graduating class. He has expressed a desire to go on with a career as Chaplain in the US military forces. Surprised all of us who knew him as an intelligent, but rather shy and reserved boy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 08:39 AM (wxb/S)
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Yaaas! b"h
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 08:39 AM (JvZF+)
I am old enough to remember that miraculous occurrence, and now our family is fortunate enough to possibly benefit from that technology.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 25, 2026 08:40 AM (SRRAx)
Salmonella is a nasty bug, what a blessing that she had endured and recovered. Blessed be God forever!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 25, 2026 08:43 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 08:43 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 08:44 AM (JvZF+)
I'm drinking half Bones maple bacon, half Rootless damn fine cup of coffee, iced, with Javvy protein coffee powder for extra kick. I need it this morning.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2026 08:46 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Sal Monella at July 25, 2026 08:47 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 08:47 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2026 08:48 AM (ibDUx)
I suppose it behooves one to make sure this does not befall candidates in our time.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 08:48 AM (zdLoL)
I am old enough to remember that miraculous occurrence, and now our family is fortunate enough to possibly benefit from that technology.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 25, 2026 08:40 AM (SRRAx)
I don't want to rain on your parade, but IVF is not an unalloyed good. There is a very dark side to IVF: rejected fertilized eggs (i.e., microscopic human beings) are destroyed. Since the doctors are playing God, the Catholic Church opposes IVF.
I sympathize with couples that desperately want to be parents, but IVF makes me squeamish.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:48 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 08:43 AM (JvZF+)
Young Scott, to Dr. Evil: “I hate you! I hate you! I wish I was never artificially created in a lab!”
Dr. Evil: “Scott, that hurts daddy when you say that.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 08:51 AM (wxb/S)
I suppose it behooves one to make sure this does not befall candidates in our time.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 08:48 AM (zdLoL)
Are you talking about the homosexuals that got put into the Seminaries in the 1970s and 1980s? They were put there by the Communists that infiltrated into the Catholic Church in the 1930s and 1940s. Just about all of those men are dead - or soon will be.
The current generation of priests are much more orthodox and take their vows of celibacy seriously.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:53 AM (ksbjf)
https://youtu.be/AfY7CGU8sck
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 25, 2026 08:53 AM (kOluj)
Tecumseh Tea.... I've been where you're standing. I sincerely hope that road leads you in a different direction than it took me. I was 30 yrs old with a 2 yr old child when my first husband passed from an aggressive lung cancer.
Stand strong, hon. "Be still and know."
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 25, 2026 08:55 AM (OsdBI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 08:56 AM (JvZF+)
77° here in North Alabama. Good morning everyone. All done with round one of shoulder PT for the day. Two more rounds to knock out. I've got back full range of motion after surgery on the 6th to repair the rotator cuff started very. PT lady added mild resistance with the bands yesterday to isolate the scapula muscles.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 25, 2026 08:58 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 25, 2026 09:01 AM (nT/TX)
Well, looks like my disk failure has wiped out a ton of documents. My various spreadsheets of my music and Delilah and Dutch's show careers are gone. My music survived, thank God. Depressed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 09:10 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Madamemayhem
Thank you for sharing. I can't even imagine the road you've been down.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 09:10 AM (FGA9/)
I bet he was proud! Good for him, and for you and MrsF too.
This is a family effort, to get our kids out and about and living as full a life as possible, and as independently as possible.
I'm so happy for him.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 09:12 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2026 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)
Governor Newsom Press Office
@GovPressOffice
Donald Trump is a son of a bitch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2026 09:14 AM (AMvSw)
BTW, I know I am not online as much as I used to be, but has something happened to Fenelon? I haven't noticed her around the few times I've been here.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 09:14 AM (qRla/)
My attempt at renting a Uhaul failed, not sure what to do now to get a load out of here.
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:15 AM (Ia/+0)
@GovPressOffice
Donald Trump is a son of a bitch.
And yet, 100 years from now, he will be remembered as one of the most consequential Presidents while you will be the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 09:16 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 09:10 AM (O0L8i)
Backup, backup, backup. And often. I have 6 external drives that serve that single purpose. Because all of us have been there. With very important documents, paper copies as well. A couple of thumb drives for "spur of the moment" stuff come in handy as well. Drives can and do fail. More often than not, over years of use.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2026 09:16 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2026 09:16 AM (26GAh)
It's so weird being raised by Christians, and spending your entire childhood being told to care about others…then one day they're just like you're not actually supposed to care about others, you stupid Marxist libtard socialist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 25, 2026 09:17 AM (nT/TX)
So many blessings from last weekend's visit with my sister-in-law. Got to meet my grandniece and nephew for the first time. My nephew and his wife have their hands full with their son's autism. Moderately functioning. He seemingly has an ability to tell you the exact time of day with no clock in sight. The daughter is wonderfully typical 11-year old, ably defending her Swiftie status under my withering attack.
Taking Little through my old neighborhood, going past the high school, pointing out storefronts, and finally, buying him his first Dickie Dees hot dog, were among the bucket list items checked during this road trip. The weather presented some challenges coming and going, but was uncannily gorgeous through the weekend. My heart is full. Praise God for his protection and provision...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 25, 2026 09:18 AM (nbLIj)
She's good. She also has that new kitten who is keeping her busy! Millard Fillmore, lol
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 09:19 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:15 AM (Ia/+0)
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All the Uhauls are in California
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 09:21 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 25, 2026 09:21 AM (nT/TX)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2026 09:21 AM (SfhV1)
************
*MPPPP writes* "It was a dark and stormy night"
No, dammit. I used that in chapter one...
*strikes through*
*writes* "The night was both stormy and dark."
Crap! That's not any better!
*scribbles over angrily*
*thinks*
Aha!
*writes* "'Twas the hours between dusk and dawn, when the gloomy veil of pitch black endlessness creeps into the souls of men, as thunder clouds gather on the horizon, gnawing at the inner fears that dwell within. A gentle downpour surges to become a raging gale. Suddenly a shot rang out and somewhere a dog barked."
*sits back, sips tea smugly*
Now THAT'S more like it!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 09:21 AM (I0N4X)
@WesternLensman
MSNOW covering the WCHA:
"The president has convinced a great many Americans to not trust reporters."
Fails to mention that they've done just fine with that all on their own.
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For decades I wondered whether the media was really that stupid or whether they were that dishonest but now I know the answer is yes
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:22 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 25, 2026 09:18 AM (nbLIj)
Absolutely. What a blessing!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2026 09:23 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2026 09:24 AM (ALKK0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 09:10 AM (O0L8i)
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Awful.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 09:24 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 09:25 AM (2Ez/1)
I always wondered why the sodomites would want to join the priesthood. Then as I got older and wiser I learned it's what sodomites do...infiltrate and destroy from within, preying on the youth and unsuspecting.
Posted by: Like the Boy Scouts at July 25, 2026 09:25 AM (ftsic)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 25, 2026 09:26 AM (kOluj)
She's good. She also has that new kitten who is keeping her busy! Millard Fillmore, lol
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 09:19 AM (FGA9/)
Good to hear. I should do the same.
I've never known whether it's supposed to be pronounced "MILL-r'd" or "Mill-ARD" Fillmore.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 09:28 AM (qRla/)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)
Parable of the Sower, the seed that fell on rocky ground:
“ 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 09:29 AM (wxb/S)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Maine says if you lose Race A in the primary you cannot find an alternate (another open position) path to the General Election.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 25, 2026 09:30 AM (/+uur)
**crushing hug**
Grammie, how wonderful to see you! I keep meaning to send a letter, yet I never do.
You are in my thoughts, and if my minor prayers are taken notice of, I pray for your health and happiness. AoS would be the poorer without you.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 09:30 AM (qRla/)
Well the real number is around 36k.
The public 6600 was to hide the real fraud.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 25, 2026 09:31 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: PabloD at July 25, 2026 09:32 AM (OygQN)
For someone who's been fortunate enough to have never met me, you have a pretty good lock on my writing process, Muldoon.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 09:32 AM (qRla/)
Trump: "Elizabeth Warren did not accept our invitation to debate. I wanted to debate her. I decided to bury the hatchet."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:32 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2026 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)
"It was a dark and stormy night, when the blackened heavens, rent by a ghastly lightning, poured their torrential lament upon the earth. The wind moaned like a lost spirit through the pines, and each clap of thunder seemed the knell of some dreadful, forgotten doom."
So there's that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:53 AM (ksbjf)
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There was a second category - men who recognized that they had sinful desires and figured that being ordained would drive it from them.
I think there is some overlap between the two groups, and certainly unscrupulous bishops tried to make us believe that all of the gays were in this second, pitiable category when they weren't.
The Jesuits at this point is nothing but a gay lobbying group, GLAAD with collars. It's past time to suppress the order. Again.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2026 09:21 AM (SfhV1)
Hugs, grammie!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 25, 2026 09:36 AM (h7ZuX)
That is when school will be starting for the grandkids, so Chateau Lloyd is a hive of activity. Thank you for your prayers, their effects are apparent to everyone here and much appreciated.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2026 09:38 AM (LIHQP)
Prayers up for all of God's children.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
(And prayers for the meeting I will lead later this morning, for peace and discernment and may reason and neighborly love rule the day.)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 25, 2026 09:38 AM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Here, kitty kitty works, too!
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 09:39 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:53 AM (ksbjf)
I always wondered why the sodomites would want to join the priesthood. Then as I got older and wiser I learned it's what sodomites do...infiltrate and destroy from within, preying on the youth and unsuspecting.
Posted by: Like the Boy Scouts at July 25, 2026 09:25 AM (ftsic)
Homosexuality is a disordered sexual passion due to being sexually abused at a formative age. It seems that homosexuality becomes their identity and, since they can't reproduce, they recruit by abusing the young.
Interestingly, of all the ancient Mediterranean religions, only the Jews and, later, the Christians proscribed homosexuality. They certainly were familiar with the practice, but God instructed them to reject homosexuality. Also, St. Anthony of the Desert taught that the pagan gods were actually Satan and his fallen angels.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 09:39 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 09:28 AM (qRla/)
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I suppose it is a regional thing, sort of like how you have George WAHshington vs WARshington.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 25, 2026 09:40 AM (SwCxT)
WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham’s Exclusive Adidas Shoe Sells Out After Saying Men Don’t Belong in Women’s Sports
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:41 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:41 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:42 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 09:44 AM (KC5Lt)
Report: GOP Memo Urges Republicans to Link Democrats to Communism
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:45 AM (ndZc7)
Well the real number is around 36k.
The public 6600 was to hide the real fraud.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 25, 2026 09:31 AM (/+uur)
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This is why panicking about the mid-terms is so stupid.
Many jurisdictions haven't even settled on the fall ballot yet. The stupid models are just that, and until you have actual candidates, the charts and tables are just there to waste everyone's time.
The Dems are nominating certified lunatics, so all the fancy "historic trends" are irrelevant, and we're now seeing that many of the elections built into the model were fixed.
The Dems have gotten lazy. They thought their cheating model would last forever, so they can just run whoever they want and win. Under the GOPe, they were right, but things are different now, and Trump 2.0 is hitting them from every side. That's why they are getting so violent.
This also tells you they know they are losing. Threats are for losers. "If we gain power again, we'll kill you!" is what weak people do. Strong people watch, take notes, and then settle the scores, because threats may cause people to chicken out, or fight that much harder. Stupid.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2026 09:45 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2026 09:21 AM (SfhV1)
You're the treasure and we love you dearly.
Posted by: It's true, we do at July 25, 2026 09:46 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:22 AM (ksbjf)
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This is great news! I see it as a win either way - he clearly is a serious-minded man and will be a great and thoughtful father in either context.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s “Electric Dr. Franklin” has a display that "pondered” whether Ben Franklin had performed electroshock experiments on slaves.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:47 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Many Scheduling Conflicts at July 25, 2026 09:47 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:48 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:53 AM (ksbjf)
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There was a second category - men who recognized that they had sinful desires and figured that being ordained would drive it from them.
I think there is some overlap between the two groups, and certainly unscrupulous bishops tried to make us believe that all of the gays were in this second, pitiable category when they weren't.
The Jesuits at this point is nothing but a gay lobbying group, GLAAD with collars. It's past time to suppress the order. Again.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)
It's my opinion that homosexuals being intentionally put into the priesthood was part of Satan being granted 100 years to destroy the Catholic Church (ref. Pope Leo XIII's auditory experience). It seems that the 100 years is ending: see the dramatic rise in conversions into the Church and a much more orthodox, younger clergy.
My grandson has no interest in the Jesuits. Hopefully, Pope Leo XIV suppresses that order: it's well past time. They've lost their way.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 09:48 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 09:49 AM (KC5Lt)
These fags were never interest in woman in the first place.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2026 09:49 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:50 AM (Ia/+0)
No, altar boy, I'm talking about a B-24 radio operator who went to Holy Cross in the 40's and became an accountant, and a Khe Sanh Marine whose kid pitches in the majors. Sneer harder, streetfighter. Keep losing.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 09:53 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Kramer at July 25, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:22 AM (ksbjf)
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This is great news! I see it as a win either way - he clearly is a serious-minded man and will be a great and thoughtful father in either context.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)
He and I now have regular discussions after Mass concerning points of theology or Church teachings. LH mentioned last week that people are being put into his path that are giving him opportunities not available to every 16 year-old. As a matter of fact, he's going on a 1-day retreat today.
He's a young man that loves mission work, Adoration and the Eucharist. He's now one of the senior Altar Servers.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 09:55 AM (ksbjf)
Exactly. And, as Talarico’s floundering in Texas with black voters has been demonstrating, their old coalitions that they took for granted are cracking up under the strain.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 09:55 AM (o8hG1)
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F*ck you up the ass.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:55 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 25, 2026 09:56 AM (NnhvP)
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Don't make MisHum turn this car around, mister!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 09:56 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:57 AM (Ia/+0)
For anyone who was still clinging to that character and its series, you now have ample reason to limp away. Seems a shame.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 09:57 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2026 09:21 AM (SfhV1)
Grammie !So glad to hear from you and see you are feeling better !
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 09:59 AM (FtULh)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:47 AM (ndZc7)
Idiotic. In fact, as the knowledge spread through Europe, it was common for members of the upper classes to have “electric parties” where they would shock themselves, both for the “experience” and because of some mythical health benefits.
The upper classes have always been weird.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 09:59 AM (o8hG1)
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Now that I parse the phrasing this seems to promise a deferred punishment with a sword of Damocles aspect to it.
Which, ironically, is itself a sharp object
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:00 AM (I0N4X)
That's minor compared to what he has said previously. He's the worst kind. Declares he is a real Christian and all right winger Christians are fake.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:00 AM (KC5Lt)
Amen.
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2026 10:02 AM (LHPAg)
Bass Under Fire: LA Mayor Points Finger at Trump over Homelessness Crisis
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 10:02 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: huerfano at July 25, 2026 10:02 AM (VJX5o)
We know Franklin did it to himself and family members. The Smithsonian decided to add in that other tidbit with no shred of evidence in order to rile up their leftist troops.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:02 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Is there real evidence he was working for the Brits? I've never really read up on that controversy.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2026 10:03 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 08:53 AM (ksbjf)
No, altar boy, I'm talking about a B-24 radio operator who went to Holy Cross in the 40's and became an accountant, and a Khe Sanh Marine whose kid pitches in the majors. Sneer harder, streetfighter. Keep losing.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2026 09:53 AM (zdLoL)
You seem nice.
I made no implication against your friends. They discerned-out of the priesthood. Nothing against them; it is not unusual for seminarians to decide that the vocation of priesthood was not for them.
I was trying to clarify your point. It is now known that Communists infiltrated the Church (see Bella Dodd's admissions of guilt) and they, in turn, put homosexuals into the seminaries. I was concerned for you friends that homosexuals had attempted to abuse them. I'm glad to hear that did not happen.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 10:04 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:04 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 10:05 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: TeeJ at July 25, 2026 10:05 AM (/XKEa)
A prayer of Thanksgiving is offered for my n'er do well daughter. She started an commercial electrical apprenticeship program this week. Pray she does well and works hard.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2026 10:05 AM (O6Iwc)
2) Be kind. Be nice.
3) Running with sharp objects will result in automatic disqualification sometime down the road.
4) Have a great weekend!
Do you remember those halcyon days of yore, when MisHum was still finding his feet regarding the rules? When it was easy to find loopholes, and go wild?
Those days of dipping the 'ettes pigtails in the inkwell, of making and flying paper airplanes, shooting spitwads through a Bic pen barrel, putting tacks on MisHum's chair, moving the clock up five minutes, and generally executing on primal persuasions?
I kind of miss those days.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2026 10:05 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 10:06 AM (o8hG1)
Nothing exciting going on here and I am fine with that for the time being, The latest heat wave has broken and I have a tomatoe plant that is taller than I am and doesn't have any tomatoes yet.
{{{Teresa}}}you are a walking miracle. Have fun with the grandkids.
{{{I used to have a different nic}}}radiation does work. I've seen it up close.
Any update on Some Rat?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2026 10:08 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:47 AM (ndZc7)
Idiotic. In fact, as the knowledge spread through Europe, it was common for members of the upper classes to have “electric parties” where they would shock themselves, both for the “experience” and because of some mythical health benefits.
The upper classes have always been weird.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 09:59 AM (o8hG1)
Ben Franklin also founded one of the first (if not the first) Abolitionist societies in the then-colonies. I assume that the Smithsonian didn't see fit to provide that bit of information.
Just more of the Commie scum besmirching the reputation of the Founding Fathers.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 10:08 AM (ksbjf)
This was early in the event before DJT spoke.
They spent an inordinate amount of time reliving the event in April. My goodness, to hear them recount the tales of gallant bravery as they boldly texted and tweeted from beneath the banquet tables while clutching stolen bottles of wine, every one of them is deserving of the Congressional Medal of Honor and by now should be recognized as honorary Navy Seals.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 10:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 10:09 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 08:13 AM (qRla/)
John Lennon was ashoe.
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2026 10:10 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 10:08 AM (ksbjf)
Trump brought back a statue of Jefferson to the White House. The commie media said only that Trump was honoring slaveholders.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 10:11 AM (o8hG1)
John Lennon was ashoe.
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2026 10:10 AM (LHPAg)
Beatles were my era.. Saw them when they came to the Cow Palace the first time....Yeah, I'm that old.. I had a tween crush on George... LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 10:12 AM (FtULh)
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Electric Parvenu - a li merick
The upper classes partied with felicity
and a bit of scientific elasticity
They'd rub balloons in their hair
and gaily stick them everywhere
They called it "ecstatic electricity"!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:13 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2026 10:13 AM (/hT+7)
Thanks I hope so. Though some styles or techniques I might use on later paintings might not be someone's cup of tea. But that's okay. I have my own favorites that include some of my first paintings but I agree that it gets easier the more I do it and techniques have progressed.
I probably wasted much time figuring things out rather than take lessons but that's what I enjoy most.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:15 AM (KC5Lt)
A dear friend's adult son committed suicide last week.
He's a devout Catholic. He just finished burying his son, traveled to the family plot in the home town and has now returned.
His spouse had a planned trip overseas, and he will be alone for a few weeks.
What would anyone suggest his circle of very concerned friends do to keep his spirits up?
I can see him descend into despair, but grief is a difficult and very personal journey.
How to be there, but not impose?
Posted by: Derak at July 25, 2026 10:15 AM (P8hA7)
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:15 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2026 10:16 AM (JGje1)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:15 AM (KC5Lt)
Do you sell your paintings ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 10:17 AM (FtULh)
Make Electric Parties Great Again!
Posted by: Ol' Sparky at July 25, 2026 10:17 AM (EJWxb)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2026 08:06 AM (3cUTc)
Should have gone.
Posted by: Grammar Police at July 25, 2026 10:18 AM (GFRGc)
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 25, 2026 10:19 AM (KGj36)
Posted by: Mary Poppins'
Used to be a comic strip called Mallard Fillmore. Fairly conservative, frequently funny. I miss the comic pages, but gave up newspapers a few years back.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2026 10:20 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 10:17 AM (FtULh)
I mostly sell commissions but I have sold a few completed paintings through charity auctions and word of mouth.
I price them like a plumber. 😀
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:20 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 10:12 AM (FtULh)
Well he certainly was nicer that Lennon or McCartney, but probably not Ringo, who was the smartest.
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2026 10:21 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:21 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2026 10:22 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2026 10:22 AM (Oy/m2)
Went through it last fall, so yeah, experience here.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at July 25, 2026 10:22 AM (mQbp+)
re: Franklin and electroshock therapy on slaves
It's just another way to say Hate Whitey. Just because.
Any opportunity to stir up more racial animus.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 10:22 AM (FGA9/)
At least we didn't have to read "should of..."
Posted by: Pedantic word nerd at July 25, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 25, 2026 10:19 AM
No love for Electric Avenue?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuwxZSIS__4
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2026 10:23 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:23 AM (KC5Lt)
I price them like a plumber. 😀
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:20 AM (KC5Lt)
LOL..Good for you.. This is the first time I've looked at one of your paintings and I think you are very talented...I taught art at a Private girls HS many moons ago... I used to paint and sold paintings...I concentrated on local scenes .It was easy to find great subjects where I am...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 10:23 AM (FtULh)
Posted by: Thorvald, creator of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup at July 25, 2026 10:24 AM (0sNs1)
https://tinyurl.com/eeaear5c
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2026 10:24 AM (QxSDX)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 09:44 AM (KC5Lt)
While that is true, the Catholic Church has gotten much better at recognizing the threat homosexuals pose. Back during the sexual abuse scandals of the 1990s, bishops were being advised to reassign priests rather than laicise (i.e., remove them from the priesthood). We now know that the people giving that advise to the bishops had their own pro-homosexuality agenda.
There is now a group called Courage that councils same-sex attracted people within the Catholic Church. Fr. James Martin and the Synod of Synodality do not like Courage. However, Pope Leo XIV met with people and priests involved with Courage to discuss their ministry.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 10:24 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Pedantic word nerd at July 25, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)
I could care less about that.
Posted by: Grammar Police at July 25, 2026 10:24 AM (GFRGc)
Posted by: Derak
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Maybe meet him somewhere for coffee just to talk. See where the conversation goes.
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:26 AM (I0N4X)
And contrary to quite a few ignorant comments I've seen in the past on this very site, one of the all time greats.
No people, being a great drummer isn't all about how fast you can go.
Nor is being a great guitar player.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 25, 2026 10:27 AM (/XKEa)
Posted by: Blue Hair at July 25, 2026 10:27 AM (VGE5u)
I can see him descend into despair, but grief is a difficult and very personal journey.
How to be there, but not impose?
Posted by: Derak
Honestly, just go and sit with him. No need to talk at this point - there will be time for that later. After my late wife took herself out, a number of my buddies visited now and then for weeks afterward. We just sat there on the porch. Sometimes, I'd say something but most times not. As I look back it was exactly what I needed.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2026 10:27 AM (O6Iwc)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2026 10:27 AM (bkuEU)
She said she is getting her affairs in order, and that the last 2 weeks had been very difficult with severe nausea and fatigue.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 10:28 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: creeper at July 25, 2026 10:28 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: muldoon at July 25, 2026 10:26 AM
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You probably don't even need to say anything.
You can pretend to care, but you can't pretend to be there.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 10:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at July 25, 2026 10:22 AM (mQbp+)
In that sense radiation is a lot like listening to Rush or eating at Taco Bell.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2026 10:29 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2026 10:29 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Pedantic word nerd at July 25, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)
I could care less about that.
Posted by: Grammar Police
Irregardless. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2026 10:29 AM (O6Iwc)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2026 10:29 AM (13VxP)
She said she is getting her affairs in order, and that the last 2 weeks had been very difficult with severe nausea and fatigue.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 10:28 AM (FGA9/)
I saw that... Prayers... And for you as well...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 10:29 AM (FtULh)
Yeah, the more I read about the Fabs, the more I realize that, had I known them, I probably would have never have been friends.
- John was a sarcastic asshole always looking for your weak spot.
- Paul was a schemer, with a reputation for two-facedness and insincerity he's never been able to shake.
- George was a cranky misanthrope who would have been happier had the Beatles never become famous.
- Ringo would generally be cool / accepting to your face, but held grudges like an SOB.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:30 AM (qRla/)
I've moved to a new development recently and have painted a number of scenes and was advised that the developer was interested in buying a few once they build another community building.
I plan to charge them like a very expensive plumber.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:31 AM (KC5Lt)
I plan to charge them like a very expensive plumber.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:31 AM (KC5Lt)
Good for you.. Keep it up
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2026 10:31 AM (FtULh)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:31 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Eh at July 25, 2026 10:32 AM (VGE5u)
Posted by: Eh at July 25, 2026 10:32 AM (VGE5u)
Yes, we are in the process of getting some Fenben -- thought we had a local source but that turned out to not be true.
He is taking some anti-tumor herbals right now, and working on getting the fenben.
M is 39, developmentally 7-13, nonverbal. Not autistic, just mentally impaired with a separate speech disability.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 10:33 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: Pedantic word nerd
I could care less about that.
Posted by: Grammar Police
Irregardless. . .
Posted by: Tonypete
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For all intensive purposes...
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:34 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: muldoon at July 25, 2026 10:26 AM
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You probably don't even need to say anything.
You can pretend to care, but you can't pretend to be there.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 10:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Well said. Back when an old college buddy was having a rough patch, I drove over an hour to meet him and buy him lunch and a beer at his favorite bar. He later told me that really helped him.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 25, 2026 10:34 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:34 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Tuna at July 25, 2026 10:35 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 10:35 AM (FGA9/)
She said she is getting her affairs in order, and that the last 2 weeks had been very difficult with severe nausea and fatigue.
Oh, FFS. She's one of my fave commenters.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:35 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 10:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: polynikes
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Sounds like you will soon be flush with success...
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:37 AM (I0N4X)
Everyone is at a total loss as to how to support him.
I concur, talk not necessary, presence is.
He needs to know he can float on the presence of those who truly care.
I appreciate the fact that the Catholic Church has moderated its stance on suicides. He was able to have a funeral mass, which in years past, it was not allowed. That was extremely beneficial for the surviving family.
The church has decided it's up to God to determine the state of mind the suicide was in and grant pardon, allowing mental illness as a mitigating factor. It's is not for our judgement.
Posted by: Derak at July 25, 2026 10:37 AM (P8hA7)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2026 10:37 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:34 AM (I0N4X)
I'm sure you know those are referred to as eggcorns. I love them . My favorite is Chester Drawers.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:37 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: creeper at July 25, 2026 10:37 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 09:28 AM (qRla/)
He's from upstate NY and there's stuff named after him around. I have always heard it as the first one.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 25, 2026 10:38 AM (w/O5Q)
https://tinyurl.com/eeaear5c
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John III Sobieski spins in his grave.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 10:38 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Eh at July 25, 2026 10:32 AM (VGE5u)
Even without The Beatles, John and Paul, Paul certainly would've broken into the public consciousness at some point as rock musicians. Ringo was already a professional drummer.
But, George probably wouldn't have gone anywhere if the others hadn't been there. an okay songwriter that had to get better because Paul and John were schooling him indirectly every time they got together.
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Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2026 10:38 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 10:38 AM (FGA9/)
Posted by: dantesed
How music lover Hitler could have (could of) listened to Tchaikovsky and concluded the Russians were subhuman is beyond me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7)
See you later.
Thank you all so much for praying for us.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 25, 2026 10:40 AM (FGA9/)
You know, being here today is really a welcome dope slap for me. As much as I wallow in my own unhappiness and self-loathing, I never really keep in mind that so many others have it much worse than I do and don't have the luxury of deceiving themselves as to the misery of their lives.
I despise almost everything about myself and my life - but I am alive, I can write and I could, if I wanted, hop in the car right now and take a nice drive with good music blasting from the speakers.
I'm actually feeling ashamed right now.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:40 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:40 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2026 10:41 AM (abScH)
I think George wrote songs or produced songs for Bad Finger.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:40 AM (KC5Lt)
That was probably Paul.
He wrote their first hit, "Come and Get It".
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2026 10:42 AM (iJfKG)
Whenever I saw Donna&&&&&
I used to think Donna and the &&&&&
Donna being the lead vocalist of course.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 25, 2026 10:42 AM (/XKEa)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2026 10:43 AM (kJmSS)
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A couple of months ago the govt released a plan to Muslimify the countryside. They said the fact there are rural areas without diversity is racist. And here we are with the first steps of that plan.
Posted by: Grammar Police at July 25, 2026 10:43 AM (GFRGc)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:43 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 10:44 AM (2Ez/1)
I think it's the book 150 Glimpses of the Beatles that has a short alt-history essay where Gerry and The Pacemakers become the Fab Four and the Beatles a flash in the pan who released a couple of albums and now work as a cover / tribute band at local fairs, always playing at least one or two of their own songs, John saying that the audiences don't really like them, but the band likes playing them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:44 AM (qRla/)
Donna & the umlauts.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 10:44 AM (2Ez/1)
I'm actually feeling ashamed right now.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
I pray your find enough peace you go on that drive.
Posted by: Piper at July 25, 2026 10:46 AM (Dd38x)
I started with the horse paste (apple flavor). I switched to the 1% solution for cattle and swine.
At the church bowling league I got teased. "You still taking the horse paste?"
"No, I am taking the 1% solution for cattle and swine."
Lots of laughs.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2026 10:46 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:47 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2026 10:47 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: naturalfake
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The interwebs say Mccartney wrote it. Harrison played on and produced Day After Day.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2026 10:47 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Grammar Police at July 25,
Diversify with all young men of military age?
Seems suspect.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2026 10:48 AM (sl73Y)
It's me, Donna was It's just me, Donna.
I suggested she drop the "just" from it.
Posted by: TeeJ at July 25, 2026 10:48 AM (/XKEa)
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2026 10:49 AM (LHPAg)
I'm actually feeling ashamed right now.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:40 AM (qRla/)
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God bless you!
Unless you have a bunch of bodies in the basement or are a Democrat politician (but I repeat myself), you have nothing to be ashamed of. God's mercy is infinite and I would say that your soul is more precious to Him than those of us who pray, fast, go to church because yours is in more peril.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 10:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 10:49 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:50 AM (KC5Lt)
The band (originally The Iveys) was discovered and promoted to Apple Records by Mal Evans, one of the Beatles' roadies. He tried his hand at producing, but wasn't good at it. George stepped in to play slide guitar on "Day After Day" and, as lead singer Pete Ham tells it, his ideas of production were very different from what the band considered their sound, but who were Badfinger to second-guess Harrison?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:50 AM (qRla/)
They Just Had a Bad Spell - a limerick
Paul and Ringo wait on pins and neadles
While all day long Lennon whines and wheadles
But when it comes to the end of the day
They should all just shut up and play
(And they should have been"The Bugs" not "The Beatles")
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 25, 2026 10:50 AM (I0N4X)
What did john do.....other than break up the first boy band and get shot
Paul did nothing
Ringo who?
Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 25, 2026 10:52 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:47 AM (KC5Lt)
I understand that the original treatment of Yesterday had a far darker ending, but I've never been able to confirm it.
And I think the movie missed a spectacular opportunity by not casting Julian Lennon as his dad.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:53 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2026 10:54 AM (qFwJc)
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We really need to reclaim our nuclear weapons on British soil and bring them home.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2026 10:54 AM (jehhT)
We should all be saying this, clearly, much more often.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2026 10:54 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:53 AM (qRla/)
That would have been the right decision, but horrywould.
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2026 10:55 AM (LHPAg)
Ringo who?
Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 25, 2026 10:52 AM (jrgJz)
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Bill Cosby used to joke about his kids coming up to him and saying "Dad, I just found out Paul was in a band before Wings!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 10:57 AM (ZOv7s)
What did john do.....other than break up the first boy band and get shot
Paul did nothing
Ringo who?
Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 25, 2026 10:52 AM (jrgJz)
I say this as a Beatles partisan, but -
- John made two great albums, Walls and Bridges and Mind Games.
- Paul had Ram.
- George had All Things Must Pass and George Harrison
- Ringo had Ringo (though I also have a love for Sentimental Journey).
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:57 AM (qRla/)
I probably wasted much time figuring things out rather than take lessons but that's what I enjoy most.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:15 AM (KC5Lt)
It worked for Van Gogh.
Well all except the ear part. Don’t do that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 10:57 AM (o8hG1)
I didn't like the guilt . The guy was given a gift and should have embraced it. He wasn't stealing anything because he was in a different world. Who's to say the Beatles didn't wake up in a different world where they used songs from their previous world?
I would have liked the ending to include him playing a song he actually wrote that became a hit. I sure some songwriter could have written a good song for the movie.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 10:57 AM (KC5Lt)
Thank you all for your kind words. See you on the Book Thread tomorrow.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 25, 2026 10:59 AM (qRla/)
Seems suspect.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2026 10:48 AM (sl73Y)
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The British middle and upper classes have always loathed the lower class. When they still had pride in their country, that mitigated this hatred because they loved England more than they hated the workers, but now they are determined to eradicate the workers entirely and replace them with foreign serfs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)
CNN: "We stand by our honest, accurate journalism."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 11:00 AM (ndZc7)
My attempt at renting a Uhaul failed, not sure what to do now to get a load out of here.
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 09:15 AM (Ia/+0
Hertz, and maybe some of the others, offer the tall panel-side "work" vans for rental. Gas mileage will not be great but when I rented them they were *much* cheaper on the daily rate than the normal SUVs and sedans. Also has the advantage of having the entire cargo space climate controlled vs a box truck. I moved a lot of things I wanted to keep close.
I also used one of the "pod" options to move items that wouldn't fit in the rental van and/or my car, but that I wanted sooner than I woulkd have gotten in waiting fort the full load in the 18-wheeler (had an apartment rental for a short time).
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2026 11:00 AM (vDZgA)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2026 08:26 AM (VyBeY)
I have had that, and it is good. Drinking Bustelo here, right now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 11:00 AM (1z8ji)
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Inmate Nidal Hasan remains on death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Posted by: Oh By The Way at July 25, 2026 11:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Home Depot also has daily rentals of work type trucks.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:01 AM (KC5Lt)
Muslim-majority countries know that they have to enforce their own laws or else they will become Islamic amirates.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2026 11:03 AM (gKWVE)
Global crisis. "It was 20 years ago today 20 years ago today!"
It was like no one had ever entered middle age before.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 11:03 AM (ZOv7s)
@Acosta
This dinner is a disgrace. Trump’s rambling, unhinged speech is full of hate and spite. Just spewing nastiness at his usual targets. Let’s not sanitize how truly ugly it was. This would be a great moment for members of the press to get up and walk out.
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And jump off a bridge.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2026 11:04 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Oh, wait... at July 25, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2026 11:05 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 11:05 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:06 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2026 11:07 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2026 11:07 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)
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High school mean girls. That's all they are. They think that a bunch of hacks walking out on Trump would hurt his feelings when in fact he'd laugh his ass off.
And of course, there's the irony that far from boycotting Trump, they keep filing lawsuits demanding that they have access to the man they hate.
A bunch of spoiled little girls.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 09:10 AM (O0L8i)
I used a freeware program, called Recuva, to recover some lost documents when I had a hard drive go bad. I am sure there are others. Also mounting the drive in a Linux machine, and using Linux utilities to explore it might yield some success.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 11:07 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: I miss Opus at July 25, 2026 11:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2026 11:08 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 25, 2026 11:08 AM (4g5V+)
Sigh...
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2026 11:09 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: I miss Opus at July 25, 2026 11:08 AM (2Ez/1)
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I loved Bloom County, and bought all the books as they came out.
Years later, as I began decluttering, I got rid of a bunch of them, saving only the peak years. I can sort of understand why Bill Waterson quit the way he did, because it's sad watching a strip descend into self-parody and mediocrity. Better to just ride off into the sunset on a high note.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Autocorrect is an intentional troll. There is no reason it hasn't been replaced a decade ago. Now with the advancements with AI there is no reason it should exist on any platform.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:12 AM (KC5Lt)
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Greetings, Skip ... Suggest trying Lowe's and Home Depot, as I believe they both offer truck rentals.
Posted by: Kathy at July 25, 2026 11:12 AM (MOK4W)
Posted by: The Clash at July 25, 2026 11:13 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 25, 2026 11:05 AM
I just checked online. It's still there! What a beautiful hotel- it reminds me of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 25, 2026 11:13 AM (Lzhdy)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 25, 2026 11:14 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2026 11:14 AM (ZOv7s)
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F*ck you up the ass.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 25, 2026 09:55 AM (ndZc7)
No “Motor City” for me then.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 25, 2026 11:16 AM (4g5V+)
He gets a lot of criticism for his unconventional style, but you can't argue with results.
Every so often I feel like a modern day Bloom County Opus and I want to pound a fist into an open palm and shout:
"Let Trump be Trump!!"
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 25, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Home Depot also has daily rentals of work type trucks.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:01 AM (KC5Lt)
I *think* they are unlike UHaul, Hertz etc and charge additional for milage, but I could be wrong about that.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2026 11:17 AM (vDZgA)
Lyrics seemed a bit earth-centered, so I DDGed it when I got home. It turns out that it refers to Mary’s Magnificat in the Gospel of Luke.
Lyrics are 1990 by a guy named Rory Cooney et. Al. Title is “ Canticle of the Turning”.
I hope it is a regular thing at our guitar service.
Posted by: Fenderbender at July 25, 2026 11:22 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2026 11:25 AM (vDZgA)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 25, 2026 11:26 AM (NnhvP)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2026 11:01 AM (KC5Lt)
Fuckers said I needed a smartphone app to rent their truck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 11:27 AM (1z8ji)
Fuckers said I needed a smartphone app to rent their truck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Went to Baseball stadium with great seat tickets, "Cant bring in that clear bag any linger. They'll store it over there just add their app and add in your credit card info. Didn't go in.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 25, 2026 11:32 AM (NnhvP)
Daily Tech News 25 July 2026
Top Story
- Anthropic's Opus 5 model is here - nearly as smart as Fable for half the price, and less annoying. (Engadget)
It has been trained similarly but with much less effort towards security, so it isn't as clever at hacking systems or at preventing your systems from being hacked, but it hasn't been forced into I'M SORRY DAVE I'M AFRAID I CAN'T DO THAT insanity that flips on the moment you stray into anything even the tiniest bit questionable.
I'll give it a try since I'm on the $20 Claude plan making Opus 5 free of additional charge while Fable 5 uses my limited credits. (Paying accounts received $100 worth of credits free, but I want to keep those for actual security scans.)
Also worth noting: If Fable 5 runs into trouble or doubt, it doesn't just run in circles, scream and shout, it can silently drop back to Opus. This can happen even if your question is entirely orthogonal to security issues.
Tech News
- Astronomers have discovered the first THAT'S NO MOON, THAT'S A CATEGORISATION ERROR outside of our solar system. (Space)
That is, it's a solid body orbiting another celestial body orbiting a star - clearly a moon - except that the body in the middle is a brown dwarf, a "failed star".
- Zen 7 Epyc "Florence" will succeed the just announced Zen 6 Epyc "Venice" family in 2028 - using the current sockets. (Tom's Hardware)
Wait. Yes, it says right on the AMD presentation that Zen 7 uses the same server socket as Zen 6, but... Oh. The other slide doesn't explicitly say DDR6 - which would require a socket change - but a vaguer "next gen memory".
- The Geekom A9 Max is a Ryzen 470 mini PC with one stick of RAM because they don't want to force you to throw away a perfectly good dual-channel kit in order to upgrade. (Tom's Hardware)
Which gives us a perfect chance to see how much difference single-channel memory makes to performance, because there's a whole list of benchmark results from similar AMD systems and competing Intel ones.
And the answer is, it makes almost no difference to CPU performance, but cuts the performance of the integrated graphics nearly in half.
- If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (Piotr)
Because everybody is using AI tools to push changes faster, with the same level of care as before to finding and fixing bugs.
- Marimo notebooks can now be embedded in PyCharm. (Marimo)
Bringing modern development environments the interactivity we 29 year olds enjoyed in the prior millennium.
- SpaceX's latest test launch was mostly successful, with the only failure being with the booster's engines not fully restarting for the test splashdown. (Tech Crunch)
Which turned into a splashboom.
No such issues with the Starship V3 second stage which bobbed happily undamaged in the ocean after its own splashdown.
- Lenovo has a new all-in-one desktop PC with an interesting 2560x2880 27" display and an Intel Panther Lake CPU with up to and including Arc B390 integrated graphics. (Notebook Check)
It is fucking expensive.
- Research: Today I ran a Shinkansen line through Eromanga. I didn't plan it that way; that was the inevitable outcome of the parameters I had set.
Musical Interlude
Sorry about the delay. I wanted to include a bonus clip of an a capella version of this theme, and could not find it anywhere.
Disclaimer: My parents went to Eromanga and all they got me was this lousy dinosaur plushie.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at July 25, 2026 04:48 AM (faghi)
Posted by: m at July 25, 2026 04:49 AM (faghi)
Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2026 04:56 AM (V0/Sp)
https://tinyurl.com/yrmxafp8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 04:57 AM (xSAlF)
There was a cartoon called "Gerald McBoing-Boing". That kid could probably do it a capella...
Or maybe these folks: https://youtu.be/y6FqyhmMCmA&t=105
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2026 04:58 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2026 04:59 AM (V0/Sp)
Jupiter?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 25, 2026 05:05 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2026 05:06 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: fluffy
Eromanga is a tiny Outback town named for the local Aboriginal word meaning "windy plain", and prides itself as being the Australian settlement most distant from the sea.
It was also - by complete coincidence - once precisely on the shore of a massive inland sea in the Cretaceous period. It has a local museum featuring some remarkable fossils.
It also means something completely different in Japanese, so my driving a Shinkansen route through it was a source of joy when it fell into my lap as the inevitable outcome of my worldbuilding.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2026 05:13 AM (BLOW1)
https://youtu.be/XaXlSZ2m8xk
https://youtu.be/b-39FbFozII
https://youtu.be/hoW0P7lMTzY
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2026 05:13 AM (/eAef)
Something akin to hentai?
>>> It has a local museum featuring some remarkable fossils.
I saw that museum on Bing maps just know. The town is quite remote.
Thanks for the geography lesson!
Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2026 05:17 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: clarence at July 25, 2026 05:22 AM (plc2/)
Something akin to hentai?
Not so much "akin to" as "explicitly".
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2026 05:22 AM (BLOW1)
I saw that brown dwarf satellite story a day or so ago. The brown dwarf about 30ish Jupiter masses, and it's satellite is a minimum of about 1 Jupiter mass.
The brown dwarf orbits about 67 AU from it's star, a red dwarf. And the Jupiter mass satellite orbits about 0.6 AU or so from the brown dwarf.
If the brown dwarf were a star, the satellite would be called a planet. It would be a "S -type" orbiting planet is a binary system (the other is a P-type, circumbinary orbit where the planet is far enough away and orbits the center of mass of both stars in a close binary).
If the brown dwarf were a planet, the satellite would be a moon. So, it's indeed a category thing, with no agreed upon definition.
That Jupiter mass satellite is far enough away from the brown dwarf it could itself have moons of its own. Making it maybe a "sub-moon", "moonlet" or even "moon-moon". But, since it can't be called a moon, then we have a problem with naming as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 05:22 AM (w6EFb)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2026 05:23 AM (AMvSw)
Most exoplanets in binary systems discovered so far are S-types. But a few P-types have been discovered, all of them gas giants I believe.
Anyway, such a P-type rocky planet would be a Tatooine type world, with two suns close to the same size looming in the sky.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 05:27 AM (w6EFb)
Now you can pay double the price for the same specs and they gimp the GPU with one stick of DDR5.
And not too long ago was 2024.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 05:27 AM (6ydKt)
https://tinyurl.com/2mcnh942
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 05:29 AM (W90Ou)
I want it to be a moon-moon.
Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2026 05:29 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 05:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Or even more recently than that. I picked up mine - 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Ryzen 255 - in December for under $700 including tax.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2026 05:32 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 25, 2026 05:32 AM (m5P/4)
Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2026 05:33 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 05:34 AM (xPsv8)
I read something a few weeks ago about Earth having a few more liitle moons that are basically captured asreroids.
They definitely need to come up with some new terms because it’s getting complicated out there.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 05:37 AM (6ydKt)
(youtube links)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
Thanks, it's not any of those, though. YouTube search, Grok, and Claude all failed to track it down; it was from the past millennium and is probably buried in a vault on a 1" master tape somewhere.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2026 05:38 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2026 05:32 AM (BLOW1)
And it’s a good thing you did.
Excellent timing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 05:39 AM (6ydKt)
https://tinyurl.com/y65z24ww
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 05:39 AM (xPsv8)
Posted by: Wow Man at July 25, 2026 05:39 AM (VGE5u)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 25, 2026 05:39 AM (NcvvS)
Couple of people on the ONT said his jokes were awful.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 25, 2026 05:41 AM (NcvvS)
Hawaii Five-O . . . I remember seeing the two-hour pilot film, enjoying it, and thinking it was more of a spy story and less of the cop show that the TV series became. Still the most exciting TV theme, after "Secret Agent Man" (maybe), of all time. And if you look at the original intro of the HFO series on YooToob, you'll be astonished at how modern and MTV video-like it is, how sharp the edits are . . . and astonished that it was cut together without computer assistance, not in 1968.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)
No. Stability of sub-moons is a tricky thing. They can theoretically exist, and I think Callisto would meet the stability criteria, as well as Titan around Saturn.
Our Moon would barely meet it, but not really -- the submoon would have to be very tiny, no more than 10 miles in diameter, and the orbital radius would to fall in a very tight range.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 05:43 AM (w6EFb)
I read something a few weeks ago about Earth having a few more liitle moons that are basically captured asreroids.
They definitely need to come up with some new terms because it’s getting complicated out there.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026
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There's a big sign that was once posted in Saturn's rings: NO LITTERING. 200,000,000 KLAPTYRS FINE. But nobody knows who posted it, and it got knocked down by an asteroid.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 05:44 AM (6ydKt)
Although I guess that display would be good if you wanted to watch two 16:9 videos one on top of the other.
Could be excellent for video editing, I guess?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 05:47 AM (6ydKt)
There was something later about my having to shampoo and wash my hair in a gigantic empty supermarket aisle, but I'm fuzzy on all that. Thankfully.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)
Sounds like a Douglas Adams book,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 05:49 AM (6ydKt)
These are all called "quasi-moons". They are not gravitationally bound to earth, but in a heliocentric orbit in 1:1 resonance with earth. They can look like moons sometimes, but they aren't.
See horseshoe, tadpole, and trojan orbits. They've got all kinds of names for these.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 05:50 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 05:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026
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Chilly out there. Better bring a sweater.
Tourism will be light, though, so there's that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026
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Sounds like a Douglas Adams book,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026
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A handsome compliment, SO! Adams probably wrote a lot of his stuff right after he first got up in the morning. I find my mind more creative then!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)
If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (Piotr)
Consider the universe of coding as a pie chart. That portion of coding that is "good" is but a small slice of the pie. Look how much more room there is to explore over in that portion of coding space that is considered "bad"!
Call this the Manifest Destiny Model of Coding, if you will.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 05:57 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026
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I need to reread his great works.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 25, 2026 05:58 AM (Hbeqj)
Smash Mouth - Then The Morning Comes
https://youtu.be/cB9JJIoAdYM
Posted by: SciVo at July 25, 2026 05:59 AM (Sy6m/)
The brown dwarf orbits about 67 AU from it's star, a red dwarf
"Nobody toss a dwarf!"
-- Stuff Gimli Said, Volume 2
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 06:00 AM (s9VOe)
Oh, well...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 06:01 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 06:02 AM (rHgXV)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 25, 2026 06:04 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 06:07 AM (s9VOe)
It’s like a jazzy tune with a surf safari guitar.
https://youtu.be/Emg_6ANjWzo
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 06:08 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 25, 2026 06:09 AM (jyOtU)
See horseshoe, tadpole, and trojan orbits. They've got all kinds of names for these.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 05:50 AM (w6EFb)
Yeah, that’s what it was, I forgot that part.
The article had a graphic showing the long eccentric orbits of the little guys.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)
If the pressure is low throughout my area, it means no bath for the car, either.
I hope they can fix it soon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:12 AM (wzUl9)
All main sequence stars are dwarfs, luminosity class V. Think of dwarf as meaning normal.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 25, 2026 06:14 AM (w6EFb)
The disk drive on my old computer is failing or, more accurately, has failed. With the help of a recovery program, I was able to copy the most important stuff over to a storage drive, so my music, pictures, spreadsheets, etc. are safe. But still, buying a new desktop was not in my immediate plans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 06:14 AM (O0L8i)
And not too long ago was 2024.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 05:27 AM (6ydKt)
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I wish I had Pixy's foresight
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 25, 2026 06:15 AM (3+ug0)
https://tinyurl.com/2jjb3846
Have a good day, everyone. I hope you have a blessed day, and know that you're a blessing to others!
I am looking forward to the senior care center worship service later today. They are dear folks.
Now it's time for a walk with dear FenSpouse, and I hope to see some herons. Such majestic birds.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2026 06:15 AM (rHgXV)
I'm watching the AI Star Trek[/i[ vid now. To coin a phrase, "Fascinating."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/yuvrwtny
( Found at Sarah Hoyt's meme post from last week over at accordingtohoyt.com )
And no, the current day's meme posts from PowerLine Blog, Midwest Chick, or Sarah Hoyt aren't up yet.
*Le Sigh*
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026 06:18 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
Me too. Now all I have is patience and waiting out this foolish bubble.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2026 06:20 AM (JvZF+)
Same here. We had a water-main break on our street yesterday. They fixed it sometime while I slept. Was nice to have water again at 5 am when I got up, though the amount of air that came bubbling through the pipes was a bit disturbing.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026 06:21 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2026 06:21 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at July 25, 2026 06:21 AM (OXvkT)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026
***
Sort of a "cold tub" experience, then!
The AI Trek video was beautifully done. Though I have to admit I didn't recognize a couple of the female characters: the blonde on the bridge in white, and the exotic-looking one in the Egyptian-style headdress in the scene with Troi and Princess Leia. Are they from other SF franchises? For some reason I think the second might be from Stargate.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:25 AM (wzUl9)
Star spelled backwards is "rats".
We live in a universe of rats.
Working out the cosmology of that universe is an exercise left for the reader.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 06:27 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 06:34 AM (O0L8i)
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Ahsoka from Star Wars. I believe the "headdress" is part of her head.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2026 06:34 AM (amcLV)
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Ahsoka from Star Wars. I believe the "headdress" is part of her head.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2026
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Must be from one of the other six or eight movies, I guess. I've only seen the "original" three.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:38 AM (wzUl9)
All I can do for you is give Spock a beard.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026 06:38 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:38 AM (wzUl9)
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Extended Universe. She got her own TV show, but it was pretty bad, I hear.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2026 06:40 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026
***
I've often thought of trimming my "Commander Riker" beard (which I grew before he did!) back to a ring beard like Mirror Spock's. But that will mean a learning curve to shaving the newly revealed areas. And if I didn't like it, it would take me a while to grow the hedgerows back.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:40 AM (wzUl9)
There's a rumor flying around the vicinity of our place here in Sussex that one of the communities is solving the influx of Canada Geese problem with extreme prejudice.
The on-line hysteria in the "dialogue" between the lovers of green greasy shits underfoot everywhere ("We're intruding on their land!") and the lovers of more 'deportations' ("Then you come over and clean off my dock daily!") is intense.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 06:42 AM (s9VOe)
What do you call 100 Canada Geese stuffed and roasted and served with a side dish of wild rice?
A good start.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 06:45 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2026 06:45 AM (VyBeY)
Good. They're overpopulated and need a mass culling. The Canadian Government won't do anything on our side of the border because it's a "protected bird". Idjits. That'd be like protecting deer.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026 06:48 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2026 06:50 AM (u82oZ)
I'm now one-quarter of the way through reviewing each of some 7000 references in my database to see whether the complete paper is available online.
If the current trends hold, my guess is that only about 20-25% of the whole will have them. What I do then is open to question. I may be able to get reprints from some of the authors, but I don't want to spend my declining days or reach their end while in the library stacks at Rice or U of H.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 06:50 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026 06:51 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 06:51 AM (s9VOe)
Feeding the homeless Canadian geese? Can that be done outside of Haiti?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2026 06:51 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026 06:52 AM (O7YUW)
https://tinyurl.com/yskrf769
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026
***
The "When you lied on your resume and still got the job" looks like my late cat Chekov! He did sort of resemble a panda cub.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 06:56 AM (wzUl9)
We live in a universe of rats.
Working out the cosmology of that universe is an exercise left for the reader.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
Just need some telepathic cats and you're all set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Rat_and_Dragon
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2026 07:00 AM (BLOW1)
*
Gray Goose
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026
***
I knew there was an annoying honking bird in there somewhere
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 07:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2026
***
One of the finest SF stories out there. They should have chosen it for the short story volume of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame instead of Smith's "Scanners Live in Vain."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2026 07:02 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2026 07:08 AM (u82oZ)
One of the finest SF stories out there. They should have chosen it for the short story volume of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame instead of Smith's "Scanners Live in Vain."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
I read that as "Scanners Live in a Van".
Its sequel would have been, "Down By the River".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 07:09 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: After The Loving at July 25, 2026 07:10 AM (ftsic)
Hawaii Five-O, starring Wun Hung as We Tu Lo
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 25, 2026 07:14 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2026 06:18 AM (O7YUW)
I think I got to play Oregon Trail maybe two times my entire school career. It was still a relatively new game on the Apple II when I was in elementary school so I had to wait until sometime in the 90s to play it.
And yeah, I'm also pretty sure I died of dysentery.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 07:17 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at July 25, 2026 07:18 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Bang Ding Ow at July 25, 2026 07:18 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2026 07:19 AM (O0L8i)
That issue I was having with my laptop return shortly after declaring it fixed. Turns out it wasn't the Windows update causing the problem after all. It was the Logitech wireless mouse. On a hunch, I swapped it out with another Logitech mouse I had running the desktop in the home office. No issues for several days now.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 25, 2026 07:23 AM (J4Dwc)
I just unplug the receiver dongle out of the USB and plug it back in and it starts working when I turn the mouse back on.
It's not a distance thing as the mouse is about a foot from the dongle.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 07:38 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 25, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1)
And the liftoff? It just took off out of there like a rocket. I think it was faster than any other space-shot launch I've ever seen.
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2026 07:40 AM (kU0PQ)
Reads more like Homeostasis of Bad Code.
AI has removed the excuse of not writing unit/integration/behavior tests, not writing boundary validations, not enforcing ACLs, sufficient logging, and other error prone grunt work.
But has replaced it with more extensive PRs which developers hate doing even more—so the edge cases are not caught.
The customer will always stumble into an edge case.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 25, 2026 07:42 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2026 07:47 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2026 07:51 AM (MWfyi)
Maybe it's an AI bot vocalizing A Feynman lecture?
It was about time and light speed. And how time is experienced the closer you get to light speed.
Around 9 min or so he talks about photons, light speed and time and what happens since photons are light.
Sounded a lot like Dr Lisle's Anisitropic Syncrony Convention.
https://tinyurl.com/5t4x386f
Posted by: TeeJ at July 25, 2026 07:52 AM (/XKEa)
What's the matter with them?
Rhetorical question, folks. We don't have room for the list.
Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2026 07:53 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: Man About Town at July 25, 2026 07:54 AM (JM9I6)
I had accidently knocked that Logitech mouse off its perch a few times onto a hard tiled floor. I think that screwed up something in the internals, causing it to act up and freeze everything.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 25, 2026 07:54 AM (J4Dwc)
Warning to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475
https://tinyurl.com/2ssa7352
Posted by: TeeJ at July 25, 2026 07:57 AM (/XKEa)
Posted by: one hour sober at July 25, 2026 07:54 AM (J4Dwc)
Makes sense.
Could've knocked the optical sensor out of alignment.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2026 08:00 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 25, 2026 08:02 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 25, 2026 05:41 AM (NcvvS)
Yeah, but it was the ONT and they were drunk.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2026 08:54 AM (hmYU4)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UwRYvZNZeCQ
Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2026 05:33 AM (V0/Sp)
; )
Posted by: m at July 25, 2026 09:02 AM (faghi)
The rest is Western management and leadership that keeps hiring Indians and making retarded product and business decisions.
I am sticking to my guns on this, Indians may be the doom of our civilization.
Posted by: heya at July 25, 2026 10:57 AM (ND37T)
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Too, This ONT Was Made Just For You
Welcome to Friday's ONT! Shocking news out of New York today:
Fido Friday: Skatedog
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 24, 2026
Ice cream
Left turn, Clyde
They call him Tex
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 24, 2026
Tonight's map
One Reddit banning I understand
Oh, I can do that
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 25, 2026
What are you having?
Food chain
An attempt was made
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 25, 2026
Collect them all
Feline Friday: Cats want equal time!
Neat story
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 25, 2026
Smart guy
Cut 'em down!
Standup
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 25, 2026
Repurposing
He's got his own sign
AI slop
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 25, 2026
Iraq
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the pleasure of a good book:
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)—Carl Sagan
Profundity on the level of Kamala Harris.
Posted by: mindful webworker - small screen for small budgets at July 24, 2026 10:00 PM (jrd4M)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:01 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 10:02 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 24, 2026 10:03 PM (EJE3y)
Posted by: Caf at July 24, 2026 10:03 PM (2E7lB)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:05 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: TRex - shot caller dino at July 24, 2026 10:05 PM (MiwIw)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 24, 2026 10:07 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:07 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 10:07 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 24, 2026 10:08 PM (m5P/4)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:14 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:14 PM (1z8ji)
Wow. That took a while. Very creative.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 10:14 PM (rkCBr)
Posted by: Meat is tasty delicious murder at July 24, 2026 10:15 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:15 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:16 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2026 10:16 PM (Q+gd/)
Yeah, I generally prefer my steaks not be bitter and alcohol-soaked.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:17 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Iris at July 24, 2026 10:17 PM (286+n)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2026 10:18 PM (O6Iwc)
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2026 10:16 PM (Q+gd/)
Agreed. He seems to really be able to control that skateboard. Of course, if he falls off, he has only six inches to fall. I seem to remember some folks in New Zealand trained dogs to drive cars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:22 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:22 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 10:23 PM (Dd38x)
Skatedog — that's some impressive navigating. Hard to believe it's not AI. Or is it?
Ice cream — the plot of a cheap horror movie
They call him Tex — that thar's some mighty fancy shootin, Tex.🤠
What fans would consider to be Superman's Kryptonite — serious face-palm. Reminds me of the TV bimbette who said her favorite Marvel superhero was Superman. You know, with great power comes great responsibility.
Pool trick — had to be on purpose. Too stupid to be an accident.
Neat story — Cleaning out the old shed, we recently ran across my older sister's 1963 high school year book, her Junior year. A little musty. We cleaned it up as much as possible and mailed it to her. She was appropriately amused.
AI slop — slop indeed. So much potential, wasted.
Thanks for another grand Friday ONT, WeirdDave. And not a bit of music. Works for me.
Posted by: mindful webworker - small screen for small budgets at July 24, 2026 10:23 PM (jrd4M)
But...Uwe Boll is willing to make a movie about one of the biggest problems in the world right now so I give him credit for that.
And one thing occured to me...the left gave itself awards for making One Battle After Another a movie about lefties murdering normal people, while damming Citizen Vigilante for having a vigilante kill criminals...and every action gets explained in detail as to why he does what he does...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 10:25 PM (9CZQg)
Posted by: Boomer at July 24, 2026 10:25 PM (9EaCT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:14 PM (1z8ji)
The only thing that made me smile was Bugs in women's clothing making Fudd bothered.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)
—Carl Sagan
Across the sea of space, our sun is but another star.
Now, let's ponder the significance of the passage of time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:26 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2026 10:26 PM (Q+gd/)
U.S. forces started another night of strikes against Iranian military targets at 6:45 p.m. ET today. This is the 13th consecutive night of strikes aimed to hold Iran accountable and diminish threats from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to commercial shipping
TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully completed the 13th straight night of strikes against Iran, July 23, at 9 p.m. ET.
CENTCOM targeted Iranian military command centers, drone storage facilities, communication networks, coastal surveillance sites, and maritime capabilities to further diminish the threat Iran poses to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
The international waterway remains open for transit despite recent attacks from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Commercial vessels continue to freely navigate the strait with U.S. military support.
More than 50,000 U.S. service members are currently operating across the Middle East.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:26 PM (6T7Go)
The Soviets knew the western claims were false so they didn't care...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:27 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: goatexchange at July 24, 2026 10:27 PM (hyS0X)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Pointing out all the speech impediments was "things that make you go 'hmm,'" but not "LOL."
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Bang! Ding! Ow! at July 24, 2026 10:27 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 10:25 PM (9CZQg)
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Yes.
They'd rather slaughter countless pets rather than let you raise a pet to be your loving companion.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:28 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: DanMa'am at July 24, 2026 10:28 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 10:29 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:29 PM (1z8ji)
Ol' Carl beclowned himself with that nuclear winter from the Kuwaiti oil well fires business.
That was really sad.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 10:29 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)
That is essentially it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
@trump_repost
11h
President Xi, at our recent meeting in Beijing, China, told me that he would not, under any circumstances, give or sell Weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran — And that statement included Chinese Companies. Considering our relationship, I take him at his word and, besides, l am doing him very big favors, also.
Likewise, President Putin, despite the horrible War going on in Ukraine (The relationship remains, as it does with President Zelenskyy), told me that he would not sell Weapons to Iran. He understands that I do not sell Weapons to Ukraine, but to NATO Countries. They pay full price, and how those Weapons are distributed, I have no idea.
Therefore, two major Countries that people speak of often in terms of Iran are, in my opinion, not participating. If they did, it would be very bad for them — Certainly not in their best interests. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:31 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2026 10:31 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:26 PM (sKqQm)
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Yeah, he's so overpowered it's really hard to write stories that provide him with a challenge.
Depowering him via kryptonite is a common technique just to make him more human and vulnerable to an actual threat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:31 PM (FZ29D)
SHOWOFF!
Posted by: Boomer at July 24, 2026 10:32 PM (9EaCT)
I pulled some weeds.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:32 PM (Riz8t)
https://youtu.be/02DUSQfBZFY
Posted by: davidt
Call & raise.
https://youtu.be/U8-UiNei9_U
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 10:33 PM (gTtYa)
Depowering him via kryptonite is a common technique just to make him more human and vulnerable to an actual threat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
His challenges are supposed to be moral and ethical, not physical or (personally) existential.
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)
What about if he ate a bunch of Taco Bell and then got on an elevator with other people? Would they live to reach their floor?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:34 PM (Riz8t)
If you believe Tousi's reporting, I'm not sure that's going to hold up unfortunately.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 10:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 10:33 PM (gTtYa)
I doubt he trusts them. But they have been put on notice that any actions by them to supply weapons to Iran will not go unpunished.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:34 PM (1z8ji)
1. Insurance fraud and/or extortion
2. Driving on the wrong side of the road (minor infraction)
3. Bike theft
4. Attempted burglary (the kid that stole the bike first fell over the fence leaving a property which is likely not his)
5. Littering (fell out of old ladies bike basket)
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 10:36 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:34 PM (Riz8t)
When Superman farts, the Moon gets a new crater.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:36 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:34 PM (Riz8t)
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I imagine Superman's stomach acids are so powerful that Taco Bell doesn't stand a chance.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:36 PM (FZ29D)
Someone did the math on the force his, uh, baby batter, would have based on the increases in raw strength he has over a normal man in relation to other feats of strength
To put it simplify if he and Lois Lane had fun time he'd make her explode.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:37 PM (sKqQm)
Ol' Carl beclowned himself with that nuclear winter from the Kuwaiti oil well fires business.
That was really sad.
Posted by: publius
How long did he predict they would burn?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 10:38 PM (Cqx++)
Good LordI turned on fox news and trump is absolutely bombing at the white house correspondents' dinner. Who the hell wrote that joke for him?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 24, 2026 10:38 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 24, 2026 10:38 PM (mmrXZ)
(I just don’t get the hype behind them. Sorry. YMMV.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 10:39 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:39 PM (FZ29D)
The series would be called the Ass of Steel
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 10:39 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 24, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:36 PM (1z8ji)
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at July 24, 2026 10:40 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Boomer at July 24, 2026 10:41 PM (9EaCT)
Ol' Carl beclowned himself with that nuclear winter from the Kuwaiti oil well fires business.
That was really sad.
Posted by: publius
How long did he predict they would burn?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 10:38 PM (Cqx++)
They didn’t count on me. Fools.
Posted by: Red Adair at July 24, 2026 10:41 PM (4g5V+)
To put it simplify if he and Lois Lane had fun time he'd make her explode.
Posted by: 18-1
Larry Niven. "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex."
https://tinyurl.com/2bpwhktv
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)
Johnny Carson joked, "Did you hear that Carl Sagan's wife filed for divorce? (affecting Sagan's mannerisms) She wants BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars."
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 10:41 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)
>> How long did he predict they would burn?
I don't know about how long, but he predicted it would have an effect similar to the Tambora eruption in 1815, which led to 1816 being the Year Without a Summer.
It was utterly wrong, a nothing-burger.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 10:43 PM (w6EFb)
Which made no sense whatsoever.
Even as a tike I was thinking this is beyond stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 10:33 PM (gTtYa)
What happens in public and what happens in private are totally different things.
By the time we get DoS to publish all the diplomatic correspondence in Foreign Relations of the United States, I will probably be in my 100s. Or dead.
Posted by: Red Adair at July 24, 2026 10:44 PM (4g5V+)
I love you. But if you trust Putin and Xi, you’ve lost your mind and need to resign.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 10:33 PM (gTtYa)
This is one way I'd trust them.... (from Babylon 5)
https://youtu.be/sHqgWDyNl9o
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 10:44 PM (qx7Zg)
I find the stories that depower him less compelling than the stories that fully understand him. Elliot S! Maggin, especially in the two movie novels—they had literally nothing to do with the movies—and Grant Morrison understood this. Their stories are fun and compelling.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2026 10:44 PM (kYmoU)
Which made no sense whatsoever.
Even as a tike I was thinking this is beyond stupid.
Posted by: 18-1
"Apache Chief."
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 24, 2026 10:44 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 10:44 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Best friends of my family growing up had a 1950 Champion. It was their "good" car all through the Fifties until they got a 63 Bel Air. The Studebaker was demoted to "work" car status and the Dad drove it down to the docks in Jersey City every workday. It soldiered on until 1973 or so.
Posted by: Did It's Job and More at July 24, 2026 10:44 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Forrest SuperGump at July 24, 2026 10:44 PM (ZypAx)
Which made no sense whatsoever.
Even as a tike I was thinking this is beyond stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:43 PM (sKqQm)
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Makes more sense than the Doctor Who episode where the Moon is an egg. Infested with spiders. The egg hatches into some sort of giant alien, which deposits an egg that becomes the NEW Moon.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:45 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2026 10:45 PM (Q+gd/)
https://tinyurl.com/2bpwhktv
Posted by: mikeski
Wow, what a nerd. And you guys give me a hard time?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 24, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)
Good LordI turned on fox news and trump is absolutely bombing at the white house correspondents' dinner. Who the hell wrote that joke for him?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 24, 2026 10:38 PM
Oof! It's awful!
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 24, 2026 10:46 PM (Lzhdy)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Spiders? Yeah, that's dumb.
Shoulda been an aphid. They're born pregnant.
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)
We need good optimistic hard science fiction.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 10:47 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 24, 2026 10:47 PM (+9wcF)
Mobile Suit Gudam has created yet another new timeline: AA or After Apocalypse.
Meteor slams into Earth and Humans find a strange material that revolutionizes gravity control, FTL comm, and cognitive materialization.
But after ten years it goes rouge. Humanity has to abandon the Earth and flee to the Moon and space.
And at this point I immediately thought of Hideki Kakinuma and Kenichi Sonoda's Gall Force, especially Rhea Gall Force.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 10:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2026 10:18 PM (O6Iwc)
IIRC, the Illinois GOP asked Mike Ditka to be their replacement candidate and he turned them down. Who knows, if he had accepted, and the new senator had become President, the world might have been a very different place.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 24, 2026 10:48 PM (1viUA)
That's considered hate speech nowadays in Britain.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Boomer at July 24, 2026 10:50 PM (9EaCT)
Posted by: Riker at July 24, 2026 10:50 PM (sKqQm)
Carson lost $35 million to his 3rd ex-wife because he didn’t bother with a pre-nuptial. Against the advice of his attorney. Oops
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 10:51 PM (VGE5u)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)
That seems to be a great time saver!
Posted by: Dr. McCoy at July 24, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD)
If you haven’t seen Real Genius yet, I think you’ll enjoy it. Carl Sagan is the villain.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2026 10:52 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)
That seems to be a great time saver!
Posted by: Dr. McCoy at July 24, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)
Or a mighty War Tribble.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 10:52 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 10:53 PM (2GVsD)
…but isn’t, and in fact uses his powers for good.
In any event, my most beloved superhero will always be Spiderman. Ever since I ran around as a little boy with my Spider-Man sweatshirt…
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 10:53 PM (4g5V+)
Ditka thought about it for a while before saying no. Some of the GOP leaders told him that he had no idea what misery awaited him if he ran.
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 10:53 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 10:54 PM (2GVsD)
Trebuchet! (17:51)
https://youtu.be/er754qe9soE
Posted by: mindful webworker - siege engine at July 24, 2026 10:55 PM (jrd4M)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Someone should re-release those. I've got a couple on DVD, but buying the rest, nah. They're priced like collector's items.
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 10:56 PM (2GVsD)
…but isn’t, and in fact uses his powers for good.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 10:53 PM (4g5V+)
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We can thank Jonathan and Martha Kent for that. If Superman had been raised by a throuple or polycule in New York City, he would have turned out very differently...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:56 PM (FZ29D)
(Flounces off to get another Bud Light)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 24, 2026 10:56 PM (1viUA)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 10:57 PM (Vrdez)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 10:57 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Dr. McCoy at July 24, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)
Kind of takes the fun out of reproduction, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 10:57 PM (1z8ji)
“Who might offend, and hath not offended? or done evil, and hath not done it? His goods shall be established, and the comic book shall declare his story.”—Ecclesiastes 31
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2026 10:57 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Boomer at July 24, 2026 10:50 PM (9EaCT)
In his defense, Cosmos was my gateway to science back in the day. It was mind blowing, heady stuff for a nine year old. I have the book to this day. But am I a Sagan fan boy? Far from it. I read Comet in HS and amidst the pages were long sections of him being a whiny little bitch. Yeah, Schlürpo forbid we defend the fucking country so you can study astronomy to your heart’s content, Carl!!!
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 10:58 PM (4g5V+)
Except that last meme kinda blows.....
Posted by: mikeski
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Speaking of that, I thought last night was Friday night ONT and it was the strangest WD ONT I'd ever seen.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:58 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:56 PM (FZ29D)
Or if he'd been found by Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 10:59 PM (qx7Zg)
You should probably read Superman: True Brit.
as for who to blame for this: Kim "Howard" Johnson, John Cleese, John Byrne, Mark Farmer, and Alex Bleyaert.
They need to be sacked forthwith along with those who chose them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 10:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:56 PM (FZ29D)
Another great point. Raised by a mother and father on a farm in KS, and raised right and proper by them before he moved on to bigger and better things in Metropolis.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 11:00 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 11:00 PM (O0L8i)
Carson lost $35 million to his 3rd ex-wife because he didn’t bother with a pre-nuptial. Against the advice of his attorney. Oops
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 10:51 PM (VGE5u)
I reviewed that book on a Sunday Book Thread a few weeks ago. Very interesting things. Imagine a lawyer banging Janet from Three's Company and Mary Hart!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2026 11:00 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2026 10:18 PM (O6Iwc)
IIRC, the Illinois GOP asked Mike Ditka to be their replacement candidate and he turned them down. Who knows, if he had accepted, and the new senator had become President, the world might have been a very different place.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 24, 2026 10:48 PM (1viUA)
You can blame the Chicago Tribune for suing to release the details of their divorce.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 11:00 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 24, 2026 11:02 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 10:59 PM (qx7Zg)
Or landed in Germany, and got adopted by Ernst Rohm...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:02 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 11:02 PM (O0L8i)
at this point, I might have the sole surviving Rabby Struggle Suit Type pre-painted vinyl figure from Gall Force: Star Front.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:03 PM (2GVsD)
Yes. Maggin addressed this in Last Son of Krypton. Jor-El identified the most intelligent person on earth to raise him, who turned the job over to a moral couple, because that is what would be best for Kal-El and for Earth. (Maggin had a bit of a hard-on for Einstein.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2026 11:03 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:03 PM (RCjYY)
Ditka thought about it for a while before saying no. Some of the GOP leaders told him that he had no idea what misery awaited him if he ran.
Posted by: mnw
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If only he had punched them in the nose. And politely advised them
on points of order.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:03 PM (6T7Go)
Except that last meme kinda blows.....
Posted by: mikeski
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Speaking of that, I thought last night was Friday night ONT and it was the strangest WD ONT I'd ever seen.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:58 PM (6T7Go)
I've sent a Friday ONT to Doof if WD needs to skip a week. I think that's the only one that hasn't been used yet.
I admit to working up a Revenge of the Cat ONT. I'm afraid to try a Saturday ONT - Doof and TRex make a formidable team.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 11:04 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 11:04 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma
When they get that big, they're just called Trouble.
* thumbs sus'penders *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 11:05 PM (diia5)
Posted by: mindful webworker - small screen for small budgets at July 24, 2026 10:00 PM (jrd4M)
Carl Sagan was something of a pothead
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 11:05 PM (rbvCR)
Oh.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 11:06 PM (gKWVE)
And he's right, Trump is setting it up where by even if circumstance gives us a mediocre president MAGA will carry on.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:06 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Kindltot
I think the marxism was a bigger problem.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 11:07 PM (diia5)
Hang in there, brother. A door will open..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 11:07 PM (nbLIj)
Oh.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 11:06 PM (gKWVE)
They really need to change their name to the Colorado Weedies. Honor their state's recent history.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 11:07 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:08 PM (6T7Go)
Like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl never thought his farts stunk.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 11:05 PM (rbvCR)
Born on November 9, 1934 (Remember, Remember, the Ninth of November) so his 30s and 40s were spent in the 60s and 70s. It would shock me not at all if more than pot was in play.
(He won the death pool on December 20, 1996)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 11:09 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 11:09 PM (4g5V+)
Dies at 62, very young.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:11 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
IMHO Neil deGrasse Tyson is far worse than Sagan in that regard. He must have spent half of the Cosmos “remake” from 2014 talking about how he inherited the torch (so to speak) from Sagan.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 11:11 PM (4g5V+)
People see a blonde haired attractive guy in a red uniform. Everyone squeaks "Char clone!"
Maybe RG XARX-Zero will finally decide to subvert expectations. But I doubt it since our male MC mobile suit pilot is named Rey.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:13 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 10:53 PM (RCjYY)
The mind boggles at what a President Ditka press conference would be like.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 11:14 PM (4g5V+)
I'd be concerned that whatever zealot put the gay PETA sticker on the meat also poisoned the meat.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 24, 2026 11:14 PM (biznJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:15 PM (6T7Go)
Sagan at least was an actual scientist and Cornell professor. Tyson is a Hollywood caricature of an astronomer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 11:17 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:13 PM (2GVsD)
Piper probably knows a tailor who could make a Mobile suit, goddamn!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:17 PM (1z8ji)
This series, the MME knock off of the Big Zam is a yellow B-2 with legs.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:17 PM (6T7Go)
Oh, I'd take Sagan any day over Neil deAsse. That just shows how far things have fallen.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:18 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 10:58 PM (4g5V+)
I preferred Connections, but I rewatched it as an adult and realized how . . . Intentional it was. Not an even handed retelling of history, it was slanted.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
John Cleese called his last series of live comedy performances "The Alimony Tour."
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:19 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 11:19 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
But just think of the observatory out there missing its tour guide~!!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 11:19 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:20 PM (2GVsD)
49 Superman is kind of boring because even his kryptonite isn't kryptonite - it might make him gay or something but he'll always still beat whoever uses it against him.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:26 PM (sKqQm)
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Yeah, he's so overpowered it's really hard to write stories that provide him with a challenge.
Depowering him via kryptonite is a common technique just to make him more human and vulnerable to an actual threat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:31 PM
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Maybe he could be disabled by a really horrible smell.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 24, 2026 11:20 PM (QOikT)
Elon is really pushing the envelope. They pushed Starship through max dynamic pressure at nearly full throttle this time. Don't know exactly how much, if it was 100% throttle, but that greatly increased the stress.
With rockets, basically, the harder you accelerate the more efficient you are in terms of payload thrown into orbit vs fuel consumed. That's the reason for hot staging as well.
However, I don't know if that's something they'd ever want to risk with a manned flight one little bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:21 PM (2GVsD)
_modernitynews
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:22 PM (6T7Go)
Yeah, I learned a lot from Sagan as a kid, and I appreciate that from in. It's just his asswipe left-wing politics that pissed me off.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:22 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 11:23 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:21 PM (2GVsD)
Other big crutch was Bizarro World.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:23 PM (1z8ji)
Pushing engineering limits to squeeze out just a little extra efficiency here and there is how SpaceX has come to be the dominant force it is.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:24 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 24, 2026 11:25 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 11:25 PM (JvZF+)
I enjoyed Jacques Cousteau far more.
Explorers in their own areas. I prefer the sea to space, personally.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 11:26 PM (TpTQ4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:27 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:18 PM (2GVsD)
Temu Don King
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 11:28 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:29 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:21 PM (2GVsD)
Other big crutch was Bizarro World.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:23 PM (1z8ji)
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Holodeck.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 11:30 PM (JvZF+)
Explorers in their own areas. I prefer the sea to space, personally.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Both him and Sagan were exterminationists.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 11:30 PM (diia5)
Reading, they squeezed another 200 km/h out of velocity at staging, hitting 5960 km/hr (3703 mph). This alone translates to about 6 tons more payload to orbit.
They're going to try to get that up to 6100 km/hr, and that's about the limit for the stresses, apparently.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 11:25 PM (JvZF+)
Saw Nichelle Nichols at a Star Trek movie screening in Hollywood back around 2015 or thereabouts. She was in the audience and was introduced to a very appreciative crowd.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 11:32 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 24, 2026 11:32 PM (B2pWp)
@LeadingReport
·
2m
President Trump roasts CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, comparing her to “Dylan Mulvaney.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 11:33 PM (diia5)
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:29 PM (RCjYY)
Because Epstein provided him the illusion that those hot young babes were throwing themselves at him for his scintillating personality and his huge dick, but mostly his huge dick.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:33 PM (1z8ji)
Which made no sense whatsoever.
Even as a tike I was thinking this is beyond stupid.
Posted by: 18-1
"Apache Chief."
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 24, 2026 10:44 PM (VHUov)
__________________________
I hope Superman and Batman made the Chief read a land acknowledgement.
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 11:35 PM (dIske)
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:35 PM (RCjYY)
Well, hell. Looks like Elon is going to try man-rating hot staging. It's a ways off, though.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:36 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mnw
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He did that too +/-. Parties with his pool full of whores.
Some find depravity irresistible.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:37 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:29 PM (RCjYY)
Because Epstein was in charge of a large system for unofficial banking and Gates was a source of money. His charitable organization provided seed money and concealment for money laundering between NGOs and funding for off the books operations, and of course just plain money laundering. Gates was not interested in biomedical research as much as he was funding the things around biomedical research and stuff going on using biomedical research as a cover.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 11:39 PM (rbvCR)
Explorers in their own areas. I prefer the sea to space, personally.
Posted by: nurse ratched
The French Narrator in SpongeBob SquarePants was an homage to Jacques Cousteau. Stephen Hillenburg was a fan..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 11:39 PM (nbLIj)
Rockets are completely different and I vaguely know that a primary load is axial, like column buckling and you have to worry about basic structural stability/equilibrium. It's so different from aircraft structures loads and dynamics I can only guess what the critical design cases are.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 11:40 PM (3uBP9)
Well, hell, the Soyuz manned flights use hot staging. So, if the Rooskies can do it.....
And the Titan II version for Gemini did use a sort of hot staging, they called fire in the hole.
So, there you go.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:40 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
"Things that sound gay but aren't, for $400, Alex."
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 11:41 PM (VHUov)
When J.P. Morgan took his own wife to the opera, a reporter joked that "some poor chorus girl won't be getting a diamond bracelet tonight."
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:41 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:42 PM (6T7Go)
Seeing the craft over the clouds of the Indian Ocean at sunrise, real-time was the coolest fucking thing I've seen in a very long time.
Space X and Elon Musk are taking the bull by the horns, bigly.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 24, 2026 11:44 PM (0aYVJ)
Yep. Point end right in the direction of velocity. Mostly. There are sideways forces, and these are critical to manage.
You know those little side fins on the first stage of the Saturn V? They were there to slow down any sideways turning motion if they lost control of the attitude. They bought just enough time for the escape tower to yank the CM off the top before the forces destroyed the rocket.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:45 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:58 PM (6T7Go)
But the strangest ONT I ever did see
Was the ONT we cremated Sam McGee
Posted by: Robert Service at July 24, 2026 11:46 PM (1viUA)
Now he can.
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:49 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 11:21 PM (2GVsD)
Other big crutch was Bizarro World.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:23 PM (1z8ji)
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Holodeck.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Replicator
'Macallan, Triple Cask Matured 15 Year Old, a double, one cube'
Posted by: Captain Kirk at July 24, 2026 11:51 PM (XeU6L)
The maximum "angle of attack" if you can call it that, the angle of the nose of the rocket relative to its velocity vector during ascent has a very small limit. 5 - 10 degrees.
SpaceX keeps that info for its rockets proprietary. During the entry and landing burns for the boosters, it may be as high 15 degrees. But during fully loaded ascent, it's much smaller than that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 11:54 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 11:55 PM (ZxPkt)
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They hadn't planned on that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:55 PM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:45 PM (6T7Go)
No Max Q is the peak 1/2 rho V^2, the dynamic pressure, that you normalize aerodynamic force to in things line L = CL*Q*S, D = CD*Q*S, CM = CM*Q*S*C. It is one of the ways we linearize general aerodynamic force/moment calculations. Because aero forces vary exponentially with the fluid flow. Linearizing is easier to understand. But in basic aircraft engineering it's simply q goes up forces go up, q goes down forces go down. In testing you use KEAS, Knot Equivalent Air Speed, just to get a common q based relationship between speed and forces for test points. But for rockets it's different. You are dealing with stability, the complexity of eigen values and ODEs and such. A different world.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 11:56 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 11:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at July 24, 2026 11:58 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Miss Dixie at July 24, 2026 11:59 PM (sxR7k)
This quite amazing. It works because Starship is so big. When it comes down there's a little hole in the plasma trail on the backside. And signals can get through that little hole to Starlinks flying above.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:31 PM
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Maybe he could be disabled by a really horrible smell.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Superman once tangled with a skunk. Needless to say, it didn't end too well for Superman...
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 25, 2026 12:00 AM (22o5K)
They want to make a deal. Sometimes they say they don't want to make a deal, they want to be the tough guys.
There's two ways: we can take them apart piece by piece, or we can negotiate with them, which is what we are also doing right now.
As we speak, we are talking to them
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One bridge at a time.
Wouldn't Iran really like a Waffle House, a Waffle House right now.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:03 AM (6T7Go)
We have a launch late tomorrow morning.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-51
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: July 25, 2026 PDT
Launch Time: 8:51 a.m. PDT (1551 UTC, 17:51 CEST)
https://youtu.be/Hg9PlxfvN4k
Posted by: Joyenz at July 25, 2026 12:03 AM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2026 12:04 AM (ZxPkt)
The Internet says the max AoA the Saturn V could tolerate during the Max Q range was 1.5 degrees.
Any more than that, and the rocket would be destroyed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:05 AM (w6EFb)
Don't walk away, in silence
See the danger, always danger
Endless talking, life rebuilding
Don't walk away
Walk in silence
Don't turn away, in silence
Your confusion, my illusion
Worn like a mask of self-hate, confronts and then dies
Don't walk away
People like you find it easy
Naked to see, walking on air
Hunting by the rivers, through the streets, every corner
Abandoned too soon, set down with due care
Don't walk away, in silence
Don't walk away
Thank you Joy Division
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 25, 2026 12:05 AM (CHHv1)
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I've opened a can of pound cake with a P38.
Posted by: Captain Kirk at July 25, 2026 12:06 AM (XeU6L)
Lois Lane: "Oh, Superman! With your Xray vision, can you see through my clothes?"
Nazi Superman: "Yes. And his too. (points to Jimmy) He's Jewish."
Posted by: mnw at July 25, 2026 12:07 AM (RCjYY)
SpaceX keeps that info for its rockets proprietary. During the entry and landing burns for the boosters, it may be as high 15 degrees. But during fully loaded ascent, it's much smaller than that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 11:51 PM (w6EFb)
Even for highspeed aircraft max alpha is tiny, a few degrees and giving you huge load factors, 3, 4, 5, gs. Doesn't take much at decent Mach. In aircraft alpha = load factor. That's another thing I don't know about rockets. Does alpha=load factor for them?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 25, 2026 12:07 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 25, 2026 12:08 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2026 12:09 AM (0TVIV)
5h
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed that U.S. forces have disabled a second vessel attempting to violate the naval blockade of Iran.
According to CENTCOM, the motor tanker 'Lavine' made multiple attempts to breach the blockade. After warnings went unheeded, U.S. forces struck the vessel's engine room, rendering it inoperable
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If it wasn't a decoy that's another 3 million gallons of crude in our coffers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:13 AM (6T7Go)
Explorers in their own areas. I prefer the sea to space, personally.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Both him and Sagan were exterminationists.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
They were Daleks?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 25, 2026 12:14 AM (m5P/4)
https://tinyurl.com/38chn9yr
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 11:56 PM (rbvCR)
The Israeli Galil rifle had a built-in bottle opener. Why, you ask? Because the troops were using their rifle magazines to open bottles and it wrecked the magazine lips.
A major reason the flashhider on the M16 was changed from the original open prong type to the closed birdcage type was due to the troops using the barrel as a pry bar to snap metal bands off packing crates.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2026 12:16 AM (1viUA)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 25, 2026 12:08 AM (DZ9Lv)
Never said it made him a wastrel, but he did tend to ramble and find woo in odd ideas.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2026 12:18 AM (rbvCR)
FOX News refers to that as a "minimum security prison."
It isn't.
Posted by: mnw at July 25, 2026 12:20 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)
For the first time, the U.S. Army has deployed the *'Dark Eagle' Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon to Guam during Exercise Valiant Shield 2026.
From Guam, much of China's eastern seaboard, including key military targets, fall within the missile's reported range,
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Search Assist
The Dark Eagle, officially known as the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), is a U.S. Army missile designed to strike targets over 2,175 miles away at speeds exceeding Mach 5. It utilizes a boost-glide system, allowing it to maneuver unpredictably, making it difficult for current missile defenses to intercept.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:21 AM (6T7Go)
How to get something into orbit is a fascinating thing. Consider LEO. We'll call that 100 - 200 mile altitude, and just keep things simple with a circular orbit. The radius of the Erf is about 4000 miles. Orbital altitude is only 2.5 - 5% of that. Scale that down to a basketball. You're just barely above the surface.
Nearly all of the velocity you need for orbit is thus tangential or horizontal. You just want to get a smidge higher than surface, and have no radial velocity when you get there.
So, you need to thrust sideways mostly. But, you've got to fight gravity, and the more you have to fight it the slower your horizontal speed is. When you're at orbital velocity, you free fall -- the earth just curves away underneath as fast as you fall. That's orbit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
It isn't.
Posted by: mnw at July 25, 2026 12:20 AM (RCjYY)
Well, unless he's being held in a cell 30 feet underground, being subjected to Yoko Ono's singing 24/7, it's not really "maximum security", either, is it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 12:26 AM (1z8ji)
At first blush, just forget about the earth's atmosphere. That makes things too complicated. Imagine getting into orbit off an earth size/mass planet with no atmosphere (the Moon is like this, really, but much less gravity).
The ideal, most efficient trajectory is called a gravity turn. You thrust continuously in the direction of your velocity, and let gravity "turn you" over sideways as you accelerate.
Depending on your thrust to mass and payload ratios and all that, in vacuum, you'd start off pitched over pretty steep. Basically, clear the tower and then lean over pretty far sideways and go. Time it all right, and you reach you orbital height with zero radial velocity in a perfect circular orbit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:28 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:03 AM (6T7Go)
What part of NO SHARING do you not get?
Now SHUT UP and enjoy your butter with grits.
Posted by: Waffle House at July 25, 2026 12:28 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:13 AM (6T7Go)
Small piece of good news I caught yesterday. Trump is using Iranian funds we have frozen to reimburse for the ships they've hit.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 25, 2026 12:29 AM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 25, 2026 12:30 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)
I don’t think his other work hurt, though. Probably pissed off his peers to no end.
A similar thing happens in other fields. If you are a history professor who publishes the occasional dense article that might be read by the denizens of JSTOR world BUT also publishes books that the general public eats up, and sells like hot cakes, your more academically inclined peers who only publish to each other so as to keep your job and have no time to publish anything for the hoi polloi will do nothing but sneer.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 25, 2026 12:33 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 12:33 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Jack Chick at July 25, 2026 12:36 AM (JM9I6)
Now, the fighting gravity part before you get to orbital speed and can thus free fall. Consider the worst case. Your thrust is just equal to your weight. Your "proper acceleration" is just 1g. You just sit there hovering, and go nowhere, wasting all your fuel just to hold up your own weight. Not too good. That's 100% gravity loss.
So, obviously we need more thrust than than our weight. A good bit more in fact. We need to just get enough vertical speed to get as high we want when we reach orbital velocity, and waste no more fighting gravity than we have to.
So, for that vacuum launch, we pitch over just so that the vertical component of our thrust just equals gravity. We don't fall, and the all the rest is used to pour on horizontal velocity. (we will need to get a little vertical velocity of course, but not much).
The faster our horizontal speed gets, there's what you can see as a "centrifugal" term, the difference between orbital speed and our current horizontal speed. As that difference gets less, we need less and less vertical component of thrust.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:39 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 12:33 AM (1z8ji)
He didn't say his name was Harvey, by any chance?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 25, 2026 12:40 AM (QGaXH)
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The house is two-story brick. I have Virginia Creeper on the back wall. This afternoon I noticed that close to the window sill outside of the bathroom (upper floor), there is what looks like a nest. This evening there was a squirrel looking in at the window. I've named it 'Earl'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 25, 2026 12:40 AM (XeU6L)
So, as we get faster and faster, we can pitch over more and more, wasting less and less thrust fighting gravity.
The ideal gravity turn does that automatically. We start out with an initial pitch over, and just thrust directly along our rocket's axis, always tangent to our velocity vector. Gravity automatically turns us over as we get faster and faster.
That's the ideal, simple case of launching in a vacuum. The atmosphere complicates things greatly....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
during a couple of rain storms I covered the molding from 5" north of the top of the windshield to the bottom on the drivers side. (starting at the bottom). Much dryer inside the cab and electrical equipment/switches behavior in order.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:45 AM (6T7Go)
The faster our horizontal speed gets, there's what you can see as a "centrifugal" term, the difference between orbital speed and our current horizontal speed. As that difference gets less, we need less and less vertical component of thrust.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:39 AM (w6EFb)
IIRC, a lot of the fuel in the first stage is consumed in just lifting the entire rocket off the ground. They move pretty slowly at first, while burning fuel like a mo-fo. I thought there were proposals to launch orbital rockets that were piggy-backed to very high altitude, and to Mach ++ speeds on the backs of specially-designed air-breathing airplanes. Use jet fuel and aerodynamic lift to get the rocket out of the densest part of the atmosphere, and build some velocity, too. First stage could be smaller, because boost plane is doing half its work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 12:46 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
Younger son is in Corpus C area for work. He sent video of starship launch. Very cool!
I saw quite a few Titan IVs and Delta IIs up close and personal back when.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 25, 2026 12:47 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
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May I introduce you to my perfectly spherical chickens in a vacuum?
Posted by: A Physicist at July 25, 2026 12:47 AM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I would think the hard part there would be getting the plane safely away from the rocket before it had to light itself up.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2026 12:49 AM (VHUov)
230 When I went up stairs to make supper a while ago, I looked out the window, and there was big bunny rabbit out grazing in the yard. I think, technically, it's what is called a "Varying hare". Brown-gray in Summer, with a white tail, becomes entirely white in Winter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 12:33 AM (1z8ji)
My grandson would say “Big Chungus!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:51 AM (wxb/S)
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2026 12:49 AM (VHUov)
Reminds me of how the X-15 was launched from a B-52
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 12:52 AM (wxb/S)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:26 PM (sKqQm)
"Aaaaaagh!!"
{Superman cringes in the blinding rainbow glow from the crystal shard}
"Oh my God, I can't believe I wear *this* in public!"
{every paper scatters from the wind, and Superman is suddenly wearing an untucked button-down with skinny pants, boat shoes without socks, a feather boa and oversize sunglasses}
"Congo rats bad boy, you cost me 500 milliseconds. Now you face the power of this properly attired Fabulousman!"
{another sudden wind, and the Villain Of The Week is bound and gagged in red silk rope Kinbaku}
"Until next time, losers! Ta ta!"
{another sudden wind, and Super/Fabulousman is gone}
Posted by: SciVo at July 25, 2026 12:55 AM (Sy6m/)
With atmosphere, all the above applies, but we've got another loss term to worry about. Drag. That's another opposite force our thrust has to counter, and is thus is more waste, meaning our thrust gives us less horizontal velocity gain.
And that's proportional to how thick the atmosphere is, which decreases with height.
So the most efficient trajectory modifies that vacuum gravity turn a bit. We want to go up much steeper to get into thinner air before we turn over and start pouring on the horizontal speed. And once we get too fast, we don't won't to be having to thrust too much sideways. We want to still be able to thrust pretty much along our own axis, which is pointing tangent to our velocity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 12:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:55 AM (6T7Go)
18m
A 15-year-old Alkira Secondary College student has undergone emergency surgery after being stabbed and slashed in the neck, back, arms and hands by Middle Eastern thugs who attacked him with machetes at Sabel Reserve Playground in Melbourne, Australia
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:57 AM (6T7Go)
The pub, which served its final pint last year, had failed to turn a profit despite attempts to revive it, including permission to open a café. Planning documents said its decline was linked to demographic changes in the area over the past 25 years.
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Demographics
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:58 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Kindltot
Billions and billions of odd ideas.
There's a generation of folks out there who have very positive thoughts about Carl Sagan. There are folks out there who have positive thoughts about Che' Guevara. I'm going with the former (being one of them).
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 25, 2026 12:59 AM (DZ9Lv)
See the Northrop Grumman Pegasus rocket. Small payload capacity carried aloft by an airplane. The SWIFT boost mission just recently used that.
It turns out this just isn't very efficient for large payloads at all. The carrier airplane is weight limited, and doesn't give you much horizontal velocity advantage.
Now, some sort of specialized air breathing, winged first-stage you might call it, would be different, but I don't think anyone is going in that direction. Which must mean that regular rockets are just more efficient all factors considered.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 01:01 AM (w6EFb)
The pub, which served its final pint last year, had failed to turn a profit despite attempts to revive it, including permission to open a café. Planning documents said its decline was linked to demographic changes in the area over the past 25 years.
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Demographics
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:58 AM (6T7Go)
A pub.
Vote Restore.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 25, 2026 01:01 AM (4g5V+)
He was suing a local coffee shop because they hey had accidentally spilled hot coffee in his lap and because of that “he could no longer Grow Large.” He testified that it was quite humiliating.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2026 01:03 AM (wxb/S)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 12:55 AM (6T7Go)
It would be a very big-ass plane indeed. But it would be reusable for many, many launches. I would give it enough big jet engines to get airborne, and ascend to maybe 50,000 feet on jet fuel, and maybe Mach 0.6. Once there, pilot hauls back on the yoke, and fires two big rocket motors hung on the wings between the jet pods. They burn long enough to jump from 50,000 feet to 100,000 feet, and to get to say Mach 1.5. When the rockets burn out, the piggy-back spacecraft is turned loose, and Stage One fires, as the boost plane dives away.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 01:03 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: The al-Hare and al-Hound Sacred Mosque of Islam at July 25, 2026 01:05 AM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2026 01:09 AM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 25, 2026 01:09 AM (SRRAx)
It has been floating around for at least 10 minutes now. @SpaceX is about to get their hands on very interesting data that they never had before. The heat shield looks great too
6 seconds
https://tinyurl.com/4e97rw3k
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 01:17 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 25, 2026 01:19 AM (vSvIl)
It’s getting better every time. This is what progress looks like
https://tinyurl.com/yejdm937
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 01:22 AM (6T7Go)
@elonmusk
19m
Replying to @DJSnM
Unless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flight
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 01:24 AM (6T7Go)
Oh wow. Some of the NSF mee-thane boys were speculating about that.
And that means the next one will be orbital, or just about, looping back around to land back in Texas.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 01:26 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2026 01:31 AM (ibDUx)
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Splash down and 20 floating on the water.
https://tinyurl.com/2t6n3w5z
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Looks like Bezos not only has a float problem but a size problem too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 01:31 AM (6T7Go)
@elonmusk
5h
Starship is intact, floating in the ocean and transmitting telemetry
https://tinyurl.com/445tv47w
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 01:35 AM (6T7Go)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 01:46 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/M7u5SdjDSQQ
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - what a night for a nightmare at July 25, 2026 01:57 AM (jrd4M)
Happy trails to you,
Until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.
'night
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2026 01:59 AM (6T7Go)
Moon is about 83% illuminated now. Too low to see here anyway, and it's been quite cloudy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 02:04 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2026 02:06 AM (1z8ji)
Sunset was blazing red-orange today & yesterday. Hazy during the day, due to smoke. Thankfully, it's high enough in the atmosphere (mostly) that I can't smell it. Sometimes, not so much.
Meh. It's *that time of year* and fire season is upon us in the West.
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 02:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)
I got my mom the book for her birthday one year and she loved it, which probably tells you something about both of us:
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
www.amazon.com/dp/1592402038
All that to say, the policeman is like a panda with an Oxford comma: climbs, shoots, and leaves.
Posted by: SciVo at July 25, 2026 02:16 AM (Sy6m/)
Hi JQ, don't know how late I'll stay up but make it a double. How is your heat?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2026 02:18 AM (ibDUx)
Hi!
Only 101* today.. ugh. Same tomorrow, probably. Would be worse if not for the smoke blocking the blazing sun! So-- grateful for it despite the forest destruction.
How are you?
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)
The clouds and rain cooled us off well. Nice break from the heat. High was just 75F.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 02:22 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
Niiiiice! We got a sprinkle yesterday (at 104F) that simply turned outdoors into a giant steambath. Bleh!
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at July 25, 2026 02:28 AM (i1ddm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 25, 2026 02:29 AM (w6EFb)
Meanwhile, just keep the yard watered enough to stay green... ish... and mow the weeds when it starts to look ratty. LOL
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)
As a comic book product, I liked batman better because he was a gadget guy.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 25, 2026 02:40 AM (SwCxT)
Bro and I liked the tv show-- extra special because it wasn't aired in our area, but we could watch it at grandparents' house!
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 02:45 AM (rdVOm)
Think of how many lurk without ever contributing. Could it be a great many? Tis fearful to expose oneself in this august company.
Infact, fellow lurkers of late night, sing out just for tonight. Anyone? Anyone?
Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at July 25, 2026 02:45 AM (FHM91)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 02:50 AM (rcENI)
We play EIKWmFrZ. Someone had Village Beauty from the Z deck with Clay Roof and did a double-build then double-no-action-grow, which was pretty cool.
It took me a while to get my fourth room, but then I quickly got the Hammock and both grows. So I think I was first to 3, last to 4, and first to 5.
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 02:55 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 25, 2026 02:55 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 02:58 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 25, 2026 02:59 AM (m5P/4)
I have no idea what either of your posts meant, but sounds like fun!
*this old fuddy-duddy walks away...*
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Hey Teresa, if you are still around, do you have any fun trips planned for the rest of the summer?
SciVo, I bookmarked that book, it will make a nice Christmas gift. Thank you.
Late Night Lurker, this place is my night school, I learn about space, auto repair, music and movies, I seldom have any weighty insight into many of these topics but still I persist.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2026 03:08 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:08 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2026 03:13 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: frammish
Sounds realistic enough that I'd enjoy playing! LOL.
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:14 AM (rcENI)
Back in the days when we'd all get together...
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish
Yep. Got to decompress!
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 03:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:21 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 03:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:26 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:27 AM (rcENI)
Costco should have them for excellent price. Get more rolls of bag material than you think you'll need!
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:41 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:43 AM (rcENI)
I noticed a couple years ago that we never got a brisket. I assume they were turning it into ground beef. But I like to smoke things, so I've started asking for that. It is about half the weight of a Costco brisket. That is quite a difference!
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:46 AM (rcENI)
Blanching kills enzymes so that produce keeps longer in freezer. Makes a big difference.
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 03:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 25, 2026 03:51 AM (DZ9Lv)
frammish, nice offer on the game night, I live way too far away, like JQ said, thank you.
I am going to wish you all sweet dreams, I am headed to bed.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2026 03:51 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)
We got 12 gallons of plums off the plum tree last year. Mostly we did plain canning, but we made some jam and some "Russian plums" (which I didn't love).
We have a bunch of pepper starts I want to do something with. Jalapenos are so cheap that I think it makes more sense just to can them from the grocery store.
My 11yo got really excited about canning asparagus last year. We did a few jars. I bet that still has a good price? I should buy a load of that and can it with her.
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:56 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: frammish at July 25, 2026 03:57 AM (rcENI)
Now is time for corn, okra, plums, peppers, grapes, maybe late cherries..
Have fun!
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 04:04 AM (rdVOm)
Better to just burn it down...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 25, 2026 04:06 AM (bEpKP)
*types*
*deletes*
Yeah, an ounce of prevention is probably better than what I had in mind...
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 04:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2026 04:24 AM (rdVOm)
I have no idea how I got on these people's campaign list, as I have never donated to anybody, am not registered with any political party, and have zero internet footprint regarding politics.
The email was the usual Democrat word-salad gobbledygook, but usefully named the Republican she was trying to defeat ("Zach Nunn"), with the help (not ashamed of this fact) of millions of dollars of donations from out-of-state liberals and out-of-state campaign activists flooding into the district.
Here was my response:
"Thank you for warning me about this important issue. As suggested, I will be donating as much as I am legally able to the Zach Nunn campaign, to prevent the nation from falling to the communists.
Had it not been for your email helpfully informing me of his name and of this race's significance, I would not have known how important it was to keep him in office.
Cleverly disguising your message as a satire of a deceptive email from the communist side was an effective technique. Keep up the good work!"
Posted by: zombie at July 25, 2026 04:30 AM (Av6i5)
Posted by: m at July 25, 2026 04:47 AM (faghi)
——-
MCI aka C-Ration boxes in the field mostly, I expect. They were wrapped in heavy wire.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2026 05:28 AM (VGE5u)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 25, 2026 05:58 AM (WhF6d)
Posted by: Kindltot
I think the marxism was a bigger problem.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 11:07 PM
The problem with Sagan was that he imagined himself a Feynman.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 25, 2026 12:43 PM (4NO2D)
Friday Cafe
Heat Wave, Hong Kong, China, by Calvin Fu
The timing is perfect pic.twitter.com/FjqmdgnUQ5
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) July 23, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 24, 2026 07:24 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 07:24 PM (13VxP)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:26 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:26 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 24, 2026 07:27 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 07:27 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 07:27 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:28 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 07:29 PM (0TVIV)
I will have to listen to the Swiftie thing later as fixin' to have dinner. Our newest DIL, a decade younger than son, is a fan. I love her otherwise, but whoa. The rest of us don't say anything.
Thankful it is Friday altho we have a dinner tomorrow. Low key. Ribs for grandson's birthday. I will wait til tomorrow to dust and act like I am normal.
Have a great weekend Ace and all. Y'all somehow keep me sane. Which is either good or scary.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 07:30 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:20 PM (MWfyi)
There is grass fed beef in these tacos! Dinner is ready!
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:30 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:31 PM (gKWVE)
*sits at Café table al fresco with a Perrier*
*watches riot down the street*
Good evening, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 07:31 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:31 PM (MWfyi)
They clearly admire him, and it appears he is a big fan of theirs.
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:33 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)
We were talking about that in the reddit discussion, last thread.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:34 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: banana Dream "
See 'em all the time. They are usually malevolent.
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at July 24, 2026 07:34 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:35 PM (3uBP9)
Obama has a library?
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)
_____________
One that makes the Vittorio Emanuele Monument look elegant.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 07:35 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 07:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:35 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:35 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: gKWVE"
Oh. Well does he?
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:36 PM (MWfyi)
Have a great weekend Ace and all. Y'all somehow keep me sane. Which is either good or scary.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 07:30 PM (hzuYO)
Cats are good for detecting sounds, so if they don't trip and start looking things are probably cool.
Found a baby lizard in my cat's water bowl this morning, not sure which of my hunters did that. Poor cute little thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:36 PM (uhVAy)
My cat Allie has finally decided to come join me in my office again. She's been sulking all week since I took her to the vet on Tuesday for some minor surgery.
She's doing fine.
Cats are very forgiving creatures.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 07:36 PM (FZ29D)
That's the stuff they're venting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 07:35 PM (viF8m)
When I was small I had a friend who had a pack of St Bernard dogs in his house and yard. They was big.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:37 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 07:37 PM (KC5Lt)
A scan showed my Windows 10 computer had 119,000 bad sectors out of 120,000. Oh well, at least I got the files offloaded.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 07:37 PM (O0L8i)
My cat Allie has finally decided to come join me in my office again. She's been sulking all week since I took her to the vet on Tuesday for some minor surgery.
She's doing fine.
Cats are very forgiving creatures.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 07:36 PM (FZ29D)
My female cat has taken to asking me to open a desk drawer so she can sleep in it while the fan blows across her on these warm days.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:38 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Big Mike at July 24, 2026 07:38 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:35 PM (oUopv)
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What's goin' on, brother? Recent surgery? Bad back?
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 07:38 PM (stMSD)
They clearly admire him, and it appears he is a big fan of theirs.
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)
I guess there were no green dildos.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 07:38 PM (NkUqe)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)
That's the stuff they're venting.
Posted by: publius
Chemtrails.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:39 PM (oUopv)
Waking up is hard for a beagle puppy! Rubs his eyes
They say that waking up is hard to do
Now, I know, I know that it's true
Don't say that sleep is at end
Instead of Waking up
I wish that we were sleeping in again
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:39 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 07:37 PM
With no knowledge of preferred pronouns, why are you assuming the puppy identifies as male?
Posted by: Kareny McKarenface at July 24, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:40 PM (/+uur)
We have had 5 Great Danes.
The first one was wonderful and when he died we bought two puppies. After they died we bought two more puppies.
The last two were raised with two teacup chihuahuas.
They were wonderful with the little dogs.
We still miss all of them.
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 07:40 PM (/QHx4)
My visit Monday to the Vet with my two kittehs went well. Only for an exam and rabies shot. New Vet for us since I moved.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 07:41 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:41 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:41 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:33 PM
There are many, many nebulae in space. Some are even famous!
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 24, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: ShainS
Recreating a Caribbean cocktail. Mmmm mmm good.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:41 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: rickb223
Sorry you're in pain. What happened?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 07:42 PM (0TVIV)
They clearly admire him, and it appears he is a big fan of theirs.
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre
Gay recognizes gay.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:42 PM (oUopv)
You're seeing live feed of re-entry, something never before able to been seen. The pretty colors are the plasma.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Kareny McKarenface at July 24, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)
Hah. But it's well known that all dogs are boys and all cats are girls.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 07:43 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
No pain. Caribbean cocktail.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:43 PM (oUopv)
They clearly admire him, and it appears he is a big fan of theirs.
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)
He will be judging Angola goats and flop eared bunnies at the childrens heavy petting zoo come the fall.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:43 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:41 PM
Here's your accompaniment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke1Us_3qfkg
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 07:44 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:37 PM (w6EFb)
When they were doing a limited burn earlier on Starship it looked like fire and clouds. Maybe it's just the camera but it's like they're flying in clouds. I guess the gas from the burn follows them.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 07:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Kareny McKarenface
Probably sitting there & licking his pecker was a clue.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:44 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau
I guess there were no green dildos.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Sheeeet. He owns more of them than they do.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2026 07:44 PM (O6Iwc)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:35 PM (oUopv)
HQ rules 101
If you bring drugs
Bring enuf for everybody
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:45 PM (/+uur)
They clearly admire him, and it appears he is a big fan of theirs.
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)
Well he plays basketball like a girl so mutual respect.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 07:45 PM (KC5Lt)
If only we had a tight structure where an entire citizenry DIDN'T jack off a politician because they didn't have the audacity to insist to be our boss.
What a world that would be.
Posted by: Call It at July 24, 2026 07:46 PM (1iNpS)
Her Majesty told my she has had the offer of a puppy from an as-yet unconsummated breeding. Her inclination is to say yes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 07:46 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher
Quit your crabbing.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2026 07:46 PM (O6Iwc)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:46 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:46 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Nice.
Just reminiscing about a long ago vacation.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:47 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 07:43 PM (KC5Lt)
My boy cats are not girls, girl cats are meaner.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:48 PM (uhVAy)
They're coming around to the terminator now, you'll be able to see a lot more now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:49 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:49 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 07:50 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 07:50 PM (viF8m)
Boelter’s vehicle was found with “NO KINGS” flyers on the seat,
He killed Dems to make people think Trump was bad.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:50 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:51 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 07:53 PM (Gcul1)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:54 PM (3uBP9)
Says they are dumb as a stump but totally loveable.
He mostly complains about the weekly poop cleanup.
Posted by: Bosk at July 24, 2026 07:54 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:56 PM (3uBP9)
Ajax could pass under this dong without stopping too much. And he thought this dog was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen. The St Bernard just kept turning his head to try to see Ajax, slowly.
I hate Steven King for Cujo a lot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:57 PM (3uBP9)
The mashup audio is the best, where internal comms and onboard comms are strung together. Nobody knew what to do (other than nothing, maybe) and an abort was likely. “SCE to AUX”
“What the hell is that!?”
But Alan Bean knew what it was, and flipped the breaker to AUX. The crew laughed their ass off all the way into orbit, because it was just too damn weird.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 07:57 PM (Gcul1)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:58 PM (gKWVE)
What is that ? Buying a puppy on spec ?
Lets say I had spectacular genes. And Gabriella Reese said "Lets do the PIV and make some pups". Do you buy those site unseen ?
And does Gabby Reese make a good Kolache ?
Posted by: Call It at July 24, 2026 07:58 PM (1iNpS)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:58 PM (3uBP9)
It didn't blow up when it hit the water. There was a rupture and some "mee-thane" poured out and caught fire, but no explosion.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:59 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:59 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 08:00 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 08:01 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:59 PM (w6EFb)
That. Was. AWESOME! Thanks for the link. Alex (lady person I hope) has a nice smoky voice with just the right amount of Eastern European accent.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 24, 2026 08:02 PM (0aYVJ)
————-
You can’t say no to a puppy!
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 08:02 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 07:56 PM
Just for Cujo? Dude, expand your horizons.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 08:02 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:03 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:03 PM (u82oZ)
I don't see why not. They have ships for picking up reentry splash downs. They should send one out. It's probably still a little explodey. But send some autonomous thing out to tug it back.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 08:05 PM (3uBP9)
https://www.beyc.com
Posted by: JackStraw
I think so. We topped off groceries on one of the islands. They were expensive.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 08:05 PM (oUopv)
Lets say I had spectacular genes. And Gabriella Reese said "Lets do the PIV and make some pups". Do you buy those site unseen ?
____________
Her Majesty gave the prospective mama an award at a National Specialty in 2022 and the prospective father is the sire of two of our litters.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 08:06 PM (O0L8i)
That's one of my favorite places. First time there was 1979 and I came very close to moving there.
Been back many times. It started as a very casual place with a bunch of shacks and a bar and now it's pretty posh but still a nice place.
It's a pretty regular stop for charter boats in the BVI.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:08 PM (viF8m)
Thanks Elon, you crazy dreamer.
Posted by: pawn at July 24, 2026 08:08 PM (MNjaf)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 24, 2026 08:08 PM (xdvyM)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 08:06 PM (O0L8i)
I get it, I guess. I would give Gabby Reese several awards today, if given a chance.
Don't know if I'd advise anyone to pay money for one of the litter, though.
Posted by: Call It at July 24, 2026 08:10 PM (1iNpS)
Posted by: Call It at July 24, 2026 08:10 PM (1iNpS)
I get it, I guess. I would give Gabby Reese several awards today, if given a chance.
___________
Gabby Reese. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 08:14 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 08:14 PM (ZdCkS)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 08:02 PM (Wnv9h)
Why i did not say 'for this alone.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 08:17 PM (zZu0s)
Fk you, Erdogan!
"Turkey does not meet legal requirements to receive F-35, State Department says...Turkey still does not meet the legal requirements to rejoin the F-35 fighter jet program, the US State Department said in a letter to Congress."
Ciao!
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 08:17 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 08:18 PM (GD0B3)
I am very proud of myself.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 08:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:27 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 24, 2026 08:27 PM (DZ9Lv)
Same for "Keev". Fuck all y'all. Its been Chicken Kiev since I was born. And Turkey .. like the fucking flightless bird.
Says so right on my Risk board.
Posted by: Call It at July 24, 2026 08:28 PM (1iNpS)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 08:18 PM (GD0B3)
No One trying to shoot him this time ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 08:29 PM (S6LVb)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:29 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 24, 2026 08:30 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 08:29 PM (S6LVb)
The night is young. Honestly surprised the Old Man still does this kind of shit.
Yet not surprised.
Posted by: Call It at July 24, 2026 08:31 PM (1iNpS)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:31 PM (abScH)
Posted by: SnailRacer at July 24, 2026 08:32 PM (bkeFY)
Been back many times. It started as a very casual place with a bunch of shacks and a bar and now it's pretty posh but still a nice place.
It's a pretty regular stop for charter boats in the BVI.
Posted by: JackStraw
One place I definitely remember was the Pusser's bar/store. I was so looking forward to that. From the historical perspective.
Pusser's rum will strip paint.
Not a fan of that.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 08:32 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:33 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 08:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Pusser's rum will strip paint.
Not a fan of that.
Yea, me neither. I like a lot of different rums but Pusser's is pretty low on my list.
I do miss the BVI.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)
No pet, absolutely none, will cost you more money in the long run to domesticate than a beaver.
History Books are full of the evidence. The Greeks wrote at least one damn good Opus about it.
The Story of Man is, in no small part, the waste of time and treasure trying to tame or tempt the Beaver.
Posted by: Call It at July 24, 2026 08:38 PM (1iNpS)
youtube.com/watch?v=Q2muJlmYgJo
Posted by: gp at July 24, 2026 08:39 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 24, 2026 08:39 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:39 PM (abScH)
Posted by: JackStraw
Same. I doubt I'll ever get back there. It was the way we went. 4 couples. Our own boat. No timeline.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 08:39 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Joe From Scranton at July 24, 2026 08:41 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:41 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:39 PM (abScH)
Mint, lime juice, real cane sugar, and a light rum ?
Really ?
Maybe I do need to hit one of these MoMees.
Posted by: Call It at July 24, 2026 08:42 PM (1iNpS)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:44 PM (abScH)
Posted by: gp at July 24, 2026 08:44 PM (Jr5Lq)
That's the perfect way to go.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 24, 2026 08:47 PM (qkKKD)
Posted by: SnailRacer at July 24, 2026 08:50 PM (bkeFY)
Yes indeed!
That's where he displays the famous photo of "Emperor Hirohito comin' down and surrendering on one of our battleships."
He famously referenced this event in one of his speeches.
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 08:50 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:51 PM (abScH)
I remember he used to post drink recipes but have not seen them for a while.
Posted by: SnailRacer at July 24, 2026 08:55 PM (bkeFY)
Posted by: SnailRacer at July 24, 2026 08:50 PM (bkeFY)
I just bring bottles of Buffalo Trace.
It's been very popular.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 24, 2026 08:57 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:44 PM (abScH)
---------------
I tried to make a cash donation (in addition to a couple cases of Shiner Bock -- which didn't last long!), and neither BenHad, CBD, nor Weasel would take my money ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 08:58 PM (stMSD)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 08:58 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:00 PM (abScH)
Since I'm reading the Dune Prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, I decided to add cinnamon to my hot cocoa this evening, to simulate the "spice" (which smells like cinnamon) that is prevalent throughout the Dune novels...
We now return you to your regularly scheduled penguin-free shenanigans.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:01 PM (FZ29D)
I've lived near two and I can only imagine the pain of loving a pup and seeing them die in 6 years.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 24, 2026 09:02 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 08:58 PM (stMSD)
----
Bringing your own contribution in booze is probably the best way to support the open bar.
I don't drink, but I always bring a couple of cases of soda as well as several cases of water (we go through A LOT of water!).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:02 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:02 PM (abScH)
It's almost as much fun as Flash Gordon.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 09:03 PM (0TVIV)
They clearly admire him, and it appears he is a big fan of theirs. "
bonding over the idea of killing wypipo ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 24, 2026 09:04 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 09:04 PM (WVdLT)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:04 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 24, 2026 09:05 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:02 PM (abScH)
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Somebody gave me a bottle of creme de cacao once, a long time ago. I discovered a capful of that in my cocoa, along with a cinnamon stick, made a delightful cup of hot chocolate.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:07 PM (FZ29D)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled penguin-free shenanigans.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Perfessor,
You can buy Mexican chocolate on Amazon. It has cinnamon in it. Ibarra is one of the brands.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 09:07 PM (lJ0H4)
[ . . . ]
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:01 PM (FZ29D)
Buy the Abuelita chocolate with cinnamon to add to your coffee. It will still smell like cinnamon and will taste better
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 09:09 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:09 PM (abScH)
Since I'm reading the Dune Prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, I decided to add cinnamon to my hot cocoa this evening, to simulate the "spice" (which smells like cinnamon) that is prevalent throughout the Dune novels...
We now return you to your regularly scheduled penguin-free shenanigans.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:01 PM (FZ29D)
I like cinnamon in coffee quite a bit. 99.999% of the coffee I drink is black straight from the pot to my gullet. But if I get anything froofroo it's cinnamon added. A really good flavor combo.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 09:09 PM (3uBP9)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 09:04 PM (WVdLT)
He'll save everyone of us!
[ba dum bum bum bum bum ....]
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 09:11 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:11 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 09:09 PM (rbvCR)
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Not much of a coffee drinker.
I have found that a cup of cocoa in the evening does seem to help me sleep better.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:11 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 09:12 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 09:09 PM (3uBP9)
I don't drink sugar in my coffee anymore, but I used to drink coffee with brown sugar.
Add in a shot of bourbon and light up a Camel and you had my usual camping breakfast.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 09:13 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:13 PM (abScH)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 09:14 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Navigator at July 24, 2026 09:14 PM (Q+gd/)
I am very proud of myself.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 08:20 PM (rbvCR)
How YOU doin'?
Know what makes great sausage? Venison. When I was a kid, we always took the deer I shot down to the local meat market who would transform it into the bestest sausage and salami.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:15 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:15 PM (SgdqL)
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Seconded.
I used to have a coworker who brought in venison sausage to the office during hunting season. It was incredible!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:16 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:16 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:15 PM (SgdqL)
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Seconded.
I used to have a coworker who brought in venison sausage to the office during hunting season. It was incredible!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:16 PM (FZ29D)
I had some caribou sausage one time in AK. Awesome!
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 09:17 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 09:18 PM (0TVIV)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:18 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Navigator at July 24, 2026 09:14 PM (Q+gd/)
Listen to me. The coffee must flow!
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 09:18 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2026 09:19 PM (Q+gd/)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled penguin-free shenanigans.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:01 PM (FZ29D)
So you will show up at the TX MoME with the Eyes of Ibad?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 09:20 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:16 PM (FZ29D)
*fistbump*
As for the salami? Well, I finally figured out that my bringing it in as sammiches in high school was one, if certainly not the least, reasons why the girls avoided Ol' Robbo like the plague. (Enough garlic to smell downwind about five miles, but oh so tasty....)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:22 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:24 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 24, 2026 09:24 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 09:24 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 09:20 PM (4g5V+)
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Unfortunately, I don't think I can make it this year. Money is very tight right now. I don't have much available for travel.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:25 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 09:25 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2026 09:19 PM (Q+gd/)
Dunno. It's been many years, but I think the dryness was one of the appeals to me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:26 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:26 PM (abScH)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at July 24, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)
He likes their big dicks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 09:26 PM (1z8ji)
Between you and bluebell, this blog has heart and soul and loving women who help get us all together.
Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 09:27 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:01 PM
May it always be thus.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 09:27 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Don Black
I first saw her in "Young Victoria". Good movie. And yes, she is quite pretty.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 09:27 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 09:29 PM (rbvCR)
Unfortunately, I don't think I can make it this year. Money is very tight right now. I don't have much available for travel.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:25 PM (FZ29D)
Bah!
But nonetheless you will have the Eyes of Ibad. : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 09:29 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 09:29 PM (NkUqe)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 09:30 PM (VGE5u)
Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 24, 2026 09:30 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:26 PM (SgdqL)
You can get away with leaner meat if you are making link sausage.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 09:30 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 09:30 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:32 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 09:32 PM (VGE5u)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 09:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:33 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:24 PM (abScH)
When I finally get around to my HEB run to Lubbock I am going to get some sausage. They have some damn good jalapeño and garlic sausage as well.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 09:34 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:35 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 09:32 PM (VGE5u)
Have we met?
Posted by: Buc-ees at July 24, 2026 09:35 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 09:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:36 PM (abScH)
Bellville Meat Market, Bellville, TX.
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 09:37 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:37 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 09:32 PM (VGE5u)
My general impression of meat lockers, but my last experience of them was in San Antonio 40-odd years ago. Doubt I could get the same results here in NoVA in the present day. Sad.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:37 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 09:32 PM (VGE5u)
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Agreed. Even my local upscale grocery store (well, it's upscale compared to Walmart) has some decent beef sticks. With jalepeno cheese or plain. Very tasty.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:38 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 07:45 PM (KC5Lt)
Insolence.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 09:39 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 09:39 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 09:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:40 PM (abScH)
To pilfer from Red Robin: Yuuuuuuum.........
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:45 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 09:49 PM (rkCBr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 24, 2026 09:52 PM (qkKKD)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 09:40 PM (abScH)
They are made of Grandmothers?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 09:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Case at July 24, 2026 09:52 PM (bqIVz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 24, 2026 09:53 PM (qkKKD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 24, 2026 09:53 PM (qkKKD)
Gamy, then.
In Korean it means "elder brother"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 09:54 PM (rbvCR)
They are yummy.
Come for a visit. I know a place.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 09:58 PM (viF8m)
The most important thing about this list of YT movies is the price is right.
Posted by: mindful webworker - small screen for small budgets at July 24, 2026 09:58 PM (jrd4M)
They clearly admire him
"Brick" Hussein Obama is a kindred basketball spirit.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 09:58 PM (rkCBr)
That happened on this flight. Dunno if they have published the video.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 24, 2026 10:01 PM (CmlPw)
NNNNOOOOODD
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420713
Posted by: mindful webworker - run do not walk, corgis at July 24, 2026 10:01 PM (jrd4M)
The Week In Woke
A Fordham professor wants people who reject fake "birthright citizenship" actually punished for wrongthink.
'They exploit norms of collegiality and presumptions of integrity to advance trash' Law professors who support limits on birthright citizenship should be shunned in academia, according to a Fordham University scholar. "There MUST be repercussions for the lawprofs who advanced such untenable arguments. Their behavior is -- and I mean this literally, not dehumanizingly -- parasitic," John Pfaff (pictured) wrote in a since-deleted post on BlueSky. "They exploit norms of collegiality and presumptions of integrity to advance trash. Which undermines the work of ALL of us," he said. He later wrote, "I stand by the idea, but I should have phrased it better. Academic freedom is the right to say what you want, without INSTITUTIONAL repercussions (generally). But it's not the right to speak w NO repercussions."40% of academics won't hire Trump voters.
Black professors outnumber their Republican colleagues at 11 elite higher education institutions including Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Roughly 40 percent of college faculty would "oppose hiring a Trump supporter." A quarter of faculty in social sciences and humanities departments would "support a campaign" to remove colleagues for expressing conservative views "in at least one of four topic areas." These are just some of the issues flagged in a new report from the America First Policy Institute published this month, painting a picture on how higher education is more polarized than ever. "When you have institutions that are being captured and co-opted by this kind of woke, DEI, critical theory mentality, this is the result," America First Policy Institute Vice Chair of Education Opportunity Michael Shires told The College Fix. "You chase out people who have even mainstream perspectives." "If you think about it," he added, "half the electorate voted for President Trump, yet on a university campus, you know, 40% of the faculty wouldn't hire them." The report weaves together dozens of studies, research, surveys and other findings to argue government intervention is needed to correct course, as institutional reform is not coming from within, and demands for "academic freedom" ring hollow given the bias against the right.
I'm just going to say it: I am now ready, willing, and eager to begin inflicting punishments on communists for what I consider wrongthink. If they want to criminalize my thoughts, I am now ready to use state power to criminalize theirs. Mike Lee wants to defund schools that insanely continue to force students to get vaccinated in contradiction of their religious beliefs.
A bill that would block federal tax dollars from schools that refuse to allow religious exemptions for vaccinations has been introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who argued that educational institutions "need to learn we don't all worship Fauci." The proposed legislation, dubbed the Guaranteeing Religious Accommodation in Childhood Education (GRACE) Act, is cosponsored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and was introduced in the House by Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL). It is endorsed by over fifty organizations, including Children's Health Defense, Moms for Liberty, and the Autism Action Network. Not only would the bill defund schools that do not allow religious vaccine exemptions, but it would also prevent institutions from requiring documentation from students or parents in order to justify receiving such an exemption. The Democrat-led states of California and New York both removed their religious freedom exemptions in recent years, impacting thousands of families who are now blocked from attending the schools their tax dollars pay for. "Schools are discriminating against religious kids and targeting their families over vaccine exemptions," Lee said in a statement to Breitbart News. "Keeping a kindergartner out of class over a vaccine is cruel -- and it's unconstitutional when the reason is their family's religion."So important you guys: Oregon's public health schools tackle the one remaining bigotry.
The Oregon Health & Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health hosts an initiative to combat "anti-fat bias." "The purpose of the Fat Justice Working Group is to engage students, faculty and staff of the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health (SPH) in learning, activities and advocacy to reduce weight stigma and anti-fat bias in ourselves, our School and society at large," the initiative's webpage states. The group was formed by Dawn Richardson, associate dean for academic affairs, as a social justice project to oppose the "oppression" of overweight people, rejecting the notion that excessive weight correlates with poorer health. In an open letter addressed to the SPH, part of the working group, called the Fat Justice Journal Club, expressed its concerns with the research and healthcare at the school. The letter rejects the "obesity paradigm," requests the expansion of "Fat Studies," and demands the release of public statements that fight "weight stigma and structural anti-fatness." It includes references to works such as "Health(ism) At Every Size: The Duties of the Good Fatty," "Thick Sistahs and Heavy Disprivileged: Black Women, Intersectionality, and Weight Stigma," and "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia."
The Boyscast discusses Reddit's r/straightpegging subreddit, where "straight" guys brag about being pegged by their "girlfriends." Content warning: It's about pegging. Ice T has some news for guys in the r/straightpegging subreddit.
The only thing remotely shocking about this ad is that Wisconsin didn’t legalize weed https://t.co/FMtcgjTUpE
— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) July 22, 2026
Manhattan Institute
@ManhattanInst WATCH: Fmr. Clinton aide Keith Boykin refuses to answer whether or not he believes that objectivity is a "tool of white supremacy" @Jesse_Leg: "The Smithsonian was promoting a document [that]...suggested that objectivity was a tool of white supremacy. I think we can all agree that that is facially ridiculous." BOYKIN: "No we can't." ARM: "You think objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?" B: "I just want to say you presume things that are not true." A: "Do you believe that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?" B: "Well, you said we can all agree on something. I'm just saying we don't." A: "Can we all agree that objectivity isn't a tool of white supremacy?" B: "No we can't. It requires a longer discussion."
WATCH: Fmr. Clinton aide Keith Boykin refuses to answer whether or not he believes that objectivity is a "tool of white supremacy"@Jesse_Leg: "The Smithsonian was promoting a document [that]...suggested that objectivity was a tool of white supremacy. I think we can all agree… pic.twitter.com/uxtMxIQb2N
— Manhattan Institute (@ManhattanInst) July 22, 2026
A Jersey Mike’s employee in Baltimore, David, is receiving mass praise after refusing to take abuse from a black woman demanding free food for her “birthday.”
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) July 13, 2026
“I want a free birthday meal.”
“Fck your birthday.” pic.twitter.com/95IPbRKZxe
How will ICE ever recover from this? pic.twitter.com/GWhk2ZOcXt
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 23, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Homer Simpson at July 24, 2026 06:23 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Iris at July 24, 2026 06:23 PM (286+n)
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Posted by: Iris at July 24, 2026 06:25 PM (286+n)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping Ralphy happy and alive. But wow. at July 24, 2026 06:26 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:26 PM (xcxpd)
B: "I just want to say you presume things that are not true."
A: "Do you believe that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?"
B: "Well, you said we can all agree on something. I'm just saying we don't."
Monty Python's Flying Circus did the argument sketch way better. This is just kind of sad.
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 06:26 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at July 24, 2026 06:27 PM (ftsic)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 06:27 PM (CWTWj)
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I think it's more like 100%
OK... 90%
No.... it's 100%
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 06:27 PM (jehhT)
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"She" wants to redistribute her poverty but not her weed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:28 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Hubba Hubba at July 24, 2026 06:28 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:29 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 24, 2026 06:29 PM (0aYVJ)
Sure. But I'd like to go more. I'd like to pretty much go full inquisition on EVERYONE that demanded it. And the Cops that enforced it. And all those that grabbed that special moment in time to flash a credential to push it. And those that chose that moment to show what good little bots they were by sucking up to and showing their loyalty to all the "people in charge".
Its a wide net.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:30 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at July 24, 2026 06:30 PM (ZnJem)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 06:30 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 06:30 PM (dIske)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:31 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 06:31 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Gref at July 24, 2026 06:31 PM (5rh/l)
Sahra Noor allegedly incorporated a $20M USAID company with the SAME ADDRESS as a Feeding Our Future fraudster!
"Sahra Noor's Grit Partners was incorporated at an address on Hyacinth Ave belonging to Ister Afraa. Afraa worked directly with Sahra Nur, who ran the fake catering company that the various Feeding Our Future nonprofits used to give the feds fake receipts," @lukerosiak reports
"Afraa ran a different company alongside Hanna Marekegn, who pleaded guilty to stealing $7 million."
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 06:31 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 06:31 PM (Nt9qU)
This trans "lesbian" got upset because people at the public pool didn't like his genitals hanging out of his bikini
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:32 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 06:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:32 PM (NemxU)
Sure. Why not? And let's add "excessive smoking", "drug/alcohol abuse", and "hitting yourself in the head repeatedly with a hammer" as notions to be rejected as contributors to poorer health.
Idiot.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2026 06:32 PM (oji8u)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:29 PM (3uBP9)
That and heart attacks and strokes. Saw a clip showing some of the famous 'fat activists' and a lot of them are dead.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 06:32 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 06:33 PM (xPsv8)
Posted by: Hubba Hubba at July 24, 2026 06:28 PM (2Ez/1)
The sexual temptations around here are ever present.
Nightly News
Holy Crap. They're all talking about pegging!
Nah....
Lettuce explosive diarrhea.
Plane crash in Washington State
School Shooter
ABC - fires in Europe
Storm updates.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping Ralphy happy and alive. But wow. at July 24, 2026 06:33 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 06:33 PM (9EFgU)
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Well, would any of us hire any of THEIR supporters? I wouldn’t. Tribalism is a thing because it often works.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 06:34 PM (Nt9qU)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 06:32 PM (viF8m)
Keep this shit up, and we're gonna' end up agreeing. I won't like it any more than you will.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:34 PM (RhUi2)
How will any of us? That's what I get for clicking the link.
Posted by: No Name Today at July 24, 2026 06:34 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 06:33 PM (9EFgU)
No Weather Girls???
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 24, 2026 06:35 PM (0aYVJ)
The Tool Kit feels like someone was punking the Smithsonian. It's like those physics profs that submitted papers for publication in Studies journals that white dogs were racist in refusing to hump brown or black dogs at dog parks. Some guy was just thinking what is the stupidest thing I can accuse white people of? Punctuality, objectivity, and politeness.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 24, 2026 06:35 PM (wGerL)
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It's a conspiracy by Big Gravity!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:35 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:23 PM
Not if I can help it.
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard Alumus at July 24, 2026 06:35 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: runner
It's the right form, but that would be a pretty lame AoS nic.
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 06:35 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:35 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 06:35 PM (NkUqe)
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Welcome to the party Boss.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 06:36 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:23 PM
Terrible. That's icky. Wouldn't have one in my house. Or truck.
Shame.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:36 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: PG at July 24, 2026 06:36 PM (jGLqZ)
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OK, if it's good enough for others it should also be good enough for prof Pfaff. He should be sacked to preserve unity, he is too divisive. See, we can play this game.
Posted by: Decaf at July 24, 2026 06:36 PM (ZNpJk)
Sure. Why not? And let's add "excessive smoking", "drug/alcohol abuse", and "hitting yourself in the head repeatedly with a hammer" as notions to be rejected as contributors to poorer health.
Idiot.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2026 06:32 PM (oji8u)
How about playing Russian Roulette with a semi-auto? Does that qualify?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 06:36 PM (qx7Zg)
ABD: I concede that it requires a longer discussion, but that discussion has nothing to do with what "we" determine to be extensions of "white supremacy". The discussion will be, "Do we terminate your position now or when this hearing concludes?" And, to be honest, it's not going to be that long of a discussion.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2026 06:37 PM (oji8u)
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4. Senator Thune Website EXPOSED for woke “Mx.” honorific
Republican Senate Leader John Thune, who’s failing to pass the SAVE America Act, had offered the nonbinary honorific “Mx.” option to contact him online.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 06:37 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 06:38 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Beltone Bob at July 24, 2026 06:38 PM (JM9I6)
About T - 12 min for Starship. Here's the official SpaceX feed:
https://t.ly/KzDHU
And the NSF mee-thane fanboi feed:
https://t.ly/BzHU1
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 06:38 PM (w6EFb)
Fine, Professor. Then anyone who has been injured by an illegal alien that you support can come to your office and beat the shit out of you, right?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2026 06:39 PM (1Ff7Z)
Only a Reichstag fire can save Trump from impeachment
The Senate race now has only 4 races that are considered toys ups. The Dems must take them all to win control
One,Maine should already be considered leans Dem
Posted by: Paul at July 24, 2026 06:39 PM (xNx3K)
Posted by: Stacey, Cora, Lizzo, Lena, and Brie at July 24, 2026 06:39 PM (0sNs1)
Roughly 40 percent of college faculty would "oppose hiring a Trump supporter."
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In that case MAGA should promote a new policy of not hiring Harvard, Yale and Princeton graduates and to make it known that they are considered too divisive. See we can use their language too.
Posted by: Decaf at July 24, 2026 06:40 PM (ZNpJk)
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Part of the problem, their problem, is that they will anything to advance their will to power.
So discourse is impossible.
Just put them in a box in the desert and be done.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 06:40 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 24, 2026 06:40 PM (bX16E)
Probably, but I think I need a PhD or MD degree from a prestigious university to know for certain.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2026 06:40 PM (oji8u)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (JvZF+)
What happened to "listen to the experts" and "follow the science?"
Now, put down the bucket of chicken and slowly back away.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (91ED/)
Excess weight correlates very poorly with a healthy launch trajectory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (w6EFb)
I avoided watching it for days, but now that I have it is the same story -- that voice, those threats of losing your job, those demands, and the persistence over and over of special treatment, "or else!"
What do we do with people like that? It is beyond fatigue -- my fatigue maxed out and got demobbed, filling in until further notice is anger.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (mYMcJ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (NkUqe)
Posted by: PG at July 24, 2026 06:36 PM (jGLqZ)
Yeah. Mostly. But The Jerry Garcia Band had a couple good tunes. You just have to keep an open mind about some things.
Sailing ? Rhode Island ? Massive Hog Leg Joints ? Not so much. But, you know, sometimes its worth wading through the 90% Horse Shit to get to the good 10%.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 06:38 PM
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No worries, I'll laugh loud enough for us both. Pleasant dreams.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at July 24, 2026 06:42 PM (ZnJem)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 06:42 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2026 06:39 PM (1Ff7Z)
One could only hope.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 06:43 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping Ralphy happy and alive. But wow. at July 24, 2026 06:43 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 06:44 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 06:31 PM (GD0B3)
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Indicted? Charged? Anything? I'll wait for legal action before I get excited.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 06:44 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:29 PM (3uBP9
To be replaced by pro no muscle tone and pro hair loss in clumps? Pro bone density loss? Probably pro rebound weight gain embracing.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 06:44 PM (Dd38x)
How is it even a crime?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 06:45 PM (viF8m)
youtu.be/KZDeJv7Ba-8
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 06:45 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 06:45 PM (mYMcJ)
And only a couple threads ago, I was schooled up that I was a fool for saying that the GOP wasn't a serious opposition party EXACTLY because they didn't line up - at least 34 Senators - to block such shit.
I'm a troll like that I guess.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:46 PM (RhUi2)
How is it even a crime?
Posted by: JackStraw
Welcome to the UK in Wisconsin. Next up?
Criminal charges for talking shit about goatfuckers & the pedophile profit.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 06:47 PM (oUopv)
Finally, my interests have aligned!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar/Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2026 06:47 PM (7qRkV)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:29 PM (3uBP9)
After losing over 100 pounds on those over the course of 2.5 years, I have been EXTREMELY discouraged at how quickly some of that weight (40#) has come back on after having to have steroids as part of my chemo regimen....
The GLP-1s work great otherwise!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 24, 2026 06:48 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 06:48 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 06:38 PM
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No worries, I'll laugh loud enough for us both. Pleasant dreams.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate
I'll point & laugh like a retarded hyena.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 06:49 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 06:49 PM (13VxP)
About 1 min 'til launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 06:49 PM (w6EFb)
>>Criminal charges for talking shit about goatfuckers & the pedophile profit.
The same Somali she supposedly insulted was previously charged with a sex crime against a minor. No punishment.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 06:50 PM (viF8m)
I have a feeling Paul is one of the biggest braggers.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 06:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 06:51 PM (13VxP)
I hope Jersey Mike's promoted that guy
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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They should. He protected their capital.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 06:51 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 06:51 PM (Dd38x)
So I worry about that shit. As a younger dude, that Phen-Phen stuff came out. Same Weight Loss idea. Turned out it burned out your heart valves.
In general, I've just become very Anti-Doctor. I just don't trust them. Kinda' Old Hippy honestly. I just assume any shot or pill they offer is going to fuck something else up.
I'm 54. If/When Cancer or something else hits ? I'm just going to go down. I don't trust Modern Medicine that much.
And I'm going to keep drinking like a fish until then.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:51 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:35 PM (NemxU)
it stops the dead ones.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 06:52 PM (VHUov)
Actual MFM headline, they are rooting so hard for Iran you can hear them masturbating
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 06:53 PM (YwEeS)
I avoided watching it for days, but now that I have it is the same story -- that voice, those threats of losing your job, those demands, and the persistence over and over of special treatment, "or else!"
What do we do with people like that? It is beyond fatigue -- my fatigue maxed out and got demobbed, filling in until further notice is anger.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (mYMcJ)
She didn't have her posse to tear the place up.
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 06:53 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 06:53 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 06:53 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 24, 2026 06:53 PM (m5P/4)
How is it even a crime?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 06:45 PM (viF8m)
It isn't a crime even in the MN. They just called it a disturbance.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 06:54 PM (uhVAy)
>>Criminal charges for talking shit about goatfuckers & the pedophile profit.
The same Somali she supposedly insulted was previously charged with a sex crime against a minor. No punishment.
Posted by: JackStraw
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And the kid got something like $350k in a go fund me.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 06:54 PM (mYMcJ)
"There MUST be repercussions for the lawprofs who advanced such untenable arguments. Their behavior is -- and I mean this literally, not dehumanizingly -- parasitic," John Pfaff (pictured) wrote in a since-deleted post on BlueSky.
1. Any case that has a dissent at SCOTUS is by definition a tenable position. Three justices agreed with it!
2. No legal argument, no matter how frivolous, can be "literally parasitic." Arguments don't exist by extracting nutrients from other things.
If you cannot speak English, you have no business teaching law.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 24, 2026 06:54 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 06:54 PM (XV/Pl)
I think it's a pretty good sign for you to run not walk away from a relationship when you're sweet patootie says, "Honey, I want to peg you. so much!"
Same on the other side, when your man says, "Baby, I want you to peg me. So hard.'
Run, Sugartits, run! He's communicating that he has a high probability of having teh Aids.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 06:55 PM (iJfKG)
If I understood, they didn't throttle down much for Max Q, just kept burning wide open and pushed it to much higher dynamic pressure than ever before.
Hot staging went slick and the boostback burn went just fine.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 06:55 PM (w6EFb)
That is, in fact, how birthdays get started.
Posted by: SciVo
* golf clap *
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 06:56 PM (VHUov)
About 1 min 'til launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally
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I read that as lunch.
Now I'm hungry again.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 06:56 PM (mYMcJ)
I've yet to see any 90 year old I'd like to be.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:56 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 06:56 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 06:
And having an unrealistic ideal of how you should look is also difficult. Very few people win the genetic lottery of a perfect body, and no one escapes Father Time. But you can be your healthiest self as a goal.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 06:57 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Is that Fordham prof teaching law or anti-law?
My bet's on anti-law or some weird notions caused by parasites in his brain.
But, not American law. Never American law.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 06:57 PM (iJfKG)
What happened to "listen to the experts" and "follow the science?"
Now, put down the bucket of chicken and slowly back away.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (91ED/)
You can always find another expert.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)
No numbers for normies to call if they find that some illegal has stolen their IDs to work illegally and shifting the burden of paying the combined taxes of the combined earnings.
(I joke, the policy of the Oregon DOR is to never talk to any fraud victim ever, but to do all modification via correspondence which will be done only through the Oregon Live website, and only done by requests and later decisions without further input by any taxpayer)
Like Paulie used to say . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 06:57 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 06:54 PM (XV/Pl)
Maximal thinness is also bad.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 06:58 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 06:58 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:59 PM (3uBP9)
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The same physical mechanisms used in deportation can be used to exile communists, if only we found the will to do it.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 24, 2026 06:59 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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When you're older, being a bit overweight is associated with lower mortality than being underweight.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 24, 2026 06:59 PM (XvL8K)
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A San Francisco resident was arrested and detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement this week in a video that has gone viral and infuriated the city’s liberals.
Iryna Gorb, 38, was caught by agents Wednesday at the San Francisco International Airport as she was arriving back from Portland. The barista and professional photographer is from Ukraine and had overstayed her visa by 15 years, authorities said.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 07:00 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 24, 2026 07:00 PM (n5tGW)
Not all planned engines lit for the booster splashdown landing burn, so the booster hit with a little bit more velocity than expected. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:00 PM (w6EFb)
>>Criminal charges for talking shit about goatfuckers & the pedophile profit.
The same Somali she supposedly insulted was previously charged with a sex crime against a minor. No punishment.
Posted by: JackStraw
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And the kid got something like $350k in a go fund me.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 06:54 PM (mYMcJ)
I actually don't mind that, as it takes it away from idiots who would donate to such a thing. Just do some investigating to see if they stole that money from taxpayers.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:00 PM (uhVAy)
That is, in fact, how birthdays get started.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 06:53 PM
Ahem.
Posted by: Parthogenesis at July 24, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 07:01 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:01 PM (gKWVE)
We took a break for water and the restroom. Then something took over me. I Ordered him to put the (cock) cage on and lay on his back. I then blindfolded him and put on my strapon...I then just went wild. i completely dominated him. The power dynamic and complete control was intoxicating. I guess i have penis envy. we cuddled afterwards.
Sounds like you guys had an amazing night. Just make sure his hole is up to the task before round two 👌
Amazing! Jealous of him!
Afterwards, my man was super cuddly and kept saying how good it felt. I’ve been thinking about it constantly since then. I want to do it again but I’m not sure how soon is too soon. He seemed a little sore the next day even though we went slow.
Personally after the first time(and most times) I was a bit sore the next day. I absolutely loved the soreness. Reminded me of the great time we had the prior day. I like being a bit sore the next day.
👍 I always loved the sore feeling the next day. It was a constant little reminder of the pounding she gave me.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2026 07:01 PM (7qRkV)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (91ED/)
Right! Put it down, and follow me into the kitchen where we can make yummy, crunchy chicken and a shizzle ton of sides that will fill you up, make your skin glow and will not contain your calories for the day in one meal.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:01 PM (Dd38x)
The all 33 engine flip and boostback burn went perfectly. That was an 11 - 12 g maneuver for the booster.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:02 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 07:02 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Paolo at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1)
Sure. But I'd like to go more. I'd like to pretty much go full inquisition on EVERYONE that demanded it. And the Cops that enforced it. And all those that grabbed that special moment in time to flash a credential to push it. And those that chose that moment to show what good little bots they were by sucking up to and showing their loyalty to all the "people in charge".
Its a wide net.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:30 PM (RhUi2)
Conspiracy against rights, 18 U.S.C. § 241, is a federal criminal offense. They are all unindicted felons, and (according to Brave AI) the clock doesn't even start ticking on the five-year statute of limitations until a conspiracy is accomplished or abandoned, or a conspirator effectively withdraws from the agreement. So everyone that didn't stop until 2022 could still be prosecuted.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (Sy6m/)
That is, in fact, how birthdays get started.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 06:53 PM
Ahem.
Posted by: Parthogenesis at July 24, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)
It's also how you become an exspurt.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (1Ff7Z)
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*retches*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (91ED/)
Right! Put it down, and follow me into the kitchen where we can make yummy, crunchy chicken and a shizzle ton of sides that will fill you up, make your skin glow and will not contain your calories for the day in one meal.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:01 PM (Dd38x)
Put The Kale Down, Piper!!!
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy)
they're doing it wrong
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)
well, they mainly do not have the energy to move around.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:04 PM (uhVAy)
Oh yeah! Fresh meat.
Posted by: Stan at July 24, 2026 07:05 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 07:05 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 07:07 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 07:08 PM (zZu0s)
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Religion doesn’t factor. And as much as I get on knees and pray, I don’t want to have to claim religion for special favors or whatever, if that makes sense.
It is unlawful under Title 18 USC to force participation in experimental medical trials. Even the perception of coercion. Religion doesn’t have to factor.
I hoped the Covid vaccine would be safe and effective, but i knew there was no way to know, because nobody can know without years and years of clinical trials. And perhaps 20% of those make the grade and ultimate Approval.
Approved for emergency use is not Approved. 8 months is not long enough to test adequately.
For their part, the experimental medical trial enthusiasts wished DEATH on those who declined to participate. Weird, huh? A lot of those people are DEAD
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 07:09 PM (Gcul1)
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Probably had a leak in her water bed that short circuited her electrical system and her alarm clock didn't go off.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 07:09 PM (ndZc7)
Put The Kale Down, Piper!!!
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy)
You will be excited to learn we are having tacos tonight. Corn tortillas, black bean salad (with a little corn and a lot of cucumber, lime vinegrette) avocado, a little cojito. Also grilled zucchini.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:09 PM (Dd38x)
I sent him an email telling him of this initiative at OHSU, so he could agitate, or at least wobble for himself.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 07:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:10 PM (gKWVE)
Iryna Gorb, 38, was caught by agents Wednesday at the San Francisco International Airport as she was arriving back from Portland. The barista and professional photographer is from Ukraine and had overstayed her visa by 15 years, authorities said.
Posted by: beckster
Dear San Francisco,
Kindly GFY.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:10 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Iris at July 24, 2026 07:11 PM (286+n)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)
It just depends. I've argued this shit here as well. Here we go again.
When I was on Active Duty ? The most effective soldiers were not the PT Warriors. They were the Farm Boys. Because lets just boil this shit down.
The most effective body shape, if you want to lift things and move stuff and generally apply force ? Not a marathon runner.
The Marines especially talk about Samoans. They're just Island Farm Boys. That's all.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 07:11 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:12 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 24, 2026 07:12 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 07:07 PM (/QHx4)
"being vanquished by a mortal enema" I think is the accepted term nowadays.
Or Goatsemaxxing. Whatever.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 07:12 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:12 PM (MWfyi)
I'm sure the Left will stop lying about Trump only deporting brown people and letting white Europeans stay...right?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2026 07:13 PM (7qRkV)
Kindly GFY.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 07:10 PM (oUopv)
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*sniffles*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 07:13 PM (JvZF+)
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Straight out of Lady and the Tramp.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 07:13 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:13 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 07:14 PM (/QHx4)
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*retches*
Posted by: San Franpsycho
When I said I kinda like the sore feeling after a good workout, I didn't mean this!!!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 24, 2026 07:14 PM (7qRkV)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Build has a lot to do with it. I am 6' and weigh 220 lbs, and I have since college when I swam and always had trouble floating.
The last time I was my BMI was after suffering amoebic dysentery and losing 40 lbs, I looked like I escaped from a work camp.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 07:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:15 PM (Ia/+0)
These v3 Starlinks are just a test. Being on the same suborbital arc, they'll just come back down and burn up.
The v3 have a 1 TB/s downlink speed they said.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 07:16 PM (w6EFb)
I don’t know if Slick willie rescinded those XOs or not. It explains a lot.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 07:16 PM (Gcul1)
Seven years to get there I believe and they'll have a lot of cargo they can deploy up there
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:17 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:18 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy)
You will be excited to learn we are having tacos tonight. Corn tortillas, black bean salad (with a little corn and a lot of cucumber, lime vinegrette) avocado, a little cojito. Also grilled zucchini.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:09 PM (Dd38x)
Piper,
Before you give Soup his dinner tonight, put down his bowl and when he comes struts up for a delicious dinner drop a couple of kale leaves in his bowl.
See that look he's giving you? That's the same look on my face as I read about your fake of a fraud of a mimicry of a sham of an imposter of a taco.
Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 07:18 PM (iJfKG)
Women want Penis in Vagina to make kids. Until they have them. And then they don't want Penis in Vagina anymore. Just how it works.
They take Penis in Vagina for other reasons. But after a point, they don't do it because they like it.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 07:18 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 07:18 PM (Gcul1)
And a black man can't answer the question objectively
Se probat
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:19 PM (a3CJ+)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:19 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:20 PM (MWfyi)
Now it’s “different”, the lefty loosey faculty are running their own “witch hunt” and denying employment to normal folk. Makes sense I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 07:21 PM (Gcul1)
I'm told the reason there are no conservatives in academia is that we're too stupid and anti-intellectual to be hired.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 07:21 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:22 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 24, 2026 07:12 PM (l26NL)
Frankie Frisch , a ballplayer for StL and the NY Giants was known as the Fordham Flash. 20s/30s.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:22 PM (uhVAy)
tbf I don't think she mentioned what was going in the tacos; the black beans are part of a salad.
But she might be tempted to replace lettuce with kale...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 07:23 PM (vDZgA)
Now it’s “different”, the lefty loosey faculty are running their own “witch hunt” and denying employment to normal folk. Makes sense I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 07:21 PM (Gcul1)
They said they disliked them, they never said they were ineffective.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:23 PM (uhVAy)
Will they be serving a salad?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2026 07:23 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 07:24 PM (SwCxT)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 24, 2026 07:24 PM (aJQbY)
tbf I don't think she mentioned what was going in the tacos; the black beans are part of a salad.
But she might be tempted to replace lettuce with kale...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 07:23
Hydroponic lettuce for the win.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:24 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy)
You will be excited to learn we are having tacos tonight. Corn tortillas, black bean salad (with a little corn and a lot of cucumber, lime vinegrette) avocado, a little cojito. Also grilled zucchini.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:09 PM (Dd38x)
I enjoy your food ideas, Piper just teasing. Except about the kale.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:25 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:25 PM (uhVAy)
I do a pretty good soup with kale, and throw it in things where it won’t be noticed. I do use it on salad. But mainly I put it in a breakfast smoothie or a green juice, so you are pretty safe. lol.
Right now I am drinking chlorophyll water while I cook. So I get I might be a little…rigid about things.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:28 PM (Dd38x)
Kindly GFY.
Posted by: rickb223
*sniffles*
Posted by: San Franpsycho
He said "kindly." Don't go to the point where you'll be sore tomorrow morning or anything.
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 07:30 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 07:28 PM (Dd38x)
Make sure you don't find yourself reflexively turning to face the sun.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 07:30 PM (uhVAy)
Fck your birthday.
Now, that behavior by that woman is Privilege...
I guess it's white privilege by a black woman...
Or maybe BLACK privilege...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 07:56 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 07:18 PM (gKWVE)
nope! I even made it back to Oregon.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 08:12 PM (rbvCR)
Jim Varney: Biden Pissed Billions Into Blue States for a More Racially "Equitable" Energy Infrastructure -- and the Agencies Are Continuing to Give Away Billions Despite Trump Vowing to Stop It
The old hand of dead men are locked on to the wheel and won't let us turn away from disaster.
Biden Bucks: Climate Change Funds a Bonanza for State OutfitsDo you see a pattern? Democrats take the same strategy with Medicare and Medicaid. They firehose out money to their criminal supporters and strip away all checks and steps for verification.
For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 2010 to 2022, records show, the office received an average of $7 million per year from the U.S. Department of Energy. All that changed after the Biden administration and Congress approved hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending to provide "a more equitable, low-carbon, and clean energy economy." In fiscal year 2024, Colorado's state energy office was slated to receive $157.5 million from the energy department, along with another $156 million from the Environmental Protection Agency. The Biden team's defeat in the 2024 election didn't stop the gusher, either, as an additional $60 million in funding was allocated after voters elected Trump and his promise to halt the spending. A RealClearInvestigations search of government data shows that the Colorado Energy Office was just one of many agencies and groups across the country that received exponential increases in federal grants during Biden's last two years as part of the unprecedented attempt to refashion federal agencies into the finance engines that would transform the U.S. energy sector to a renewable, Net Zero future. The Treasury Department's database suggests that after Congress passed the unprecedented funding to fight climate change, it looked for outfits that could disperse that money at the state and local level. In response, it turned to many organizations in the public and private sector with no track record for handling such vast sums, as well as state energy offices and agencies.
"Biden-era climate policy sometimes prioritized sending money out the door first, and worrying about logistics and oversight second," said Jeremy Portnoy, an investigator with OpenTheBooks who seeks to make all government spending public. "Money went to groups that were receiving grants larger than they had the capability to manage."
Read the whole thing.
... In response to Trump's efforts to halt much of the spending, a coalition of 13 Democratic state attorneys general filed suit in February seeking to have all the approved grant money dispensed. They argued the Trump administration unfairly targeted states controlled by Democrats, and that without the money those states' "ambitious climate goals" may not be reached. "Since the first day of President Donald J. Trump's second term, his Administration set out to reverse and undermine the historic energy and infrastructure funding measures enacted by Congress in the preceding years," according to the lawsuit. ... The legal challenges have scored some successes; last month the Energy Department agreed to reinstate 11 grants, although the largest of them remain in limbo. Three Huge Beneficiaries While most states received some portion of the climate splurge, RCI's analysis focused on three of the biggest beneficiaries: Colorado, California, and New York, which were poised to receive more than $1 billion.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 05:22 PM (cSByu)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:22 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (cSByu)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (xcxpd)
Like, they all should be going balls-to-the-walls, cutting, slashing, firing--tearing it all down.
Especially since the cartel judges blocked a lot of that by lying that it DOGE wasn't authorized.
Yeah, but you agency head ARE.
Get the fuck to work.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 05:24 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:24 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:24 PM (ExV1e)
The "judges"...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (S6LVb)
If we could work at maximum economic Adam Smith-style free market efficiency, the stuff we could achieve would be mind-boggling.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:27 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 24, 2026 05:27 PM (2Ez/1)
It was all his staff. Put in place by operatives. Whether they were Obama's, Clinton's, the CIA's or whomever... that's the issue. Not *binden.
But he still should be beat with bricks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 05:28 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:24 PM (ExV1e)
The "judges"...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (S6LVb)
If we 'fixed' Congress, judges would cease to be an issue.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:28 PM (ExV1e)
Get in early and get out early...if you can.
Posted by: $39.5 trillion and growing at July 24, 2026 05:28 PM (ftsic)
Because, two years from now, in a mere blink, they could.
And ... since Trump was granted legal cover to fire any and all, outside of the Fed:
Who has he fired?
Where are the mass firings?
If the excuse is (and it's bullshit whoever is shoveling it) that we don't want to skunk the midterms--then isolate and sideline every single person now you intend to fire.
Because they sure as shit aren't sitting idle, they are working day and night to stop Trump.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 05:28 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (xcxpd)
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The problem is that Biden's people wrote out the regulation and set up the program so that these crap projects were eligible and approved them, and so it's hard to sign the obligation and close on the grant and then take it back.
Pretty much would take Congress to do that.
It's not corruption per se - yes, it's a crap project, but that was what the government said it would fund, so it's not the same thing as outright fraud. Uncle Sugar paid for pink rainbow solar panels - it says so right in the paperwork.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (ZOv7s)
The old hand of dead men are locked on to the wheel and won't let us turn away from disaster.
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"So you're saying they're driving us into a ditch?"
/obligatory DogEater
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (LCdVS)
Posted by: H at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (U+L0d)
Get the fuck to work.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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It's in the article. They were stripped of the spending, and then a gang of 13 Democrat attorneys general fought back. Judges reinstated 11 grants.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (mmrXZ)
Texas is getting more Wind Turbines. These Wind Turbines are so great that the Federal Government is backing those Turbines up, with subsidies, with roughly 30% Natural Gas Turbines as part of the deal. Because Wind just isn't a real Energy Provider.
Its a Multi-Trillion dollar deal.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock Fen - Don't Need Your Help at July 24, 2026 05:30 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 05:30 PM (b4LBp)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:30 PM (qFwJc)
If we could work at maximum economic Adam Smith-style free market efficiency, the stuff we could achieve would be mind-boggling.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:27 PM (Av6i5)
No sign of any trickle-down in CA from all this money. At least in the military spending era we had some bombs left over in the end.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:31 PM (uhVAy)
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"Pikers!"
-- Minnesommalia and Califzuela Cultural-Enriching Fraudster Gangsters
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 05:31 PM (LCdVS)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:32 PM (qFwJc)
If the excuse is (and it's bullshit whoever is shoveling it) that we don't want to skunk the midterms--then isolate and sideline every single person now you intend to fire.
Because they sure as shit aren't sitting idle, they are working day and night to stop Trump.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 05:28 PM (3cUTc)
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I think the number of federal employees is now at its lowest level since the 1960s. Some were fired, but a lot took the early out or whatever it was.
A friend of mine is in agriculture (not a farmer, he rents his land out) but he said parts of USDA lost half their staff. And of course the Dept. of Education got gutted.
So credit where it is due.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 24, 2026 05:27 PM (2Ez/1)
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I just installed a couple of diesel powered windmills and they are great
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 05:32 PM (9CZQg)
Bit a both. But yea, it you read the article the only reason some of the grants were reinstated was because they were ordered to by a federal judge.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: H at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (U+L0d)
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Valu-Rite for the whole Horde. Gold label, the good stuff!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)
I believe - seriously - we're at the Beginning of the Beginning.
And nothing gets fixed until you start. But the start, for many here, is going to be a problem. Because the ugly work at the start is what they can't stand.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock Fen - Don't Need Your Help at July 24, 2026 05:33 PM (RhUi2)
"Biden-era climate policy sometimes prioritized sending money out the door first, and worrying about logistics and oversight second," said Jeremy Portnoy, an investigator with OpenTheBooks who seeks to make all government spending public.
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They did the same thing with fraudulent votes, and millions of unvetted illegal aliens, and masses of criminals released by Soros DAs, and insane rulings by activist judges. Overload the system and destroy society.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 24, 2026 05:34 PM (ienUH)
Pretty much would take Congress to do that.
It's not corruption per se - yes, it's a crap project, but that was what the government said it would fund, so it's not the same thing as outright fraud. Uncle Sugar paid for pink rainbow solar panels - it says so right in the paperwork.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (ZOv7s)
The Government can refuse to pay a granted grant. Lost a position in a U. of Chicago lab because grants were set up, payment was delayed, the U lent the money and then when the plug was pulled everyone was out of a position.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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"Pikers!"
-- Minnesommalia and Califzuela Cultural-Enriching Fraudster Gangsters
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 05:31 PM (LCdVS)
Minnesommalia and Califzuela! I'm stealing those.
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 05:34 PM (LHPAg)
People are dumb. Some will read that and believe it.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock Fen - Don't Need Your Help at July 24, 2026 05:34 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Accomack at July 24, 2026 05:34 PM (wkU1F)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:30 PM (qFwJc)
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But for oil, prices would be in freefall.
Weird how Dems lost interest in eggs once they got cheap again.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (xcxpd)
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The problem is that Biden's people wrote out the regulation and set up the program so that these crap projects were eligible and approved them, and so it's hard to sign the obligation and close on the grant and then take it back.
Pretty much would take Congress to do that.
It's not corruption per se - yes, it's a crap project, but that was what the government said it would fund, so it's not the same thing as outright fraud. Uncle Sugar paid for pink rainbow solar panels - it says so right in the paperwork.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (ZOv7s)
I suspect Democrats would not find it hard to end obligations they did not want to fund any longer.
Contracts can be broken, funding ended.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:35 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: The person who always thinks we're at the end of the beginning at July 24, 2026 05:35 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:35 PM (XuXeR)
Penn Station might be renamed after Trump.
I love thinking how many people are going to lose their minds over it.
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 05:35 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: It's the next Big Thing at July 24, 2026 05:36 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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I'm no expert, but I think that's what the judges are doing, and they are likely activist hacks, but that's the angle they are taking.
Congress could stop it completely if they wanted, but they don't.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2026 05:37 PM (0N4FZ)
Each State has goals. let them fund them. not all the other States citizens.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 24, 2026 05:37 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: It's the next Big Thing at July 24, 2026 05:36 PM (2Ez/1)
Windmills and solar "farms" are a cancer on the Countryside...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:37 PM (S6LVb)
As long as they still make the Chicken Cordon Blue, I'm good with it.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock Fen - Don't Need Your Help at July 24, 2026 05:37 PM (RhUi2)
Chris Wright. The same guy who tried to stop the grants. He's really good and hates them but he lost in court to a radical leftist DC judge, Amit Mehta.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 05:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: It's the next Big Thing"
Generator powered lights for solar panels...
/ wait, that happened
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:37 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 05:38 PM (gKWVE)
LOL. You just said you hadn't been doing that. I'm glad that you now are. Scogg Dog" was probably 200 handles ago- not that I'm keeping track of all of them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:38 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 05:38 PM (NkUqe)
He showed you could in fact solve 50-year-old problems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)
I don't know, years of lawfare and then a bullet to the head kinda sold me.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 05:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted .y: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 05:37 PM (viF8m)b
Amit Mehta Another fine Amerikan judge...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:39 PM (S6LVb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 05:39 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: Thermostat on the wall should have told you at July 24, 2026 05:39 PM (2Ez/1)
Penn Station might be renamed after Trump.
I love thinking how many people are going to lose their minds over it.
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 05:35 PM (/QHx4)
I'm betting if they put up a Trump bust or statue it wouldn't last a week.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:39 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: It's the next Big Thing at July 24, 2026 05:36 PM (2Ez/1)
That might actually work. In outer space.
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 05:40 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 05:40 PM (Nt9qU)
This. Instead of two or three reliable sources, we have several unreliable sources, and have to continually monitor and switch...
But hey, we're feeling good, right?
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:40 PM (XuXeR)
Penn Station might be renamed after Trump.
I love thinking how many people are going to lose their minds over it.
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 05:35 PM (/QHx4)
I remember the squawking when National Airport was renamed Reagan/National, but that would be a mild harrumph compared to the reaction to this.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 05:40 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock Fen - Don't Need Your Help at July 24, 2026 05:40 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 05:38 PM (gKWVE)
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Orwell nailed it in 1948: the idea is to create permanent wartime conditions so that everything is rationed, everything controlled. Strive for victory! Sacrifice for victory!
And climate is a war that will never end, so...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (Wnv9h)
*hangs head in shhame*
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (UoF3w)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (oqH4h)
Need the ban hammer
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (S6LVb)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 05:40 PM (Nt9qU)
Rate this 100% true.
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (S6LVb)
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I much prefer that retards be allowed to be retarded out loud. Makes it easier to know who to just point and laugh at.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (oqH4h)
Need the ban hammer
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (S6LVb)
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He just wants to date black girls …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (Nt9qU)
He just wants to date black girls …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (Nt9qU)
Girls ? You sure ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:43 PM (S6LVb)
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 05:43 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (oqH4h)
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yeah, he's an absolute riot.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (IMPuq)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (oqH4h)
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The problem is that people will then say the site is full of racists and bigots. These comments will be post on other sites to show how Ace needs to be canceled.
This is a classic leftist tactic, seen it elsewhere. Delete and block.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (Nt9qU)
Girls ? You sure ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:43 PM (S6LVb)
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[Assumes ‘the thinker’ pose]
Good point …
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (Nt9qU)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (abScH)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (IMPuq)
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM
I think I read that the money was clawed back before they could spend it, I could be wrong but that is what I remember happening.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Opting Out at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (abScH)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (2Ez/
Wouldn't want to misgender "it".
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (S6LVb)
*hangs head in shhame*
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 05:41 PM (UoF3w)
Idiot is not the term for self-reliant and ethical.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (91ED/)
Gas in my part of Canada was just $1.70 a liter. $37 to fill a Honda just below half a tank. Wow....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping Ralphy happy and alive. But wow. at July 24, 2026 05:46 PM (Sco7b)
Does anyone else find the glee with which certain right leaning columnists display in crowing about Ukraine targeting domestic portions of Russia?
Ukraine is a mess i never 'got'. Both sides seem like murderous thugs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (oqH4h)
Only if we are doing it right.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 05:46 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (NemxU)
One of my daughters is a year or two into a career in financial services in which she focuses largely on local gub'mint grant management.
She's a great kid. And with heightened scrutiny, more work for her!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 05:46 PM (SgdqL)
This is a classic leftist tactic, seen it elsewhere. Delete and block.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)
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I get it, but it robs me of the opportunity to chuckle to myself imagining a poster like that in a basement somewhere filled with garbage and empty soda bottles, having not showered in who knows how long, drinking MD 20/20 and thinking he's really clever.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:47 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Opting Out at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM
*narrator voice* You do.
Posted by: We all do at July 24, 2026 05:47 PM (2Ez/1)
Classic Old School Left.
Look Slick, if its not said ? They'll just lie and say its been said.
May as well go ahead and just claim Racist and Bigot. I do. Love me some Kolaches as well. Mexican Weather Girls ? More please.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 05:47 PM (RhUi2)
Hey, me too!
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:48 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM (oqH4h)
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*Looks at empty Thunderbird bottle, discretely kicks it under the couch*
Why no, of course not!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:47 PM (oqH4h)
He could be a Mogen David kind of guy. Maybe Boones Farm...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:48 PM (zZu0s)
Ukraine is a mess i never 'got'. Both sides seem like murderous thugs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:46 PM (zZu0s)
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I've been pulling for both sides of that war to lose since it kicked off however many years ago. The fact that the usual aging neocon cohort of people on "the right" are pulling for Ukraine isn't surprising but it is also dumb.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:49 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:45 PM (S6LVb)
"Misgender" and "unsafe" are words that mean exactly nothing whatsoever.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 05:49 PM (91ED/)
Does anyone else find the glee with which certain right leaning columnists display in crowing about Ukraine targeting domestic portions of Russia?
Ukraine is a mess i never 'got'. Both sides seem like murderous thugs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:46 PM (zZu0s)
At this point, any professional columnist I consider compromised. They are all for sale. I only trust amateurs with day jobs.
I hate Slav on Slav fighting, it's ugly and will go on forever. Plenty of bad guys on both sides of that war and, despite what some columnists are paid to say, the war ain't over yet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:49 PM (xcxpd)
At some point these criminal state attorneys general need to get charged and indicted on RICO, because it is extremely clear that they are all in on the multi-billion dollar fraud and extortion schemes.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 05:49 PM (xE0sV)
A little under one hour until the launch window opens for Starship Flight 13. If interested you can watch the "mee-thane" fanboys at NSF streaming here:
https://t.ly/diWlI
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 05:49 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM97 Weird ass Friday afternoon commenters lol...are people already hammered drunk?
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:44 PM
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I'll drink to that!
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 24, 2026 05:49 PM (2Ez/1)
You can't make me like this place more than I already do, you silver tongued bastard.
Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2026 05:50 PM (zGzrB)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:48 PM (ZOv7s)
* stands *
* applauds *
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 05:50 PM (RhUi2)
I'm beginning to wonder, have we really stopped anything?
Posted by: Ordinary American
Hey Vern, we barely slowed it down!
Posted by: The other Jim Varney at July 24, 2026 05:50 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:50 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 05:50 PM (WL2lA)
Texas is getting more Wind Turbines.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock Fen - Don't Need Your Help at July 24, 2026 05:30 PM (RhUi2)
And in Feb 2021, our wonderful RINO gov received the Wind Leadership Award from Tri Global Energy. “The award recognized his commitment to wind energy development and the communities relying on it.”
Let the record show that I voted for Doc Chambers in the primary.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 24, 2026 05:50 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 05:51 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 05:49 PM
+++++++++++++++++++
I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: Affordability at July 24, 2026 05:51 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 05:51 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 05:47 PM (RhUi2)
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What's funny is that these people actually want to talk like that. They're the actual bigots, really do feel that way, but are too cowardly to say it out loud.
Look at all the SPLC bigots on the payroll. Most online Nazis are probably liberal dudes feeling a tingle in their pants as they write naughty words.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 05:51 PM (Ia/+0)
It matters not. Its aces place and he wants to maintain a bit of decorum. But advertisers are also retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:52 PM (XuXeR)
I'm beginning to wonder, have we really stopped anything?
Posted by: Ordinary American
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Gonna take years to trickle down, I imagine. Some time towards the end of Rubio's first term.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 05:52 PM (mmrXZ)
>>@jordanbramble
An honor to be in the Oval Office with @POTUS
today to commemorate the success of the nuclear executive orders and @ENERGY's reactor pilot program.
>>We look forward to powering our nations most critical assets on our military installations before the end of this administration!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 05:52 PM (viF8m)
Every problem should be solved in 38 minutes (one hour plus commercials) and everyone should be smiling and singing the theme song at the end.
This is exactly what Iran is counting on.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Affordability at July 24, 2026 05:51 PM (2Ez/1)
As if some Congresscritter can lecture on affordability considering the size of the national debt.
As if.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 05:53 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:53 PM (XuXeR)
Dammit!
Who's with me!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 05:54 PM (SgdqL)
Look at all the SPLC bigots on the payroll. Most online Nazis are probably liberal dudes feeling a tingle in their pants as they write naughty words.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:51 PM (ZOv7s)
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Nah. Man I grew up in rural Appalachia and even there and then it was vanishingly hard to find anyone still ranting about "blue gum nappy head negroes" out loud. These dudes get on here and do Reddit incel shtick of what they think racists sound like, but to me it comes off corny as fuck, lol.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:54 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 05:54 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 05:55 PM (3uBP9)
Coffee's pretty good, tho.
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:53 PM (XuXeR)
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"Cocking's for closers!"
/Arec Bardwin
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 05:55 PM (LCdVS)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:49 PM (xcxpd)
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I find the whole thing horrific. There is nothing so pointless, so futile as a border war in Eastern Europe. There is no winning. Oh, you win this round, great. And in 10-20 years, you lose it all and the frontier moves back again and maybe more.
All the neocon warmongers blathering about sacred boundaries that were drawn by Stalin and then modified by Khrushchev. Wow, totally legit! Worth dying by the millions for that!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:55 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:55 PM (zZu0s)
It is a variation of the Brattleboro FART Tube that lets you enjoy the smell of a good FART and not bother other people.
Jerry Nadler and I love these things and people around me are also much happier.
Get yours now at WWW.BloJoeSmello.Com
Posted by: Blo Jiden at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (twWGV)
Yeah. But I'm straight up about the Kolaches and Mexican Weather Girls.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (XuXeR)
Dammit!
Who's with me!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 05:54 PM
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Myanmar?
It'll always be Burma to me, Elaine.
Posted by: J. Peterman at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (2Ez/1)
This is a classic leftist tactic, seen it elsewhere. Delete and block."
This. Just e-mail a COB and watch how quickly the mess gets cleaned up. (Thanks COBs, y'all are under-appreciated.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 05:54 PM (2Ez/1)
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Over/under on the number of assassins present?
/I can joke since I pray for Trump's health & safety nightly ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 05:57 PM (LCdVS)
It'll always be Burma to me, Elaine.
Posted by: J. Peterman at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (2Ez/1)
Constantinople.
*mic drop*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: The Pride of Wilmington at July 24, 2026 05:57 PM (JM9I6)
President Donald Trump will make "unifying yet vicious" remarks during Friday night's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, the White House said.
How many shotguns will make it through the door?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2026 05:58 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 24, 2026 05:58 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:54 PM (oqH4h)
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They are liberal dudes trying to act like what they think rednecks are, but they don't know any because they live in mom's basement.
Platner's funny because he tried to be the caricature and badly botched it. If the campaign had dragged on, I'm sure Collins' people would have found out he got a less than honorable discharge and was denied reenlistment, and being otherwise unemployable became a merc until he lost that job as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:58 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (Nt9qU)
Black girls just wanna get blankadeeblanked all night, I just don't have that much jam...
Posted by: The Rolling Stones at July 24, 2026 05:58 PM (ftsic)
Nerd Prom my ass.
Shithead Dinner Party Oval Jerk Because They're Too Fucking Stupid To Organize A Good Circle is what it is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (Ot/FD)
Chicken Kiev
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:55 PM (XuXeR)
Yeah, too bad it's Friday or I'd be right there.
*Looks ruefully at fried fish dinner*
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Your local Chinese restaurant at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (NemxU)
Maybe Putin had other aspirations but I think I know what we would have done .
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes
And let it die in permitting.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (NkUqe)
Posted by: Bombay at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:00 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 06:00 PM (XuXeR)
Shithead Dinner Party Oval Jerk Because They're Too Fucking Stupid To Organize A Good Circle is what it is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (Ot/FD)
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They're not nerds. Nerds are smart, viciously so. They're Theater Kids doing theater things.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 06:01 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: New Amsterdam at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (XuXeR)
I love thinking how many people are going to lose their minds over it.
Posted by: four seasons
They ought to rename the state Trumpsylvania.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (ndZc7)
Dammit!
Who's with me!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 05:54 PM
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Myanmar?
It'll always be Burma to me, Elaine.
Posted by: J. Peterman at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (2Ez/1)
If a country, town, or people is changed, the people who changed it are hosed up and they're fixing to hose up the newly named. I give you most of the African continent.
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (LHPAg)
Nerd Prom my ass.
Shithead Dinner Party Oval Jerk Because They're Too Fucking Stupid To Organize A Good Circle is what it is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (Ot/FD)
"NEEEERRRDDDSSS!!!!"
- Coach Harris
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM
It ain't just permitting, all of that sweet federal money dried up and companies are not willing to put up the entire cost of the projects because they know they will never break even let alone make any money without those federal subsidies.
When a democrat president gets back in with a liberal congress those subsidies will be turned back on like a gushing fire hose.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (0N4FZ)
We need to get our priorities straight. If you ask me.
Which you didn't. But there you go anyways.
We need a national investment on the scale of The Manhattan Project to solve this tragic crisis. IMO.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (HnIBa)
Those are multiyear grants, by the way. If Chris Wright can't figure out a way to cancel them, those thieving states will just keep getting paid through 2028 at least.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:00 PM (3uBP9)
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Worst. Daedra. Artifact. Ever.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 06:03 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:00 PM (3uBP9)
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If you combine it with the Scowl of Mooch it becomes an artifact level weapon. Everyone with 60' has to made a CON save or collapse with boredom.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 05:56 PM (KC5Lt)
And what do you know about Wind Turbines ? I'll wager ... just what you've Googled.
Here's a lesson.
When measuring ANYTHING ... UTILITY is a way to do it. Its a harsh metric. Its how much output can that thing deliver, with respect to how often it can deliver it.
So if you had the perfect Kolache Machine (and Damn I wish I did) that was rated at 1 Kolache a day ? If it only gave you 1 Kolache every two days ? That's 50% Utility.
Or if Sophia Vergara were only available to me for sexy time one night out of seven ? Firstly - Yes. But that Utility would be 1/7 = roughly 13%.
Wind Turbines are, at best, 20% by every Utility I've worked for. Its a scam. I can tell you of several major players that have already went into Cannibalize Mode.
The subsidy is the only reason Texas is doing it. They're getting Gas Turbines on the rest of the countries dime.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:03 PM (RhUi2)
CBC - Detroit - Windsor bridge finally opened, Trump trade war and tariffs.
CNN - Trump discussed possible escalation with Iran
MS Now - GOP concerned over voters pissed about war and costs. War is lost and hopeless.
FoxNews - US to use Iranian money to pay for ship damages. War going great!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping Ralphy happy and alive. But wow. at July 24, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (HnIBa)
Open the box from the bottom?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2026 06:03 PM (Ot/FD)
Retard says what?
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 06:04 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (HnIBa)
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Open the box at the other end next time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 06:04 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 06:04 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:04 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (NemxU)
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Nerd Prom? Are we talking about Comicon?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 06:04 PM (9CZQg)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 06:05 PM (XuXeR)
Not that WhorryWood might not try it anyway.....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 06:05 PM (SgdqL)
I wonder how much stuff the ahole news people will steal tonight.
The threat of being shot last time did not deter them from stealing wine and who knows what else.
They are scum.
Posted by: four seasons at July 24, 2026 06:06 PM (/QHx4)
Not that WhorryWood might not try it anyway.....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 06:05 PM (SgdqL)
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The Pitch Meeting video for that will be EPIC!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 06:06 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Eromero
Sit beside me, tell me all about it.
Posted by: Bechuanaland at July 24, 2026 06:06 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Rhodesia, Swaziland, Namibia, and Burkina Faso at July 24, 2026 06:06 PM (2Ez/1)
Well, there's that scene in the first one with the golden idol...
*screams in terror
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 06:06 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 06:04 PM (KC5Lt)
Sorry. I used math. I get it. My bad.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:07 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Bechuanaland at July 24, 2026 06:06 PM (JM9I6)
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Pfft.
Posted by: Zanzibar at July 24, 2026 06:07 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:07 PM (RhUi2)
You started a debate with yourself retard.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 06:08 PM (KC5Lt)
Hey, I need another place setting of Hilton flatware...
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 06:08 PM (XuXeR)
When a democrat president gets back in with a liberal congress those subsidies will be turned back on like a gushing fire hose.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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Tangential:
We talk a lot about all the spigots that will get switched back on when Dems regain power. With any luck, by the time Rubio's second term ends, Dems will have moved on to a whole different suite of grievances. I'm hoping that 10 years from now, climate change is considered so last year, having failed to deliver on its threats. Maybe gender confusion will be on the way out, maybe even race.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 06:08 PM (mmrXZ)
Not that WhorryWood might not try it anyway.....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 06:05 PM (SgdqL)
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The Pitch Meeting video for that will be EPIC!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 06:06 PM (FZ29D)
Ryan George is getting a little wobbly. Some of his recent vids are downright mean-spirited.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:08 PM (xcxpd)
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*Nelson laugh*
Namibia is the current name for South West Africa, dorkus!
Posted by: Zanzibar at July 24, 2026 06:08 PM (JvZF+)
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Maybe they'll get lucky and there'll be another assassination attempt.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:09 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:10 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 06:04 PM (FZ29D)
I hate science nerds like You and Warai-otoko!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:10 PM (HnIBa)
Posted by: Zanzibar"
Extra pfft...
"Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Aire"
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 06:10 PM (XuXeR)
Seen on X: Isn't "suicidal empathy" literally the story of Jesus?
It's ... just shocking how they can pack so much evil into everything they say and do.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 06:10 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Bechuanaland at July 24, 2026 06:06 PM (JM9I6)
Heh. In Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour WWII trilogy, there's a comic character named Apthorpe, an old African hand, whose euphemism for being extremely hungover is that he is suffering from a spot of "Bechuana tummy".
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 06:10 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 06:08 PM (KC5Lt)
So this is the part where you start asking for links. And then you start losing your mind. Now look, don't drive into a Buckees and shoot it up.
Just Google Pro Energy and ERCOT. Its not that hard.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:11 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:11 PM (NemxU)
President Donald Trump will make "unifying yet vicious" remarks during Friday night's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, the White House said.
How many shotguns will make it through the door?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++)
How many cops and SS agents will let guys sprint past security?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:12 PM (xcxpd)
Test launch in about 30 minutes.
SpaceX - Starship - Starship Flight 13
Pad 2 - Starbase, TX - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: July 24, 2026
Launch Time: 3:45 p.m. PDT (July 25, 00:45 CEST)
https://youtu.be/0EnOQCjgq4E
Posted by: Joyenz at July 24, 2026 06:12 PM (2F0/Y)
We're coming up on the propellant load mark in the countdown. The mee-thane boys will really start getting exciting when they start loading the liquid mee-thane and LOX.
One of them quote Wernher von Braun: 65,000 things must go right for a launch, but if only one thing goes wrong, it won't.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 06:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:11 PM (NemxU)
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Way to cut the line.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 06:12 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026
My Holiday Inn ashtray paperweight is nice.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 06:12 PM (NkUqe)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:13 PM (ndZc7)
Spike the pate with a strong laxative. Maybe something that causes dysentery.
Posted by: That Guy at July 24, 2026 06:13 PM (f4tQo)
Posted by: Phlemish, Myself at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:02 PM (HnIBa)
Open the box from the bottom?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2026 06:03 PM (Ot/FD)
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Turn box upside down and shake it. Bigger ‘rocks’ rise to the top. Gradular convection.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (Nt9qU)
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We've been in intensive pistol holstering practice all week!
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Posted by: Oglebay at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (2ap+5)
When I was an early teen, mid 80s, I was riding my bike to a friends house when I accidently dropped my box of floppies with games I made from magazine code. I was in the middle of traffic trying to get them before they were run over and some dude in a pickup truck yelled NERD at me.
You think you are the nerd's ally? You merely adopted it. I was born into it, molded by it. I didn't see coolness until I was already a man, and by then it was nothing to me but EMBARASING!
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:12 PM (xcxpd)
So I get it. But am I the only one that remembers Code Pink pulling this shit under Clinton ?
I can't be the only one.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:11 PM (NemxU)
Burkina Faso La Ti Dooooooo!!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 24, 2026 06:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Last interaction with you unless in person. I simply wrote facts that any Texan that pays attention knows. I took no position. We have the most wind turbines and the effort to expand has been delayed by permitting.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 06:15 PM (KC5Lt)
Another anti El-Sayed ad.
He's a sexist!
And Dem Eric Chumg just may be the manly man they've been looking for. In a 13 year old body.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping Ralphy happy and alive. But wow. at July 24, 2026 06:16 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:12 PM (xcxpd)
So I get it. But am I the only one that remembers Code Pink pulling this shit under Clinton ?
I can't be the only one.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (RhUi2)
Code Pink sprinted past security with guns and knives?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:16 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: That Guy
Catering by Taco Bell?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:16 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Snakes Alive! at July 24, 2026 06:16 PM (JM9I6)
From land of the Swazis in English to land of the Swazis in Swazi
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:16 PM (NemxU)
From land of the Swazis in English to land of the Swazis in Swazi
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:16 PM (NemxU)
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Shaken or stirred?
Posted by: Oglebay at July 24, 2026 06:17 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Wine novice at July 24, 2026 06:18 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 06:18 PM (NemxU)
When Baseball Stars let the original Nintendo flash your stuff to the EEPROM ? And I didn't know what any of that shit was even as a High School Senior in '89. Absolutely game changing.
Before that ? Writing down codes to get through the next stupid stage of ECCO.
Fist Bump ... Fellow Nerd.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:18 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (Nt9qU)
Yeah but there's a warning label on the boxes from the FDA - similar to the ones telling you not to remove the tag from a pillow - that says this is illegal as it gives the peanuts disparate impact in the overall distribution of the box.
Ok, I know that was a stretch.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:19 PM (HnIBa)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:19 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Fizered at July 24, 2026 06:19 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Then they're dorks.
Geek = smart guy, using smarts to make money
Nerd = smart guy, using smarts to entertain himself
Dork = dumb guy, superficially acting like a geek or nerd
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 06:19 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:16 PM (xcxpd)
Stopped business on the floor. You've purposedly not getting my point. Its never been a secure building ... when those in charge wanted to mix it up.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:20 PM (RhUi2)
Dammit!
Who's with me!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 05:54 PM (SgdqL)
"The Ukraine" is the land form of the plains below the marshes in the north part of the current nation of Ukraine.
I still can't order Chicken Keev.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: MI GOP are cowards and closeted homos at July 24, 2026 06:20 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Wine novice at July 24, 2026 06:18 PM (2Ez/1)
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Penis
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 06:20 PM (Nt9qU)
I can't be the only one.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (RhUi2)
I though that was Bush (the Dubya type) they pulled that on?
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:21 PM (HnIBa)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 06:21 PM (sWqfc)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:21 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: MI GOP are cowards and closeted homos at July 24, 2026 06:20 PM (gKWVE)
I think so.
Very likable for a guy that wants us dead.
Nood.
Week in woke.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping Ralphy happy and alive. But wow. at July 24, 2026 06:22 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:16 PM (xcxpd)
Stopped business on the floor. You've purposedly not getting my point. Its never been a secure building ... when those in charge wanted to mix it up.
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:20 PM (RhUi2)
Settle, settle...
I have never heard of Code Pink bringing armed thugs to kill Clinton. Attempted assassination is a mite more serious than protestors pitching a fit. If you want to maintain that SS has been incompetent for years, I won't argue that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 06:22 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:23 PM (HnIBa)
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Maybe they'll get lucky and there'll be another assassination attempt.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:09 PM (ndZc7)
I wonder if it has dawned on those correspondents that their hero shooter was going to fire THROUGH them to try and hit trump...and the Service was gonna be shooting back the other way.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 06:24 PM (uhVAy)
“Noncitizen voting is already illegal. We don’t need another law to deter noncitizen voting.”
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Now do gun control.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 06:24 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 06:21 PM (sWqfc)
OK ... so then "W" couldn't keep Code Pink from breaking up the Congressional Floor during business.
Does that make you feel better ? That you gave me an "actually" ?
Posted by: Keeping Track of My Sock ... Wink at July 24, 2026 06:24 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:26 PM (3uBP9)
“Noncitizen voting is already illegal. We don’t need another law to deter noncitizen voting.”
Yeah Lizzy, and appropriating native culture to advance yourself should also be illegal. Lying communist bitch.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 24, 2026 06:26 PM (HnIBa)
When I was an early teen, mid 80s, I was riding my bike to a friends house when I accidently dropped my box of floppies with games I made from magazine code. I was in the middle of traffic trying to get them before they were run over and some dude in a pickup truck yelled NERD at me.
You think you are the nerd's ally? You merely adopted it. I was born into it, molded by it. I didn't see coolness until I was already a man, and by then it was nothing to me but EMBARASING!
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 06:14 PM (3uBP9)
Ahmad Shah Masoud was killed by a couple 'newsmen' suicide bombers sent by bin Ladin the day before 9/11. Don't get slack.
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 06:34 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m)
And the ramifications of telling the "judge" to pound sand would be, what again? Past time to draw that line.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 24, 2026 06:41 PM (hmYU4)
Good to see Varney is still active in exposing the crazy left, though I suppose that gets him called an "extreme right winger" amongst his journalism peers. I guess he lives on the North Shore from New Orleans, though I think he used to do some reporting on Central America.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 06:44 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 07:53 PM (4g5V+)
Border Dividend: Reductions In the Number of Foreign Students Requiring English-Learning Reduces the Cost of Education in Texas and Florida By Nearly $1 Billion in a Single Year
Well, between $835 million to $890 million.
A border enforcement dividend we can all share.Texas saw a similar Border Enforcement Dividend.
Declines in the number of English-learning students enrolled in Florida and Texas public schools during the 2025--26 school year were associated with an estimated $835 million to $890 million reduction in education funding across the two states, according to an American Accountability Foundation report obtained exclusively by Breitbart News. The July 23 memorandum, issued by Thomas Jones of the American Accountability Foundation and addressed to the Republican Governors Association, attributes the enrollment changes to the Trump administration's immigration-enforcement policies following several years of increases under former President Joe Biden. "In Florida the news is good; in Texas, where the drop far outpaced the overall enrollment trend, the news is great," the report states. Florida classifies students actively receiving English-language-learner instruction under the designation "LY." That population increased from 277,473 during the 2021--22 school year to 368,068 in 2024--25, an increase of 90,595 students, or 32.7 percent. During 2025--26, however, the number fell by 23,641 students to 344,427, representing a 6.4 percent decline and the first decrease in the period examined by AAF. AAF said the number of students entering post-exit monitoring continued to rise, which it argued showed that students were "not dropping out mid-program" and that the decline instead reflected fewer new English learners entering Florida schools. The Florida Education Finance Program funds English-learning students through an English for Speakers of Other Languages cost factor of 1.165, or 16.5 percent above the base amount. Using a Base Student Allocation of $5,372.60, AAF calculated average total funding of approximately $9,122.93 per student during 2025--26.
"The data is clear -- ending Biden's open borders leads to a lower burden on education budgets," AAF concluded. "Put more simply, supporting the President's border-enforcement and deportation policies means more funding for your local schools -- nearly one billion dollars in these two states alone, in a single year."What are you going to buy with your Border Enforcement Dividend?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 04:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 04:21 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 04:22 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 24, 2026 04:22 PM (0bjKf)
Of course, the NEA, Dems, and the Left all see this as a negative. They want more money wasted on education budgets. States will see this as a loss in revenue from the federal fisc.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 04:23 PM (mYMcJ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 24, 2026 04:24 PM (ajPRk)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 04:24 PM (Av6i5)
Almost like we were right all these years.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:24 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 04:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 04:25 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:25 PM (vFpe0)
An extra hundred thousand on property tax exemption.
Wait, that's cuz the wife is old, not cuz the border is better.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:25 PM (ExV1e)
Hooker and blow.
I'll probably just waste the rest.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 04:26 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 04:26 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM
A bottle of Weller Full Proof.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 24, 2026 04:26 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:27 PM (XuXeR)
......
A couple breakfast tacos.
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 04:27 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: She asked facietiously at July 24, 2026 04:27 PM (2Ez/1)
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Why do you hate bilingual teechers??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 04:27 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 24, 2026 04:28 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2026 04:29 PM (DbmIv)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 04:29 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:29 PM (XuXeR)
Among the many, many, many disastrous sorts of damage done by mass illegal migration for decades has been the (additional?) destruction of learning environments, as English became a minority language in many classrooms. Districts in border areas have been getting ravaged by this for decades now.
So you take a systematically derailed, dumbed-down, and even freakazoid "education" situation, and add sudden massive non-native speakers to it. Sort of the 50 ton teak log that broke the camel's back in some places.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:29 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:29 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 04:29 PM (abScH)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 04:30 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 04:30 PM (JvZF+)
Sad state of affairs in education all around.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:30 PM (vFpe0)
What are you going to buy with your Border Enforcement Dividend?
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I won't get one being in California, so will the rest of you morons donate to the AAF so they can find out the cost of non-English speakers in California schools?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:30 PM (mmrXZ)
The proper response to that was given by The Shat in "Boston Legal"
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:31 PM (XuXeR)
I just wish - and its a pipe dream - where legal trade and even immigration could work both ways in a structured, rational way. And then we could keep really good Kolaches and Sophia Vergara and Salma Hayek and Shakira and Tacos and Tequila and Mexican Weather Girls.
That's all I want.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:31 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 04:32 PM (UjdFS)
Or the lovely SPIT illegal parents should pay for their won English translators for their special child.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 04:32 PM (hzuYO)
We've been grammar schools around here close for a while. Not enough kids anymore to justify all of them.
This is a big reason the marxist teacher's unions fight so hard for illegals. Don't need as many teachers either.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:32 PM (viF8m)
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So, they're going to lower taxes?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 04:32 PM (VPNgR)
Sad state of affairs in education all around."
Miss Valerie, who favored tube tops.
*sigh*
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:32 PM (XuXeR)
Would guess Sweetwater district (border area of San Diego Co.) is in that boat. Years back they had a beautiful, grotesque Third World-type scandal on the school board, forget details, think it was like the city of Bell up in LA area where the elected officials were just running an organized crime farce.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:32 PM (U/Byj)
They battled hard and never let up. Awesome game (for us) to watch.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:33 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: the Shat at July 24, 2026 04:33 PM (rdVOm)
Would've saved a small army of epidemiologists from having to visit her constantly for several weeks to learn about our fun new arrival, too.
They cost a lot more than some copies of Go, Perro, Go.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 04:33 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 04:21 PM (iFTx/)
Lesser mortals would shrink at the prospect.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Kolaches no es Hispanic, senor.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:34 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Don at July 24, 2026 04:34 PM (kN30O)
If you got here, good for you, now go get a job or starve.
Immigrants learned real quick how to go along to get along and work to live, which meant learning English or getting stuck in an enclave somewhere in a city.
You cannot have a modern functioning country with open borders and a welfare state.
Not only will it draw people in who otherwise wouldn't come, but it will also add enormous costs to all public services in the numbers of users and the tax rates to pay for it all.
That's the thing libertarians and naive socialists just don't understand.
The globalist & communists understand just fine.
That's the plan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 04:35 PM (6ydKt)
So when do my property taxes go down?
Posted by: She asked facietiously
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That's why I keep asking when these "pauses" on HHS giveaways to fraud states will make a difference we can see. I ain't complaining about the good work, but like ace says... the Dividend.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:35 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: connected and litigious at July 24, 2026 04:35 PM (cS1cw)
But one of the talk radio shows threw out that 105 million adults are not in the workforce, and this is higher than during covid. That particular radio host blames the iran war causing higher fuel prices, but I don't believe that can be the main driver.
But the feral government is way less hostile to business under Trump than under the Barky and Bribem regimes and yet people are having a hard time finding jobs. I don't think AI can be that big of a factor yet, and a decent # of Bribem's flood of illegals have been removed.
The only thing I can think of and this is a wild guess is that enough dirty communists have infiltrated HRs and those communists want a bad economy to boost D election results, so they are shredding applications, then telling management they can't find qualified candidates to purposefully hurt the economy.
Posted by: PaleRider at July 24, 2026 04:35 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:36 PM (viF8m)
Fortunately for them, the kind of folk who infest coastal California are all about marriage, and commitment, and big families.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:36 PM (ExV1e)
Demographics FTW!
https://youtu.be/2WTgq0w_hKs"
That's it!
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:36 PM (XuXeR)
I was thinking about this:
https://tinyurl.com/4v584f92
(NY Post)
But someone beat me to it.
Posted by: No Name Today at July 24, 2026 04:36 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:37 PM (bq/QX)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:34 PM (ExV1e)
I know. Polish. Yet the Mexicans in South Texas do them really, really well.
While I'm at it, and I'm obviously RedNeck as you can get, but I'm claiming Fried Chicken, Watermelon, and Greens for myself. Love that shit. Cultural Appropriation my ass.
A good Three Green Mix with some bacon is absolute fire.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:37 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 04:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 24, 2026 04:37 PM (umw9l)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 04:37 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: jumbling up my lefty memes at July 24, 2026 04:37 PM (Av6i5)
I voted for this.
Now Imma gonna go and buy me that pony my parents never got me.....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 04:37 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: huerfano at July 24, 2026 04:38 PM (VJX5o)
Big numbers are usually garbage...
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:38 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:34 PM (ExV1e)
I know. Polish. Yet the Mexicans in South Texas do them really, really well.
Kolaches aren't Polish either.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)
"Chinga tu madre, motherfucker."
Posted by: jumbling up my lefty memes at July 24, 2026 04:40 PM (Av6i5)
What was so great was how it outlined the degradation of the electorate, how voters were unaware of or indifferent to almost anything that didn't immediately, personally, negatively affect (not "impact") them. Assuming they even understood the foregoing factors, which of course many don't.
Asian parents went apeshit (in the humorous imagined rant of the time, "I swam to get here so my kids would be Americans, and YOU'RE TEACHING THEM KHMER/VIETNAMESE/THAI??????!"). Proposition ending the idiocy passed comfortably. "Educators" of course refused to comply in some cases, the crap had to be stamped out district by district in some cases.
Sort of a precursor to the lawlessness that now is the norm in many parts of national life.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:40 PM (U/Byj)
So I wonder about this. I work about 3/4 time now. I freelance. Better money, less hours, its absolutely great.
I wonder if I'm considered "in the workforce" by the way they measure.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:40 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 04:40 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:32 PM (U/Byj)
I remember that. Bell's mayor and I think the police chief ran an overtime scam, among other extracurriculars. IIRC, there was a cop who resigned from his Ventura County gig and landed a job in Bell for an embarrassing raise in pay. Not sure if he was caught up in teh actual scandal..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 04:40 PM (nbLIj)
Jacques est à la bibliothèque.
SOB has been there for 50 years. You go now!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:36 PM (viF8m)
He still has a few pages left in Du côté de chez Swann.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 24, 2026 04:41 PM (umw9l)
I believe LAUSD and a few others in SoCal are desperate as the butts-in-seats (key to both public "education", the movie industry, and major league sports) situation is changing dramatically. Thanks to the decrease in illegals' kids in school.
Posted by: rhomboid
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That's fascinating. I honestly didn't think there was any Impact, Disparate or otherwise, on SoCal schools based on border crackdowns. I have a friend who talked about a nightmare situation in her kids' school during the late Biden years. Nightmare. I'm sure the majority of them are still here.
Mayor Bass was shedding tears over the illegal aliens who abandoned the neighborhood restaurants and businesses and hunkered in their homes for fear of being collected by ICE, but I never gave it much credit.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:41 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM Comments
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A six pack of a hazy imperial IPA.
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 24, 2026 04:42 PM (Y2/Vj)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:43 PM (bucPA)
You know ? I don't care. Polish. Czech. Bosnian. From Mars ?
Do not give a shit.
Those little stuffed, not quite Hot Pockets ? Fantastic. And they make them better in Texas than anywhere else I've seen them.
So as anyone say "Actually" as I stuff another one down ? No shits to give. None.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:43 PM (RhUi2)
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Hookers and blow, same as always.
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Esq. at July 24, 2026 04:43 PM (ZOv7s)
And in this city of Cumming there is a Toyota dealership called Beaver Toyota.
I mean come on man.
Posted by: Did they plan this? at July 24, 2026 04:43 PM (GFRGc)
They are still, however, hot teacher pictures.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 04:44 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 24, 2026 04:44 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM Comments
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A six pack of a hazy imperial IPA.
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 24, 2026 04:42 PM (Y2/Vj)
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A case of Kaboom! and a half gallon of Valu-Rite gin.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 04:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:39 PM
Czech.
Posted by: huerfano at July 24, 2026 04:44 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:41 PM (mmrXZ)
ICE bad, fire good.
Posted by: Mayor Bass at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (wvRsc)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (2ocoG)
Homes/Rent
Food
Services
Everything else
Literally everything. It's pure national suicide. And thus, the Democrats orgasm over it and push all the things that lead to it.
Leads one to wonder why they don't all immigrate to someplace they feel would better suit their mindset. And then, just soak in the Socialism or Communism or an Islamic shit hole and be done with it.
The idea that they're going to force feed this to all of us is... misplaced.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Teachers unions at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (GFRGc)
In NY they actually pay the school districts by the number of illegals they take in. It’s a lucrative business. There is one school in the lower NY Hudson Valley who apparently build a brand new stadium with all that federal and state taxpayer money.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (bucPA)
And in this city of Cumming there is a Toyota dealership called Beaver Toyota.
I mean come on man.
Posted by: Did they plan this? at July 24, 2026 04:43 PM (GFRGc)
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In Michigan, you can drive past Climax and take 69 to 96 and get off at Big Beaver.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)
They called it disturbing the peace. The person who was trying to rob her, which is what started the whole incident, was not disturbing the peace, however, because they were Somali and, In Minnesota, Somalis are above the law.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e)
Tough choice here. Hmm. Might be able to buy a pack of gum? Or, perhaps a $1 scratch ticket.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 04:46 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 04:46 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Mayor Bass at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (wvRsc)
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THE GUN IS GOOD. THE PENIS IS EVIL.
Posted by: Zardoz at July 24, 2026 04:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Saw one guy doing work on his truck on the side of the road with his buddy in a van parked behind him.
They had a light out and everything.
A lot of Brazilians around here, too.
They've opened their own stores and restaurants.
They are mostly legal though.
A lot of them moved down here from Massachusetts.
They can see the writing on the wall, I guess.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydKt)
Our work here is done.
Posted by: Upper Midwest Lutherans at July 24, 2026 04:47 PM (RhUi2)
He pulled that garbage # from somewhere. And my housemate is struggling to get a job in retail that will be over 20 hours/week and somewhat decent pay. We are in Denver metro area, so the communist brake on business is still in effect here. But it used to be easier to find work around here a couple years ago and the commies were in charge then as well. I don't think the commies actually own many businesses, but even small businesses often use some sort of external HR system, only takes AI being stupid and recommending a small set of people for all the jobs and of course they can only take one; or some malice. The AI screens may have malice built in if they were trained by commies.
Posted by: PaleRider at July 24, 2026 04:47 PM (PV+Zw)
In California back in the 80's, we only got half a year of schooling. The first half of the year was solely to get the new migrant kids up to speed. That's a gd fact.
Posted by: sifty boones
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A survivor of formerly quality education in the Valley talked about getting only 50% of his education on a daily basis. Teacher says something in English. Then turns to the Hispanic kids and translates what she just said. Back and forth like that through the whole lesson, every class.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (mmrXZ)
And here I was hoping you'd confidently run through another 10 - 15 countries which weren't the origin of kolaches ( or meat filled kolaches
)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (ExV1e)
Kolaches. From Texas. Where they are made. By Authentic Old Mexican Women Who Make Them the Best.
Posted by: Upper Midwest Lutherans at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (RhUi2)
Our work here is done.
Posted by: Upper Midwest Lutherans at July 24, 2026 04:47 PM (RhUi2)
Check out the judge's photo - totally predictable:
https://tinyurl.com/2kr43dmn
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (YwEeS)
As a result, SF was during that time filled with thousands of lonely, single Filipino guys, most of whom were short, darker-skinned dudes from the poor tribes on the outer islands. Anothert sad but true fact: It was pretty much unthinkable for white ladies in those days to marry short, brown, poor foreign tribesmen. "Dating"? Pre-marital sex? I don't think so.
So for decades, lasting up though the 1980s, there were thousands of lonely sad aging Filipino guys wandering around SF, mostly congregating in the mid-Market area, hanging around the "Fascination" parlors and pool halls.
It wa sa thing that everyone knew about and witnessed, but no one ever talked about.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (66HFv)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:49 PM (viF8m)
The left never stops coming up with ways to steal tax payer money.
Posted by: Teachers unions at July 24, 2026 04:49 PM (GFRGc)
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Posted by: PaleRider
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Find a better radio host. The war hasn't effected employment one iota. If it has, it caused people to be hired. There are many in different sectors who are being paid to talk down Trump. Each of them has his own special area to pick. Some the economy, some the war, some racism, others...etc.
They are going for a cumulative effect.
_Xi pays well
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 04:49 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 04:21 PM (iFTx/)
Okay for a blog comment. Not okay on your honeymoon.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 04:49 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:50 PM (66HFv)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 04:50 PM (YwEeS)
BTW I don’t know why people aren’t up in arms about all these illegals on our schools. All that ESL stuff is paid for with your tax money. It’s why the school budget goes up. It’s why services are being stolen from the children of American citizens.
Posted by: Vengeance
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So, now that that money is being saved, the school budget will go down, right? RIGHT?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:50 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 24, 2026 04:44 PM (n5tGW)
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The C-17 air bridge is apparently in full swing. I also saw that we aren't using the stealth stuff or standoff weapons, just bomb dump trucks.
Going back, I saw the CIA post yesterday and that more than anything else convinces me we are on the right track. CIA is like an inverted compass - always exactly wrong.
BTW, we're not using just air power. We're using air, sea, space and cyber. Multi-domain onslaught.
Iran's strategy is that their face is is tougher than our fists. I'm fine with doing this for a good long time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 04:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (66HFv)
We make sure nobody ever hears about his accomplishments.
Posted by: MSM, Google, Apple, Yahoo News at July 24, 2026 04:50 PM (GFRGc)
The size is part of it. A Kolache says ... "Just one more". Even after the sixth.
Posted by: I Can't Keep Track of my Own Sock Anymore at July 24, 2026 04:50 PM (RhUi2)
It will be interesting to see if the three ladies who run Mich, Whitmer, Benson and Nessel back Sayed if he wins
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (NemxU)
https://tinyurl.com/2kr43dmn
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (kX27y)
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I hope she appeals.
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (Y2/Vj)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 04:46 PM (abScH)
I tried to hold strong... to mitigate the pain that my countrypersyns are feeling... to rein in the damage done by Trump. But did the bastards in my state appreciate all that I'd done for them? No. -- John Cornyn
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)
In NY they actually pay the school districts by the number of illegals they take in. It’s a lucrative business. There is one school in the lower NY Hudson Valley who apparently build a brand new stadium with all that federal and state taxpayer money.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM
SCOTUS ruled decades ago that illegal children are entitled to a free public education. That ship has sailed.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (0N4FZ)
It wa sa thing that everyone knew about and witnessed, but no one ever talked about.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (Av6i5)
Never heard abut this before.
No Japanese or Chinese girls would have anything to with them either, I suppose?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)
Workplace/employer enforcement is the key to any serious immigration law restoration. Getting rid of the "worst of the worst" is nice and all, but it's a small part of the problem.
I wouldn't bet any more $ than I have in my wallet that it will get done or even get seriously under way.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (U/Byj)
I just laughed so hard I puked.
It will go to bonus for all those do nothing administrators these school districts have all loaded themselves up with.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (66HFv)
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 04:52 PM (kX27y)
So that woman was convicted in MN apparently . I guess the N word is now a crime.
Posted by: steevy
Then so too shall 'honkey', 'cracker', 'white boy/girl', 'gringo', and 'redneck' become a crime for non-caucasians to use. Just like that n word, only we can say them to refer to each other. Fuck you, war.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 24, 2026 04:53 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 04:53 PM (Cqx++)
You gotta believe.
Posted by: JackStraw
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_IfYwtWki4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 04:53 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 04:53 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: Mayor Bass at July 24, 2026 04:45 PM (wvRsc)
youtube.com/shorts/4GuvyjMXT6Q
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)
And that's just Florida. There are still $3 billion sluicing thru the system, with every dime soaked up by a "resource specialist", administrator, program director, NGO, advocate, compliance officer, etc. etc.
And the student still ends up watching youtube to learn English.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 04:54 PM (+ffGB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 04:53 PM (Cqx++)
Like a snipe hunt?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 04:54 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 04:54 PM (+ffGB)
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It is indeed a mystery.
Posted by: CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, BBC, WaPo, NYT, PBS, NPR at July 24, 2026 04:54 PM (Swy+8)
If memory serves, it was discovered that the head of the big 'Lutheran' NGO that was importing people was a muslim woman. Friend of Big Mike Obama, IIRC.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:55 PM (66HFv)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 04:55 PM (g8Ew8)
Maybe you should sit stick with the same sock.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:56 PM (xSAlF)
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At some point we will probably have to dislodge the ticks still embedded.
I foresee our "assassin drones" that have been kept under wraps unleashed.
I mean... we must have them if shit holes like Ukraine and Iran do.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 04:56 PM (jehhT)
The Mets have killed my belief.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 04:50 PM (66HFv)
Then you'll like this guy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z4eDJ0NIBIo
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 04:56 PM (dK+Kv)
I wouldn't bet any more $ than I have in my wallet that it will get done or even get seriously under way.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (U/Byj)
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Remember that the sanctuary states are making us do arrests, but all the other states just hand over the illegals when the catch them. Zero press coverage, but word is getting out in the communities.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 04:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 04:54 PM (wVcYX)
I've never understood that gag. A snipe is a legitimate bird, a wader with a long bill. And people really do hunt it.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 04:57 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 04:55 PM (g8Ew
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More Learing for the rest of us!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 04:57 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 04:53 PM (Cqx++)
Totally not how you do it. They're cheap, too. They just lay there ... warm and inviting on that baking sheet. Like Sophia Vergara and Salma Hayek and Shakira in a flaky, crusty outside wrapping. Or sometimes they just look like a great big old Crescent Roll - but they're not a Crescent Roll - in that little display case like they used to use for Donuts. When you're getting the good ones. From the Old Mexican Ladies. Who really should be the only ones making them until somebody else proves themselves.
Posted by: I Can't Keep Track of my Own Sock Anymore at July 24, 2026 04:57 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 04:58 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: PaleRider at July 24, 2026 04:58 PM (PV+Zw)
Trump's unpopularity is almost entirely among people whose world he is tearing apart. We might like seeing Juan go home, leftists most definitely do not.
Personally, I couldn't give a shit. We hired Trump to do heavy things and he's doing them, popularity be damned.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:59 PM (viF8m)
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A fence for my front yard where I can post a sign:
"Beware of Morons."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 05:00 PM (FZ29D)
Oohh, fun. Ezra Klein is interviewing Morris Katz, the expert who created candidate Graham Platner. "There is no standard vetting process that would have found the issue that ended the campaign." Then mentions Eric Swalwell -- who could have known? who could have foreseen this? It was all so unexpected.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 05:00 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (Y2/Vj)
Looks like they will but the judge did everything to prevent a record
@Philosophi_Cat
What Shiloh Hendrix's lawyer is reporting here is concerning. He raises many concerning issues, but what stands out to me most is that the judge repeatedly left the bench, interrupted him, or talked over him every time he tried to make a record.
The fact that it happened over and over suggests that she understood he was trying to preserve an appellate issue and she didn't want him to create a detailed record about what evidence she had excluded and why the defence believed those rulings were wrong. Once or twice would be one thing, but when it happened every time, it comes across like she was trying to systematically prevent the defence from creating the paper trail that would be needed to challenge those rulings on appeal.
I understand that Shiloh's team is working on getting the transcript of the trial made available, but it is extremely expensive, so please consider making a donation to (see pinned post on Tom Hennessy's page) to help get this done so we can have some transparency about what went on in the courtroom.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 05:00 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: PaleRider at July 24, 2026 04:58 PM (PV+Zw)
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Trump demonstrated that there small-government/libertarian movement consists of two groups:
Corporatists who would whore out their mother for a buck and were playing the 2A and right to lifers as suckers and saps in turn for more tax cuts for the rich while they outsource jobs and import slaves, and
Deviant drug-using perverts who want to buy kids.
There is some overlap.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:01 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I suppose there must have been some, but in that era, there was very little intra-Asian mixing at all -- Chinese stayed with Chinese, Japanese with Japanese, etc., so I don't think there was much action for the Filipino guys, who had practicaly no potential mates in the US.
All this changed after WWII, when immigration from the Philippines was greatly relaxed, as a reward for being a strong ally against the Japs in WWII. So finally both genders were allowed in, and the male/female ration started to normalize. But even then -- would an 18-year-ld Filipina girl marry a sad poor 60-year-old Filipino guy? Probably not. So the loneliness problem persisted, now due to the age gap, not the race gap.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:01 PM (Av6i5)
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Why do you hate bilingual teechers??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 04:27 PM (JvZF+)
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One of the reasons we pulled our son out of public school is because In first grade he had 3 teachers in the same classroom. He and the 4 other smart kids were put at the same table and given books to read on their own while the teachers spent all of their time on the non-engrish speaking kids.
They handicapped the smart kids to try and let the others catch up to them.
The Oregon Dept of Education has tried to eliminate or hamper private education for years because of white flight from public schools.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 05:01 PM (9CZQg)
The dwindling stockpiles of defensive interceptors and long-range missiles have become a pressure point for top military and civilian leaders who are weighing the demands of the war with Iran against maintaining readiness to deter other adversaries, including China.
https://tinyurl.com/4s7332ex
(CBS)
It's never clear in the article exactly how bad it is.
But the inability to manufacture these weapons quickly is a major concern.
The military can't keep up the same pace of bombings & strikes indefinitely is the gist of it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)
He irritates me. His supporters irritate me. I couldn't sit at a table with the guy for five minutes. My disdain for cults of personality and hero worship demand I call out what I see as his bullshit.
I'd vote for him a fourth time. Best President in my lifetime. Only one that's been a Nationalist.
Posted by: I Can't Keep Track of my Own Sock Anymore at July 24, 2026 05:02 PM (RhUi2)
At some point we will probably have to dislodge the ticks still embedded.
I foresee our "assassin drones" that have been kept under wraps unleashed.
I mean... we must have them if shit holes like Ukraine and Iran do.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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The Baloch kill Pakis and Chinese all the the time. Hate is an understatement. Make a deal, they kill IRGC we help them separate from Pakistan. Might get the Yazidis in on it too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 05:03 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 05:04 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)
Trump's got two more years.
Does the IRGC.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 05:04 PM (dK+Kv)
But the inability to manufacture these weapons quickly is a major concern.
The military can't keep up the same pace of bombings & strikes indefinitely is the gist of it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)
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That's because it's a lie. It's not true. No source, just anonymous sources.
Same old b.s. info ops. Why do people believe any of it?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:04 PM (ZOv7s)
I am probably wrong, but if Trump really pounds the shit out the them soon, it could be over in 10-15 days.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:05 PM (qFwJc)
As a result, SF was during that time filled with thousands of lonely, single Filipino guys, most of whom were short, darker-skinned dudes from the poor tribes on the outer islands. Anothert sad but true fact: It was pretty much unthinkable for white ladies in those days to marry short, brown, poor foreign tribesmen. "Dating"? Pre-marital sex? I don't think so.
So for decades, lasting up though the 1980s, there were thousands of lonely sad aging Filipino guys wandering around SF, mostly congregating in the mid-Market area, hanging around the "Fascination" parlors and pool halls.
It was a thing that everyone knew about and witnessed, but no one ever talked about.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (Av6i5)
American needs more Filipina hookers, clearly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:05 PM (xcxpd)
Workplace/employer enforcement is the key to any serious immigration law restoration. Getting rid of the "worst of the worst" is nice and all, but it's a small part of the problem.
I wouldn't bet any more $ than I have in my wallet that it will get done or even get seriously under way.
Posted by: rhomboid
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ace had video in a previous thread today of primary candidate Obama saying we need to go after the employers.
DOJ or Stephen Miller should play that thing to death as they announce a new strategy in the battle against illegal immigration: going after employers, aka The Obama Option. They ought to name it so often that Obama himself is finally forced to come out and "clarify."
I'm trying to think of other catchy names, like ObamaCare, which was a single word.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 05:05 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:01 PM (Av6i5)
It is sad.
And not widely known.
It would make an interesting story or screenplay.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: I Can't Keep Track of my Own Sock Anymore at July 24, 2026 04:57 PM (RhUi2)
Traditional kolache maker.
https://tinyurl.com/e2zk6jb6 - completely safe for work
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:06 PM (ExV1e)
Where da money?
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 05:06 PM (dIske)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:07 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:01 PM (Av6i5)
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I mean, the Japanese were very broad-minded when it came to raping conquered women. True democrats.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:07 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:07 PM (qFwJc)
Where da money?
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 05:06 PM (dIske)
Always in D pockets.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 05:07 PM (dK+Kv)
>>I'd vote for him a fourth time. Best President in my lifetime. Only one that's been a Nationalist.
I have troubling news for you. If you voted for Trump 3 times and wish you could do it a 4th time, you are one of his supporters.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 05:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:09 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:07 PM (ZOv7s)
Dudes have different criteria than chicks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:09 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Likker Store, Here I Come at July 24, 2026 05:09 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:05 PM (qFwJc)
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It's a non-linear function, to be sure. You can have a front stagnate and then just collapse.
Iran has been blockaded for a long time. Hammering the bridges is going to wreck food, fuel, commerce, everything.
BTW, China is drawing down its SPR. That's a big win no one is talking about.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:10 PM (ZOv7s)
Maybe that is why China is sitting quietly on the side-lines.
This sort of propaganda encourages the Iranians, I'm sure.
Just wait it out. Either when the stockpile is empty or Jan 20, 2029.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 05:10 PM (U4c/V)
Posted by: Bosk at July 24, 2026 05:10 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: PaleRider at July 24, 2026 04:58 PM (PV+Zw)
sadly typical. The growth of communism or socialism in the Dems is totally ignored because 'ivory tower"
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:10 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 05:07 PM (dK+Kv)
____________________
I'm only half joking. Specified language programs are not going to be a one on one process....which lowers the cost significantly. And, while I used Rosetta Stone as an example, that IS a one on one process and is still only an annual cost of under $160.
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 05:10 PM (dIske)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)
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That's because it's a lie. It's not true. No source, just anonymous sources.
Same old b.s. info ops. Why do people believe any of it?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:04 PM (ZOv7s)
Very much THIS! I don't think Trump would put us in that kind of dangerous situation.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 05:10 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:10 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:11 PM (XuXeR)
Same old b.s. info ops. Why do people believe any of it?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:04 PM (ZOv7s)
I don't think it is, though.
It said that supplies of air-defense interceptors are under even greater strain, as the U.S. burns through a significant share of prewar inventories of THAAD, SM-3 missiles and Patriots. These weapons face production timelines of up to five years.
Remember, we and most NATO members sent these interceptors to Ukraine by the plane load.
I don't doubt we've expended tens of thousands ourselves since the start just defending our bases in the M.E.
So are we in dire straits at the moment?
I don't think so.
But nobody knows what the numbers actually are.
Five years is a long wait.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:05 PM
The philippines can supply them by the tens of thousands. When we used to pull in to subic bay there would be enough hookers there to service the entire battle group. We are talking 7-8,000 or more pulled in from the country side to fvck what amounted to an entire carrier battle group for four to five days.
Pretty sure they could supply 30 or 40 thousand hookers at a moments notice if the money was right.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2026 05:11 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2026 05:12 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:12 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:07 PM (qFwJc)
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It takes a few weeks for munitions ships to arrive and unload, and that was why we had a ceasefire. Huge lots of munitions. Thousands of tons of ordnance. An endless supply of boxing gloves to use on Iran's face.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bosk at July 24, 2026 05:12 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 04:48 PM (Av6i5)
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I remember learning that the coolies who built the railroads were also effectively denied romance, marriage, sex lives. ChatGPT says Chinatowns contained large populations of aging unmarried men. It also reprimanded me for saying "coolies."
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 05:12 PM (mmrXZ)
Like, "ha, ha! You stuipids actually think some Mexican roofer is out-bidding you on that $1 million home?!! You so stupid."
These, of course, are the same smarties that can't understand why the price of new and used cars shot up after Cash for Clunkers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 05:12 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:05 PM
The philippines can supply them by the tens of thousands. When we used to pull in to subic bay there would be enough hookers there to service the entire battle group. We are talking 7-8,000 or more pulled in from the country side to fvck what amounted to an entire carrier battle group for four to five days.
Pretty sure they could supply 30 or 40 thousand hookers at a moments notice if the money was right.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2026 05:11 PM (0N4FZ)
I knew the LBFMs could do it!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 05:12 PM (xcxpd)
Where da money?
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 05:06 PM (dIske)
It takes a modern educator to spend a billion dollars and fail to teach a single person. Then our elite colleges take over and actually destroy any native wit or common sense that escaped round 1.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)
The "ESL" (English as Second Language) students get preferential treatment, extra adult aids, special lessons, all in their language never once trying to teach them english.
Why is education so much money? That's just one reason.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2026 05:13 PM (OkYzo)
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Do not negotiate... eradicate
These shit bags have negotiated in bad faith for 50 years. They are not going to change. Congress and past administrations have enabled this behavior because it looks stately to negotiate.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 05:13 PM (9CZQg)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:01 PM (Av6i5)
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I mean, the Japanese were very broad-minded when it came to raping conquered women. True democrats.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I guess I should edit my comment to say, "...in that era, there was very little intra-Asian-American mixing at all -- Chinese-American stayed with Chinese-American, Japanese-American with Japanese-American, etc." to exclude the rapey Imperial Japanese Army.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:13 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:13 PM (qFwJc)
But nobody knows what the numbers actually are.
Five years is a long wait.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)
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Sure they do. Trump knows, Hegseth knows, and those figure are grotesquely out of date. That's Obama-era production.
That's one of the tells - they are recycling old talking points spread by people who haven't worked there since 2025.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:14 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:14 PM (XuXeR)
From the WSJ:
Bahrain and Kuwait secretly sent jets to attack sites inside Iran, their first such direct retaliation against Tehran and an indication of the difficult position Arab states find themselves in as the war grinds on, people familiar with the matter said.
The airstrikes early this month targeted drone- and missile-storage depots, among other military sites, some of the people said. The United Arab Emirates—which attacked Iran multiple times early in the war—provided intelligence on targets and defensive air cover for the strikes in a sign of budding Arab cooperation in confronting Iran, those people said.
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To which I say; "about fucking time." The timeline was apparently early in July.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 05:14 PM (jehhT)
Why hasn't Ilhan Omar been investigated???
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
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1h
BREAKING: Ilhan Omar’s SISTER Has Been Linked to The “Feeding Our Future” Fraud Scandal
Sahra Noor runs a business that received a $2 million earmark while her sister, Ilhan, was a state representative and she founded a USAID-backed consulting group that “has secured more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives”
Her company was registered at the same address used by key figures charged in the scheme.
70 have been convicted in the scandal.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 05:14 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 05:15 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:13 PM (qFwJc)
Is it an American company with American employees ? Then good...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:15 PM (S6LVb)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:13 PM (Av6i5)
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I was being a bit cute, but it also highlights the fact (as others noted) that racial purists are all about keeping the strain pure until they capture enemy women, and then half-breeds are just fine.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 05:15 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:16 PM (XuXeR)
Eliminate the top 2% and your life would get very, very much worse in almost every way.
Eliminate the bottom 2% and almost every aspect of your life* will improve.
That the left pretends not to understand this is a big source of our problems.
Somehow, it's racist to understand that repatriating a permanent under-class, that's illiterate and mentally limited--if they work at all--to only menial jobs is a net-positive for the American citizen.
*unless, of course, you are the bottom 2%
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 05:16 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 05:14 PM (kX27y)
Benny Johnson blowing his hat off again.
"linked to" means nothing. Please bring me a conviction, a sentence, a fine -- AND A RECOVERED FRAUD DIVIDEND, waiter.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 05:17 PM (mmrXZ)
So, the adult "Harry Potter" series?
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:17 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Generally speaking, though, the half-breeds born to the raped women are not counted among the normal population. I don't think that a child born to a Korean "comfort woman" would be considered Japanese by most Japanese.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:17 PM (ExV1e)
I drove by the place a year ago and was delighted to see it was the same building in which I worked for NCR between 1978 and 1981.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:17 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 05:15 PM (VPNgR)
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Well, if employers value their businesses, there's an easy way to avoid it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:18 PM (ZOv7s)
youtu.be/DiJYhcUfEDw
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 05:18 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:18 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:13 PM (qFwJc)
24-hour shifts and plenty of overtime.
Posted by: Bosk at July 24, 2026 05:19 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl
Yes, the same policy also applied to Chinese immigrants, for the same reason (women-->presumed prostitutes), but was less strictly enforced -- plus there was already a pre-existing mixed-gender Chinese population in California from the era before immigration was controlled, so although there was also an epidemic of lonely Chinese men, it wasn't as extreme as with the Filipino guys, since there were at least some mates available.
Also: Did ChatGPT issue a you a $250 fine for Hate Speech, or simply apply 25 lashes with a hickory switch?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:19 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:17 PM (ExV1e)
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Obviously, and Joseph Conrad frequently refers to 'half-caste' people in his stories.
My point is that if you really want to keep your race pure, cranking out half-breeds is a funny way of doing it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM
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Every remaining copy of F. Joe Mugabe's totally-not-ghostwritten memoir as a gift for border sex-trafficked children -- if we can still find any alive.
We're gonna need MOAR printings ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 05:19 PM (LCdVS)
California is looking at bit...weathered. The shiny bits when I was a kidlet are now...
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:19 PM (XuXeR)
Oh, no, the "man who can't track of his handles" must separate himself from the horde of Trump supporters for whatever reason. He's more intelligent and not part of the undesirable crowd.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:20 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 05:08 PM (viF8m)
I view Trump a lot like I viewed NASCAR back when I used to go. Used to frustrate the shit out of me. But absolutely the best game in town.
Of this I am proud. Dildo is the one that always bans me. But Ace banned me the first thread when Trump announced. Because he thought it was idiotic. And I was in, early, telling him why I thought Trump would win.
We're obviously talking years ago. And I've still got The Jerry Garcia Band "Midnight Moonlight" on my Spotify. If you remember back that far.
Posted by: I Can't Keep Track of my Own Sock Anymore at July 24, 2026 05:20 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:21 PM (qFwJc)
My point is that if you really want to keep your race pure, cranking out half-breeds is a funny way of doing it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)
In pretty much all these societies there were plenty of strata of 'race pure' people who were in the wrong caste of society and were also persona non grata.
The US is one of the few places to have such a distinctively visible race and very weak class structure to base modern liberal's world view on.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:22 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:22 PM (qFwJc)
So a "C" student at best
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 05:16 PM (XuXeR)
And Miss C Student wouldn't let the jury go home.
National Conservative
@NatCon2022
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5h
To get Shiloh Hendrix convicted, the judge refused to allow the jury to return home for a MISDEMEANOR trial.
This is completely unheard of.
Deliberations went on for OVER EIGHT HOURS until it was after 10PM and the rest of the jury caved because they wanted to go home.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 05:22 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:21 PM (qFwJc)
The upper class only rapes women (or boys) of their own race.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 05:22 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl
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Hence the need for Opium Dens.
/Things I learned watching "Hell On Wheels" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 05:22 PM (LCdVS)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:21 PM (qFwJc)
The Brits in India says no to that. They just didn't bring them home.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:19 PM (Av6i5)
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Not only that, but there were plenty of white guys suffering from Yellow Fever.
That's the funny thing about raving about white racism. Even the most racist southern planter was plowing through his slaves like a goat on Spanish Fly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: H at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (U+L0d)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (cSByu)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (S6LVb)
I like to think that I am wiser now. I like to share my opinions, but I also try to always be respectful.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:24 PM (qFwJc)
Does the court system pay mothers who have their children stranded at Day Care until after 10PM ? Or does she have to pay this new and uncontrolled expense out of her own pocket?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 05:24 PM (nCgQz)
Did ChatGPT issue a you a $250 fine for Hate Speech, or simply apply 25 lashes with a hickory switch?
Posted by: zombie
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It has me seriously annoyed, and I'm about to answer in a very human way.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (mmrXZ)
This is completely unheard of.
Deliberations went on for OVER EIGHT HOURS until it was after 10PM and the rest of the jury caved because they wanted to go home.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 05:22 PM (kX27y)
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Cruel AND Unusual.
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (LCdVS)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
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Yep. Col. Sir Reginald Pecker, VC, 6th Earl of Longwood probably left a half-dozen bastards during his 20 years in India.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (ZOv7s)
My point is that if you really want to keep your race pure, cranking out half-breeds is a funny way of doing it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 24, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Not really, you just define them as not part of the race anymore.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Goatweed at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (jK3NL)
Chorizo and Egg ... also a must eat.
They're all good. God Bless those Old Mexican Women making them.
Posted by: I Can't Keep Track of my Own Sock Anymore at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:21 PM (qFwJc)
I guess we could find a few clues in nature.
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 05:25 PM (LHPAg)
dailymail.com › e-16002605 › white-woman-trial-black-autistic-boy-verdict.html
White woman is CLEARED after calling black autistic [REALLY???] boy, 8, the n-word ...
[autistic? HE WAS SHARP ENOUGH TO STEAL HER PURSE]
TodayShiloh Hendrix, 36, was caught on camera last August hurling vile slurs at a black boy and a bystander.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 05:27 PM (VPNgR)
Does the court system pay mothers who have their children stranded at Day Care until after 10PM ? Or does she have to pay this new and uncontrolled expense out of her own pocket?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 05:24 PM (nCgQz)
Jurors get reimbursed about 10-20 bucks a day.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 05:28 PM (uhVAy)
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LOL
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (DbmIv)
Well, if employers value their businesses, there's an easy way to avoid it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Fascist.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 05:29 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 05:32 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 05:24 PM (nCgQz)
Unless it's some heartless judge she could probably get excused from jury duty.
But yeah, that does suck if it happens because I think jurors are paid minimum wage right?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 05:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM
Two chicks at the same time.
Posted by: Peter's neighbor Lawrence at July 24, 2026 05:42 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 24, 2026 05:59 PM (wGerL)
Department of Education Ends Use of "Disparate Impact Analysis" to Conjure Up Phantom Cases of "Racism"
The left needs far more racism than actually exists, so they've created many tools to increase that supply. Not just the SPLC funding LARP white supremacists.
The left always needs grievances and they need a mechanism for using grievances to extort money and privileges from the rest of society. Crying "racism" over everything is a good mechanism. But sometimes you need proof of racism, as in legal and quasi-legal procedures. But there is actually no racism present -- no one expressed any racist thoughts nor actually discriminated against anyone. "Disparate impact analysis" was created to "prove" the existence of racism in the stubborn absence of any detectable racism. Instead of finding racism, the left needs only find that a law or prerequisite has a "disparate impact" on protected minorities. and then the system infers racism from the simple, non-racist fact that there are fewer black people in, say, science or tech. If there are any requirements that serve as roadblocks to getting blacks into science or tech -- like the requirement of an actual degree in science or tech -- then that roadblock will have to be removed because of the "disparate impact" on blacks. Trump's DOE is finally ditching the use of this fake metric to prove racism where none exits.Education Dept. eliminates tool used to prove racial discriminationOh, that is a cherished tool for confabulating "Racism" -- just assert, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that blacks do not misbehave or commit crimes at a level greater than that of other races and therefore, any disparity in arrests or discipline of blacks must be due to racism. Because what else is left? We ruled out any possibility that blacks commit crimes or misbehave at elevated rates. Therefore: Racism. Q.E.D.
Civil rights complaints against schools can no longer use data evaluations, called disparate impact analysis, as evidence of discrimination. The Education Department on Thursday killed decades-old rules that have allowed statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial discrimination, the most recent move by the Trump administration to overhaul the government's enforcement of civil rights law. The move follows years of conservative complaints about "disparate impact analysis," which incorporates use of data to show discrimination. Supporters say that discrimination is not always explicit and that data analysis is needed to uncover it. Conservatives say that proving discrimination should require proof that someone intended to treat people differently and argue that when people are being judged by data, they feel pressure to make decisions based on racial quotas. At the Education Department, disparate impact analysis has been used in recent years to evaluate allegations that students of color were discriminated against by examining data showing they were disciplined at higher rates than White students.
It's difficult to prove "racism" in most instances because racism is not present in most instances. And so we have to create a fake proxy definition of racism to find the racism that does not exist and can be shown to not exist by the complete lack of evidence for it.
The Education Department said Thursday that eliminating the data analysis will assure that schools can address discipline problems without fear of drawing a federal investigation.
"The left's notion of 'equity' should never prevent teachers from keeping their classrooms and students safe. With these changes, schools will be empowered to address classroom issues without fearing the federal government will weaponize antidiscrimination laws," Kimberly Richey, assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement. The change was made without an opportunity for public comment, which is unusual for major regulatory action. The rules were announced on Thursday and took effect immediately. ... Supporters of disparate impact analysis say it is a critical tool because finding "smoking gun" evidence to prove someone intended to discriminate is difficult. And even if the intent wasn't to discriminate, advocates say institutions should be held accountable for discriminatory effects.
Since the twin calamities of the election of Barack Obama and the death of a drug-dealing pig named George Floyd, schools and police have actually been avoiding arresting/disciplining black people. In the UK, cops were advised not to arrest violet BLM or BAME (Black, "Asian" (meaning Muslim), Minority, or Ethnic) "protesters" for fear of triggering even more violence.
Police were warned against arresting violent BLM protesters who assaulted officers or caused criminal damage to avoid "triggering" them, a leaked document reveals. An internal police risk assessment published during the Black Lives Matter protests of June 2020 warned officers of potential "trigger points" that might cause crowds to riot. ... In the summer of 2020, dozens of police officers were assaulted by BLM activists across Britain, including some 62 in London alone. According to a 2024 report by Lord Walney, the Government's independent adviser on political violence and disruption, officers were "kicked to the ground" and pelted with bottles and other missiles. However, during the riots, police were told to "be mindful of possible increased tensions when interacting with the BAME community", and warned against arresting violent agitators.This obviously goes on all the time in America. Rioters in Baltimore were given "space to destroy." Blue city majors continue taking no action whatsoever to stop violent trespasses during "teen takeovers," attempting to normalize rioting as something people will just have to accept as routine, like changes in the weather.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:23 PM (iFTx/)
Sigh
Nothing will happen.....
Or sexy robit teachers!
There's our compromise.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 24, 2026 03:25 PM (Sco7b)
This needs to be codified in an update to the various civil rights laws. Which, unfortunately, means that even if Johnson and the House pass it, the Senate will do jack squat.
Still, good news on a Friday, for however long this decision lasts.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at July 24, 2026 03:26 PM (KFbdf)
Might as well just say nigger, then.
Posted by: Go Ahead....Say It at July 24, 2026 03:27 PM (LGdxD)
And man - it must suck to be a quality black with an American degree. Who'se going to believe you're not a DEI.
And asian students should be really pissed at blacks taking their spots.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 24, 2026 03:28 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:29 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 24, 2026 03:29 PM (IMPuq)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:29 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:30 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Just to be repetively redundant at July 24, 2026 03:30 PM (2Ez/1)
Since they were already burning and looting, I'm not sure what "triggering" would have done.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:30 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2026 03:30 PM (nDXEV)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:31 PM (Nyq9f)
And asian students should be really pissed at blacks taking their spots."
Can you say "tribalism"? I can...
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:32 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 24, 2026 03:32 PM (k1E2D)
You could probably rig disparate impact calculations to show that the WNBA discriminates against ugly black rug munchers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)
We might have to get real jobs!
/local politicians
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:33 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:34 PM (enNUy)
Literally, a zero-sum game money-wise.
If public education goes completely retarded, which it has, let them make alternate arrangements. See what other, better systems develop.
And now I'll dream of my biologically female Chinese honeypot orgy.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 24, 2026 03:34 PM (Sco7b)
My understanding is that it's as close to that as the law allows. Actually eliminating it would require the Congress to do their jobs.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:35 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 03:35 PM (jn6Kp)
I'd love for Trump's DOJ to go after companies whose C suite openly congratulate themselves for their anti-white male hiring and firing practices.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 03:35 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: mr tmz at July 24, 2026 03:36 PM (rJ48h)
One day in ISS (In-School Suspension), never an actual suspension.
Too many times to count sitting in detention.
My wrist is still sore from all the lines I had to write 500 times each.
And at least a half-dozen times getting paddled, my favorite being that one Assistant Principal that kept a paddle with air-holes in his desk.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:36 PM (6ydKt)
Harris will be the nominee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:36 PM (0hofl)
Was there any opportunity for public comment in the infamous Obama "dear colleague" letters, On of which weaponized Title Nein! to force schools to allow men into girls bathrooms and created tribunals against men for any sexual accusation? And the other which weaponized the disparate impact theory to prevent any punishment of blacks in schools?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 03:37 PM (mYMcJ)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:37 PM (vFpe0)
My understanding is that it's as close to that as the law allows. Actually eliminating it would require the Congress to do their jobs.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:35 PM (2ocoG)
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Yup.
It requires acts of Congress to undo things created by acts of Congress. Department of Education was created by an Act of Congress under Jimmy Carter, the Department of Education Organization Act of 1979.
Still, fingers crossed that the fired experts starve and die in the ensuring period before a Democrat president ramps it back up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:37 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at July 24, 2026 03:37 PM (0sNs1)
FoxNews and CNN.
MS Now had a segment on lack of trust in the news media.
Apparently, Trump's fault.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 24, 2026 03:37 PM (Sco7b)
Disparate Impact goes back to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Before anybody starts bitching about how all the Millennials and Gen Z ruined everything.
Posted by: Friendly Reminder at July 24, 2026 03:38 PM (RhUi2)
Harris will be the nominee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:36 PM (0hofl)
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False.
No one who performs embarrassingly in a previous primary can win the nomination in another primary year.
It is literally and completely impossible. Especially if the individual is considered a moron by most of the political establishment.
Excuse me, I've just been handed a note. Joe Biden previously lost embarrassingly in presidential primaries and was widely considered to be a moron by the political establishment and that means that he can't possibly even get close to the nomination in 2020.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (RWrid)
That was so friendly I heard that in Mr. Roger's voice.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:37 PM (vFpe0)
Or a Sharon Stone one.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (wVcYX)
Of course there was. Everyone was allowed to express their gratitude to Teh Won...
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (XuXeR)
Kamala Harris, yesterday: "Women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real issue."
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Oglebay at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (2ap+5)
Kamala Harris, yesterday: "Women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real issue."
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (2ocoG)
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"SLAY KWEEEN!"
-black women who will be close to a clear majority on their own in the SC primary electorate
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:40 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 03:40 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:36 PM
The other choice was Nevada for brownness. SC was chosen because black backlash was deemed more damaging than brown backlash.
A small, personal bottle of hot sauce could prove salvic for both groups, according to Hillary!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 03:40 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:41 PM (XuXeR)
-black women who will be close to a clear majority on their own in the SC primary electorate
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (RWrid)
I. Can't. Wait.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:41 PM (0hofl)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 03:41 PM (gKWVE)
-black women who will be close to a clear majority on their own in the SC primary electorate
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (RWrid)
I. Can't. Wait.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:41 PM (0hofl)
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I'm mostly looking forward to her choosing Jasmine Crockett as her VP because she don't need no white man telling her what to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:42 PM (RWrid)
My favorite joke about that statement of hers so far is "She probably thinks it's the same woman getting pregnant every day".
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:42 PM (2ocoG)
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WASHINGTON — Oh, SNAP.
Fast-food chains, particularly in California, have raked in more than $524 million in taxpayer funds through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in the past three years, according to estimates from a group of lawmakers.
While government-subsidized SNAP is typically intended for at-home food and beverage consumption for low-income Americans, its Restaurant Meals Program component, a k a RMP, has expanded in many states since around 2019 and been loosened to allow participants to eat at chains such as Subway, McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, KFC, Dairy Queen.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 03:42 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at July 24, 2026 03:37 PM (0sNs1)
Hear, here! A true visionary!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 03:42 PM (wVcYX)
You can guess the "disparate outcome" for the same infractions.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 03:42 PM (viF8m)
Thanks !!! Great job.
Posted by: Friendly Reminder at July 24, 2026 03:43 PM (RhUi2)
Pretty sure her venom could be synthesized into a morning after pill.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:43 PM (vFpe0)
"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. -Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
-- Anne Frank
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 03:43 PM (0sNs1)
AOC - "daytime sex is a tool of the patriarchy! "
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:43 PM (XuXeR)
"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. -Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
-- Anne Frank
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 03:43 PM (0sNs1)
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Sending Guatemalans to Guatemala is as bad as attempted Genocide of Europe's Jewry?
What's so bad about Guatemala? Is it some sort of shithole country?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:44 PM (RWrid)
Racist means "smells nice."
HEY, You're racist!!!
Thank you. I like your shirt.
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 03:44 PM (dIske)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:45 PM (vFpe0)
So now I am having milk and cookies.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 03:45 PM (mYMcJ)
Posted by: Friendly Reminder at July 24, 2026 03:38 PM (RhUi2)
Every generation has had its share of Leftist assholes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 03:45 PM (1z8ji)
So... England, then?
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:45 PM (XuXeR)
But I still don’t think that means she’s the nominee.
Say she wins in SC, but then loses in Nevada, Iowa, and New Hampshire shortly thereafter.
At that point I think it’s back to a wide open race and the biggest Trump hating, smooth talking, socialist will win, which includes AOC and Newsom or some wildcard nobody can predict a year and a half away.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:46 PM (6ydKt)
FALSE! Testosterone and sperm counts have fallen to dangerously low levels in America. Fortunately, us Schrute men have enormous reserves of both.
Posted by: Dwight Schrute at July 24, 2026 03:46 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:46 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: Zombie Woodie Allen at July 24, 2026 03:46 PM (RhUi2)
To the point that we're sending off young women to college together useless degrees and STDs instead of married and having children at ages when they're at peak health and fertility, and the feminist anti-male, anti-marriage, anti-natalism propaganda... I wonder now if this relatively sudden push to call potential relationships between established men in their 30s and women in the younger age brackets "grooming," "pedophilic" or "gross/icky" is part of the agenda. Add shame and accusations of criminal sexual misconduct to something otherwise normal to further discourage marriage and reproduction, and keep young ladies on the progressive brainwashing path rather than marriage and motherhood.
Posted by: Late and OT, sorry at July 24, 2026 03:47 PM (TbWk/)
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Not true. If a plaintiff makes a prima facie showing of a disparate impact, the burden shifts to the defendant to show that the challenged practice is job-related to the position in question and consistent with a business necessity.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 24, 2026 03:47 PM (bNf8H)
But I still don’t think that means she’s the nominee.
Say she wins in SC, but then loses in Nevada, Iowa, and New Hampshire shortly thereafter.
At that point I think it’s back to a wide open race and the biggest Trump hating, smooth talking, socialist will win, which includes AOC and Newsom or some wildcard nobody can predict a year and a half away.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:46 PM (6ydKt)
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Iowa is further back in the calendar. In its place, the DNC moved up Michigan.
Nevada is small in terms of delegates, NH hasn't shown any ability to align with either major party in literally decades by this point.
And, besides, who are white progressives to invalidate the lived experiences of black women who are making their voices known in support of Kamala who just wasn't given a real chance last time because of old white man Biden?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:47 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:48 PM (vFpe0)
That's racist.
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 24, 2026 03:47 PM (bNf8H)
Now how that's going to work, Frasier
Posted by: 90% of the Judges at July 24, 2026 03:48 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:49 PM (RWrid)
I still think it's both hilarious and sinister that the various European and Australian bans on social media for kids under 16 exclude BlueSky. Makes the true intent of the laws very, very clear.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:49 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:43 PM (XuXeR)
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So much for afternoon delight....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 03:49 PM (FZ29D)
-black women who will be close to a clear majority on their own in the SC primary electorate
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (RWrid)
I. Can't. Wait.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:41 PM
YAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!
Posted by: Z-snap and head bobble at July 24, 2026 03:49 PM (TbWk/)
I still think it's both hilarious and sinister that the various European and Australian bans on social media for kids under 16 exclude BlueSky. Makes the true intent of the laws very, very clear.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)
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I remember reading that this exception is not actually true, that BlueSky is listed as restricted for under aged people, at least in England.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:49 PM (RWrid)
It is a sad case. Maybe there is more to it than a drowning and booze and sunshine and water. The kneeler Colin Kaepernick, not content with being a very bad footballer, paid for another autopsy. Which revealed nothing new and results will be released to a grand jury.
No idea what happened to this kid. Could he swim is my first question. The mostly white football friends who he boated 10mi into the Gulf with had to leave due to a faulty pump in the boat and asked him to go with them. He said no. Now no one knows and many questioned. There were over 100 college kids on that barrier island.
I have been on that island due to an unfortunate zoology course I had to take (and still don't know why) in college. There is nothing there but beach and a few trees. There are photos of Nolan smiling with his buddies, mostly white football friends.
It could not be an accidental drowning because he's black, this is Mississippi, and the paid racists want to stir the pot and enflame people. Don't know where Reggie Jackson is.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 03:49 PM (hzuYO)
HEY, You're racist!!!
Thank you. I like your shirt.
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 03:44 PM
Then we demand to be called racist!
In fact, we want to be known as racist-racist !!
Posted by: Penguins and their projectile pooping at July 24, 2026 03:50 PM (0sNs1)
Somehow all the green-haired septum-ringed children in pajamas survived the purge.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:50 PM (vFpe0)
So, they are stating that blacks are inherently incapable of understanding or adjusting to rules and regulations.
But somehow, whites are the racists.
Is that about it?
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 03:51 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 03:51 PM (vbXSk)
How could they?
*plug joke there
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:51 PM (XuXeR)
And Karmelo Anthony.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:51 PM (oUopv)
And that is only the tip of what that retard has done to be ashamed of.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 03:52 PM (mYMcJ)
Crump is a disgusting piece of shit. There isn't a single corpse he won't scramble on top of to spread lies and hate so he can make a buck.
Posted by: Seriously fuck that guy at July 24, 2026 03:52 PM (TbWk/)
I gather the UK walked back their exemption after Elon pointed it out, but it's still in place in other countries' versions.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:52 PM (2ocoG)
>>Education Dept. eliminates tool used to prove racial discrimination
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Edited: Education Dept. eliminates tool used to CONCOCT racial discrimination
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 03:53 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:47 PM (RWrid)
I think the Dem base outside of blacks in the south have gone coocoo for Cocoa Puffs with the DSA candidates and AOC will surprise people if she runs.
Attractive-Latina socialist is a better trade-off for those types than Indian-Jamaican drunk.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (6ydKt)
Tranny son murdered his mom in Laguna Beach - his social media photos are very disturbing.....
https://tinyurl.com/y2v5t2c3
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 03:43 PM (0sNs1)
This was from Deadline weeks ago.
A musical and then Obama's Center of Doom would be quite the weekend.
"Slam Frank, the critically acclaimed and provocative new musical that reimagines Anne Frank’s story “through an intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens,” will begin a limited engagement Off Broadway this September.
Previews begin at the Orpheum Theatre on September 17, exactly one year after the start of the developmental run that brought attention and praise to the musical conceived, composed and co-written by Andrew Fox with Joel Sinensky, and continue through November 30. Official opening night is October 4.
The musical, directed by Sam LaFrage, played to sold out houses during its developmental presentation at Asylum NYC."
Inspired by a viral Twitter thread that asked, “Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?”, Slam Frank imagines what happens when a progressive community theater company decides to transform Anne Frank’s story into an intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop musical.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (Sco7b)
And things didn't work out, I was down on my luck
Got tired of roamin' and bummin' around
So I started thumbin' back East, toward my hometown
Posted by: My encounter with "phantom racism" at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (mYMcJ)
>>But somehow, whites are the racists.
The 40-yard dash has a disparate impact on whites than blacks, I don't see the NFL using disparate impact analysis when selecting corners.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (XV/Pl)
But understand if you stay here, that we're expressly forbidding transfer payments from our Treasury to any citizen, ever again... welfare is against the law at the Constitutional level after this. You'll have to hack it on your own from here on out.
That ought to cut out all these cancerous professional gimmedats, across the board.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (BI5O2)
Attractive-Latina socialist is a better trade-off for those types than Indian-Jamaican drunk.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (6ydKt)
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DSA candidates got destroyed in the Democrat primaries in AZ just this week.
It's a deep blue enclave thing, and not really anywhere else.
Which is why El-Sayed, if he wins the nomination in MI, will probably end up losing the general.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:44 PM (RWrid)
Well, yes, but only if you are Mayan. If you are Hispanic, it is a dream come true. But of course, that's racist....
here we go again.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 03:55 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:55 PM (RWrid)
He's a black kid. Obviously couldn't swim. I blame the White Kids just a little bit.
Its like Rocky from Project Hail Mary. I love that little guy. I assume he can't swim. Just look at 'em. I wouldn't even fill a sink if Rocky was hanging out.
I'd love to hang out with Rocky. He's cool. We never meet Adrian.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 03:56 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:56 PM (enNUy)
>>@C_3C_3
·
15m
>>Did you know not 1 rioter that burned down Minnesota for weeks during the BLM riots was sentenced for disorderly conduct?
>>If arrested their charges were dropped.
>>But…
>>Shiloh Hendrix was sentenced.
>>Insane.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 03:56 PM (viF8m)
I gather the UK walked back their exemption after Elon pointed it out, but it's still in place in other countries' versions.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:52 PM (2ocoG)
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Doesn't their brand new "Online Safety Act" restrict anyone under 16 from accessing social media? I know Canada is trying to push that through. It's a backdoor to require users to provide authentic documentation of who they are so they can be tracked online. Pretending to "protect" the children to institute a control mechanism on everyone.
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 03:57 PM (dIske)
Elliot Page will play Adrian in the sequel.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:57 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:57 PM (XuXeR)
Tranny son murdered his mom in Laguna Beach - his social media photos are very disturbing.....
https://tinyurl.com/y2v5t2c3
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (kX27y)
He seems nice.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 03:57 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 03:57 PM (RhUi2)
>>Insane.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 03:56 PM (viF8m)
Start arresting rap stars.
Today.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (0hofl)
>>Insane.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 03:56 PM (viF8m)
And the Somali rapist who urged Hendrix to use the N word as he filmed her in the playground was let off.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (kX27y)
And asian students should be really pissed at blacks taking their spots.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 24, 2026 03:28 PM (Sco7b)
Orientals (the Asians who aren't Indian, or Turkish, or Arab, or Persian, or Caucasian, or...) account for ~7% of the US population and, yet, they have only accounted for 1.4% of the players in the WNBA. Racism is the only possible reason.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (ExV1e)
Somehow all the green-haired septum-ringed children in pajamas survived the purge.
Posted by: sifty boones
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I once started working at a big Silicon Valley firm, and a few weeks later I joined a bible study of employees, in one of the conference rooms, but early before work.
A couple weeks later there was a layoff and I think I was the only one in the group that survived. It was scary. Many were very competent. I think I survived because I was very new, and also already very highly regarded as an engineer.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (mYMcJ)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (enNUy)
Sadly, The Klan could have saved a ton of time by just donating to Planned Parenthood.
Both have the same goal.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:59 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (enNUy)
My husband almost puked when he saw the photos.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 03:59 PM (kX27y)
Looks like his real issue was trans fats.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Just to be repetively redundant at July 24, 2026 03:30 PM (2Ez/1)
Because Congress created it, despite having no Constitution mandate to do so, and funded it and the Executive is required to spend any money that Congress explicitly directs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:00 PM (vFpe0)
Free Range Days. Throw in a Hi-Point and a box of 9mm.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:00 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Cool Runnings at July 24, 2026 04:00 PM (wVcYX)
"New"?
Okayyyyy
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (XuXeR)
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My dear man, not brand spanking new, but he wants to rise above Jackson and Sharpton as the go to flame man. They will someday die off and racism needs a chief to march and scream skin color.
This boy had many white friends, as that's how it's been since the late '70's and '80's but good news is never reported. I am from MS and sort of know this personally.
Sorry you misunderstood. I would say bite moi but it is Friday, and I am also not sure if you are my friend or a turdpile under that nic.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 04:01 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:02 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (2ocoG)
I would support taxpayer funded sterilization of leftist women, and men.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:02 PM (ExV1e)
Give all these black kids a life jacket. At least a pair of floaties. Something.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:02 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (enNUy)
My husband almost puked when he saw the photos.
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 03:59 PM (kX27y)
Think I'll pass and take your word for it.
"Trannies Kill" should be a bumper sticker with rainbows and glitter.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 04:03 PM (hzuYO)
Looks like his real issue was trans fats.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:00 PM (viF8m)
That may be the best comment all day.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:03 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (enNUy)
It's horrific. Probably was on estrogen - causes men to blob out and grow tits like that. It's all self-mutilation as far as I'm concerned, and not something to promote.
Posted by: Give the cutters tax-funded razor blades at July 24, 2026 04:03 PM (TbWk/)
https://tinyurl.com/4h4r4b9v
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 24, 2026 04:03 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: Cool Runnings at July 24, 2026 04:00 PM (wVcYX)
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[NOT Rayciss:] Rep. Steve Cohen, a white Democrat from Tennessee, was refused membership in the Congressional Black Caucus in 2007.
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 04:04 PM (hXKAn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (RWrid)
Interesting story going around of this old lady in Michigan living in a trailer out in the woods because her apartment burned.
An online journalist up there found her name on ActBlue records as having given $150,000 to El-Sayed.
She said, “I was sending him five dollars every now andvthem but no way in hell $150,000.”
Now ActBlue still doing the donor fraud is for sure interesting, but I was more confused about why this old white lady living off her Social Security in a camper out in the boonies was giving to El-Sayed to begin with? Why vote gor a muslim radical?
She just thought he was handsome?
To quote a former president:
I don’t get it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 04:04 PM (vbXSk)
Both have the same goal.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:59 PM (vFpe0)
Margaret Sanger actually made a presentation to the Klan, or Klan women, anyway.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (1z8ji)
He taught us to hate people one at a time, not in groups. But play the odds as they are, not how you want them to be. As it should be.
Fathers are important.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: InZona at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (5y2L0)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:44 PM (RWrid)
The people are starving. -- 300 pound, 5 foot, Guatemalan woman who 'walked' to the US.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (ExV1e)
It perfectly expresses the lawless, totalitarian social engineering obsession that has displaced, for the most part, all the laboriously developed historically unique or distinctive treasures of our civic culture and tradition.
Results must be "equal", or look the same. It's all about results, and individuals aren't individuals - the actual building block of both our legal system and culture - they're members of a "class" or "group". South Africa under apartheid, or if you prefer a softer version Malaysia, even Singapore a bit.
And that such an absurdly pernicious concept survived for a nanosecond in the "courts" redundantly confirmed the hollow, collapsed nature of the institutions and mindset that once made the US unique in a good way.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: mr tmz at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Speaking of fat at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (enNUy)
It's horrific. Probably was on estrogen - causes men to blob out and grow tits like that. It's all self-mutilation as far as I'm concerned, and not something to promote.
Posted by: Give the cutters tax-funded razor blades at July 24, 2026 04:03 PM (TbWk/)
Dude must have shoved his wedding tackle so far up his ass he was fucking himself to take a photo in a thong.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:06 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 04:03 PM (hzuYO)
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That would make for a good NASCAR sponsor nowadays.
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 04:06 PM (hXKAn)
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but disparate impact claims that the same action or policy applied equally to both blacks and whites will affect blacks differently.
Posted by: tcn
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I think it's not just policies and actions. Climate change, seasonal flu, rabid squirrels all have a **disparate impact** on women and POC.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:07 PM (mmrXZ)
Looks like his real issue was trans fats.
Posted by: JackStraw
......
Well, the motive is surely not that his mom wouldn't feed him.
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 04:07 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 24, 2026 04:07 PM (bkuEU)
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If they are unmarried, then it is a behavioral issue. Oh, wait...is that a white supremacy assertion?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 04:07 PM (XeU6L)
Your dad was practical.
This topic rolls up here now and then. Its controversial. So lets do it again.
A big part of Modern Life is everybody screaming and straining to pretend Groups don't act as Groups.
Muslims, as a group, are going to blow up shit. Blacks, as a group, are going to give the Police something to do. Whites are going to work and scold. And on and on.
As groups. Individuals exist. But groups also exist.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:08 PM (RhUi2)
It perfectly expresses the lawless, totalitarian social engineering obsession that has displaced, for the most part, all the laboriously developed historically unique or distinctive treasures of our civic culture and tradition.
Results must be "equal", or look the same. It's all about results, and individuals aren't individuals - the actual building block of both our legal system and culture - they're members of a "class" or "group". South Africa under apartheid, or if you prefer a softer version Malaysia, even Singapore a bit.
And that such an absurdly pernicious concept survived for a nanosecond in the "courts" redundantly confirmed the hollow, collapsed nature of the institutions and mindset that once made the US unique in a good way.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:05 PM (U/Byj)
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Righteous rant, rhomboid.
"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 04:09 PM (hXKAn)
5h
A multi-state manhunt is underway for Isabelle Johnson, a Florida murder suspect investigators describe as “highly dangerous and manipulative.” Authorities believe she may have cut and dyed her hair to change her appearance while fleeing between states.
We just saw her on the last thread!
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 04:09 PM (+ffGB)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 04:09 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 04:09 PM (wVcYX)
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If they are unmarried, then it is a behavioral issue. Oh, wait...is that a white supremacy assertion?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 04:07 PM (XeU6L)
Kammie is childless. What in hell does she know about women getting pregnant? She chose another path, apparently.
And what, pray tell, is the big issue? Babies are a problem? As Reagan noted, the people who are supporters of abortion all got to be born first.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:09 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: sifty boones
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I grew up with some exposure to blacks (which was unusual for the time and place) and understood that people are people.
I always thought that most racism comes from people with no exposure to said race, but something has changed lately -- they forced exposure and then forced white to be in an inferior, defensive, and even subservient position. This has made things much worse. Then that shitheel obama came along and weaponized it.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 24, 2026 04:10 PM (mYMcJ)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2026 04:10 PM (nDXEV)
why this old white lady living off her Social Security in a camper out in the boonies was giving to El-Sayed to begin with? Why vote gor a muslim radical?
She just thought he was handsome?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Every time I rant about the threat of the DSA and their careful selection of candidates, I say "physically attractive" at least once.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:11 PM (mmrXZ)
Their solutions create the problem they're solving. They are geniuses at it.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 04:11 PM (+ffGB)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 04:12 PM (Nyq9f)
He's already the "go to" esq. Mainstream coverage isn't the same nowadays....
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:12 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:07 PM (mmrXZ)
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You left out cancer.
/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 04:12 PM (hXKAn)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 04:12 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:08 PM (RhUi2)
I believe it comes from experience, i.e., the usual suspects here who denigrate "women" as a group but somehow think that doesn't matter to the 'ettes who are routinely lumped in with those "women" they dislike.
I would say about 1/4 of blacks are the problem population.
Likewise, I would say about 60% of women are the problem population.
Both of those groups exist, but saying all blacks are always the problem is simply false, just as saying all women are idiots or vote poorly or whatever today's trope is all about is simply false. THOSE women might indeed be problematic, but the rest of us resent being lumped into that "group."
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:13 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (RWrid)
Interesting story going around of this old lady in Michigan living in a trailer out in the woods because her apartment burned.
An online journalist up there found her name on ActBlue records as having given $150,000 to El-Sayed.
She said, “I was sending him five dollars every now andvthem but no way in hell $150,000.”
Now ActBlue still doing the donor fraud is for sure interesting, but I was more confused about why this old white lady living off her Social Security in a camper out in the boonies was giving to El-Sayed to begin with? Why vote gor a muslim radical?
She just thought he was handsome?
To quote a former president:
I don’t get it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)
Never underestimate liberal white women's dusky male fantasies.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 24, 2026 04:13 PM (k1E2D)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:14 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 04:12 PM (Nyq9f)
Because Egypt is broke?
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:14 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 24, 2026 03:54 PM (Sco7b)
This is vomit making on so many, many levels. F*ck these people.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 24, 2026 04:14 PM (k9OZB)
Their solutions create the problem they're solving. They are geniuses at it.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 04:11 PM (+ffGB)
Only because, honestly - of the rest of us. That's a misuse of pro-noun. Because I'm not Us.
But that shakes out to You. And most of You just can't stand to not jump in and fix the mess. Like following a dog and scooping up the shit 24/7.
A big problem with Modern Conservatism American Style is the refusal to just mind your own business and let people suffer a lot, even it means yourself is inconvenienced a little.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:14 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 04:12 PM (Nyq9f)
Blacks in America are held back by systemic racism and I will spare no effort to lift up (almost) every one. -- James Talarico, ally
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:14 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 04:12 PM (Nyq9f)
Egypt gots no money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:15 PM (XuXeR)
Its like Rocky from Project Hail Mary. I love that little guy. I assume he can't swim. Just look at 'em. I wouldn't even fill a sink if Rocky was hanging out.
I'd love to hang out with Rocky. He's cool. We never meet Adrian.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 03:56 PM (RhUi2)
***********
It's never been mentioned if he could swim and/or if life jackets were on the boat. The boat he arrived in was leaking and pulled back to land and he chose to stay.
We are talking about HS seniors partying with college kids and a lot of beer and sunshine.
Beer/sunshine=dehydration and a faster buzz from the beer. Maybe he got drunk and wandered off.
He could learn to swim as anyone can. I have no idea. I'm a great and strong swimmer after decades of swimming daily. However, if I had enough to drink, and got super hot in the sun, I'm sure I could still drown.
There were a few tents from photos I saw with the kids. Otherwise the shade is from trees away from the beach. No restrooms, etc. Bring your own stuff.
I have been on this rather desolate island and also Ship Island in college.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 04:15 PM (hzuYO)
-black women who will be close to a clear majority on their own in the SC primary electorate
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:39 PM (RWrid)
I. Can't. Wait.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:41 PM (0hofl)
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I'm mostly looking forward to her choosing Jasmine Crockett as her VP because she don't need no white man telling her what to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:42 PM (RWrid)
The HELL you say!!!!!
Posted by: Stacey Abrams at July 24, 2026 04:15 PM (vDZgA)
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Isn't it time to mandate some common-sense assault-ejaculation control?
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 04:15 PM (hXKAn)
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I can tell you exactly how that old lady popped up with the $150,000 to her name. She lived in an apartment complex before the fire. So they used her address, and then applied a bunch of different donations under different names and used Apt #'s to make it look legit and legal....but then, oops, a fire causes her to move to a singular address without apartments and the total gets listed only to her.
In short, they used her name as the owner of a residence who rented out rooms and when she was forced to moves, all of a sudden they couldn't justify the Apartments and it triggered the system as a $150,000 donation just from her.
That's one of the techniques ActBlue uses. It's why there are a bunch of illegals registered to vote, but seldom vote. It's all about the apartments they can assign to their listed address.
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske)
Peter North hardest hit.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:16 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:13 PM (91ED/)
Yet you wrote another paragraph after that. Exactly my point. If 60% are the problem, I'm not interested in calling balls and strikes.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:17 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 04:17 PM (JvZF+)
So far they've given me two beautiful grandchildren.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 24, 2026 04:17 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:16 PM (vFpe0)
Well... and his co-star.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:17 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:17 PM (RhUi2)
As if you would know balls if you saw them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:18 PM (91ED/)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 04:18 PM (hXKAn)
He's already the "go to" esq. Mainstream coverage isn't the same nowadays....
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:12 PM (XuXeR)
It is very possible that I simply don't always pay attention to anyone named Crump. I only noticed due to it being MS, Sharpton and the kneeling loser with an afro.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 04:18 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 04:19 PM (abScH)
If this was a comedy about a woke theater company doing that it could be funny. But I assume they’re serious.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 04:19 PM (QZThv)
This. A hot, sunny day on the water and my limit is... one. That's it....
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:19 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 04:20 PM (vFpe0)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 04:20 PM (U/Byj)
Looks like his real issue was trans fats.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 04:00 PM (viF8m)
That may be the best comment all day.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:03 PM (91ED/)
I'll second that!
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 04:20 PM (kX27y)
I don't even think liberal white women would find El- Sayed attractive. it's not as if he's Mamdani who IMO , is attractive. He Just smiles in a very fake way and too much. If they're sending him money it's because they support his DSA agenda and stupidly want to be kind to Muslims running for office . Even when I was a liberal I woukd never have voted for a Muslim.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:20 PM (G7WXk)
Was she supposed to acknowledge that to the famously diverse Nazis?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:20 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 04:21 PM (XuXeR)
It's not as if they can give me a slave. Arabs don't work.
I guess they could give me z precious artifact from a prior civilization that was worth a plugged nickel. I'll take one of those cool King Tut masks, please and thank you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 04:22 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 24, 2026 04:18 PM (91ED/)
To paraphrase my cousin ... which started a decent sized bar fight at the time ... I got a quarter that says you can't get 'em both in your mouth.
It's a great story. We're just drinkin'. His recent ex walks past, and I don't know why the bitch felt the need, but she says real loud "there's the little cocked bastard".
And he retorted and there we went.
Posted by: Come On at July 24, 2026 04:22 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 04:23 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 04:22 PM (BI5O2)
You can get one for under a hundred. https://tinyurl.com/bdeh7cya
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 04:23 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 24, 2026 04:13 PM (k1E2D)
Either that or she watches MS NOW & CNN religiously and think she has to stop the genocide of Muslims by putting one in the senate.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 04:24 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:24 PM (G7WXk)
You could have a pretty nice society.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 24, 2026 04:24 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 04:25 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske)
There should be a team in the DOJ already working on it.
It's blatant what ActBlue has been doing for years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 04:26 PM (6ydKt)
I'm mostly looking forward to her choosing Jasmine Crockett as her VP because she don't need no white man telling her what to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ooohh, let's have fun. Pete Buttigieg? AOC? Jon Ossoff?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:26 PM (mmrXZ)
TJM
is going to gloat because get this, ejecting immivaders reduces demand and therefore cost
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 04:28 PM (vDZgA)
25 OT: the DNC just named South Carolina as the first state to hold their nomination election for the 2028 general because of diversity
Harris will be the nominee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 24, 2026 03:36 PM
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The precedent of using massive cheating to install a low-IQ nonsense-babbling figurehead president who is an international embarrassment has been set with Biden. A Kamala Harris presidency offers the additional feature of every leader she deals with knowing that she got where she is by sucking dicks. It's just the thing if degrading the United States is the goal.
But I don't think she's going to be president. There are many other useful idiots that Democrats would find easier to deal with. It's not going to be the chest-feeding homo either.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 24, 2026 04:29 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:58 PM (enNUy)
It's horrific. Probably was on estrogen - causes men to blob out and grow tits like that. It's all self-mutilation as far as I'm concerned, and not something to promote.
Posted by: Give the cutters tax-funded razor blades at July 24, 2026 04:03 PM (TbWk/)
doubt you are supposed to take a gallon a day.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 04:29 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ooohh, let's have fun. Pete Buttigieg? AOC? Jon Ossoff?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 04:26 PM (mmrXZ)
She's not gonna have anyone smarter or prettier than her on her ticket.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 04:30 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2026 05:21 PM (O7XEN)
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 09:56 PM (4NO2D)
Columnist Warns That the Constant Anti-Marriage Agitation from the Communist/Nihilist/Anti-Natalist Left is Leaving Women Lonely, Sad, and Bitter
Since the 1920s, it has been the goal of communists to destabilize western societies and immiserate them so that the public would accept the idea of burning it all down and letting the bloody-minded lunatics of the left further degrade and destroy civilization. Communists realized the "workers' were just too satisfied in western capitalist societies to support communism. So they set about changing that.If you really want to destroy civilization in a hurry, go to the very heart of the human experience -- family and mating -- and destroy that.
A growing anti-marriage movement is being fueled by viral TikTok trends and high-profile celebrities painting men as the enemy, but according to a new column, women may ultimately be the ones losing out. In a USA Today op-ed, columnist Ingrid Jacques warned of a rising wave of "heteropessimism," defining it as women's growing feelings of disappointment and antagonism toward relationships with men. She argued that viral trends like "divorce glow-ups" and anti-male literature have actively widened the divide between the sexes. "Studies show that married women are not only happier but also live longer and earn more than their single counterparts," Jacques wrote on Tuesday. ...
The trend coincides with falling US marriage and birth rates. Official US Census Bureau data from December shows that just 47% of American households in 2025 were married couples, down from nearly 66% 50 years ago. Of those married households, only 37% included their own children under age 18, compared to 54% in 1975. Jacques linked the shift directly to liberal ideology, noting that left-leaning Americans choose to opt out of traditional family lifestyles "far more often than conservatives." "Wherever you look these days, women who 'free' themselves from the chains of marriage are being celebrated," Jacques wrote. ... A 2024 American Family Survey found that 37% of conservative women and 28% of moderate women, between the ages of 18 and 40, reported being "completely satisfied" with their lives. However, liberal women of the same age reported only 12% feeling the same way. ... Citing Louise Perry, author of "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution," Jacques argued that young women are being alienated after getting "burned by hookup culture" and lacking real friendships with the opposite sex. Jacques argued that, like Perry, returning to marriage, not abandoning men altogether, is the remedy for the cultural divide. "That won't be true for everyone, of course," Jacques concluded. "But men and women need to find a way back to each other. Discounting marriage won't get them there."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 02:21 PM (WVdLT)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 02:22 PM (WVdLT)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2026 02:23 PM (sl73Y)
-no long term effects at all
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:24 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 02:24 PM (uhVAy)
My junior high in the mid 1980s had a nurse's station. Everyone gets hurt in PE so that's not the problem. The problem was the posters on the wall. Some, yeah, "say no to drugs", "don't drink and drive" etc. But some had this sad looking blonde teenager with the logo "It's like being grounded for 18 years".
Okay, nobody sane wants teenagers knocked up when they're 14 or whatever.
But that message is carried forward and remembered when the girls are 28 and they're not girls anymore.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 02:25 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Ripley at July 24, 2026 02:27 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 02:22 PM (WVdLT)
Thanks for caring. I mean that. Could use more of this sentiment from other ladies on youtube, X etc. and not just from the usual borderline angry men.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 02:27 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)
We are a functional sex-bot away from American Men being done with American Women. One sex-bot away from the tables being flipped, and Universal Suffrage and a whole lot of other shit being repealed.
Frankly - we'll be better off. The DNC does not exist if women don't vote. There. I said it. I meant it.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 02:29 PM (RhUi2)
A few jobs ago I worked with a pretty Japanese woman with beautiful long hair.
One of her "friends" convinced her to chop it and took her around the office to show her off to everyone. She now looked like a teenaged boy.
I saw them coming my way and noted "late for a meeting" to get away but the humiliation ritual aspect of it amazed me.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Fuck them! Fall in line!
If they fall back now, only the Patriarchy wins!
Posted by: The Left at July 24, 2026 02:30 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 02:30 PM (77rzZ)
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Score one more for Modern Feminism.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:31 PM (Swy+8)
Gee, doesn't that sound like the Garden of Eden?
And now women have been tricked into taking on men's curse in addition to their own from that first time women were fooled into grabbing that fruit.
Well done, ladies. Well done.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 02:31 PM (XHO5P)
Posted by: Men at July 24, 2026 02:31 PM (CMXit)
You encounter a problem with free markets. You think "I know! Let's try socialism!"
Now, you have two problems.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:31 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 24, 2026 02:32 PM (dgOAm)
I see two amusing intersecting threads common in the lefty forums I read among feminists nowadays:
1) We should ban sexbots because it lets men have sex without consent!
2) If your man ever asks you for sex when you aren't in the mood he is a rapist.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 02:32 PM (enNUy)
Gee, doesn't that sound like the Garden of Eden?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 02:31 PM (XHO5P)
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Reading your first paragraph, that was exactly what I was thinking. Well done.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:33 PM (Fi81e)
We are a functional sex-bot away from American Men being done with American Women. One sex-bot away from the tables being flipped, and Universal Suffrage and a whole lot of other shit being repealed.
Frankly - we'll be better off. The DNC does not exist if women don't vote. There. I said it. I meant it.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 02:29 PM (RhUi2)
And we'd be dead in 2 generations, a wasteland planet for dinosaurs to make their return...next.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2026 02:33 PM (tOcjL)
Make sure that left-leaning women:
-- Regard all sex as rape
-- All turn gay or trans
-- Abort whatever pregnancies they accidentally induce
-- Never get married.
End result will be an accelerate of what is already happening: The self-extermination of the Left, as they embody their own anti-life and anti-human policies.
ne more generation of these demographic trends and the Left's auto-genocide will be complete.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:34 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 02:34 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:35 PM (Av6i5)
Make sure that left-leaning women:
-- Regard all sex as rape
-- All turn gay or trans
-- Abort whatever pregnancies they accidentally induce
-- Never get married.
End result will be an accelerate of what is already happening: The self-extermination of the Left, as they embody their own anti-life and anti-human policies.
ne more generation of these demographic trends and the Left's auto-genocide will be complete.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:34 PM (Av6i5)
Not so fast.
Posted by: Randy Weingarten, Supreme Educatrix at July 24, 2026 02:35 PM (vDZgA)
ne more generation of these demographic trends and the Left's auto-genocide will be complete.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:34 PM (Av6i5)
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The complete and total explanation of the decrease in white births in America since the 90s is that the left stopped having babies.
Their birth replacement rates have fallen off a cliff while conservative rates have remained steady and right at replacement (2.1).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:35 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: gKWVE
Of course I care! My oldest son is 29.
You can see the sadness in these young men. They want to be loved and cherished and appreciated. And they’ve been told all their lives that they are toxic and the cause of all evil.
Then there’s the women who brag about body counts and body piercings. And they have zero respect for themselves.
So so sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 02:35 PM (3izFu)
I've seen some videos by young women, who appear to be somewhat sane, asking "where are the good successful guys?!? They aren't in the bars or on the dating sites or anywhere else I look?!?"
And you know they do have a point there. I'm not single personally, but the single guys I know with jobs and prospects also aren't going to bars and clubs and what have you any more.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)
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*facepalm*
*jawdrop*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:36 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Randy Weingarten, Supreme Educatrix at July 24, 2026 02:35 PM (vDZgA)
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It's been shown that something like 60% of people's politics is sourced from their parents. School education represents about 20%.
Weingarten is fighting a war she's losing, and watching her it feels like she knows it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:36 PM (RWrid)
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I remember the 90's... everywhere you looked gays and single mothers were being celebrated (I couldn't stand Will and Grace). The left tries very hard to make things most people shun into the next big thing. Thye try to get us to go against out instincts. And, for a not-insignificant portion of the population, they are successful
Posted by: 496 at July 24, 2026 02:37 PM (sOtuf)
ne more generation of these demographic trends and the Left's auto-genocide will be complete.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:34 PM
And this is why the left has taken over the schools, without a constant stream of new recruits the liberal movement will die because as a rule liberals rarely reproduce. They need an outside source of new warm bodies to indoctrinate to carry on the movement.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2026 02:37 PM (0N4FZ)
Among Jewish women the fertility rate of Orthodox women is 3.3 and reformed/conservative is 1.4
Yes the latter group is currently much larger but it wouldn't be for long with those sorts of numbers.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)
Big pharma for their antidepressants
Big government for their support
The MSM for companionship and belonging
Entire sectors of our economy and government are completely dependent on keeping women alone, scared and near suicidal.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 24, 2026 02:37 PM (0MjtC)
The end result is bad, but I think it's not necessarily because it's shorter. The all dark dye job is not flattering and the cut itself is uninspired and dated.
Compare 13 seconds into the video to the end result.
At 13 seconds, she looks pretty good, even though the hair is short. The end result looks like a HR meeting come to life.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 02:37 PM (mkw2N)
I think the problem with that video isn't that the lady cut her hair short, it was the awful lesbian "bob" cut that she got.
The Blade loves long hair on a girl.
But in fairness, long hair is a real pain in the ass. It's a lot of work keeping it groomed and not a rat's nest of shit.
How does The Blade now? Because he has long hair. He ties it up in a ponytail, because he's Super Cool and that's the easiest thing to do.
But girls with long hair who style it? Total pain in the ass.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/)
Now give your time and talents to a soulless corporation while spending your childbearing years in a boring cubicle staring at a screen.
See, you can have it all!
Posted by: Feminism of the last several decades at July 24, 2026 02:39 PM (2Ez/1)
That reminds me, Rosseau, one of the architects of modern liberalism had a bunch of kids with his female partner and made her send them to a orphanage where they all died...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:39 PM (sKqQm)
Marx's whole goal was supposedly about restored "dignity" to all.
Modern Marxists love to use the more gullible or motivated of us as manipulable tools to that end. They don't care if those people are miserable in their entire finite life on this earth, just so that a future people can theoretically grasp this brass ring of "dignity for all", they will degrade countless millions in reality, for their entire material existence.
In one hand you hold actual misery, in the other an academic theory and a hope, where you don't understand how "dignity" will emerge from mass degradation and dehumanization for "The Cause".
So, glad Marxists are trying to make this choice for us.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:39 PM (Fi81e)
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Damn I wish I had that simple comeback at the tip of my tongue in the many debates I have had in the past ten years.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 02:39 PM (9CZQg)
Posted by: 18-1
No they are not. They are working their asses off and then going to sporting events with their friends and playing video games. My oldest has zero interest in dating. Plus, Seattle. Can’t even be sure if the chick has a dick or not.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 02:39 PM (3izFu)
Her hair will (probably!) grow back out and it will be healthier. And she will have learned what it is like to have long hair and to have short hair.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 02:40 PM (faghi)
It’s leaving young men lonely and sad as well.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Absolutely. You don't have a marriage boycott and leave only half the population lonely and sad.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 02:40 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2026 02:33 PM (tOcjL)
Oh yeah!
-----Tyrannosaurus Fucking Rex
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 02:40 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:40 PM (ZxPkt)
Welfare, Abortions, SNAP, Section 8 Housing, etc......
It still is a battered relationship because you must obey the Government rules to get your unearned benefits...
Posted by: Jackson K. at July 24, 2026 02:40 PM (5+jvJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:40 PM (Swy+8)
Big pharma for their antidepressants
Big government for their support
The MSM for companionship and belonging
Entire sectors of our economy and government are completely dependent on keeping women alone, scared and near suicidal.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 24, 2026 02:37 PM
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What about us?
Posted by: The cats at July 24, 2026 02:41 PM (2Ez/1)
Destruction of the family was one of the goals Marx & Engels laid out in their Communist Manifesto.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 24, 2026 02:41 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at July 24, 2026 02:42 PM (amcLV)
159 "I must have missed it. Were labor unions EVER against the importation of low-wage foreign workers?"
I believe private sector unions were pretty uniformly against immigration until at least the 80s. You can find fund speeches by Cesar Chavez on the topic.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (sKqQm)
I don't think that Cesar can be taken as representative, since the constant flow of fresh migrant farm workers made it impossible to unionize them in the first place. My impression is that union workers have always been anti-immigration, and union bosses have always been corruptocrats willing to spout whatever line the Democrat Grift Machine wants. Poor Cesar, couldn't even get to the point of being worth paying off.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 02:42 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: mr tmz at July 24, 2026 02:42 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:42 PM (Swy+8)
Younger son is still single, and not dating anyone. The dating scene, such as it is, is really bleak.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 24, 2026 02:43 PM (PSEDc)
It should play from amplifiers at 42 St in NYC; Broad Street in Philly, etc., especially in Blue states & sanctuary towns, counties, boroughs, parishes, and in a loop across ALL of msm.
A safe future could be a more relaxed, satisfying future for family.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 02:43 PM (NFX2v)
I have no idea how young people are supposed to meet each other anymore. People's friend circles are very small now. They don't do social clubs. They don't go to church. Feminists have made approaching women at the gym, the grocery store, the run club or other places like that, "creepy." A significant majority of women, when polled, say, "Don't ever approach a woman in the gym."
So what's left? The bar scene? Hookup apps? Those are meat markets for sex, and a lot of women aren't on them. College? Lots of college girls think that's the time to go wild and don't want to settle down so young. So they're not looking for a husband or serious boyfriend.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 02:43 PM (mkw2N)
*jawdrop*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:36 PM
Chin up. You're not the first to lose innocence reading the comment section on AoSHQ.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 02:43 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 02:40 PM (faghi)
Whatever. Don't be looking to get that good man touting a dyke cut.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 02:44 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: little people at July 24, 2026 02:44 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Solution may be to marry a woman from a foreign country that believe in Marriage and Family.
Leave these Worthless "What Can You Do for Me" American Women behind to wallow in their Mire.
Posted by: Jackson K. at July 24, 2026 02:44 PM (5+jvJ)
I’d like to see the rest of the survey.
Apparently not even half of women, conservative, moderate, or liberal, are completely satisfied?
Seems low, but then what is “completely satisfied” when talking about life anyhow?
It’s not like a good meal at a restaurant that you are completely satisfied with, life is a long affair and quite messy and unsatisfying for periods of time - for everybody.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 02:44 PM (6ydKt)
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That person has been judged OBSOLETE citizen. Cease all further mention of that person.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:44 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 02:45 PM (xPsv8)
I know because I see it on T-shirts and in movie ads where all the badasses are women! That's where I get all my information./sarc
I literally saw that t-shirt on a hippy-aged lady at Kroger yesterday. My granddaughter was with me (15) and I pointed it out and we both laughed.
Sure, so women will only make female babies and the human race will thrive, right? RIGHT?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 24, 2026 02:45 PM (FGA9/)
20 away from 1,000 people.
We can do this together.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:45 PM (RWrid)
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If you want to keep Africans from starving, you have to give them guns so that they can kill the oppressive war lord who is taking all of the food and giving it to his supporters at the expense of everyone else.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (9CZQg)
I doubt more than 30% of the population has the skill sets and emotional maturity for marriage, especially given cultural norms now.
Also I looked at the data and marriage rates are simply returning to pre-WW2 levels.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (+PUOE)
Posted by: MBHGA at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (2Ez/1)
We live long enough now there is plenty of time to get into the work force after your kids have started school and still climb the corporate ladder.
Yes it means delayed career progression, but it is much easier to raise kids at 20 then 40 and much safer to give birth to them. The reason you can drink all night and be fine the next day in your early 20s is so you can deal with kids keeping you up all night...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)
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2h
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Texas Democrat US Senate candidate James Talarico endorses plan for Texans to pay slavery reparations.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (ZxPkt)
1. Dating apps. No, not the hook-up apps like Tinder, but apps designed for people looking for something more serious.
2. In normal, daily interactions. See a pretty girl out in the wild? Find an excuse to talk to her. Now, this takes cojones mucho grande, but it's probably the best way. It's The Blade's way.
The old ways -- which included bars and clubs -- aren't going to work unless you're looking for a hook-up.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (iFTx/)
I was 34 when I married my wife. That's ancient by LDS standards. I honestly didn't know if I would ever find someone.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 02:47 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 02:47 PM (2YhKe)
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2h
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Texas Democrat US Senate candidate James Talarico endorses plan for Texans to pay slavery reparations.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (ZxPkt)
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How much more evidence do you people need that Talarico's entire campaign is a scam designed to bilk money from dumb progressives?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:47 PM (RWrid)
@BuckSexton
Ladies, never forget: the friend who tells you "oh you'd look great with short hair" is the friend who secretly hates you
There must have been a lot of misogynists in the 1950s & 80s when every other lady had short cropped hair.
I do agree, though.
Unless she’s over 60, every woman looks better with long hair.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 02:47 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 02:47 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 02:48 PM (SwCxT)
2. In normal, daily interactions. See a pretty girl out in the wild? Find an excuse to talk to her. Now, this takes cojones mucho grande, but it's probably the best way. It's The Blade's way.
The old ways -- which included bars and clubs -- aren't going to work unless you're looking for a hook-up.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (iFTx/)
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I could never do Number 2 when I was dating. Just saying "Hi, you're pretty. I'd like to get to know you," was beyond my capabilities.
It's a mission of mine to get Junior comfortable with it. He's approaching girl-interest right about now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:48 PM (RWrid)
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Nobody noticed that Sandy Duncan ever got a date.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:49 PM (Swy+8)
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Commies have always hated the family because it is a unit of government outside the state.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 24, 2026 02:49 PM (XvL8K)
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He could have dropped the creepy pedo adjacent stuff and probably would have been able to do better with the black vote. But he couldn't, so pay the black voters instead!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 02:49 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM
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Name three.
Posted by: Mildly curious at July 24, 2026 02:49 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 02:50 PM (xPsv8)
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The dogs yap, but the caravan moves on.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:50 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Peggy Fleming's hairstyle at July 24, 2026 02:50 PM (2Ez/1)
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He could have dropped the creepy pedo adjacent stuff and probably would have been able to do better with the black vote. But he couldn't, so pay the black voters instead!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 02:49 PM (Dv3i1)
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Black turnout is going to be down 10% in Texas no matter what Talarico says or proposes.
Talarico will get amazing numbers in Austin and underperform everywhere else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:50 PM (RWrid)
Going for the black vote...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 02:50 PM (FtULh)
Why? Because if the future is garbage and doesn't matter, then children are said same. You could say the same about life in general and I get that they don't think "anything" matters. But distilled somewhat, when you remove the base instincts (acquisition of things, food, sex) that people will follow regardless of what "matters", it comes down to what is worth protecting or fighting for.
Overthinking? Overcomplicating? I've been known to dabble. But it's coherent.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 02:51 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: RS at July 24, 2026 02:51 PM (GYx3d)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 02:51 PM (g8Ew8)
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
I see aged out women who are all headed toward their unvisited graves. So sad.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 24, 2026 02:51 PM (bX16E)
Why? Because if the future is garbage and doesn't matter, then children are said same. You could say the same about life in general and I get that they don't think "anything" matters. But distilled somewhat, when you remove the base instincts (acquisition of things, food, sex) that people will follow regardless of what "matters", it comes down to what is worth protecting or fighting for.
Overthinking? Overcomplicating? I've been known to dabble. But it's coherent.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 02:51 PM (Nyq9f)
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Having children is an attack on nihilism. Nihilists should abhor having children because bringing more children in to a pointless world without meaning is an act of cruelty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:51 PM (RWrid)
If I had a young boy, you can be damn sure he'd be taking dance. He'd have a thousands of prospects and he'd know how to dance to boot.
Posted by: 496 at July 24, 2026 02:52 PM (sOtuf)
This is an interesting one. Plenty of women complain about guys approaching them out of the blue and being "creepy".
Well guess what if you don't do thing a lot you won't be good at them. So the guy that approaches you smoothly has probably done it 100s of times and he's not looking for something long term. The guy that doesn't quite know what to say? He probably doesn't have 3 other dates already lined up...
And I do hear the male side of this too from younger men I know. "Fine I should talk to women that interest me...what do I say? And what do I do if they tell me I'm creepy?!?"
By funny. Don't talk about sex. Ideally try to pick up on something she's interested in and ask about that...because here is a major tip...people love to talk about themselves and their interests.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:52 PM (sKqQm)
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Nothing matters.
But remember to recycle.
Posted by: The modern left at July 24, 2026 02:52 PM (2Ez/1)
If I had a young boy, you can be damn sure he'd be taking dance. He'd have a thousands of prospects and he'd know how to dance to boot.
Posted by: 496 at July 24, 2026 02:52 PM (sOtuf)
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It's my understanding that male dancers swim in minge if they're straight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:53 PM (RWrid)
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Women are happier with men... Men are happier with a german shepherd
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 02:53 PM (9CZQg)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 02:50 PM (FtULh)
All these slapfights between the Democrat factions are, ironically, designed to keep everyone on the plantation. It's an unwinnable race so they get to "try stuff out". Talarico and Crockashit may genuinely hate each other but these little internecine class wars keep focus on divisions so that their dumb voters never see what's really happening at the top.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 02:53 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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why do big game hunters go after the big game?
Trophies.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM
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Name three.
Posted by: Mildly curious at July 24, 2026 02:49 PM (2Ez/1)
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Hinge, match.com (not really an app, but it's online), eharmony (same), and to a lesser extent, bumble.
There are also a lot of targeted ethnic dating apps, like loxclub for Jews, ChristianMingle for Christians, and goatass for Muslims.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (xPsv8)
There are also a lot of targeted ethnic dating apps, like loxclub for Jews, ChristianMingle for Christians, and goatass for Muslims.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)
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I met Dolley on Match 16 years ago tomorrow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (RWrid)
I knew a guy in college that looked sort of like Napoleon Dynamite and was awkward as all hell around women.
He joined the dance team and while he was never very good at it I think he "dated" every one of the girls on the team.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm)
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For a guy of any age, learning to dance will put them in close contact with lots of eligible females. Many of them attractive.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:55 PM (Swy+8)
I always had success opening with something we were looking at or experiencing.
Eg. at a museum: Wow, that painting is amazing!
At the gym: Which machine do you hate the most, but you use it anyway because it works?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 02:55 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: 496 at July 24, 2026 02:52 PM (sOtuf)
Joe Biden stars in...
Diddler on the Roof
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 02:55 PM (Nyq9f)
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"Get away from me, creep!"
-attractive enough young woman, but with nose piercings, neck tattoo, orange hair, chopped bangs, lip filler, baggy clothes, etc.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 02:55 PM (Dv3i1)
100% backwards.
Women ARE being alienated, but it's not from getting burned. It's because the guys are done.
They guys are done being told the women pick the bear. The guys are done being accused of sexal assault because the glanced or tried to talk to a woman at the gym.
They guys are done being an atm. They're done being sixth or seventh in a rotational stringer just to take someone out for an expensive dinner. God for id Chili's or Applebee's or Texas Roadhouse isn't fancy enough.
Yeah. It has hit epidemic levels. But not for the reasons they say.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM (oUopv)
By funny. Don't talk about sex. Ideally try to pick up on something she's interested in and ask about that...because here is a major tip...people love to talk about themselves and their interests.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:52 PM
Heard a story recently about a guy who was walking on the sidewalk with his friends and coming the other way was a group of girls. He thought one of them was cute so he approached her and simply asked:
"May I flirt with you?"
She was flattered.
They got married and recently had their first child.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM (2Ez/1)
This is so masco toxicitry
Are these those same women who present as completely female and only date men but still like to tell everyone they’re”queer?” As an actual gay person, they’re completely insufferable and fucking annoying.
Isn't it funny how we all worked to build this culture that was inclusive of gay and queer people because we didn't want anyone to be ashamed of who they are... and now those same people think heterosexual people should be ashamed of who they are? I guess it just goes to show that privilege isn't all it's cracked up to be 😕
Holy shit that’s stupid. Thank you for making us all dumber for knowing this ridiculous concept exists.
Unstable Women and pathetic men like consensus. The corporate trusts that run the west have been pumping out queer theory. Now the evil asshats who caused the situation made up a word for the weaker women wishing they were part of the fake consensus despite their perfectly unmolested breeding instinct.
It’s all fake. This era is absurd. You can thank the World Economic Forum for this nonsense.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM (7qRkV)
1) Long or longish hair- getting a lotta dick and loves the dick.
2) Medium length to ear level hair - getting a little dick but she still likes the dick.
3) Sgt. Carter USMC High and Tight - hates the dick and is getting none or a lesbian.
Progresses from 1 to 3 as the broad advances with age, usually.
Posted by: Hair and Dick, An Overview at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM (ftsic)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 24, 2026 02:51 PM
Quite true. I've several close friends in that boat now in their sixties worrying about who is going to look after them in their dotage. But they insisted 30+ years ago that marriage and family was not necessary for their "self-actualization."
Posted by: RS at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM (GYx3d)
Posted by: Case at July 24, 2026 02:57 PM (bqIVz)
Communists worship themselves as gods, and the State is their church.
And there are two things that people naturally have a higher loyalty to than the State: their faith and their families.
So when the Communist looks upon the god in the mirror, he sees those loyalties as heresy, and gets in a smiting mood.
All practical considerations aside, their hatred of the family stems from the insult to their vanity.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 02:57 PM (/MgpH)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 02:58 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: Mildly curious
I'll only name one: CatholicMatch.com
I met the lovely Mrs. through them. She only lived one mile away, our kids rode the same bus, and we attended the same parish.
And we never would have met if not for the app.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2026 02:58 PM (O6Iwc)
In-person interactions stopped with #MeToo. If you interact with a woman and you aren't Jeff Bezos they'll file sexual assault charges and Judge Karen will throw you in prison. There are two different famous cases now where a man saved a woman's life and she filed charges.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 02:58 PM (2ocoG)
They’ve also taught three generations that Climate Change will kill us all in twelve years and having children just makes it worse.
Besides, 40 is the new 20 and it shows in marriage and childbirth rates.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
And the GimmeDat sections of Houston and Dallas.
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (TezPK)
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2h
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Texas Democrat US Senate candidate James Talarico endorses plan for Texans to pay slavery reparations.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:46 PM (ZxPkt)
How this is coming about is incredibly hilarious - basically Jasmine Crockett and her supporters have told Talarico that if he doesn't get down on the floor and lick their shoes, none of them are showing up to vote in November. Without them, he can't even crack 30% in the general. So he's crawling on his belly, doing and saying anything they want to try to make them happy.
And the best part is that it's not only going to make the Anglo's despise, it's going to drive away the hispanics too.
By doing things they way they did, Democrats chose all the negatives of Talarico's twinkism, ALONG WITH all the negatives of Jasmine's AH HATES WHITEY!!! campaign. It's glorious!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone"
They all seem pretty sure they are not only morally superior to him but more intelligent as well.
Posted by: Ripley at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM
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Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: Only Farmers Dot Com at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
And the GimmeDat sections of Houston and Dallas.
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (TezPK)
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Nope.
Black turnout will be down.
There was a clear racial preference in the primary, and the black electorate lost. They respond by not turning out as much.
Especially with Crockett shitting on Talarico all the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:00 PM (RWrid)
There are also a lot of targeted ethnic dating apps, like loxclub for Jews, ChristianMingle for Christians, and goatass for Muslims.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)
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I met Dolley on Match 16 years ago tomorrow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (RWrid)
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There ya go! The Blade, he knows things. My nephew is engaged to a girl he met on bumble. A family friend was seriously dating someone she met on hinge (although they eventually broke up).
There ARE ways for single people to meet relationship-minded other singles.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)
By doing things they way they did, Democrats chose all the negatives of Talarico's twinkism, ALONG WITH all the negatives of Jasmine's AH HATES WHITEY!!! campaign. It's glorious!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (edUvp)
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Turning politics into a racialist enterprise with blacks at the top and whites at the bottom with Hispanics (a majority of whom consider themselves white) in the middle is going to haunt the Democrat Party for a generation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:01 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm)
The old hippie in me I guess...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 02:58 PM (FtULh)
Oh? He likes you with long hair?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:02 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 02:58 PM (FtULh)
Some older ladies look great with long hair, don’t get me wrong.
But by the most people hit 60 there just isn’t much to work anymore.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:02 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Case
They aren't. There's a term for it.
It's called Passport Bro. Guys who go to the far east looking for trad women. And finding them.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:02 PM (oUopv)
1) Long or longish hair- getting a lotta dick and loves the dick.
2) Medium length to ear level hair - getting a little dick but she still likes the dick.
3) Sgt. Carter USMC High and Tight - hates the dick and is getting none or a lesbian.
Progresses from 1 to 3 as the broad advances with age, usually.
Posted by: Hair and Dick, An Overview at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM
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LOL.
This is an addendum to my classic lesson.
Posted by: The Hot Crazy Matrix at July 24, 2026 03:03 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 03:03 PM (xPsv8)
The weekend is here
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 03:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:02 PM (Nyq9f)
LOL... I'm what he's got and were not getting any younger
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 03:03 PM (FtULh)
It's called Passport Bro. Guys who go to the far east looking for trad women. And finding them.
I've read up on that and amusingly a common complaint is they meet a great woman, marry her, bring her to the US and in a few years she's gone local.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)
If he wants their support, he's going to have to step and fetch it.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (7qRkV)
I think we will keep the senate. I can’t think of one race that’s moving in the wrong direction. With the DoJ looking at Georgia it’s going to be hard for them to cheat. I think Ossof is done. If people show up.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (Q7yzj)
Nobody cares for me
Nobody
Nobody cares for me
I'm so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mama come and take a chance with me?
'Cause I ain't so bad
Posted by: Count de Monet is Just A Gigolo at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (wVcYX)
You were talking about black turnout going down a particular percentage after black candidates lose but I had trouble verifying this. Couldn't find a reliable study. What happens when white candidates lose to blacks, does white turnout go down? What about how "winnable" the race is? Is that a determining factor?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone"
They all seem pretty sure they are not only morally superior to him but more intelligent as well.
Posted by: Ripley at July 24, 2026 02:59 PM (GUOwU)
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Cloward-Piven ain't just a river in Egypt.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Cicero
Oddly, those comments were from r/AskMen over a year ago.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (7qRkV)
Move the wife over, bang the house help, don't care about children
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Especially with Crockett shitting on Talarico all the time.
Talarico is going to go down in flames in an epic way. It's actually funny that nobody seems to believe that.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)
They can't actually explain why but they are very very sure of it.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 03:06 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 496 at July 24, 2026 03:06 PM (sOtuf)
https://tinyurl.com/ycx6x56f
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 03:06 PM (kX27y)
I tried to raise her right.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 03:06 PM (JvZF+)
I think we will keep the senate. I can’t think of one race that’s moving in the wrong direction. With the DoJ looking at Georgia it’s going to be hard for them to cheat. I think Ossof is done. If people show up.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (Q7yzj)
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I've been assuming the GOP loses the House by a small margin (5-10 seats, max) for more than a year.
Just how turnout differentials work. Out of power parties tend to perform better. Not even Obama's people could figure out how to reverse it, and Obama's people were hailed as political geniuses especially their use of micro-targeting ads on Facebook (which Facebook helped with).
However, it won't mean anything. Impeachment will go nowhere (they couldn't get Trump after 1/6, and they're not going to get him now for whatever bullshit they bring up). DHS is fully funded through 2028. DOJ doesn't take orders from Congress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:06 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 03:06 PM (Q7yzj)
Go on.
Posted by: glenn greenwald at July 24, 2026 03:07 PM (rJ48h)
I went to Hawaii two months ago. You know those necklace "beads" they give you when you get there? Well, I brought them home and started wearing them around town. I thought it was an unusual, but cool tropical look for the summer.
I've had 3 girls comment on the beads, out of the blue. Two led to phone numbers. So far, one of those has led to a date. The other is still in the works.
All because I tried something a little different. It gets you noticed.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:07 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Dunning-Kruger perhaps?
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 24, 2026 03:07 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:01 PM (RWrid)
Exactly, and there's no magic way out of it. What is fueling the anger right now is that there were quite a few underhanded things the Dem Party did with funding, etc, during the primary to make sure Talarico won and Jasmine lost - and Jasmine's supporters know about it and are pissed off about it.
Related, Jasmine herself has been complaining that the entier election process is "Rayciss!" But she can't quite grasp that when a party turns the entire process into, as you say, a racialist enterprise, then pretty much every election HAS to be "racist", by definition. And she's isn't really mad about the "racism", she's just mad that she lost out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 03:07 PM (edUvp)
You were talking about black turnout going down a particular percentage after black candidates lose but I had trouble verifying this. Couldn't find a reliable study. What happens when white candidates lose to blacks, does white turnout go down? What about how "winnable" the race is? Is that a determining factor?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (Nyq9f)
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White Democrats don't vote on racialist terms. Blacks do when given the chance.
Remember, Nate Silver was saying that Democrats were going to win a clear majority in the Senate in 2018 which turned out to be a D+9 year.
Democrats lost 2 net two Senate races that year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:07 PM (RWrid)
Not even going to try. And I'm ok being alone.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:08 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Accomack at July 24, 2026 03:08 PM (awPiJ)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)
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I think his campaign understands it.
Most of their expenditures are on fundraising. It's a con, and everyone involved knows it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:08 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM (7qRkV)
You must have stumbled onto the hidden based section of Reddit today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:08 PM (Nyq9f)
I don't understand why people who never owned slaves nor did their parents, grandparents and possibly great grandparents should pay reparations to people who were never slaves. What is the percentage of people who think this is a good idea?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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The argument is that black people were ripped off of generational wealth. They would be enjoying trust funds, real estate, other legacies that would have placed them in a higher socioeconomic class at birth.
This doesn't hold up on inspection. Generational wealth is shown to be gone by the third generation -- look at the Vanderbilts. By the time Gloria was born, the original family fortune was divided and depleted. Virtually nothing left for her kid, Anderson Cooper.
Lots of other facts against the "stolen generational wealth is why I'm a loser" complaint -- that's just one.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM (oUopv)
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Yep. I think the MGTOW movement is mostly guys who have been burned by ex-wives and girlfriends.
They have decided it's just not worth the time, effort, and money required for initiating a relationship with women.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:07 PM
*begins feverishly searching eBay for leisure suits.*
Posted by: The geeky dweeb in Apt 3C at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (2Ez/1)
So far I have one married daughter, and her husband is the absolute gold standard. And it looks like we will have one and possibly two engagements this year or early next, also to wonderful people. So two more kids to go.
It works, but it takes time. Start now because it's never too late.
Posted by: bluebell at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (afFes)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2026 03:10 PM (nDXEV)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Dunning-Kruger perhaps?
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 24, 2026 03:07 PM (TezPK)
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For God's sake, it's two names separated by a hyphen. Don't be so picky.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 24, 2026 03:10 PM (amcLV)
It’s amazing how when we are in power everyone screams they’re not doing enough. Then when we are out of power everyone’s like- meh, it doesn’t matter.
One of these is not like the other.
And yes the senate will stop most of it. Between retirements and new seats we will have a bigger majority. But who trust Thune? Raise your hand.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 03:10 PM (Q7yzj)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (amcLV)
_______
"From the river to the sea, motherfucker!"
-- Retarded Pro-Hamas Goatfucker
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:10 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:10 PM (O0L8i)
Thanks for explaining that. It's a ludicrous argument.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 03:10 PM (xPsv8)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (Q7yzj)
I have 3 nephews (I helped raise when my brother was killed) and all 3 are conservatives. 26, 28 and 32. The youngest is the smartest, most conservative and most responsible. He votes in every election. The other two, not so much. I’ve told those two that if they want a share of Aunt TxAnn’s modest estate upon her demise, they better vote this November and I want to see a pic of their ballot taken in the booth. Desperate times call for desperate measure.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)
I saw Goatass open for the Sex Pistols at the Zoo Amphitheater.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:01 PM (RWrid)
It would do, if they had a real opponent as Trump has proven.
We will see what comes of everything but Republicans have not given me the warms and fuzzies about their own future. It FEELS like they want to make a third party happen so Dems can do what Labour did in Britain. Win by default.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Duh at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (2Ez/1)
Now, you have two problems.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:31 PM (Fi81e)
Three, because you are now starving.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (uhVAy)
The concept of Hispanic as a race is fake and gay, Hispanics understand that, and it shows every time the Democrats try to make it load-bearing in some way.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (2ocoG)
Truth: It's for the politicians and their cronies...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (2WIwB)
It’s amazing how when we are in power everyone screams they’re not doing enough. Then when we are out of power everyone’s like- meh, it doesn’t matter.
One of these is not like the other.
And yes the senate will stop most of it. Between retirements and new seats we will have a bigger majority. But who trust Thune? Raise your hand.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 03:10 PM (Q7yzj)
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What advancements are Congress making now?
Personally, I'm looking forward to Jeffries starting a government shutdown with a 4 seat majority leading to Trump invoking the Impoundment Act to just pull massive funding from the EPA, Education Department, and others to fund extra pizza parties for ICE agents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (enNUy)
Now, you have two problems.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:31 PM (Fi81e)
Three, because you are now starving.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (uhVAy)
As the saying goes, the "F" in Communism is for food...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:10 PM (O0L8i)
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Better than being the booby prize!
Posted by: bluebell at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (afFes)
>It means nothing if you don't do something about it. A slap on the wrist, and they're right back at it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (SwCxT)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (Q7yzj)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (enNUy)
Indeed; no phones.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK)
Thanks for the encouragement . I pray for that everyday. It's a bit harder, I think, when your son or daughter is an introvert .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (xPsv8)
The argument is that black people were ripped off of generational wealth.
___________
The sum and total of my inheritance was $0.00, good habits and high standards.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:12 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 24, 2026 03:13 PM (9ZFZd)
It would do, if they had a real opponent as Trump has proven.
We will see what comes of everything but Republicans have not given me the warms and fuzzies about their own future. It FEELS like they want to make a third party happen so Dems can do what Labour did in Britain. Win by default.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (Nyq9f)
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I still haven't gotten a good and realistic answer for what Thune should do to Tillis to make him vote the way Trump wants.
Tillis is gone in 6 months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:13 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2026 03:13 PM (+PUOE)
They can't actually explain why but they are very very sure of it.
Posted by: 18-1
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Someone posted yesterday on the left's perception of wealth as a zero sum game. As if there's been a static amount of wealth being split up since we were cavemen.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 24, 2026 03:13 PM (XvL8K)
There's so many things wrong with that thought process I don't even know where to start.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 02:56 PM (oUopv)
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Yep. I think the MGTOW movement is mostly guys who have been burned by ex-wives and girlfriends.
They have decided it's just not worth the time, effort, and money required for initiating a relationship with women.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (FZ29D)
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I wonder how much of that is real and how much is designed for media consumption and monetization. And there seem to be an awful lot of gays in the larger "manosphere" movement, as well as some serious creeps (the Tate brothers).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (Nyq9f)
I don't know about other states, but this has been particularly true in Texas, and it's directly the fault of the Democrat Party. They have spent the last 30 - 40 years building up the black vote as the most important and monolithic voting block in their coalition, backed up by organizers, local politicians, and even preachers. They have told them over and over "Your community will get benefits, your politicians will get representation!, you will reap the financial rewards!" (In many cases, literal cash payouts in poorer areas)
So when an election comes around and they're told "ok none of your people this time, just suck it up and go along" they say WAIT ONE DAMN MINUTE THIS AIN'T WHAT WE WERE SOLD! And they register their displeasure by not showing up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (edUvp)
It's called Passport Bro. Guys who go to the far east looking for trad women. And finding them.
I've read up on that and amusingly a common complaint is they meet a great woman, marry her, bring her to the US and in a few years she's gone local.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)
What have you done for me *lately*, Eddie? Half, Eddie! I want half! I am American woman now. I want what's coming to me. Give me half, Eddie!
Posted by: Eddie Murphy, Raw at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: TxAnn at July 24, 2026 03:11 PM (SjAWL)
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Haha! Way to go, auntie!
Posted by: bluebell at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (afFes)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:08 PM (oUopv)
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Same - if my wife weren't here tomorrow, I'd pack it in and be fine with that. I can't be the only guy who thinks, to put it crudely, there's no way some woman is getting my DNA. All they have to do is claim later that they didn't want to kiss or whatever and the guy is toast.
I love my wife and will stick with her but no other woman will ever get my DNA. Too risky
Posted by: 496 at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (mkw2N)
Could be a maintenance issue.
Long hair is a pain to keep up.
Longer wash times.
Longer time fixing it up.
Stray hairs everywhere.
It looks good, but she figures that she already has you so who is she trying to impress having long hair now?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (6ydKt)
Especially with Crockett shitting on Talarico all the time.
Talarico is going to go down in flames in an epic way. It's actually funny that nobody seems to believe that.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)
he's like a discount Beto, except he won't get the Hispanic vote.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 03:15 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 24, 2026 03:15 PM (n5tGW)
Give me half, Eddie!
Posted by: Eddie Murphy, Raw at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (wVcYX)
___________
The zebra bitch after talking to an American woman.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:15 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2026 03:16 PM (2WIwB)
It's called Passport Bro. Guys who go to the far east looking for trad women. And finding them.
I've read up on that and amusingly a common complaint is they meet a great woman, marry her, bring her to the US and in a few years she's gone local.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)
The template for Passport Bros is that they *don't come back*
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 03:16 PM (uhVAy)
They have decided it's just not worth the time, effort, and money required for initiating a relationship with women.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (FZ29D)
I'm not at all MGTOW. I very much want a partner to share my life with.
What I am, though, is a realist. I'm 45, well employed, funny, and medium looking. In the NoVa area. Every trying to get to the 'dating' part is dangerous up here. Most women are very left just for starters. Add in that if you talk to the wrong girl out in the wild and you're looking at shrieks of harassment. Bars are out - no thanks. Work is out - dangerous and complicated. So apps?
I think it's absolutely worth the time, effort, and money required. But the pool is remarkably small and fraught with peril.
Hence the looking for work in other parts of the country.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 24, 2026 03:16 PM (AdHga)
Nope. Flat refusal. She doesn't like it.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (mkw2N)
Why would she? She's already hooked her man.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 03:16 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 03:16 PM (nbLIj)
Tillis is gone in 6 months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:13 PM (RWrid)
Why won't Republicans recess and allow Trump to make recess appointments? Who is stopping it?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:16 PM (Nyq9f)
Truth: It's for the politicians and their cronies...
Posted by: jim
But not the British children.
Posted by: George Washington at July 24, 2026 03:17 PM (7qRkV)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 03:15 PM (uhVAy)
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In 2018 when Beto gave new life to the Blexas idea, Cruz, deeply unpopular and terrible politician and incumbent, beat him by 3.
6 years later, Cruz beat Allred, a black man and former football star at some level by 9.
Really, the state has shifted to the right over the last decade, and people keep acting like it hasn't. Doesn't mean it won't last forever, but it does mean that it's not going to suddenly go obviously gay white twink in 2026.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:17 PM (RWrid)
It's called Passport Bro. Guys who go to the far east looking for trad women. And finding them.
I've read up on that and amusingly a common complaint is they meet a great woman, marry her, bring her to the US and in a few years she's gone local.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)
What have you done for me *lately*, Eddie? Half, Eddie! I want half! I am American woman now. I want what's coming to me. Give me half, Eddie!
Posted by: Eddie Murphy, Raw at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (wVcYX)
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I thought the Passport Bros were dudes with money flying to exotic locations to bang the local girls and then leave.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:16 PM (Nyq9f)
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Full recess requires a floor vote.
Will Tillis vote for that? What about Murkowski, Mitch, Ernst, Cassidy, or Cornyn?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:17 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Farmersonly.com & Farmersdatingservice.com.
Yeah. They're real things.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:17 PM (oUopv)
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Hold his portfolio hostage?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 24, 2026 03:18 PM (amcLV)
The Horde Men need to jump on this grenade and help the women of the USA out of this slump.
Do it for America.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:18 PM (vFpe0)
And then you see the videos, dozens for each of the ones you reference, of women saying creep, don't approach women, I've cheated on every guy I've ever dated, I choose the bear, I'm the prize.
Live by social media, die by social media.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 03:18 PM (ExV1e)
There's so many things wrong with that thought process I don't even know where to start.
They kind of were, but the mechanism is not what they think it is. Circa 1960 data was released indicating that by 1985 blacks would be as middle class and successful as whites. That set off alarm bells at the DNC so they had Kennedy shot, cranked up race agitation, and ultimately LBJ put the government in the business of paying women to be single mothers.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:18 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
That's just being a guy.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:18 PM (oUopv)
20 away from 1,000 people.
We can do this together.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:45 PM
Perchance they're waiting for something?
Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at July 24, 2026 03:18 PM (0sNs1)
Talarico is going to go down in flames in an epic way. It's actually funny that nobody seems to believe that.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)
What I love about this whole situation is that the Democrats never thought about the downside of letting a big loudmouthed ghetto girl become an important figure in their party. She makes good soundbites!
And it's a complete shock to them that now she's mad and she's acting like a big loudmouthed ghetto girl about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 03:18 PM (edUvp)
Will Tillis vote for that? What about Murkowski, Mitch, Ernst, Cassidy, or Cornyn?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:17 PM (RWrid)
Ok. If they're the only ones stopping it.....
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:19 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 03:19 PM (NfVx4)
Saw no claws or Digmes.
#noBimbos
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 03:19 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
You might want to sit down for this...I have something to tell you about the billions spent fighting homelessness (and building high speed rail) here in California.
Posted by: Spencer Pratt at July 24, 2026 03:20 PM (7qRkV)
Posted by: Oglebay at July 24, 2026 03:20 PM (2ap+5)
Long hair is a pain to keep up.
Longer wash times.
Longer time fixing it up.
Stray hairs everywhere.
She doesn't like how it feels on her neck. That was the primary complaint.
It looks good, but she figures that she already has you so who is she trying to impress having long hair now?
I've lost 30 lbs in the last 3 months and have been hitting the gym hard for three years now. I'm doing it to impress her and myself.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 03:20 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Disillusioned at July 24, 2026 03:20 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: mr tmz at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2026 03:13 PM (+PUOE)
It has its ups and downs. All I can tell you is I miss my wife terribly since she passed away 2 1/2 years ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (hXKAn)
Will Tillis vote for that? What about Murkowski, Mitch, Ernst, Cassidy, or Cornyn?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:17 PM (RWrid)
Ok. If they're the only ones stopping it.....
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 03:19 PM (Nyq9f)
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People keep asserting that Thune can just make recess happen.
It's not the Senate rules. Senate rules are a clear majority of the Senate needs to approve it.
We have 5 Republicans with obvious histories of anti-Trump behavior (including Ernst, who tried to torpedo the Hegseth nomination) who are out at the end of this Congress. That's 48, at best, GOP Senators to vote for a full recess, and that includes Murkowski who is just a Democrat.
And no, Fetterman won't vote for a full recess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (G7WXk)
Leave these Worthless "What Can You Do for Me" American Women behind to wallow in their Mire.
Posted by: Jackson K. at July 24, 2026 02:44 PM (5+jvJ)
On average, women will conform to the culture around them. Bringing one of those traditional women here will, more likely than not, turn her into a postmodern woman.
So, you can be a "passport bro" -- and stay *there*. Be an expat. But that means giving up on America, which I still believe is the best hope for a future with human liberty and dignity, let alone prosperity. If the U.S. falls to Islamunist tyranny, its power will be used to spread it everywhere, and no place will be safe.
But if staying means Darwinian failure, it's a sensible alternative, I guess. The more women who make themselves unmarriageable, the more men who will fail to find a mate, and there's no easy answer to that. You'd have to change the culture itself -- and if you made progress, then you'd presumably get the Charlie Kirk treatment.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
That's just being a guy.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:18 PM (oUopv)
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Well, yea. But the PPB (as I understand it) are much more organized about it. Like meeting girls on dating apps from that country beforehand, picking destinations solely based on the local quality, etc.
They aren't just drunk college bros going to FL on spring break hoping to get laid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (nDXEV)
Yeah. They're real things.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 03:17 PM (oUopv)
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Goodbye city life!
Green Acres we are here
Posted by: Lisa Douglas at July 24, 2026 03:22 PM (NfVx4)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:22 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
It's kinda both. Some go just to hook up and have a good time, others go to find a more traditional wife. Both go for the advantages even a modest US income provides in poor nations. In the US, old rich celebrities pull hot young women. Overseas, you can be old and "rich" and pull hot younger women.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 24, 2026 03:23 PM (7qRkV)
https://tinyurl.com/4h6dh5mf
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 03:23 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:23 PM (vFpe0)
A little girl was talking with her teacher about whales.
The teacher explained that it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because, although whales are very large mammals, their throats are relatively small.
The little girl replied, “But Jonah was swallowed by a whale.”
Slightly irritated, the teacher repeated,
“No, that's impossible. A whale simply could not swallow a human being.”
The little girl thought for a moment and then said,
“When I get to heaven, I'll ask Jonah.”
The teacher smiled and replied, “And what if Jonah went to hell?”
Without missing a beat, the little girl answered,
“Then you can ask him."
x.com/Soaringeagle45/status/
2080457117090140555
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 03:23 PM (hXKAn)
Yep. I think the MGTOW movement is mostly guys who have been burned by ex-wives and girlfriends.
They have decided it's just not worth the time, effort, and money required for initiating a relationship with women.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (FZ29D)
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I wonder how much of that is real and how much is designed for media consumption and monetization. And there seem to be an awful lot of gays in the larger "manosphere" movement, as well as some serious creeps (the Tate brothers).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 03:14 PM (iFTx/)
well, it mostly only exists on the internets and its avatars wear very tight & revealing shpandeks , so ...
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 03:23 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 03:24 PM (SwCxT)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:24 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 02:54 PM (xPsv
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A very small percentage of white Americans owned slaves. There is no law that was created by America to enact slavery. America didn't invent slavery, it is over 50,000 years old. Some of the oldest cave drawings depict slavery. America and England are the first 2 countries in the entire world to abolish slavery. 400,000 white men died to end slavery in America, none of those guys ever even had slaves. When Columbus arrived in North America, most native Americans were slaves. Slavery was the norm in Europe and Asia for centuries. Black Africans hold the record for most slaves owned throughout history.
The reparations argument is used by dumb people to incite dumb people.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 03:24 PM (9CZQg)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 24, 2026 03:25 PM (IMPuq)
With the good women.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (nDXEV)
In their clean, organized homes, finishing a well-cooked meal, about to have some Afternoon Delight.
Posted by: True Memes at July 24, 2026 03:25 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: bluebell at July 24, 2026 03:09 PM (afFes)
This! Just as we prayed for Trump...
It has its ups and downs. All I can tell you is I miss my wife terribly since she passed away 2 1/2 years ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (l3cgK)
Also this. Trust me. Don't know what you got 'til it's gone.
Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at July 24, 2026 03:26 PM (JCLJi)
Thursday, July 23, 2026, at approximately 1:31 p.m., coinciding with Tisha B'Av.
Where: Manhattan’s Upper West Side (first incident near West 84th Street and Central Park West; second incident near West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, close to an Orthodox synagogue).
Victims: Two men aged 57 (Asian) and 50 (Jewish, wearing a kippah), both hospitalized in stable condition.
Suspect: 51-year-old Raul Morales, taken into custody by the New York Police Department shortly after the attacks.
Witnesses and a victim reported that the suspect shouted "Allahu akbar" during the assaults.
The Left is miserable and doesn't want norms to have any freedom, families...even life.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 03:26 PM (NFX2v)
Slavery is the Poisonous Legacy of Colonialism. Can we be held responsible for the British, Dutch, French and Spanish introducing it? They're the ones who should be paying reparations.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:26 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: nckate at July 24, 2026 03:27 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (l3cgK)
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I'm sure there are a few good marriages out there.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2026 03:27 PM (DbmIv)
100%.
The third human was probably a slave. The fourth human probably probably joined with the third to create the second army.
Human nature keeps rolling on.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 24, 2026 03:27 PM (vFpe0)
Forced labor has been part of the human story since... forever. Still is in most of the world, too.
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 03:27 PM (XuXeR)
So they set about changing that.
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The American Marxist cultural revolution of the '60s and '70s failed because they couldn't seize the means of PHYSICAL production.
They then "retooled and seized upon" Herbert Marcuse's strategy of taking over all the institutions beginning with the academy.
Now they've succeeded because they have effectively seized the means of KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION, and COMMUNICATIONS production.
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 03:28 PM (hXKAn)
Posted by: The ghost of Bonnie Tyler at July 24, 2026 03:28 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: True Memes at July 24, 2026 03:25 PM (wVcYX)
How are so many guys familiar with my wife's dessert?
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2026 03:29 PM (nDXEV)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 24, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)
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Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 02:55 PM (mkw2N)
I assume there's more context here if I read up...
Posted by: LASue at July 24, 2026 03:31 PM (mFhj8)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:26 PM (O0L8i)
Please read some history. There's been slaves since there's been humans. And it's still going on in many places.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 03:32 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Surely, Sunny Hostin agrees now that she learned she's from a family of slave holders.
Btw, if Irish, sometime somewhere you had family members that were slaves.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 03:33 PM (NFX2v)
Saw no claws or Digmes.
#noBimbos
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 03:19 PM (UjdFS)
My sister in law is 1st gen Portuguese. Brother stayed married to her until death. Neither I, nor my two sisters were able to keep that vow. Advantage: Portugal...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 03:36 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Old & Busted: Generational Wealth.
New Hotness: Generational Guilt.
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 03:37 PM (hXKAn)
Slavery is the Poisonous Legacy of Colonialism. Can we be held responsible for the British, Dutch, French and Spanish introducing it? They're the ones who should be paying reparations.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:26 PM (O0L8i)
Western Slavery of the 16th through 19th centuries.
Slavery existed in Africa, as tribes enslaved other tribes and sold them to the Western and Muslim slavers.
China had slaves.
Muslims had and have slaves.
Natives in the Americas had slaves.
Slavery was the rule, not the exception, for most of humanity's existence.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 03:28 PM (hXKAn)
Not so fast!
Posted by: X (formerly twitter) at July 24, 2026 03:59 PM (5y2L0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 03:26 PM (O0L8i)
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You misspelled the Ottoman Empire.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)
And Portuguese are not Spanish.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 04:51 PM (NFX2v)
Elon Musk Demolishes Snarky Superior Editor of The Economist
The extremist didn't like being told that she's the actual extremist.
Elon Musk sat down with The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and boy, did she get more than what she was asking for. If she thought she could lob a bunch of accusations against him, and he'd just take it sitting down. He didn't. Instead, Beddoes got schooled, and the internet is still talking about it. The interview covered plenty of ground, but two exchanges stood out as the moments Musk completely dismantled Beddoes' entire premise. The first came when she tried to paint Musk as a supporter of Europe's "far right." "You support not just the populist right, but the far right, in fact, very fringe parties in some countries," Beddoes said. Musk wasn't having it. "No, I support the normal people -- what do you call the far right, falsely," Musk said. Beddoes pressed on, asking if Musk really believed those parties represented normal people. Musk's response exposed exactly how the media manufactures its labels. "Yes, literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal," Musk said. "One of the tricks that I think is funny is to take a speech from Obama and Hillary, and then go to someone who's sort of on the sort of what I call the lunatic left, and say, 'What do you think of the speech by Trump?' They're like, 'Oh wow, he's the worst person ever.' 'Actually, that was a speech by Obama,' or 'Actually, that was a speech by Hillary.' Literally." Beddoes tried to pivot, insisting she wasn't talking about the Democrat Party's leftward lurch but about specific figures like Rupert Lowe. Musk shut that down, too, laying out exactly what "far right" actually means to people like Beddoes. "It's actually just normal people. And here are the principles -- tell me which of these sound terrible: That we should have secure borders? That we should have safe cities? That we should have sensible spending?" Musk asked. "Which of those three are far right fringe? I would like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right. It is false and misleading and nonsense."
Phil Trubey
@PTrubey ... And then came the oh-so-typical, increasingly tiresome part of most long journalist interviews: the interviewer constructs a straw-man version of Elon and argues against it. Elon carefully explained that he isn't a raging far-right extremist, racist Nazi who kills puppies ... and the journalist still didn't believe it. It is so effing tiresome. The lack of self-awareness on the part of journalists is off the charts. She complained about Elon's supposed misperception of how dangerous London is, while remaining oblivious to the role she plays in creating the giant misperception of Elon as a person in her own writing. Elon defended his political views, saying he is for secure borders, locking up criminals, and balanced government spending, something even she had to admit didn't sound crazy. And... that's about it for an 85-minute interview. I couldn't help but think that the next long-form interview Elon does should be conducted by an AI.
Just common sense! pic.twitter.com/GG5jnhgQ8f
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2026
Is he right that if you go back 10, 15 years, you hear Democrat establishment politicians claiming (dishonestly) that they believe in border enforcement? Well yes he is right:
Here ya go. pic.twitter.com/rNyy8dY3bz https://t.co/jmxuchyhHK
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 23, 2026
When this greasy twat told him that millions of people hated him, he told her that millions of people hate her, too.
🚨 Elon Musk just NUKED this reporter to her face in a MASTERCLASS
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 23, 2026
"People loathe you!"
ELON: "I don't care. The fact that a quarter billion people follow me means a lot more people like me than don't."
"I think a lot more people hate YOU and the MEDIA than you realize!"
🫳🏻🎤 pic.twitter.com/BOj528BGE8
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (XHO5P)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (eVWBS)
Their priests assured them this was forever the truth.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (XHO5P)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (eVWBS)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (XHO5P)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (Fi81e)
There is a speech by Bernie Sanders where he says of course letting illegals in will lower salaries for Americans and therefore we shouldn't do it.
But that's before the left figured out how to properly grift off of illegals and harvest their ballots
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (sKqQm)
Hilarious, Obama promising to go after employers of illegal aliens. Not even the GOPe would do that now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (SgdqL)
Decades of just accepting party-line narratives might be as bad for the brain as crack.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (RWrid)
Wealthy elderly white woman blames world's problems on African American.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm)
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Actually the first practical intelligence test was invented in 1905 by French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon. The term IQ was coined several years later.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (Nyq9f)
youtube.com/watch?v=K3oQn3Y6Blk
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (diia5)
Thinking for yourself has gotten a number of left of center celebs cancelled. They all know it is dangerous to deviate from the narrative.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)
Thinking for yourself has gotten a number of left of center celebs cancelled. They all know it is dangerous to deviate from the narrative.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)
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"Wait...did that freakish looking person just say that he's a woman? He's obviously a dude. He has a beard."
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers scream*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (bNf8H)
Yeah, I looked at this yesterday.
Elon held his own well.
Posted by: Axeman
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He refused to back down, but I'm not seeing the kind of "DESTRUCTION!" and "SCHOOLING!!!!" that these video masters always promise. One could argue that the interviewer held her own, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (mmrXZ)
One for each hole
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (B78cn)
It sounds like a joke. If you wanted to make up a silly British name, you couldn't do better. Well, maybe Raymond Luxury Yacht or Throatwarbler Mangrove.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (Riz8t)
to have Elon and Trump on the scene at the same time in history is a stroke of good fortune
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (ZxPkt)
Actually the first practical intelligence test was invented in 1905 by French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon. The term IQ was coined several years later.
Lefties will tell you IQ is rayciss then brag about their IQ scores on reddit.
Again we live in stupid times
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 01:28 PM (UjdFS)
Elon - and in all fairness, Democrats starting with Obama - grasp something that most of the Republican Leadership still won't.
If you try to please everyone, you please no one. Now that's not an idea original to me by any means. And noticed I used won't instead of don't.
But that's the thing. So it all comes down to the margins. Barry Sortoro was perfectly fine with pleasing 51% at the expense of the other 49%. I don't know that I'd advise cutting it that close. But if you're on the 75% side of the argument ? Screw the other 25%. Especially when its the same 25% you're always at odds with on everything.
The flaw in everything I just said ? It assumes an opposition party. The GOP is not.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:28 PM (RhUi2)
I got a different vibe. She was intellectually completely outmatched and she knew it. She was being a lot more careful than a lot of them are because she knew the risk of humiliation was very high.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Point / Counter Point at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (wVcYX)
*Romanian Christmas buffs its nails*
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (vDZgA)
Last few times I've seen stuff from it - I think their editorials - they've been the same sophomoric illiterate arrogant morally narcissistic undergrad crap one gets from the rest of the "press" for a few decades now. Unserious garbage.
Sad!
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (RWrid)
Except no one's giving out 5 dollar blow jobs to get some party line narrative
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (Nyq9f)
Target them means pull their broadcast license due to provable , numerous lies and distortion over many years time.
If Trump wants to fire up his base for the mid terms let him make an example of one of the many deserving MSM targets.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (isn6i)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:28 PM (RhUi2)
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People need to remove themselves from the idea that that GOP of today is the same as the GOP of 2003.
It's not.
It's actually shifted a lot. And the loss of five key old school senators next term (Mitch, Ernst, Cassidy, Cornyn, and Tillis) is going to shift the Senate GOP caucus heavily to the right.
https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2058609208287789558
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:30 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (RWrid)
Except no one's giving out 5 dollar blow jobs to get some party line narrative
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (Nyq9f)
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"You obviously aren't invited to the good parties."
-MTG
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:31 PM (RWrid)
I predict Fetterman will go I but caucus with us, while Murk will switch to Democrat. She might as well, since I think she's gone in '28 regardless.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:32 PM (Riz8t)
They see themselves at Square One: perfectly reasonable, well-thought out, morally superior.
There is no 'left' in their world view.
To their right is The Far Right. Everything is Far Right, camped out on the edge of evil.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 01:32 PM (ZxPkt)
It's not.
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:30 PM (RWrid)
It can shift as much as it wants. It's still not an opposition party.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:32 PM (Nyq9f)
Do you think Collins is going to lose in Maine?
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 01:33 PM (NcvvS)
Seeing is believing. And I have not yet seen.
As of today ... Trump still operates under the threat of removal. Because 34 GOP Senators have not came forward and pledged it will not happen.
That is today's GOP.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:33 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (Nyq9f)
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"You obviously aren't invited to the good parties."
-MTG
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:31 PM (RWrid)
It's Diddy time!
Posted by: Diddy Freak Off Productions at July 24, 2026 01:33 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 01:33 PM (SwCxT)
I predict Fetterman will go I but caucus with us, while Murk will switch to Democrat. She might as well, since I think she's gone in '28 regardless.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:32 PM (Riz8t)
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Murkowski loses her committee assignments if she switches. No Democrat is going to give up their positions on committees. She'll be bottom of the totem poll outside of maybe some newbies. This is why party switches never happen.
And Fetterman? I think he knows he's toast in politics and is just riding out the rest of his term. Maybe he'll try for a governor run in 2030 or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (RWrid)
When will Trump target one one of false narrative fabrication machines known as the MSM?
Target them means pull their broadcast license due to provable , numerous lies and distortion over many years time.
If Trump wants to fire up his base for the mid terms let him make an example of one of the many deserving MSM targets.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters
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I keep nursing fantasies about the White House pressers. "I won't be taking any questions from your organization until we get a front-page retraction of falsehood X along with an explanation of why it happened."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (mmrXZ)
But that's before the left figured out how to properly grift off of illegals and harvest their ballots
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (sKqQm)
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Dave Rubin featured this speech of a former or current progressive (don't know which), but he was speaking to some youngsters and he said "I don't know who has fooled you, but fighting illegal immigration was long *core* to progressive politics because of the negative effects it had on the lower classes and employment".
He didn't mince a single word.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (Fi81e)
Hard to believe they believe this nonsense but maybe they do. Definitely believing their own propaganda.
Posted by: Ripley at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (GUOwU)
They see themselves at Square One: perfectly reasonable, well-thought out, morally superior.
There is no 'left' in their world view.
To their right is The Far Right. Everything is Far Right, camped out on the edge of evil.
Just ask the media about their political biases. They'll insist they're right down the middle, with no bias whatsoever.
How they say that with a straight face is unknown.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (Riz8t)
I predict Fetterman will go I but caucus with us, while Murk will switch to Democrat. She might as well, since I think she's gone in '28 regardless.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:32 PM (Riz8t)
The only thing decent about Fetterman is his attitude towards antisemitism. Other than that, he is pro drug, pro abortion, pro socialized medicine, the list goes on.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (Dd38x)
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Trump still operates under the threat of removal. Because 34 GOP Senators have not came forward and pledged it will not happen.
That is today's GOP.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:33 PM (RhUi2)
Is there a list?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (vDZgA)
Do you think Collins is going to lose in Maine?
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 01:33 PM (NcvvS)
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The woman won in 2014 by 37 and in 2020 (worst GOP year EVAR) by 8.
The Democrats have had to undemocratically replace their nominee because he's a Nazi rapist with an uglier dude who does not have any grassroots appeal.
Collins wins by 20 at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:35 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)
Supply and demand. More low skill workers, lower salaries for lower skill workers.
This has been known forever, hell, one of the points that constantly comes up in discussions on the black death is it raised salaries for those that survived because nobles now had a shortage of workers.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
And Fetterman? I think he knows he's toast in politics and is just riding out the rest of his term. Maybe he'll try for a governor run in 2030 or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Trying for governor ain't toast in politics. And realistically, do you think he's up to it? Maybe more like a Jesse Ventura political career -- one and done, then onto the podcasts and product/service endorsements?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:36 PM (mmrXZ)
Hate Trump? No
Love Democrats? A bit
Want the general makeup of BOTH parties under strict controls? Ding ding ding
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:36 PM (Nyq9f)
People who believe that Nazis were "right-wing" are simply still spewing pap that Joe Stalin stuffed down the throats of the CPUSA mid-20th century.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:36 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)
War is a Racket came out in 1935. I need to get some stuff off my chest. Its been a minute.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:36 PM (RhUi2)
As of today ... Trump still operates under the threat of removal. Because 34 GOP Senators have not came forward and pledged it will not happen.
That is today's GOP.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:33 PM (RhUi2)
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After 1/6, Trump was impeached again.
His second impeachment.
The Senate trial ended with 7 GOP Senators voting to convict him, to potentially remove him from politics forever. They could have just gotten 7 more and done it, but they failed.
5 of the 7 are out of Congress now.
No, there is absolutely no realistic threat of Trump being convicted of impeachment. If they couldn't do it after 1/6, they can't do it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:36 PM (RWrid)
It's Diddy time!
Posted by: Diddy Freak Off Productions at July 24, 2026 01:33 PM (wVcYX)
*strokes cock*
Posted by: LeBron James at July 24, 2026 01:36 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 01:37 PM (Cqx++)
I predict Fetterman will go I but caucus with us, while Murk will switch to Democrat. She might as well, since I think she's gone in '28 regardless.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:32 PM (Riz8t)
The only thing decent about Fetterman is his attitude towards antisemitism. Other than that, he is pro drug, pro abortion, pro socialized medicine, the list goes on.
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (Dd38x)
I thought he was also for having a secure border?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 24, 2026 01:37 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 01:37 PM (NcvvS)
The hypocrisy of supporting free speech but being so distrusting of people with different thoughts and values, and so belittling when being challenged, showed how immature he is
What’s the relationship between aircon and guns? Why the comparison in deaths? Or are they just two things Americans are weirdly obsessed with?
He needs that centrist and left wing money back to push up his stock prices. Not gonna happen.
He needs the governments money. I'm convince Tesla only got big from that tax rebate of 7500 USD.
He saw Tucker go on this show and saw that it was generally seen as successful in right wing circles, so he was like “lemme try”
“I’m not racist, i have kids with 4 women and one of them is half Indian” (even though she totally looks white)
Racism Allegations: **DEFEATED**
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2026 01:37 PM (7qRkV)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)
Doof and Piper still post quite often.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 01:37 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Archimedes
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"It's not a lie, if you believe it."
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 01:37 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (Dd38x)
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He says that we are people, not unredeemable monsters.
That makes him practically as good as any Republican even though he votes with Schumer 99% of the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:37 PM (RWrid)
Stretch a net across the road and catch a 100 people.
Ask them "should Elon Musk be hanged?" Perhaps a quarter would probably say yes.
Then ask them "should legacy media journalists be tied to a chair and used to snuff out cigarettes for several weeks, and then fed to hungry jungle cats?" You're probably looking at closer to 80%.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: I'll also ask at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:32 PM (Riz8t)
The only thing decent about Fetterman is his attitude towards antisemitism. Other than that, he is pro drug, pro abortion, pro socialized medicine, the list goes on.
Just to be clear, I wasn't saying I'd vote for him, just that he's about had it with the Dems and has said if they don't cool it with the antisemitism, he's leaving. Good for him.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
It's easier to come off as slightly stupid and have people occasionally amazed than present oneself as really smart and fail the higher expectations.
I'm a master of satisfying low expectations.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM (sWqfc)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:36 PM (mmrXZ)
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No, I don't.
I think he would try, but I don't think he'd succeed at even winning the primary. He's done in Democrat politics.
Maybe he runs as an independent, but he'll get swallowed up by the base partisanship of the age and get forgotten.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM (RWrid)
I've seen I don't know how many primary elections where political aware people hate the R incumbent and then he wins the primary.
Now in the general election plenty of people vote but in the primaries it is generally the most motivated high information voters and yet somehow these left leaning incumbent GOPers can always find enough votes.
Now, maybe I'm pulling a Kael but I know the active Republican voters in my AO and the final vote totals make no sense...
Now if we assume SAVE wouldn't just hit Dem candidates but GOPe ones as well, well everything suddenly makes sense doesn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 01:39 PM (eVWBS)
Thanks. Surprised she was on the list of departing Senators.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 01:37 PM (NcvvS)
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Oh, that's a typo. I meant Cornyn.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:39 PM (RWrid)
When thinking about the Left, forget left and right for a minute. (forget it, I'm rolling, just hang on...)
When all you think about is yourself, you become the "center".
The picture looks like the following: Leftists and leftards have a circle around them that is them sized. Anyone outside that circle is a monster. And the circle moves with them.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM (BI5O2)
Seems like a shitty way to do the cats. Large pellet-fed rotisserie smokers would serve up a better meal.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (NyVHt)
Posted by: I'll also ask at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM
She's the lost 8th dwarf.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (faghi)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (77rzZ)
If I wanted to spend the time I could find speeches from most prominent leftists that giving tax rebates for EVs wasn't just good for the earth but smart common sense economics.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)
Doof and Piper still post quite often.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026
And I am faced with ridiculous dilemmas to this day, like right now. Do I go vacuum or do I go float around in the pool with my frozen grapes…
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Ripley
They don't care whether or not it's true at this point. Zealots just want death.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
I'd bet he'd do a Bernie Sanders, go Independent yet still vote 100% with the Dems.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (2YhKe)
Stretch a net across the road and catch a 100 people.
Ask them "should Elon Musk be hanged?" Perhaps a quarter would probably say yes.
Then ask them "should legacy media journalists be tied to a chair and used to snuff out cigarettes for several weeks, and then fed to hungry jungle cats?" You're probably looking at closer to 80%.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:38 PM (BI5O2)
Feed them to feral pigs and get bacon.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (vDZgA)
~ Pierre Poilievre
Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (J4Dwc)
Got it. Should have caught that myself, seeing how we've been celebrating Cornyn's defenestration all month.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (NcvvS)
Unfortunately, her lack of self-awareness is such that, immediately following the interview, she probably exchanged high-fives with her producers, thinking she had owned Elon in the interview.
I got a different vibe. She was intellectually completely outmatched and she knew it. She was being a lot more careful than a lot of them are because she knew the risk of humiliation was very high.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I got Vibe #1. It wasn't a tight debate. 'You're an extremist." "No, you're the extremist." "People hate you." "They hate you more."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (mmrXZ)
I was riding a bus in San Francisco fr quite a long way - perhaps a 25-minute ride.
Important detail: SF buses allow passengers to board either by the front door next to the driver, or by the back door. There are payment kiosks at both doors -- an electronic pad where you beep your "Clipper Card" (transit card) when you enter.
Also: Drivers are instructed to not get into arguments with passengers, or challenge them about. This is due to numerous violent incidents where crazy people attacked drivers.
Also: SF has (for decades) an intentionally lax fare-enforcement system on transit. You're supposed to pay, but the driver won't kick you off if you don't pay (see rule above).
So,m I was sitting right next to the beeper at the back door.
Over the course of 25 minutes, with probably over a hundreds passengers getting on and off...:
-- Every single black, Asian or Hispanic passenger DID NOT pay. Didn't even pretend to. Just got on via the back door, and sat down. No shame, no hiding it.
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (Dd38x)
Spit the difference.
Go vacuum the pool.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (2YhKe)
I've seen I don't know how many primary elections where political aware people hate the R incumbent and then he wins the primary.
Now in the general election plenty of people vote but in the primaries it is generally the most motivated high information voters and yet somehow these left leaning incumbent GOPers can always find enough votes.
Now, maybe I'm pulling a Kael but I know the active Republican voters in my AO and the final vote totals make no sense...
Now if we assume SAVE wouldn't just hit Dem candidates but GOPe ones as well, well everything suddenly makes sense doesn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:39 PM (sKqQm)
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The SAVE Act and Voter ID is just one of those things people support but don't actually vote on.
Still, the Senate is being held up by at least five GOP senators who are leaving Congress this term and have hatred of us as a higher priority than clean elections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:39 PM (sKqQm)
Same reason they didn't make much of a fuss about 2020. When you are in your position due to cheating how likely are you to want to expose the methods and very existence of cheating. Uh, not at all, ever ever?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: I'll also ask
Well in all fairness, it might be a nickname for Suzanne.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (SgdqL)
Racism Allegations: **DEFEATED**
That reminds me of when the left was calling Vance a racist White supremacist. Well, uh, have you seen his wife?
Or when they told everyone Clarence Thomas was going to ban interracial marriage...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
They see themselves at Square One: perfectly reasonable, well-thought out, morally superior.
There is no 'left' in their world view.
To their right is The Far Right. Everything is Far Right, camped out on the edge of evil.
---
But that is completely counter to reality.
There IS a left, because Jacobins and Marxists have labeled themselves left. "Right" is actually any group that has reservations about "progressing" through Marx's Ages of History. Which is not one thing.
The European "right", before often represented royalist causes. No Constitutionalist American "right" has that even on the table.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (Fi81e)
Got it. Should have caught that myself, seeing how we've been celebrating Cornyn's defenestration all month.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (NcvvS)
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Too many C senators.
Get us some A senators.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (RWrid)
Until next term when whoopsie some that are on board suddenly "evolve" in office. Or, they're hoping, it never comes up because they lose.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:43 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 01:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 01:43 PM (diia5)
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
It's Emmett Till all over again. When will white people stop the hate?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:43 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Piper
Vacuum then float.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 01:44 PM (lJ0H4)
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
Cracka's be stupid, yo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 01:44 PM (2YhKe)
https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2058609208287789558
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:30 PM (RWrid)
As much of a, realist let's say, that I am, it would be misguided to not admit that there is a definite change in the right direction. You could add, well the left is changing too, but that's a completely different argument and where the left is going, in terms of revolution and destruction, isn't a place of long term stability.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 01:44 PM (3uBP9)
See? Vance married an Aryan woman and had a bunch of Aryan children because he is a white supremacist
Posted by: FNM gaslighting at July 24, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:44 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (SgdqL)
My niece was called "Zanny". Probably until she went to college.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 01:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:43 PM (Nyq9f)
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We'll see, but the ones hiding behind people like Murkowski and Collins aren't brave. They're hiding because they're cowards who just want to win re-election.
With Paxton replacing Cornyn, Whatley replacing Tillis (hopefully), and Barr replacing Mitch (along with others), there are fewer people like Curtis (UT) to hide and become enemy #1 of the leader of the party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:44 PM (RWrid)
Get us some A senators.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
They're all A-holes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 01:43 PM (diia5)
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Keep firing A-holes!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:44 PM (RWrid)
I’ve been watching NTD News. It’s on free broadcast tv for me. I’m liking it quite a bit.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (2ZBXn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (RWrid)
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Ah, Repeat 2018!
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (Fi81e)
Over the course of 25 minutes, with probably over a hundreds passengers getting on and off...:
-- Every single black, Asian or Hispanic passenger DID NOT pay. Didn't even pretend to. Just got on via the back door, and sat down. No shame, no hiding it.
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
That was mighty white of them.
Posted by: Detective Harry Callahan, SFPD at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
They wanted us to inform their base that Thomas is married to a white woman so they would hate him more.
But saying it directly is a little gauche, so make an argument that makes US say it. And voila.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (Nyq9f)
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie
When YT is gone in fulfillment the left's fever dreams, civilization will collapse.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (Dv3i1)
Analysis?
The country was a high trust one. I suspect 40 years ago if you got on the bus without paying the driver would smack you with a stick and get a promotion for doing so.
But as more people figure out following the laws is a sucker's game everything starts to fall apart.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (Cqx++)
==
Over the course of 25 minutes, with probably over a hundreds passengers getting on and off...:
-- Every single black, Asian or Hispanic passenger DID NOT pay. Didn't even pretend to. Just got on via the back door, and sat down. No shame, no hiding it.
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
1) SFPD will bust the wypepo and everyone knows it
2) Are you renting or do you own, because if you own I bet you could move just about anywhere and get a much better place, or stay at about the same size and put away a nice lump of cash savings
3) Well it is Friday, have a beverage later today
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
San Francisco has become a racist shithole.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (sWqfc)
They all think that they're A senators. Capitol Hill Dunning-Kruger, anyone?
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (NcvvS)
She’s the reason England will have a swivel war.
Posted by: The Dog at July 24, 2026 01:46 PM (XodLO)
She's just a prop!!! Those aren't even his kids!!!
Wait.....we're not talking about Barack Owebama?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 01:46 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 01:46 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 01:47 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
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I say you whip out your camera and start contributing to zombietime again. Let the video play uncut for the solid 10 minutes or 25 minutes. State that it's okay with you if it's downloaded and shared.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:47 PM (mmrXZ)
This was pretty funny.
Some silly AWFL barfing out the slogans and hate that gets her affirmation from fellow leftards, thinks that this is going to outsmart one of the smartest, wealthiest and most productive men in history.
Her third grade level rhetorical traps are just silly.
I posted this earlier but here's a great article, which would make a great short play regarding the Israel and Palestinian situation set around a libtard dinner in NYC:
"The People Who Know Nothing Know Everything"
https://tinyurl.com/4fhuxrh4
Sadly hilarious stuff.
This Elon interview could be Act 2.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 01:47 PM (iJfKG)
They all think that they're A senators. Capitol Hill Dunning-Kruger, anyone?
Posted by: Nazdar at July 24, 2026 01:45 PM (NcvvS)
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They all think they're Jefferson Smith from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington while they do the corruption that Smith fought in the film.
There's a reason I never develop personal relationships with politicians I'll never, ever meet. They're all just tools of the body politic. That's it. No more. They're not my friends, neighbors, or leaders. They're assholes who are more than likely stealing from me while begging me for donations.
Better that they think that their voters actively dislike them personally and would toss them out than worship them because they made some good commercials.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:48 PM (RWrid)
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie
----
sorry
that is a fat meatball pitch right over the plate, and I am going to check swing
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 01:48 PM (ZxPkt)
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie
Paying to ride the bus is white supremacy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 01:48 PM (Cqx++)
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM
The whites are chained to the oars rowing in the belly of societies ship like it's Ben Hur.
The minorities are up on the lido deck eating shrimp cocktail and enjoying life.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2026 01:48 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 01:49 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 01:46 PM (NemxU)
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Fetterman has -40 approval from Democrats in Pennsylvania and +30 approval from Republicans.
It's crazy.
Yes, he's going to get primaried out. He could leave the party and run as an independent, but he won't because he's still a partisan Democrat and knows that the 10% he'll take in the election will swing the election to the GOP. Like Kristen Sinema also decided to not do in AZ when she was decided to leave the party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:49 PM (RWrid)
And that is just "the good ones", not to mention all the cartels doing their own exploitation, in Mexico and the USA. Our motivation should not be about care for the "exploited illegal", but for the exploited Americans. (and killing the cartels would benefit everyone.)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 01:50 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
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People who are victims of everything did not pay as reparations for being victims of everything.
The people who know they caused everything of which the first group are victims paid because they were the villains, they deserved to pay--EVEN MORE, and it would not have looked good for them to pretend to be victims of everything.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:51 PM (Fi81e)
According to state data, 148,241 mail ballots were rejected in the California June election, or a rate of 1.73% of all mail ballots.
In raw numbers, that’s up from the 2024 primary, when 108,982 mail ballots were rejected, or a 1.56% rate. In 2022, 105,818 mail ballots were voided during the primary, or a rate similar to 2024.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 01:51 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
You DICK!!!!
Posted by: Piper's Kid at July 24, 2026 01:51 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 01:49 PM (4NO2D)
No..It's a cool way to eat a healthy snack but that's not important right now.
Posted by: Frank Drebban at July 24, 2026 01:51 PM (sWqfc)
CBS News
@CBSNews
According to victim and witness statements, the suspect yelled "Allahu Akbar" during both attacks, police said, adding that mental health issues may have been a factor.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 01:52 PM (ndZc7)
39 19 I'll bet any amount of money that at least 50% of all healthcare expenditures in this country are fraudulent. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)
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Well, not half. Though in government programs it might be approaching 10% which is insane. Maybe 15%.
But DME is legalized theft by hospitals. Mark ups I’ve seen go as high as 1000%. Medical supplies in general have huge mark ups.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 12:26 PM (Kocji)
My baseline estimate for Democrat-run states is a floor of at least 85% grift, graft, fraud, and outright theft. That's for public spending -- including all medical, not just the gov't benefits, since the industry is hyper-regulated to the point of fascist economics.
The way that I got that is by extrapolating from California's artisanal, bespoke cougar/butterfly freeway bridge, which crossed the $100M mark still incomplete. Other states can provide the same function for $15M, physically finished and contract closed. So, with human nature being constant, anywhere that grift is allowed to flourish, that is the amount that it will balloon to.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 01:52 PM (Sy6m/)
They set up straw men. “They are afraid of brown people who don’t speak English” and are being whipped up into a frenzy by racist talk show hosts.
I asked “who are you listening to”?
And they became incensed. Finally offered up Charlie Kirk.
I said, by all means, please provide examples from Charlie Kirk. I knew he couldn’t do it.
It’s just an article of faith with them. Somebody gives the go signal, they don’t ask questions. It’s a tautology or circular argument. Facts by assertion.
Charlie Kirk is Racist Because We Said So.
Boiled down, even MORE ridiculous was this guy was basically saying there is no legitimate opposition to open borders other than racism.
Or put another way - even IF or BECAUSE some people oppose migration due to racism , then the ONLY thing to be done is throw open the borders, to prove how un-racisty we all really are.
It’s gaslighting all the way down. But it’s weird to see people who can otherwise seemingly function, dress themselves and other basic tasks suddenly start spouting nonsense with a straight face.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 01:52 PM (/YECW)
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie
Paying to ride the bus is white supremacy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 01:48 PM (Cqx++)
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They will want exact change, and rigor is white supremacy, just as much as politeness is.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:53 PM (Fi81e)
Guess what state is first?
It ain't New Hampshire. It ain't California. It ain't Georgia.
It's South Carolina. The black vote will determine the first major victor in the Democrat Primary for president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:53 PM (RWrid)
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie"
You are racist for noticing.
Posted by: Ripley at July 24, 2026 01:53 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: I'll also ask
Well in all fairness, it might be a nickname for Suzanne.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 01:42 PM (SgdqL)
Or Tarzan.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 01:53 PM (faghi)
Tranny - mental health issues
Commie - mental health issues
Muslim - mental health issues
White guy, nothing else known - REEEE
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:53 PM (Nyq9f)
I must have missed it. Were labor unions EVER against the importation of low-wage foreign workers? If so, how did Dems mollify them to keep their votes and donations? I hear some of those unions are drifting rightward, but that's only very recent.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:54 PM (mmrXZ)
I keep getting unwanted articles sent to my social media from them (they are ads and promos) from Karens and Girlboss wine women bitching and moaning about men, the dating pool, their divorces, and similar whiny shit.
Some of the articles are offensive and if written by a man would be shunned as TOXIC MASCULINITY.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 01:54 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 01:54 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 01:55 PM (faghi)
I've had similar conversations and there is another fun one to frame it.
When lefties get on to talking about how Palis are justified in doing literally anything because they are being occupied ask them if the same rights of resistance extend to American and European groups that also demand an end to the colonization of their countries.
Yes you'll get a detour to discussions of colonial America but eventually you will get them to their final defense...Its (D)ifferent when a group we like colonizes a group we don't like
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)
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So many troglodyte conservatives are watching the WNBA and getting so mad at anybody Caitlin Clark accuses of fouling her, it's ... it's something like Emmett Till.
That's what I learned yesterday. A lot of traditional curmudgeons are watching the LNBA.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:55 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: mr tmz at July 24, 2026 01:56 PM (rJ48h)
It's South Carolina. The black vote will determine the first major victor in the Democrat Primary for president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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woo-HOOOO! Kamala vs Rubio in debate. Invest in popcorn futures!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:56 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:56 PM (Nyq9f)
I believe private sector unions were pretty uniformly against immigration until at least the 80s. You can find fund speeches by Cesar Chavez on the topic.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (sKqQm)
Tranny - mental health issues
Commie - mental health issues
Muslim - mental health issues
White guy, nothing else known - REEEE
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:53 PM (Nyq9f)
Well, ackshewallee, I'm perfectly content if we as a society attribute the beliefs of the trannies, commies, and muslims to insanity.
Now, can we exile them all on Loony Island*?
*To be assigned at a later date. Maybe Zanzibar.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (iJfKG)
It's South Carolina. The black vote will determine the first major victor in the Democrat Primary for president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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woo-HOOOO! Kamala vs Rubio in debate. Invest in popcorn futures!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:56 PM (mmrXZ)
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Earliest Midwest state is Michigan.
High population of blacks in the Democrat primary electorate in Michigan as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (k6u6m)
Posted by: An Economics major at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (2Ez/1)
Between this lady and the retarded bitch who cited Emmitt Till over at USA today, I'm starting to think that women journalists suck as bad as men journalists.
Posted by: mr tmz
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Women journalists have to be twice as stupid to be taken half as seriously!
Posted by: Lesley Stahl at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: I'll also ask
Danny, Fanny, Granny, Lanny, Manny, Nanny, and Stanny had already been used in the family.
Posted by: The Name Game at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (k6u6m)
What gives you the idea the press is "yet to realize" this?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:58 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (k6u6m)
What gives you the idea the press is "yet to realize" this?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:58 PM (Nyq9f)
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Well, if one believes that journalists are dimwits who don't actually understand anything that they argue, then it's perfectly safe to assume that they don't realize this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:59 PM (RWrid)
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Yup.
As an example, everyone's in love with that Gill dude right now, because he makes of fun of retards from our government.
Just give it time... sometime around 2085, he'll be flashing a rictus grin from the floor of the Senate while he gives the Commodus "thumbs down" to a clean repeal of the MAGA Re-Education Camp Act.
Never, ever let them think you like them. Once they get comfortable and locked into the system it all goes to Hell in a hurry. They need to always be afraid they could get Cantor'd or Cornyn'd at the drop of a hat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:59 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2026 01:48 PM (OkYzo)
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Am I the only one who read that dyslexiac-like as "dildo deck?"
I must be spending too much time here ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 01:59 PM (PydKQ)
As an example, everyone's in love with that Gill dude right now, because he makes of fun of retards from our government.
Just give it time... sometime around 2085, he'll be flashing a rictus grin from the floor of the Senate while he gives the Commodus "thumbs down" to a clean repeal of the MAGA Re-Education Camp Act.
Never, ever let them think you like them. Once they get comfortable and locked into the system it all goes to Hell in a hurry. They need to always be afraid they could get Cantor'd or Cornyn'd at the drop of a hat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:59 PM (BI5O2)
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Trey Gowdy made great show in committee hearings, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:00 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 01:54 PM (ZxPkt)
Only if you're sunburned.
...oh, that's not what she meant?
Posted by: Josh Brolin at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (vDZgA)
Earliest Midwest state is Michigan.
High population of blacks in the Democrat primary electorate in Michigan as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Dems are asking the gods for another black swan, promise not to screw it up this time.
Posted by: Lesley Stahl at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (k6u6m)
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"There's the sea!" -- Palestinkians.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (Fi81e)
@LifeNewsHQ
Kamala Harris: "Women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real issue."
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Sluts!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 01:55 PM (faghi)
Susie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am far right wing.
Posted by: Elon Musk Does The Moonwalk at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (wVcYX)
Jordan Peterson roasts a chick few years back.
Margerat Brennan/Dana Bash/etc continually get toasted on Sundays.
Tapper/ George S. Face any pushback to their view ( see Laura Trump Biden's a vegetable) and they cut the interview short.
The R guy on CNN who roasts an entire table on Abby Phillips show.
These folks literally cannot have an honest back n forth
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (FxH7T)
Do you like Tarzan movies? The ones with boy?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (0zUq5)
Oops, sock off.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (faghi)
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Remember: they lie for a living.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: I'll also ask
Danny, Fanny, Granny, Lanny, Manny, Nanny, and Stanny had already been used in the family.
Posted by: The Name Game at July 24, 2026 01:57 PM (wVcYX)
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You left out Tranny ... AND DURING PRIDE MONTH!!!!!
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (PydKQ)
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
OK ... I'll be the one. As a group, Whites have a huge bunch of Order baked into our DNA. And yes, that stuff shows up in group behavior. And that Order bone doesn't always serve us well. We'll follow evil masters well as good ones, to preserve Order.
Asians are just being their typical Lawful Neutral. American Blacks, as a group, pick destruction even when it costs them. Hispanics are a hard demographic to pin down. Argentinians and Mexicans are both Hispanic as we see them. Definitely not the same.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:00 PM (RWrid)
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He's got the same show, to the same effect, on Fox.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (Fi81e)
It is fascinating that she chose personally to go after Musk - this isn't like Peterson's interview with Cathy Newman who is just a talking head (and a vapid one)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (sKqQm)
United Farm Workers.
Posted by: 13times at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (6iKlf)
It's crazy.
Yes, he's going to get primaried out. He could leave the party and run as an independent, but he won't because he's still a partisan Democrat and knows that the 10% he'll take in the election will swing the election to the GOP. Like Kristen Sinema also decided to not do in AZ when she was decided to leave the party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:49 PM
So, as Piper noted above, he's a doctrinaire leftist who just doesn't hate Jews. That one thing has him -40 with Democrats. That tells you everything you have to know about the Democrats.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 02:03 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:03 PM (Swy+8)
I think they wanted her in office bad and had it all set up but bad luck, Trump turned his head. Her time is done.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 02:03 PM (Nyq9f)
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Scott Jennings, a National Treasure ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 02:04 PM (PydKQ)
Posted by: Lesley Stahl at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (mmrXZ)
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The black electorate and leadership within the party, I think, is asserting control behind the scenes. Clyburn is the lightning rod and figurehead, but it's also about the class of black man and woman that Obama put in positions of power.
Which, I think, contrasts with a moment where black power in the general American political scene is declining overall.
I think all that matters at that level is that black voters get their choice, and that's just coincidentally Kamala. Kamala won't run anything, of course. It'll be the same people running the DNC as before, but black girl magic rules all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:04 PM (RWrid)
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probably
I just thought of The Lido Shuffle
https://youtu.be/HQZBaJAngH8
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:04 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (sKqQm)
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Yes, they'd be of no use to The Party if they didn't carry The Party's water.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:04 PM (Fi81e)
Darlin', Elon will be remembered for his many accomplishments centuries from now, whole you and all your works will sink into the miasma of mediocracy, along with others of your ilk.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 02:04 PM (4cfQT)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:02 PM (sKqQm)
Didn't Obama give his Citizen of the World speech there?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 02:05 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 02:04 PM (PydKQ)
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Who sometimes channels Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:05 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:07 PM (Swy+8)
/i]
The Peterson-Newman discussion should be taught in debate class.
Yes, Newman went into it without doing any serious consideration of Peterson's likely responses to her questions, but Peterson handled it absolutely perfectly. Had he responded more angrily he would have won the point but likely lost the discussion.
He kept his cool, pointed out she was refuting her own point with the way she was interviewing him, and invited her to answer why that was ok and...she couldn't.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:07 PM (sKqQm)
*Side effects include nausea, vomiting, indigestion, heartburn, mild stroke, night sweats, diarrhea and cannibalism.
Posted by: Big Fizer at July 24, 2026 02:07 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 02:08 PM (faghi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 02:08 PM (NemxU)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Would it be asking too much to ask us to expand our demolish/destroy/school vocabulary?
What about "garroted"?
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Courtney at July 24, 2026 02:08 PM (qUkBO)
They took the word "gay" which means content and happy, and assigned it to sexual proclivities. They took the word "queer" which means odd, and assigned it to the same sexual proclivities. The took the word woke and changed it to an adjective to suggest an awakening to "truth."
Half the time (probably more than half) they don't even bother to learn what a term means, and just use it to their benefit . Ask any leftist to define socialism or communisim. Most won't get it right. Sometimes it's like a toddler making noise thinking their talking.
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 02:09 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Courtney
Ambulamps chasers.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 02:09 PM (eVWBS)
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Sluts!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat
I know. Right?
Willie Brown
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 24, 2026 02:10 PM (FxH7T)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 02:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 24, 2026 02:10 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:10 PM (Swy+8)
Skilled trades were through the 70s. Reagan Democrats were composed of a large block of Skilled Trades Union guys in the 80s.
And then Ronnie signed the first Amnesty.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 02:10 PM (RhUi2)
Every single black, Asian or Hispanic passenger DID NOT pay. Didn't even pretend to. Just got on via the back door, and sat down. No shame, no hiding it.
Reparations, yo!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 02:11 PM (4cfQT)
Here I was, minding my own business, having unprotected sex with the members of my college football team and somehow, I know this sounds weird...but I got pregnant!
No one told me this could happen and like I'm confused. Help me Kamala!
Posted by: Some THOT that voted for Kamala at July 24, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 24, 2026 02:10 PM
_________
And he's an African American.
Posted by: Dontcha know at July 24, 2026 02:11 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 24, 2026 02:12 PM (bX16E)
@LifeNewsHQ
Kamala Harris: "Women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real issue."
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Sluts!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 02:01 PM (ndZc7)
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We must find those women and stage an intervention!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:12 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 02:13 PM (DZ9Lv)
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Okay, Elon might have something to answer for here.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:13 PM (Fi81e)
What about "garroted"?
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)
Hey now, DESTROY is all anyone ever needs, thank you very much.
Posted by: Watch Ben Shapiro DESTROY Axeman's Suggestion at July 24, 2026 02:13 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 02:13 PM (77rzZ)
Kamala Harris: "Women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real issue."
And, with your vast experiences, you know exactly nothing about the question.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 02:14 PM (4cfQT)
Posted by: Nancy "Perky Emeritus" Pelosi (D-CA) at July 24, 2026 02:14 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:04 PM (RWrid)
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By black swan I didn't literally mean a black person. Just that their bench is awful and no one who's on the scene right now will get into the White House or create a MAGA-scale movement. The Pod Save boyz' eyes sparkle when they talk about Obama's speech at the DNC convention in 2004. They're waiting for that again, like a cargo cult.
Obama didn't sure leave the legacy they wanted.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 02:14 PM (mmrXZ)
https://tinyurl.com/yc2h238x
Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2026 02:14 PM (kX27y)
Target them means pull their broadcast license due to provable , numerous lies and distortion over many years time.
If Trump wants to fire up his base for the mid terms let him make an example of one of the many deserving MSM targets.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (isn6i)
He's sued an collected millions from several of them. Quit shifting the goalposts.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy)
During the Homestead Strike, a crazed Leftist came into his office, and shot and stabbed him. With the help of some friends, he fought him off and went to the hospital - but not before leaving a blood-spattered note on his desk ledger stating "I do not think I will die. But if I do, it does not change the position of US Steel toward the Amalgamated Association. We will continue to fight them, and we will win!"
That's how you handle these little shits.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 02:15 PM (BI5O2)
@greg_price11
A man pulled out a knife and stabbed a cop.
The cop than shot him in self-defense.
The likely Democrat nominee for Wisconsin Gov calls it an "execution."
GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE
@GOP_is_Gutless
Hundreds are still protesting in Madison because police killed Corey Ruiz — a man they say pulled a knife and injured an officer during a struggle after he fled a property crime call.
Their chant? “No more killer cops.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 02:15 PM (ndZc7)
We can't have women getting pregnant and replenishing the population every day.
That's sounds like a national emergency.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:15 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 24, 2026 02:15 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (Nyq9f)
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I really like this
Posted by: 496 at July 24, 2026 02:16 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 02:13 PM (77rzZ)
Of course not. You know that. But he signed the first one.
Sorry. I besmirched Ronnie the Infallible. My bad.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 02:16 PM (RhUi2)
Skilled trades were through the 70s. Reagan Democrats were composed of a large block of Skilled Trades Union guys in the 80s.
And then Ronnie signed the first Amnesty.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler
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Why do they keep voting for the supporters of illegal aliens!?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
And Fetterman? I think he knows he's toast in politics and is just riding out the rest of his term. Maybe he'll try for a governor run in 2030 or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:34 PM (RWrid)
We should eject her and take her office space away.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 02:16 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 02:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)
Doof and Piper still post quite often.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026
And I am faced with ridiculous dilemmas to this day, like right now. Do I go vacuum or do I go float around in the pool with my frozen grapes…
Posted by: Piper at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (Dd38x)
Remember nature abhors a vacuum, as do most housewives....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 24, 2026 02:17 PM (QGaXH)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Would it be asking too much to ask us to expand our demolish/destroy/school vocabulary?
What about "garroted"?
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)
In this case: Barbiecued??
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 24, 2026 02:17 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 02:14 PM (mmrXZ)
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I didn't think that's what you meant, I just went off on my own tangent, pretty much continuing my previous thought.
But black swans are not going to develop in the modern Democrat Party. The entire media ecosystem that the left uses won't allow it, and they're up against a black electorate that has a long history of choosing early and sticking with their choice.
2020, they chose Biden early (because of the Obama connection). Even when the Party tried a black face (Deval Patrick) or just brown face (Kamala), the campaigns went nowhere.
And any black swan that shows up will just say all the things that everyone else says. They don't allow for heterodoxy on things like trans or immigration or guns or anything else. So, it'll be boring rich white guy no one believes, or something, who sounds like AOC but is boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:17 PM (RWrid)
Perhaps she could share her secret.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:18 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026
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Alas, Buzzion is forgotten....
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:18 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Kamala "Kokonut" Harris at July 24, 2026 02:18 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 02:19 PM (YwEeS)
The minorities are up on the lido deck eating shrimp cocktail and enjoying life.
Posted by: Frank Barone
That's pretty close to my analysis, which is:
Despite decades and decades of "DEI" and apologizing and guilt and groveling and Affirmative Action and welfare and everything else, it is still the case, even the bluest of blue enclaves, that:
-- White people feell that this is their civilization, they are an integral part of it, and everyone (i.e. every white person) must pull together and contribute to making society function and run smoothly.
-- Minorities, despite all the white-guilt, welfare, DEI etc. and everything else described above, still feel like they are wronged outsiders, and feel no shame in extracting benefits and value from white civiliization whenever and wherever possible, without any intention of contributing to it.
Moreover, in a liberal enclave, whites likely feel they must pay not only their fair share, but all the share of all the minorities around them, in a virtuous act of micro-reparations, to alleviate their guilt for White Privilige.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:19 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
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'Tis a mystery indeed.
Posted by: Jews Who Only Vote Democrat at July 24, 2026 02:19 PM (Swy+8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:04 PM (RWrid)
I don't think it is business as usual with the DNC, not with the commies taking over and having nobody they can even propose to be front man/woman who isn't electoral poison.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 02:20 PM (uhVAy)
The Somali's little shithead kid stole from her. When she told him off, the rapist with the camera goaded her, mocked her, and aggravated her until she used a naughty word. They then convicted her of disorderly conduct against the man with the camera.
The Somalis also fundraised off this, calling the kid a 5 year old. He's actually 8. They're claiming the kid's autistic, but I don't believe it.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2026 02:21 PM (mkw2N)
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all this screwing is really getting out of hand
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:21 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 24, 2026 02:17 PM (wtvvX)
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Could we expand that to "charbroiled"?
Got to get a good char on your media yapper.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:22 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
Union Workers ? Of this I know something - although I've never been in a Union myself.
Part of it is pattern. Same as how many here "Backed the Blue" - even as the Blue were kicking their asses over Covid. Kicking their asses to provide BLM "room to burn
". A lot, I'd say most, people do not vote as a result of rational thought. They don't live like that.
You see a huge schism right now because Skilled and Unskilled Trades. Skilled Trades ? Very Trumpian - which is very, very unsettling to Skilled Trades Leadership. Unskilled Trades have chosen to go full Communist in my area.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 02:22 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:21 PM
We're all for it getting out of hand!
Posted by: Incels at July 24, 2026 02:22 PM (0sNs1)
Oh and the idiots on the Madison city council refused to supply the cops with body cams and the people are complaining the cops didn't have them. Let the leftist bodies hit the floor
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 02:22 PM (NemxU)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff
Only the Macaca people.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 02:23 PM (eVWBS)
Perhaps she could share her secret.
I taught that girl well!
Posted by: Jocelyn Elders at July 24, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)
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all this screwing is really getting out of hand
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 02:21 PM (ZxPkt)
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So much for what two consenting adults do in private.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 02:24 PM (Fi81e)
-- Every single white passenger DID pay. Every. Single. One.
Analysis?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 01:41 PM (Av6i5)
Hypothesis 1: Whites suspect(know) if caught they'll be treated far more harshly by the justice system than people of color.
Hypotheses 2: You need mo' bettah data
Hypotheses 3: Shut up racist.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 24, 2026 02:24 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Jocelyn Elders at July 24, 2026 02:23 PM
"Safer guns and safer bullets."
Posted by: I miss Rush at July 24, 2026 02:24 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2026 02:20 PM (uhVAy)
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Black power just asserted itself by making SC first in the Democrat primary schedule for 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 02:25 PM (RWrid)
I believe the filming Somali was not related to the thieving Somali. The police reports mentioned they knew the kid was a thief and after prior incident had a tracking chip on him.
This points out just how overrun with Somalis the state is...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 02:25 PM (sKqQm)
In the 19th Century, Europeans improved the process by removing the intestines from the goat first.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 24, 2026 02:25 PM (c+HDg)
Posted by: Revrund Al Charlatan at July 24, 2026 02:26 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 02:27 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 02:27 PM (WVdLT)
The people who know they caused everything of which the first group are victims paid because they were the villains, they deserved to pay--EVEN MORE, and it would not have looked good for them to pretend to be victims of everything.
Posted by: Axeman
Pretty much, yeah.
What I found interesting is that even the Asians did not pay, even though they are classified as "privileged" by the rest of America, and are discriminated against by The Left. These particular Asians, however, were downscale inner-city non-welthy bus-riding Asians, rather than suburban Tiger Mom STEM-major Asians, so I suppose they felt like outsiders too.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:27 PM (Av6i5)
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Despite?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 02:28 PM (Dv3i1)
Of course not. You know that. But he signed the first one.
Sorry. I besmirched Ronnie the Infallible. My bad.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler
What about Hart-Cellar?
https://t.ly/6lJr-
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 02:28 PM (Cqx++)
It was him who instituted the "Do not punish minorities for fare-jumping:" policy on SF transit.
It was actually official city policy for a while when he was mayor, but eventually was dropped after complaints and lawsuits -- that is, it was dropped officially. Unofficially the policy never really went away, and once you establish a pattern of unequal enforcement, it's very hard to reverse it.
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:30 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 02:30 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 02:18 PM (Swy+
Cite?
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 02:32 PM (faghi)
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2026 02:19 PM (Av6i5)
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Definitely agree on the white people's motives, POC people maybe not. I think they just figure Why pay when I don't have to? It's a sucker move.
Case in point: The Somali fraudsters use race in a cynical way, knowing perfectly well that they're privileged beyond anything. But you can guarantee your cut of the fraud by using this one simple trick! Scream RACISM. Motives have nothing to do with entitlement, everything to do with greed and laziness.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at July 24, 2026 02:33 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 24, 2026 02:35 PM (9CZQg)
Posted by: Wenda at July 24, 2026 02:36 PM (UDQz0)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2026 02:41 PM (dtajH)
Posted by: The Dog at July 24, 2026 03:00 PM (XodLO)
x.com/SquawkCNBC/status/2080655126667149470
Posted by: The Dog at July 24, 2026 03:02 PM (XodLO)
Posted by: Beverly at July 24, 2026 06:21 PM (reMys)
Fugitive Fraudster Arrested
And Nick Shirley Probes Another Huge Area for Fraud, Durable Medical Equipment
That's a really good point and very true.
If Team Trump's anti-fraud efforts sometimes look a bit all-over-the-map, that's because the map is so incredibly large. The feds spend over $7 billion a year, and fraudsters look to cash in on every dime; with Vice President JD Vance on point, the White House has organized a full-court press to fight back. One day this week, the Justice Department announced it had finally nabbed a fugitive Medicare fraudster on the lam since 2022, who allegedly stole more than half a billion dollars, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare-Medicaid czar Dr. Mehmet Oz froze over $1 billion in funding to California and Minnesota over apparent Medicaid fraud. About the same time, Scott Bessent's Treasury stopped $100 million in tax money going to dead people thanks to new verification procedures, while the IRS chief revealed that a recent scrub of the Social Security Number database found that one in 10 recipients were erroneously listed. That follows recent news of blatant adult-day-care scams in Queens and a drive to claw back $1 billion in COVID-era unemployment fraud that may still be nabbing $2 million a day in New York. Last month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced charges against 455 people for $6.5 billion in health-care fraud. All this is robbery of the taxpayers and of the folks these government programs are supposed to help: That should outrage Republicans and Democrats alike. And politicians of both parties should be embarrassed that the crackdowns are only coming now, years after fraudsters notoriously made off with tens or even hundreds of billions in COVID-relief monies. Yes, some of the crackdown relies on new technology: Kennedy touted the use of AI, advanced analytics and "other cutting-edge tools" to ID suspicious Medicaid outlays. But much of it is just what Alexander Hamilton called "energy in the executive," meaning leadership from President Donald Trump and his top people.
For example, the FBI created a Most Wanted Fraudsters list, which has now nabbed three major suspects: Khalid Satary, the one captured this week, plus Herbert Kimble, who allegedly stole $1.2 billion in a Medicare telemedicine scheme, and Said Abdullahi Ereg, accused of fraud totaling $4.2 million in a child-nutrition program.Nick Shirley is now discovering another avenue of massive medical fraud, this one involving durable medical equipment, stuff like wheelchairs and CPAP machines and equipment like that which is supposed to last for months or years. It's a similar scam to all the others: "Enrolling" phantom patients up for supplies, billing the government for those supplies, and then, who knows, putting the equipment in a warehouse or more likely selling it on the street for pennies on the dollar. This wouldn't work... if anyone bothered checking these businesses and confirming that these were real patients. But they don't, because Democrats enable the fraud deliberately. It's how they fund their supporters who in turn donate back to Democrats and put money in bums' pockets for mail-in illegal "votes."
This is how the durable medical equipment (DME) fraud scam works:
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) July 22, 2026
- Operate around adult daycares
- Provide “equipment” for ghost clients (wheelchairs, knee braces, etc)
- Easier to open than a bank account
- Bill Medicare for millions
EXPOSE IT ALL. pic.twitter.com/sFX7Yd9eWz
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:11 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 12:12 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:12 PM (2YhKe)
I think this was the racket on Bad Monkey.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 12:12 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:12 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:14 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: 13times at July 24, 2026 12:14 PM (6iKlf)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 24, 2026 12:15 PM (aFYHp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:15 PM (RBKzD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:16 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:15 PM (RBKzD)
In high school....I was seeing a girl in a town about 20 miles away, up the freeway.
I racked up back to back $1000 phone bills. Dad was PISSED!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:17 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 12:18 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: 13times at July 24, 2026 12:18 PM (6iKlf)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 12:18 PM (SwCxT)
Paul "Budget Hawk" Ryan took a band-new sharpened #2 pencil, his green accountant eyeshade and a full pot of coffee to sit down and go through the budget line by line.
And couldn't find a single penny to cut.
Not one penny.
In fact, he went back to his Republican majority in the House and the Republican majority in the Senate and said, "ladies and gentlemen--we have to increase spending! Now! By a trillion dollars!"
Because that's what budget hawks do ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 12:18 PM (3cUTc)
I highly recommend reading Kurt Schlichter's column today. It is a synopsis of why the Dems (and the left in general) are in deep kimchi for pretty much the next generation. If you frame it as "would you rather be in their shoes or ours", the answer is pretty obvious.
Democrats Are Walking Into a Minefield
https://tinyurl.com/vab33989
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Jaimo at July 24, 2026 12:19 PM (2noDb)
Paul "Budget Hawk" Ryan took a band-new sharpened #2 pencil, his green accountant eyeshade and a full pot of coffee to sit down and go through the budget line by line.
'choot 'em!!!!
Posted by: Troy Landry at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM (2YhKe)
Have to get out and mow this afternoon but it won't kill me like it usually does in July.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM (+PUOE)
AI is going to make finding fraud much easier. Simply compare citizens and what is billed for each piece of equipment or benefit. AI does that real quickly. The Biden administration may be the last big trough for fraudsters
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM (NemxU)
Did you have a phone sex line in Ulaanbaatar?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Victor Vector at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM (ypYV4)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 12:22 PM (U/Byj)
Well, when half the government is trying to make it easy for you in exchange for your votes, that's gonna happen.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t)
So effective, California crafted a bill in his name and banned what he does from the entire state.
That tells you right there who's benefiting greatly from the fraud.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:23 PM (2YhKe)
None of them, not a one, are upset that this fraud is stealing money from those who actually need it.
People who desperately need help.
Every dollar that goes to a thief is a dollar that is taken from someone who is actually bedridden.
And not one Democrat anywhere gives a tinker's damn.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 12:23 PM (3cUTc)
It's a similar scam to all the others: "Enrolling" phantom patients up for supplies, billing the government for those supplies, and then, who knows, putting the equipment in a warehouse or more likely selling it on the street for pennies on the dollar.
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I doubt much of the equipment even gets purchased and resold. I bet most of it exists purely on paper.
Ali, of Somali Adult Helperz, Inc: "Sure, of course I purchased those 100 CPAP machines. Just ask the vendor, my cousin Guuleed at Somali Breething Center."
Auditor: "But of course. No need to hassle anybody with a pesky phone call. Precious foreigners would never lie, and a man with a head the size of yours is too smart to miss a beat. Have a nice day."
*winks, nods, wets beak*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 12:24 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 24, 2026 12:24 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 12:23 PM (3cUTc)
**shifty eyes**
Posted by: The GOPe at July 24, 2026 12:24 PM (SgdqL)
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New York, New York
Mandami's a dork
No matter where you look for it
You'll cause a fit, it's New York
Just stick a fork in it
It's Mandami's New York
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:24 PM (RBKzD)
Depending on how you define fraud it it significantly more.
I ran through this with a left leaning acquittance recently. He was complaining his hospital bill was high and he had actually itemized it and the costs for items were silly.
So I asked him...remember when you said heath care should be free for those that couldn't afford it? Yes...well how do you think the hospital makes up losing money giving services to those people. But I said the rich should pay! Well, you live in a multimillion dollar home and make 6 figures. You are the rich...so why aren't you happy? BECAUSE IT ISN'T FAIR
And I couldn't get him to budge....
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace
Same here. 82 with 86% humidity. Feel like is 92. But cloudy. Feels really nice considering it towards the end of July.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 12:25 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)
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Well, not half. Though in government programs it might be approaching 10% which is insane. Maybe 15%.
But DME is legalized theft by hospitals. Mark ups I’ve seen go as high as 1000%. Medical supplies in general have huge mark ups.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 12:26 PM (Kocji)
I highly recommend Elon's recent exchange with a media shill who accused DOGE of killing millions by defunding USAID and other NGOs. Among other excellent points, such as how much everyone LOATHES the media, he pointed out that the Gates and ex-Bezos wife's foundations control tens of billions of dollars, so if they really thought that, they could easily pay for it.
Left unsaid was the fact that the taxpayer's USAID money wasn't going where it was supposed to anyway; it was going to support leftist politicians.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)
It would not surprise me in the least.
Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 24, 2026 12:26 PM (LGdxD)
Posted by: Wally at July 24, 2026 12:26 PM (xx1Oe)
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82F here in the MDT zone, headed for upper 90s
it's a dry heat
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 12:27 PM (ZxPkt)
And I couldn't get him to budge....
Posted by: 18-1
That's when you just point & laugh.
In. Their. Faces.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 12:27 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Still Standing at July 24, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (ZxPkt)
It will be a good night for scotch and stogie on the roof deck.
I'm instructing at a race school on Sunday. Weather looks good for that too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (D2d9O)
Posted by: Max Power at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (q177U)
Humid too.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (FVz0t)
Good friend had actual neck/back injuries from work. His tales of being upsold and pushed to use more things he didn't need, at every turn, by the disability/rehab industrial complex, were jaw-dropping.
This pathetic collapsed state even had billboards (billboards!) years ago asking people to whistleblow on disability fraud. That's how bad even the (mostly) idiotic state guvamint recognized the problem is.
I'd ballpark guess that wasteful - or actually pernicious - expenditure on social welfare fraud, near-fraud such as that described above, and "environmental" and "safety" nonsense in the US, if summed up, would be in the top 10 economies of the world.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 12:29 PM (U/Byj)
In. Their. Faces.
Would it be a Nelson Muntz "ha ha" type laugh? It should be.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM
Fine sunny day here in New England. About 82 and very comfortable.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:29 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Paul at July 24, 2026 12:29 PM (dFAcn)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 12:29 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:17 PM (2YhKe)
Yeah. Stick with that story.
Posted by: 976-1212 at July 24, 2026 12:29 PM (/dNQe)
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at July 24, 2026 12:29 PM (yZpsQ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)
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Well, not half. Though in government programs it might be approaching 10% which is insane. Maybe 15%.
But DME is legalized theft by hospitals. Mark ups I’ve seen go as high as 1000%. Medical supplies in general have huge mark ups.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 12:26 PM (Kocji
Exactly right. Much of the legitimate billing is fraudulent.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 24, 2026 12:30 PM (ypYV4)
On it's way to 99 today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:16 PM (2YhKe)
Overcast and gloomy here, but warm. Lots of smoke in the air, but I am not smelling it yet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 12:30 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Wally at July 24, 2026 12:26 PM (xx1Oe)
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Yeah, pretty much.
They are all "low trust" tribal societies. Their only goal is to get one over on their rival tribes/clans. Because that's what the rival tribes are doing to them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 12:30 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2026 12:22 PM (U/Byj)
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Headed to Dallas. Forecasting 103 Sunday. I’ll be happy to send you some.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 12:30 PM (Kocji)
Still at large, their accomplices in Congress and the various agencies who created and administered the systems intentionally.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 12:31 PM (E24OL)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 24, 2026 12:31 PM (IMPuq)
The money and supplies are stolen period. How much money and supplies do you think that the USA has sent to African nations in the last 5 decades? How many trillions? Why is their still a need?
Posted by: Cheri at July 24, 2026 12:31 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 24, 2026 12:31 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Archimedes
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I lived in the country but my business was in the city.
And just because you are home doesn't mean there's not
another loose end to straighten out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:31 PM (RBKzD)
Hope all of you have a great weekend
Posted by: Billythesquid at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (J/mA4)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
I thought race is something you're born with, not learned.
Man, life is so passing me by.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Minuteman at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (CtC26)
I contacted Medicare Fraud.
They knew. They were acting against the company.
I said "Book 'em Danno" to a chuckle on the other end of the line.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: La'Shondra at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (CG8Fj)
Posted by: Roger DePoy at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (7wPJP)
Posted by: ace at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (LGdxD)
Yes, but you're forgetting how many people in America got a warm frisson of self-regard for this action.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (Riz8t)
The money and supplies are stolen period. How much money and supplies do you think that the USA has sent to African nations in the last 5 decades? How many trillions? Why is their still a need?
Posted by: Cheri at July 24, 2026 12:31 PM (oiNtH)
This can be said of many charities.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 12:33 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 12:33 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:33 PM (77rzZ)
Remember the reaction of the people who will tell you millions are dying because social welfare programs are underfunded yawn at billion dollar fraud schemes taking money from those social welfare programs
Posted by: 18-1
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Fuck those people. Steps are being taken, like HHS "pausing" funds for California and Minnesota, but when does the real cutting and the real punishment begin? I'm not even sure California won't get all of its billions for fraud sometime soon, probably through a judge.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 12:33 PM (mmrXZ)
I highly recommend reading Kurt Schlichter's column today. It is a synopsis of why the Dems (and the left in general) are in deep kimchi for pretty much the next generation. If you frame it as "would you rather be in their shoes or ours", the answer is pretty obvious.
Democrats Are Walking Into a Minefield
https://tinyurl.com/vab33989
Posted by: Archimedes
Thanks for posting that. Helps to calm some permanent black pillers. At least the genuine anxiety types, not the asshole troller types.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:33 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Leo Weiser Automobile Club Of America at July 24, 2026 12:34 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Cheri
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Bill Gates?
Don't forget Bush sent them mosquito nets.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:35 PM (RBKzD)
Depending on how you define fraud it it significantly more.
I ran through this with a left leaning acquittance recently. He was complaining his hospital bill was high and he had actually itemized it and the costs for items were silly.
And I couldn't get him to budge....
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:24 PM (sKqQm)
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I was in the hospital for 10 days a few years ago with a nasty blood infection. I have insurance.
Starting a few weeks after I was discharged, I started getting dozens of bills from vague-sounding medical companies and providers. The bills didn't even specify what they were for, let along itemize anything. The bills totalled well over $6,000.
You know what I did? Nothing. Never paid a dime. For some of the bigger bills, I wrote back and politely said "fuck you, I ain't paying this without detailed itemized bills of exactly what the charges are for. Suck my fat hog." None ever gave me an itemized bill.
As far as I'm concerned, whatever these companies got from my insurance, that's more than enough.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 12:35 PM (4NO2D)
Nice here in SoCal, as always. Might take a walk along the beach.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 12:35 PM (mmrXZ)
It will be a good night for scotch and stogie on the roof deck.
I'm instructing at a race school on Sunday. Weather looks good for that too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
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Sounds wonderful. I’d choose bourbon or a nice port. With a Patel Churchill. I’ve not had that in awhile.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 12:35 PM (87scc)
It's 92 at 11:30. Feels like 104 TWC says. Humidity 60%. And for the Houston area that's not bad. But I am starting to wonder how I'll know if I get sent to Hell.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 24, 2026 12:36 PM (ypYV4)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 12:36 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 12:36 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Cow Demon
You might even think that Africans could dig their own wells after seeing it done for so many decades.
Posted by: All Cultures Are Equal at July 24, 2026 12:36 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Early days yet. You have to break through the organized resistance of the Dem political establishment including judges first. The rest becomes easier at that point.
But in a lot of cases of fraud, the fraudsters know they are caught and don't even raise claims to try to reverse the cutoff of funds. This has happened in the CA hospice fraud repeatedly, very few of the 800 plus firms have challenged being cut off. Same for dead people challenging cutoff of Social Security, etc. Those that are fraudsters are not brazen enough to try to challenge it in court. They go and do something else for try to flee the country with their ill gotten loot.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (E4rtv)
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)
Are we talking futanari? Because I gotta say, its...interesting.
Not that I view it sexually I just like the art work you know?
Posted by: David French at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Cheri at July 24, 2026 12:31 PM (oiNtH)
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Cue the classic Sam Kinison rant about this.
MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (oqH4h)
The other day I went hiking at Palo Duro. When I left, the thermometer at the trailhead read 100. It was not even 11 am.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (4g5V+)
He didn't say anything like
Make DDT Great Again.
That was a tip off wasn't it?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (RBKzD)
Kurt Schlicter cruelty level: Chuy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (IGZcJ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (4NO2D)
Give. Me. A. Break.
That is not routine Precious Foreigner Hijinks. That's more than half a billion damn dollars. One guy.
I'd bet my last plugged nickel that this guy was laundering money to the Middle East on behalf of our lovely foreign service.
G-d only knows for what. I'm sure whatever it is would make you puke.
Say it again with me: "it's not the system has been corrupted. Corruption is the system."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (BI5O2)
Cue the classic Sam Kinison rant about this.
MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (
I miss Sam Kinison.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 12:38 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 12:38 PM (xSAlF)
Posted by: banana Dream
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Yep. Probably because he never went to journalism school nor became a 'media' personality.
College education in a lot of areas now is a hindrance to thinking and acting because of the programming kids get when they go.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)
I'm instructing at a race school on Sunday. Weather looks good for that too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
"There. Over there. That person is what is considered 'black.' The African American. That gentleman there is brown. He's 'Hispanic' or 'Mexican.'"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (2YhKe)
Africa's population exploded because of western aide. In many places they never bothered to build any sort of sustainable economy to feed the additional population because there will always be western aide.
Posted by: David French at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (sKqQm)
Cue the classic Sam Kinison rant about this.
MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS
Posted by: ballistic
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Samsonite!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (RBKzD)
To a leftist, "the rich" is anyone with a penny more than them. They, on the other hand, are basically the working poor.
They have a European mindset, only people with inherited titles and government grandees are permitted more than they. Everyone else is putting on airs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (xSAlF)
He didn't say anything like
Make DDT Great Again.
That was a tip off wasn't it?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (RBKzD)
Don’t they use DDT regardless?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:21 PM
For when you really want to yak it up.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (BpKYj)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
I thought race is something you're born with, not learned.
Man, life is so passing me by.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2026 12:32 PM (sl73Y)
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It's about 90% learned. But the common misconception is that manly men can drive fast because they're manly men. So we occasionally have issues with Chadley Dudebro in his Lamborghini thinking he someone innately drive fast. He can't.
The ladies are easier to instruct. Less ego.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
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Say it again with me: "it's not the system has been corrupted. Corruption is the system."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 12:37 PM (BI5O2)
Is today the day we burn this motherfucker down?
Posted by: Pooh and Piglet at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Accomack at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (9sK1w)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Minuteman at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (CtC26)
I wonder if its big enough for all these Democrat fraudsters?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (yI0P+)
Posted by: Zombie Andy Rooney at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (JM9I6)
Not only do I not have a flying car or the option of a moon vacation, the mosquitos in my area are worse then they were when I was a kid.
We continue to regress...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (sKqQm)
It will be a good night for scotch and stogie on the roof deck.
I'm instructing at a race school on Sunday. Weather looks good for that too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
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Sounds wonderful. I’d choose bourbon or a nice port. With a Patel Churchill. I’ve not had that in awhile.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 12:35 PM (87scc)
[Fistbump]
(but not in a gay way, in a cool way)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM
That's why there are no Bald Eagles in Africa.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (4NO2D)
YT has lots of hilarious videos of mouthbreathing idjits who peel away from a light in their brand new $200k car and promptly drive it into a tree. I laugh and laugh.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 12:36 PM
Which is why there is no longer a "mainstream press" or such a thing as "national news."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It went down to 80 over night.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (RBKzD)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Not necessarily. The problem with IC corruption is if they have some gig giving them cash, they cannot really move against independent operators without jeopardizing their own fraud. The IC tries to swim in a sea filled with other fraudsters and relies on that for cover. So not every fraudster, maybe not even a majority of them, are covers for the IC.
But, I do think all of them have Dem and some GOPe political connections like any other organized criminal does to ward off local and even state investigations.
You pay off the authorities is rule one to operate so they see no evil, speak no evil, and hear no evil.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
"There. Over there. That person is what is considered 'black.' The African American. That gentleman there is brown. He's 'Hispanic' or 'Mexican.'"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (2YhKe)
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"What's Kamala?"
-- Student at Blade Race School
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2026 12:42 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Well put.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:42 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 12:36 PM (vbXSk)
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
I say this as someone in need of a medical device that fortunately I can get off of Amazon, no problem.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 12:42 PM (4g5V+)
Not only do I not have a flying car or the option of a moon vacation, the mosquitos in my area are worse then they were when I was a kid.
We continue to regress...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (sKqQm)
Where is my Mr. Fusion???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:42 PM (vDZgA)
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It was gorgeous at Monmouth Park this past Sunday. The previous day's t-storms blew out the smoke and heat and left NJ with atypically cool (<60 degree overnights!) weather. Back in Florida now. I think I can sous vide a brisket in my yard...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2026 12:42 PM (nbLIj)
Africa death rate for 2025 was 7.43, a 1.16% decline from 2024.
Africa death rate for 2024 was 7.51, a 1.14% decline from 2023.
So somewhere around $25 Billion (all sources) of HIV AIDS drugs ended when USAID was shut down.
And the death rates has declined over 4% compounded since 2024.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 12:42 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
This is true with forklifts and construction equipment too.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (IGZcJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (yI0P+)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (vbXSk)
Lows have been around 68ºF or 69ºF with 97% humidity...days have been 85ºF to just under 90ºF...
Sandy Eggo Summer...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: anachronda at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (v3pYe)
No USA for you!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Their "Hey Look Squirrel" act is getting old except for homebound elderly unable to get up and change the dial and those in Democrat industries like education and social services.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (yI0P+)
and mosquitoes. and fleas. and ticks. and...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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While she screams forever, if only I had a can of DDT spray.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:44 PM (E4rtv)
Is she in a hot little red robe?
Posted by: Some AWFL putting down her copy of 50 shades of grey at July 24, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm)
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I think the the twitchy rear end on the Porsche 911 GTs has probably killed nearly as many Wall Street investment bankers as uncut Peruvian blow.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM
Shooting is much the same, for the same reason.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (SVdzD)
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STOP sending them food. Don't send another bite. If you really wanna help these people, send them luggage and U-Hauls.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Their "Hey Look Squirrel" act is getting old except for homebound elderly unable to get up and change the dial and those in Democrat industries like education and social services.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (E4rtv)
They made such a big fuss about Monkey Pox that my wife's aunt asked me if she should get a vax for it...well, I assume that's why she asked and that she wasn't into any kinky business with lots of gay pustulant men...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: NJ Guy at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (nPp6w)
No USA for you!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM
After they complete their Life at Hard Labor, their ashes can be deported.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (4NO2D)
The closest anyone on the left has come to finding a single person who died because of DOGE cuts was ....
The guy who lied about dogs being used to rape Hamas, claiming some gal in Africa died in childbirth because we stopped sending her local warlord money so he could--after his skim--buy a few gallons of diesel for the ambulance.
There it is, Rethuglicans!! You are all killers! Just because you wince filling up your tank doesn't mean some fake woman in some African country didn't die when you stopped giving them free diesel.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (3cUTc)
YT has lots of hilarious videos of mouthbreathing idjits who peel away from a light in their brand new $200k car and promptly drive it into a tree. I laugh and laugh.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (Riz8t)
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Easy to do if you're an idiot. They turn off stability control, then floor it, then panic when the ass starts to slide out, and rather than correct the slide (or at least brake) they just freeze and the car slams into a hard object with their foot still on the gas.
There's a vid out of one of the first new Bugatti Tourbillions pull that shit and almost take out an oncoming car. That woulda been a $5 million wreck.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
Send their "leaders" pagers.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t)
Someone earlier had discussed a story about the plight of trans people in Nepal now that the US taxpayer isn't funding homo services in Chynah.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:46 PM (ExV1e)
I saw a video where the guy said:
Hey remember when the FNM told us we were all going to die from Monkeypox if we didn't get a new experimental vaccine and everyone collectively was like, Nah bro we ain't doin' this again.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:46 PM (yI0P+)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 24, 2026 12:46 PM (och2J)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 12:42 PM (4g5V+)
That's not mine, baby.
Posted by: Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery at July 24, 2026 12:47 PM (wVcYX)
No USA for you!
Posted by: Count de Monet
I am to the point that just shooting them in a firing squad would be appropriate. Crimes like their's risk a civil war just like those promoting voter fraud. These are not victimless crimes but acts that destabilize the entire country.
We hung horse thieves in more civilized times because horses were vital for honest people to survive. And medical care is vital for honest people to survive as well. So any derivation of those funds for medical care into the pockets of a fraudster could cost someone else their lives. All for money. Just shoot them like you would a bank robber that killed a guard.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:47 PM (E4rtv)
Out: Sucking d*cks and getting USAID checks
In: Sucking d*cks and not getting USAID checks
Posted by: Trannies in Nepal at July 24, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM
That's why there are no Bald Eagles in Africa.
oh. i thought they handled that by spraying rogaine.
Posted by: anachronda at July 24, 2026 12:47 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (ZxPkt)
What do you think we've been doing?
Posted by: Tim Walz at July 24, 2026 12:47 PM (0bjKf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:46 PM (yI0P+)
He response went flat.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:48 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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You might say flattened by her realization she was an idiot on earth for giving her life on behalf of evil people akin to the Amorites.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:48 PM (JvZF+)
"What's Kamala?"
-- Student at Blade Race School
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)
"She's what's known as a 'sanjigger.' She's actually mostly white India Indian, but pretends to be black for inclusion and racial appropriation."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:49 PM (2YhKe)
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I think the the twitchy rear end on the Porsche 911 GTs has probably killed nearly as many Wall Street investment bankers as uncut Peruvian blow.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (BI5O2)
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The older models, yes. The new ones (991-present) have much better traction/stability control. So you can drive it much faster without getting into trouble.
Which is another problem: beginners think THEY are driving the car fast. They are not. The car is. Some of them don't figure this out until it's too late. The car can save you from bad driving ... until it can't.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:49 PM (iFTx/)
"The feds spend over $7 billion a year, ..."
Total fed spending is over $7 TRILLION a year.
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at July 24, 2026 12:49 PM (yXKEQ)
Posted by: anachronda at July 24, 2026 12:47 PM (v3pYe)
MUCH easier than trying to fit them all out with little toupees.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 12:50 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Just Axin' at July 24, 2026 12:50 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:46 PM (yI0P+)
At least she'll never have to worry about wrinkles.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:50 PM (Nyq9f)
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STOP sending them food. Don't send another bite. If you really wanna help these people, send them luggage and U-Hauls.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (ZxPkt)
I had a few thoughts on this matter.
Posted by: Zombie Sam Kinison at July 24, 2026 12:50 PM (wVcYX)
"What's Kamala?"
-- Student at Blade Race School
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)
"She's what's known as a 'sanjigger.' She's actually mostly white India Indian, but pretends to be black for inclusion and racial appropriation."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:49 PM (2YhKe)
I've heard of chiggers.
I've heard of jiggers.
I've never heard of a sanjigger...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 24, 2026 12:51 PM (fQFd2)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)
Said I'd like to know where you got the notion
To rock the boat
Don't rock the boat, baby
Rock the boat
Don't tip the boat over
Rock the boat
Don't rock the boat, baby
Rock the boat
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:51 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: 18-1
I strongly support mandatory media vaccinations of whatever crap Big Pharma has cooked up. Let's make it a law that whatever they promote is what the proposers including politicians and Big Pharma executives have to do it first.
Then the rest of us can wait to see if it actually works. Waiting for perhaps a lifetime or so. Just to be sure that it works.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)
I made friends with one of the local young men. He was more interested in making a better life for himself then most and had saved up money from the jobs he had been working to buy the ingredients to bake bread.
His day as a baker he went to a busy spot in the village and started selling his bread and several people bought from him as they walked to work or whatever else they had to do.
Until one of the village elders saw him. The elder came over demanded to know what the young man was doing, told him he should be ashamed because there were hungry children in the village and took the remaining bread. Now I don't know if the elder really turned around and gave that bread to hungry kids that day but the village lost a source of income and food permanently.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Just Axin' at July 24, 2026 12:50 PM (JM9I6)
It's a vaginal prosthetic.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:52 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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I'll go with "has become the system".
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 12:52 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 12:52 PM (ZxPkt)
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No. The vast majority are covers for Democrat theft of apportioned budget monies.
I think this particular case was laundering for the foreign service. Soooo much money, in one foreigner's hands, and that foreigner bugs out to the homeland as soon as the heat comes on.
And not one news report says where he was arrested or by whom.
Just "regional partners in the Middle East."
I'm glad he got burned - but this case is super-duper weird. I think he probably panicked under scrutiny and absconded with a shitload of the wrong agency's stolen lucre.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 12:52 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Is one of the 7 circles of hell for those who "meant well"?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 12:52 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:52 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (BI5O2)
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Yeah too bad.
Posted by: The Day Eagle Computer Went Public at July 24, 2026 12:53 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:53 PM (yI0P+)
Don't miss it at all. To think I grew up there, how did I live through it? Anyway it's not too bad here today, may get some rain. They said we may hit 90.
Posted by: Case at July 24, 2026 12:54 PM (bqIVz)
Light bulb: "The system is corrupt."
Explosion: "Corruption is the system."
MOAB: "There is no system, just corruption."
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:54 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:55 PM (yI0P+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Its always been this way.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 12:55 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM
Shooting is much the same, for the same reason.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:45 PM (SVdzD)
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I'm sure. Track driving is mostly a guy thing, but there are some fast ladies out there.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:55 PM (iFTx/)
Outside of that the hotel was nice and since we had good weather I decided to eat at their outdoor restaurant for dinner.
The food was good but served with a serious helping of...mosquitos. Which is really appropriate as I think about it
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:55 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
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Reading Sowell now about how honesty and honest commerce is a cultural factor with demonstrable economic benefits.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:55 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (QaH55)
You get the feeling that if we ended every cent of fraud, the DNC office would become a house of ill-repute.
Securing donations $20 at a time.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (Fi81e)
I've heard of jiggers.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)
This needs muldoon
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (Nyq9f)
And the death rates has declined over 4% compounded since 2024.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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And yet ole Senator Cornhole from TX is making restoring billions for Pepfar (aids drugs to Africa) his line in the sand by putting holds on two Trump appointees.
This is GOPe doing constituent service for globohomo Big Pharma not to save lives, but to spend taxpayer money for corporate grift.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:55 PM (yI0P+)
::: man sneaks viagra into communion wine :::
There is now a tenth circle...
Posted by: Satan at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at July 24, 2026 12:29 PM (yZpsQ)
People put student driver on their cars so that they can drive like assholes and think that people will care less because they didn't know. Child, the younger, had those stickers on their car until they got their regular license and the first thing they did was remove them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (gm9Sb)
It will be a good night for scotch and stogie on the roof deck.
I'm instructing at a race school on Sunday. Weather looks good for that too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
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Sounds wonderful. I’d choose bourbon or a nice port. With a Patel Churchill. I’ve not had that in awhile.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 12:35 PM (87scc)
[Fistbump]
(but not in a gay way, in a cool way)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/
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Absolutely! [Fistbump back]
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 12:57 PM (XKu4p)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2026 12:57 PM (yI0P+)
Posted by: Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery at July 24, 2026 12:47 PM (wVcYX)
OK, that was legit funny.
Posted by: Max Power at July 24, 2026 12:58 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 12:58 PM (ZxPkt)
And not one news report says where he was arrested or by whom.
Just "regional partners in the Middle East."
I'm glad he got burned - but this case is super-duper weird. I think he probably panicked under scrutiny and absconded with a shitload of the wrong agency's stolen lucre.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Guy got arrested because we are really good at tracking dollars across the globe. That, in part, is why the whole BRICs idea came up.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:58 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (ExV1e)
They seem to have replaced all the "Baby On Board" stickers from the past.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 12:58 PM (SgdqL)
The background here is white woman in a park with her young child has an older black child steal something out of her bag and called the kid the slur. There was a random Somali there for some reason (not related to the thieving child) because of course there was and he came over and started filming her to demand she repeat the word which she did.
What a stupid world we live in.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)
It's 77 AF.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 12:59 PM (Fi81e)
I'll die believing the media reaction to Watergate was because Nixon was right. The DNC had the evidence of running their own prostitution ring in that building. Nixon wanted that evidence, to destroy the DNC.
So the media changed the focus to the burglary, to hide the DNC trading sex for favors.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:00 PM (RhUi2)
(drags thread back onto topic)
When do we start seeing a difference in the national budget? Like, the debt going down by a trillion dollars? Massive cuts to these fraud-ridden services?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:00 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Minuteman at July 24, 2026 01:00 PM (CtC26)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:00 PM (mmrXZ) .
It's dead, Jim
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:01 PM (Nyq9f)
Which is why I don't have Monkeypox.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 24, 2026 01:00 PM (CtC26)
Now, someone who hate f**ks monkeys, on the other hand...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 01:01 PM (l3cgK)
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Disorderly conduct, I believe. Up to 90 days in jail and/or $1000 fine. I wonder if this applies to each time she said the magic word (It's only magic if a non-black or not sufficiently black person says it. That seems racist.)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 01:01 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: F.A. "Butzi" Porsche, 911 Designer at July 24, 2026 01:03 PM (wVcYX)
Disorderly conduct, I believe. Up to 90 days in jail and/or $1000 fine. I wonder if this applies to each time she said the magic word (It's only magic if a non-black or not sufficiently black person says it. That seems racist.)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 01:01 PM (Dv3i1)
So much for free speech...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 01:04 PM (S6LVb)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2026 01:04 PM (S6LVb)
Haven't had it my entire lifetime. I'll be glad when that old trope is finally dead and buried.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (RhUi2)
I can't count how many things I lost over the years that have no explanation for, no accounting for their whereabouts. Socks? Lots of them. Pens, pencils, a whole ratchet set, a set of bar stools. No trace, or explanation. Well I'm starting to wonder now.
And think about this if you will. I was born in 1970. Yeah, just think of all the unexplained phenomena that have happened since. Missing people. Disappearing farm animals. Airplanes that just drop off radar. Entire ships just gone. They have their explanations, "plausible theories", like aliens, and wotnot. Roanoke! A whole town gone. Ok that was centuries ago but I think with my colon, we're dealing with something that may defy current scientific explanation.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:00 PM (RhUi2)
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Media was totally in on the scam.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (Fi81e)
I've heard of jiggers.
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you can't say that
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 12:58 PM
Chigroes? Arachno-Americans?
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (4NO2D)
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Sure. But that's "how," not "why."
There is *no way* this one guy stole $547m from government coffers through these cheeseball front businesses without protection by and the willful ignorance of government authorities - as in, all of them. This is a crime a couple orders of magnitude larger than we've become so sadly used to seeing from a given one of these foreign crooks.
Somebody in the US government decided it was time to shut off this cash funnel and roll this guy up, with the help of unnamed foreign police agencies in an unnamed locale.
This one stinks to high heaven.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:06 PM (BI5O2)
I can't count how many things I lost over the years that have no explanation for, no accounting for their whereabouts. Socks? Lots of them. Pens, pencils, a whole ratchet set, a set of bar stools. No trace, or explanation. Well I'm starting to wonder now.
And think about this if you will. I was born in 1970. Yeah, just think of all the unexplained phenomena that have happened since. Missing people. Disappearing farm animals. Airplanes that just drop off radar. Entire ships just gone. They have their explanations, "plausible theories", like aliens, and wotnot. Roanoke! A whole town gone. Ok that was centuries ago but I think with my colon, we're dealing with something that may defy current scientific explanation.
For the love of God, get me OUT OF HERE!!!
Posted by: Jimmy Hoffa at July 24, 2026 01:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (3uBP9)
There's probably a metric buttload of 10mm sockets lodged in there.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Your Kraut Mick Commentater at July 24, 2026 01:07 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (3uBP9)
He's just a wild colonial boy...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 01:07 PM (1z8ji)
Nixon jeopardized VIP BJs in DC.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)
How's that working out for everyone
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:08 PM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 24, 2026 01:08 PM (fQFd2)
What a stupid world we live in.
Posted by: 18-1
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Stupid all around. Who keeps the n-word so handy that it flies out in a moment of anger? If I totally lost my temper, bastard or f***er might fly out. That said, the hate crime is BS. She should have said she was quoting some rapper.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:08 PM (mmrXZ)
Somebody in the US government decided it was time to shut off this cash funnel and roll this guy up, with the help of unnamed foreign police agencies in an unnamed locale.
This one stinks to high heaven.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:06 PM (BI5O2)
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Could it be that political leadership, starting at the top with Vance's fraud task force, is actually doing it's job?
Does it have to be a conspiracy otherwise?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:09 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 12:49 PM (iFTx/)
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Insurance companies say men are better drivers than women, but are more likely to overestimate their capability. So they get in fewer wrecks, but they are gloriously bad when they do. Hence every parent’s lament when their 16 year old son gets his drivers license.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 24, 2026 01:09 PM (+qOur)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (3uBP9)
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* stops reading *
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:09 PM (Fi81e)
Stupid all around. Who keeps the n-word so handy that it flies out in a moment of anger? If I totally lost my temper, bastard or f***er might fly out. That said, the hate crime is BS. She should have said she was quoting some rapper.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:08 PM (mmrXZ)
There's a black guy I see sometimes in the metro - high or crazy or more likely both - who goes around screaming it in the faces of other, normal black guys (calls them bitches, too).
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 01:10 PM (SgdqL)
She said something dumb in anger. It was a mistake on her part. But...should this be a crime?
One of the odder things that the modern left has brought us is the notion that we should criminalize wrong choices...but only some wrong choices...that aren't traditional crimes while ignoring read traditional crimes...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:10 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 01:05 PM (3uBP9)
Flight 19 returned from the Bermuda Triangle to banana Dream's colon. All five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers and 14 crew.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Your Kraut Mick Commentater at July 24, 2026 01:10 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)
Only if that man was radioactive himself...or something.
Dr. Who had an episode where a kid was telling him about spiderman and how he was bitten by a radioactive spider and got superpowers, to which Dr. Who said, "What powers? Vomiting and hair loss?"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: banana Dream
Gynecologist's speculum.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 01:11 PM (oUopv)
If your colon is 50% blocked, do you have a semi-colon?
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:11 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 24, 2026 01:08 PM (fQFd2)
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Every illegal who's been ordered out of the country is being fined now.
It was a provision passed into law in 1996 but never actually used until now.
$996 per day per person ordered out.
The tab is apparently $86 billion at this point.
Two things. The first is that most of these people aren't the kind that ICE Is sending out teams to collect. These are the Marias working the local Marriott and keeping their heads down. Garnishment is definitely possible.
The second is that it's a huge incentive to get out, especially when the administration is offering complete expungement of the debt upon their removal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:11 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 01:11 PM (WkHm8)
Posted by: banana Dream
Pep Boys has entered the chat.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 01:11 PM (eVWBS)
The unasked question of the year.
It wasn't just houses and cars.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:11 PM (Nyq9f)
Paul Rogers was radioactive. He wrote a song about it with Jimmy Page.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:12 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: banana Dream
Pep Boys has entered the chat.
Not voluntarily.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:12 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 24, 2026 01:13 PM (affD0)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 01:13 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)
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I'd guess that the ruling is going to get overturned on appeal and the city is going to have to pay her legal expenses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:13 PM (RWrid)
If your colon is 50% blocked, do you have a semi-colon?
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:11 PM (Fi81e)
Mine was completely cut off...I don't have any punctuation marks for that...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 01:13 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Richard Gere at July 24, 2026 01:13 PM (sKqQm)
It means its time for a second gerbil.
Posted by: Richard Gere at July 24, 2026 01:13 PM (sKqQm)
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"Oh, Jeethuth Christ..."
-Mr. Slave
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:14 PM (RWrid)
"Turns out, all you needed was a different President."
The power was always there.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 01:14 PM (+ffGB)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Full stoppage :
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 01:14 PM (oUopv)
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Point deducted for not having Cap'n Kristol referring to it as the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 24, 2026 01:14 PM (Feeg3)
Posted by: Axeman
Fun fact: Victor Borge was barred from including that one in his punctuation sketch any time before 11:00 pm.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 01:15 PM (SgdqL)
Somebody in the US government decided it was time to shut off this cash funnel and roll this guy up, with the help of unnamed foreign police agencies in an unnamed locale.
This one stinks to high heaven.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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That's why I keep asking about punishment. Or, "punitive measures" for those who prefer more syllables.
Minnesota whistle-blowers specifically said they were threatened by bosses if they didn't approve fraudulent expenditures. Isn't there any black-letter law to prosecute the bosses with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:15 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Full stoppage :
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 01:14 PM (oUopv)
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Noice!
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:15 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Big Gerbil at July 24, 2026 01:15 PM (JvZF+)
Anybody runs up to me with their phone out making demands ? Yeah, its gonna' be a hate crime. When I stick that phone sideways straight up their ass.
We are in this place, in no small part, because too many nominally on "our side" think a weekend in county lockup is the equivalent of a death sentence. There are things worth spending 48 hours as a guest of the State. Clipping that Somalians wings would have been one of them.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:16 PM (RhUi2)
“They just write it off, Jerry, they just write it off” probably applies here.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (/YECW)
Oh I just read another thing about that n word story. The kid she accused of stealing her stuff? He's done it so often the local cops mandated he wear a tracking chip.
Posted by: 18-1
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Well, that was a good expenditure of taxpayer money!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Full stoppage :
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 01:14 PM (oUopv)
We're here to help!
Posted by: The Otters at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM (ExV1e)
They seem to have replaced all the "Baby On Board" stickers from the past.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 12:58 PM (SgdqL)
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The dumbest are those macho stickers that douches put on their cars like "Don't like my driving? Eat shit." Or my personal favorite, "Fuck the Pigs." What kind of fucking retard all but dares cops to give him tickets??
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Full stoppage :
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 01:14 PM (oUopv)
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Noice!
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:15 PM (Fi81e)
Or a space...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM
It's raining here, and the temp has actually dropped a bit below 70 - but it's 95% humidity, so it feels fairly comfy.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (w6EFb)
Only half?
FWIW, try tracking down legit care for family members.
I'll wait.
Forever. You will face paperwork and delays that will drive you to drink
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (iFTx/)
"Only homo cops pull me over...."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 01:19 PM (2YhKe)
I think its clearly time that we as a nation start focusing on the terrible threat posed by the vast mystery hidden deep within my bowels. Would Newton, Copernicus, Einstein cower in fear of my colonic unknown? Or would these great men step up and dive in with a brave sense of exploration? I think we all know the answer.
Ladies, gentlemen of the horde, we stand at the precipice of not only my colon, but at a new dawn for the human experience. I pledge to you that together we will find the answers to these questions and bravely challenge the unknown with the rugged ingenuity of our forefathers.
Thank you, good night, and God Bless America.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 01:19 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:19 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: H@thebridge at July 24, 2026 01:20 PM (Pwwtx)
Posted by: Axeman
Mine was completely cut off...I don't have any punctuation marks for that...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
........
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Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 01:20 PM (UjdFS)
It was as if a family had a 300,000 credit card debt, made 30,000 a year, spent 50,000 amonth and was cutting $25 from the budget.
And this was why the government “shut down”. Over a rounding error
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (/YECW)
Only half?
FWIW, try tracking down legit care for family members.
I'll wait.
Forever. You will face paperwork and delays that will drive you to drink
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 01:17 PM (XuXeR)
There's a fraudulent dance that goes on between hospitals and insurance companies...
I took my wife for a treatment outside our network, was quoted a cash price (Don't recall exactly, but was around $7K or so) but was told my insurance would cover it. The price billed to insurance was more than $30K...and they wanted me to pay the last $10K.
In the end, after I showed them how they told me there was a $100 deductible and their cash offer, they asked for the $100 and called it even.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (l3cgK)
Right now this is all rhetoric in the press.
White hats: "We found a billion dollars in fraud."
Dem officials: "This is a political witch-hunt."
It will continue this way to the midterms, but in 2028 it should be a major issue.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (mmrXZ)
I've heard of jiggers.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)
This needs muldoon
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:56 PM
I don't think he'll be able to think of a rhyme.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (kgE5c)
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Yes. It could be.
But that's so unlikely I can't call it more than a forlorn hope.
This one was simply too much damned money to explain away with "he's an amazing criminal genius of unparalleled ability, but our Top Ham & Eggers finally nabbed him!"
People in our government were protecting him, and covering for half a billion in missing cash, until now. Why they decided to stop is anyone's guess. We're not even allowed to know where he was when they "found him."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (eVWBS)
Posted by: Old Prof at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (EGlfC)
Posted by: Truck Monkey
I heard the doctor already pronounced his death at 12 midnight, August 3rd. Tragic. But convenient.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (Dv3i1)
Nonsense. Go get six White Castles and chase 'em with a twleve pack of Old Milwaukee. You'll be fine.
Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (RhUi2)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (kgE5c)
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That's the wonderful thing about Tiggers.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:23 PM (Fi81e)
People in our government were protecting him, and covering for half a billion in missing cash, until now. Why they decided to stop is anyone's guess. We're not even allowed to know where he was when they "found him."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (BI5O2)
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I think it became standard practice in the government to allow all fraud. Throw some smaller examples to the wolves every once in a while, but the assumption is that fraud is accepted, not the exception.
So, when someone like Trump comes along with the actual political will to enforce looking into fraud, there are just a lot of targets.
A couple of months ago, Vance said his task force had cut off a quarter of a trillion dollars in grants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:23 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)
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I'd guess that the ruling is going to get overturned on appeal and the city is going to have to pay her legal expenses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:13 PM (RWrid)
I will point and laugh, but in a proper country all of the retards involved in such a BS case would suffer far harsher consequences.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 01:19 PM (3uBP9)
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That was from photographic plates in the 50s and 60s. Traced back most likely to atmospheric atom bomb testing that released micro radioactive particles that landed on the plates.
New telescopes (with much, much higher resolutions) don't seem to have this problem.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (DbmIv)
The second is that it's a huge incentive to get out, especially when the administration is offering complete expungement of the debt upon their removal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Something similar is also possible with anchor babies taken back to home country. Simply apply the requirement for taxing the whole family back in Crapistan using US tax laws for income earned abroad. Require it be cumulative if unpaid with interest and penalties. Waive it if the kid denounces their titular US citizenship.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (E4rtv)
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I like it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:28 PM (RWrid)
Around these parts, it could be a hog breeder. You never know.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (zdLoL)
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Sure, this Santa Clause politics. But, that's not the basis of why the DNC purposely takes down oversight while simultaneously funding these type programs with a $47 Billion increase (as Biden did).
The true benefit is more egregious and illegal. Millions, perhaps Billions, leave the country via international travel. A TSA whistleblower up in Minneapolis said three trips a week with an estimated average tranport of $6 Million each trip in cash ($18 Million). The money gets distributed. A portion is set aside to come back to the DNC coffers via small (below the reporting threshold) donations assigned by entities like ActBlue via unknowing contributors.
This same process was used with USAID, and likely Federal grants that would be sent to a Foundation Depot and laundered by passing the money down the line to various smaller "charitable" entities. Eventually, the DNC cut gets separated and moved through the ActBlue process once again. They are doing this in multiple ways.
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2026 01:29 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 24, 2026 01:32 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Oglebay at July 24, 2026 01:40 PM (2ap+5)
They were billing Medicaid for hundreds and hundreds of MRIs. For just a couple of doctors. Somehow, all these union members needed MRIs...
That was back in the 1980s.
Posted by: Beverly at July 24, 2026 02:39 PM (reMys)
Not just saying numbers...showing the fraud, the missing money (keeping in mind that Hil's office had millions missing as well as the Pentagon or DoD during this one time). I suspected money laundering then backflowing into their pockets.
The fraud and corruption Nick Shirley has unearthed is mind blowing...and most of it from illegals. The sheer number of Home Health Care offices in one building blew my mind vs normal capitalism of the USA. That was a huge mistake on their part. However we know Somolians have subnormal IQ's.
The entire state of MN government also have subnormal IQ's and were riding high on no one checking.
Here is how it works, my flying monkeys:
If you are in a hosptial (or a MD orders from his office) and Home Health Care is ordered for a RN, aide or PT:
A RN or social worker make the referral based on a list the family chooses, or that the MD is familiar with. Plus equipment.
A RN makes a referral to your home, assesses what you need. She/he then speaks to the MD who ordered it under Medicare.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 03:25 PM (hzuYO)
This fraud of Medicare went totally under the eyes of anyone who bothered checking. Medicare paid out tax payer money without checking...so MN Medicare offices also should be examined as to why no follow up with billing? People have co-pays. It makes no sense.
Over 20yrs ago I saw fraud with Medicaid as well for billing of eye glasses and stuff like that on my brother's list.
There should be a special jail built for these corrupt people after they are frog marched out of their ivory towers. Along with the Somolians, Walz and anyone else getting kick backs. Money missing should be traced, as evidenced by the Somolian woman with a suitcase of cash trying to get past TSA to her homeland where she spawned.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 24, 2026 03:28 PM (hzuYO)
THE MORNING RANT: Some Fools Never Learn – Ford & VW Prepare to Roll Out New Small Electric Pickups
Just a few years after announcing its ambitious intention to revive the Scout brand—once owned by the International Harvester Company—VW has issued proof of concept in the form of the 2028 Scout Terra EV pickup. Debuting alongside its Scout Traveler SUV sibling…the Terra is poised to be an amalgam of modern and traditional styling and engineering themes. For instance, it’s built on a classic truck-style body-on-frame blueprint with a crew cab and 5.5-foot bed, but it uses a modern battery-electric powertrain that’s good for an estimated 350 miles of range.In other words, with 350 miles of range, this Scout pickup truck cannot do what the small pickups of my youth did, drive from Central Texas to South Padre on a whim, with only one 5-minute refueling stop. Nor could it drive out to New Mexico for a ski trip, etc. Like all other EVs, the Scout will be a novelty that is only good for running around town. As for Ford, it has recently launched the small Maverick pickup truck, which is gasoline-powered and a huge sales success. Perhaps Ford thinks its new EV pickup will be a popular lineup addition. Ford’s EV history indicates otherwise.
[Affordable EV pickups] is still an untested market, but if expertly executed, it has the potential to take off for both buyers and automakers. Ford clearly sees the opportunity here and is aggressively angling for it. Furthermore, Ford already has tried-and-true success in the compact Maverick, and the Ranchero should offer the Maverick’s size and utility advantages while not sipping on a drop of fuel. The Ranchero also won’t be Ford’s first EV pickup. That title goes to the F-150 Lightning, whose production ceased late last year. However, where the Lightning failed is where the Ranchero could succeed, as buyers have shown an overwhelming interest and desire for more affordable vehicles. Without the federal EV tax credit to lean on, automakers are going to have to retool how they price their EVs.Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame is forever trying to copy Elon Musk’s successes, so now Bezos is launching an EV company, focusing on what else? Small, electric pickups. “A $24,950 Electric Pickup Truck? Bezos-Backed Company Ready to Take on Tesla” [Finance Yahoo - 6/26/2026]
Slate Auto, backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, could have the secret formula to making disruption in the pickup truck market that includes Tesla Inc, Rivian Automotive, General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co. The secret could be cost. Here's how Slate Auto is solving the key issue. Originally planning to launch a bare-bones electric pickup truck for under $20,000, the ending of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit put that pricing plan from Slate Auto into question. On Wednesday, the company unveiled its Slate Truck, which will come with an initial starting price point of $24,950 with units expected to ship in late 2026.Just like Tesla found a niche with Tesla as a boutique city car for those with a home-charger and at least one gas-powered car, there may be a market niche for a small electric pickup that serves as a status-symbol “2nd car” for running errands. Perhaps Bezos will capture that small market. But these small electric pickup trucks will never become the all-purpose vehicle for the demographic that was so loyal to small pickups decades ago. Young adults buying inexpensive vehicles tend to be transient in their housing, and places where transient people live cannot be relied on to have charging facilities. The only reliable EV demographic is homeowners with home chargers (who had to spend on average several thousand dollars to have a home charger installed.) That is not who the inexpensive pickups are being targeted for. Ford and VW are about to burn through billions more chasing a market that doesn’t actually exist. Some fools never learn.
Even more importantly, too much of our federal governance is already in the hands of unelected rulers, be they judges or bureaucrats. We, voters, would like to remove many of them, but we can’t. The last thing we should do right now is take away the ability to vote out bad senators too. How to fix the problem of left-leaning Republicans in state legislatures warrants its own discussion, but the simple fact that RINOs hold so much power in red state legislatures is enough reason not to hand them the power to choose U.S. Senators. Ted Cruz and Ken Paxton are both conservative insurgents who defied the establishment to win their U.S. Senate nominations. Neither would have ever been chosen by the Texas legislature, but conservative voters made that choice at the ballot box.This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest at The American Spectator: “Repealing the 17th Amendment Would Save…John Cornyn”
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) July 22, 2026
The same Republican voters who dumped establishment incumbents shouldn’t surrender their power to legislatures that would have kept them there. https://t.co/o0JJDoYj26
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:01 AM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:01 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:02 AM (2YhKe)
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Preventing the 17th Amendment from being passed would have done a lot.
Repealing it now would create a host of problems and probably solve very little.
The only real solution is enthusiastic and frequent primary challenges to Senators.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:02 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)
You misspelled "helicopter rides".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 11:05 AM (jehhT)
There are a few (like the Toyota Chairman who was forced out) who can tell that it's a lemming trail off a cliff.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 11:06 AM (XHO5P)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)
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Another example.
McConnell owns the machine in Kentucky. No way on earth would repealing the 17th have led to the state legislature of KY removing him from office.
Same with Graham in SC (though I grew to like him more as we got further into the Trump era).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:06 AM (RWrid)
I think people who write for Motor Trend want us to have been waiting for it. I don't think we have been.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
Ford, once again, f*cked up with that.
The Maverick was an affordable at the time 4 door family sedan.
What they SHOULD have done, which would've kept in line with their historical pickup truck lines, was make the new Ranger the Ford F-100 pickup, then bring in the Ranger, which was their mini pickup for years, as what they're calling the Maverick.
The Executive Board at Ford needs to be launched into the ocean via trebuchet to become shark shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:06 AM (2YhKe)
The engineering crap was making the hose about 3" too short. It kept being kicked inside the cab, thereby flooding the passenger floorboard.
F'n inbreds.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:06 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
Affinity marketing, they call it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
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California has term limits on its state legislators, and its government is fantastic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: Buck Writes Good, Though at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (JM9I6)
Riding cement trails around a golf course.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:02 AM (2YhKe)
I prefer gas golf carts. Especially ones that backfire and sound like someone popped off a 45!
Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (Ogd6l)
Posted by: Archimedes
True, but I'm more interested in national politics than state. Having the state bufoons keep someone as a senator who's anathema to my interests would have me get VERY interested in state politics again.
Maybe not a bad thing.
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (q6tQZ)
How is he going to build a car that looks like a penis?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (2YhKe)
Again, it's spelled "helicopter rides". Are you people being deliberately provocative?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Until you put a cooler full of ice and beer in the bed. The estimated range then drops to 275. Tow an empty trailer and you're down around the 200 mile range.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:09 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Electric Truck Lobby at July 24, 2026 11:09 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (2YhKe)
Best I can do is the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
Posted by: Rick Harrison at July 24, 2026 11:09 AM (3aLWR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (2YhKe)
That design is copyrighted!
Posted by: Oscar Meyer at July 24, 2026 11:09 AM (Ogd6l)
20 “A $24,950 Electric Pickup Truck? Bezos-Backed Company Ready to Take on Tesla” [Finance Yahoo - 6/26/2026]
How is he going to build a car that looks like a penis?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (2YhKe)
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One piece at a time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:10 AM (RWrid)
The Senate would still be more oriented to the interest of the state and not the so swayed by "causes". Trump could actually win by making most states happy.
And that would be better than federal ideologues sitting on things not because their state couldn't use it, but because their image on a national stage would change.
Perhaps Cornryn would never have become Cornryn if the 17th amendment had never been ratified.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:10 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 11:11 AM (SwCxT)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 11:11 AM (Nyq9f)
still like baking in ounces. I flip back and forth but I like the ounces to two decimal places. I don't see how halving or doubling 29.86 is any more or less easy than doing that to 676 grams
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026
Just the opposite, e switched to metric for baking for the dry ingredients and sugar because it is way easier to scale. Eggs remain unscalable, guess and hope,err on to much.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2026 11:11 AM (sl73Y)
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At first glans it doesn't seem possible.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 11:11 AM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
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Or discipline.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (Fi81e)
The Senate would still be more oriented to the interest of the state and not the so swayed by "causes". Trump could actually win by making most states happy.
And that would be better than federal ideologues sitting on things not because their state couldn't use it, but because their image on a national stage would change.
Perhaps Cornryn would never have become Cornryn if the 17th amendment had never been ratified.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:10 AM (Fi81e)
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I think the largest problem now is federal block grants. State legislatures are addicted already, and their choices of senators would become increasingly defined by this addiction.
Yes, never having the 17th would have prevented a Cornyn maybe. Repealing it now would just enlarge other issues while solving almost nothing at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: Shooting Yourself In Foot at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (JM9I6)
Even Golf carts would be perfect in some places for many people.
But they aren’t interested in what actually works, they want to replace it with what sounds good.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (GbFT6)
We have a golf cart for around the property.
Going to the garden, working the bees, running down to the mower shed... I would NEVER buy an etruck for general use.
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (q6tQZ)
I prefer gas golf carts. Especially ones that backfire and sound like someone popped off a 45!
Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (Ogd6l)
In the middle of your downswing.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 11:13 AM (Swy+8)
You kids and your euphemisms for sex...
*rolls eyes*
Still, I kind of like "working the bees".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
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Golf carts. Perfect for this.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:14 AM (GbFT6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 11:13 AM (Swy+
Real electric vehicles have never been tried.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 11:14 AM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (RWrid)
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Block grants are there because people were trying to increase the federal hold over the states. It somebody in Congress is there only because they represent the state interest, we probably will have less of that.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:14 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: MkY
I forgot to add... when the cart runs out of juice in the middle of the woods, I can go tow it back with a tractor.
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:14 AM (q6tQZ)
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I think the judiciary is the bigger issue. They're responsible for upholding laws, even bad ones, or ignoring and they hand down punishments (or don't) depending on the political persuasion of the accused.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 11:14 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 11:15 AM (Swy+8)
You kids and your euphemisms for sex...
*rolls eyes*
Still, I kind of like "working the bees".
Posted by: Archimedes
Going to the garden... to plow.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:15 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: Suburban guys everywhere at July 24, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)
I forgot to add... when the cart runs out of juice in the middle of the woods, I can go tow it back with a tractor.
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:14 AM (q6tQZ)
And dropping $2 to 4k every 4 to 7 years for new batteries in the cart.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:15 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:06 AM
Why do you hate us?
Posted by: The Sharks at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (kgE5c)
Some Fools Never Learn – Ford & VW Prepare to Roll Out New Small Electric Pickups
Are they going to be radio controlled?
Will they be able to do wheelies?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (09t5c)
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I get my HiLux diesel with a blown 4 banger?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (RBKzD)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: RichieC at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (n4Uod)
I've been seeing more Ford Lightnings on the road lately.
Not a lot. Just more.
I've got to assume that the dealerships are pretty much giving them away, maybe a BOGO deal or-
in a deal with McDonald's...Free with every Happy Meal.
Also, as mentioned in the last thread a lot more Volvo Snowbilly SUVs on the road recently.
Any thoughts, morons and eyes?
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Suburban guys everywhere at July 24, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)
We don't have roving bands of terrorists parading through the desolate areas in the US.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (Ogd6l)
In the middle of your downswing.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (2YhKe)
Of course!
I actually get a kick out of the backfiring cart. It gives me an opportunity to drop a reference to the Baltimore City golf course I played a lot back in the day (Clifton Park). The area it is in was less than ideal back in the 90s. I wouldn't dare go to that area these days!
Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2026 11:17 AM (Ogd6l)
Maybe not a bad thing.
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (q6tQZ)
This. Much of what we're seeing nowadays is the lack of interest in state and local politics, I.E., the creeper mayor in NYC. Anything that will re-align focus closer to home is a good thing.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 11:17 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: RichieC at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (n4Uod)
Joe Xiden is back?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: meh at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (XeEnw)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:15 AM (2YhKe)
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I converted our cart from lead-acid to LiPO4 two years ago, and expect to get at least another 8-10 years out of the batteries with the amount of usage the cart sees. Total cost to convert including 48v in batteries was $1800.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:14 AM (Fi81e)
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I think the fraud revelations over the last year or so have shown that there is virtually no actual control of the federal government over states regarding the states' spending of block grant moneys.
State legislatures will simply react to their sudden power over federal senators by instructing them to increase the funding and making sure the federal government doesn't investigate how they spend it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM
We're right here, you know.
Posted by: The Ambiguously Gay Duo at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (kgE5c)
The Ford Huffy
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (09t5c)
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The power generating capacity isn’t there either. Nor the grid capacity.
It really is an eye opener to have belligerently ignorant assholes running things. Everyone just shrugs. “Whattaya gonna do?”
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (GbFT6)
Nah, $400 for the 6 from the discount battery guy.
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (q6tQZ)
In real life you will be lucky to get 200 miles of range on a full battery.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2026 11:19 AM (0N4FZ)
The base truck is, yes - $25k.
The paint job is extra. Yes, the paint is extra. There's no infotainment, no power anything. If you want the SUV "module" thats another $5000 if I recall, and it doesn't actually include rear seats.
The issue with all of these small EV trucks is that... the Ford Maverick exists for a $33k starting price. It doesn't have the baggage of being an EV and it's actually a damn good vehicle.
Anyone who competitively shops these vehicles - will quickly find that the Maverick is the ticket. If Ford wanted to put an electric motor in the Maverick - that would be their best chance for a success in that market - but it would be north of $45k apparently and therefore completely uncompetitive with its own model line.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 24, 2026 11:19 AM (WYStd)
The VW WeinerWagon
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 11:19 AM (09t5c)
Posted by: ...
By 1900, electric cars accounted for about 28% of vehicles on U.S. roads, and even President Woodrow Wilson used an electric car for official duties. However, limitations in battery range, high costs, and the rise of gasoline-powered cars eventually led to a decline in electric vehicle use by the 1930s.
The Ford Model T used a 177 cubic inch (2.9 L) side-valve, inline 4-cylinder engine producing 20 hp, renowned for its simplicity, reliability, and adaptability.
STILL OUTPERFORMED Evehicle.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:19 AM (oUopv)
Nice driving rig I must admit. He drives 60 miles to work everyday and that work includes driving to projects he monitors as a TxDOT engineer. All went well until he ran into the low battery scenario a couple of times. The second one had him sitting for an hour waiting to get a charge that lasted another 45 minutes in Flatonia's only charger. He got home at midnight.
Drove straight to the distributor in Houston and got his Chevy back the next day.
Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2026 11:19 AM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Soviet Production Experts at July 24, 2026 11:19 AM (rJhDk)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Minus the two rear facing bed seats complete with post handles and a seat belt.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:20 AM (2YhKe)
Popular Senate elections just made an office that was a sort of "celebrity" among representatives. A more elite house.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:20 AM (Fi81e)
And voters would be more interested in the fools they send to their own State capitols.
I would like to see the 16th, 17th and 19th repealed and a re-recognition of the 10th.
Maybe after the gunsmoke clears after the Cloward/Piven crash whatever Heritage Americans survive can see fit to restore the Constitution as God intended.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 11:20 AM (9s47C)
I'm concerned that my conclusion, that the Chinese couldn't innovate their way out of a paper bag, that the advantages of AI are way overblown, and that electric vehicles aren't really a growth industry, is mistaken, but I guess we'll see.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 24, 2026 11:20 AM (Zst8M)
But making the US government and taxpayers fund it is exponentially worse with massive government mandates and subsidies and those are fortunately dead for the time being.
And I do think eventually that EVs will end up dominating the market--a) they are cheaper to make, b) battery technology continues to improve on density and cost, and c) if we nuke up then we will have cheap electricity. A great deal of trips are well within an EV range of 300-500 miles for a lot of people living in metroplexes.
They do have challenges--flammability via runaway battery fires, we don't know much about component life, and range issues/charging are a limiting factor. Those are primarily engineering issues, not feasibility of the concept itself.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:20 AM (E4rtv)
The Ford Huffy Flintstone Edition
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 11:20 AM (09t5c)
Posted by: Doof at July
Especially when you can get them to backfire at the top of someones backswing.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2026 11:20 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 11:19 AM (09t5c)
Anyone who does not read that as "Veener Vaggon" need not consider themselves a friend of mine.
Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2026 11:21 AM (Ogd6l)
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 11:21 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 24, 2026 11:21 AM (l4RKn)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 11:22 AM (DZ9Lv)
Got a mouse in your pocket, Motor Trend?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
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Is it that much? A good high quality 6 volt deep cycle is maybe $300. They use four (4) in a series-parallel arrangement iirc. It’s been a while. I think batteries are expensive, not $4k expensive though.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:22 AM (GbFT6)
Here's a thought. If the Feds are taking in money and then immediately shipping it back to the states via block grants, why don't we just stop taxing so much at the Federal level, and let the states decide if it's worth taxing their own constituents for it?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)
Here's a thought. If the Feds are taking in money and then immediately shipping it back to the states via block grants, why don't we just stop taxing so much at the Federal level, and let the states decide if it's worth taxing their own constituents for it?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)
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Fewer opportunities for graft.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:24 AM (RWrid)
So...we were on vacation in Scotland, Portugal and London and saw and road in a lot of EVs.
Most of the Uber/Bolt drivers were using EVs. Teslas were very popular and apparently the dream.
Every ride we caught in an EV, I asked the driver what they thought about their car.
They all loved their EVs...for work. Gas prices were a big concern and with their itty-bitty cities, etc- a single overnight charge at home would carry them through the day.
Interestingly, several mentioned that their EV was their work car mostly but if they did any distance driving they used their ICE for that.
So, there you go-
EVs for Uber work or in town boutique trips to Neiman-Marcus.
And not much else.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 11:24 AM (iJfKG)
Maybe after the gunsmoke clears after the Cloward/Piven crash whatever Heritage Americans survive can see fit to restore the Constitution as God intended.
Posted by: Community Notes
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And I would like a pony. Constitutional amendments are dead for the foreseeable future and I doubt you will get any 2/3 majority in Congress or conventions of states and then 3/4 of state legislatures.
Any Convention of the States might end up a runaway convention nowadays like the Constitutional Convention was only supposed to provide amendments to the Articles Congress, not write a new one.
We have a lot of what we can actually do like getting rid of our foreign oppressors and their traitorous accomplices in government offices without resorting to constitutional amendments.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)
New ones are 48V
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:24 AM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 11:25 AM (q6tQZ)
I do not believe that the political parties or state legislatures have changed for the better in the intervening years, and I know for a fact that human nature never has and never will.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 11:26 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (Ogd6l)
I have a gas golf cart here at Peon Manor. Useful little bugger, would not want an electric one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:26 AM (1z8ji)
Any Convention of the States might end up a runaway convention nowadays like the Constitutional Convention was only supposed to provide amendments to the Articles Congress, not write a new one.
We have a lot of what we can actually do like getting rid of our foreign oppressors and their traitorous accomplices in government offices without resorting to constitutional amendments.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)
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A generation of deportations might change the landscape, but otherwise, yeah.
No single suggested amendment is going to survive 3/4 of state legislatures. Not even a balanced budget. Not even term limits.
The entire American political landscape needs to shift drastically before amendments are even a remote possibility again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:26 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2026 11:26 AM (8uzBS)
I'm number thirteen thousand and something.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)
I do not believe that the political parties or state legislatures have changed for the better in the intervening years, and I know for a fact that human nature never has and never will.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 11:26 AM (Sy6m/)
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Like half the states had already switched to popular elections already by the time the 17th passed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:27 AM (RWrid)
And not much else.
Posted by: naturalfake
I can see EVs doing better in a more congested area that requires mini cars anyway. Eurolands ridiculous fetish for net zero and other stupid policies against gas and diesel are also a factor. Fuel is much higher in the EU due to taxes and scarcity as you said.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)
Nationalism was not simply patriotism, in fact it ridiculed "mere patriotism" which didn't want to solve things at the national level.
Nationalism moved us away from an interest-balanced government to a cause-oriented government, where we got more and more momentum toward "changing the world".
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:28 AM (Fi81e)
The Chinese have a national economic policy of beggaring their neighbors (everyone but the Chinese. How many Chinese EVs are the Euros going to buy when they can't afford the power to charge them or groceries because their own economies and tech bases have declined into third world status?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)
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Could it be that Ford (that big Tennessee plant) and others are finding a way to make use of, find a break even point, all the tools and tech that at the moment are a total loss. ie take all the Lightening crap, re-brand it and sell it to a different market.
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Buddy just bought another car, this time, it has a battery good for 35 miles and plugs in to a standard socket. He's delighted, so is his wife, she hated the big trucks. It's his city car. He never drives over 6 miles a day. It also has a gas engine for trips.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:28 AM (RBKzD)
EV sales in Europe have a 25% market share.
A 350 mile drive in a truck now costs about 100 dollars in gas.
Or
35 dollars in electrons.
Posted by: Paul at July 24, 2026 11:28 AM (dFAcn)
Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2026 11:17
Franklin Park golf couse, Boston, late sixties.
IFYKYK.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2026 11:28 AM (sl73Y)
They do have challenges--flammability via runaway battery fires, we don't know much about component life, and range issues/charging are a limiting factor. Those are primarily engineering issues, not feasibility of the concept itself.
And when that happens, I'll probably buy one. My dislike for the current generation of EVs isn't based on Luddism, it's based on a sober analysis of the pros and cons.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
Maybe modern designs can handle deep discharges. (Maybe not, they sure catch on fire a lot).
They have to do a lot of things to hide certain realities. Cold weather temps means batteries are resistant to taking a charge, and giving up current.
“350 mile range” is under optimum temps. Gasoline engines lose range too, though not cut in half. They don’t refuse to take gasoline in the tank when it hits 35F
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:30 AM (GbFT6)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 11:31 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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More than half. I think it was closer to 60-70 percent by the time the amendment was ratified. We forget the problems with state legislatures picking senators--for example, when one house of the leg is one party and the other house is another. Seats often sat vacant for long stretches. Then, you also had the fact that oligarchs literally bought their seats in Congress or greasy politicians served as brokers for these oligarchs who bought state legislatures wholesale. See Roscoe Conkling and his NY state machine.
If you really want to spend political capital, it would be more advantageous to limit the judiciary's role and I would go further and institute term limits on lower court judges as well. Perhaps Scotus too and put the number of justices in the Constitution itself to prevent court packing.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)
I do not believe that the political parties or state legislatures have changed for the better in the intervening years, and I know for a fact that human nature never has and never will.
You are wise.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
It had the indestructible 4.0 V6.
3 speed with overdrive
rollup
only option was locking diff, AC, and CD palyer.
I think I paid 9800 cash in 2000. It had 13k miles.
Just bought daughter Bronco Sport (same platform as maverick truck). It had 38 on the window and I paid 35 out the door.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 11:33 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: MkY
>Tells you that it's easier to pump liquid out of a tank than to install a bunch of high tech gear and become a slave to your energy provider.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 11:34 AM (SwCxT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:26 AM (1z8ji)
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Why not? Having an electric golf cart to run around your own property (So not going very far) and having a dedicated place to charge it every day if needed (your house) is honestly the only really good use case for an electric vehicle.
Plugging a cart in when needed > Filling, toting, and storing jerry cans of gasoline.
The range on my cart is 60ish miles. I charge it maybe once a week or so.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 11:34 AM (oqH4h)
Oh, that is interesting! Small and a manual transmission, exactly what I'm looking for.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 11:34 AM (E24OL)
If you really want to spend political capital, it would be more advantageous to limit the judiciary's role and I would go further and institute term limits on lower court judges as well. Perhaps Scotus too and put the number of justices in the Constitution itself to prevent court packing.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)
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I do want to increase state legislature say in the federal government, though, so I think there's room in the question of the judiciary.
Something like a majority of state legislatures can overrule a SCOTUS decision, or state legislatures can remove lower court federal judges in the district level by super majorities, or the states in a circuit can remove circuit level judges by super majorities of a majority of states in the circuit.
Something like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:34 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:26 AM (RWrid)
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Yup that's why you should listen to the DSA's "plans" and wonder if they have any idea what it would take to change the structure of America's government to their "plan". Don't worry about it, because a society that could ratify the DSA plan, is not a society you can save.
So, I hear their "plans" and laugh at them.
Because you either live in a country where the government has taken over and the pushback of the people against simply ignoring the Constitution, or the push back is not there, or 3/4ths of the state have ratified all that crap. We have lost the handle of limited government, or checks and balances and we have lost what makes our government singular.
For something that more represents many chaotic governments across the globe.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:34 AM (Fi81e)
And when that happens, I'll probably buy one. My dislike for the current generation of EVs isn't based on Luddism, it's based on a sober analysis of the pros and cons.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
For myself it's the re-sale, trade-in value. Who wants to buy an EV with battery well into its latter half of life. I certainly don't.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 11:35 AM (g8Ew8)
I agree with all of this, especially term limits on SCOTUS.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Hate to tell your buddy but those are engineering kludges that have horrible reliability ratings due to complexity of having two drive systems.
I don't think anyone has made something like the diesel electric locomotive systems where the carbon fuel drives a generator that provides power to the wheels.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)
The people didn't care for electric trucks. They also don't care for small trucks. So we'll give them small electric trucks!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 11:36 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Common
That 350 mile range is the same test track range that gives cars 42 mpg.
No real world scenarios though.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:36 AM (oUopv)
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The Feds have a printing press. Or a digital confetti Buck Generator.
Ask yourself why they need your tax revenue in the first place?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:36 AM (GbFT6)
Seems.... dubious.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 11:36 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: RichieC at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (n4Uod)
So will a used gasoline powered truck. For that kind of service, tying up many thousands of dollars of capital in a new depreciating asset is a fool's errand.
I took a load of scrap metal to the scrap dealer this week, got $592 bucks and a dime. The truck I used, a 1988 Chevy 3/4 ton, I bought as government surplus for $600, many years ago. Still no rust, runs like a pup, smooth and quiet. Never lets me down.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:37 AM (1z8ji)
Seems.... dubious.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 11:36 AM (jehhT)
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Do the EVs have air conditioners in them?
Enigma!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:37 AM (RWrid)
The entire battery pack of the extended range F150 Conflagration contains as much energy as measure in Joules - as 4 gallons of unleaded gasoline. It takes about 30 seconds to "fill" a 4 gallon gas jerry can. To charge an F150 Lightning from 0 to 100 in 30 seconds - would require a charger that is capable of output 5 Megawatts or more.
The battery technology may exist to be able to support that charge rate - but the ability to deliver that charge rate *at scale* is simply impossible. Even if you put a nuke on every street corner, that energy generation simply doesn't exist right now, nor will it unless there's some kind of civilization-changing breakthrough.
You may say that you don't need to charge from 0 to 100 in 5 minutes. That may be true, but if everyone is driving EV's then your 20 to 80% charge is going to take longer, and longer, and longer, and longer because we simply don't have a way to reliably generate that electricity.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 24, 2026 11:38 AM (WYStd)
The new rather expensive BMW EV X5 model claims-
a 435 mile range, which if true, is the minimum range I would consider for buying an EV, although-
hot temps also kill battery range and we do get a lot of that here in the Lone Star State.
The price more or less kills any EV advantage to not buying gas for years.
And then there are all the other problems with battery-driven cars. These may be engineering probs or "the limits of physics" type probs, I guess we'll see.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (iJfKG)
Something like a majority of state legislatures can overrule a SCOTUS decision, or state legislatures can remove lower court federal judges in the district level by super majorities, or the states in a circuit can remove circuit level judges by super majorities of a majority of states in the circuit.
Something like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That might possibly work as well but removal I think would be better addressed by term limits with the possibility of re-appointment so a judge does not go YOLO.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (E4rtv)
And the odds that Paul, who is all in on EVs yo, also opposes new data centers because they use lots of power: 100%.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
Seems.... dubious.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 11:36 AM
Imma press "X" to doubt.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (kgE5c)
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It would get heavily discounted in practice. Sort or like a car with a blown engine. It isn’t worthless but it is worth less.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (GbFT6)
Seems.... dubious.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
How DOES an EV's ac work? Gas engine ac works off of spinning motor and turning belts.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)
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Repealing the 17th is a non-starter for me if limiting the Court is on the table!
I have mentioned before the public slappings of judges (mainly, in jest).
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (E4rtv)
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True. There's no reason for lower court judges to be lifetime appointments.
The Judiciary Act hasn't been modified in nearly 60 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:40 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:22 AM (GbFT6)
Depends on the type and quantity, of course. The only golf cart I had exposure to was the one we used for the marching band. It was pretty old and had been modified a few times, but used 8 - 6v lead acid batteries at around $125 each. Putting it a $1k every 3 or 4 years because they damn sure don't make batteries like they used to. I was anticipating things moving up from there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:41 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 11:42 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: naturalfake
You can always tell the first hot day or the first cold day by the number of stranded vehicles on the toad whose battery Amber Heard'd the bed.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:42 AM (oUopv)
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Untrue. The energy density of the battery chemistry is a SCIENCE issue, not an engineering issue. Nothing comes close to the energy density of gasoline and diesel fuel.
If it did, the marketplace would have rewarded it long ago.
Engineering issues get rectified relatively quickly, but when you hit the hard stop on a science issue, all you can do is add tailfins and chrome.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 11:42 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 24, 2026 11:38 AM (WYStd)
Considering our present power grid, it's either EVs or A/C. Take your pick.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 24, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)
He's now dead.
Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (2YhKe)
Best I can do is the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
Posted by: Rick Harrison at July 24, 2026 11:09 AM (3aLWR)
Bloodhound Gang, "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo"
Although it's technically not explicitly obscene, the innuendo is so hot and heavy that I hesitate to link it. I don't want to get blamed for someone getting in trouble with HR. You can do a search.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 11:43 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)
Interesting ideas. Maybe consider removing judicial immunity.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 24, 2026 11:44 AM (3Ope8)
He's now dead.
Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t)
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*nods sagaciously*
You sacrificed him to Satan in a ritual dressed in funny clothes while wearing a goat's head as a mask.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:44 AM (RWrid)
Without regard to the merits of the 17th... isn't it interesting how ConInc is supine and accommodating of literally everything the Democrats want, no matter how much it enrages their base?
But then, suddenly they start getting real, real conservative, as in "we need to turn the clock back on this by at least a century, even though it will take a Constitutional amendment process to get it done," the instant a reliable ConInc liberal in good standing gets taken down by that same base?
They transform from John Lindsey to Edmund Burke with a click of the fingers.
If I didn't know better, I might think the conservatism of these highly principled men was entirely situational and always predicated on protecting the rice bowls of a gang of completely unprincipled useless eaters.
But that's just crazy talk.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 11:44 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:39 AM (oUopv)
Electric A/C Compressors - which are actually now used in ICE vehicles as well since the advent of those f*cking annoying auto-start-stop buttons.
I was actually thinking of converting my H1's old HT6 style compressor to an electric version - but the BTU's required to match my compressor's output, would require 120A @ 12V which is mighty toasty. I have a 200A alternator but that's cutting it close.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 24, 2026 11:44 AM (WYStd)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 24, 2026 11:44 AM (3Ope
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Judicial immunity is a creation of the judiciary itself. No law passed or signed.
I'd love to see the judiciary react to Congress passing a law affirming that judicial immunity is unconstitutional and the president signing it, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (RWrid)
I don't think anyone has made something like the diesel electric locomotive systems where the carbon fuel drives a generator that provides power to the wheels.
Posted by: whig
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The reliability and frequency of repair write ups were pretty good.
Also customer satisfaction.
The diesel electric as used in trains was discussed here and it was explained that the system is not feasible on small systems.
I don't know. I sounds the best to me.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (RBKzD)
50 amps DC for a “fast” boost charge for a standard automotive starting battery, but it can buckle plates.
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near large battery packs and high current DC fast charging.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (GbFT6)
Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t)
Lady to doc: Tell my husband to quit eating gainesburgers, its dog food.
doc: nothing in there is gonna kill him
year later doc see lady
doc:hows the husband
Lady Dead
doc WTFO
Lady he got runned over chasin cars
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: DanMan
not as good a lyric as-drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry....
Posted by: Waxing Poetic at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (JM9I6)
You must have missed the post Cloward/Piven crash caveat.
The current composition of our ballot casting demographic and of the near total erosion of a High Trust society—as we are light years away, and never returning to the John Madison target demographic of "moral and religious people" which is a requirement for a functional Constitutional Republic, is fully incapable of dealing with those "unbridled by morality and religion".
Basically, we are just rearranging the proverbial Titanic deck chairs.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (pawvM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
6v lead acid battery 232 amp hours - 4 pack on Amazon $1,029.49.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (oUopv)
At anytime the Congress pleases, it can pass it's own clarification of the Will of the People.
Of course, judges can review the Congress that they have not violated the express Constitution. Outside a Constitutional issue, the judges are only interpreting what Congress meant, before Congress speaks again through the legislation process.
I think such an intentional expression would be in line with the original purpose of the SCOTUS.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:46 AM (Fi81e)
I think such an intentional expression would be in line with the original purpose of the SCOTUS.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:46 AM (Fi81e)
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*uses time machine to eliminate John Marshall in his childhood*
*comes back to 2026 America to discover flying cars, moon bases, and the complete lack of third-worldists at the federal level*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:48 AM (RWrid)
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Posted by: RichieC at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (n4Uod)
Joe Xiden is back?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (2YhKe)
LOL
Anyway wouldn't the proper commie term be "EVphobe"?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 11:48 AM (vDZgA)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 11:48 AM (oqH4h)
I don't know. I sounds the best to me.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (RBKzD)
Edison up is Canada building diesel elec specialty trucks.
Great power. Great economy. Each wheel has a computer controlled motor. More importantly everything is 100% off the shelf with built in right to repair.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 11:48 AM (/+uur)
Plugging a cart in when needed > Filling, toting, and storing jerry cans of gasoline.
The range on my cart is 60ish miles. I charge it maybe once a week or so.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 11:34 AM (oqH4h)
I put fuel in it maybe 3 times a year. Got the cart given to me (it had a cracked frame) by a neighbor in exchange for fixing his two electric golf carts. Welded up the cracked frame, and it was good to go. Had to replace the drive belt once. When I park it for the Winter, I take out the cranking battery and store it indoors. If I had an electric cart, I would have to do that, six times.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:48 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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We are just now beginning to get some real world stats on long term EV longevity. It is more like laptops or hand tool lithium batteries--the range goes down because the battery loses efficiency but that is in relative terms like 80 percent of charge. Right now, as I understand it, the real risk for longevity is unseen battery damage from recharging and decharging cycles that can promote the runaway battery syndrome leading to fire. But solid, sodium/aluminum ion, or gel form batteries promise to reduce that risk further.
But, if gas vehicles continue to get more and more expensive and EVs are much cheaper, then you will start to see the EVs gain ground against IC engines among yutes.
A 24k EV pickup is a lot more affordable for someone than a bloated 40-50k IC engine mini pickup. Especially if they live in a metroplex, or a business fleet for things like pest control, etc. where you have a centralized facility for nightly recharging.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)
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Good point. Many of the 28 US states that currently have Republican led legislatures will refuse to send their best. So we wouldn't have 56 Paxsons, but closer to 56 Cornyns.
Still, there is the threat of recalling and replacing the Senator that might keep them in line, somewhat, that these losers currently do not fear today.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2026 11:49 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: whig
The new Scout that was mentioned in the story - has a BEV version and a "range extender" version which uses batteries as its traction motor fuel source - but there's a small ICE engine in the trunk that kicks in when the charge is low and tries to "extend" the life of the battery.
Except that it can't keep up. It will, eventually deplete. I think they said something like 700 miles combined range when using the range extender version - but then you have a few drawbacks:
1) the added complexity of a dual fuel source powertrain
2) you now have to refuel twice when you're out of juice.
3) additional maintenance required on both systems
4) the weight of either the battery or the ICE engine serve as deadweight when the other is being used.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 24, 2026 11:50 AM (WYStd)
I'd love to see the judiciary react to Congress passing a law affirming that judicial immunity is unconstitutional and the president signing it, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (RWrid)
Better yet, I'd like to see the victims family of someone killed by a criminal alien who was previously released by a judge sue hat judge just to establish precedence.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 24, 2026 11:50 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 11:50 AM (BI5O2)
The current composition of our ballot casting demographic and of the near total erosion of a High Trust society—as we are light years away, and never returning to the John Madison target demographic of "moral and religious people" which is a requirement for a functional Constitutional Republic, is fully incapable of dealing with those "unbridled by morality and religion".
Basically, we are just rearranging the proverbial Titanic deck chairs.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 11:45 AM (pawvM)
CP works when inner city crashes and forces suburbs to pay.
When you CP a country you get East German PoPo, Cuban economy, and Venezuela Infrastructure.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 11:51 AM (/+uur)
“Batteries die in July, they just don’t usually keel over till November”. Moving them to the trunk, remote from the 200° engine bay is a pretty tood idea.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:51 AM (GbFT6)
Mostly because those diesels are designed to be constantly running because starting and stopping take hours, and may not happen at all if the temps are low enough.
Also, weight is good for locomotives, it adds traction. Weight is horrible for vehicles, increased starting and stopping energy losses, hard on the wheels and roadway, handling sucks. Locomotives also have very different noise and exhaust regulations.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 11:51 AM (pawvM)
I.e. no unlimited powers like "Commerce" has become.
The Congress took their claim to regulate commerce, took over 1/6 of the economy and then threw it over the transom to the "Secretary of Health and Human Services" because "the Democrats were never going to lose another major election" at that time.
In other words, invoking their power to regulate commerce, they waived that power and conferred it to the day-to-day fiat of the executive office.
That kind of cheap run around the Constitution should not be allowed. Congress is allowed certain powers because they have to answer to the people as often as they do--especially the House.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:51 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 11:52 AM (/+uur)
But that's with a little bitty 1800-lb battery, apparently. If I put 9000 more lbs of battery in the bed, won't that give me the equivalent of another 20 gallons of range?
Ha! Problem solved. I should probably patent this idea in metric so they'll buy it.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 11:52 AM (E24OL)
The current composition of our ballot casting demographic and of the near total erosion of a High Trust society—as we are light years away, and never returning to the John Madison target demographic of "moral and religious people" which is a requirement for a functional Constitutional Republic, is fully incapable of dealing with those "unbridled by morality and religion".
Basically, we are just rearranging the proverbial Titanic deck chairs.
Posted by: Community Notes
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I read it. At that point, whoever has the power to gun down its opponents is what will set the rules, not a constitutional process. Takes too long so in a crash, you will get a revolution not a constitutional development process.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:52 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)
Except that its not a $25k EV Pickup and a 40-50k IC that are competing.
Its a $33k ICE. That comes with paint. And power windows. And a radio.
As soon as you start stacking "options" on the Slate it gets pretty pricey.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 24, 2026 11:52 AM (WYStd)
Road eating 37 inch all terrain tires, dual floating shocks, and a 5.2L Supercharged V-8 delivering 720 HP.
She chose...wisely!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2026 11:52 AM (2WIwB)
Bloodhound Gang, "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo"
Although it's technically not explicitly obscene, the innuendo is so hot and heavy that I hesitate to link it. I don't want to get blamed for someone getting in trouble with HR. You can do a search.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 11:43 AM (Sy6m/)
That was horrible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:53 AM (2YhKe)
“Batteries die in July, they just don’t usually keel over till November”. Moving them to the trunk, remote from the 200° engine bay is a pretty tood idea.
Posted by: Common Tater
Let's put them behind the headlights!
Posted by: Dodge Engineers
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:53 AM (oUopv)
*comes back to 2026 America to discover flying cars, moon bases, and the complete lack of third-worldists at the federal level*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:48 AM (RWrid)
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But Nazis, always Nazis.
We need to break those time machines.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:54 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 11:48 AM (oqH4h)
Lead-acid batteries are 100% recyclable, and the tech to do so is mature.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 11:54 AM (1z8ji)
Pure corporate welfare. It's what's for dinner. And breakfast and lunch.
Also: I expect the VW plant to pull a rope-a-dope. The plant is specifically designed to be able to build other kinds of vehicles, not just EV. With the first of the Scout models at least 2 years away from production, I expect the plant will be used for other purposes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 24, 2026 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
*shudders*
Do you really think America could produce 56 Cornyns? Is there a Strategic Douchebag Reserve with which I am unfamiliar?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)
Must have missed the "after the gunsmoke clears"
Our ancestors were dropped off in the middle of winter with a less than helpful welcoming committee and barely more than a shovel and a dream, and within a few generations whipped the mightiest army on the Earth and a generation or so later became the world's super-power.
I have faith in the descendants of the colonists and our access to weapons.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 11:56 AM (9s47C)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:56 AM (Fi81e)
Nah. Who am I kidding. The current Congress is useless.
We are progressing in paralysis.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:56 AM (Fi81e)
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A century of Congress ceding power to the executive has its effects.
The only real power is in the executive anymore.
Which is why Congress is a false prize. The only prize that really matters at the federal level is the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:57 AM (RWrid)
It's why we need a catalyst as a President. Because the rest of the "representative republic" is rotting.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:57 AM (Fi81e)
Every woman who rides in one will get a cap and start calling herself a trucker.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Chuck C at July 24, 2026 11:57 AM (TvrWq)
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Lead-acid batts generally can be charged at temperatures well below zero. Up until recently at least, the Lithium batteries are bricked starting at about 35F degrees or below.
They try to couch this in glowing terms, that they “incorporate protection circuitry!” But that’s not a feature it’s a bug.
I use lead acid batts in my RV year round. The Lithium were $800 to a $1000 per, and can’t be charged below freezing? fuck that.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:58 AM (GbFT6)
Most normal people realize that century-plus-old technology isn't *new*, faggot.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 11:58 AM (vDZgA)
Its a $33k ICE. That comes with paint. And power windows. And a radio.
As soon as you start stacking "options" on the Slate it gets pretty pricey.
Posted by: Defenestratus
I grew up with pickup trucks as work vehicles, not as luxe transportation. And cars were likewise not loaded up with geegaws.
To some extent, bare bones EVs actually limit a lot of that because it drains the battery. A/C was rolling the windows down, you had an AM radio with a tinny speaker, windows were crank down, there was no such thing as seat heaters, lcd displays, only a speedometer, idiot lights, and mebbe engine temp and rpm gauges.
People here argue what they want in a vehicle and assume universality. That is not the case in a free market but that has been the problem in the US. The government has put its thumb down on the market for a variety of reasons--environment, worry about Iran shutting down the gulf (CAFE), availability of refineries and thus cheaper gas, etc.
I can see someone in California metroplex looking at near 6-7 buck gas per gallon and doing mainly work to home trips looking at a cheap EV instead.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 11:59 AM (diia5)
It's why we need a catalyst as a President. Because the rest of the "representative republic" is rotting.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:57 AM (Fi81e)
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Until Congress is willing to actually wield the power of the purse beyond shutdown theater, all power lies in the presidency.
The House alone can shut down the executive by refusing to pass budgets, but it simply won't do it. They can shut down departments entirely by refusing to fund them, but they won't do it.
Until a GOP Congress says, "Fuck the EPA, it's unfunded," Congress is a false prize.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:59 AM (RWrid)
No consideration for Normalcy Bias? Like when Britains during WW2 were enjoying their afternoon tea sitting on the smoking ruins of their homes and businesses?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 12:00 PM (9s47C)
Posted by: Common Tater
Sodium ion does not have that temp problem and just now hit the market. I expect it to take a big chunk out of the lead/acid battery market soon and probably price out lithium batteries for home power units like Powerwall. Aluminum ion is being tested by Tesla for similar reasons.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)
And you only made long distance calls on Sunday.
Posted by: The world has changed at July 24, 2026 12:01 PM (2Ez/1)
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Also to a gazillion unelected unaccountable bureaucratic alphabet agencies making de facto laws but calling them “rules” or “policies”.
ProTip: if you can go to jail for breaking it, it ain’t a “rule”. It’s a law in everything but name.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 12:01 PM (GbFT6)
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Same for the "Blue Oval" plant(s) down in Glendale, KY. However those apparently were designed to produce only EV components (batteries and associated components).
The one, finished facility ran for a couple months, fulfilled the quota they were contracted for, then shut down. The other one is incomplete. Sitting there. Unused.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 12:01 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
I suspect that the issues with the Cali legislature have less to do with the interchangeable cogs who get inserted and more to do with whomever controls the cheat mechanism to ensure that a specific type of interchangeable cog gets put in.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:01 PM (ExV1e)
Until a GOP Congress says, "Fuck the EPA, it's unfunded," Congress is a false prize.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:59 AM (RWrid)
I fail to see how becoming a multi-millionaire for doing a job that requires very little of you whatsoever other than being able to win an election a 'false prize.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:02 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: whig
Actually, if people are trying to argue about lead acid vs lithium, they should be arguing about work from home.
Why even get on the road for those jobs that don't require being in the office? We proved those jobs could be done during Covid.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 12:02 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: whig
Sodium batteries have a smaller charge than lithium. So much so that some companies are trying out 'hybrid' sodium/lithium packs. Not ready for prime time.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 12:02 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Rotkappchen at July 24, 2026 12:02 PM (j3Fsw)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 24, 2026 12:02 PM (fQFd2)
And you only made long distance calls on Sunday.
And we sacrificed children to Moloch! Good times.
What? I can't be the only one.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Community Notes
In your posited collapse, it would be more like Weimer Germany and normalcy bias goes out the window when you have Commies and fascists fighting it out in the streets.
WW2 was not a societal collapse for the Brits and instead welded them (and scarred them to some extent) to believe only by collective action could the British survive the war. They weren't fighting amongst themselves for scraps of food.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv)
Until a GOP Congress says, "Fuck the EPA, it's unfunded," Congress is a false prize.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 11:59 AM (RWrid)
I fail to see how becoming a multi-millionaire for doing a job that requires very little of you whatsoever other than being able to win an election a 'false prize.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:02 PM (2YhKe)
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I was speaking from the perspective of the electorate, not those who get into office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 12:03 PM (RWrid)
Posted by: Ralph at July 24, 2026 12:03 PM (8WZD4)
Posted by: The world has changed at July 24, 2026 12:01 PM
After 7 PM.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:04 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: whig
Actually, if people are trying to argue about lead acid vs lithium, they should be arguing about work from home.
Why even get on the road for those jobs that don't require being in the office? We proved those jobs could be done during Covid.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 12:02 PM (oUopv)
I think there is more heh, "backlash" from commie execs and HR turds about remote work than is realized.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:04 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:05 PM (2YhKe)
Apples were spoiling because they spent so long in the machine. So Tony asks "So if we buy all the bad apples, then we can get to the fresh apples?"
Alex concludes, "They probably would think we like the spoiled apples and would never put any fresh apples into the machine."
Tony concludes "So, we can't ever have fresh apples."
The writers of Taxi were politically liberal. We used to have liberals who didn't dismiss "unintended consequences" as "right-wing talking points".
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 12:05 PM (Fi81e)
And you only made long distance calls on Sunday.
==
And we sacrificed children to Moloch! Good times.
What? I can't be the only one.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)
I thought you were Greek, not Carthginian.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:06 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:06 PM (RBKzD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:05 PM
*fisbump*
With a line attached to a wall.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:06 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:05 PM
*fisbump*
With a line attached to a wall.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:06 PM (kgE5c)
Buttons or rotary dial?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM (vDZgA)
I think it fostered poor work habits. What used to take 10 minutes in the office to resolve took a day working from home. That's my experience.
It wasn't like I could walk over to Joe's cubicle and get the answers I needed or whatever. I had to e-mail or call Joe and hope he replied in a timely fashion.
Joe never replied in a timely fashion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM
Rotary. Then buttons.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)
They try to couch this in glowing terms, that they “incorporate protection circuitry!” But that’s not a feature it’s a bug.
I use lead acid batts in my RV year round. The Lithium were $800 to a $1000 per, and can’t be charged below freezing? fuck that.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 11:58 AM (GbFT6)
---
I don't play golf in 35 degree weather and I charge my cart in my garage that doesn't get down to 35F.
I cut about 200 lbs of weight out of my cart, gained 20 miles of range, and don't have to mess about with replacing heavy ass lead-acids when the Texas heat cooks them after 2-3 years.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 12:08 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:05 PM
*fisbump*
With a line attached to a wall.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:06 PM (kgE5c)
Buttons or rotary dial?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
"Sarah? Get me the general store".
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 12:08 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 12:08 PM (abScH)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Actually, they are already out there including by some of the biggest manufacturers. Right now, the most efficient and most expensive lithium batteries have a density rating about 2:1 to sodium ion but when you consider EVs, the advantage is more like 3:2 in energy density as the most expensive batteries are just not used for mass market EVs that much.
In applications like Powerwalls, etc. the lower costs of sodium ion or aluminum shine as less fire risk, less problems with hazardous materials, and relative scarcity of lithium compared with sodium or aluminum. And sodium/aluminum can be charged and recharged more times than lithium without degradation plus a greater temp range.
We are probably closer to lithium ion limits than we are sodium or aluminum due to age of the technology.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 12:08 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:09 PM (RBKzD)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 12:08 PM
So does the RMBS Mom. Old school ftw.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:09 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM
Rotary. Then buttons.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM
Black or beige?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 12:09 PM (2Ez/1)
All I want for Christmas in July is the 1986 Mazda B2000 with manual transmission, windows, and door locks that my dad gave away to the local mechanic. And the 1970s Speed Queen washer and dryer that we left with the first house when we moved.
Posted by: Chuck C
==============
My Volvo 242 year unknown, probably 1979. 2-door, nothing power not even the steering. Some bitch rear-ended it and the insurance company called it a total loss, like maybe $500. I just saw one go for $6900 at auction.
Ditto for the laundry machines.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 12:09 PM (mmrXZ)
It's worse than that. "Homeowners" has an age demographic implication, so zoomers and half the millenials are immediately out. Bezos is being fucking retarded; Teslas, etc, are a luxury good for an older crowd that owns at least one home AND 2-3 gas vehicles already so they can just take the ICE cars when the WV won't get it done. There is no market for a limited range cheap EV because:
- the existing EV market isn't buying "cheap" or small
- those that could actually use a single econobox, EV or not, don't own homes, struggle with expensive parking, and likely don't have charger access. And - boomer blind spot - a shocking percentage don't have a license or know how to drive (living at home with their parents or in shitbox apartments with no parking)
HALF of those under 35 or so live with their parents. A third or so of the men don't work. Business leaders are being delusional about who can or will buy which products.
Posted by: heya at July 24, 2026 12:10 PM (ND37T)
Buttons or rotary dial?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM (vDZgA)
We had both at one point.
Then the 'cordless' phone came out.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:10 PM (2YhKe)
I think it fostered poor work habits. What used to take 10 minutes in the office to resolve took a day working from home. That's my experience.
It wasn't like I could walk over to Joe's cubicle and get the answers I needed or whatever. I had to e-mail or call Joe and hope he replied in a timely fashion.
Joe never replied in a timely fashion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM (jehhT)
Then Joe is a slacker and work-from-home exposed it. Slackers are the problem, not wfh. In fact, maybe the *real* problem was the so-called management who were too chickenshit to deal with the revealed Joes and instead of rewarding the Martini Farmers, just brought everyone back to the office.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:10 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 12:09 PM
It was the 70s. For all I know it could have been avocado.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:10 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 12:08 PM (abScH)
To be fair, you're still using dial up internet access......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 12:11 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: The world has changed
=======
Your expectations have changed, the world hasn't. If you are young and broke, you buy what you can afford or do without. Same with houses.
A lot of gee gaws are nice to have, but not essential.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 12:11 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Lily Tomlin at July 24, 2026 12:12 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:12 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 12:14 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Max K at July 24, 2026 12:14 PM (WAUGm)
I think it fostered poor work habits. What used to take 10 minutes in the office to resolve took a day working from home. That's my experience.
It wasn't like I could walk over to Joe's cubicle and get the answers I needed or whatever. I had to e-mail or call Joe and hope he replied in a timely fashion.
Joe never replied in a timely fashion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM (jehhT)"
This is the hallmark of an office that is primarily adult daycare, with people not doing real jobs, overseen by management that failed upwards. I am never wasting hours a day and a bunch of gas driving into an office again; but I don't need to, I am one of a couple dozen experts in a specific field and deliver real results.
Most office jobs are 15% people working, 70% people stealing air, and 15% actively hindering the real work. I would say this is a legit application for AI, but there is nothing else for these office decorators to do unless someone convinces them to stay home and have kids instead.
Posted by: heya at July 24, 2026 12:16 PM (ND37T)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 24, 2026 12:17 PM (ypYV4)
Posted by: free tibet at July 24, 2026 12:17 PM (iNp3L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 12:06 PM (RBKzD)
A Diesel series hybrid is perfectly possible. 50 HP normally-aspirated 4 cylinder Diesel, driving a 30 kW generator. Make it 3-phase AC, 480 volts. A 400 volt battery pack with just enough capacity to move the car 5 or 10 miles, no more. 400 volt brushless motor at each wheel. Some power electronics. Diesel makes enough power to keep batteries charged while cruising at highway speeds or lower. To maintain speed on a big hill, the car draws power from the battery, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 12:18 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
California has term limits. How's that working out?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 24, 2026 12:26 PM (hmYU4)
Posted by: free tibet at July 24, 2026 12:17 PM
Not really a pickup. Just like the Ford Maverick it's a unibody. So an SUV with the back end opened up. Or a four door Chevy El Camino, if you will.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)
I think it fostered poor work habits. What used to take 10 minutes in the office to resolve took a day working from home. That's my experience.
It wasn't like I could walk over to Joe's cubicle and get the answers I needed or whatever. I had to e-mail or call Joe and hope he replied in a timely fashion.
Joe never replied in a timely fashion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 12:07 PM (jehhT)
Then Joe is a slacker and work-from-home exposed it. Slackers are the problem, not wfh. In fact, maybe the *real* problem was the so-called management who were too chickenshit to deal with the revealed Joes and instead of rewarding the Martini Farmers, just brought everyone back to the office.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 12:10 PM (vDZgA)
I get far more work done from home than I do in the office because I don't have some jack wagon popping by my cube every 17 minutes with a question that isn't urgent, takes me away from whatever task I was already working on to answer it, and usually turns into some small talk that I have no use for because the person is a jack wagon.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2026 12:14 PM (oqH4h)
Ballistic=Joe
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at July 24, 2026 12:39 PM (igCg8)
Posted by: GWB at July 24, 2026 12:43 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 12:44 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: PabloD at July 24, 2026 01:14 PM (2FqMA)
Posted by: Lost My Cookies at July 24, 2026 02:49 PM (6rDUi)
Make it stop.
Posted by: red speck at July 24, 2026 03:21 PM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: red speck at July 24, 2026 03:28 PM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: Archimedes
I think people who write for Motor Trend hunger for the taste of peen, much like most other "writers" for once reasonably intetesting magazines.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 24, 2026 04:08 PM (s/I2k)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Bonaparte at the Pont D'Arcole
Antoine-Jean Gros
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:31 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:31 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:31 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Jaques-Louis David at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (s/uMh)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (0fIkm)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (FZ29D)
No sunglasses.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:33 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 09:33 AM (diia5)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:33 AM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 09:33 AM (O0L8i)
Basically a smear spread by his haters.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (3cUTc)
This message brought to you by The Foundation for Short Kings.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 09:33 AM (O0L8i)
3rd if you're Canadian.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (2YhKe)
Basically a smear spread by his haters.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
I believe I've read that he was average height for that time period.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (lJ0H4)
Basically a smear spread by his haters.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Tom Cruise is one inch taller than Nappy.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: George Costanza at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (oUopv)
And 10% gayer.
But he does his own stunts so there's that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (SgdqL)
For a 45 year Napoleonic era buff I am not a Napoleon fan Yet read everything I can of tje period.
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (xrWSS)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 09:36 AM (FZ29D)
Tom Cruise is one inch taller than Nappy.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (oUopv)
Internet says Cruz is 5'7-3/4".......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:36 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: PabloD at July 24, 2026 09:36 AM (OygQN)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 09:37 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (O0L8i)
I have never seen a portrait of her in which she looked, you know, particularly attractive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:37 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 09:37 AM (26GAh)
- Napoleon
Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2026 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Tim Waltz, rabid sports enthusiast at July 24, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Like this one would hang in my palatial mansion..Thx CBD, have a great weekend
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 09:38 AM (NemxU)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 09:38 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 09:37 AM (26GAh)
That flag had previously adorned a cupcake.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:38 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 09:39 AM (NpAcC)
Bonaparte L' Effete - a limerick
In the midst of the battle he rose
While striking a fabulous pose
With a steely-eyed stare
From his finely coiffed hair
To the tip of his aristocratic nose!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 09:39 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 09:39 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 09:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 09:40 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM
Actually it's a swash. For his buckle.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 24, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: I'm Batman at July 24, 2026 09:41 AM (967/Q)
Posted by: Bob Ross at July 24, 2026 09:41 AM (HN+yX)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2026 09:41 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: redridinghood
I think it's called a sash, and it's supposed to keep your intestines from spilling out on to your mate.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 09:42 AM (diia5)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (O0L8i)
I have never seen a portrait of her in which she looked, you know, particularly attractive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:37 AM (ExV1e)
If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 09:42 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 09:42 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Sponge
*********
If you have to express your height down to the quarter of an inch, guess what...
...you're short!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 09:43 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Edna Mode at July 24, 2026 09:43 AM (967/Q)
Posted by: rickb223
____
That would still make Nappy average or just a little above for his time.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 24, 2026 09:43 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
He also portrayed Napoleon in a cute little comedy "The Emperor's New Clothes". Early 2000's IIRC.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 09:43 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 09:43 AM (3uBP9)
A point of interest for me. Look at his eyes. They remind me of the eyes in the portrait by David done almost twenty years later. David shows an older, rounder Napoleon but the eyes are the same.
Posted by: JTB at July 24, 2026 09:44 AM (yTvNw)
https://tinyurl.com/ypuz5rws
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 09:39 AM (qRla/)
Here and I thought it would be this.........
https://youtu.be/OP653fXnd1I
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:44 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 09:44 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 09:44 AM (xrWSS)
Bonaparte L' Effete - a limerick
In the midst of the battle he rose
While striking a fabulous pose
With a steely-eyed stare
From his finely coiffed hair
To the tip of his aristocratic nose!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 09:39 AM (I0N4X)
*******
Well done!
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 09:44 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Andy Warhol At The Campbell Soup Plant at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (lJ0H4)
After the rest of them got their heads guillotined off, sure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (T2w7I)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Bonaparte was supposedly between 5'5" & 5'7".
So anywhere between 3/4 of an inch to 2 & 3/4 of an inch.
"The French inch was actually longer than the British inch, leading to any height sounding shorter to the English-speaking world, including Napoleon's height."
https://tinyurl.com/45am87m8
I should have used the French inch back when dating.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (l4RKn)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (26GAh)
Posted by: Sir, I demand satisfaction at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (967/Q)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 09:46 AM (xrWSS)
Posted by: Sponge
*********
If you have to express your height down to the quarter of an inch, guess what...
...you're short!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 09:43 AM
I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 09:46 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2026 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: JTB at July 24, 2026 09:46 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2026 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)
Is his stomach full of jizz?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:47 AM (2YhKe)
++++
Lots of people get rounder as they get older.
Posted by: The bathroom scale at July 24, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM
Actually it's a swash. For his buckle.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
It's a sash. For his ay.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:47 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2026 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)
Now that you mention it, i see it. If you want my body and you think I’m sexy 🎵
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 09:48 AM (26GAh)
++++
Lots of people get rounder as they get older.
Posted by: The bathroom scale
I AM in shape! Round is a shape!
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:48 AM (oUopv)
but what label? bang?
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 09:48 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 09:48 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: red speck at July 24, 2026 09:49 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:49 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Lincoln Arc-Welder at July 24, 2026 09:49 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM
There's a cute British chick with a EweToob cooking channel who, after carefully cutting something into six one-inch pieces, paused and said "That's what six inches is? I've been lied to all me life!"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 09:49 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 09:49 AM (Nt9qU)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 09:49 AM (X58gq)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 09:50 AM (kgE5c)
***********
Luit en les loafferes - a limerick
Napoleon's expressive attaché
Did his job with a certain cachet
He floated on air
He was tres debonair
And he always had an elegant sash, eh?
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 09:51 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:51 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: The Sex Pistols at July 24, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 09:51 AM
So he was French Canadian?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 09:51 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: red speck at July 24, 2026 09:52 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 09:52 AM (XeU6L)
Basically a smear spread by his haters.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
I am so jaded by modern historians and journos that I suspect all histories now of bias and propaganda.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2026 09:53 AM (X58gq)
Posted by: Hair Today-Gone Tomorrow at July 24, 2026 09:53 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Hair Today-Gone Tomorrow at July 24, 2026 09:53 AM
*perks up*
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at July 24, 2026 09:54 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2026 09:54 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: BernieGPT at July 24, 2026 09:55 AM (967/Q)
All seriousness aside, the painting presents a strong image. The black uniform is *really* black, and the gold at his sash and belt are superbly rendered. His hair -- which makes him look like a '70s or '80s rocker, kind of like Rod Stewart -- is well textured as well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)
And while Nappy was a much better administrator then the old regime...he led France into another brutal conflict with all of Europe...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 09:55 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
Almost looks a bit like Andrew Jackson.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:56 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip
You know, like watching CNN.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 09:55 AM
Ahhh hoooo!!!
Posted by: A London Werewolf at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (wzUl9)
I see one guy's response is "The disagreement was never about whether people want secure borders, safe cities, or responsible spending. Most people do. "
and the comical thing is the responses are a mix of right leaning people saying no you idiot this is how we get those things and left leaning people saying of course we don't want any of those racist things Musk wants.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Just the punchline at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (wVcYX)
Roger Taylor, perhaps? The drummer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:59 AM (ExV1e)
Why not shouting to his men? Why not a little more forward angle, leaning into the charge? What the fuck is he wearing that gay little butt-scarf for?
Posted by: red speck at July 24, 2026 09:59 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 09:59 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2026 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)
Hot legs!
Wearing me out.
Make me scream and shout.
I love ya, honey!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 09:59 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026
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Mrs. Wolfus No. 2's joke, no doubt learned from her mother, was: "Why can't women measure distances or tell time? Because all their lives they've been told 'It's eight inches' and 'It's been at least twenty minutes!' "
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 10:00 AM (wzUl9)
but the bottle opener is a nice touch.
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:00 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: mr tmz at July 24, 2026 10:00 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026
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The untold story: Napoleon Bonaparte's affair with Maggie May!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 10:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: red speck at July 24, 2026 09:59 AM (Ve/HL)
I'm just impressed at the rodeo championship buckle he's wearing. I wonder what he got it for.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 10:00 AM (ExV1e)
Sophie Cunningham Reveals Exactly What She Wants in a Husband: “Lead Our House”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 10:02 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: 18-1
That's the thing with commies; the love the trappings of royalty and the murder... but mostly the murder.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 10:02 AM (diia5)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:02 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 24, 2026 10:02 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:03 AM (R11M+)
Generals and Napoleon
Napoleonic Quarterly going 3 months at a time through the Napoleon era
Napoleonic Wars Podcast
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 10:03 AM (xrWSS)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026
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So was Charlemagne. No wonder he was known as "Charles the Great."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 10:04 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: red speck at July 24, 2026 09:59 AM
It's his bustle. For his hedgerow.
Posted by: Don't be alarmed now at July 24, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:05 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)
That and the fact that he killed everyone who called him Chuck.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 10:05 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 24, 2026 10:02 AM (qBdHI)
I seriously thought that Nick Gilder was a chick when I heard that song. Had the most feminine voice. then I saw a picture. I was still unconvinced.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 24, 2026 10:05 AM (PSEDc)
"The Peoplle Who Know Nothing Know Everything"
https://tinyurl.com/4fhuxrh4
This is an outstanding article and I highly recommend that everybody Read The Whole Danged Thing.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 24, 2026 10:06 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:06 AM (R11M+)
Charlemagne got very very lucky. He had a brother named Carloman and their father had split his lands between the two of them so when the father died war looked likely. But then Carloman died...probably naturally. And though he had sons of his own his wife decided to flee, essentially giving those lands to Charlemagne.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:06 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026
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Probably why Napoleon liked the portrait, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 10:07 AM (wzUl9)
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I think it was Don Kirschner's Rock Concert that I first saw him back in the '70s. I distinctly remember laughing at how weird looking (and sounding) I thought he was.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 24, 2026 10:07 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 09:57 AM (wVcYX)
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Rik Emmett of "Triumph" FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 10:07 AM (9EFgU)
English propaganda made it seem like he was much shorter than he was but in reality he was average height for a man of his era.
The more you know.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:07 AM (GFRGc)
Charlemagne sent her a letter telling her that he had no intention of raping her and killing her children but he used the comic sans font so she didn't believe him.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 10:09 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: vmom
This smacks of McCarthyism.
Oh! I think I see what you mean. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2026 10:09 AM (O6Iwc)
Posted by: No Name Today at July 24, 2026 10:09 AM (8mulE)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:10 AM (R11M+)
and sun light
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (R11M+)
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Fascinating -- was unaware of that.
Reminder: the Mars Climate Orbiter disaster in 1999 was caused by a "unit mix-up," where one team used metric units (Newtons) while the contractor used imperial units (pound-force).
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (9EFgU)
Don’t put them together on the same tray, or they’ll fight.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: No Name Today
He used Lemon Up shampoo.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (lJ0H4)
(...wait for it...)
...a New Elbonian pull-apart?
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: From about a that Time at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (+Iea0)
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Dead Yet? at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (ftsic)
Posted by: cmeat
Chuck is like your crazy uncle in the attic.
Posted by: Ritchie Cunningham
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:12 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:12 AM (R11M+)
Croissant
Danish
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:13 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:13 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: PabloD at July 24, 2026 09:36 AM
Come to think of it, Corn Pop wore ribbons and frills.
Posted by: Jos. Robinette Biden at July 24, 2026 10:14 AM (HwFfr)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 24, 2026 10:15 AM (JNTt1)
but only zacher torte had a war fought over it.
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (26GAh)
In the aftermath of the Beer Hall Putsch, Schickelgruber and his posse were marching to the Feldhernnhalle when the bullets began flying. The first Nazi hit was a man whose arm was linked with Hitler's: Max von Scheubner-Richter, who took a shot to the chest and was killed instantly. As he fell, his deadweight yanked Hitler to the ground, sparing der Fuhrer from certain death.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 10:15 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 10:15 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:15 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 24, 2026 10:16 AM (l4RKn)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 10:16 AM (HwFfr)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 10:17 AM (rbvCR)
"We're back again for another edition of the Republican Party's great replacement theory therapy session, where all the white men of the House Judiciary Committee lecture Americans on the importance of mass deportations."
Crockett also argued Republican immigration policies undermine what she called American values.
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Jasmine Crockett: “Isn't it interesting that thousands of white people storming the US Capitol beating police officers made it home safely, but brown people posing no threat to ICE agents are suddenly killed in cold blood?”
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Going out with a bang.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 10:18 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM (9EFgU)
An Air Canada flight ran out of fuel mid-air right around the time Canada switched from imperial to metric. It happened because the ground crew mixed up metric and imperial units when calculating the amount of fuel needed.
Luckily for everyone there was an abandoned airport on the path of the flight that was used to land the plane safely. The pilot glided a 767 down, with no injuries for anyone on board.That’s some hero shit right there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:19 AM (GFRGc)
Black heritage Americans see their political power reduced at exactly the same rate as white heritage Americans by the introduction of millions of muslims and Asians.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:19 AM (sKqQm)
but only zacher torte had a war fought over it.
Posted by: cmeat
The Pastry War, (1838–1839), began in November 1838 when French naval forces blockaded ports in Mexico, and captured San Juan de Ulúa in Veracruz.
You can learn a lot of useless trivia on Facebook.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:19 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:19 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Hedwig, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 10:20 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:15 AM (sKqQm)
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BREAKING: Christopher Nolan Announces Next #Woke Project -- A Napoleon Biopic Starring Samuel L. Jackson in "Nappy."
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 10:20 AM (Cfsay)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:13 AM (sKqQm)
I think it was Austrian!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 24, 2026 10:16 AM (l4RKn)
Quite so. The crescent shape represents the Muslim banner.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 10:20 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:13 AM (sKqQm)
I think it was Austrian!
Correct. It was supposedly developed in honor of the Austria/Polish victory at the Siege of Vienna and later brought to France by a Viennese baker.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:20 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:20 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 10:21 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Don Lemon at July 24, 2026 10:21 AM (HwFfr)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2026 10:22 AM (E6ouU)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:22 AM (R11M+)
I dare your worthless black ass to say that to the faces of the families of Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland.
Pustulent assholes like Crockett are why congress needs a shitload more Preston Brooks acolytes.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 10:22 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 24, 2026 10:22 AM (I0N4X)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. He's incredibly clean for being on a battlefield.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2026 10:22 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Pont D'Arcole at July 24, 2026 10:22 AM (Cv/v8)
Posted by: No Name Today at July 24, 2026 10:09 AM
Only his hairdresser knew for sure.
Posted by: L'Oreal at July 24, 2026 10:23 AM (2Ez/1)
I've seen plenty of threads about the people killed by ICE where the lefty poster rants that the police have no right to kill anyone peacefully protesting and when some right leaning poster brings up the murdered women on J6 the answer is always "that's (d)ifferent! They deserved to be killed. FAFO amiright?!?"
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:23 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:56 AM (ExV1e)
I always thought Andrew Jackson looked a bit like Simon Bolivar.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 10:23 AM (rbvCR)
He'd even sent off for a set of the official weights and measures from Paris.
Only for the ship they were on to be captured by pirates.
Not a happy ending for all involved, of course.
But with the Imperial system, the US ended up:
Putting a man on the Moon
Building aircraft carriers (that still work)
Inventing the nuclear bomb
What's metric have to say for itself?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 10:24 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:15 AM (sKqQm)
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BREAKING: Christopher Nolan Announces Next #Woke Project -- A Napoleon Biopic Starring Samuel L. Jackson in "Nappy."
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 10:20 AM (Cfsay)
And Eldridge Cleaver, in his famous "Action Pants" as Napoleon's right-hand man, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, the indispensable Chief of Staff and Major-General of the Grande Armée.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 10:24 AM (wVcYX)
It's now a fashion, food, and boob thread. Might as well work guns into it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 10:24 AM (HwFfr)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:24 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 24, 2026 10:25 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:25 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Internationally-Acclaimed Actress Rula Lenska at July 24, 2026 10:25 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 10:24 AM (wVcYX)
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Snakes at Versailles.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:26 AM (Fi81e)
French: [kʁwasɑ̃]
The legends include tales that it was invented in Europe to celebrate the defeat of the Umayyad forces by the Franks at the Battle of Tours in 732, with the shape representing the Islamic crescent; that it was invented in Buda; or, according to other sources, in Vienna in 1683 to celebrate the defeat of the Ottomans by Christian forces in the siege of the city, as a reference to the crescents on the Ottoman flags, when bakers staying up all night heard the tunneling operation and gave the alarm.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:26 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:26 AM (R11M+)
Pustulent assholes like Crockett are why congress needs a shitload more Preston Brooks acolytes.
Nah, they're largely going away anyway with the loss of the MM districts. Black America faces a choice; do you want to elect black faces who can appeal to more than you, or do you want to keep on electing black lunatics in ever decreasing numbers, effectively ghettoizing yourselves, and making yourselves irrelevant to a national party?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:26 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:56 AM (ExV1e)
I always thought Andrew Jackson looked a bit like Simon Bolivar.
Posted by: Kindltot
You mean that TV fella Simon Cowell?
Posted by: Auspex at July 24, 2026 10:27 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 10:11 AM
*The Gimli Glider has entered the chat*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 10:27 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:27 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bumper sticker in the Smithsonian at July 24, 2026 10:27 AM (2Ez/1)
She is going to be a guest on msnbc for the next 10 years playing the angry back woman role. She knows exactly what’s she’s doing. It’s all calculated. And it’s effective because you’re talking about her.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:27 AM (GFRGc)
https://shorturl.at/AwY7C
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 10:28 AM (XeU6L)
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During the darkest days of WWII, the Brits tried to reinforce Malta with new Spitfires. The plan was to launch them from an aircraft carrier to land on Malta. Launch point was determined by the range of the Spitfires. Unfortunately, the RAF used miles and the RN used knots so all the planes ran out of fuel and crashed into the Mediterranean.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 10:28 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 24, 2026 10:20 AM (Cfsay)
I am glad he abandoned the Ghengis Khan biopic project that was supposed to be a vehicle for Zendaya in the title role.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 10:28 AM (rbvCR)
I suspect few of those lunatics actually had a majority of voters in their district vote for them.
Yes the people in those districts aren't upset about it enough to do anything, but I don't believe that 51% of the people in those districts voted for their Hank Johnson types
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 10:29 AM (sKqQm)
1. Countries that use metric
2. Countries that have walked on the moon.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:29 AM (GFRGc)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 24, 2026 10:29 AM (Q/e2v)
I suppose so, if you consider a minstrel show to be effective. That's what she's becoming. Both of MSNBC's viewers will like what they see.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)
Hope you all have a wonderful day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 10:30 AM (qRla/)
It's now a fashion, food, and boob thread. Might as well work guns into it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
The French Charleville musket vs the British Baker rifle?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:30 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 24, 2026 10:30 AM (icmmM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 10:30 AM (xSAlF)
This too is the story of the Nolan Odyssey...
Posted by: LizLem at July 24, 2026 10:30 AM (y1jtk)
A "Gone with the Wind" race recast was written up here a couple years ago, I think Melissa McCarthy played the Hattie McDanial role.
Posted by: Auspex at July 24, 2026 10:31 AM (Y8DZL)
1. Countries that use metric
2. Countries that have walked on the moon.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:29 AM (GFRGc)
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That would cook as a meme, if it's not already.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:31 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 10:31 AM (3uBP9)
Don't be so mean
I like the way you look
But now I've got a date with the Duke
Not tonight ya Josephine
Don't be so mean
I'll stand on my heels for you
But now I've got a date at Waterloo
Posted by: LizLem at July 24, 2026 10:31 AM (y1jtk)
Napoleon held in a fart
Clenched his cheeks so they'd never part
Denied his backcourt
The fart left the wrong port
And blew Napoleon's Bonaparte!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 10:31 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 10:32 AM (77rzZ)
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Racist bitch!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)
. . . after 5 months of BLM riots, including looting, destruction of property in the billions, and dozens dead.
Yes, Jasmine, isn't it amazing these "white people storming the capitol" managed to behave so much better than BLM and antifa.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2026 10:33 AM (X8xt3)
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Racist bitch!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I'd be taking that all the way to SCOTUS.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:33 AM (oUopv)
decades later buell did the same thing.
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:34 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:34 AM (GFRGc)
2. Countries that have walked on the moon.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:29 AM (GFRGc)
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Liberians have walked on the Moon?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:35 AM (FZ29D)
According to Duck.AI or something: 'The Justice Department has not published a single “resisting arrest” conviction count for January 6 cases specifically. '
Well, there must be a pattern here somewhere, I just can't quite put my finger on it.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 10:35 AM (w/O5Q)
EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Schumer Is A 5,000-Year-Old Shapeshifting Demon Who Lives Underground In A Flying Saucer Buried In New York!
Alex ain't wrong in principle . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 10:35 AM (rbvCR)
She was found not guilty with her behavior with the kid. It was behavior with the adult...saying a bad word to him...that got her convicted. Should be an easy 1st amendment case, no?
@JFGariepy
This trial was a travesty.
I am happy that the lawyer of Shiloh is energized for appeal. I will be supporting with further donations to fund the appeal.
Posted by: LizLem at July 24, 2026 10:35 AM (y1jtk)
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:34 AM
That, and "I can't drive 88.5" sounds stupid.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 10:36 AM (kgE5c)
1. A white woman armed with a car.
2. A white man armed with a gun.
Neither of these weapons were wielded by Jan 6th rioters.
Hardly that suddenly "brown people" are getting killed by ICE, or the people who were killed compare to protestors or rioters on January 6th.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:36 AM (Fi81e)
The Celsius temperature scale sucks even worse than the rest of the sucky metric system.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: What's a fortnight? at July 24, 2026 10:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:30 AM
No love for the India Pattern Musket or Brown Bess?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 10:37 AM (fTdlq)
It's basically 3 lines repeating, ffs:
Hit the road, Jack
And don't you come 'round no more
No more, no more, no more
And they couldn't remember that.
Really isn't their best and brightest, is it?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 10:37 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Metric advocates trying to update horse racing at July 24, 2026 10:37 AM (Riz8t)
>>Two types of countries in the world
1. Countries that use metric
2. Countries that have walked on the moon.
The whole the US doesn't use metric and the world does is a misnomer, we use metric where it's appropriate and SAE where it's appropriate.
When you need a high degree of precision, shooting off rockets, piledriving structural steel, administering medicine, measuring whiskey we use metric, things that don't need precision we use SAE.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)
2. Countries that have walked on the moon.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:29 AM (GFRGc)
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Liberians have walked on the Moon?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:35 AM (FZ29D)
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Fix: Countries that may have walked on the moon.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:38 AM (Fi81e)
Whose farts were a battlefield trap.
At the charge of the day,
His men ran away,
Yelling, “Mon Dieu! That’s a serious gap!”
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 10:38 AM (ugElV)
Posted by: What's a fortnight? at July 24, 2026 10:36 AM (2Ez/1)
And yet driving distances in Texas are measured in time.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 10:39 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:39 AM (GFRGc)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
"We don't use yards, we use meters! Totally different!"
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 10:39 AM (rJhDk)
Posted by: What's a fortnight? at July 24, 2026 10:36 AM
https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk
Posted by: It can be hard to fathom at July 24, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:30 AM
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It was a French Mistake.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:39 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 10:39 AM (SwCxT)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:40 AM (R11M+)
decades later buell did the same thing.
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:34 AM (R11M+)
I've noticed a lot more Volvo SUVs on the road recently, mostly the EX60 and EX90.
Any ideas why Snowbilly automotive technology is suddenly popular?
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 10:40 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 10:38 AM
Tolerances of 0.001 inch or less aren't precision?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 10:40 AM (fTdlq)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:41 AM (Fi81e)
On birthright citizenship, Fordham scholar wants ‘repercussions’ for conservative views
Law professors who support limits on birthright citizenship should be shunned in academia, according to a Fordham University scholar.
“There MUST be repercussions for the lawprofs who advanced such untenable arguments. Their behavior is — and I mean this literally, not dehumanizingly — parasitic,” John Pfaff (pictured) wrote in a since-deleted post on BlueSky.
https://tinyurl.com/5x8s35ux
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 10:41 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:42 AM (R11M+)
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It's really not useful for anything.
For everyday, it's garbage; "it's 30 degrees Celsius. You mean 86?"
For science, there's K and R that make more sense.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 10:42 AM (3cUTc)
We use both and are conversant in both, because they're the same.
- Ex-engineer and machinist.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 10:42 AM (rJhDk)
And curbside pharmaceuticals.
Posted by: Drug dealers everywhere at July 24, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream - Zed's dead, baby at July 24, 2026 10:43 AM (3uBP9)
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Ah. BlueSky. That explains the fascism.
"We can't win the argument, so we must struggle everyone who tries to win it."
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:43 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:44 AM (R11M+)
What is 1000 tons called sir? Nothing. How many yards in a mile? Nobody knows. 12 inches to a foot 12 feet to a yard? If only it were that simple.
But it’s our American thing so fuck all y'all who want to take it away.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:44 AM (GFRGc)
Not a happy ending for all involved, of course.
The reasons why Jefferson went scorched earth on the Barbary pirates during his presidency becomes more and more clear!
Posted by: LizLem at July 24, 2026 10:44 AM (qqQuL)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2026 10:40 AM
The Dewey Fraction System never caught on.
Posted by: Your local librarian at July 24, 2026 10:45 AM (2Ez/1)
• Napoleon I (1769–1821), emperor 1804–14 and 1815; full name Napoleon Bonaparte; known as Napoleon.
In 1799, he joined a conspiracy that overthrew the Directory, becoming the supreme ruler of France.
He declared himself emperor in 1804 and established an empire stretching from Spain to Poland.
After defeats at Trafalgar in 1805 and in Russia in 1812, he abdicated and was exiled to the island of Elba in 1814.
He returned to power in 1815, but was defeated at Waterloo and exiled to the island of St. Helena.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 10:45 AM (faghi)
EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Schumer Is A 5,000-Year-Old Shapeshifting Demon Who Lives Underground In A Flying Saucer Buried In New York!
Alex ain't wrong in principle . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 10:35 AM (rbvCR)
Frankly, I expect a lot more out a 5,000 Demon. No, Chuck is just a slimy, corrupt piece of every day garbage. He just happens to have been in place long enough to have done a lot of favors and distributed levels of graft that may be unrivaled in Human History.
He's not some supernatural force, he's the chump who threw a party with his parents on vacation and the place got trashed. He just doesn't give a F because there will be no consequences.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 10:46 AM (w/O5Q)
can someone explain what's up with his neck? it looks like he's fetterman's lump there under his shirt.
Posted by: anachronda at July 24, 2026 10:46 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:46 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:46 AM (R11M+)
What we didn’t do was change mileage on the highway, or mph. That’s about it. Fahrenheit works fine. Celsius works fine, anything works fine actually, and converting between standards is done all the time. Pay attention, or Bad Things happen.
It’s a non-issue, only brought up by people who have nothing better to do than rag on something they don’t really understand
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 10:47 AM (GbFT6)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 24, 2026 10:49 AM (fQFd2)
Any ideas why Snowbilly automotive technology is suddenly popular?
i thought they were owned by the chinese these days.
Posted by: anachronda at July 24, 2026 10:49 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 10:50 AM (DZ9Lv)
How it sorts out the people who can't reduce/increase fractions in their head.
What's next up from 1/2 inch? That's 4/8; so next is 5/8 or 9/16 (no one really does a 17/32 but it's there if you need it)
Metric; 10, 11, 12, 13 hur-dee-dur I can count the numbers
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 10:50 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 10:46 AM (w/O5Q)
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The Cat in the Hat is a lib fantasy. They have all the fun they want and miraculously everything is back into place at the end. Trust them. It will all work.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:50 AM (Fi81e)
Perferct
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2026 09:54 AM (X8xt3)
98 Olgachy!
Posted by: BernieGPT at July 24, 2026 09:55 AM (967/Q)
What is up with the spelling, here?
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 10:50 AM (faghi)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 10:50 AM (3uBP9)
Again, if you are building a launch pad, you use the imperial system, if you are shooting rockets into space, from the launch pad, you are going to use the metric system.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 10:50 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 10:51 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 10:51 AM (77rzZ)
the volvos that transition from low rpm kompressor to hi rpm turbo are intriguing.
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:51 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 10:51 AM (rJhDk)
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Oh, is that how it works? OK. Non-scholars want you run through a wood chipper. This could be a lot of fun!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 10:51 AM (GbFT6)
Metric; 10, 11, 12, 13 hur-dee-dur I can count the numbers
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 10:50 AM (3cUTc)
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I've used a x/64 drill bit before.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:51 AM (Fi81e)
that's because texas is astronomically large.
Posted by: anachronda at July 24, 2026 10:52 AM (v3pYe)
Saw "Exit 8" last night on Shudder.
It's billed as one of those "liminal horror" movies so popular with the kids right now, and I suppose it is in a way.
But, really it's more of a psychological puzzle that's an allegory for personal and social responsibility in engaging the real world as opposed to the online/game world and indirectly addresses the falling birthrate in Japan.
*Whew* Pretty heavy lifting for a 95 minute movie, but there are no lecture at all. It all told within the context of the story with almost no dialogue.
This is definitely a "dig my groove" movie. Excellent acting, directing, story but very very slow burning.
If you can catch its vibe, you'll enjoy "Exit 8" a lot.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 10:52 AM (iJfKG)
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Well, most all liquor in the US is sold by the liter or milliliter.
Whether this is because it's sold overseas or nets big liquor more money is debatable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: hermione at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (xcxpd)
that's because texas is astronomically large.
Posted by: anachronda at July 24, 2026 10:52 AM (v3pYe)
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Texas is approximately 0.000132 light-years wide.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Socket set trivia at July 24, 2026 10:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Feet per second, mph, and nautical miles for distance.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 10:54 AM (GbFT6)
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 10:54 AM (LHPAg)
A measurement like 3 and 11.574/64" would make the metric crowd feel at home.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 10:54 AM (rJhDk)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 10:54 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:54 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (xcxpd)
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"Harumph!"
-Abel Gance, having made the great Napoleon epic in 1927
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 10:54 AM (LHPAg)
it is an acquired skill. I never really mastered it, so I switched to handguns for EDC
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (xcxpd)
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"Harumph!"
-Abel Gance, having made the great Napoleon epic in 1927
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (RWrid)
I thought 'Waterloo' was the great Napolean epic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (FZ29D)
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Need that in AUs.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Jeez. 165 grains of bp. My .50 cal Hawken runs best on 70 to 90 grains.
According to Spearman in The British Gunner, the standard service charge for the Brown Bess was 6 drams (165 grains) of black powder, including the powder used for priming.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (oUopv)
Toilet seats up/down, CE vs AD, the Nineteenth Amendment.
Daylight Saving. Online indicators of A Slow News Day.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 10:56 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 10:56 AM (SwCxT)
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I’ve never heard anyone say I weigh 60 kilograms or I’m a meter 78 tall. My house is measured in sq feet not meters. Water heaters are sold in gallon sizes. My shirt collar size is measured in inches not centimeters. TVs sizes are in inches. If I buy mulch I’m buying it in cubic yards. Tires sizes are inches. The list is endless.
Maybe officially the us is metric but normal every day life inside the us is lived in imperial.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 10:56 AM (GFRGc)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 10:56 AM (77rzZ)
I thought 'Waterloo' was the great Napolean epic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (xcxpd)
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Bondarchuck can't match the effect of the triptych effect at the end of Gance's magnum opus.
Bondarchuck's War and Peace > Bondarchuck's Waterloo
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 10:56 AM (RWrid)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Tossed her out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:57 AM (RBKzD)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 10:57 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (FZ29D)
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Need that in AUs.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (Fi81e)
6184 furlongs.
Posted by: AoSHQ FFF Maven at July 24, 2026 10:57 AM (3aLWR)
>>Feet per second, mph, and nautical miles for distance.
Yes, because it's understandable at a human level, it's the reason why we made higher level computer languages that were human readable, because programming and visualizing at the fundamental level of the computer in 0's and 1's a tad difficult.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2026 10:57 AM (XV/Pl)
Leaked police memo warned officers to be wary of policing the BAME community during BLM riots for fear of risking community tensions.
According to a 2024 report by Lord Walney, the Government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption, officers were “kicked to the ground” and pelted with bottles and other missiles.
However, during the riots, police were told to “be mindful of possible increased tensions when interacting with the BAME community”, and warned against arresting violent agitators.
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (O7XEN)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (2YhKe)
... and invite her to retort about freedom of speech? Let her rant.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (faghi)
Whether this is because it's sold overseas or nets big liquor more money is debatable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
The best liquor is sold in mason jars.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (oUopv)
Tossed her out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 10:57 AM (RBKzD)
Voters did that. Congress needs to put her crap on record for the world to see historically in the hopes that shit like that never happens again.
I know, I know.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (Ogd6l)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (2YhKe)
... and invite her to retort about freedom of speech? Let her rant.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (faghi)
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Congress censuring its own members for saying stupid shit?
Who wouldn't be censured?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (RWrid)
Daylight Saving. Online indicators of A Slow News Day.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (zdLoL)
Internet working is the best indicator of a Slow News Day
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (Nyq9f)
that's because texas is astronomically large.
Posted by: anachronda at July 24, 2026 10:52 AM (v3pYe)
It's 12 parsecs across, just like the Kessel Run.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Long Ago and Far Away at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (FZ29D)
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Need that in AUs.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (Fi81e)
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Upon double-checking AI-generated math, I was off by a few decimal points...
It's more like Texas is 1.31 x 10^-10 light-years wide.
Or 8.32 x 10^-6 AUs
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (FZ29D)
The best liquor is sold in mason jars.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (oUopv)
And I'm almost out of the best I've ever had, and likely will never have again........
I haz sadz
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 10:59 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (SwCxT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (RBKzD)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (R11M+)
Fahrenheit is more accurate than celsius.
No, it's more precise, at least as it's used in single units.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (Riz8t)
In the summer of 2020, the Prime Minister appointed the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities to review the causes for race inequality in the UK. In its report, published on 31 March 2021, the Commission found that aggregate terms like ‘BAME’ (black, Asian and minority ethnic) were no longer helpful and should be dropped, advocating instead a focus on understanding disparities and outcomes for specific ethnic groups.
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (O7XEN)
The fact that Napoleon remains the greatest hero of a country he killed and abandoned millions of young men tells you everything you need to know about France.
Great pic, CBD.
Posted by: Auspex at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (Fi81e)
Congress censuring its own members for saying stupid shit?
Who wouldn't be censured?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 10:58 AM (RWrid)
There's stupid shit, then there's her inflammatory, racially biased, riot inducing, country splitting, civil war starting over the top bullshit.
There IS a difference.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:01 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2026 11:01 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 11:01 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: Auspex at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (Y8DZL)
Really nice of you to add that Mitch McConnell comment as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:01 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2026 11:01 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:02 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 10:53 AM (FZ29D)
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Need that in AUs.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (Fi81e)
6184 furlongs.
Posted by: AoSHQ FFF Maven at July 24, 2026 10:57 AM (3aLWR)
Or about 273,067 elephants.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Long Ago and Far Away at July 24, 2026 11:02 AM (wVcYX)
Fahrenheit is more accurate than celsius.
No, it's more precise, at least as it's used in single units.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (Riz8t)
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F is also more oriented toward weather.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 11:02 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 11:03 AM (Nyq9f)
There IS a difference.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 11:00 AM (2YhKe)
She's reading from a script. Just their latest minstrel show.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 11:04 AM (Nyq9f)
I think you mean America offshored manufacturing a long time ago, as anybody with a million wrenches and sockets at home can attest. The only metric thing in common usage that I can think of is a 2-liter bottle of Coke (which we all know is close enough to 1/126th of a hogshead).
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2026 11:06 AM (rJhDk)
Posted by: Why not hooves? at July 24, 2026 11:09 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: From about That Time
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I always ask, 'what is that in imperial measurement?'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:12 AM (RBKzD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 11:13 AM (RBKzD)
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 10:54 AM (LHPAg)
it is an acquired skill. I never really mastered it, so I switched to handguns for EDC
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2026 10:55 AM (xcxpd)
True dat.
Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2026 11:18 AM (LHPAg)
On Wednesday, March 25th, 2026, at Artcurial’s Old Master & 19th Century Drawings auction, bidders will have the opportunity to compete for a drawing by Antoine-Jean Gros depicting General Bonaparte’s capture of the Bridge of Arcole on November 15th, 1796. The work is a preparatory study for the celebrated painting Bonaparte au pont d’Arcole, now in the collection of the Palace of Versailles.
This historic drawing was made on December 7th, 1796, in Milan, during a short posing session organised by Joséphine de Beauharnais. Baron Gros was 25 years old at the time, and Bonaparte was 27. Before returning to the front, Bonaparte agreed to spend a few minutes with this painter, who was as young and hungry for glory as he was. With a few strokes of his pencil, the artist captured the impetuous general's features with striking accuracy. All the romantic passion of the victorious military leader is wonderfully rendered in this drawing. The hero's face shows an unparalleled determination to win. Bonaparte's gaze is as striking as Gros's execution of the drawing, which confirms, with this work created well before Delacroix, his place as the founding father of French Romanticism.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 02:11 PM (NFX2v)
The Morning Report — 7/ 24 /26
Good Morning kids. With everything going on across the country and around the world today, and as you can see from the breadth and depth of the links this morning, there's a metric shit-ton of meshugas to deal with and unpack. Despite that this item just ticks me the hell off.
There Are No Ag ‘Jobs Americans Won’t Do’ If They Earn A Living WageIt's not so much the meat of the essay itself which I agree with .. .
Whenever Republicans talk about immigration enforcement, amnesty supporters chant the same tired line: What about picking crops? What about meat processing? Those are necessary jobs that Americans simply refuse to do. That argument was used to justify dozens of House Republicans’ latest mass amnesty effort. Their proposal would give illegal alien agriculture workers a pathway to legal status through the H-2A program, even though they have broken multiple laws by being in the United States illegally and getting a job without a work permit. Their employer has also violated the law by hiring these illegals.Indeed, so Psaki-Psircling back to that headline, it's this insane completely Commie Leftist garbage of a so-called "Living wage." What a person is paid is or at least in a sane world is merely a reflection of the value of the job or task performed as dictated by market forces such as the skills required to perform them and the availability or lack thereof of the people required to perform them in bringing a product or service to market at a price the public can afford and that an employer can afford to pay to have them performed to stay in business and still remain profitable. But as the author of this piece points out or at least hints at, is that it's the employers who have over the past several decades willingly employed legal and illegal aliens in order to keep their costs down and in doing so have done untold damage to the labor market and with it the societal dissolution that came with it as we are living through now. Beyond agriculture, whole industries, especially steel and automobile manufacturing and many others were off-shored deliberately so that corporate America can reap mass profits at the expense of the American worker and citizen, cheap mass-produced consumer goods notwithstanding. Forgetting the price tag for a moment, if wages across the board had parity with the cost-of-living in general would we really be paying that much more in real dollars if goods were produced here in America with American workers? Of course we still have to factor in the greed of the essentially Democrat-aligned labor unions as well as the mafia-like extortion of federal, state and local governments and their odious regulatory regimes that make everything that much more expensive. Yes, some sane and minimal degree of responsibility on the part of business is a necessary evil, but in the past that was the purview of the courts as well as enforced by a sense of moral responsibility of business owners not to kill or otherwise poison their neighbors and customers. Yes rounding up and deporting as many of the illegals as possible is to be applauded, but disincentivizing them from coming here in the first place begins with those who hire them in the first place. So this done forcefully and continually will have a salutary effect and is something we've been screaming about for years, so bravo to the President for this. Stiff fines and prison sentences will do the trick.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Todd Lyons said in an interview Sunday that his agency will crack down on American companies hiring unauthorized workers. “Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we’re focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these laborers,” Lyons said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” “These people that came here for a better life. You know, either, you know, forced labor, child trafficking, you know, a lot of these work site cases — just isn’t a victimless crime of someone here working illegally,” he added. “And that’s why we’re going there with these criminal warrants to focus on these American businesses that are trying to make an extra dollar on the backs of these people that came here for a better life.”Sadly we'll get just as much resistance from the GOP on this as we will from the Democrats, as is the gravamen of the aforementioned essay.
Pro-amnesty Republicans are allowing the agriculture industry to shut out American workers in favor of foreign migrants.Have a great weekend,
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- The leaks have raised serious concerns within the Secret Service, the FBI, and the White House, given the potential risks posed by unauthorized disclosures. The suspended agent’s future remains uncertain as the investigation continues, with potential administrative or criminal consequences on the table.
Secret Service Agent Accused of Leaking Sensitive Info About Vance.
- How convenient that this new DSA crop proposes to fix the problems it’s causing.
Democratic Socialists Channel Cloward-Piven "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - The fines aim to pressure illegal migrants to leave voluntarily while addressing economic concerns such as wage suppression and housing costs caused by illegal migration. While it is highly unlikely that it will be possible to collect the fines in full, many long-term illegal immigrants do have cars, properties, and other assets that could be seized to defray their bills, and DHS reports that over $1.2 million had been collected as of July 16.
DHS Imposes $84 Billion in Fines on Over 100,000 Illegal Migrants.
- "It’s a racket, a scam, and a public safety hazard."
Trump Forced To Release 65,000 ICE Detainees. Here’s Why.
- “When he was taken from us, it all died with him."
Illegal Who Murdered Beloved Restaurant Owner Sentenced To Prison
- Pro-amnesty Republicans are allowing the agriculture industry to shut out American workers in favor of foreign migrants.
There Are No Ag ‘Jobs Americans Won’t Do’ If They Earn A Living Wage
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??) - “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,” Trump told Axios, describing a potential operation that the outlet reported would exceed the scale of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. campaign that began alongside Israel earlier this year.
Trump May Order ‘Massive Attack’ on Iran ‘Bigger Than Ever Before’ as U.S. Weighs Next Move
- “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Houthis Claim Two Attacks on Red Sea Saudi Oil Tankers as U.S. Completes 12th Night of Strikes
- Axios: “Using B-1 bombers, which can carry two dozen 2,000-lb. bombs or dozens of cruise missiles, signaled a significant escalation and expansion of the U.S. military campaign.”
Report: B-1 Bombers Deployed as U.S. Intensifies Iran Strikes
- Option A: The Iranian regime is toppled, its leaders killed or forced to flee, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is completely dismantled. Whatever government arises from the ashes is friendly to the West, or at least not openly hostile. . . At this point, President Trump has little choice but to follow through with Option A.
There Are Only Two Possible Endgames for Iran
- Yes, and the reason why is clear.
Does Iran Really Want a Nuclear Bomb?* * * * * - ...However, President Trump seems determined to see through the conflict, warning in a Truth Social post on Thursday morning that the U.S. could widen its strikes to target the Houthis in Yemen, who are currently moving to choke off the Red Sea as an alternative transit route for global oil, after Iran largely closed the Strait of Hormuz.
House Votes to Limit Trump’s Iran War Powers After Four Republicans Join Dems. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - The United States Geological Survey (USGS) data showed the 5.0 quake’s epicenter was just over 20 miles southeast of Spearman, Texas, KWCH reported. “The initial report shows that it could be felt as far away as an area near Kinsley, about 40 miles east of Dodge City.;Rare Magnitude 5.0 Earthquake Shakes Texas Panhandle
- The Federalist contacted 16 House Dems in competitive districts to see where they stand on packing SCOTUS and whether they’ll support HJR 1 when it comes to the floor.
Vulnerable House Dems Refuse To Say If They’ll Back Anti-Court-Packing Amendment
- The impasse comes days after a new poll signaled AOC's emergence as a formidable 2028 Democratic presidential contender.
Republicans Love This Titty-Caca AOC-Led Bill, But They Don’t Want To Pass It WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Is there any end to this?
Muslim Migrants and the Mentally Retarded Girls They Rape OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS - ...“investigating claims that the suspect said ‘Allah Akbar,’ meaning ‘God is the greatest’ in Arabic, before one of the attacks.” The Jewish victim, Yezhak Grunhaus, was wearing a yarmulke at the time of the attack, having previously left the synagogue at Central Park Wes
Possible Hate Crime as Jewish, Asian Man Stabbed in New York City
- The New York mayor finally admits that his long-running threat to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu is a nonstarter—but did he actually believe that he could?
Mamdani and the Left’s Israel Fantasy FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Restoring the FCC’s authority to auction spectrum licenses to the private sector was one of the many fantastic provisions of the Big Beauty that went largely unnoticed but has massive positive economic implications.
FCC To Unleash An Economic Boom, Thanks To Trump Tax Bill
- Regulation would help curb some of their biggest problems.
Prediction Market Ads Are Out of Control
- "Over the last month or so, I’ve had the opportunity to sleep with four different men ..."
Former CNN Star Reduced To Posting Risqué Photos, Blogging About Sex Life* * * * * - As the race to deploy more powerful models accelerates, so do the risks regulators and developers may not fully control.
Advanced OpenAI Model Goes Rogue and Hacks into Rival Firm’s AI System
- All roads point to one source of funding.
The Manufactured ‘Bipartisan’ Push for an AI Kill Switch
- Columbia County, Georgia, recently purchased almost 2,000 acres near an Amazon facility for the proposed data center.
Why This County Is Fighting For A Data Center THE ECONOMY, STUPID - Corporate America should understand that every act of cronyism purchases temporary protection at the expense of capitalism’s future.
Corporate America Must Reject Cronyism
- After all, you would expect that cash to flow back into the economy in two possible ways. Either it goes straight to the bottom line of the companies receiving it, as a kind of one-off bonus, or else it is passed on to customers in the form of lower prices. Judging by the data so far, remarkably little of it is showing up at the till.
Major US companies are pocketing the Trump tariff refunds and stiffing consumers. It’s time to pay up RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM - 'That sort of flexibility is just not something that I'm looking for,' Colorado Livestock Association CEO said of Manny Rutinel
Colorado Dem Running for Congress as 'Friend' of Ranchers Urged Meat Producers To 'Transition' to Plants To Fight Climate Change
- “Dear American journalists and social media ‘influencers’: for days, some of you have been criticizing and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room…OMG, this is so rich!”
France Sees 5,700 Excess Deaths During Heatwave Amid AC Debate. CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) said Thursday that murders in large American cities dropped 18 percent during the first half of 2026, putting the national homicide rate on pace for its lowest level since at least 1900, though eight cities recorded increases.
Report: Murder Rate on Pace for 126-Year Low, 8 Cities Buck Trend EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - ‘The University’s deans have implemented changes,’ Harvard lawyers write in appellate brief
Harvard Touts ‘Counter-Zionist’ Professor, Palestinian Liberation Erotic Poetry Journal as Evidence of Progress Against Jew-Hate
- “Do you believe that all of us have implicit biases? Against which groups do you have implicit biases?”
Rep. Brandon Gill Grills Head of American Bar Association About DEI, Future of Law Schools THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH - There’s been a much wider spread of noncitizens on voter lists, defying the story Democrats have been telling in the Trump era.
Analysis: The Many Times Noncitizens Popped Up On Voter Rolls
- Along with a willfully complicit media.
President Trump’s Primetime Address Reaffirms Election Fraud And Deep State As America’s Greatest Threat DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - Will the DOJ finally act?
VDH Video: Newsom Under Investigation
- AOC, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, and Ayanna Pressley all paid men with public money.
80% of ‘Squad’ Members Moved Money to ‘Squad-Husbands’
- The spot from Schumer's Senate Majority PAC stars Alan Harris, the romantic partner of Dan J Sullivan's Democrat campaign strategist
Chuck Schumer Denied Ties to ‘Decoy Dan Sullivan’—Then Featured the ‘Sham’ Alaska Senate Candidate’s Campaign ‘Rep’ in an Ad POLITICS - ...This is especially true when the Democrat brand is toxic even among its supporters.
'People Are Mad': House Democrats Watch Their Campaign Arm Burn Cash on Lost Causes
- We’re glad that one news network, at least, has taken us up on our advice.
Why Are Dems Dodging Questions About The DSA’s Radical Platform?
- Equating socialism with slavery is far more effective than trying to engage in pointless debates with communists.
Every American Needs To Know That Socialism Is Slavery
- It’s more of a joke than a nightmare, but it is, in fact, still scary.
‘Republicans’ Worst Nightmare’ is Apparently a Socialist Man Who Thinks He’s a Woman
- As long as the Democrats are invested in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Marxism, men of all races will abandon them.
The Democrat Party’s Intractable Masculinity Problem FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is at the East Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila, the Philippines, on Thursday and overnight Eastern Time held a bilateral meeting on the side-lines with his Russian counterpart, the veteran diplomat Sergei Lavrov. One of the only senior Russian political figures whose long career pre-dates and has survived the Putin era, Lavrov has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2004 and a Russian ambassador since the Soviet era.
Russia Tells Rubio America Sending More Weapons to Europe, Attempts to ‘Inflict Strategic Defeat’ are ‘Unacceptable’
- According to the latest poll from Insa, the AfD’s support climbed to 29 per cent, up half a percentage point from the previous week. Meanwhile, the governing centre-right Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) in Bavaria fell by another full point to 20.5 per cent.
Populist AfD Surges to Record Lead over German Chancellor’s Party
- If Trump can connect Saudi Arabia to the Abraham Accords, it would be a massive win.
Trump Gives Saudi Arabia Ultimatum Before He Signs Major Nuclear Deal
- Fair, nondiscriminatory treatment of U.S. companies serves both good economics and fair trade.
South Korea’s Crackdown on U.S. Companies Threatens South Koreans’ Access to Advanced Technology
- Citizens have a right to exist peacefully in their neighborhoods without being shot, intimidated, robbed or vandalized.
Italy Names the Problem. America Renames It.
- A fighting chance for democracy to prevail.
Turkey: Persecuted Opposition Leader to Create Breakaway Party to Challenge Erdogan DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - But paranoid Israel-bashing now dominates the Democrat Party, so much so that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn’t dare whip Democratic votes against last week’s proposed amendment to zero out US aid to Israel, which more than half of House Dems proceeded to support.
Democrats’ shameful refusal to fund the Pentagon is making Titty-Caca AOC the heart of the party
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - According to the report, a growing number of therapists now advise patients that cutting off parents or other close relatives is a legitimate form of self-care. A trend that treats walking away as the “healthy choice” has quietly replaced decades of therapy built around repairing family bonds.
Is This the Reason Your Leftist Relatives Are Cutting You Off?
- Christian Toto: X maestro vows to counter Nolan's 'woke' version with Grok-inspired alternative
The Perils (And Promise) of Elon Musk’s A.I. ‘Odyssey’
- The decline of LGBTQ characters in movies.
Is Hollywood Losing its Itch to Please LGBTQ Lobbyists?
- Technological progress isn’t ushering in an era of prosperity and bliss. It’s inaugurating an era of demonic, inhuman evils.
Our Transhumanist, Sci-Fi Future Has Arrived. But You’re Not Going To Like It HITHER & YON - “Several historical developments help explain EA’s success.”
Misanthropic Altruism
- What does that mean, exactly?
“I Stand with the Jews”
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:36 AM (/+uur)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at July 24, 2026 07:36 AM (53oGX)
TGIF
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 07:36 AM (xrWSS)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:38 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Adam Smith's invisible hand at July 24, 2026 07:39 AM (2Ez/1)
May you and yours bask is the warm appreciation of your labors.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)
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"The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them
At night or early in the morn --
The Eyes of Texas are upon you
Til Gabriel blows his horn."
Just a good thing for you people to always remember!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 07:40 AM (iJfKG)
Why isn't the GOP exposing the DSA's radical platform? You don't have to answer that, we all know why..
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:40 AM (MWfyi)
THIS, my friends is how Trump is going to reverse the damage of Cash-For-Klunkers in a hugely and beautiful way.
G-Wagons and BMW M8 Competition cars going for auction prices.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:41 AM (xE0sV)
Sue to get paid. Repossess the Obama Monstrosity.
Dismantle, label blocks, reassembly on the NOK DMZ border as a guard tower.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)
Not when success is measured purely in YoY quarterly results.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:43 AM (nCgQz)
Every morning when I wake up I lie in bed for a while and promise myself that I won't go for a walk today. Then I get up and go for a walk. My will is weak.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 07:44 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 07:44 AM (2YhKe)
Willingly... or, you know, have to charge more. That'll work out well...
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 07:44 AM (XuXeR)
They were not illegal aliens.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 07:45 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2026 07:45 AM (J4Dwc)
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A plane load of suspected ACRONYMS to Gitmo for an intense study session will elicit yuge amounts of so far secreted information regarding treachery toward this administration and the nation as a whole.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:45 AM (vC80E)
I'd really like to know the percentage of illegals here 'for a better life' as opposed to those just here for free shit and crime opportunity. I'm betting one vastly outweighs the other.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 07:45 AM (2YhKe)
Seems to me they missed the part that many people do NOT want the guaranteed national income.
Just like the 100 million or more that do NOT want the min federal wages.
They want (or need) more so they get the cert or degree. They come in early and stay late. They take that weekend shift.
Cloward and Piven assume that the 30 million poor will always be at the bottom. 56% of the bottom quintile workers move out of that within 10 years.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:46 AM (/+uur)
שבת שלום ומבורך
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 07:46 AM (KR4PD)
Si. The difference is that now so much of that Ag labor has been mechanized.
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 07:46 AM (XuXeR)
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People will jump off bridges if you pay them enough.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:47 AM (vC80E)
Same people that fought keep slaves in 1860s.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 07:49 AM (/+uur)
Translation:
Marxism straight up.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:49 AM (nCgQz)
Posted by: Sister Agatha at July 24, 2026 07:49 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Stoner living in his parent's basement at July 24, 2026 07:51 AM (2Ez/1)
G-Wagons and BMW M8 Competition cars going for auction prices.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:41 AM (xE0sV)
One of the worst governmental programs ever. "Designed to help" sell cars, all it did was take quality used cars out of the market, priced existing used cars out of reach for MANY working class Americans and kept new car prices WELL out of reach for them as well.
Barack. A career out of f*cking those in the ass he was "hoped to change" for the better.
F*cking white guilt.......and fraud.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 07:52 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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A line of demarcation; Before Obama/After Obama.
Advertising in Central American newspapers, 'come on up for free stuff', changes the metric.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:53 AM (vC80E)
And why shouldn't men? Its the bedrock philosophy, hard-wired into women for raising a family.
Destroying the family and applying Toddler Ethics to the population at large is exactly how you end ordered civilization.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:53 AM (pUU4E)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 07:54 AM (INQN/)
Posted by: Uh, oh... at July 24, 2026 07:54 AM (2Ez/1)
But man, did it sound good in the dorm room. Especially after some weed...
/our betters
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 07:54 AM (XuXeR)
Translation: Therapists activists advise patients to further erode the fundamental social structure—the family and continue to chip away at the intergenerational Social Contract.
Marxism straight up.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:49 AM (nCgQz)
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This is also what cults do.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 07:55 AM (FZ29D)
שבת שלום ומבורך
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 07:46 AM (KR4PD)
Godspeed, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 07:55 AM (2YhKe)
Hold my beer. -- Senate Republicans
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)
/our betters
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 07:54 AM (XuXeR)
*cuts to basement round table meetings in 'That 70's Show.'*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 07:56 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 07:57 AM (XuXeR)
This is also what cults do.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 07:55 AM (FZ29D)
Inshalla.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 07:57 AM (2YhKe)
Hold my beer. -- Senate Republicans
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)
I get whiplash hearing about how the democrats are squandering cash and in dire fund-raising straights one day and how they're rolling in contributions and set to outspend Republicans by gads the next day. This has been going on for decades.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 07:58 AM (INQN/)
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 07:58 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:59 AM (MWfyi)
"More dollars than sense."
Posted by: How many helicopters does your police department have? at July 24, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)
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Ain't gonna happen. The one's that don't pay their bills live in San Francisco.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:59 AM (vC80E)
In yesterday's news: Polls show that the vast majority want to socialize the AI industry with hopes to rake off the profits for underwriting their pet projects.
Which is either the biggest Pump & Dump investors are trying to stimulate because they believe that their AI investments (over $2T so far) are in trouble...
Or China knows that socializing American AI is the equivalent of sterilizing it and turning it into some freak show of reckless destruction. The virtual Trannification of Tech.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 08:00 AM (pUU4E)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 07:58 AM (INQN/)
Pedo O'Rourke had the largest war-chest in the history of ever and lost.
Where'd all that money go?
Talafreako is out-raising Paxton 4 to 1 or some shit........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:00 AM (2YhKe)
Pro-amnesty Republicans are allowing the agriculture industry to shut out American workers in favor of foreign migrants.”
This is thr core of the split in Texas between MAGA conservatives and the GOP-e, chamber of commerce, Bush family Republicans. They love their illegal immigrsnt labor because it profits them greatly and they don’t want it shut off.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 08:01 AM (T2w7I)
שבת שלום ומבורך
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 07:46 AM (KR4PD)
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Be safe, let us know.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:01 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Kramer at July 24, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 08:02 AM (xrWSS)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 07:54 AM (INQN/)
I saw a clip where she asked him about his extreme, ultra right wing, neo-Nazi, extreme views (she likes extreme) and support for devils like Rupert Lowe. He said that normal people want secure borders, safe cities, and moderate government spending. She said... well, that's all fine... and I'm like - that's Rupert Lowe's fucking agenda, same as Trump.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:02 AM (ExV1e)
Let's give 'em one.
Call it a cost saving maneuver. Instead of sending them to Pantex Plant in Amarillo for decommissioning, spread them around Tehran for rapid decommissioning.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 08:02 AM (pUU4E)
Or China knows that socializing American AI is the equivalent of sterilizing it and turning it into some freak show of reckless destruction. The virtual Trannification of Tech.
Posted by: Community Notes
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Door #2.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:03 AM (vC80E)
The plumbing contractor at the Obama Abomination got stiffed to the extent of $4 m. The story is being ignored by the propaganda ministries. I wonder if they will ignore the stiffing of minority contractors?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 08:03 AM (NemxU)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 08:03 AM (qFwJc)
As for the term "living wage" I mock that as much as I mock "fair share" because no one ever wants to give a concrete example of either.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2026 08:04 AM (/k3in)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 24, 2026 08:04 AM (bkuEU)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 07:58 AM (INQN/)
The difference is that now The Democrats are squandering cash and in dire fund-raising straights while specific Democrats, who aren't going to win, are rolling in contributions and set to outspend their opponents.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:05 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove "
He had to shut his business down. 30 jobs lost.
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 08:06 AM (MWfyi)
...asking for a friend.
Posted by: man at July 24, 2026 07:58 AM (XuXeR)
Just remember, when you sleep with her you also sleep with all the guys she's slept with. And she's gone from I was on the app for 30 minutes to 5 hours to a couple days to I've banged 4 guys this month. She's working her way up to an assembly line.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:07 AM (ExV1e)
They are devoted to the political strategery of "Concentrated benefits and dispersed costs"
They worship Mancur Olson as a god.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 08:07 AM (pawvM)
The plumbing contractor at the Obama Abomination got stiffed to the extent of $4 m. The story is being ignored by the propaganda ministries. I wonder if they will ignore the stiffing of minority contractors?
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Thought donors for the construction of presidential libraries put the money up front. What contractor is going to spend $4 million of his company money on the come?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:07 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 08:03 AM (NemxU)
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It would be kind of funny if the next time BHO needs a plumber to fix a leaky faucet at his house either no one will take the job or they'll tack on a $4 million surcharge...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 08:07 AM (FZ29D)
And then some Republicans come out in favor of amnesty. The Republicans could screw up a wet dream
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 08:07 AM (NemxU)
The plumbing contractor at the Obama Abomination got stiffed to the extent of $4 m. The story is being ignored by the propaganda ministries. I wonder if they will ignore the stiffing of minority contractors?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 08:03 AM (NemxU)
I'm trying real hard to feel bad for them, but I'm betting they ALL voted for that fraud and they're learning who he is good and hard.
Lord, please forgive me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:07 AM (2YhKe)
And then some Republicans come out in favor of amnesty. The Republicans could screw up a wet dream
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 08:07 AM (NemxU)
But pandering works sooooooo good for the Democrats.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:08 AM (2YhKe)
See my comment #6.
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 08:08 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Trust fund kid at July 24, 2026 08:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 08:09 AM (TqDYN)
Of all the criticism of Trump, the one that lands true is his coddling of business.
Given his generation and background, I can understand his aversion to punishing corporations.
But the reality is, these massive entities are not only destroying our country with their practices, they are funding the enemies of freedom (the Dems) while doing so.
There is no long-term downside to gutting Cargil, Tyson, Sysco, et al.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 08:10 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: windbag at July 24, 2026 08:10 AM (QBuyb)
Posted by: Greenpeace at July 24, 2026 08:10 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ)
Conveniently after the primaries. Which is why members of Congress should be fitted with agonizers which can be triggered by any citizen for a small fee.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)
The NFL preseason is 20 days away!!!!
Where you can pay full price for tickets and parking to watch a bunch of scabs stink up a field in an effort to make the special teams or practice squads while you drink $14 beers.
FOAD.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (INQN/)
That's the best they can come up with. Says something, don't it?
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (MWfyi)
++++
Bill Clinton came out of nowhere.
Posted by: Rhyming history at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (2YhKe)
NYC is entirely too full of itself. Much like DC, it either needs to be broken apart back into separate, independent boroughs and the media, political and professional headquarters installed there scattered to the winds.
There is no reason that the mayor of NYC should have any more national attention than the mayor of New Orleans or Scranton.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 08:09 AM (TqDYN)
I dunno. Every time AOC gets mentioned at least a dozen guys here will go slack jawed and start droning on about her tits.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 08:07 AM (FZ29D)
Or, at least a $150,000 security deposit prior to initial inspection.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:13 AM (2YhKe)
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How about talking them to death?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 08:13 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:12 AM
So it's a boob thread?
Posted by: Just got here at July 24, 2026 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Isn't that sort of reversed?
Who makes all the DRAM, the SSDs, most appliances, most advanced phones, the highest tech cars (e.g. Genesis) KR or US?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 08:14 AM (9Hs2w)
This being me, when I read "Shiloh was asked if she wanted to make a statement" and I knew the perfect thing she could have said.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2026 08:14 AM (/k3in)
I dunno. Every time AOC gets mentioned at least a dozen guys here will go slack jawed and start droning on about her tits.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)
I mean, there's like 4 guys patiently waiting for her to be forced to start an OnlyFans channel to survive...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:14 AM (2YhKe)
Anyone that does that tells us they have not made a comprehensive study of the breast / personality conundrum.
Hint: Personality for the win.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:15 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Just got here at July 24, 2026 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)
By definition, all threads are boob threads.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)
If the laws and policies are still there, enforce them. I think that's exactly what the administration's doing. The left's trying to justify them being ignored.
They're lawless little shits.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 08:15 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Carlos Ramirez at July 24, 2026 08:15 AM (JM9I6)
There is no reason that the mayor of NYC should have any more national attention than the mayor of New Orleans or Scranton.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (qRla/)
*waves*
*shits jizz*
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 24, 2026 08:16 AM (2YhKe)
By definition, all threads are boob threads.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)
All threads follow the guidelines:
1. Topic at hand
2. Boobs
3. Guns
4. Puns
5. Movies
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:18 AM (2YhKe)
Something like a 25 point loss.
But they're winning in deep blue seats!!
LOL
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2026 08:18 AM (3cUTc)
How about talking them to death?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 08:13 AM (JvZF+)
When you have to bomb, bomb. Don't talk. President Trump needs to shut his taco bowl hole and get to work.
Posted by: Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Ramirez Maria at July 24, 2026 08:18 AM (ftsic)
You mean the hot/crazy matrix?
https://youtu.be/pInk1rV2VEg
Posted by: Provided as a public service at July 24, 2026 08:18 AM (2Ez/1)
The US is poised to make good farmland much more productive with bio-engineered plants, laser week-killers, and mechanized harvest robots.
Ranching is currently outside that capital-intensive loop.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)
Other than the fact that NYC is larger in population than 30 other states, has a GDP larger than 45 other states, and collects more tax revenue than 38 other states.
No factor, right?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 08:19 AM (9Hs2w)
(shakes magic 8-ball)
My reply is no.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2026 08:21 AM (1Ff7Z)
How about talking them to death?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Starvation is a great motivator.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:21 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (INQN/)
I keep repeating that the majority GOP stance now is to wait Trump out, even if opposing him means that a few 'good' people have to be sacrificed.
Once Trump is out of office, who is going to champion the SAVE act with his energy? Vance? Rubio? RFK?
Trump is sui generis. MAGA may live on as a movement after his presidency, but I predict that it will be a wan shadow of itself. The right-leaning electorate simply does not have the stomach for the utter defenestration of the party that needs to occur. The GOP has been running on a 'business as usual' platform since Dewey; they're not going to change now.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:21 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:22 AM (vC80E)
Now if Sophie Cunningham ran as a Republican...
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 08:22 AM (NemxU)
Posted by: Dominique at July 24, 2026 08:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 08:22 AM (ugElV)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 08:23 AM (MWfyi)
Good analysis. It really is up to us.
I hope you are feeling better.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)
She went after him on all the issues we would expect, claiming he killed people with DOGE cuts to USAID, called him far right and said people hate him.
Elon countered very calmly by saying he is not even on the right, he's a centrist, but people on the left like her have gone so far left they claim everyone who doesn't agree with them is far right. He told her he didn't DOGE didn't kill anyone and USAID was a political organization, all his team did was identify areas of waste and all decisions were made by the administration and aid services were still be administered by State as appropriate. He also told her she had no idea how many people hate her and the media.
Kind of sums up where we are. The Overton Window moves both directions. That needs to be considered in looking at the political future.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:23 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Case at July 24, 2026 08:23 AM (bqIVz)
https://tinyurl.com/yv3svdmk
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 08:24 AM (punzO)
88 Trump May Order ‘Massive Attack’ on Iran ‘Bigger Than Ever Before’ as U.S. Weighs Next Move
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How about talking them to death?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 08:13 AM (JvZF+)
Time for more Teddy Roosevelt; a lot less talk, much bigger sticks. A bit ironic is that the Iranians are now forcing the US to Go Big whether we really want to or not.
As JJ’s link said, we have only two choices left - Forever War at this level, or go really big and end it that way.
“Negotiation” is only a fantasy choice now. (And that’s all it ever was)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 08:24 AM (T2w7I)
It's got electrolytes. Plants love it.
Posted by: Brawndo at July 24, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)
No factor, right?
Make it a state, then, and elevate its mayor to gubernatorial status. The opinions and actions of one city's mayor take up entirely too much attention.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:25 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Dominique
Dominique went to her head, resigned, lesbian, suicide. Sad.
Posted by: Do NUNS Get Defrocked, Or Only Priests? at July 24, 2026 08:25 AM (JM9I6)
Here is an alternative idea on why Trump talks:
He threatens, and our Intelligence agencies carefully look at what changes. For example, a truck leaving Pickaxe Mountain now can be followed to discover a new site.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)
Look at last year's map.
Look at year before map.
Look at most of the maps.
Intensive blue votes in extreme blue areas where cheating is know to be order of the day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:25 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 08:26 AM (NemxU)
Or the certain outcome: Immediately following Jan 20, 2029 The US surrenders to Iran in the same way the US surrendered to the Afghanistan Taliban.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 08:27 AM (BvPIe)
As I have said elsewhere, I am at the point that when I read about a journalist getting killed my first reaction is "What did they do to deserve it?"
Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2026 08:27 AM (/k3in)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 08:28 AM (JvZF+)
https://tinyurl.com/yv3svdmk
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 08:24 AM (punzO)
The last meme is perfect. She's the next generation's Bernie Sanders.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:28 AM (2YhKe)
On the topic of a "living wage", I am thoroughly sick and tired of hearing the dead weight do-nothing Bernie Sanders bloviate about it and countless other economic topics about which he knows nothing, much less has any practical experience in them.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 08:28 AM (s9VOe)
That's the best they can come up with. Says something, don't it?
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (MWfyi)
I still think The New Bill Clinton will come.
Probably, after November's election.
Not sure who it will be. Someone mostly unknown or barely known. Probably, from the South or Midwest. Likely to be a white or black male. His(her) views will not be known, so he(she) can be labeled "a new way", which will be the same way as everybody else but said(disguised) with centrist words.
Actually, Walz, if he wasn't such a corrupt, stupid, hapless goofball and hadn't run with Harris, would pretty much fit the bill, He even has the "sassy, smart" "partner" that Dims love so much.
Someone like that though.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 08:28 AM (iJfKG)
Until then, there's not much motivation to get it done when a cheap alternative is readily available.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 08:28 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 08:29 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: The Blue Dress at July 24, 2026 08:29 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:21 AM (vC80E)
Not as great as we’d wish. 90% of North Koreans have lived at starvation levels for decades, and the 10% who run the system don’t care. 90% of Cuba is starving right now, but they’re too weak and sick to overthrow anything.
A government that hates its own people doesn’t care about starvation - it often makes them stronger, as they use food to reward their supporters. (Just like Stalin did)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 08:30 AM (T2w7I)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:21 AM (qRla/)
I agree on the sui generis part. But not so sure about the aftermath. Trump has unleashed something beyond any one man. What happens post-Trump is rich with possibilities that we cannot see yet. Expect the unexpected.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2026 08:30 AM (INQN/)
Good analysis. It really is up to us.
I hope you are feeling better.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)
**shrugs**
Thanks, but it's no real analysis, just a reflection of my own cynicism and depression. I'm just an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog; JJ or CBD are the men for true, incisive analysis.
As for me personally, the cold has more or less broken. It doesn't hurt to swallow anymore, but my right ear is still blocked and I still have a lot of mucus rattling around in my chest. I'm trying to edit my novel, but I find myself so obsessive about it now that I'm nearly paralyzed by word choices and find myself rewriting sentences half a dozen times before going back to the original.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:30 AM (qRla/)
I want to decorate appropriately.
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 24, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Aye, that's why the bombing was one week on and one week off.
Watch them scurry about.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:30 AM (vC80E)
"That's my girl! I'm so proud of her!" No parent ever.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2026 08:31 AM (/k3in)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (qRla/)
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Except to say the city has a larger budget than all but six state governments, according to Grok. Only Texas, California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New York State spend more than NYC.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 08:31 AM (zOVA2)
Rochester NY announced a ban of late night gatherings of 10 or more after a shooting left 8 wounded including one yute of 12. There were already protests last night.
You can't expect the yutes to allow Midnight Basketball go the way of the Dodo, can you?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 24, 2026 08:31 AM (s9VOe)
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https://tinyurl.com/4vkmx5n5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 08:32 AM (ndZc7)
Today Is National Tequila Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 08:29 AM (NpAcC)
In the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave-
Every day is National Tequila Day!
*takes shot*
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 08:32 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Or Both? at July 24, 2026 08:32 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)
"That's my girl! I'm so proud of her!" No parent ever.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2026 08:31 AM (/k3in)
Sad thing is, there ARE parents, or at minimum, mothers that celebrate that shit......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:32 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:11 AM (qRla/)
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Population of my hometown: ~ 5,000
Population of New York City: ~ 8,300,000
NYC alone accounts for about 2.4% of the total population of the US. Plus it is, for the time being at least, the financial capital of the world.
We don't have to like it, but there it is.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 24, 2026 08:32 AM (3ImbR)
Our local meatpacket was Rath. Maybe you remember them. Rath hams and Bacon and such. Not a great place to work maybe, but people - Americans - were able to afford a car, buy a house, raise a family on their wages.
By the 1990s it was long gone, replaced by $9 an hour more or less slave labor illegals living 25 to an apartment.
“Democrats are the party of the working man” is a huge load of bullshit. This happened on their watch. Not that Republicans were much better.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 08:32 AM (E4+QS)
That’s not the platform or marker of a political party. It’s part of our essence and who we are.
That won’t be extinguished by anyone or any political ideal. God put that on us, and no person will take it away.
MAGA simply encompasses that ideal, and that’s demonstrably true. It’s fairly clear to see almost all of its aims and goals are centered on liberty, and those who oppose it are not.
Liberty has long outlasted the alternatives, and every so often we have to hoist the black flag to protect it- and we will.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 24, 2026 08:33 AM (K+75H)
In the RCC, a nun can be 'laicized,' meaning to be stripped of their vows and returned to the lay state. Orthodox churches can do the same thing to nuns, though they tend to call it 'defrocking.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:33 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:33 AM (qRla/)
Wasn't that a Tesla song?
Don't defrock me, don't DEfrock ME!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:34 AM (2YhKe)
Holy unsustainable.
Posted by: Nunz punz? at July 24, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Until then, there's not much motivation to get it done when a cheap alternative is readily available.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 08:28 AM (jehhT)
This brings us back to the topic of artificial silicone gripping fingers from a few weeks ago….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 08:35 AM (26GAh)
On the topic of a "living wage", I am thoroughly sick and tired of hearing the dead weight do-nothing Bernie Sanders
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Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Stop listening to him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:35 AM (vC80E)
We hear daily, often from our own side, have awful and extreme our side is while downplaying at best how bug fuck nuts the left has become.
Just yesterday we had a liberal sports writers slamming Caitlin Collins and her defenders for killing Emmett Till for the crime of defending against black lesbian attackers. That's today's Democrat Party and it's getting increasingly selective.
We are becoming the Big Tent Party by default because unless you support black racism, trannies, open borders, crime, fraud, etc. you are now far right.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:35 AM (viF8m)
That's not a joke - that's true...although replace thinks with play-acts as, b/c those are the smart predators who get access to women where they are vulnerable...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2026 08:36 AM (tOcjL)
That’s all gone now. But, I bet they have Methamphetamine and illegal aliens, tax base dried up, shitty roads, and a dollar general.
This is why you got Trump. Can Democrats figure this out, or do they care? Fucked up big cities, dystopian countryside. What’s next?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 08:36 AM (E4+QS)
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Harvard Touts ‘Counter-Zionist’ Professor, Palestinian Liberation Erotic Poetry Journal as Evidence of Progress Against Jew-Hate
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Pron ain't what it used to be.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 08:37 AM (ndZc7)
This should be one of the biggest motivators to get out the vote. We need to replace judges and confirm judges. We will be at neutered if we don't win the majority in the Senate in 2026 and win the White House in 2028.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 08:37 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Ex-CNN Reporterette at July 24, 2026 08:37 AM (JM9I6)
I looked up the stats a while back and there are only 1M farm hand jobs in the US.
So if the argument is we need 40M illegals to do 1M jobs well...that's a stupid argument.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:38 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 08:38 AM (26GAh)
That is someone who knows absolutely nothing about Colorado, or intends to destroy Colorado's agriculture economy.
CO farms and ranches make up 29.2 million acres, of that classic row crops are approximately 5 million.
Most of CO's land and climate is incompatible with growing crops but excels at herding and pastureland. The state's natural comparative advantage is livestock—particularly cattle, sheep and dairy feed production.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 08:38 AM (xE0sV)
Option A is ground war. Who is sending their own kids? Bueller?
It's a false option, and the article is a stinking pile of ground war, false dilemma, propaganda garbage.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 08:38 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: The More You Know at July 24, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Currently it is 66 and sunny here at Stately Poppins Manor. I'm just cruising through the thread with a hot cup of Ty-Phoo tea, psyching myself up to get back to work on my novel.
I had a missed opportunity yesterday. I was driving along MA Route 1 when I passed by a modified bicycle with the sign "Ride For Suicide Prevention" pulled up at the side of the road, with the rider resting on the grass. As soon as I blew past, I realized I should have turned around, but then thought that the fellow was riding to raise money, not as an invitation for every nickelfucker to stop and unload their misery on him. I'm going to have to see if the fellow has a website that I can donate to.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 08:40 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)
Stop listening to him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:35 AM (vC80E)
I have a cousin that visited with her mother during one of Bernie's campaigns for President. I saw the sticker on her car and said "You're a communist?"
She wasn't pleased. "Do YOU make $250k a year?"
"No, but why should I be punished if I do?"
She went away pretty mad......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:40 AM (2YhKe)
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Well, those squad-husbands have had to crawl on their bellies like reptiles and do things that would cause a normal man to die by unstoppable vomiting.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 08:41 AM (ndZc7)
Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign platform is far reich wing extremism per the left now.
That discussion between a reporter and Karen was kind of interesting in how the FNM tries to frame this too "oh there has been a shift in the terrain to the left"...no you bint leftwing politicians are legislating things they said were rightwing fever dreams a few years ago.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:42 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 08:42 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Sustained at July 24, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)
And of course, the general condition of illegals does a lot of heavy lifting. Even absent those other advantages, these people are ventilating their low wages into a third world economy with a weak currency, and living ten to a unit in Section 8 slave kennels.
The better way to state it is "jobs Americans won't do at artificially low wages a law-abiding American family can't live on, but one in Guatemala can, as long as everyone turns a blind eye to the whole scam."
It's the same as every other thing America. Major institutions reaping huge dividends by screwing the subject classes at every turn.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (BI5O2)
Even the more educated class of programmers and such keep getting their cheap labor from India and other places, while they kick out Americans while forcing them to train their replacements ("you will not replace us" chants ring in my head).
And yet so much of the wealthier half of America keep pouring chunks of their paychecks into the inflated stock markets, which keep soaring, apparently on "the greater fool theory". Greenspan himself (and Trump may have said this as well, iirc), that the government could/should "invest" in the stock (and bond) markets.
So how to unwind that bubble, without shaking The Economy? idk, but we must start with a stoppage of the giving away of our country itself, to foreigners that hate us and call us racist, and are electing their own anti-American foreigners to congress. It is insane, but no one wants to dent all the 401Ks.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:35 AM (viF8m)
That was one of the most bizarre claims yet - Emmit Till? So one tragic murder by a couple idiots 65 years ago justifies all black violence against any white man or women forever? That fool saying doesn’t even realize that’s the recipe for a race war like Charlie Manson wanted.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (T2w7I)
The value of money began to change radically in the 70's.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (vC80E)
Ayanna Pressley's net wealth went from -$12K to $8M in the 8 years she's been in congress making $174K/year.
Amazing how that works.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: No Sunburn Risk, Though at July 24, 2026 08:44 AM (JM9I6)
No one is "sending their own kids" Every single member of the Military volunteered to be where they are knowing full well that POTUS could send them into harms way at any time.
Posted by: Will Robinson at July 24, 2026 08:45 AM (SExz7)
Posted by: Bigsmith at July 24, 2026 08:45 AM (1Au9i)
Ayanna Pressley's net wealth went from -$12K to $8M in the 8 years she's been in congress making $174K/year.
Amazing how that works.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm)
It must involve calculus, or one of them other hi-falutin' maths.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 08:45 AM (wVcYX)
They are illegal aliens.
Posted by: Please make a note of it at July 24, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Elon brought that up in the interview. He said he likes to recite portions of speeches to people and tell them they were said by Trump. He claims they usually react by going on a tirade about Trump being a monster.
He then tells them they are portions of speeches by Obama and Hillary from a few ago.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:46 AM (viF8m)
Yep. We replaced one American, who probably ended up on some form of welfare with an illegal who gets paid half as much...but with that illegal and his whole family ALSO on welfare.
So we saved 5 cents of labor costs on a head of lettuce in return for double digit inflation, an almost $40T in debt, and a federal and state budgets many times higher then they should be.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm)
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The Donks are looking for that sweet spot lie that doesn't repulsed the normals but satisfies the wackos. You know, that Goldilocks zone of crazy enough but not too crazy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 08:46 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Sustained at July 24, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)
I'm doin' yo girlfriend, that's sumpthin you can't believe.....
Posted by: Brian 'Sex Machine' Stelter at July 24, 2026 08:46 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm)
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What is more amazing is the lack of accountability and media interest about unethical emolument among elected and appointed officials.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 08:47 AM (JvZF+)
That's an even more crowded field then leftwing infotainment media...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)
This is a great article about a Manhattan(?) dinner party "discussion" of Israel and Palestine:
Funny in all the right ways. Very cleverly written.
Would make a great one-act play or perhaps a key scene in a smart social comedy.
Read it all:
"The Peoplle Who Know Nothing Know Everything"
https://tinyurl.com/4fhuxrh4
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 08:49 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2026 08:49 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 08:49 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: The West Virginia Employment Commission at July 24, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Fairy Tales Are For Children at July 24, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: illiniwek
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One of the first escalators of the illegal flood was free stuff.
Than you SCOTUS. Until the mid 80's illegals were not entitled to medical or any services without paying. illegal children could be enrolled in schools. Same with free school breakfast or lunch.
The bad began.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:50 AM (vC80E)
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Well, why don't you hold your breath until your face turns blue and you pass out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 08:50 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Zombie Kevin Samuels at July 24, 2026 08:50 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 08:38 AM (dK+Kv)
No one is proposing ground troops in mainland Iran. But the other option is Forever War, just like Iraq, just like Afghanistan. As one poster said above, there is a third option, do like Biden and just surrender and run away.
Im not being glib or facetious, can you come up with any possible option now outside of those three?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 08:50 AM (T2w7I)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2026 08:51 AM (BI5O2)
The Dems by and large want the same things as the DSA but the Dems wanted to do in slower and milk the change for political power. Unfortunately for them the Bolsheviks are stomping on the Mensheviks
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 08:52 AM (NemxU)
Let the naval blockade keep going. Bomb the shit out of everything in the south of Iran. Kill IRGC from the air.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 08:52 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2026 08:52 AM (J4Dwc)
Funny in all the right ways. Very cleverly written.
Would make a great one-act play or perhaps a key scene in a smart social comedy.
Read it all:
"The Peoplle Who Know Nothing Know Everything"
https://tinyurl.com/4fhuxrh4
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 08:49 AM (iJfKG)
+1, very funny..in a sad kinda way! Someone should make a short (AI will work) and post on the intertubes. Because people don't read.
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 08:53 AM (GD0B3)
Hollowing out an economy means hollowing out the people, too.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 08:53 AM (E4+QS)
Clearly, I don't watch girls basketball either.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:53 AM (viF8m)
Is it ok for a man to aggressively ask a woman to go on a date with him including touching her against her will or should that merit strong action from the not just the authorities but the other people present?
The current NPC software will degenerate into REEEEing
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 08:50 AM (T2w7I)
I don’t think of the status quo as “forever war”… semantics i know but most associate forever war with a ground quagmire. We can continue current operations indefinitely with the risk to our military personnel essentially equivalent to the risks of peacetime training
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 08:54 AM (26GAh)
Rutinel clearly doesn't understand what the term "Representative" means and thinks it is a synonym for Tyrannical Rule.
Someone with no skin in the game, mentally retarded, a cultist in a dying faith system, zero understanding of economics, either personal or regional, confesses that they hate their fellow man and refuses to allow people to make their own choices in the most basic functions of life like choosing a career or choosing what to eat—both in order to simply survive.
Your life is nothing compared to my dogged obedience to a Sadistic Malthusian dominated faith and my need to force that on to others.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 08:54 AM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 08:54 AM (SgdqL)
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I'd wager the 4 guys she purports to have had sex with are reevaluating their life choices about now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 08:54 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 08:54 AM (qFwJc)
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The Donks are looking for that sweet spot lie that doesn't repulsed the normals but satisfies the wackos. You know, that Goldilocks zone of crazy enough but not too crazy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 08:46 AM (ndZc7)
This is why The New Bill Clinton is coming. (Sorry, Blue Dress)
I'm pretty sure that except for Blue Shithole and Zones of Massive Vote Fraud the DSA candidates will all prove to be duds.
TNBC will arise specifically to prove the Democrats aren't all insane, blue-haired, gross, trannie, communist monsters or enablers.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 08:55 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
I'm not the least bit surprised and that annoys me.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2026 08:56 AM (/k3in)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 08:56 AM (GD0B3)
_We would not have pornography, whores on the internet, or any of the like.
_We would not have socialist proponents in education.
_We would not be buying other families children breakfast and lunch.
_We would not have a welfare class that our taxes support.
_We would not have an influx of illegals that we have.
Every degradation of family, country and quality of life has been brought about by a permissive SCOTUS.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 08:56 AM (vC80E)
She wasn't pleased. "Do YOU make $250k a year?"
"No, but why should I be punished if I do?"
She went away pretty mad......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 08:40 AM (2YhKe)
If we cap annual income, for everyone other than politicians (cuz you know they'll still be getting more), at $200k per year, how is YOUR life improved?
None of them can answer that one either.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 08:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 08:57 AM (GD0B3)
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OK, we'll give him that one.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 08:57 AM (ndZc7)
Axlerod is out whining today that the Wisconsin governors race is in danger of driving the Democrats off the cliff and potentially handing a House seat to Republicans because of the DSA. Van Jones, Snake Head and other old timey Dems are equally worried about the direction of the Party.
They might even start losing ground.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 08:59 AM (viF8m)
I am darkly amused that we have both a food stamp program and a hot breakfast/lunch program in the schools.
Apparently the yutes won't get fed unless we pay the schools to feed them even though their mother is home all day getting $$$ from Uncle Sugar to feed her kids.
So why don't we just END food stamps/EBT and have the schools provide free dinner too?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:59 AM (sKqQm)
That's an even more crowded field then leftwing infotainment media...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)
There's no saturation value though. Sluts will always find guys willing to fuck them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:59 AM (ExV1e)
"No, but why should I be punished if I do?"
She went away pretty mad......
I know a bunch of people that support Bernie that do make $250K/year. They also tell me THEY are taxed too much already
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 08:53 AM (E4+QS)
Hold on. I'm seeing plenty of spherical people when out and about. Mass effect, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 09:00 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 09:02 AM (NemxU)
But the 1970s was more pervasive. Oil quadruped in price in short order. While the dollar was severed from any tether. Floating currencies.
It’s no coincidence in my mind that Beef, Eggs, Butter, Dairy, and the rest of it were suddenly declared “bad for you” and simultaneously replaced with margarine and less expensive expedient fats. The “Food Pyramid” eventually followed.
Affordable was an issue then too, they wanted to reduce demand for real food, or at least provide an excuse for all those families slurping powdered milk and eating generic Pasta elbows.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 09:02 AM (E4+QS)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2026 08:54 AM (26GAh)
We have to do something about the Houthi now, or else oil prices will stay above $100/bbl through the midterms. One of the great ironies of the MOU disaster was that it was supposed to keep this war from being fought during the midterm elections; instead, it guaranteed that would happen.
Iran’s strategy is now clearly to cause as much chaos for us as possible going in to the midterm elections, in the hope we’ll break from the pressure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 09:03 AM (T2w7I)
@EndWokeness
How will ICE ever recover from this?
https://tinyurl.com/mswatz77
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)
A bunch of white women. I wonder how many of them have husbands and children.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:03 AM (ExV1e)
"The Peoplle Who Know Nothing Know Everything"
https://tinyurl.com/4fhuxrh4
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2026 08:49 AM (iJfKG)
+1, very funny..in a sad kinda way! Someone should make a short (AI will work) and post on the intertubes. Because people don't read.
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 08:53 AM (GD0B3)
Then Death shows up at the door referencing the salmon mousse.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 09:03 AM (wVcYX)
Amazing how that works.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm)
It must involve calculus, or one of them other hi-falutin' maths.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 08:45 AM (wVcYX)
Deifferential Equatin' and shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 09:04 AM (dK+Kv)
So I can't say things were worse . I'm looking at their children and it's tracking the same for the most part.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 09:04 AM (KC5Lt)
We have lost 15 personnel. We (our military) lose that many on a natural. Iran is degraded to the extreme, their supply lines are cut,
they are starving, they must rely on reserves and they are running out.
This is a sea change of how conquest is accomplished.
We will have peace and hemispherical independence.
Patience.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:04 AM (vC80E)
Technically we would as it was put in place by state judges first and states recognize each other's marriages. Refusing to do that would end up destroying the country.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: La'Shondra at July 24, 2026 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:05 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 09:05 AM (NemxU)
It's a false option, and the article is a stinking pile of ground war, false dilemma, propaganda garbage.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 08:38 AM (dK+Kv)
Why? You have a problem with false dilemmas? When the alternative is straight up lying?
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:05 AM (Nyq9f)
They are illegal aliens.
Posted by: Please make a note of it at July 24, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)
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Illegal alien INVADERS.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 24, 2026 09:05 AM (JNTt1)
Alert of violation of the no-math rule: assume a bushel of apples is about 120 medium sized apples, and you can pick 12 bushels an hour (sloppy AI internet research tells me this is the case). That's 1440 apples per hour. If my current wage is $11/hour (again, sloppy AI research on low end of the wage), but an American won't do it for less than three times that (wild guess), the raw labor cost to pick my apple went from $.007 to $.023. In other words, in increased by less than three cents. I don't see any reason that any other downstream costs change (though I acknowledge if illegals are doing these they could). Is it really going to collapse the economy if we have to pay $0.36 more per dozen apples? Particularly when this means more Americans have jobs?
I recognize different crops have different inputs, but is there any real study on what the actual impact to my grocery bill would be? With all the frivolous shit people spend money on, and existing government subsidies already in place, is it really doomsday?
Posted by: DPICM at July 24, 2026 09:06 AM (zweKz)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Moose don't eat salmon, it's the bears!
Posted by: Who Remain Out Of Control at July 24, 2026 09:06 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Shame they don't recognize concealed carry and the 2Am like driver's licenses.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:06 AM (oUopv)
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Ha! It is to laugh. That came to the forefront during the lockdowns. Schools closed, but our district had year round free meals. Even on Saturday and Sunday. Even during the summer months. Insane
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 09:06 AM (E4+QS)
Oh I'm sure the DSA is gonna keep getting just as "lucky"
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:06 AM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Thanks to bad fish we got Airplane!
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:07 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)
Whatever I make, I'm taxed too much but anyone who makes even $1 more than me should be taxed at 99%. -- Bernie socialists
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:07 AM (ExV1e)
@EndWokeness
How will ICE ever recover from this?
https://tinyurl.com/mswatz77
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)
The best thing from the comments is the graphic showing the most annoying thing about every state.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2026 09:08 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Oglebay at July 24, 2026 09:08 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Common Tater
Someone in your district was getting a kickback from Sysco.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:08 AM (oUopv)
Stolen by old greek homos
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 24, 2026 09:09 AM (7C01W)
It will evolve, regionally, and in phases. The Roma tomato came about because it was more mechanization friendly than previous varieties. How does the market accept and price a change in their crops?
Another is the incorporation of Computer Vision and robotics which is becoming more integrated as resource availability changes. For example, water and fertilizer got to be so expensive that AI driven planting, weeding and watering became a viable option.
If the jump becomes big enough, there could be a surge in green house and controlled environment agriculture where the full cycle can be managed under one roof—like how poultry has been until the Marxists push for free-range (and how we get millions of kill-offs due to feed stock contamination by overflying Canadian geese)
Very dynamic, and influenced heavily by propaganda originating from our enemies who want us to fail.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 09:11 AM (a3CJ+)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:06 AM (oUopv)
I wonder if anyone has taken that to court. I wonder how they would argue it. I'm sure that the courts would shoot it down - heh - because they only use the Constitution when it suits them but it would be interesting to see.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:11 AM (ExV1e)
We lost almost the same number of militarily personnel to training exercises and non combat deaths than combat deaths in the 20 years of the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2026 09:11 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Oglebay
Until the computer glitches at 3:00 am. Then it takes a half dozen people to figure it out.
Iowadairyfarmer on Facebook.
He has the robotic system.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:12 AM (oUopv)
I didn't, but this is probably the stuff that is freaking out the traditional Democrats. There is a lot of infighting on the left and it's just getting started.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 09:12 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2026 09:08 AM (J4Dwc)
****
Yeah, I saw that. So true and so embarrassing..
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 09:13 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Oglebay
What fun is that?
Posted by: Minotaur Milking Farm #9 at July 24, 2026 09:13 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 09:03 AM (wVcYX)
🤣🤣
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 09:14 AM (GD0B3)
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Why the fuck are we sending anything to that squirt in Ukraine?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:14 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Oglebay at July 24, 2026 09:14 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 09:14 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:05 AM (Nyq9f)
Nice recursive humor. We approve. I have problems with both, but i was addressing the article.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 09:15 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 09:16 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 09:03 AM (wVcYX)
"But I didn't eat the mousse!"
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:16 AM (SgdqL)
Posted by: I used to have a different
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Refusing to allow degradation would destroy the country.
Illogical.
#2 - It went from lower courts to the Supremes - they canonized it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:17 AM (vC80E)
The Dem Bones Number from White Christmas is in my youtube and google and duckduckgo feed.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:17 AM (/+uur)
Deifferential Equatin' and shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 09:04 AM (dK+Kv)
Discrete Math.
A class I had to take in college.
It's so discrete, no one's ever heard of it.
I failed it. Twice.
Posted by: Brian 'Sex Machine' Stelter at July 24, 2026 09:17 AM (2YhKe)
Jake Tapper
@jaketapper
A CNN investigation — 18 Days In Minnesota: The false claims, chaos and coverups behind the Trump administration’s killing of two American citizens
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It's the Pretti Good Show!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)
A class I had to take in college.
It's so discrete, no one's ever heard of it.
I failed it. Twice.
Posted by: Brian 'Sex Machine' Stelter at July 24, 2026 09:17 AM (2YhKe)
Classroom number and building are never posted.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:19 AM (/+uur)
I disagree. Trump is dealing with the Iran problem that we've let fester for 50 years. FFS, Obama/ValJar wanted them to be a regional hegemon -- with nukes.
The goal is to make Iran irrelevant and they soon will be. With no oil revenue they'll be lucky to keep the lights on at home. Everyone in the region is now allied against them. China will no longer support them.
The IRGC's antics give Trump the cover to keep bombing them back to the stone age. They won't have the internal know-how and resources to rebuild.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2026 09:19 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)
That was my way of saying good morning and Happy Friday
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:19 AM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: polynikes
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Problem with that is, the mindfuck and non-lethal casualties and their care.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:20 AM (vC80E)
The Dem Bones Number from White Christmas is in my youtube and google and duckduckgo feed.
Posted by: r hennigantx
I searched to find the correct way to write 1-877-KARS4KIDS for a throwaway comment three weeks ago and now those kids won't leave!
Posted by: Donate Your Car Today! at July 24, 2026 09:20 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 24, 2026 09:21 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 09:21 AM (SgdqL)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Had someone try to explain it to me once.
I still didn't buy his explanation.
If another state honors a driver's license, marriage license, professional license, there's no reason not to honor the 2nd Amendment. Art IV, Section 1 doesn't say "everything BUT the 2nd Amendment.
Article IV, Section 1:
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:22 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:22 AM (/+uur)
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Apply that to every food item purchased at the grocery store. 36 cents alone isn’t a big deal. But 36 cents to 50 items in a shopping cart, every week does become a big deal.
Is it going to collapse the economy? No. But it will have an impact.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 09:23 AM (GFRGc)
@jaketapper
A CNN investigation — 18 Days In Minnesota: The false claims, chaos and coverups behind the Trump administration’s killing of two American citizens
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18 days? WTF
Had this ass clown talked to any citizen who lives there, in 10 minutes they'd have the "story." The "story" being two idiots put ICE officers in life or death danger and were relieved of their lives for being stupid shits.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2026 09:23 AM (jehhT)
I still didn't buy his explanation.
If another state honors a driver's license, marriage license, professional license, there's no reason not to honor the 2nd Amendment. Art IV, Section 1 doesn't say "everything BUT the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:22 AM (oUopv)
My car legal in Texas but illegal in Cali.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:24 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2026 09:25 AM (q6tQZ)
A class I had to take in college.
It's so discrete, no one's ever heard of it.
I failed it. Twice.
Posted by: Brian 'Sex Machine' Stelter at July 24, 2026 09:17 AM (2YhKe)
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I won't tell anyone.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 09:25 AM (s/uMh)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3)
Waldorf Salad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoUH43nI4w
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3)
Oh, shit, not again!
Posted by: Basil Fawlty at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (SgdqL)
Pretti is more of a sad case. The guy decided to go to a riot armed and fight with a cop. He got shot when he was being disarmed and his gun went off. Unlike Goode he wasn't trying to murder a cop, but his actions also led directly to him being shot
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 09:19 AM
Park's closed.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (kgE5c)
@WesternLensman
Gavin Newsom bemoans politics being injected into everything, like sports.
"I used to love sports because it wasn't political."
Man, if only we could figure out who did this.
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It's getting where you can't even beat a white c*nt basketballer without everyone making a big deal out of it!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (NemxU)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:19 AM (Nyq9f)
You, too, and it is. Little has two games of his last tournament, and oldest is going to practice with the big dogs (HSers) and local baseball royalty.
As a 9th grader, LBR wants him on varsity next year, partly due to their dearth of catching in the pipeline. On his talent and hard work, too. Dude is pulling under 2.5 s pop time, without really pushing it, which is pop time is low MLB levels. Poptime is catcher mitt to 2B mitt time, lower is better, and it is an indicator of solid catching and preventing the steal.
A very good day.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 09:27 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:22 AM (/+uur)
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Odds are there are some exchanges of dick pics out there too
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 09:27 AM (s/uMh)
To bottled water? To Cardboard & Plastic (aka "Kraft Macaroni and Cheese"), to breads and cereals that haven't been touched by human hand at any point, to eggs and milk which have been automated and optimized since forever?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 09:27 AM (BvPIe)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:27 AM (Nyq9f)
@EndWokeness
How will ICE ever recover from this?
https://tinyurl.com/mswatz77
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)
A bunch of white women. I wonder how many of them have husbands and children.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:03 AM (ExV1e)
Husband? Children? Nope. Cats: definitely.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 24, 2026 09:27 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (Nyq9f)
Why was her daughter their filming?
Did they expect pile of dead protestors?
Notice no violence until the police show up with flashbangs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:28 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3)
Waldorf Salad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoUH43nI4w
Posted by: r hennigantx
Made with Taco Bell lettuce!
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:28 AM (oUopv)
Is it going to collapse the economy? No. But it will have an impact.
But it is NOTHING compared to the costs in welfare spending for the illegals, welfare spending for the displaced worker, and the crime the illegals bring with them.
So yes to use your example another $50/week month in groceries (maybe) but trillions less in federal and state spending.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 09:28 AM (sKqQm)
Do you need a license to buy a newspaper? To go on the internet and acquire information, to share it. No.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:28 AM (vC80E)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoUH43nI4w
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (/+uur)
Every time some asshoe says "It easy, just...." I think of that one!
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 09:28 AM (GD0B3)
Jesus I thought at first you meant the ball getting out of his glove. Damn
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:28 AM (Nyq9f)
People - especially of the younger generation - live most of their lives online in supportive communities or ones that cater to their deviance. I think it has not yet hit the DSA wunderkind that their pasts are fair game and that just because they see no problem having Rule34.xxx in their daily feed doesn't mean John Q Public will overlook it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 24, 2026 09:29 AM (qRla/)
Is it going to collapse the economy? No. But it will have an impact.
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 09:23 AM (GFRGc)
Now do the effect of more Americans having jobs because they haven't been taken by illegals. Now do the effect of less spending on illegals in 'education' and 'healthcare', and less crime, and lower rents, and...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Donate Your Car Today!
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A while back it was brought forward that Car4Kids is a scam; that most of the money goes to the operator and virtually none to the stated goals.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (vC80E)
The Associated Press
@AP
In impoverished Nepal, where a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options, the impact on aid workers’ lives was particularly crushing. Starving and scared, around 100 LGBTQ+ aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts have turned to sex work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.
https://tinyurl.com/2y5tf5jj
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (NpAcC)
We are seeing rent and other costs including food coming down in areas all across the country.
It's amazing how costs react when demand is reduced by removing millions of illegals from the country. Some should do a study on supply and demand. It might be a thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2026 09:31 AM (oUopv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2026 09:26 AM (NemxU)
The Ravens gave him a "clean slate", telling him what he does on the field, and the work he puts in will speak for him. Speaks volumes to his (lack of) character. Only Heisman runner-up to not be drafted. He could have had the world by the balls and blew his chances. What a waste of God given talent.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 24, 2026 09:31 AM (N39Ws)
The Associated Press
@AP
In impoverished Nepal, where a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options, the impact on aid workers’ lives was particularly crushing. Starving and scared, around 100 LGBTQ+ aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts have turned to sex work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (ndZc7)
Note, that they never tell you what the money is going for. The do have an earworm jingle that sounds sketchy—trading cars for children, or giving children semi-functioning cars.
The name doesn't have any correlation to the entity's purpose.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (NzX/y)
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:28 AM (Nyq9f)
Yeah, I think low target there is 0.6 seconds. Some HSers get pop times down sub 2 seconds. So he's got some work to do. It's an art. And he was one of the best we'd seen, when he was on, this year, even among single A teams who could have 17 year olds.
But there's more talent in the pipeline, so no time to rest.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 24, 2026 09:32 AM (ndZc7)
....and blowing them"
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (Nyq9f)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 09:34 AM (dK+Kv)
You don't get it. They don't want Americans doing this for decent money. They want people that are a little desperate and won't cause labor issues.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (bkuEU)
Mike Flynn (not the general) used to make a point of calling them "foreign nationals". They are not "humans lost at sea, adrift, and from nowhere", they are citizens of another country, even if they tossed their papers in the Rio Grande.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 24, 2026 09:35 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Chaos at July 24, 2026 09:36 AM (GFRGc)
The Associated Press
@AP
In impoverished Nepal, where a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options, the impact on aid workers’ lives was particularly crushing. Starving and scared, around 100 LGBTQ+ aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts have turned to sex work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.
https://tinyurl.com/2y5tf5jj
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (NpAcC)
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I might be going to Nepal next year. I’ll report back!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 09:37 AM (Nt9qU)
Welfare spending probably juices grocery prices by maybe ten per cent or more. Corn chips are peasant food, literally field corn, oil and salt there’s no reason for them to cost $7 or $8 a bag. They pay more for the bag, maybe. Maybe $1 or two. Transportation costs factor. But they can get it, because the Eagle shits once a month.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2026 09:38 AM (E4+QS)
Posted by: Some Nepali former USAID recipient at July 24, 2026 09:38 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:39 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Donate Your Car Today!
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A while back it was brought forward that Car4Kids is a scam; that most of the money goes to the operator and virtually none to the stated goals.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:30 AM (vC80E)
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K4K is not much different than any other charity. The money always gets eaten up by advertising and bullshit. The reason K4K has a bad reputation is because it’s a religious Jewish charity. God forbid!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 09:42 AM (Nt9qU)
You don't get it. They don't want Americans doing this for decent money. They want people that are a little desperate and won't cause labor issues.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Has nothing to do with the costs of operation. Right?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:42 AM (vC80E)
Me love you long time!
Posted by: Some Nepali former USAID recipient at July 24, 2026 09:38 AM (sKqQm)
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Pics?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 09:43 AM (Nt9qU)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 09:45 AM (Nt9qU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 24, 2026 09:46 AM (bkuEU)
It's amazing how costs react when demand is reduced by removing millions of illegals from the country. Some should do a study on supply and demand. It might be a thing.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Now do paying Americans rent, buying Doritoes and phones for them while we pay for their cable connection to watch The View.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:47 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 24, 2026 09:42 AM (Nt9qU)
Didn't know that. I thought the bad rep came from the ear worm jingle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 24, 2026 09:51 AM (dK+Kv)
Allocation of Funds by Kars4Kids
Kars4Kids, a nonprofit organization, allocates its funds primarily to program expenses and operational costs. Here’s a breakdown of how the money is spent:
Percentage of Funds Allocated
Category Percentage of Total Funds
Program Expenses 44%
Advertising and Overhead Approximately 66%
Key Insights
Program Expenses: 44% of the funds raised are directed towards program expenses, which primarily benefit its sister organization, Oorah.
Impact in Minnesota: A compliance review indicated that only 1% of the funding from Oorah was believed to have benefited children in Minnesota during the years 2012 to 2014.
This allocation highlights the significant portion of funds that go towards operational costs, including advertising, which can limit the direct impact on local communities.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 09:55 AM (vC80E)
Well, if they didn't before, they certainly do now. I suspect they wanted one already. But, if so, it's pretty surprising that they don't already have one after all this time, given how easily India and Pakistan did it with less info and without the benefit of massive oil revenue.
Posted by: Lurkyloo at July 24, 2026 10:23 AM (PZ7h8)
Begun, the AI wars have...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2026 10:37 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2026 08:12 AM
So it's a boob thread?
Posted by: Just got here
And what's wrong with that?
AOC Psychodancing with a REMAIN SINWAR camisole and matching FREE GAZA hotpants next to the 1960's Klingon MADMANI as he smirks while presiding over the next 911 and Year 1 Kirkiversary -- think of the merchandizing opportunties!
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 24, 2026 11:06 AM (8r1LU)
Last week, undocumented immigrant enforcement & what might be done for enforcement was discussed on your podcast.
As to farms (east coast): A substantial & growing share of East Coast agriculture relies on international H-2A guest workers, heavily recruited from countries like Jamaica and Mexico. Under the federal U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regulations, H-2A temporary agricultural workers are legally entitled to a comprehensive set of guaranteed financial, housing, and contractual benefits: The Three-Fourths Guarantee (income protection); free, certified housing; inbound and outbound transportation costs; guaranteed premium wages; food or kitchen facilities; workers' compensation and tool coverages, and explicit tax exemptions.
When factoring in the above, especially the AEWR, 2A workers are frequently far more expensive per hour to an employer than a local U.S. workers. (Note: If a farmer hires even one H-2A worker, they are legally mandated to pay that exact same elevated AEWR wage, and the same benefits, to any domestic U.S. workers doing the same job.)
And to get their H-2A visas approved, farmers need to
Continued
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 11:35 AM (NFX2v)
Now, the labor force working on Chinese & East Asian vegetable farms on the East Coast is generally split into three distinct categories: migratory Latino laborers; older first-generation Chinese immigrants, and first-generation Chinese immigrants.
Family run, or generational labor frequently relying on extended family networks, sometimes supplemented by older Chinese immigrant workers from nearby urban hubs
(like New York City's Chinatown) or seasonal Chinese student workers during peak summer seasons.
And Next-Gen Asian-American Cooperatives are a
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 11:35 AM (NFX2v)
The people working on those cooperative farms are typically the farm owners themselves, local community apprentices, urban volunteers, and paid seasonal interns. Because these farms prioritize social justice and community building over corporate profit, their labor force has a 'unique' demographic and structural profile. 🤷♀️
Now from above, 'Pro-amnesty Republicans are allowing the agriculture industry to shut out American workers in favor of foreign migrants.'
Allegedly, the primary objective of allowing certain undocumented workers to apply for temp H-2A status is to transition them into sectors that currently cannot legally use such labor, i.e., seasonal limitations, daily & livestock facing domestic labor shortages.
Therefore, undocumented workers already working in year-round sectors would transition to a legal framework within those specific jobs, completely bypassing the seasonal field positions held by traditional, reliable H-2A contract workers. 🤬
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 11:35 AM (NFX2v)
Give them a little time.
Good weekend 🤗
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 11:35 AM (NFX2v)
Form I-9 Section 1: Must be completed and signed by the employee on or before their first day of work.
Section 2: Must be completed by the employer within 3 business days of the employee's first day of work, which includes inspecting physical or authorized alternative identity documents.
E-Verify System Electronic Check: E-Verify is a separate online system that compares Form I-9 data against federal databases.
Mandatory Status: While Form I-9 is MANDATORY for all employers, E-Verify is voluntary nationally unless required by specific state laws, federal contracts, or specific legal settlements.
Don't create a pattern that your "employees" just happen to engage in identity fraud but you've had no idea it could be or was going on.
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ALL info. in above related postings can be easily found online, libraries, state and/or US representatives, etc.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 12:02 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2026 08:53 AM (GD0B3)
I opened it in another tab and read the entire thing while the horde was jabbering on about "stuff". I forwarded it to a number of people to see if I get any replies. They probably won't take the time to read it. I really does exhibit the thought process of most leftists. The phrase I always uttered to them was, "you don't know what you don't know". I usually received the 'deer in the headlights' response.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 24, 2026 12:14 PM (hmYU4)
333. migratory Latino laborers, older first-generation Chinese immigrants, and YOUNGER OR MORE RECENT FIRST-GENERATION Chinese immigrants
(in lieu of REPEATING older first-generation Chinese immigrants)
334. seasonal limitations, DAIRY & livestock facing domestic labor shortages.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 24, 2026 02:24 PM (NFX2v)
Daily Tech News 24 July 2026
Top Story
- AMD has announced its new Zen 6 Epyc server CPUs and we know, if anything, less about them than we did before the announcement. (WCCFTech)
Here's the problem: Zen 6 is strongly rumoured to increase the core count per chiplet from 8 to 12, and increase the L3 cache and X3D cache per chiplet by 50% to match. Which means that the raw numbers of cores and cache do nothing to confirm or deny the 12 core rumour. It doesn't help that the announced mainstream products focused on 96 core models which would have the same numbers whether that's twelve 8-core chiplets or eight 12-core chiplets.
Until you get all the way down to the bottom of the chart for Socket SP8 processors and find the 8-core Epyc with 48MB of cache which rather hints that 12 core chiplets are not a lie.
Oh, also supported (officially) are PCIe Gen 6 - probably for servers only, and 12.8GHz MRDIMMs - also probably for servers only. And up to 16 memory channels per socket, which at 12.8GHz delivers close to three times the bandwidth of Epyc Zen 5.
Tech News
- Ryzen 7 has been confirmed on track for 2028, bringing with it support for DDR6 memory and the new ACE instruction set for matrix operations. (WCCFTech)
There is no spoon. As far as I can see some bugger has nicked the entire cutlery draw.
- There's also the "new" X199 embedded CPU which is AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with a much more convenient name and a power budget of 55W. (Tom's Hardware)
It's competing with Intel's Panther Lake laptops chips and is unsurprisingly faster, although I'm not sure it's possible to manufacture competitively.
- Patreon has laid off 20% of its workforce. (Tech Crunch)
CEO Jack Conte blamed AI and not his own malicious incompetence.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: I'm in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:30 AM (faghi)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:31 AM (faghi)
Posted by: clarence at July 24, 2026 04:31 AM (1QT7n)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:36 AM (faghi)
****
I'm in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying.
*Proffers 9mm and two extra magazines.*
Posted by: clarence at July 24, 2026 04:39 AM (1QT7n)
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 04:42 AM (Sy6m/)
https://tinyurl.com/tbw6bh97
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:43 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: clarence at July 24, 2026 04:43 AM (1QT7n)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 24, 2026 04:46 AM (YoT4f)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)
Followed by a prayer and reflection.
https://tinyurl.com/5fbyjs35
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:52 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 04:52 AM (D0X9e)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:53 AM (faghi)
https://tinyurl.com/2v6r7k9a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:58 AM (xSAlF)
AMV - I'm So Classy
1,143,361 views Dec 23, 2013
I'm So Classy amv edited by STICKYGAIDEN
Music - Jesse Valentine (F-777) - I'm So Classy
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:58 AM (faghi)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)
And he'd stop purring.
And he was a very god boy at the vet, but he climbed up my arm to sit on my shoulder. It didn't hurt me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:01 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 04:52 AM (D0X9e)
Your grammar is a little substandard.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:01 AM (faghi)
(If I may.)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:53 AM (faghi)
It's short for "knowledge devourer," since I'm practically a compulsive reader and learner.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 05:05 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 05:10 AM (BLOW1)
(If I may.)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:53 AM (faghi)
It's short for "knowledge devourer," since I'm practically a compulsive reader and learner.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 05:05 AM (Sy6m/)
Thank you!
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:11 AM (faghi)
Posted by: meh at July 24, 2026 05:11 AM (XeEnw)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 24, 2026 05:13 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:14 AM (faghi)
Posted by: Case at July 24, 2026 05:14 AM (bqIVz)
Posted by: fluffy at July 24, 2026 05:16 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:17 AM (faghi)
https://tinyurl.com/4p6f77br
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:19 AM (3OyJk)
When I started bringing bird feeders and such out on to the deck I could hear it more clearly. There was a fox nearby.
There were no bunnies to greet my and the little dog got a light on her collar.
Posted by: fluffy at July 24, 2026 05:21 AM (V0/Sp)
@18/FenelonSpoke: Millard obviously trusts and loves you. Well done! (The shoulder-perching kitten bit made me laugh - "You'll save me from the thermometer, right? RIGHT?")
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 05:22 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Twitchy editors at July 24, 2026 05:22 AM (V0/Sp)
*sad face*
*** even sadder face ***
Posted by: Twitchy editors at July 24, 2026 05:22 AM (V0/Sp)
haha
I hadn't been there in forever.
https://twitchy.com
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:26 AM (faghi)
Yes; He didn't like the thermometer up his backside. Can't say I blame him. We have purchased pet insurance which I think will be a wise investment.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:30 AM (dom7w)
Fen, the kitten sounds like a charmer. I recall bringing little Arizona home from the SPCA, and trying to enclose him with his food and litter box in the kitchen of our apartment by rigging up a cardboard shield in the doorway (it had no door). The next morning I woke to find a tiny bundle of red tabby fur buzzing on my pillow.
Big cat, as he grew to be, slept on my bed in one area of it or another pretty much his whole life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026
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I've been considering pet insurance for my two furballs. What company did you go with?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)
Work harder on that portal technology, because I'm pretty sure an open portal between you and Wolfus in New Orleans would help both of you with your mutual temperature challenges.
{ Rejoinder: You are now in the middle of sixteen things... }
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 05:38 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:41 AM (lt7On)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:42 AM (lt7On)
“The more we have learned to use these new tools, the clearer it has become that they are not substitutes for the creativity, judgment, detail orientation, or craftsmanship that our teammates have in spades...."
The card game?
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:43 AM (faghi)
{ Rejoinder: You are now in the middle of sixteen things... }
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026
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Yes! A twenty-five-degree drop in my temps and a similar rise in Pixy's would give us both about 57-60 F.!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/mr28waau
Skip the next comic after that one (it's filler), but then read the four subsequent ones.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 05:46 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 05:49 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026
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Oh, Arizona could be difficult and prickly. He hated going to the vet, hated moving, didn't like other cats, didn't like new male visitors to his territory (he was fine with the female ones!). But from the second day, there was never any question. He was my cat, I was his human, there, that's settled. Now when's dinner?
Stirling here, though much more easygoing, has pretty much the same attitude about me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 05:56 AM (xrWSS)
My Win10 computer refuses to boot up. I don't know if it's a boot order problem or a impending disk failure. Got it sort of running and now I'm desperately saving my music, documents, pictures and website over to a 1 TB drive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 05:56 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:58 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 24, 2026 06:01 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 05:49 AM (BLOW1)
Bundle up! In case the wind BLOWs.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:01 AM (faghi)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:02 AM (faghi)
I have to use my phone as a hot spot to get internet and had been using Firefox as a browser. That no longer works because the computer is Win10. Brave still works.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 06:02 AM (abScH)
I am sleepy. I first read that as "my wino computer."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 06:04 AM (XvETL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 06:06 AM (XvETL)
XP and Windows 7 were the last truly good versions of windows in terms of "Fairly decent UI, and the OS gets out of the way to let you get on with using your computer the way you want to."
Microslop lost the plot with versions 8.0 and beyond.
I don't see things getting any better unless they lose a LOT of market share and are honest with themselves about all the bad decisions the company has made in recent years.
(Yeah, that's not happening.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 06:06 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 06:08 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 24, 2026 06:15 AM (amcLV)
I tried to talk to the IRS yesterday about my long-errant refund check. Both of the numbers they give on their website bring you to an automated assistant, who even with my SSN, etc., "can't find" my refund. There seems to be no way to talk to an actual human without making an in-person appointment at the only office downtown. The website has a "refund tracker" feature which gave the same info. Today I'll try it again and enter my original refund amount instead of the amended one. Maybe I'll get a new response.
I'm rapidly coming to the point of saying "I guess I'll never see that check" and consider it found money if it ever does show up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 24, 2026 06:16 AM (PzBTm)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 06:16 AM (abScH)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026
***
Sometimes I miss MS Word for DOS, ca. 1989.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
@twitchyteam
ICYMI: Trimming the Fat: ABC Slashes The View's Hosts’ Salaries and Wardrobe Budget, More Cuts Coming
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:19 AM (faghi)
*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 24, 2026 06:16 AM (PzBTm)
YAY!
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:20 AM (faghi)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 06:24 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:19 AM (faghi)
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If that means skimpier clothing, I see put the money back in the budget!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (T8aW9)
Posted by: m
I just looked it up. 21 April 2021 was the first day on this server, though for about three weeks before that we were limping along on a smaller server after the datacenter fire and I think I was posting then as well.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (BLOW1)
G'mornin' everyone!
50 degrees, light breeze, cloud cover indeterminate until the sun crosses the horizon ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 24, 2026 06:31 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 06:31 AM (abScH)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 06:31 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:19 AM (faghi)
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If that means skimpier clothing, I see put the money back in the budget!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (T8aW9)
Cancel The View, only because it sucks. Not that I want those hags canceled.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 06:32 AM (8l6/L)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026
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"How now, you secret, black, and midmorning hags!"
( -- Macbeth, guesting on The View)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 06:34 AM (abScH)
Posted by: m
I just looked it up. 21 April 2021 was the first day on this server, though for about three weeks before that we were limping along on a smaller server after the datacenter fire and I think I was posting then as well.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (BLOW1)
Thank you! I was estimating "during the pandemic" but I couldn't get closer than that. Happy 5-year anniversary plus a bit!
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:34 AM (faghi)
Mrs Eez's machine for performing Graphic Arts.
all file transfers via thumb drive
only one in the house, everything else runs Linux Mint
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 24, 2026 06:37 AM (VyBeY)
The dang thing is running Win 98 and has been continuously since about 2003. It never gets turned off. Kind of amazing it still works. I bet the inside of that thing is a horror show but I'm not going to look. I told them it's time to get a new POS system but I'm not going to provide it.
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 06:44 AM (MWfyi)
The dang thing is running Win 98 and has been continuously since about 2003. It never gets turned off. Kind of amazing it still works. I bet the inside of that thing is a horror show but I'm not going to look. I told them it's time to get a new POS system but I'm not going to provide it.
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026
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Oh. Oh! POS = "point of sale"! Now I get it. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 06:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 06:51 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 24, 2026 06:56 AM (sUMTS)
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 24, 2026 06:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Microsoft reports that their "Windows OEM and Devices" revenue increased 3% at over $13.5B in revenue.
Office: $33.1B for the quarter, ↑16% commercial ↑21%
Azure: $75B Annual ↑34% YoY
The products for business way overtakes the Xbox, Surface, Windows, Search revenue. Windows is the ink jet printer, all the crap that runs on it is the ink.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:01 AM (rgGn5)
You buy from Amazon, you deserve the heartbreak. POS is an integrations business. The actual POS terminal's devices all have their own drivers and OPOS/UPOS which was the common device communications protocol hasn't been supported in nearly a decade except through crappy iterations of JavaOPOS.
The point being, POS doesn't just plug-in and magic occurs, there is a ton of integration work that the hardware software vendors have to work out and nearly 100% of that is outsourced to India because POS is a commodity item.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:07 AM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:10 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)
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Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) doesn't react when I say the words "food" or "breakfast" or "dinner."
However, if I say the word "treats" she immediately perks up and chirps at me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026 07:12 AM (FZ29D)
Haven't put anything on local HD in years. Have three fat WD's in the box. Right now hooked to two SanDisc externals, one for music and movies, the other for stuff. If the computer goes south I just plug the HD's into another one.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:12 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 07:12 AM (wzUl9)
Well, you have to setup accounts and enter inventory. It's not that difficult. The packages offered include the hardware and software that already works together. For a single station setup, it's easy enough.
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:14 AM (MWfyi)
However, if I say the word "treats" she immediately perks up and chirps at me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2026
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Stirling and Dagny know the cabinet where I keep the treats, and will vault up to the counter beneath it whenever I open the door. I'm not sure if they know the word "treats," but I would not be surprised.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 07:14 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:14 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 07:16 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fluffy at July 24, 2026 07:16 AM (V0/Sp)
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Buddy had a Stirling. Honda and Toyota parts on a British chassis, assembled in England, designed in England. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:17 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:17 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:20 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd a
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That's a push.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:20 AM (vC80E)
https://tinyurl.com/yv3svdmk
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2026 07:21 AM (9nc7W)
Works fine for as long as the wear items can be replaced spec-for-spec.
Now add a PIN Pad... with NFC. What does your encryption software look like and does it work with your vendor and payments processor? Adding a scale? A security scale? How about a money exchanger? If all you are doing is scanning UPC codes and printing receipts that works until it breaks. Anything more aggressive requires integration.
Printers themselves are all over the map in what they can do. simple, single receipt? OK. drawing a bar code? some can't do that. drawing a logo or something else - forget it. Do you want to do journaling? how wide is that receipt paper?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:24 AM (nCgQz)
I've seen bigger steam engines -- on ships.
It was impressive moving down the tracks.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)
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Shakgylion sounds like a painful skin boil.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 24, 2026 07:28 AM (qBdHI)
That is all they have been doing on the old system for about 25 years. The system they have does exactly what they want and they would not even consider replacing it if the computer wasn't dying. They would be happy to run it another 25 years. Like most people though, they don't want to change.
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:28 AM (MWfyi)
I've seen bigger steam engines -- on ships.
It was impressive moving down the tracks.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
__________
After seeing the Big Boy, the Soviets tried to make an even larger version. Did not work out well.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 24, 2026 07:29 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:29 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Shakqylion's mom at July 24, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)
I'm not sure Iran wants to piss off Amazon.
Amazon was building drones to deliver significant payloads right to your front door. Do they really want some of the most brilliant minds and hardest working software engineers to have a mission that looks a lot like their recreational video games?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 24, 2026 07:30 AM (nCgQz)
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2026 07:32 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 24, 2026 07:33 AM (vC80E)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: The More You Know at July 24, 2026 07:34 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (BLOW1)
Ah. Around the green orange era. I liked the alt blog software but the horde can’t be trusted with image imbeds in comments. Or moving marque fonts.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 24, 2026 07:43 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2026 08:19 AM (xComp)
Thursday 7/23/26 ONT in the Doghouse [Hour of the Wolf]
Source: Charles M. Schulz Museum
People have conflicting theories. Literal Origins: The Doghouse as a Symbol of Disfavor
The term “doghouse” has been part of the English language since at least the mid-1500s, referring to a shelter for dogs. In the late 19th century, the term evolved to describe the backyard structure for a single dog. The figurative use of “in the doghouse,” meaning to be in temporary disgrace, emerged by 1932.Earliest Printed Record: Winsor McCay’s Comic Strip
The earliest known printed use of “in the doghouse” in its idiomatic sense appears in Winsor McCay’s comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend between 1904 and 1905. This predates the 1926 glossary Criminalese by J.J. Finerty, which defines “in dog house” as “in disfavor.Maritime Theory: Sailors’ Punishment Quarters
Another theory suggests that the idiom originated in the 19th century when sailors slept in small huts on a ship’s deck, referred to as “dog houses.” Punished sailors were made to sleep in these cramped, uncomfortable spaces, leading to the association of “being in the doghouse” with being in trouble.Source, and some other theories: theidioms.com Today's Funnies
Two rabbits were being chased by a pack of hungry wolves. The wolves chased the rabbits into a thicket. After a few minutes, one rabbit turned to the other and said,
"Well, do you want to make a run for it, or should we stay here for a few days and out number them?"
She said it rang a bell, but she wasn't sure if it was there or not.
And one candidate I'm considering for 2028.
Today's Poll
Your opinion only, not your dog's, please. Mine is D.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)― Marilyn Monroe
Posted by: mindful webworker - man v beast at July 23, 2026 10:00 PM (M5tgA)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 23, 2026 10:00 PM (B2pWp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:00 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:01 PM (vE0+H)
Do y'all even CARE about the Earth and climate change??
I'm so outta here.
Posted by: Al Gore at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (JLqL/)
Posted by: Al Gore at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (JLqL/)
https://youtu.be/Twivg7GkYts
Posted by: mindful webworker - true story at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (M5tgA)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)
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Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (ok2JK)
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
I seem to have missed all the Snoopy things today
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: scampydog at July 23, 2026 10:05 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 10:05 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Piper
I'm not sure it's a whole genre. Seems to be just the one band.
Or two, if you count Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (BI5O2)
Oh that's right. It turns out you can just say things.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:04
Whatever could you be referring to? We have never seen this ONT! Not at all! Ever! Especially on a Tuesday!
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: scampydog at July 23, 2026 10:05 PM (41CYW)
You're welcome. I tried to include something for everyone, but missed Robert the Cat.
Hopefully Piper and Bulg both enjoy the yoga video....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Piper
I'm not sure it's a whole genre. Seems to be just the one band.
Or two, if you count Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.
Posted by: mikeski
The Royal Guardsmen
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (Dd38x)
Hour of the Wolf bringing good content! You might have some competition for Doof Enterprises employee of the month.
Posted by: Doof at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Derak at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (bixZP)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (ok2JK)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Piper
Dounds like there's a two day delay in the afterlife. Since this is Thursday.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (Dd38x)
Vince Guaraldi Trio
https://tinyurl.com/387hspk8
https://tinyurl.com/bd6zuch5
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is like a box of melted chocolates at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (M5tgA)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:04
Whatever could you be referring to? We have never seen this ONT! Not at all! Ever! Especially on a Tuesday!
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)
It sounds like Piper got snoopy earlier this week.
If she's Snoopy, what does that make J? Woodstock, Charlie Brown, or Linus?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Chocoholic at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Born Free at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (raD1m)
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (oSFyF)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (ftFVW)
Now I want to watch The Blue Max.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (ok2JK)
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: wth at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (ExV1e)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (/+uur)
Well, hey, I know how we can fix this sort of thing before it gets to shooting...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 10:14 PM (sKqQm)
Bite into the expensive chocolate, get a mouthful of sawdust. Bleh.
Posted by: mikeski
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::fistbump::
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:14 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 10:14 PM (bqIVz)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Big Porker at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (0jsOz)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 23, 2026 10:15 PM (a89qc)
It sounds like Piper got snoopy earlier this week.
If she's Snoopy, what does that make J? Woodstock, Charlie Brown, or Linus?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg
Oh gosh, definitely not Charlie Brown. Hmmm. I don’t know that he fits a character, really.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2026 10:11 PM (sOtuf)
You definitely didn't see it on Tuesday when I was copy/pasting content into the thread builder and accidentally pasted it over my own live thread. Nope - definitely not.
Posted by: Doof at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Now I want to watch The Blue Max.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)
Flyboys... may go watch it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: DPICM at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (zweKz)
Posted by: mindful webworker
Oh so that's what the kids are calling it these days!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (/+uur)
And the shelter on a drilling rig where the driller's console and the geolograph are located, is called the doghouse. When I was working in the patch, my dog Pogo would climb all the stairs to the doghouse at mealtimes, and mooch off the crew. I had several toolpushers tell me, "you know, when your dog is on the lease, the crew are on their best behavior."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (1z8ji)
I watched The Blue Max a long time ago. I thought it was really clunky, fwiw. It doesn't even give good Ursula Andres.
She's still alive at age 92, btw.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:12 PM (VJX5o)
Over under on which pops first...
Los A earthquake, or Bay Area... we're due.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (YoT4f)
Caramel
Toffee
are all inedible
Posted by: vmom
How can someone be exactly right and exactly wrong in the same post? Caramels are yum.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 23, 2026 10:18 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (RCjYY)
I do LOVE the dog who looks like Gregg Allman.
Cheers, y'all!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (ok2JK)
The Apollo 10 crew named the command module Charlie Brown, and the lunar module Snoopy.
Snoopy was set off in a heliocentric orbit, where it was well, went on eternal patrol you might say. In 2019, some astronomers think they might have found it:
https://t.ly/Btvfm
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (s2K/A)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
It should have been built in Martha's Vineyard. It would have worked so well on a small island just offshore, with a big rotating light and a fog horn.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (qx7Zg)
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (oUopv)
.......
Hey, it created one permanent job. Cobweb Guy.
Posted by: wth at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (oq9dX)
The MaCoys
https://t.ly/obESo
Some pretty fine dancing there btw.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
The Left's schtick is to try to destroy what is good.
So, they redefine beauty... they redefine what is a Man... they redefine what is a Woman...
They redefine right from wrong, good from evil...
Because if you cannot even define an actual problem, then you can't fix it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (mP0Kj)
She's still alive at age 92, btw.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:17 PM (RCjYY)
Ursula Andress made young Diogenes feel funny inside.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:21 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:21 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:22 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt
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Prolly in the basement.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt
You can get Russell Stover chocolates that are all creams. No nuts, and no toffee.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
It would be the world's ugliest lighthouse, and second place wouldn't be close.
It belongs on the island with the rest of Alcatraz.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
No, it's meant to be an insult to anyone who gazes upon it. It intentionally defies critique. It is criticism itself. An entirely godless soulless structure. Leftists are very very bizarre people.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 10:24 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (ok2JK)
Where is he? I haven’t seen him on X either.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:25 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (vE0+H)
The Vogon poetry of architecture
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:25 PM (7gFa4)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (YoT4f)
He got ran over
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (vE0+H)
Calling it a Nazi flak tower is an insult to the architects of Nazi flak towers. They at least had some symmetry to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (1z8ji)
Les was a cool guy. Taught me a lot.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: H at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (27rXu)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (/+uur)
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22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American
Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute
shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive,
meaningless art."
--excerpt from the Congressional Record at:
ecjones.org/1963_Communist_Goals.pdf
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)
HA! Thanks for the heads up. I just went and read Tuesday's for a fresh one (to me).
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 23, 2026 10:19 PM (ok2JK)
Where is he? I haven’t seen him on X either.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:25 PM (Dd38x)
I thought I saw him post once last night. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:25 PM (Dd38x)
He popped in here earlier today.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (1z8ji)
PERFECT
(or should I say PREFECT)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (7gFa4)
Loud talking, fighting inside (grudges wait for Saturday afternoon), sitting with dirty pants on bunks, or failing to return pop bottles earns time in the DOG HOUSE.
"Any man don't keep order spends a night in....the DOG HOUSE."
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: huerfano
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Read somewhere that there are big faults all over TX but the deep clay is moist which lubricates the slide.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3pne1IbWM
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: wth at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (oq9dX)
But Democrats are very concerned some "extremists" might be taking over
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (0Htd1)
I like a Heath every once in a while. Toffee should be crunchy. I can see how it wouldn't work in a truffle shape.
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 23, 2026 10:29 PM (MYQ7F)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3pne1IbWM
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (51ygH)
There are big faults everywhere, but only a small fraction are active. Some have not moved in a billion years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Doof at July 23, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
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Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated!
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2026 10:30 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: mikeski
Caramels are good if they are the soft, gooey kind.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:31 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 23, 2026 10:31 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM
Yes.
Their *concern* is duly noted. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:32 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 10:33 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 10:34 PM (SwCxT)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:34 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: President Emeritus! at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 23, 2026 10:37 PM (a89qc)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (vE0+H)
Calling it a Nazi flak tower is an insult to the architects of Nazi flak towers. They at least had some symmetry to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 10:26 PM (1z8ji)
It looks like buildings you see on planets in the video game . Nothing good comes out of those either.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:37 PM (S41Gd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at July 23, 2026 10:37 PM (yXKEQ)
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)
Whitman Sampler used to have that.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: VW Drivel at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (ExV1e)
Inspector: Number five: Ram's Bladder Cup. (beat) Now, what sort of confectionery is that?
Mr. Hilton: Oh, we use only the finest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish Ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue, and garnished with lark's vomit.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (S41Gd)
Definitely D
Posted by: Raymond Babbitt at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Don Black
The earthquake must have rearranged them.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (51ygH)
Carnegie did not force you to buy the books.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (S41Gd)
Most likely the bear got hooked on meth and was trying to steal some copper to sell for scrap and feed his nasty habit far away from home so his neighbors wouldn't come looking to kick his ass when the power went out.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:38 PM (51ygH)
Drugs are less addicting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 10:40 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 10:04
Whatever could you be referring to? We have never seen this ONT! Not at all! Ever! Especially on a Tuesday!
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)
It sounds like Piper got snoopy earlier this week.
If she's Snoopy, what does that make J? Woodstock, Charlie Brown, or Linus?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
I think we've got Charlie Brown covered, here on this blog already.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2026 10:40 PM (0CU3H)
Of that group, I can't say I have one that I disliked. The tequila one did make my eyes water a little, however.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:28 PM (51ygH)
There are big faults everywhere, but only a small fraction are active. Some have not moved in a billion years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You know what you did to cause the fault.
Posted by: Mother Earth at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (Dd38x)
Hour of the Wolf bringing good content! You might have some competition for Doof Enterprises employee of the month.
Posted by: Doof at July 23, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)
I am not giving him my parking spot.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt
I don't normally like toffee, but I knew a woman who would make homemade chocolate covered toffee for Christmas gifts. It was incredible, you could tell that it was made with real butter. The flavor was just so much better than commercial stuff, like a Heath bar. If you like a Heath bar, you would love the homemade stuff.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
We got lost due to construction in Laramie trying to find their Chick-fil-A, and wound up on the campus of the University of Wyoming. We saw mule deer grazing on their practice football field, haha! We also saw the nicest parking garage I've ever seen on the edge of campus. It almost looked like a castle made of sandstone.
Posted by: pookysgirl will be sad to leave Wyoming at July 23, 2026 10:42 PM (DuDKq)
Most likely the bear got hooked on meth and was trying to steal some copper to sell for scrap and feed his nasty habit far away from home so his neighbors wouldn't come looking to kick his ass when the power went out.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (+9wcF)
I thought that was an AI video
https://tinyurl.com/8tsz8rke
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 23, 2026 10:43 PM (w/O5Q)
Not nearly enough, not nearly enough.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 23, 2026 10:43 PM (kdtv/)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:43 PM (/+uur)
My favorite piece of clothing in my whole young world!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 10:44 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: DPICM
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Dentists everywhere prefer toffee Good money maker for them--pulls fillings right out of the teeth.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:44 PM (E4rtv)
https://tinyurl.com/fs5jxev9
Posted by: Ex Rex Reede
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I don't think Hank did it that way.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:44 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (Dd38x)
I thought you had cats guarding it. For some reason, though, both dogs and cats seem to like me. It's people that give me trouble.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:45 PM (qx7Zg)
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Candy Coated Communism, part one million. Are you ready for this bs for the next two plus years?
So now commies invented libraries. What a fucking retard spouting retard shit, scripted specifically for the dumbest of retards among us to zombify within.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:45 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: How To Make Friends at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (JM9I6)
Here's one of the iconic Apollo 10, Snoopy photos:
https://t.ly/oXRZu
There's a story behind that. The gal there is Jayme Flowers (later Coplin), who was Gordon Cooper's secretary. She and Gene Cernan had a thing going on. Well, not *that* kind of thing, but they clowned around. Gene told her to give a him something and he'd carry it around the Moon for her as a souvenir.
So she got that giant stuffed Snoopy as a gag that that was she wanted him to carry along. The result was these photos, which occurred with Gene after Stafford in the above photo, from a Reddit thread:
https://t.ly/JlcEN
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)
Dentists everywhere prefer toffee Good money maker for them--pulls fillings right out of the teeth.
Posted by: whig
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Jolly Rancher enters the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (51ygH)
I think it might have been MP4 (and if it wasn't, apologies to him) who said that Snoopy was the downfall of "Peanuts." And I've come to agree with that.
"Peanuts" was about how flawed characters dealt with their flaws, and how they became real by doing so. While Charlie Brown never won at anything, but it never dented his determination to continue. While he would despair over his outcomes, he would never allow his failures to consume him.
Snoopy, on the other hand, was a perpetual winner who was never disappointed and was admired by all. He was the breakout character for the strip, and it's certainly understandable that Schulz would capitalize on him.
I just never liked Snoopy that much after realizing that. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (CHHv1)
The sick thing is they want us to argue and set out our case for why they are wrong. They want us to burn brain cells and ink and pixels proving every angle about why they are wrong. As if they aren't already hyper aware of why they are wrong.
I will never forget when Romney made some proposal in 2012 during the election and Obama actually had the front to make a speech and lecture Romney that with a "government" program like what Romney was suggesting, the government doesn't pay for any of it. "The people do. The taxpayers."
They love doing this stuff. They love it.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:36 PM (VJX5o)
Pookette is struggling with the concept of Wyoming being filled with a whole lotta nothin'. I was gobsmacked that they water their hayfields here! Back in Iowa, the hayfields are mowed probably at least three times a year with no irrigation necessary.
Posted by: pookysgirl does not live in a desert at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (DuDKq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
It's the preservatives and additives that make machine made taste less good than handmade.
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (1Ff7Z)
Your opinion only, not your dog's, please. Mine is D.
Totally the nasty coconut one. Roach poison.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (QVmho)
Yeah, she changed the lock on my back door
Now my key, it won't fit no more
Move it on over
Rock it on over
Move over little dog, a big old dog is movin' in
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: ...
Don't think ole Ben Franklin was a commie and he founded the Library Company of Philadelphia for books. Andrew Carnegie was a filthy capitalist but funded libraries across the US.
Commies prefer to burn books rather than build libraries stocking badthink books.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:49 PM (E4rtv)
Mamdani on the free lending library: a new idea that no-one could've imagined until recently
Except that Cosimo Medici established his free lending library circa 1450
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:49 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM
Most beagles are very humble.
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:49 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (/+uur)
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Actually, in a way they do. Most funds for public libraries come from county property taxes....which is a pet peave of mine. Public libraries should be all donations. I see it as something very similar to PBS and NPR. You could argue that it improves the quality of living in the area by offering potentially free education and resources. I would argue that it is a 1st world luxury.
Fire Companies is a non-starter. It is a public safety organization and a necessity. It is no different from a paved road in a philosophical sense.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: LASue at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (mFhj8)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:44 PM (E4rtv)
My brother was eating a Black Cow (cousin of the Slo-Poke) back in the day and it literally pulled a filling out.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: ...
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Celebrating satanically via lies and inversions of truth. Mick should have named his song, Sympathy for the Democrats.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
It's your animal magnetism, obviously.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Frankie at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (+z1Lr)
Posted by: pookysgirl does not live in a desert at July 23, 2026 10:48 PM (DuDKq)
When you drive across Wyoming at night, you don't see nothing out there, except Sinclair.
Posted by: Safe at Home OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: TxAnn
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Only thing better for dentists are Jolly Ranchers-guaranteed to glue teeth together when they don't break off chunks of a tooth.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (E4rtv)
How you been. I got the sense today you were in worse pain than usual. Day ending in Y, I know. Anyway sending best wishes.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:52 PM (vE0+H)
The average salary for a Library Director in Harris County, Texas is approximately $79,260 per year, with a typical pay range between $62,597 and $101,476 annually. Top earners can make up to $125,940.
hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:52 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:53 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 10:53 PM (T2w7I)
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Candy Coated Communism, part one million. Are you ready for this bs for the next two plus years?
So now commies invented libraries. What a fucking retard spouting retard shit, scripted specifically for the dumbest of retards among us to zombify within.
Posted by: ... at July 23
Libraries, fire stations. It's called free associations, guaranteed in one of those early listings of constitutional things.
Don't think communists are big on this.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 23, 2026 10:53 PM (a89qc)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:54 PM (KC5Lt)
And for terrible chocolates, the cherry cordial. Second worst is rasperry. To my taste bbuds, fruit and chocolate don't mix.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 10:54 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:53 PM (vE0+H)
Commies built the sun. That's why it's red at the end of the day; it's disguise has burned off.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:54 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Where is the Old Madrid fault?
*Oh grok. . . *
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 10:55 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: r hennigantx
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But you know what he did? He built some architecturally beautiful buildings to house those books.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 10:55 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 10:51 PM (0Htd1)
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That sounds nice, but it seems to me the alcohol would likely evaporate during cooking. The one's I got, they somehow figured out how to create a lining within the chocolate which sealed just short of a half of shot of pure goodness. The chocolate was pretty high quality as well. They didn't last long.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:55 PM (dIske)
Snoopy, on the other hand, was a perpetual winner who was never disappointed and was admired by all. He was the breakout character for the strip, and it's certainly understandable that Schulz would capitalize on him.
I just never liked Snoopy that much after realizing that. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
If you did not add Snoopy into Peanuts for a little joy, the strip would have been equivalent to a Dostoevsky novel--Crime and Punishment.
Dogs bring a bit of joy and innocence even into the darkest hours of a human. So too did Snoopy as he gave heart to Charlie Brown to try again from demonstrating it is not a sin to be glad you are alive.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (/+uur)
Most libraries were built by one of the biggest capitalists in history.
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (KC5Lt)
The pronunciation of "Madrid" in New Madrid is different as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 10:57 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: whig
Jolly Rancher enters the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Jolly Rancher and Molar Crown have left the chat.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 10:57 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:55 PM (dIske)
Another fine use for Flex-Seal!
Posted by: Phil Swift at July 23, 2026 10:58 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:58 PM (KC5Lt)
Snoopy, on the other hand, was a perpetual winner who was never disappointed and was admired by all. He was the breakout character for the strip, and it's certainly understandable that Schulz would capitalize on him.
I just never liked Snoopy that much after realizing that. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
Now do Curious George (the little shit). Destructive little asshole that was never held responsible for any of his theft, vandalism, and B&E.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 10:58 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: Piper
+++++
I'm not sure it's a whole genre. Seems to be just the one band.
Or two, if you count Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.
Posted by: mikeski
****
The Royal Guardsmen
Posted by: rickb223
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I'm sure that there are licensing issues involved with centering your music around a copyrighted character. Once the RG did the first song, no one else wanted to get in a negotiation.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 10:59 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Failed rift zone in the North American plate. Some argue that it is a dying fault, others do not. The huge amount of sediment in the Mississippi River Valley is what makes it so potent for destruction. Shakes like a bowl of jelly with liquefaction etc.
You can still see sand blows yards in diameters all through the Eastern part of Arkansas from the New Madrid fault. As a kid, I could remember occasionally farmers digging up logs of cypress that fell during the earthquakes and were buried under the muck after. Cypress is one of the few woods that does not rot much at all due to water exposure.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:00 PM (E4rtv)
A little bit rebellious but mostly free.
Being in the house means the house owns you.
On the house means you can survive.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 11:00 PM (/+uur)
Mining, research, forward staging.
Clean fusion, desalination, calorie independence.
Welfare, Medicaid, Balkinization, programmed racial and class-envy systemic destruction, intellectual capacity assassination, serfdom, slavery, genocide ona scale unimaginable...
Heinlein, you magnificent bastard. Bet you're glad you're dead...
Posted by: Just Sayin at July 23, 2026 11:01 PM (sgKnS)
The pronunciation of "Madrid" in New Madrid is different as well.
Posted by: publius
Right next to Cairo IL and also pronounced different than Cairo Egypt. Pronounced like the Karo syrup.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:01 PM (E4rtv)
I will indulge in some peanut M&Ms now and again, or a Payday bar.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:54 PM (qx7Zg)
Nice
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: PabloD at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (9eWA/)
Posted by: buddhaha
I will pray for you. No one is beyond help.
Posted by: The Crystal Cathedral. at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (6x1Uq)
When the Medici family started lending their books out for free, printing had not been invented.
But the Medicis lent their books to scholars at no charge, so that they could be copied & studied. Copying by hand was the closest thing they had to printing back then.
And the Medicis were by no means Democratic Socialists.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (RCjYY)
The average salary for a Library Director in Harris County, Texas is approximately $79,260 per year, with a typical pay range between $62,597 and $101,476 annually. Top earners can make up to $125,940.
hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:52 PM (/+uur)
As a state employed slug, I make more than this. But I bet those folks work less than I do. Hell, I'd bet that any work they do is "work." I wonder what it would take to get hired on there.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (gKT4z)
G is usually the one I try hardest to avoid. Though, anymore, any of them that are excessively sticky inside are not enjoyable. (Ummm, fudge is NEVER excessively sticky.)
Posted by: GWB at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
Blue hair and pushing pron and tranny books to kindergarteners.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 11:04 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Probably have to learn to direct homeless weirdos to the best fetish pron sites that the library's internet can reach.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (E4rtv)
Most libraries were built by one of the biggest capitalists in history.
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (KC5Lt)
you could feed the chillrens for the cost of the books
you could give the pregnant abortions
I hate people that tell millionaires and billionaires how to spend their money.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:41 PM (Dd38x)
I thought you had cats guarding it. For some reason, though, both dogs and cats seem to like me. It's people that give me trouble.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 10:45 PM
The cats are much better guards than Saijo. He is very much an every man for himself kinda guy.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: PabloD
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I take it you don't like fruit in your cookies.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (E4rtv)
Maybe not the *best* Ursula Andress, but certainly not *bad* Ursula Andsress.
Any naked Ursula Andress is good Ursula Andress.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Probably have to learn to direct homeless weirdos to the best fetish pron sites that the library's internet can reach.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:05 PM (E4rtv)
I'm overqualified!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (gKT4z)
Posted by: Radar Love at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: publius
I've always been fascinated by the New Madrid fault. I read "The Frontiersmen", which is a semi-fictional account featuring Simon Kenton. Tecumseh is a large part of the story, and he predicted the great New Madrid quakes.
That was a truly terrifying event. The blessing being the land was pretty sparsely populated at the time.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 11:06 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: whig
But if they find a library some capitalist built, they'll fight tooth and nail to make sure the kid's section has the appropriate books, like Gender Queer and Heather Has Two Mommies.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Hundreds of them, sometimes in unlikely places. Here's a state by state list:
https://shorturl.at/XQLd2
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mamdani at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (EiUt/)
I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: kindly, discreet, unattractive.
We didn't know anything about her private life.
We didn't want to know anything about her private life.
She didn't have a private life.
While you're thinking about that, think about this: The library closes at five o'clock, no exceptions. This is your final warning. Got that, kewpie-doll?
Posted by: Lt. Bookman at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (Dd38x)
you could give the pregnant abortions
I hate people that tell millionaires and billionaires how to spend their money.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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It could also buy yards and yards of duct tape to shut up leftists and bind them to telephone poles.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: GWB at July 23, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)
Tell me about it!
Posted by: Kamala at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (vE0+H)
Choppers.
Posted by: Gary Burghoff at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Wonder how them people pronounce Sakkaliner
Posted by: Miklos, rejoicing on the banks of the Saluda at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Phil Swift at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Jen the original
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Ted Cruz made the comment today on X that he expected Mamdani to take Schumer's senate seat and AOC to run for Prezzie.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (E4rtv)
To me, the greatest candy bar in history is the Chase Candy Company Cherry Mash, which has cherry fondant filling encased in a chocolate and peanut shell.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (qpyNK)
Except that Cosimo Medici established his free lending library circa 1450
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 10:49 PM
A mere 500 + years off. Probably counts as 'right' in Mamdami's commie world
Posted by: LASue at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (mFhj8)
I think they estimate that 1811 New Madrid quake at 7.0 - 8.0.
I think there are very small little quakes at that fault all the time?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:56 PM (/+uur)
Which reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where book lover Burgess Meredith survives a nuclear apocalypse, finds a library only to have his glasses break.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 23, 2026 11:02 PM
I do. Have you seen the price of books? I can't afford my habit.
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: mikeski
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And make sure there are gloryholes in the gender neutral bathrooms.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Orson
One of my uncles would keep some Grand Marnier-filled chocolates on hand. Kids get a little to rowdy? *Uncle C's Knockout Drops* to the rescue!
Probly would be frowned upon, these days....
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kamala at July 23, 2026 11:08 PM (vE0+H)
Like you even remember when you still had a cherry, Kammi.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (EiUt/)
Yes. Today he announced a pied-à-terre tax for those with 2nd homes in NYC over $5M.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:00 PM (E4rtv)
******************
Son went to FSU and said there was a guy in one of his computer science class whose father owned a huge amt of land along swampy ground. Country FL boy. Their business (or bidness?) was taking ancient cypress that had been underwater to be milled into fancy furniture and built their entire house with this cypress. I think I have that right.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
https://tinyurl.com/458cj64f
Trippy, man. I was listening to Foreigner's "Cold as Ice" and remembered that song as I wrote that sentence.
I must be trilingal/tri-brained something or other.
My brain is a juke box sometimes, among other things we won't discuss.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: whig
Americans have traditionally been a very practical people.
Posted by: Miklos, looking at 3M stock at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: publius
Right next to Cairo IL and also pronounced different than Cairo Egypt. Pronounced like the Karo syrup.
Posted by: whig
New Prague, MN, rhymes with "plague," not with "frog."
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (EiUt/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Quick...how does the Dewey Decimal System work?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mamdani at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM
I don't trust anyone who smiles as much as that asshole. Or is a Muslim.
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (VJX5o)
https://shorturl.at/XQLd2
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (XeU6L)
There is a Carnegie Library in Vancouver, B.C. On Main Street.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: whig
Americans have traditionally been a very practical people.
Posted by: Miklos, looking at 3M stock at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (sxR7k)
We meet at dawn. Put me down on the list to help.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Quick...how does the Dewey Decimal System work?
Posted by: Mike
I'm pretty sure that's white supremacy, bruv. Books end up where they belong.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (gKT4z)
See how he responds.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (ibDUx)
I think they estimate that 1811 New Madrid quake at 7.0 - 8.0.
I think there are very small little quakes at that fault all the time?
Posted by: publius
Three big quakes 1811-1812 that have been around mid 7.0's after changing their initial guesses at magnitude. A strong one in the late 1890's. Most recent was a 4 point something that I felt as a little kid living in NE Arkansas at the time. Centered on Marked Tree Arkansas.
Lots of smaller ones mostly unfelt and deep with a few reminding people now and again a fault is sleeping there.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)
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Yes, there are.
You can feel them in southern MO/southern IL.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (IMPuq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 11:13 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (EiUt/)
Note how the national spokespeople kind of come and go. Romney disappeared. Cheney disappeared. Bernie shows up every four years. Clinton hangs around. The Obamas hang around. Hunter *Biden* has "appeared".
The script has to be fed through people that are well known (a well known last name helps a LOT) or have a novel presence.
Mamdani was an op from the word go, and now he's gonna be one of the main spokespeople for candy coated communism as they ramp up the operation to wherever they plan to move us post Trump.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 11:13 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:12 PM (E4rtv)
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Yep.
Very disconcerting.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (IMPuq)
Probly would be frowned upon, these days....
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (rdVOm)
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That's awesome. I wonder how Nyquil tastes with chocolate.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Obscure library trivia for 200, Alex at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Jen the original
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New York and California are sad unfunny jokes nowadays and I can see why you feel that way.
DSA are sort of like Heath Ledger's Joker.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
*checks*
You have been volunteered for the Tar and Feathering Team
Posted by: Miklos, with Official Clipboard at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (SwCxT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:15 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 23, 2026 11:07 PM (EiUt/)
Yes. Today he announced a pied-à-terre tax for those with 2nd homes in NYC over $5M.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 11:09 PM (Dd38x)
***********
Mandingo wants to be Emperor of the World.
That smile of his is pure evil. A villian from a cartoon.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:10 PM (XeU6L)
Well, you make sure that all applicants to be your library students include their measurements along with their photographs.
Then you rate them on hotness. No students below an 8.9 need apply.
Dewey was a cad, even by the standards of the era.
Posted by: Melvil Dewey at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (qpyNK)
Very disconcerting.
Posted by: SMH
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Descriptions of the 1811-1812 shocks are pretty apocalyptic.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (E4rtv)
I've never had a bad experience with one, ever. I never saw a derelict there. The librarians are unfailingly courteous, too.
Mine has a policy of throwing anyone who tries to access pron offline. Spare me, "How do YOU know? Ha Ha" There are printed rules about using the 'Net.
Also they have adult literacy classes there, and lots of similar programs.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Miklos, hygrometer in use at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 11:17 PM (bqIVz)
+++++++
Yu know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 23, 2026 11:17 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:11 PM (VJX5o)
Or is a communist.
Posted by: Melvil Dewey at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (qpyNK)
It could also buy yards and yards of duct tape to shut up leftists and bind them to telephone poles.
Posted by: whig
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There is a fellow down in Mexico that calls himself Batman.
He catches motorcycle thiefs and duct tapes them to telephone poles next to the bike. Then writes the word, thief, across their forehead.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (51ygH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
If there's no room on the shelf, round up?
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (VHUov)
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That they are.
What would happen now, even more so.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (IMPuq)
You must live in a red area.
Libraries in most of the blue areas are filled up with masturbating drunks who shoot drugs in the toilets.
Which is still better than "Drag Queen Story Hour".
Posted by: Melvil Dewey at July 23, 2026 11:19 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Bring ropes and torches.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:19 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Miklos, hygrometer in use at July 23, 2026 11:16 PM (sxR7k)
That's what I call taking a shower with Ashley
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 23, 2026 11:19 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Zombie Rock Hudson at July 23, 2026 11:19 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 23, 2026 11:20 PM (NnhvP)
Humilarity, as this redneck gal here (long gone) used to pronounce it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
I've never had a bad experience with one, ever. I never saw a derelict there. The librarians are unfailingly courteous, too.
Mine has a policy of throwing anyone who tries to access pron offline. Spare me, "How do YOU know? Ha Ha" There are printed rules about using the 'Net.
Also they have adult literacy classes there, and lots of similar programs.
Posted by: mnw
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My university library for my doctorate had a piece of shit 'homeless' person decide to torch it by lighting off papers in government documents section. Massive fire and smoke damage--fortunately I already had my dissertation data and references when it happened.
Most urban libraries have significant problems with mentally ill, homeless, and perverts using the libraries for their rest and recreation.
The US is not as it was in a helluva lot of places.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Peeps and candy corn at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Now do wet bulb temp.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
He catches motorcycle thiefs and duct tapes them to telephone poles next to the bike. Then writes the word, thief, across their forehead.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 11:18 PM (51ygH)
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Did that in Iraq just for funsies.
But on cots instead of telephone poles.
And crude drawings of penises on foreheads instead of the word 'thief'.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 11:22 PM (IMPuq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 11:22 PM (JvZF+)
Having access to the Big University Research Liberry for $50 certainly saves bookshelf space.
Maybe other university liberries have the same?
Posted by: Miklos, reading at or above his Grade Level at July 23, 2026 11:23 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Miklos, with Official Clipboard at July 23, 2026 11:14 PM (sxR7k)
*************
That's in NC, right? I once briefly had a long distance romance with a Tar Heel Frat boy from UNC. Met him at Mardi Gras in college one spring trip to NOLA. He was smitten with this redneck and wrote me at the dorm and called sometimes (shared payphone). As I never dated it encouraged the dorm that I was not totally weird.
He showed up on our farm one day and alarmed my mother, then went to the college (junior college convent across the street from my HS). He found out pretty quickly after dinner than I was a good girl and he was a gentleman about it. I don't know why he thought otherwise. Who traveled far for basically not a lot with a friend (who apparently scored with someone I knew. I was oblivious to everything that she was a loose girl).
Anyway, it will take airtravel to NC but I'll be there! My husband will be confused but I'll bring him as well! "Honey, we have to fly to NC tomorrow," and try explaining Morons. But once he figures out why he'll be in and approve. (I can talk him into anything). XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:23 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Orson
Eww. Probably not so good.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: SMH
Art grant AWARDED
Posted by: The National Endowment at July 23, 2026 11:24 PM (sxR7k)
He catches motorcycle thiefs and duct tapes them to telephone poles next to the bike. Then writes the word, thief, across their forehead.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Read that, I approve. We could be very creative with judicious applications of duct tape. For example, doing so to these dash and diners--duct tape them on a lamppost near their dine and dash restaurant as a warning for the others.
Stocks were designed mostly to shame miscreants without the expense of locking them up and feeding them three square meals a day, recreation, etc. Need to bring that back.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:24 PM (E4rtv)
Details that have emerged: this "woman" is an ugly tranny.
My speculation: guys shows up for his date with this "woman" and declined to continue after seeing that it was a dude.
Whereupon the psycho tranny shot him.
We'll see if my theory plays out.
"She" must've been using a fake picture or something. There's not enough tequila in the world to convince someone that "she" is a woman.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:24 PM (qpyNK)
Will Netflix borscht this?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:25 PM (hzuYO)
What would happen now, even more so.
Posted by: SMH
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Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee is an example along with the Mississippi reported as running backwards. Old Testament stuff.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Orson
Eww. Probably not so good.
Posted by: JQ
Skittles
Posted by: Prpl Drank at July 23, 2026 11:25 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: whig
+++
Jolly Rancher enters the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Corn Nuts enters to a fanfare, and kicks Toffee and Jolly Rancher out of the way.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 11:26 PM (cBDov)
Is this persyn a Senate candidate in Maine?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard
They are all around Austin.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 23, 2026 11:27 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:27 PM (2GVsD)
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[recoils in horror]
Brother Miklos is a Sandlapper, not a Tarheel.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 11:28 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: buddhaha
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I even hate the smell of Corn Nuts. Nasty things.
Funyuns, on the other hand, despite removal of all skin in the mouth, are quite tasty.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:28 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 23, 2026 11:20 PM (NnhvP)
Send it all my way, please! . Its my absolute favorite
Posted by: LASue at July 23, 2026 11:29 PM (mFhj8)
Posted by: Orson
Drink enough nyquil and you won't even taste the chocolate.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:29 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)
Certainly fits the pattern insofar as deceptive advertising goes. That should be a capital offence for trannies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:29 PM (1z8ji)
301 There is a fellow down in Mexico that calls himself Batman.
He catches motorcycle thiefs and duct tapes them to telephone poles next to the bike. Then writes the word, thief, across their forehead.”
He should call himself El Guano.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: whig
+++
Jolly Rancher enters the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Corn Nuts enters to a fanfare, and kicks Toffee and Jolly Rancher out of the way.
Posted by: buddhaha
You people just lame
Posted by: Stuckey's Peanut Brittle at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (sxR7k)
Back when I could walk a lot better, I did one-on-one adult literacy tutoring. In that capacity, I went to some libraries in not very prosperous places. They weren't any different than the nice library I use, as far as I could tell.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: whig
Or substitute Jagermeister-- at least it doesn't contain acetaminophen.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (qpyNK)
Details that have emerged: this "woman" is an ugly tranny.
My speculation: guys shows up for his date with this "woman" and declined to continue after seeing that it was a dude.
Whereupon the psycho tranny shot him.
We'll see if my theory plays out.
"She" must've been using a fake picture or something. There's not enough tequila in the world to convince someone that "she" is a woman.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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How exactly do you write a country song about something like this?
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (JM9I6)
Beet sugar, chalk, and despair. But mostly despair.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:32 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM
Sugar, foam rubber and disappointment.
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 11:32 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner
Dust bunnies and melted yellow-orange crayons.
Not Crayola. Some off brand from the dollar store.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:32 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: JQ
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Heh. That always tasted like licorice to me and I can't stand licorice. Only way I could drink it was so cold that you could not taste it much.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:32 PM (E4rtv)
https://shorturl.at/XQLd2
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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The original is in John Fettermsn's Braddock,PA
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
*respectful bow from a lowly lowlander to Mike of the Mountain People*
Posted by: Miklos owns land that is basically just sand at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner
Stale, ground up and dyed four year old Marshmallow Peeps?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cooter Brown. at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (JM9I6)
The US is not as it was in a helluva lot of places.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:21 PM (E4rtv)
**********
At a library near the med center I was once chased out of the loo by a troll woman lunatic. Before it got REALLY bad with homeless. It was her home, she said. I then went to the beach town library and, once, had a bedbug in the pocket of a book (identified by my husband). Then I debated microwaving the books due to potential bugs, but put them on the dash in the sun instead (FL...hot).
Now I order from Amazon and my husband frets over a bookcase in our bedroom about once a year as "it was not built for all these books...that I have not read." I tell him it will be fine.
I have a pervy library story! A former co-worker of my dude's had a deal of placing his "member" in a slot after removing a book. The books faced each other and lady on the other side would have a surprise! His wife divorced him and I think he moved to Texas.
I was shocked then laughed wildly when he told me this. I know I am going to hell, but try to be good.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/Twivg7GkYts
Posted by: mindful webworker - true story at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (M5tgA)
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6:30AM here. I'm usually in dreamland when the ONT comes out. That's the first thing that came to mind.
So what present did HOTW give his wife for her birthday/anniversary? Post your theories, morons.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (RkR9o)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner at July 23, 2026 11:30 PM (JM9I6)
Beet sugar, chalk, and despair. But mostly despair.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Cracker Jacks>Peeps>Circus Peanuts
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)
You Ain’t Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn?
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (SjAWL)
Some songs would be a lot better without the heavy orchestration, often sappy.
https://youtu.be/o5gtVoA2upU
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - old and sappy at July 23, 2026 11:35 PM (M5tgA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at July 23, 2026 10:37 PM (yXKEQ)
I’m going with “Spring Surprise” being the worst.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 11:35 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: whig
"The button on the jukebox was XY...."
Posted by: David Allen Miklos at July 23, 2026 11:35 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Cooter Brown. at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (JM9I6)
Plus the belladonna alkaloids.
There's a reason medieval witches used that shit in their "flying ointment".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Never change. The Lord himself is quite a comedian.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner
Marshmelons, artificial colors, artificial flavors. Surprisingly, the ones I looked at didn't include preservatives.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (77rzZ)
Artificially flavoured expanding foam.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD)
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I have never had one! They look like cadever toes!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: whig
Definitely has the *ICK* factor. Won't ever drink it again.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kinky Miklos-Friedman at July 23, 2026 11:37 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:37 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (E4rtv)
I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 11:37 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:36 PM (hzuYO)
And that's not even close to the most offensive toe-related candy name.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)
You Ain’t Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn?
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (SjAWL)
You Ain't Woman Enough For This Man.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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The artificial preservatives are sulfuric acid and the artificial flavor is arsenic coated pressure treated sawdust. Same as Twinkies and they will be present long after we are all gone.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Trio at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (sxR7k)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
"Short stories are two stacks over."
Posted by: the likely response at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:40 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cooter Brown. at July 23, 2026 11:33 PM (JM9I6)
*************
This was my college cure!
I noticed in the '80's it mostly made me hallucinate and feel weird and stopped. Stuff makes me hyper vs sleepy.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:40 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (qpyNK
Just leave us out of it.
Posted by: Brazil Nuts at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:31 PM (E4rtv)
You Ain’t Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn?
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:34 PM (SjAWL)
You Ain't Woman Enough For This Man.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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San Francisco by Morning?
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (gKT4z)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 11:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 11:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: whig
And it burns burns burns
The Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire
Posted by: Miklos hopes Johnny is laughing at July 23, 2026 11:43 PM (sxR7k)
The Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire
Posted by: Miklos
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Golf Clap. Heh.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:43 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 11:44 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Kramer at July 23, 2026 11:44 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
The ones that would have been peanut-butter flavored, if they weren't bland? A piece of taffy dried to a Mohs scale 5, or so?
Yeah, those were brutal.
I baited a mousetrap with one, and the mouse gave me the finger.
Posted by: mikeski at July 23, 2026 11:44 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 11:44 PM (77rzZ)
"in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
in the desert make straight a highway for our God"
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (gKWVE)
I declare, some of those NASA '60s secretary and other geek girls are sort of hot in a nerdy librarian kind of way. Here's Jim Lovell's secretary seeing him off on Apollo 13:
https://t.ly/A4xUp
She reminds of some TV character back in the day I can't quite place.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 11:47 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Looks rather like Barbara "Agent 99" Feldon.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:47 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (wWU6x)
Emetics are "medicine", for some values of "medicine".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:47 PM (1z8ji)
Of course, that could just be my diabetes talking…
Posted by: Bulg
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Pretty much and now most of the milk chocolate is now emulsified vegetable oil. Literally flexible Hershey bars. Reese's descendant called out Reeses over their substituting vile concoctions for cocoa butter in their chocolate.
Now all of chocolate tastes like stale Easter Bunny and other such obnoxious 'treats' did.
But, there is a funny bit by Jean Shepard in "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash". Same book that the Christmas Story came from. In it, Jean describes the delights and dangers of candy in the Depression. Funny guy he was.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (E4rtv)
"Short stories are two stacks over."
Posted by: the likely response at July 23, 2026 11:39 PM (VHUov)
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LOL
I told my husband I would have beaten it with a book for his own surprise. Especially once he came to and realized I was married to a co-worker as he was hauled out with the EMT's and police.
From what I remember he was a tiny nerdy guy but his wife seemed fairly normal.
I also once worked with a perv pediatrician.Big group. Worked around baby son's kindergarten hours and weekends in the newborn nursery at the med center.
He'd left the practice and one day the nursery director told me he'd been arrested with a number of charges. I had to sit down and was wut? Attempted rape, kidnapping and guns.
I then remembered a few perv 0530 crank calls and knew the voice, as he said my name, but couldn't place it til then. He knew I'd answer the phone vs dude because that was when they'd call me off if they did not need me. Lawsie.
The calls stopped when I mentioned the calls at the ped office and having Bell South trace them. It was him!
He was arrested, in prison, his RN wife did not believe the charges until he tried to run over her with his car.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:47 PM (qpyNK)
Who was a stone hottie. What became of her?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (1z8ji)
The Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire
Posted by: Miklos hopes Johnny is laughing at July 23, 2026 11:43 PM (sxR7k)
The Preparation H song!
I sat down on a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:49 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 11:49 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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You Don't Even Know What's Between My Legs.
Apologies to Mr. David Allen Coe and his songwriter, Mr. Steve Goodman, both RIP.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:50 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 23, 2026 11:50 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Sophisticated Diner
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Not every ingredient, but I can guarantee that the #1 is high fructose corn syrup.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 11:51 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Was still alive a few years ago. But I think she retired from acting long ago.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:51 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (E4rtv)
Or the lesser known flip side of Stand By Your Man by legend Tammy Wynette, Stand By Your Trans.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 11:52 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 11:48 PM (1z8ji)
Still alive. 93 years old.
Wikipedia says she hooked up with her producer after divorcing her junkie husband, Lucien Verdoux-Feldon.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:52 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Close enough for Jaegermeister to imitate syrup of ipecac if you consume enough of it. Nasty hangover from it too.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:38 PM (qpyNK
Just leave us out of it.
Posted by: Brazil Nuts at July 23, 2026 11:41 PM (T2w7I)
************
Why I read here. Goodnight you crazy people!
Caught Up in You
38 Special
https://tinyurl.com/4726x9cu
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: TxAnn
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You win best in Thread.
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (E4rtv)
I thought from the beginning that there was something like this going on, what with the Mossad infiltration of Iran as it is, that we should just air drop gun after gun after gun.
Project/mission/mission Carpetbagger was a defined expansion of a previous mission, I think it's still technically off the records but not classified of just dropping weapons down into the "resistence.
Link to summary of "operation carpetbagger" https://tinyurl.com/OperationCarpetbagger
but before that, there was another experimental operation where the allies, along with bombs, would finish their runs and just drop handguns, with a single load of ammunition. All of a sudden, there were personal arms all over the place, with only a single load. So yeah, it's not a war armament, but it's enough to destabilize the enemy, while also allowing coordination against an enemy if enough people are armed with enough to capture more weapons and ammo.
We should have been bombing the fuck out of Iran, and just airdropping guns left and right.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 11:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 11:57 PM (CHHv1)
You'd swallow the antimony pill, immediately puke it up, then the pill could be recovered for reuse.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2026 11:58 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 11:59 PM (bqIVz)
Don't bomb to destroy, bomb with the love of self defense.k
The Buff can deliver a lot of freedom in 6 cylinder packages.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:59 PM (pxyHa)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
Yup, all the confiscated gang banger weapons and ammo from the US should be dumped into iran. Fuck melting them down, give them to the resistance so they can melt down their leaders instead.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 24, 2026 12:00 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Miklos is Copascetic at July 24, 2026 12:01 AM (sxR7k)
Well my wife and kid are Australian, so, not in a big hurry to come back. Besides, as my wife says, "He's an American, and not just that, a Marine, he carries his Freedom with him."
Which is TRUE.
Though I get exhausted with how BITCH the politics is down here. Outright propoganda every day.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:01 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
There’s a sad possibility that the loyal Shiite civilians outnumber the would be rebellious citizens. True regime change probably requires a civil war with millions of casualties, and no outside force wants to be involved in that tragedy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:02 AM (T2w7I)
I honestly thought something like this had already happened.
we have done it twice, but not this time? why not?
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:03 AM (pxyHa)
But he left all the books to her.
Chaucer!
Rabelais!
Bal-zc!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2026 12:04 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
There’s a sad possibility that the loyal Shiite civilians outnumber the would be rebellious citizens. True regime change probably requires a civil war with millions of casualties, and no outside force wants to be involved in that tragedy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:02 AM (T2w7I)
This is my "fuck" face, do you see it? because I don't have it, and I definitely don't have a spare to give.
They let it happen (with the help of Carter) Let them clean it up, while we keep making a mess.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:05 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:06 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Miklos develops a sudden lisp at July 24, 2026 12:08 AM (sxR7k)
The Buff can deliver a lot of freedom in 6 cylinder packages.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:59 PM (pxyHa)
Find out what calibers of pistol ammo are readily available to the regime thugs in Iran, and drop pistols chambered in something else. So that dropped pistols that fall into the hands of the regime thugs add only marginally to their firepower. Same pistol falling into the hands of a resistance fighter vastly increases his firepower.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 12:08 AM (1z8ji)
Here's another iconic photo of a NASA geek girl, Margaret Hamilton. She's standing next to the source code listing for the Apollo Guidance Computer:
https://t.ly/79vW8
I say NASA girl, but she worked for what was then the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. That was founded by Charles Stark Draper, the father of inertial guidance. She went on to found a couple of software companies.
That source code was all in assembler, and the computer was a custom built one, with a unique instruction set, of course. There was one instruction that just dubbed "Fred's instruction" or whatever his name was. He requested a specialized instruction that would make some task much easier, and got it. It was only used a few times, but it was worth it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: wickedpinto
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Sorry to hear that but glad that you and your family are thriving otherwise.
Rarely on the ONT myself but tonight, had the computer on and thought why not. The dog memes lured me in.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (E4rtv)
That Margaret Hamilton is not be confused with actress Margaret Hamilton, who was the Wicked Witch of the West.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Say it Ball Sack and it will be on the blue haired librarian's Recommended list for Story Time
Posted by: Miklos, sadly but truthfully at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:02 AM (T2w7I)
As long as most of the dead are muslims, I fail to see the downside.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (1z8ji)
The regime has closed all the cafes in Tehran, according to Iran International.* This is new.
We would call them coffee shops, I think. The regime doesn't want there to be places where citizens can meet and talk.
* an excellent source for war news
Posted by: mnw at July 24, 2026 12:11 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Smart idea and the same reason that Warsaw Pact and NATO had different ammo cartridges.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:11 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 12:11 AM (Swy+8)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:12 AM (77rzZ)
https://t.ly/79vW8
Mo of dat White Supremancy
Posted by: Ladies of Color from NASA at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (sxR7k)
https://sniplinks.in/FFMpSb
Goes to Wikipedia.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (wWU6x)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Say it Ball Sack and it will be on the blue haired librarian's Recommended list for Story Time
Posted by: Miklos, sadly but truthfully at July 24, 2026 12:10 AM (sxR7k)
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Just don't mention Dumb-Ass even though he wrote The Count of Monte Cristo.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (Swy+8)
we have done it twice, but not this time? why not?
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:03 AM (pxyHa)
I wish I had an answer. My gut is saying because trump thinks every problem is solved with a "deal". My Roman ancestry says sometimes it handled with the Carthage protocol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (pxyHa)
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Wonder how many Kb's of object code that produced
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 12:15 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Cicero
Wait for the reboot of the Man in the Iron Mask
Posted by: Miklos can only imagine, and won't at July 24, 2026 12:15 AM (sxR7k)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:13 AM (pxyHa)
A desirable goal, but like unachievable in practice.
It's Friday morning in Tehran. Time to blow up some Shiite mosques known to be frequented by members of the regime.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 12:18 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2026 12:18 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Looks kinda like Edna Mode from The Incredibles
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 24, 2026 12:19 AM (SRRAx)
And a MUCH less irritating voice than Billie Burke.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:20 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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There may well be loyal Shite civilians, but they're nowhere near the majority. Any regime that has a Secret Police is one that can be toppled, and the larger Secret Police, the more vulnerable.
The Shah had the Savak , which was primarily aimed at the Commies, but which would indiscriminately scoop up anyone making the slightest anti-Shah comment, and he was overthrown by a combination of commies, idealists and religious nuts. The IRGC is many times the size of the Savak and even more hated. If the bombing can seriously degrade the IRGC, the mullahs are out.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 24, 2026 12:21 AM (cBDov)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 12:21 AM (XeU6L)
Before Margaret went to work on that MIT guidance job, she worked with Ed Norton Lorenz, the discoverer of Chaos Theory. He was meterologist/mathematician who discovered that from early weather prediction model code. They had saved some intermediate during a run to restart later, but the saved values were rounded for storage, and that produced entirely different results.
Margaret was working for him on that software in 1961.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:22 AM (w6EFb)
That's fucked.
Brit Lass was getting some such calls to her business where he would breathe down the phone on her and then one on a Saturday night where he left a message and... "finished" on it.
A few weeks later he called during the day and she picked up as she had done before, only this time she said "you forgot to hide your number, you dozy bastard, I have it right here" and she read out the name of the company he was calling from and began to read out the number. He hung up and calls stopped.
Until about six months later when the idiot called again and she immediately said "you again?" and the name of the company again, and reminded him he'd already forgotten to hide the number once, at which point he hung up again, and the calls ceased permanently. Local construction company.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:23 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 24, 2026 12:24 AM (wWU6x)
60,000 lines
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
"uh, Mr. Kranz.....Todd just knocked all the punch cards off the table..."
Posted by: Miklos regrets to report at July 24, 2026 12:25 AM (sxR7k)
The core ROM memory of the Apollo computer was about 72KB. It used 16-bit word size, but 1 bit was a parity bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:25 AM (w6EFb)
60,000 lines
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Back in about that day, we used to feel that 10 lines a day of bug-free code was nominal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 12:26 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2026 12:26 AM (ibDUx)
It's very good to see you around.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:28 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Fuzzy Logic at July 24, 2026 12:28 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 23, 2026 11:54 PM (pxyHa)
Apparently right now we are paying off all the shipping companies that the IRGC forces are targeting with assets seized from where the IRGC had stowed it in the Gulf States banking systems.
That is how you make shipping insurance work!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 12:30 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: publius
So 15 useful bits, so octal instead of hexadecimal for shorthand.
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 12:30 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: frammish at July 24, 2026 12:30 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:29 AM (77rzZ)
Like a Red Wedding?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2026 12:30 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:06 AM (pxyHa)
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This kind of goes without saying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:31 AM (JvZF+)
A few weeks later he called during the day and she picked up as she had done before, only this time she said "you forgot to hide your number, you dozy bastard, I have it right here" and she read out the name of the company he was calling from and began to read out the number. He hung up and calls stopped.
Until about six months later when the idiot called again and she immediately said "you again?" and the name of the company again, and reminded him he'd already forgotten to hide the number once, at which point he hung up again, and the calls ceased permanently. Local construction company.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:23 AM (vE0+H)
Have you considered raping him? Not in a gay way, but to show dominance.
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 24, 2026 12:31 AM (GVeZJ)
One of my fathers best friends was a Kurdish Iranian.
He hates Iran, well, hated, he's dead now, but hated the current rule, then again, he was "I am a Kurd" I think he was in a defined line of royalty because he had money and his name was "Amir Huschang Baghurpor" which means Prince, Huschang, but anyways. Though Huschang , who we called huchang because, "You ain't a prince, you are barely a dude" . . anyways.
There are sunni kurds, and non practicing kurds, there are zoroastrians, who my father wrote one of his Phillosphy post grad essays about because one of his best friends was an Iranian Kurd, who would tell him stories. I know for myself a number of secular Iranians.
Iran used to be a modern nation until Carter, the french and the fraud kohmenei subjugated a nation 4 times larger than their number through terror.
IN FACT.
Random fact. When I enlisted in The USMC, I was in The Marine Corps at one time, I don't know if I mentioned, I was slated to be an intel analyst or linguist, because I was qulified in my testing, 0212, and 0214 ? It's been a long time I can't remember the specific MOS designations, what with it having been 30
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:32 AM (pxyHa)
I would be surprised if he and Elon haven't had a few talks
Posted by: Miklos so suspects at July 24, 2026 12:32 AM (sxR7k)
Posted by: frammish at July 24, 2026 12:32 AM (rcENI)
Gary Burghoff played Charlie Brown in the off-Broadway show "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown". They are both little blockheads.
Posted by: Radar Love
You're a Good Man, Albert Brown
https://youtu.be/9BrIGQ4Rbps
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2026 12:33 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: wickedpinto
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The evergreen Schwartzkopf comment
'Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2026 12:33 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: wickedpinto
This kind of goes without saying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
You know what else goes without saying?
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 12:33 AM (VHUov)
Back to post 34.
Posted by: Goatweed at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (jK3NL)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:06 AM (pxyHa)
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This kind of goes without saying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:31 AM (JvZF+)
Why not have the French invade Iran? If they want to tell the world how to fight a war, they need to show that they know what they're talking about.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (qx7Zg)
My Dill platoon thought I was some better than them dork who got to skate easy and shit because I was constantly testing, then I did the pre intel check, and it was Huschang, my fathers friendship with huschang that kept me from being in the 0200 family, instead I ended up with the 2800 group.
And STILL got the clearance!
I don't mind, I loved all my time in The Corps, even the bad parts, the bad parts (court-martial) made me better.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 24, 2026 12:31 AM (GVeZJ)
It's practically all I've ever thought about since the day I heard him finish have I overshared
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Goatweed at July 24, 2026 12:35 AM (jK3NL)
Posted by: mikeski at July 24, 2026 12:33 AM (VHUov)
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Never talk about Fight Club?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2026 12:36 AM (JvZF+)
"Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette
Wasn't that one of Hillary Clinton's favorite songs?
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 11:59 PM (bqIVz)
Hillary Clinton is the reigning World Champ of Cucks. How many times you think she's seen Bill cheat on her? It's way North of fifty.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 12:36 AM (w/O5Q)
There was a Block I and Block II version of the AGC. Block I was used for the ill-fated Apollo 1, and then the unscrewed Apollo 4 and 6 Saturn V tests. Block II was used for all flights afterward.
Block II contained that special requested instruction, called "EDRUPT", or "Ed's Interrupt". It acted like an interrupt in some ways, but wasn't a real interrupt.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg
A Genuine Made in the USA set of Groucho Marx glasses with the nose and moustache are hard to come by these days. None of that cheap Chinese crap.
You can borrow mine though
Posted by: Miklos has some snappy one liners around here somewhere at July 24, 2026 12:37 AM (sxR7k)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 12:34 AM (qx7Zg)
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Well, they kicked our ass
Posted by: Greenpeace at July 24, 2026 12:37 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 24, 2026 12:38 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 12:38 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
>Nowadays, all we write is buggy code. Seems like my system wants to reboot every night. The os, the browser, virus protection, the support apps. I spend more time logging in thru security than being productive. Fucking IT geeks run wild.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 24, 2026 12:40 AM (SwCxT)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 12:40 AM (qx7Zg)
Wow. The AGC contained a sophisticated interpreter for a virtual machine that had a more complex pseudo-instruction set. The navigational routines used this, and it provided double precision floating point, both scalar and vector, and even Matrix*vector instructions.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:42 AM (77rzZ)
Heh. The software on the AGC for the command module for the lunar missions was called "COLOSSUS". The LM had its own AGC, and the package for that was called "LUMINARY".
One of Margaret's main things with this was trying to predict the kind of human error the astronauts would be likely to make interacting with the system, and how to best mitigate against that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:45 AM (w6EFb)
Those virtual machine psuedo-instructions took on average 24 ms for the AGC to execute.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 24, 2026 12:48 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2026 12:48 AM (qx7Zg)
1) declare victory and cut and run. That’s what the MOU was looking like, but thank heaven that Trump wouldn’t go through with it.
2) continue bombing like we are now, and count on the constant degradation them. Could work, or it could just become another forever war.
3) go truly massive and break down all the structures that support a society. When you face a military force that is extremely resilient, then neutralize the civilian population that supports it.
The third option is the only one that can result in victory, but it requires killing a whole lot more people than we’ve been willing to so far.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:48 AM (T2w7I)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 12:52 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 12:58 AM (DZ9Lv)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Take up playing the violin (even if you don't know how, which is better) and sit outside. You can torment them for hours. With any luck, you can drive the dogs crazy enough to eat their owners... ;-)
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 24, 2026 12:58 AM (YrUo/)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 12:59 AM (DZ9Lv)
No, it wasn't, but it's funny. I got Cm'd for "abuse" It's complicated, I told the story here a few times, basically a woman was blowing a married guy in my toilet during a hurricane in Oki. I needed to take a piss, I called her a whore and him a fuck up, because he was married, and about to process out. It turned into a thing, because the guy felt guilty and walked away from my fury, reasonable. I just wanna take a piss and i'm walking into what I thought was an inappropriate situation. Especially because I knew the guys situation. He's married, and he's risking it for a blowjob, from a whore.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:01 AM (pxyHa)
I said to my friends, and to here, "I don't want anything to do with this." everyone is like "Oh it's cool, she's cool" and shit. . .NO, NO NO NO NO
I said, "What if she's a whore?" I said it in front of her, I said, "not that you are, but what if you are and he thinks that?" meaning her husband who was my SNCOIC Barnum.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:06 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 10:13 PM (VJX5o)
I dislike nougat because it reminds me of coconut. I was horrified to learn that it is mutilated almond. I like cisalmond plain and love it coated in dark chocolate, but even the highest-quality transcoconut leaves me ambivalent or conflicted at best. It's like the wigger of candy; it's bad enough to be what you're not, but why emulate something worse?
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 01:07 AM (Sy6m/)
_-_
Careful, though. 15 minutes a day of focused practice, and in a couple of years you'll pretty much be worth listening to.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 24, 2026 01:10 AM (j13NH)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 12:36 AM (w/O5Q)
Hell, I think she and Bill have probably shared each other's sloppy seconds more than once.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 24, 2026 01:10 AM (qpyNK)
But she also talked to her "husband" a few times every week, who was going to be my SNCOIC and talked about all of us, me mostly about how mean we were when she picked us up at a club designed for catching pussy.
I caught most of it, but that fucking cunt made a point, because he ended up becoming a First Sgt, I don't get it.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:11 AM (pxyHa)
ME in particular because I told his wife, "You are a Marine wife, and you are fucking another Marine, You are fucking all of us."
She didn't tell her cuck husband what I actually said, she just said I was really offensive.
So, I had a cloud over me the entire time I was in "The Fleet" as we say, and I fucked up, Oh, yeah I fucked up, don't get me wrong, but it was made into a CM because of that cuck's defense of his whore wife,and his political connections within the MOS that got me the CM.
I plead to what I was guilty of 18 counts of disrespect, 18 counts of refusal to obey a lawful order, with comment (they weren't lawful orders, so I entered a comment in the plea, but in the Marines lawful orders are fungeable) a couple counts of verbal assault, one count of "sexual assault" I did not touch the person I called her a worthless bitch, while pointing at her and saying I didn't want her to ever touch me. Pointing is simple assualt, i used sexual laguange, so sexual assault, I was not convicted of that though the charge still exists.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:16 AM (pxyHa)
Mustafa Dayib Ali.
Yeah. "Twin Cities man".
Who just happens to have been born in Somalia.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 24, 2026 01:16 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Judge James Gion at July 24, 2026 01:24 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2026 01:28 AM (1z8ji)
1) declare victory and cut and run. That’s what the MOU was looking like, but thank heaven that Trump wouldn’t go through with it.
2) continue bombing like we are now, and count on the constant degradation them. Could work, or it could just become another forever war.
3) go truly massive and break down all the structures that support a society. When you face a military force that is extremely resilient, then neutralize the civilian population that supports it.
The third option is the only one that can result in victory, but it requires killing a whole lot more people than we’ve been willing to so far.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2026 12:48 AM (T2w7I)
On number 2, does it have to be a forever war? There's a whole lotta plans to bypass Hormuz and maybe in a couple of years it's not needed and they can rot.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 24, 2026 01:29 AM (w/O5Q)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx
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A more subtle approach would be to get a dog whistle and get the dogs to respond to it, train them to do things. Your own little psychological warfare program. And you can be the silent neighbor the whole time... ;-)
p.s. It doesn't work at all with cats...
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 24, 2026 01:30 AM (EH0wv)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx
Have you considered raping them? Not in a gay way, but to show dominance.
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 24, 2026 01:33 AM (qi2kW)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 01:39 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2026 01:39 AM (77rzZ)
Just feeling so grateful for this place every night, pour myself a night cap and learn about so many things, Cheers Horde.
JQ, I hope that you survive the heat, do you need a cold drink?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2026 01:46 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: P-Hustle at July 24, 2026 01:50 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2026 01:53 AM (ibDUx)
I get sentenced, I lose my money, and I spend 30 days in brigg, and it wasn't surprising. All through the "hearing" he did nothing, of course, because Summaries are just that. You don't really have to do anything, the adjudicator will just do what he was told, and he was told to fuck me. So he did, and I didn't care, because he might have the rank but he don't have the balls, (it's recorded in my page 14)
He stands up, The funniest thing is that the two people who were to escort me to the brigg after judgment were my friends.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:54 AM (pxyHa)
Anyway, I worked early days & long shifts, so wasn't thrilled to hear doggo all night. One night, I was sleeping soundly until the jerk put out his dog for the night's disruption at ~2am.
I went to the window and shouted: AW, SHUDDUP! as loudly as I could. Doggo was let back in. Ugh. At least the asshoe got the message.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 01:56 AM (rdVOm)
FUCKING ROLLERCOSTER, and a lot of times miserable, but still, other than my time with my wife and kid, the best time of my life.
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:56 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 01:59 AM (pxyHa)
It is 9 fucking 13
will someone rid me of these beast
Posted by: r hennigantx
Have you considered raping them? Not in a gay way, but to show dominance.
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 24, 2026 01:33 AM (qi2kW)
Nice. Well, not, but.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 02:03 AM (faghi)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)
They way I got it was funny as hell. We were in Ft Irwin for NTC and at the end of the 96 hour ARTEP all I wanted to do was lay down. I found an excuse to in an F16 flying over which was the enemy. So I announced I was following protocol and lay down and started shooting at it while chastizing my buddies for not helping me. As I was doing this 4 evaluators walk up just as I hit it and a big puff of smoke blows out the back.
I jump up yelling "I fukin hit it! I did that!" everybody is all "bullshit" Well I did. There was a big to do and I was the only one shooting at the time.
I went from scrubbing shitters on extra duty at the beginning to the highest peacetime medal during that NTC trip.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:11 AM (gE8mJ)
The
Every summer, we get a few days or weeks of misery heat. Just the way it is.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)
Swamp coolers don't work worth shit with water in the air.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:16 AM (gE8mJ)
Then he smoked with a buddy, hahaha, but then... same # came up the following week! Oh sh!t, but I don't believe all samples were tested because nothing came of it.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:17 AM (rdVOm)
LOL. Similar here, except a/c unit pulls the water out of the air, leaks it onto the tray below & then it evaporates... then gets pulled out of the air again next day.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:21 AM (gE8mJ)
_-_
Careful, though. 15 minutes a day of focused practice, and in a couple of years you'll pretty much be worth listening to.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 24, 2026 01:10 AM (j13NH)
I did a stint repairing violins. I soon arrived the conclusion that if you spend a lifetime practicing you won't sound like 2 cats fucking. What a horrible instrument in the wrong hands. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 24, 2026 02:24 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
Great stories wickedpinto and Reforger, I raise my last sip to you both.
JQ, stay cool!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2026 02:27 AM (ibDUx)
Which is what led to the coming up hot in the US. They actually did do a trip every month with bottles. I didn't think they did.
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:28 AM (gE8mJ)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 24, 2026 02:33 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:33 AM (gE8mJ)
Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2026 02:39 AM (gE8mJ)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 02:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 02:57 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 24, 2026 03:00 AM (DZ9Lv)
What ails people?
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 11:45 PM (gKWVE)
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Sabbath starts slightly before sunset. So, maybe in Australia. 10:10AM here in northern Israel. Cooking to do!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 03:09 AM (D0X9e)
Won't mow the weeds until some cooler day next week.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
OROFINO [Idaho]—The Clearwater County Sheriff's Office provided a formal notice of our intent not to renew and to terminate their agreement for the Flock Safety camera system, effective September 22, 2026, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract governing non-renewal and/or termination for convenience.
After evaluating the program during its implementation, the Clearwater County Sheriff's Office has determined that it does not meet the operational needs and priorities of their agency to justify its continued cost. As a result, they have elected to discontinue participation in the program.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: TxAnn at July 23, 2026 10:23 PM (SjAWL)
"Ten, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more." 🎶
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 03:31 AM (faghi)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 03:34 AM (D0X9e)
Posted by: m
My best friend had the 45. We listened to it almost every day! And "Windy"
Everyone knows it's Windy!!! bump bump bump bump...
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
MPAI, laziness and The Deservening. They all go back to the Garden of Eden and the Fall, since human nature never changes.
Most People Are Idiots. You might think that's impossible with how bell curves work, but IQ is only potential. Most people don't even use the brains God gave them.
Every cheater has the same reason: "I *deserve* it." Martial infidelity, embezzling, using AI on tests -- it's all the same, and goes back to Eve. She *deserved* to have the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and decide for herself what was right. To this day, The Deservening is the source of much evil.
Adam, however, was a lazy git who had the opposite failing. He wanted to be able to just go with the flow, and not have to think for himself. Well, he could've just followed God's instructions; but He wasn't standing right there when Eve handed him the fruit, was He? (Spoiler: it was Adam who wasn't thinking of Him, not the other way around.) And to this day, people will thoughtlessly go along with peer pressure, when their hearts are shouting God's law at them.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 03:45 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:51 AM (rdVOm)
Carnegie did not force you to buy the books.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 10:39 PM (/+uur)
The false choice argument of Socialism. Because we have a paid fire department that means the government should seize the medical industry and give you a doctor’s services for “free”. Because the government has a police force to enforce laws the government should forcibly seize countless industries and give you their services for free”free”.
It’s a false choice: Statism/Socialism or anarchy.
I wonder if this dummy has any idea how much of the United States is covered by the protection of VFDs.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 03:54 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:55 AM (rdVOm)
I just never liked Snoopy that much after realizing that. Sorry.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 10:47 PM (CHHv1)
Snoopy was and is our fantasies. That’s it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 03:56 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 10:50 PM (dIske)
And even so, many of them operate for free…unless you donate money to them or attend one of their fundraisers.
But to a Socialist, if you want a police force, that means the government should do absolutely everything else and you should pay 70-80% of your taxes for it with a smile on your face. Socialism or anarchy, that is their argument.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 04:00 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:55 AM (rdVOm)
Volunteer Fire Departments
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 04:00 AM (pKv0r)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 04:01 AM (pKv0r)
Yeah, the commie argument is all or nothing, really. You either want mommy gubmint or orphanhood.
Given the choice, I'd take anarchy. Easier to sort out, imo.
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 04:03 AM (rdVOm)
I eventually realized that the recurring pattern was the Daughters of Eve recapitulating her original sin, the Sons of Adam recapitulating his, and both going to great lengths to avoid God's curse. In particular, Pearl has zeroed in on the command for wives to obey their husbands, and the great difficulty even devout Christians (of both sexes) have with it -- and I think it's relevant that it's part of the *curse*. Both Adam and Eve would *hate* that.
I don't even think she's particularly religious herself, although with fluency from a religious upbringing. But her s***-stirring ends up pointing at eternal truths.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 04:05 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 04:01 AM (pKv0r)
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There's a cure for that:
https://youtu.be/G2uCNd1AVJo
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 04:05 AM (D0X9e)
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 04:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m
My best friend had the 45. We listened to it almost every day! And "Windy"
Everyone knows it's Windy!!! bump bump bump bump...
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)
new earworm!
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:22 AM (faghi)
Everyone knows it's Windy!!! bump bump bump bump...
Posted by: JQ at July 24, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)
new earworm!
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:22 AM (faghi)
In some of the lyrics, she's like the female version of a Greek god of wind.
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:28 AM (faghi)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:30 AM (faghi)
Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at July 24, 2026 04:32 AM (EjK1h)
Posted by: wickedpinto at July 24, 2026 04:56 AM (pxyHa)
Posted by: raimondo at July 24, 2026 05:02 AM (Ql+6U)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 06:31 AM (8l6/L)
But I thought you wrote: "I got a little nookie earlier today, so tonight I'm in the doghouse."
It might be worth being in the doghouse if you got a little nookie earlier today.
Posted by: Ralph at July 24, 2026 10:47 AM (8WZD4)
Thursday Cafe
Anskar Lenzen
Is it Friday yet? Mother shepherd inspecting her puppies.
Charging up your puppy. Wombats wombats wombats! Baby guinea pig has something to say. Rescue toucan. He's a real froot loop. Dog and duck are farm friends. Dog and duck are more than friends. Ice cream truck!
A little groundhog is trying to stop its parents from arguing..🐾😊 pic.twitter.com/MYCEqZK31l
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 23, 2026
Size of an ostrich pic.twitter.com/v2XwpOcnwI
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) July 21, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 23, 2026 07:37 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 23, 2026 07:40 PM (YSQQv)
They're big but their brains are the size of a walnut.
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 23, 2026 07:40 PM (YSQQv)
__________
Like The Big Dummy
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 07:42 PM (O0L8i)
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Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2026 07:45 PM (6fKvw)
“America, America, God shed his grace on thee. I can’t think of eight words that mean more to me than those. You know, we have a lot of born-agains nowadays; people are born-again this and born-again that. Some of them mean it and a lot of them are phonies. But one thing I hope we’ll never have is a born-again American. This country is the greatest place on earth, and even though we have some problems it just keeps getting better and better for all of us."
- Bobby Knight
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 07:45 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 23, 2026 07:46 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 07:47 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 07:47 PM (LHPAg)
I'd like to see him try that with a cassowary.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 23, 2026 07:49 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 23, 2026 07:49 PM (B0NCh)
It feels great. Can't believe the guy even still had me on his list.
Posted by: Lincolntf
That’s fantastic news! How cool is that? Good for you! Damn, I’d love to be able to know it’s you I’m listening to though.
Congratulations!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 07:50 PM (yEz+x)
Human on ostrich violence. An unusual choice for the cafe.
The ostrich asked for it, though.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 07:51 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 23, 2026 07:49 PM (B0NCh)
And Humper got kneed in the nadz trying to date one.
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 07:51 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2026 07:52 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Cap'n Quirk at July 23, 2026 07:54 PM (MWfyi)
I thought ostriches could kick people to death.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 23, 2026 07:55 PM (VWtfl)
Her Majesty and I have one (1) frosted sugar cookie each after dinner. Borzoi, we have found, love frosted sugar cookie.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 07:56 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 07:47 PM
Only pay for what you need.
Posted by: Liberty Mutual at July 23, 2026 07:56 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 07:44 PM (O0L8i)
Coming down like cats and dogs, here.
Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions at July 23, 2026 07:57 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 07:47 PM (LHPAg)
The dog be like "WTF dude!!??"
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 07:57 PM (2WIwB)
Coming down like cats and dogs, here.
Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions at July 23, 2026 07:57 PM (wVcYX)
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Actually we got very little rain at Schloss Hadrian. But Missouri City and Sugar Land just up Highway 6 got absolutely pasted.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 07:58 PM (O0L8i)
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Posted by: Pudinhead at July 23, 2026 08:02 PM (KGj36)
Posted by: Wally at July 23, 2026 08:03 PM (1uEMB)
Got back from watch the "Big Boy" train go through Chapman, Kansas.
I've seen bigger steam engines -- on ships.
It was impressive moving down the tracks.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:05 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 23, 2026 08:02 PM (KGj36)
Canada goose. Most punchable POS bird ever. Why are they a protected species? They are friggin' everywhere. It should be legal to bash them with bats and feed them to the hogs.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 08:06 PM (0aYVJ)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 08:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Once I n a while a guy’s got to punch a bird. It’s just what it is.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 23, 2026 08:02 PM (KGj36)
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What would Alex Karras do?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 08:08 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 23, 2026 08:09 PM (kpS4V)
250 94 Sophie is very pretty and ballsy, she should be a trophy wife not fighting for her life against lesbian thugs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
From what i've seen of her, she likes fighting those stupid trogled*kes. She seems to go after the ones that foul Clark. Good on her; Clark's coach as far as I can tell is almost as useless as the ref's in that f**king league.
Posted by: Nelly
Sophie is a black belt. She knows what she's doing.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:09 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 23, 2026 08:02 PM (KGj36)
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What would Alex Karras do?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 08:08 PM (O0L8i)
I don't think Alex would ever punch Webster. /bucket of sarc tags
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 08:10 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions at July 23, 2026 08:10 PM (wVcYX)
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Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549
Filthy things. Nasty and aggressive. I never feel bad when I see one that's been squashed on the highway.
Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2026 08:11 PM (lJ0H4)
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When we were kids, my sister had a guinea pig. We said he said, "Oink squeek oink squeak!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 08:11 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Wally
Neither Miss Canfield nor Miss Landers did that to us.
Posted by: Disappointed Beaver and Larry. at July 23, 2026 08:12 PM (JM9I6)
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Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549
Add sea gulls to the list. Why can't we shoot those thieving bastards?
Posted by: From about That Time at July 23, 2026 08:14 PM (sl73Y)
Sarah For Trump🇺🇸🇮🇱
@SarahAllisonFl
The Iranian regime dropped a clip to threaten the US army where the IRGC dudes are so elite some of them got three hands, Lmao😂
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 08:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 08:08 PM (O0L8i)
I don't think Alex would ever punch Webster. /bucket of sarc tags
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Useless trivia:
Alex Karras & Susan Clark were married in real life. Not just on the show.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:16 PM (oUopv)
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Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2026 08:17 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: banana Dream
Painted on black velvet with blacklight paints.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:17 PM (oUopv)
@SarahAllisonFl
The Iranian regime dropped a clip to threaten the US army where the IRGC dudes are so elite some of them got three hands, Lmao😂
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 08:14 PM (E4rtv)
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Those are the guys who've mutated after working too closely on their nuke program without proper shielding.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 08:18 PM (FZ29D)
Push their head down, pull up their jersey, and start wailing on their head while they can't see you.
The more things I learn at AOS, the smarter I become as a Moron.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 23, 2026 08:18 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 08:16 PM (O0L8i)
Between Willowbrook and Tomball, just west of Vintage Park area.
Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions at July 23, 2026 08:19 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549
Filthy things. Nasty and aggressive. I never feel bad when I see one that's been squashed on the highway.
Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2026 08:11 PM (lJ0H4)
Princeton University had a big problem with goose crap on the LaCrosse feilds. Um they actually authorized a kill a goose deal I remember reading that. I worked in the carpanters union building the chem lab building.. No I did not meet whacos Cornel West of Michelle OBlowjob
Posted by: Yer Sistahs Tomato at July 23, 2026 08:19 PM (aaVMM)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Those are the guys whose mom & dad are brother & sister.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:19 PM (oUopv)
Or even better, how about Peter Dinklage?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 08:19 PM (T2w7I)
Y'all can take credit for the ambience, and thanks to the AoSHQ Café custodial engineers for their near-unceasing efforts on improving the bouquet!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 08:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 08:14 PM (3uBP9)
Would hang.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 23, 2026 08:20 PM (zYpTz)
@SarahAllisonFl
The Iranian regime dropped a clip to threaten the US army where the IRGC dudes are so elite some of them got three hands, Lmao😂
Posted by: whig at July 23, 2026 08:14 PM (E4rtv)
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Those are the guys who've mutated after working too closely on their nuke program without proper shielding.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 08:18 PM
We should probably send them some fish from the cooling lake at Homer Simpson's nuclear plant!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 23, 2026 08:20 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
Educated Morons are the most dangerous.
Posted by: Chief Inspector at July 23, 2026 08:20 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2026 08:20 PM (8ETm8)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:22 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 08:19 PM (T2w7I)
'Elliot' Page.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 23, 2026 08:22 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:23 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
No. Webster died, but at least everything he said lived on in the dictionary. He may be gone, but he’ll always have the last word.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2026 08:24 PM (6x1Uq)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2026 08:24 PM (8ETm8)
LOL. 😂
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:24 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
No. Webster died, but at least everything he said lived on in the dictionary. He may be gone, but he’ll always have the last word.
Posted by: Tonypete
ISWYDT.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:25 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:25 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549
My brother killed one on the golf course with a low "worm burner" off of his 3-wood.
Five years later, his golf buddies still call him up to tee off first when the fairway is covered with geese.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 23, 2026 08:25 PM (HlyYF)
The 20-year-old, who is majoring in musical theater at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will appear in Midsummer!, a contemporary adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Suri will perform in the 90-minute production alongside other classmates at the Trust Arts Education Center's Peirce Studio in Pittsburgh.
The show will play two nights, July 31 and August 1. Following these exclusive previews, the production will head overseas for a UK run at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe from August 7 through August 31.
Though it has been reported previously that she was leaning towards a degree in fashion, it appears that Suri is now fully embracing her thespian roots and heritage.
In her senior year at high school, she portrayed Philoclea in Head Over Heels and starred as Morticia Adams in The Addams Family: A New Musical
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at July 23, 2026 08:26 PM (0sNs1)
Few were spared from the unspeakable terror, and old timers still speak of the mephitic memory, describing it as something akin to a bad can of anchovies and a barrel of rotten sauerkraut.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at July 23, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:23 PM
You do realize this is the internet, right?
[Howdy NaCly!]
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 23, 2026 08:26 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
Seems to be the only way I can hit them.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:27 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 23, 2026 08:28 PM (4HoLg)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:28 PM (u82oZ)
I left you a "you were right and I was wrong" post at the end of quick hits.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:23 PM
1) I should have left a
at the end of my message.
2) I am *impressed* that you could forget those examinations!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 08:29 PM (0sNs1)
We still talking about Elliot Page?
Posted by: NaCly Dog
She/It falls into that category.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2026 08:30 PM (8ETm8)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:27 PM
Geese or tee-shots?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 08:30 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:27 PM
Just walk up to the tee box and announce you are going to hit a "Tiger stinger".
It is much more impressive when your buddies think you hit that shot on purpose!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 23, 2026 08:30 PM (HlyYF)
One of the widows I walk with is from Wichita. She has one daughter in town. If I visit Wichita with her, maybe we can go to some nice place for dinner.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:30 PM (u82oZ)
Brothers Chris and Tim Vanderhook, who own MySpace through their company Variant Technologies, appear in a new documentary simply titled “Myspace,” where they open up about how much money they’ve put into keeping the platform alive and make clear their work isn’t done.
Here’s the part that surprises people. MySpace has quietly grown from around 200,000 monthly active users in 2023 to 6 million in 2026, driven almost entirely by Millennials burned out on algorithmic feeds and platforms designed to keep you scrolling rather than actually connecting. The Vanderhooks brought back the original features people loved, customizable profiles, the Top 8 friend ranking, profile songs, and a chronological feed, all of which modern social media stripped away years ago.
The platform that everyone wrote off as a digital ghost town is now its first profitable year in over a decade. Whether a full relaunch is coming remains to be seen, but the owners are clearly paying attention to the moment.
We don't deserve Tom.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:31 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 08:31 PM (hftzA)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:28 PM
Which is why the AOS Headquarters is NOT like the rest of the hangouts on the internet!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 23, 2026 08:32 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:32 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:27 PM
Geese or tee-shots?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Tee shot. Knee high for two hundred yards.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:32 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Dad and couple uncles got his bartended by him at the Lindell A.C. while he was under suspension in '63. Said he was a riot to be around, a fun drunk.
Posted by: Auspex at July 23, 2026 08:32 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:30 PM
Can do!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 23, 2026 08:33 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 23, 2026 08:34 PM (DZ9Lv)
So you're saying there's a chance?
Posted by: Prodigy at July 23, 2026 08:35 PM (wVcYX)
250 years ago, a new nation was born from the belief that freedom and opportunity belonged to the people. And, if necessary, was worth fighting for. Since then, more than 41 million men and women have answered the call to defend our freedom. This monument honors them.
Standing tall in Washington, D.C., The National Military Monument™ is a living tribute to the generations of military members whose service and sacrifice made this historic milestone possible for our country.
https://monument250.usaa360.com/
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 23, 2026 08:35 PM (IMPuq)
Hopefully you won't be getting any of the roto-rooter procedures in the next 20 years.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Accomack at July 23, 2026 08:36 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: rickb223 at Jul
No one can hit a high worm burner. Just can't be done.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 23, 2026 08:37 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:32 PM
Q: How high is the first cervical vertebrae of an adult Canadian Goose?
A: Knee high ... to an adult human male.
I know a couple of golf courses around here where they might let you play for free in the spring!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 23, 2026 08:37 PM (HlyYF)
A: Knee high ... to an adult human male.
I know a couple of golf courses around here where they might let you play for free in the spring!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:40 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Dawn Kee Peanus at July 23, 2026 08:41 PM (l8OOG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 08:41 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: San Diego Tourism Board at July 23, 2026 08:42 PM (FhXTo)
I hear how strongly you feel about what you saw, and I’m not here to dismiss your experience. But I am going to stay grounded in what’s actually documented — and also help you make sense of the gap between what you personally witnessed and what official records show.
Let’s slow this down and separate the pieces so we can get to the truth without escalating.
Copilot:This is the part that aligns with what you saw.
Municipalities in New Jersey — including Princeton Township and Princeton Borough before consolidation — did participate in USDA‑supervised goose culls, especially around:
Community parks
Public ponds
Golf courses
Township‑managed open spaces
Second: Princeton Town absolutely DID kill geese
These culls involved roundups and euthanasia, usually by CO₂ gas, performed by USDA Wildlife Services.
Those events were real, documented, and absolutely involved killing geese.
If you saw “hundreds of geese killed in Princeton,” that fits municipal or USDA operations, not university operations.
Posted by: Yer Sistahs Tomato at July 23, 2026 08:42 PM (aaVMM)
2 ounces dark or navy rum
4 ounces pineapple juice
1 ounce orange juice
1 ounce cream of coconut
Pineapple wedge, for garnish
Grated nutmeg, for garnish
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:42 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 23, 2026 08:42 PM (4HoLg)
Posted by: Yer Sistahs Tomato at July 23, 2026 08:43 PM (aaVMM)
"I think Jake is a complete and utter asshole. I think he is a really poor journalist and beyond that I don't think he's a very decent human being. As a person, I don't like Jake. I think he's full of fucking shit."
-- Hunter Biden
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 08:44 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 08:44 PM (n5tGW)
That's how we put raptors down when they were too injured to be fixed.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:44 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Yes. Spool it up as necessary.
Every bar in the BVI would pour them out of pitchers.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:46 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 08:47 PM (a6PrB)
Nadler stated (in context of immigration enforcement): people have the right to defend themselves against federal agents.
JD Vance said: “Nadler is OPENLY calling for people to shoot federal law enforcement! This is DESPICABLE behavior from an elected official!”
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:47 PM (oUopv)
*ahem*
Y’all - 1 to a few
All y’all - everyone in the group.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 08:48 PM (hftzA)
*ahem*
Y’all - 1 to a few
All y’all - everyone in the group.
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 08:48 PM (hftzA)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 08:48 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 08:51 PM (hftzA)
Posted by: Accomack at July 23, 2026 08:52 PM (8jVAy)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
I loved my week there.
Surf & turf dinner on Anegada. Hit all the big islands. Different island every day. Four couples rented a 48 ft catamaran. One of the guys had his captain's license so we didn't have to hire a crew.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:56 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Piper
That's the afterlife for you.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:57 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 08:59 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 08:51 PM
It's hard to be kale and hearty in the ether.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 09:02 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Our captain was an American Airlines mechanic. Another mechanic had a sailing school in Grapevine, Texas. He made a bunch of mechanics captains. They actually earned it. It wasn't a gimme. Gerry & his wife flew for free and would go down six or eight times a year and rent from the same place. Usually had two or three boats traveling together. That week was a blast.
RIP Gerry.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 09:06 PM (oUopv)
That's how we put raptors down when they were too injured to be fixed.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:44 PM (oUopv)his and pr103 These culls involved roundups and euthanasia, usually by CO₂ gas, performed by USDA Wildlife Services.
That's how we put raptors down when they were too injured to be fixed.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:44 PM (oUopv)
This and Princeton liberals like Martha's Vineyard residents condone reality based solutions only when it meets their needs....
Posted by: Yer Sistahs Tomato at July 23, 2026 09:07 PM (aaVMM)
Posted by: Piper
Storm Bertha having an effect . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2026 09:10 PM (wVcYX)
He don't lie, he don't lie, he don't lie...
Posted by: Eric Clapton at July 23, 2026 09:15 PM (0e5Te)
Posted by: Hunter/Garcia at July 23, 2026 09:16 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Joemarine at July 23, 2026 09:17 PM (y171U)
94 All y'alls do know that Her Strut is about Jane Fonda, right?
Posted by: Dawn Kee Peanus at July 23, 2026 08:41 PM (l8OOG)
At least they DO respect her butt!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 09:18 PM (T2w7I)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Oh, Bertha, Bertha, where are you? What happened?
You feel so cold. Was it that wave that turned you away?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 09:19 PM (51ygH)
——-
What a piece of shit.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2026 09:21 PM (QN7a1)
Alex Karras & Susan Clark were married in real life. Not just on the show.
Posted by: rickb223
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Alex told a bit from the old days.
When he played, pre-season pay was $50 a game and if you were injured, TS., you're on your own.
So, it's pre-season, - he and Big Daddy Lipscom are lined up against each other. He says something to Big Daddy about his mother. Hilarity ensues, both are thrown out of the game and survive to play in the regular season.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 09:26 PM (51ygH)
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What a piece of shit.
Posted by: Common Tater
Since it wasn't said "in the well", I wonder just how much trouble he could be in?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 09:26 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 09:18 PM
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Brie Larson at July 23, 2026 09:27 PM (0sNs1)
They should be deported. And all their possessions confiscated. And their bank accounts.
And the recipients of remittances taxed at 100%.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 09:27 PM (yEz+x)
Not N₂ gas? (ooh, cool. I have to look up the code for that subscript-2)
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2026 09:28 PM (oSFyF)
-- Hunter Biden
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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I always thought that this retort was stupid, admitting accuracy while gaining no points for yourself.
However, as a third party comment, it is powerful:
"Takes one to know one!"
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 09:35 PM (cBDov)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 09:36 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 09:36 PM (LHPAg)
Just had a brief t-storm, got breezy for a while & rained just enough to turn outdoors into a steam-bath. Ugh. Ground barely got wet.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 09:36 PM (rdVOm)
2h
U.S. forces started another night of strikes against Iranian military targets at 6:45 p.m. ET today. This is the 13th consecutive night of strikes aimed to hold Iran accountable and diminish threats from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to commercial shipping.
U.S. Concludes 13th Night of Strikes on Iranian Military Targets @CENTCOM · 7m
CENTCOM targeted Iranian military command centers, drone storage facilities, communication networks, coastal surveillance sites, and maritime capabilities to further diminish the threat Iran poses to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
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Centcom says they have released the video but it's not found.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 09:36 PM (51ygH)
2h
U.S. forces started another night of strikes against Iranian military targets at 6:45 p.m. ET today. This is the 13th consecutive night of strikes aimed to hold Iran accountable and diminish threats from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to commercial shipping
Time to team up with the IDF and go in that Rat Hole and kill the cancer that resides in Tehran.
Posted by: Jackson K. at July 23, 2026 09:40 PM (OLtEb)
So if you are working outside of the US ? Nurse, you are more right than you know.
Which is what floors me ... absolutely floors me ... about the attitudes regarding illegals here. From both Dems and Repubs.
To work in any other country ? I have to have a Passport. Always a valid hotel reservation. And usually a Travel Medical Policy. Which is cheap, by the way. Less than a $100 a week. For what you are buying ? Pay the money.
Sometimes I need a letter from who is paying me to show up. Sometimes I need to show a return ticket. The point is ... from Customs ... I'm there for a good time. Not a long time.
But here ? From that "we're all just here together mentality" ? And its always the Yankee mentality.
We're just an economic zone. Fucking Morons.
Posted by: PRS at July 23, 2026 09:40 PM (NHUWL)
You are a fool. Not how it works, literally, in any other country.
Fuck ... just got to Canada. Commit a DUI. Then tell us about your "rights".
Seriously. You are a purposeful fool.
Posted by: PRS at July 23, 2026 09:42 PM (NHUWL)
They should be deported. And all their possessions confiscated. And their bank accounts.
And the recipients of remittances taxed at 100%.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 09:27 PM (yEz+x)
But then where will the Uniparty get their pennies on the dollar labor?
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 09:43 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
They have the right to safe passage out of my country.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 09:46 PM (Vrdez)
It is going to go from 300 fpm, to 900.... and the warning was not to swim in it...
Now, they made it sound like this was some natural condition... but... uh... it's late July, snow run off was months ago....
Oh... they are opening the spillways on the dams because they are getting to full. /facepalm
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 09:48 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: rickb223
Now that Goggle has destroyed its search engine functions, can we see a revival of Alta Vista?
Posted by: mindful webworker - showing my age at July 23, 2026 09:48 PM (M5tgA)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
You are seriously one of the dumbest fucking people I"ve ever seen here. And it gets to the point, with people like you, where rough language has to be used.
If a "Human Being" starts kicking down your door, is it OK to shoot their ass ? Now extend that to Nation States and International Borders.
Posted by: PRS at July 23, 2026 09:50 PM (NHUWL)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Oh, Bertha, Bertha, where are you? What happened?
You feel so cold. Was it that wave that turned you away?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 09:19 PM (51ygH)
Bertha Butt? one of the Butt sistahs?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 09:51 PM (mP0Kj)
I would have let the bird have my bike and would not have thought once of beating it. I might remember to sock a shark in the nose but not to beat an ostrich.
Like looking at songbirds but fear chickens due to a pecking trauma of childhood. If there is an apocalypse my husband has to fetch the eggs. I'll deal with the horse, cow and goat.
We also had a really mean green parakeet as small children, Ricky, and he pecked out fingers which we poked through his cage. He never talked and I don't remember what happened to him.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 09:51 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 09:51 PM (51ygH)
Maybe they have some fires planned and need the reservoirs empty.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2026 09:55 PM (oSFyF)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 09:55 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 09:56 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: mindful webworker - man v beast at July 23, 2026 09:56 PM (M5tgA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 09:57 PM (51ygH)
This is a distinction without a difference.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 09:58 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 09:58 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: mindful webworker - at long last at July 23, 2026 10:01 PM (M5tgA)
Maybe they have some fires planned and need the reservoirs empty.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2026 09:55 PM (oSFyF)
Wait... weird... just went and looked and Exchequer Dam on the Merced river is NOT FULL... NOT EVEN CLOSE.
So, now I'm totes confuselated as to what the hell is going on... except the enviros of Calif Gov are whackadoodle.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 10:01 PM (mP0Kj)
Obviously Scogg. Surprised it hasn't been called out.
Somebody tell Fen to knock on Dildo's door.
Posted by: PRS at July 23, 2026 10:01 PM (NHUWL)
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at July 23, 2026 10:02 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 09:58 PM (vE0+H)
Read the Constitution. Not following the constitution is what got us into this mess.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (wWU6x)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (wWU6x)
Defintely Scogg. What a troll. Can't stand that guy.
Posted by: PRS at July 23, 2026 10:04 PM (NHUWL)
Read the Constitution. Not following the constitution is what got us into this mess.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 10:03 PM (wWU6x)
If the Constitution applies to invaders then they possess almost all the rights granted by it. Which I don't believe is what you wrote.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 10:10 PM (vE0+H)
That's how we put raptors down when they were too injured to be fixed.
Posted by: rickb223
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Assuming that bird respiratory and circulatory system are the same as mammals, that's cruel.
Our breathing rate and depth is controlled by the CO2 levels in our blood. Increased levels of CO2 increase respiration rate, and high level produce the sensation of strangling. Placing animals in a CO2 chamber is, to their sensations while dying, the agony of asphyxiation.
Per my proposal for human execution, sticking them in a nitrogen chamber will kill them, but without without the pain.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 10:24 PM (cBDov)
Quick Hits
Crime fell 18% last year, on its way to a historic low.
Crime rates are on the decline in U.S. cities with the national homicide rate falling by 18%, inching closer to a historic low, the Council on Criminal Justice said Thursday. The Council on Criminal Justice released its mid-year report examining patterns for 13 types of crime in 36 U.S. cities. It found that nine of the 13 crimes were on the decline through mid 2026. ... Lopez, a senior research specialist for the Council on Criminal Justice, and Boxerman, a research scientist for the Regional Justice Information Service based in Missouri, added in their report that there is not a single explanation for the current crime trends.Of course. The "experts" always say the same thing after a tough-on-crime policy succeeds: "There are too many variables to say what has caused this."
The national homicide rate increased by 30% from 2019 to 2020. Of the nine types of crime that declined in the first half of the year, carjacking had the greatest decrease, falling by 47%. Drug offenses have continued to rise, marking the biggest upward trend at 12%. The Council on Criminal Justice projected that the end of 2025 homicide rate would likely be the lowest since 1900. It says its mid-year data "suggest" the homicide rate in 2026 will fall even further, "reaching a new historic low."
Poll of NH: AOC, Bootyjudge lead race for Democrat nominee for president; Kamala Harris is near the bottom.
But, John Nolte says, national polling puts Kamala Harris out front:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and failed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg now lead among Democrat presidential primary voters in New Hampshire. This poll of 648 primary voters released on July 22 shows AOC at the top with 22 percent support. Buttigieg is right below her with 21 percent. Everyone else is in single digits. U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) earns nine percent support. Failed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is at eight percent. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) earns just six percent. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is at five percent.
One might speculate that whites are looking at Kamala Harris' actual performance, while blacks and black women especially are looking at the Racial Injustice of not nominating a black woman. Democrats: Let's make every single aspect of culture, society, and politics relentlessly about race and "racial identity." What's the worse that can happen?
In the national polling, according to the RealClearPolitics poll of polls, Kamala is in first place, up by 11.3 points over second-place Newsom (27.9 percent to 16.6 percent). ... Democrats are also captured entirely by an obsession with identity, and Kamala ticks off three of those vital boxes: She's black, she's a woman, and although no one will say so, she's a useful idiot. This means that South Carolina is most likely to come first because it has a large black population. The Democrat Party simply cannot afford to alienate black voters in 2028, especially black women. You can ask James Talarico about that.
Iowa had traditionally been at the front of the line in assigning delegates (in caucuses, not a primary), but the Democrats decided the state was too white and too conservative to have such a prominent role anymore. Technically, New Hampshire was the first primary in 2024, but it awarded zero delegates anyway. South Carolina, which saved Joe Biden's bacon in 2020, was the first real primary that mattered. And in South Carolina, the black vote is king in the Democratic Party. For the 2028 primary season, the Democrats are having an internal battle over the first-in-the-nation status, and it has devolved into some nasty racial politics, because of course it has. This is what Democratic Party voters live, breathe, and fight about, because the only way to overcome racism is to think about race every second of the day, and have nightmares about microaggressions at night.
“If Nevada gets elevated over South Carolina, it would be because of their Latino vote,” says @ChristaleSpain. “So you would then be telling Black voters that you matter less than brown voters. And I refuse to believe that our party wants to send any type of message like that.” https://t.co/FLmzfrAKGl
— Michael Kruse (@michaelkruse) July 22, 2026
Step 1: “Voter fraud doesn’t happen,” CNN
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 22, 2026
Step 2: “Fine, voter fraud happened,” CNN
Step 3: “Voter fraud happening doesn’t mean what you think it means,” CNN pic.twitter.com/aqLjjhqzYj
32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text. pic.twitter.com/yjcsVND4aT
— Boochie is the Name (@stoppfeenin) July 23, 2026
CNN: We can't air Trump's address. There might be misinformation.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 23, 2026
Also CNN every single day for over two years... pic.twitter.com/Gj5CbRCHVi
A rural New York school district plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot named "Sally" as a teaching assistant tool in 11th- and 12th-grade classrooms, beginning this fall. The Daily Wire reports that the Salamanca City Central School District purchased the lifelike robot, featuring silicone skin, long brown hair, and a mobile upper body and facial expressions, for less than the median annual salary for a New York teacher.
The school district will become one of the first in the nation to introduce a humanoid robot in a U.S. K-12 classroom. Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Realbotix, the company which is currently building the robot, told the New York Focus that "Sally" will have access to the student's learning data, exclusively using it to provide specialized support based on their profile. "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that conversation?'" Kiguel said. Salamanca Superintendent Dr. Mark Beehler emphasized the program's strict privacy guidelines, noting that the robot does not have open internet access, does not feature facial recognition, cannot record audio or video, and will not transmit student data back to Realbotix. The pilot program is sparking mixed reactions from parents regarding the integration of AI into the classroom.
Humanoid Sally will replace a human teacher at an American school
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 20, 2026
The robot named Sally will start teaching children this autumn at a school in New York State. The “teacher” created by an American company will cost the school less than a human educator. It will teach computer… pic.twitter.com/1bnTg6tS81
Sophie Cunningham was mercilessly henpecked by outraged woke Karens (who never played sports) over her claim that women's sports should be reserved to women: "I said what I said."
Sophie Cunningham responds to criticism over her recent comments to ESPN about wanting to protect women's sports from "biological men."
— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) July 23, 2026
"I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense.
When it comes just to protecting young girls in sport and women in sport, I feel very… pic.twitter.com/2uh0MWj8zM
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2026 06:27 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2026 06:27 PM (u73oe)
When's Disney's first Canadian aboriginal princess.
Asian stuff is so refreshing in it's lack of diversity.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 23, 2026 06:28 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:30 PM (Ot/FD)
You get more of what you subsidize.
Posted by: USAID at July 23, 2026 06:30 PM (AaEou)
Posted by: Fox Butterfield at July 23, 2026 06:31 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 06:31 PM (KC5Lt)
How many pollsters did Kumala have to drop down on her knees for to get these results?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 06:32 PM (l3cgK)
Ain't no Baron of Waxawitcheewoowoo, or Duke of Manawhatsafuckit.
The hell they got princesses for?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:32 PM (Ot/FD)
According to Pew Research Center's analysis of the 2024 election, Black voters supported:
Hillary Clinton (2016): about 94% Democratic / 6% Republican
Joe Biden (2020): about 92% Democratic / 8% Republican
Kamala Harris (2024): about 83% Democratic / 15% Republican
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 06:33 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at July 23, 2026 06:33 PM (uDSNN)
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She better pay her fvcking dues.
Posted by: Randi "Butch" Weingarten at July 23, 2026 06:34 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at July 23, 2026 06:33 PM (uDSNN)
Sex scandal.
First week.
Mark it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:34 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 06:34 PM (vE0+H)
I've never seen that before.
Oh, mental health may have been a factor......
Sure....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 23, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 23, 2026 06:34 PM (xcxpd)
...Kamala Harris is near the bottom.
Anterior of the bottom actually.
Just below the navel.
And moving up and down rapidly.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2026 06:34 PM (iJfKG)
Mustang Sally (Stripper by night)
Lay down Sally (Stripper job doesn't work out, so has to get down and dirty)
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Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 06:35 PM (dIske)
Will wonders never cease?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:35 PM (Ot/FD)
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{{ding}}
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 06:35 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 23, 2026 06:36 PM (xcxpd)
and kung-fu grip.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 23, 2026 06:36 PM (4NO2D)
Joe Biden (2020): about 92% Democratic / 8% Republican
Kamala Harris (2024): about 83% Democratic / 15% Republican
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 06:33 PM (vE0+H)
Those republicans ain't never been republican though it brings me back to Gunny , R Lee Ermey admitting he voted for Obama the first time. Lost a lot of respect for him and wish he would have kept that to himself.
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM (KC5Lt)
With that in mind my Dr has said it's time, I absolutely need a colonoscopy and has forwarded me to some gastrointestinal place. $$$ My wife just made the suggestion that like my hair cut she could do the whole thing, we got a web cam, some tubes, a bicycle pump, she could whack me on the head with a rock first, she's got it all planned out. She's a planner.
So, good idea? great idea? What do you all think?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM (3uBP9)
and kung-fu grip.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 23, 2026 06:36 PM (4NO2D)
above or below?
asking for a friend...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Vengeance at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (dIske)
Bootyjudge 21%
Mark Kelly 9%
Newsom 8%
Bernie 6%
Kumala 5%
It would be entertaining to watch their internal demons fight among each other for dominance on a public stage.
For a grand finale, have Associazione Internazionale degli Esorcisti show up and perform exorcisms.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (a6PrB)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM (3uBP9)
I mean definitely do it on the porch, if that's what you're asking.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:39 PM (Ot/FD)
and kung-fu grip.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 23, 2026 06:36 PM (4NO2D)
*nurse at the ER, on the intercom*
"We have robot hand grasping a man's penis..."
H/T Big Bang Theory
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 06:39 PM (0aYVJ)
So, good idea? great idea? What do you all think?
Posted by: banana Dream
I am reminded of the "Time-Life Home Surgery" Far Side cartoon
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2026 06:40 PM (vJrRc)
NYSUT President Melinda Person blasted the decision, stating, “A robot built by a company associated with sex dolls has no business in our classrooms.”
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 06:40 PM (dIske)
I give it two days.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 23, 2026 06:41 PM (x/Rva)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at July 23, 2026 06:33 PM (uDSNN)
Sex scandal.
First week.
Mark it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:34 PM (Ot/FD)
With a mouth like that, she's askin' for it, Buck! beedeebeedeebeedee
Posted by: Twiki at July 23, 2026 06:41 PM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 23, 2026 06:41 PM (4NO2D)
After seeing the video, I foresee a large uptick in students seeking psychological counseling for the trauma caused by dealing with that thing. Far better to forego trying to make it 'human' and just have it be a robot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 06:41 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 06:40 PM (dIske)
Should have made the thing look black.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:41 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (KC5Lt)
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Yes, with 1940's movie checker cab type guys.
"Where to, Mac?"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 23, 2026 06:41 PM (kpS4V)
NYSUT President Melinda Person blasted the decision, stating, “A robot built by a company associated with sex dolls has no business in our classrooms.”
Grooming children for sex with adults should be left to the professionals within the teacher's union.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:41 PM (pawvM)
33m
Please let this statement serve to represent, until further notice, that from this point forth, any and all damages done to Ships, Cargo, or anything related thereto, will be paid for by Iranian Money that the United States has in its possession, and controls.
...
Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 06:42 PM (VPNgR)
Kinda tough to go on strike, isn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2026 06:42 PM (oSFyF)
Having one with "facial expressions" would have scared the crap out of me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 06:42 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:42 PM (abScH)
Will that qualify the car to be in the 2+ passengers rule to use the HOV lanes?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:43 PM (pawvM)
Posted by: Orson
"We prefer that our student be molested by flesh-and-blood human teachers."
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2026 06:43 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:43 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 06:43 PM (n5tGW)
Steve Mammal.
Mary Human.
Who you trying to fool, skinwalker?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:44 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 06:45 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
I bet it used to be "Mann" but she changed it because it was sexist.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2026 06:45 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2026 06:45 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM (3uBP9)
I mean definitely do it on the porch, if that's what you're asking.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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And you'll still have to do the prep drink, unless she's got some ideas on how to clean you out first. But not sure I'd want to hear those.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2026 06:45 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 06:45 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2026 06:45 PM (XvL8K)
"Better out than in"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:45 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 23, 2026 06:46 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2026 06:45 PM (vJrRc)
I larfed
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:46 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:46 PM (abScH)
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Being a Democrat has to be a miserable experience. There's no room for joy or happiness or even contentment.
It's nonstop envy and rage day in, day out, 24/7/365.
No wonder they snap under pressure.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 06:46 PM (FZ29D)
How about you just STFU about race? Tribalism is Evil in a multi-ethnic society. There is no way around this.
If you want to start a race war, this is how you do it. If there must be bloodshed, let’s get it over with, M’k?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2026 06:47 PM (iJVoP)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 06:48 PM (sMkB+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 06:48 PM (FZ29D)
I heard she is looking for a solid Christian man (who is taller than her) who will be a great spiritual leader.. I don't know how many of the 6's she is demanding but we know one of them is height.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:48 PM (pawvM)
Just put a robot face, not that doll face please
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 06:48 PM (J5RCE)
https://x.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/2080387493350838732?s=20
Posted by: Ian S. at July 23, 2026 06:49 PM (qRNmP)
I believe the reporting of crime is down. I believe the enforcement of crime is down. I believe the rate of convictions for crimes are down. I believe the rate of incarcerations for crimes are down.
Furthermore, I believe that the very worst crimes, crimes against humanity (like C19), are UP. And absolutely no one is doing the first thing about them.
Why? Because TPTB want to report that crimes is down.
Posted by: call me skeptical at July 23, 2026 06:49 PM (6zAdN)
A very mixed blessing.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 23, 2026 06:49 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 06:49 PM (LHPAg)
Prepare to be amused. Just look at the latest scholastic aptitude tests—pretty low bar.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:50 PM (U4c/V)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 06:50 PM (3uBP9)
Delivered to the school by Johnnie Cab.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 23, 2026 06:51 PM (ZypAx)
So that’s going to be something.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2026 06:51 PM (tfDmq)
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:50 PM (U4c/V)
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Exactly. When students' performance scores jump through the roof because Sally can teach them better than a human teacher, the NEA will go ballistic. More so than usual.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 06:52 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:52 PM (abScH)
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There was a really good Suspense! radio episode or one of those that revolved around mannequins. A gal finds a diary in a coat she bought at a department store. Turns out she falls asleep in the store, and the mannequins come alive at night. It was written and done right, so kinda scary.
Andy Griffith where Barney dresses up as a Hunter mannequin trying to nab a shoplifter is one of the better scenes in the series, classic Barney.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2026 06:53 PM (iJVoP)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:32 PM (Ot/FD)
There is a little Pocahontas in every one of us
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 06:53 PM (rbvCR)
Just put a robot face, not that doll face please
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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Yes. However, with the proper programming it may be far superior to what we have today.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 06:54 PM (VPNgR)
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This could be the Kamala 2028 campaign slogan
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 06:54 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 06:54 PM (rbvCR)
To be put in a classroom full of horny 16 and 17 year old boys.
They better not record her teaching because just possessing a day's worth of video will earn the company a SWAT raid for CP
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:55 PM (U4c/V)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 06:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 06:55 PM (sMkB+)
Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 06:55 PM (Ia/+0)
Democrats are in the midst of a partisan reckoning, and nobody should be happier than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The environment is shaping up for her to have a legitimate shot at the 2028 nomination.
"AOC's 2028 chances" Bro I'm still not even sure about America's 2026 chances
2028 is going to be a reality check for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Either they're as large and influential as they claim, or they aren't. If they aren't, I hope we don't get another round of "corporate Dems rigged it." Maybe the simpler explanation is that there are still a whole lot of centrists in the Democratic Party.
We’ve already found out women are unelectable in America. Two women lost to *Donald fucking Trump*, the worst candidate in the history of the country. If two qualified women can’t beat fucking Trump, then America is still too sexist to vote for a female president.
It's not only white men. Latino and Muslim moves massively towards Trump in part because the alternative was a black woman.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 23, 2026 06:55 PM (Xy2sd)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 06:56 PM (Wx316)
It's not only white men. Latino and Muslim moves massively towards Trump in part because the alternative was a black woman.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 23, 2026 06:55 PM (Xy2sd)
Sigh....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2026 06:57 PM (FtULh)
WTF is there piano music playing in the background of that clip? And especially WTF is it playing louder than the guy who is talking?
Retards are taking over the world.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 06:57 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 06:58 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2026 06:58 PM (tfDmq)
To be put in a classroom full of horny 16 and 17 year old boys.
They better not record her teaching because just possessing a day's worth of video will earn the company a SWAT raid for CP
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:55 PM (U4c/V)
'Good morning, class. My name is Cherry.'
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 06:58 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 06:58 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 06:59 PM (sMkB+)
That’s awesome! Especially for math and science.
No strikes
No calling out sick
No benefits
No raping of students
Win win win for the kiddos!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 07:00 PM (tHKLd)
1) Where's Bruce Springsteen? He should help butcher the music by screeching badly.
2) When do Sting and The Police stop here to arrest these people for horrible singing?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 07:00 PM (qx7Zg)
They now join more than 36,000 others already tracked in the department’s WoW database
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 07:01 PM (VPNgR)
STAHP!
I can only get so hard!!
Posted by: The Glass Ceiling at July 23, 2026 07:01 PM (zGzrB)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 07:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2026 06:56 PM (Wx316)
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I'm waiting for Elon to develop his own version of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for the masses.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 07:02 PM (FZ29D)
I figured Bootygig would be near the bottom. Is this a race for the bottom?
Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:02 PM (MWfyi)
She's got pipe-fitter lips.
--Big Pussy Bonpensiero
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2026 07:02 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: NYC PS 186 at July 23, 2026 07:02 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 07:03 PM (n5tGW)
To be put in a classroom full of horny 16 and 17 year old boys.
They better not record her teaching because just possessing a day's worth of video will earn the company a SWAT raid for CP
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:55 PM (U4c/V)
'Good morning, class. My name is Cherry.'
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 06:58 PM (LHPAg)
***
Day three the kids come to class.
The door slams shut.
Teacher comes out in black leather holding a whip.
"Johnny, you were a very bad boy in detention."
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 07:04 PM (2WIwB)
This distracted me, bigly...
The professor (and right on, man!) who failed 32 of 35 students...I recognized his accent. Looked him up and he's from MS. I recognize my people. My mother and brothers have black friends who agree against the George Floyds.
Their part of the county has a facebook page alerting farms to bad people. Not many bad people bother them. Bro once had a white meth head neck tattoo guy walk by to use the phone, & house is hidden with trees down a long driveway. Told to leave & called neighbors and sheriff. Two black deputies arrived and said next time to shoot him and make their lives easier.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 07:04 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 06:34 PM (vE0+H)
I used to put the Lorem Ipsum in size 2 white font as the automatic header of my work email.
We were required to keep all client data hidden unless it was going to specific people who could see it, and I noticed that some of my cow orkers would put the name and other identifying information on line one, so that it would show in the email queueueu
I stopped doing it when it started to be a problem because a cow orker couldn't figure out how I was doing it and suspected I was "hacking" the system somehow
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 07:05 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:05 PM (vE0+H)
That’s awesome! Especially for math and science.
No strikes
No calling out sick
No benefits
No raping of students
Win win win for the kiddos!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 07:00 PM (tHKLd)
***
Home schooling has entered the chat.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 07:06 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 07:06 PM (/+uur)
And then ran a geriatric corn cob with kernel abortion when they decided to actually go Full Steal.
Pull the other one.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 07:06 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 23, 2026 07:09 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:43 PM (Ot/FD)
Why do you say that?
Posted by: Una Persson, time traveler extraordinaire at July 23, 2026 07:09 PM (rbvCR)
Think, think, think. . . what has changed in the past year?
Gosh, couldn't be that Trump's ICE is staking out places where criminal illegal meet (e.g., secret Denver area bars where TdA hangout) and doing mass arrests and deportations, right?
Nah. Must be global warming!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2026 07:10 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Ralph at July 23, 2026 07:10 PM (8WZD4)
I've never seen that before.
Oh, mental health may have been a factor......
Sure....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh.
We may never know the motive.
Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2026 07:11 PM (lJ0H4)
Todays was the bitch with 3 PR Bonds let off for often terminating probation "unsatisfactorily,".
There is no legal term.
There is no Texas law.
There is no juris prudence.
Fuck you judges.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 07:11 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Reforger at July 23, 2026 07:12 PM (gE8mJ)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 23, 2026 07:13 PM (fZiTB)
Posted by: Ben Had
👍 Copper harvesting. They learn at *whoever's* knee.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 23, 2026 07:13 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: nckate at July 23, 2026 07:13 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 07:06 PM (2WIwB)
You think the Missus will let me buy one of those to do home schooling?
She might get suspicious, though.
We don't have kids.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 07:14 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 23, 2026 07:14 PM (aFYHp)
If it the kind of data that says hispanics and asians are "white" then it's suspect as hell.
Posted by: browndog says woof at July 23, 2026 07:14 PM (3sXRv)
1. The democrats are now so stupid they to piss in the big tent, not out.
2. Ace is now just trolling morons with the retarded WNMA shit.
Posted by: Auspex at July 23, 2026 07:14 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: I would climb that lofty peak at July 23, 2026 07:14 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:43 PM (Ot/FD)
Why do you say that?
Posted by: Una Persson, time traveler extraordinaire at July 23, 2026 07:09 PM (rbvCR)
The surname Null gives (or used to give) computers real problems...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Vasco de Gamasutra at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (qXqZm)
Posted by: I would climb that lofty peak at July 23, 2026 07:14 PM (TbWk/)
6' 1"...
She'd tower over me...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (l3cgK)
On Sunday, an ex-boss called me out of the blue. We talked. He offered me an opportunity to come back on a much bigger platform starting next month. I'll be National on radio (He's thinking mid-Majors to start) for 13 NCAA football games, with Men's and Women's BB also on the table for the winter.
I feel a bit like the old movie meme of the grizzled Veteran called in one for "one last mission". It feels great. Can't believe the guy even still had me on his list.
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (l3cgK)
----
Yep. I've encountered that problem.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 07:17 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Lincolntf
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Congrats.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 07:17 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 07:17 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Vasco de Gamasutra at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (qXqZm)
Inner City version needs to do roll call...A-A-Ron! Je-Quellin!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:17 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 07:05 PM (rbvCR)
Well I meant Herr Trump but I guess the judges would accept you too!
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:17 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 07:17 PM (sMkB+)
Posted by: Chaos at July 23, 2026 07:17 PM (GFRGc)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 23, 2026 07:17 PM (vDZgA)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 07:18 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Vasco de Gamasutra at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (qXqZm)
I wanna know who decided to give Sally pouty pouty lips that all the teen boys will be drooling over. Should have made her a gray haired granny with a mean look.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:19 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:19 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (vV6n9)
Congrats, man!
Posted by: Ian S. at July 23, 2026 07:19 PM (v8+Kf)
Posted by: Public health hazard at least at July 23, 2026 07:19 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (vV6n9)
Nice to hear / read some good news ...
Go get 'em tiger!
Posted by: browndog says woof at July 23, 2026 07:20 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 07:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Depends if she's made by Boston Dynamics.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 23, 2026 07:20 PM (v8+Kf)
Very cool! Kick ass, take names, brother.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 07:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 07:21 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:19 PM (edUvp)
---
No one ever makes sex bots that look like Trigglypuff.....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 07:21 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:02 PM (MWfyi)
In Bootygig's place, it's a race BY the bottom.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:21 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:21 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (z2Bza)
Posted by: Lincolntf
All the lists I'm on are black. Good on you, mate.
Posted by: Congratulations are in order at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:05 PM (vE0+H)
Sorry the privilege pole no longer has white gays on top. Too many have gone Republican.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (uhVAy)
That would just be embarrassing.
We'd have to just make up something to tell our children over our rat on a stick dinner over an open garbage fire.
"Uh, yeah.... government... uh... Army robots. That's what happened. Definitely. "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 07:23 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (l3cgK)
Not if you play your cards right...
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:23 PM (vE0+H)
That is excellent news!
Congratulation
Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2026 07:23 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Billythesquid at July 23, 2026 07:23 PM (gN+5I)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (uhVAy)
Wait, that's what Pete calls my penis!
Posted by: Chasten Buttgig at July 23, 2026 07:24 PM (TbWk/)
On Sunday, an ex-boss called me out of the blue. We talked. He offered me an opportunity to come back on a much bigger platform starting next month. I'll be National on radio (He's thinking mid-Majors to start) for 13 NCAA football games, with Men's and Women's BB also on the table for the winter.
I feel a bit like the old movie meme of the grizzled Veteran called in one for "one last mission". It feels great. Can't believe the guy even still had me on his list.
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (vV6n9)
CAN HE GO ALL THE WAY ?!
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 23, 2026 07:24 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (vV6n9)
---
"That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 07:25 PM (FZ29D)
STAHP!
I can only get so hard!!
Posted by: The Glass Ceiling
I actually responded that I could think of two worse candidates. We'll see if there's any coping and seething. Not DU, just the general r/politics, so I might not get banned lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 23, 2026 07:25 PM (Xy2sd)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (uhVAy)
They have abandoned gays and the rest entirely to the Muslims so I don't really see it. But these people are impossible to truly predict and I do see them going with a safe white guy unless the general is rigged.
At the moment it looks like the skids are being greased good style for AOC.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:25 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 23, 2026 07:26 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:15 PM (vV6n9)
Very cool and congrats. Go make it happen!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 07:26 PM (2WIwB)
——
They are just so insistent that Mrs. Clinton was the most qualified individual ever to run.
She was married to a President. How is that a qualification? Facts by assertion. “Because we said so”. Fuck you. I’m so very tired of the gaslighting
“You won’t vote for me because I’m a woman”
Maybe nobody wants to vote for you because you are a terrible campaigner. Bill was widely regarded as an expert politician. Nobody ever said that about mrs Clinton.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2026 07:27 PM (6fKvw)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 07:27 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (vV6n9)
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"That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 07:25 PM (FZ29D)
Ooh! Do a Fred Willard when you're announcing!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:28 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway"
She's got two humps.
Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:22 PM (vV6n9)
That was a very well executed play. Almost like a run of puns by Da Horde!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2026 07:29 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at July 23, 2026 07:29 PM (KaHlS)
Posted by: t-bird
We demand 40 watts power and four recharging breaks a day!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 07:30 PM (ndZc7)
14m
U.S. forces started another night of strikes against Iranian military targets at 6:45 p.m. ET today. This is the 13th consecutive night of strikes aimed to hold Iran accountable and diminish threats from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to commercial shipping.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiD5nLf8YU
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 07:30 PM (VPNgR)
To be fair, she was a senator and secretary of state...jobs she only got because she was former first lady, but still...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 23, 2026 07:30 PM (Xy2sd)
Sally are you a woman?
Posted by: Mike Hammer"
Tell her that you always lie.
Posted by: Cap'n Quirk at July 23, 2026 07:31 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike
---
It's under the eldest son's first car.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 07:31 PM (VPNgR)
Seriously?
*scribbles notes furiously*
Posted by: Guys everywhere at July 23, 2026 07:31 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway"
She's got two humps.
Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)
You want Cherry 2000
You'll end up with TrigglyPuff 2000...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 23, 2026 06:28 PM (Sco7b)
Check out how Dragonball handles diversity!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (kd1a0)
Seriously?
*scribbles notes furiously*
Posted by: Guys everywhere
Contact their pimp.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (vV6n9)
Few years back Elli De La Cruz hit a looong home run against the Dodgers and the Reds' announcer cried "THAT BALL HAD A FAMILY!!!"
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Have any of the other Democrat Presidential front-runners?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: DanMan at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 07:34 PM (VPNgR)
Seriously?
*scribbles notes furiously*
Posted by: Guys everywhere at July 23, 2026 07:31 PM (2Ez/1)
Cheaper than marriage at any price.
Posted by: And far less destructive at July 23, 2026 07:34 PM (TbWk/)
Have any of the other Democrat Presidential front-runners?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)
So she was sucking up?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:34 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (l3cgK)
For a quirky little movie, that had some really fun parts. I liked in the beginning when he's trying to pick up some girl at a bar and get her to go home with him for the night, and instantly the house lawyer pops up with a multi page contract that must be witnessed and signed in triplicate detailing everything that will or may happen after they leave the establishment.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:35 PM (edUvp)
If you want to know where the low IQ voters are, look no further than the Democrat party.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 07:35 PM (SwCxT)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (abScH)
I honestly don't think she cares to.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:35 PM (vE0+H)
Congratulations and good luck, Lincolntf! Hope it works out for you.
Posted by: Retired, thank God at July 23, 2026 07:35 PM (va0Yo)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (abScH)
Not just Benghazi.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 07:35 PM (kd1a0)
You'll end up with TrigglyPuff 2000...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (l3cgK)
Like a robotic beanbag chair stuffed with gelatin.
Posted by: You will be assimilated at July 23, 2026 07:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:36 PM (vE0+H)
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Lincolntf - Now I'm wondering what you might have done with Charlie Choo-Choo Justice.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2026 07:36 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:37 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 23, 2026 07:37 PM (LlSak)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 07:33 PM (abScH)
Not just Benghazi.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
-------
Coming around that the Borgia's got nothing on the Clinton's.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 07:37 PM (VPNgR)
Seriously?
*scribbles notes furiously*
Posted by: Guys everywhere at July 23, 2026 07:31 PM (2Ez/1)
This makes me sad. Bride and I are going on 38 years, and she is still my best friend. I know it often does not work, but we somehow won life's lottery.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 07:37 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 07:37 PM (vE0+H)
You'll end up with TrigglyPuff 2000...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:32 PM (l3cgK)
Like a robotic beanbag chair stuffed with gelatin.
Posted by: You will be assimilated at July 23, 2026 07:36 PM (TbWk/)
Except it's always angry...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:38 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:38 PM (vV6n9)
Seriously?
*scribbles notes furiously*
Posted by: Guys everywhere at July 23, 2026 07:31 PM (2Ez/1)
This makes me sad. Bride and I are going on 38 years, and she is still my best friend. I know it often does not work, but we somehow won life's lottery.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 07:37 PM (0aYVJ)
I only had 26 years with mine...wasn't enough.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:39 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:34 PM
IIRC, she did at the very start to Ace and the CoBs, but after that, they were erudite testimonies to her love of word salads.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)
Competence is white supremecy!
Posted by: tankdemon at July 23, 2026 07:39 PM (LlSak)
Seriously?
*scribbles notes furiously*
Posted by: Guys everywhere at July 23, 2026 07:31 PM (2Ez/1)
Like, forcing all this emotional labor on me just like gives me the total ick. Like, be a man! Man up! Men are supposed to provide for and support women! We just have to like show up!
Posted by: I AM the table! at July 23, 2026 07:40 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:39 PM (l3cgK)
*awkward bro-hug* Dude
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 07:40 PM (0aYVJ)
With a bolt action rifle. Seriously, I’m not making this up.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2026 07:41 PM (6fKvw)
I said what I said and I meant what I meant.
A man's not a woman. One hundred percent.
Madagascar
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 07:41 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 23, 2026 07:41 PM (QaH55)
Maybe if she got off her knees...
Posted by: tankdemon
She does rimjobs too?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 23, 2026 07:42 PM (Xy2sd)
“You won’t vote for me because I’m a woman”
Nope. I won't vote for you because you're gawd damned commie, super tits.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 23, 2026 07:42 PM (rk74j)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 23, 2026 07:37 PM (0aYVJ)
Congratulations.
Posted by: Some will win, some will lose at July 23, 2026 07:42 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 23, 2026 07:43 PM (6fKvw)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Yes you did. Congratulations!
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 07:44 PM (oUopv)
A man's not a woman. One hundred percent.
Madagascar
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 07:41 PM (Cqx++)
I like to move it move it
I like to move it move it
I like to move it move it
I like to I like to move it!
Posted by: King Julien, physically fit at July 23, 2026 07:47 PM (TbWk/)
This makes me sad. Bride and I are going on 38 years, and she is still my best friend. I know it often does not work, but we somehow won life's lottery.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Well met, sir. Smash & I will celebrate rate 43 this October. She is absolutely the best thing that ever happened to me.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 23, 2026 07:48 PM (rk74j)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 07:49 PM (kd1a0)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 07:49 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 23, 2026 07:49 PM (vV6n9)
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at July 23, 2026 07:49 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 07:50 PM (rbvCR)
I've seen bigger steam engines -- on ships.
It was impressive moving down the tracks.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:50 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 23, 2026 07:51 PM (rk74j)
So, good idea? great idea? What do you all think?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM (3uBP9)
I couldn't possibly imagine anything going wrong.
https://tinyurl.com/4fzpbuzb
The way I originally heard this linked story, the liposuction itself went fine, it was the anesthesia overdose that was the problem, so your plan to have her bonk you on the noggin is probably the safer course of action.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 23, 2026 07:51 PM (LlSak)
19 years married to my late wife. 1.25 years since she died.
Still was the best thing I ever did.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:53 PM (u82oZ)
I agree, it will be five years since my wife died, come early September.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 07:49 PM (kd1a0)
2 1/2 years tomorrow...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:53 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 07:54 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:55 PM (u82oZ)
So, good idea? great idea? What do you all think?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM
You should get it done by the professional. To help defray the cost, ask them if they could find and retrieve your urologist's class ring, which you could then sell, or ask for a return fee credit.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 07:55 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 07:55 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 07:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 07:56 PM (abScH)
I've seen bigger steam engines -- on ships.
It was impressive moving down the tracks.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Lucky you.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 07:57 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:58 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 07:58 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2026 07:59 PM (kd1a0)
So, good idea? great idea? What do you all think?
Posted by: banana Dream at July 23, 2026 06:37 PM
You should get it done by the professional. To help defray the cost, ask them if they could find and retrieve your urologist's class ring, which you could then sell, or ask for a return fee credit.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Get video. Call yourself a female.
Sell copies on Onlyfans.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 07:59 PM (oUopv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 23, 2026 06:38 PM (kpS4V)
Now I want to see MMA Robots featured in an "Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting" music video.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 23, 2026 07:59 PM (LlSak)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:59 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2026 06:58 PM (tfDmq)
From what i've seen of her, she likes fighting those stupid trogled*kes. She seems to go after the ones that foul Clark. Good on her; Clark's coach as far as I can tell is almost as useless as the ref's in that f**king league.
Posted by: Nelly at July 23, 2026 08:00 PM (6+ehB)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 08:01 PM (Ot/FD)
Colon = gastroenterologist or proctologist.
Urethra = urologist
Colon =/= urethra.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:59 PM (u82oZ)
Unless you're a bird, so your cloaca is the expressway for composite poop/pee and sex...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 08:02 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:02 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:03 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 08:03 PM (l3cgK)
You absolutely have to be looking for an excuse to cry "racism" to even pretend there is a racial connotation to that phrase.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 23, 2026 08:06 PM (LlSak)
Colon = gastroenterologist or proctologist.
Urethra = urologist
Colon =/= urethra.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:59 PM
I had no idea SWO urologists never digitally checked a prostate. * thinking * Does this imply a lack of prostates? Moving to 2nd-order thinking, does this explain the well-known preference demonstrated at every O-Club in the world by nubile females for Naval Aviators and Submariners?
You've given me something to ponder.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2026 08:06 PM (0sNs1)
You are right. I had forgotten all the prostate exams (way many more than warranted) while I was in the Service. Plum forgot.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:12 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 23, 2026 09:46 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 23, 2026 09:46 PM (Q/FnY)
He looks like he stuck his head in a giant pencil sharpener. And his satellite dish ears freak me out.
If he runs and campaigns I do hope he does not drag poor Gabby around. I feel sorry for her for being shot and also being married to this eejit.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 09:58 PM (hzuYO)
House Passes "Stop Insider Trading" Bill to Forbid Congressmen from Trading Individual Stocks (Using Insider Information);
Noted Lifelong Inside-Trader Nancy Pelosi Votes Against It
The bill would allow congresmen to own stocks as part of money markets or indexes -- big groups of stocks traded by managers without input from the customer.
They, and their families, will just be barred from buying and selling individual stocks, where a congressman could make a killing based on insider knowledge of coming government action that could boost, or crush, a specific company's valuation. But congressmen have been permitted to use their insider information -- either granted to them by their position on a committee or tipped to them as a straight-up bribe by company officials seeking official favor -- for decades. That's why every other congressman is a millionaire in six years. This bill would stop that. Except for when Congress starts modifying the bill by adding exceptions.House passes 'Stop Insider Trading Act' in bipartisan vote Democrats who opposed the legislation argued that the bill does not go far enough because it prohibits members of Congress and their families from buying new individual stocks, but it doesn't prevent them from owning them. The House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday passed the "Stop Insider Trading Act," which bans lawmakers and their families from trading individual stocks. The bill passed in a 232-198 vote, with 13 Democrats supporting the legislation. A similar bill is in the Senate. Democrats who opposed the bill argued that it does not go far enough because it prohibits members of Congress and their families from buying new individual stocks, but it doesn't prevent them from owning them. "For too long, Americans struggling to make ends meet have watched as lawmakers have entered office just to leave as multi-millionaires," House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement. "This type of behavior is unacceptable and diminishes the American people's trust in this institution.Nancy Pelosi has been a virulent opponent of such a ban in the past. That's because she's become one of the richest women of the country while "serving" in Congress. The Democrats voted against this bill with the pretextual excuse "we want the bill to go farther" but one suspects they don't want the bill at all. Democrats have shown that they go into politics to plunder money from the public.
In 2021, Nancy Pelosi was asked if Congress should be banned from trading stocks and responded, “No… This is a free market.”
— Money Ape (@TheMoneyApe) July 23, 2026
She exposed herself previously. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/TuW35yLPwJ https://t.co/ucglQ1YsUS
Nancy Pelosi responds to Trump demanding an investigation into Nancy Pelosi for insider trading:
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) July 31, 2025
"That's ridiculous. I very much support the stop the trading of members of Congress...I'm not into it, my husband is” https://t.co/8S6Tys90p4 pic.twitter.com/hUH8t8xDVo
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2026 05:21 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2026 05:22 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 23, 2026 05:22 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy watch. Ughhh. at July 23, 2026 05:24 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 05:27 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (abScH)
It is hard to make the case you should be bound by something someone else does. But if it holds up then you just move to the next relative, or family held trust in line.
I still think their assets should be put in a government held trust which returns an amount equal to the increase in GDP minus the inflation rate. Then all of the incentives would be correct.
Posted by: Thatch at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (S6YCM)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (Ot/FD)
Like I asked last night: what's the catch? there's got to be a workaround in there somewhere.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2026 05:29 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 05:30 PM (abScH)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 05:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Thatch at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (S6YCM)
GDP includes government spending, even deficit spending. So, I am against that idea.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 05:30 PM (rbvCR)
- nancy
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 05:30 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 05:30 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Hillary! at July 23, 2026 05:30 PM (4qpnH)
Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at July 23, 2026 05:30 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 05:31 PM (sMkB+)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (Ot/FD)
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Speaktrix Margarita.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2026 05:32 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Thatch
If you subtract government spending first, otherwise it might be worse.
Posted by: Kratwurst at July 23, 2026 05:32 PM (36bTp)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 23, 2026 05:32 PM (VnOY5)
Clickbait Xeet. Trump didn't "demand" an investigation. He just tossed it out there -- she should be investigated.
I'm not sure how you prove insider trading. Anyone can claim "I got lucky."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2026 05:32 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 05:32 PM (XuXeR)
I still think their assets should be put in a government held trust which returns an amount equal to the increase in GDP minus the inflation rate. Then all of the incentives would be correct.
Posted by: Thatch at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (S6YCM)
It isn't hard to audit. There's only so many of the little bastards running around. I can't cash a check bigger than twenty bucks without some IRS clanker catching wind, but you can't keep tabs on if some law-shitter buys five yachts with her great-nephew's money ten days after she retires?
Nah, tracing cash is what uncle Sam does best. Better than logistics. Better than psy ops. Better than anything.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:32 PM (Ot/FD)
Let's do the same with the Executive and Judicial branches, and all their employees.
Posted by: gp at July 23, 2026 05:33 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 23, 2026 05:33 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 05:33 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Kratwurst at July 23, 2026 05:33 PM (5k0TE)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 23, 2026 05:34 PM (Ko6vr)
It is hard to make the case you should be bound by something someone else does....
Posted by: Thatch at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (S6YCM
Supreme Court already ruled on the issue. We just need Congress to follow laws that fall upon everyone else. "US Supreme Court ruled unanimously to uphold an insider trading conviction of an individual (tippee) who traded while aware of material non-public information (MNPI) received from a friend (tipper) who did not receive a financial benefit for providing the tip. Salman v. United States, No. 15-628, 2016 WL 7078448 (U.S. Dec. 6, 2016). The ruling, written by Justice Samuel Alito, settles a split of authority between the US Court of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits regarding whether a tipper receives a “personal benefit” for purposes of establishing insider trading liability by simply conveying MNPI to a family member or friend."
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:34 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 05:34 PM (VPNgR)
“The votes aren’t there”. - John Iscariot Thune.
Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at July 23, 2026 05:34 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: Thatch at July 23, 2026 05:28 PM (S6YCM)
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We hereby proclaim the opening of America's borders, the extension of birthright citizenship to people born anywhere in the world, and a massive increase in government spending.
Posted by: Congress at July 23, 2026 05:34 PM (4qpnH)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 05:35 PM (abScH)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:35 PM (GD0B3)
Make them obey the same laws we have to.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:35 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Young and Naive at July 23, 2026 05:36 PM (GFRGc)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 23, 2026 05:36 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2026 05:36 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2026 05:36 PM (Fi81e)
>>“The votes aren’t there”. - John Iscariot Thune.
Could be right because the bill also includes parts of the Save Act.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 05:37 PM (viF8m)
What was the vote on the amendment to the bill that the Democrats put forth that would have made it go further?
Posted by: tankdemon at July 23, 2026 05:37 PM (LlSak)
If I traded on that information, she and I would go to jail. And the federal government is pretty good at figuring out who is doing it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2026 05:38 PM (l4RKn)
Posted by: Young and Naive at July 23, 2026 05:36 PM (GFRGc)
It's cute you think it's about actually stopping them by statute, and not pure politics to make the issue a talking point and help to further wreck their popularity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:38 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 05:39 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 23, 2026 05:39 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2026 05:39 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: Yer Sistahs Tomato at July 23, 2026 05:39 PM (aaVMM)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 05:39 PM (n5tGW)
Precluded?
They turned it into a fucking 50/50, and we buy their ticket.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:40 PM (Ot/FD)
Period. I don’t get a pension. I don’t get gold plated medical care for the rest of my life. They work for me. They should not have benefits that I PAY FOR that I can’t have.
Assholes. All of them.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 05:40 PM (Wxl9t)
Posted by: runner
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What was it?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 05:40 PM (VPNgR)
I'm not sure how you prove insider trading. Anyone can claim "I got lucky."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2026 05:32 PM (mmrXZ)
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It’s actually not that hard to prove. Because there’s always a paper trail or pattern that is highly suspicious.
And in the case of congess, it will be easy to prove insider trading when Congresscum X finds out on Monday that there’s gonna be a new regulation that hugely benefits Company Y, and on Wednesday X makes a big buy in Y.
That’s why congress is so afraid of this.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 23, 2026 05:41 PM (JgYL0)
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So, call their bluff and be very, very loud about calling their bluff. Make it illegal to own stocks when serving as a House or Senate representative. Make full divestiture a condition of holding national office. I have no problem with that. And, when the hold outs come back with another condition, THEN go full press on showing the public what's going on. Use real numbers of actual accounts via public filings and put some faces on the abuse.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 05:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 05:40 PM (VPNgR)
what was what? They upheld an insider trading conviction.
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:42 PM (GD0B3)
And a US Judge has given them subpoena power over his Businesses, Staff, Family, and CABINET... totally destroying the very idea of Executive Privilege... so they can defend their deceptive edit, as truth with information they would not have had when they made the edit...
We have Judges that are just making shit up to get Trump.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 05:43 PM (mP0Kj)
>>“The votes aren’t there”. - John Iscariot Thune.
Could be right because the bill also includes parts of the Save Act.
Posted by: JackStraw
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So, what we are witnessing is showboating for election votes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 05:43 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:43 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:43 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Unkaren at July 23, 2026 05:43 PM (p7UGH)
>>“Republicans have corrupted their so-called stock trading bill with a decaying piece of the SAVE American Act corpse,” Morelle said during debate on the legislation.
https://tinyurl.com/bp9sc5fn
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 05:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 05:44 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: nckate at July 23, 2026 05:44 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: nckate at July 23, 2026 05:44 PM (enNUy)
You can , just don't trade on insider information.
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:45 PM (GD0B3)
Sometimes half-measures are stupid-- you can't take two bounds to leap across a chasm, but usually doing something now will be helpful in the long run. "Don't make the perfect the end of the good." (Though, as the boss points out, we know the D'rats are just claiming they want a better bill because the thought of any type of bill on the subject erases most of their motivation for even being in Congress.)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 23, 2026 05:45 PM (LlSak)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Try proving that you didn't trade on inside information.
Posted by: Martha Stewart at July 23, 2026 05:46 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 05:47 PM (abScH)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2026 05:39 PM (vJrRc)
This doesn't need to be a bill.
It needs to be an amendment (though I will accept it as a bill.)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 23, 2026 05:48 PM (LlSak)
Posted by: nckate at July 23, 2026 05:48 PM (enNUy)
Back when I was at Big Law, it was impossible to trade individual stocks because the firm was always working on some big merger or litigation that wasn’t public. But I would know about it. If I was able to trade on this info, I woulda made millions of dollars a year. Easy.
Congress has access to even more info than I did, but they are free to trade on it. Unreal.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 23, 2026 05:48 PM (JgYL0)
Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2026 05:49 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:45 PM (GD0B3)
It's a lot more restrictive in many parts of finance. There are often blanket prohibitions against trading individual stocks, no matter what. There are also massive restricted lists.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2026 05:49 PM (l4RKn)
Remember this scenario the Left was declaring was true:
Foreign Ambassador @ WH: "Great Exalted One! Our humble nation seeks [a totally lopsided] trade deal"
Trump: [insert lengthy meandering, superlative laden paragraphs...] No
FA: "Did I tell you that I stayed last night at the Trump International Hotel Washington DC?
Trump: [another lengthy praise circumlocutions and rambling] Lets get the press in here and announce the deal.
Because staying a couple nights in a Trump branded hotel would easily bribe a multi-billionaire into going against the country's best interest.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 05:50 PM (xE0sV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 05:51 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:51 PM (GD0B3)
When you make a fortune trading stocks of companies that have issues before Congress it's not really all that hard to prove.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 05:51 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Try proving that you didn't trade on inside information.
Posted by: Martha Stewart
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They will prosecute anyone they want. The prohibitions on prosecuting Pelosi come from multiple resistance points from within the Administrative State.
Taking several suspects to Gitmo for treatment would elicit a treasure trove of useful information.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 05:52 PM (VPNgR)
Because staying a couple nights in a Trump branded hotel would easily bribe a multi-billionaire into going against the country's best interest.
Posted by: Community Notes
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Everyone wants clicks.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2026 05:52 PM (mmrXZ)
@bennyjohnson
Elon Musk Just Called Out Mass Muslim Migration DESTROYING Western Civilization
“If people come with antithetical views, I am against that.”
“I am against rape and murder. Against imposing rules contrary to the West.”
“It’s a crying shame the media like YOU don’t recognize this"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 23, 2026 05:52 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:45 PM (GD0B3)
It's a lot more restrictive in many parts of finance. There are often blanket prohibitions against trading individual stocks, no matter what. There are also massive restricted lists.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2026 05:49 PM (l4RKn)
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This. See my post above. I forget exactly what the firm’s rules were, but they were so restrictive it made trading individual stocks almost impossible. And they did not fuck around. The last thing they wanted was some news report on how one of their employees traded on attorney-client info. You broke the rules, you were gone. So nobody did. They all invested in managed funds and ETFs.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 23, 2026 05:53 PM (JgYL0)
And it doesn't prevent family members from trading. It doesn't do anything but act as a Trojan horse.
Among the complaints was that the measure exempts the president and vice president while allowing lawmakers to keep stocks they already own. Brought to you by the people who called for Joe Biden to go to prison for profiteering from his office.
Sooo are we fucked? Like, I know it's not law yet, but are basically about to pass the fucking SAVE act? Will Dems in the Senate vote against a bill with this name in an election year?
Moskowitz makes a lot of headlines during hearings, but he shows his true colors when it comes time to vote. You’ll see his name quite often voting with Republicans. The guy's a fucking plant.
Obviously the republicans are trash but these sell out democrats are just as bad. No integrity at all
That’s it. Final straw. Might as well kiss goodbye to any semblance of democratic justice. The country is truly fucked.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 23, 2026 05:53 PM (Xy2sd)
What about selling short? Still allowed?
Posted by: No Name Today at July 23, 2026 05:53 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 05:53 PM (6MCJI)
Also, whip them daily.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 05:54 PM (BI5O2)
And in the case of congess, it will be easy to prove insider trading when Congresscum X finds out on Monday that there’s gonna be a new regulation that hugely benefits Company Y, and on Wednesday X makes a big buy in Y.
That’s why congress is so afraid of this.
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Exactly.
Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at July 23, 2026 05:55 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: nckate at July 23, 2026 05:55 PM (enNUy)
AOC 22%
Bootyjudge 21%
Mark Kelly 9%
Newsom 8%
Bernie 6%
Kumala 5%
‘28 gon’ b lit y’all
Posted by: Chaos at July 23, 2026 05:56 PM (GFRGc)
@EricLDaugh
38m
🚨 NOW: 2 Jewish men have been STABBED in New York City on Manhattan's upper west side, a man is in custody
THIS IS ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S NYC"
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:56 PM (GD0B3)
Part of the reason.
But every now anyone the slope brains at Reddit gets something right. This is the big reason they hate it.
>>this version of the bill has the VoterID law baked in. That's why the dems voted No.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 05:57 PM (viF8m)
That was one of the funniest stories of an invader I can think of other than The Platner Plan.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 05:57 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:58 PM (Ot/FD)
59 Pelosi is still alive! Are you sure? Was she pre-embalmed?
Posted by: Unkaren at July 23, 2026 05:43 PM
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Yeah.
Posted by: Ethyl Alcohol at July 23, 2026 05:58 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 05:53 PM (6MCJI)
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Insider trading was the genesis of the investigation, but she was never convicted of that. Common misconception that she was. She was convicted of obstruction of justice and related process crimes.
She was an idiot or got terrible legal advice. Or both. It was a small stock trade, barely a rounding error in her net worth. But she was defiant to the SEC/DOJ and basically told them to fuck off. They said ‘fuck me? No, fuck YOU.’ And they went after her hard. And nailed her.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 23, 2026 05:58 PM (JgYL0)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:58 PM (GD0B3)
Government employees should retire on social security and Medicare.
Period. I don’t get a pension. I don’t get gold plated medical care for the rest of my life. They work for me. They should not have benefits that I PAY FOR that I can’t have.
Assholes. All of them.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I worked for a candidate who put this on his platform. Get a 401k, Social Security, and Medicare like the rest of us. His platform was called "Fix Congress First." He said a few pols were secretly asking, "You're joking, right? You're not actually going to do this to us if you get elected? This is just for votes, right?"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2026 05:58 PM (mmrXZ)
If I traded on that information, she and I would go to jail. And the federal government is pretty good at figuring out who is doing it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2026 05:38 PM (l4RKn)
That’s ok. You can tell me instead.
Posted by: RI Red at July 23, 2026 05:58 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 23, 2026 05:57 PM (hzuYO)
BOTH STORIES ARE ABOUT BUTTFUCKIN'
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 23, 2026 05:59 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:59 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: sonny bono at July 23, 2026 06:00 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 06:01 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 05:59 PM (GD0B3)
Keep him around in office but make him live in Staten Island.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:01 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:01 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Unkaren at July 23, 2026 05:43 PM
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Yeah.
totally
Posted by: disney imagineers at July 23, 2026 06:02 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:01 PM (Ot/FD)
I like my plan better....
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 06:02 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 23, 2026 06:02 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: RI Red at July 23, 2026 05:58 PM (30Gj0)
Hah!
They are actually good at ferretting out that sort of insider trading as well.
They take it really, really, seriously.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2026 06:03 PM (l4RKn)
Well, I'll be darned if my "Foundation" isn't making out like a bandit...
Posted by: Sen. John Blutarski at July 23, 2026 06:04 PM (AaEou)
Why is the same not true of Congresscritters? Same government. Same contracts. Same conflicts of interest.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 06:04 PM (4MD6J)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:04 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2026 06:04 PM (BbJqV)
Pretty damn amazing on a $174K salary.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 06:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:05 PM (abScH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 06:05 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2026 06:05 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: nckate at July 23, 2026 06:05 PM (enNUy)
Kumala 5%
‘28 gon’ b lit y’all
Posted by: Chaos
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No way. This just shows the insanity of polls.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2026 06:06 PM (mmrXZ)
Because the leader of the Free World must be some retarded, aging Latina bartender.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:06 PM (pUU4E)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 06:07 PM (sMkB+)
Meanwhile these political assholes can access dark money, do insider trading deals, get sinecure positions if they get voted out, rake in cash deals for "books" they "write," etc. They passed the ethics laws that applied to me, but not to them.
All Congresscritters need to be smacked down a bit, I think.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 06:07 PM (4MD6J)
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 23, 2026 06:07 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:05 PM (abScH)
Call USACE. They will have the contracts before the rubble has stopped bouncing.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 06:08 PM (4MD6J)
Posted by: runner
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor
1h
If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail.
Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon.
The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 06:08 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:09 PM (abScH)
Posted by: RI Red at July 23, 2026 06:09 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 06:08 PM (VPNgR)
Fair? I don't think that word means what he thinks it means.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 06:10 PM (4MD6J)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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How is a butler going to resolve this situation?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 06:11 PM (VPNgR)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 23, 2026 06:11 PM (xvV+O)
$5M ? What does that buy in NYC, a squalid 800 sqft interior studio next to the elevator shaft?
I would hate to be a an insurance company holding fire policies for $5M 2nd homes.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (pawvM)
Mr. FBI Agent, you’ve got to be kidding me.
Posted by: RI Red at July 23, 2026 06:09 PM (30Gj0)
Then again, you are a chicken, so there's that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (4MD6J)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (abScH)
......
You'd think she could afford a nice wig.
Posted by: wth at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (UjdFS)
Long after LBJ died, his broker disclosed that during the blind trust years, LBJ would call him every night & "suggest" trades.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (RCjYY)
>>“The votes aren’t there”. - John Iscariot Thune.
Could be right because the bill also includes parts of the Save Act.
Posted by: JackStraw
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So, what we are witnessing is showboating for election votes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 05:43 PM (VPNgR)
Query - when are we not?
Posted by: Retired, thank God at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (va0Yo)
Mr. FBI Agent, you’ve got to be kidding me.
Posted by: RI Red at July 23, 2026 06:09 PM (30Gj0)
Then again, you are a chicken, so there's that.
A rooster, dammit!
Posted by: RI Red at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 23, 2026 06:11 PM (xvV+O)
She TOLD us she is just a little old Italian gramma. You mean she lied? I shan't believe it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 06:13 PM (4MD6J)
That was just Dearborn, right? How about the rest of the state?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:13 PM (pawvM)
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I stopped counting the lies in those two sentences at 5.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 23, 2026 06:13 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 06:13 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: RI Red at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (30Gj0)
Okay, a rooster, with damned fine aim. But, well, still a chicken.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 06:14 PM (4MD6J)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:15 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:15 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 23, 2026 06:15 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (abScH)
He has never had a real job or had to pay real bills. He is financially illiterate. He is also American Cultural illiterate. Clueless spoiled fuck from Africa. If anyone should be deported...
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 06:15 PM (4MD6J)
Department of State
@StateDept
SECRETARY RUBIO: "The President's policy is a head for an eye."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 06:16 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 06:16 PM (GD0B3)
A Pentagon official has been placed on leave after he was filmed bashing President Donald Trump and promising he would “stay” until Trump leaves office so he can “undo whatever’s been done.”
A report from Newsweek identified the man as Brandon Newsom, a senior official in the office of the Secretary of the Navy.
He was filmed by reporter James O’Keefe, of O’Keefe Media Group, who conducts undercover investigations and interviews.
“In the footage, Newsom can be heard saying that he wanted to ‘stay and stick it out’ at the Pentagon, adding: ‘So that way, when the time comes, I can undo whatever’s been done [by the Trump administration],’” the report said.
He said his job has challenged his “morals” and confirms he would not allow “one specific prayer service.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 06:16 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:17 PM (abScH)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:17 PM (Ot/FD)
130 Ayanna Pressley's net worth went from -12K to $8M in the 8 years she was in congress.
......
You'd think she could afford a nice wig.
Posted by: wth at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM
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She spends on a high-end Simonize job instead.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 23, 2026 06:18 PM (4Aqsh)
Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at July 23, 2026 06:18 PM (We5PL)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 06:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RI Red - at July 23, 2026 06:19 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 06:19 PM (GD0B3)
A survey finding that 70% of Americans support putting half the stock of major AI companies into a public wealth fund reveals a deeper cultural shift toward viewing wealth as zero-sum and favoring redistribution of innovation rewards, unlike the more market-accepting attitude during the internet era.
This is what I call an Oh Shit moment when investors in AI realize that their stock is WAY overvalued and are looking to dump it off on an unsophisticated buyer.
The Mother of All Pump-n-Dump. How else does one explain how 70% of the population is even aware that a public wealth fund is even a Thing unless there has been massive propaganda efforts by the very people who own and control social media.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:19 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:19 PM (abScH)
“In the footage, Newsom can be heard saying that he wanted to ‘stay and stick it out’ at the Pentagon, adding: ‘So that way, when the time comes, I can undo whatever’s been done [by the Trump administration],’” the report said.
He said his job has challenged his “morals” and confirms he would not allow “one specific prayer service.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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That's what I'm talking about. Take a planeload of suspects to Gitmo and get some answers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 06:20 PM (VPNgR)
AOC 22%
Bootyjudge 21%
Mark Kelly 9%
Newsom 8%
Bernie 6%
Kumala 5%
‘28 gon’ b lit y’all
Posted by: Chaos
Agreed. Unlike 2016, where they had an anointed candidate, it'll be like 2020, where there was a wild free-for-all. The young radical Left was not happy with the Party forcing Biden on them, and Kamala in 2024, and will burn shit down if they feel they're being railroaded again. They feel like they're winning, and it's time for the old Establishment elites to bend to them.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 23, 2026 06:21 PM (Xy2sd)
Like anything posted to reign in Congress. They're out of control.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2026 06:21 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2026 06:21 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: RI Red - at July 23, 2026 06:22 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 23, 2026 06:23 PM (JgYL0)
________
If that was true, we'd all still be living in caves. Idiots.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2026 06:23 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: RI Red
I believe it's The Paolo's middle name.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 23, 2026 06:24 PM (Xy2sd)
forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at July 23, 2026 06:24 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 23, 2026 06:07 PM
That would have left Strom Thurmond long on Amalgamated Cordage and Whips.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 23, 2026 06:25 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 06:16 PM (Cqx++)
This raises all sorts of questions. Which prayer service? What kind of prayer services does the Pentagon hold? Why is this guy in charge of allowing or disallowing them?
Posted by: Emmie at July 23, 2026 06:25 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 23, 2026 06:23 PM (JgYL0)
It's hilarious that no one actually knows. Not even them.
If they were forced on pain of death to deliver an auditable number for how many people are actually employed within some reasonable amount of time, i doubt anyone actually could.
It really is a Leviathan of stupid gay leftist saboteurs.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:26 PM (Ot/FD)
A report from Newsweek identified the man as Brandon Newsom, a senior official in the office of the Secretary of the Navy.
He was filmed by reporter James O’Keefe, of O’Keefe Media Group, who conducts undercover investigations and interviews.
“In the footage, Newsom can be heard saying that he wanted to ‘stay and stick it out’ at the Pentagon, adding: ‘So that way, when the time comes, I can undo whatever’s been done [by the Trump administration],’” the report said.
He said his job has challenged his “morals” and confirms he would not allow “one specific prayer service.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2026 06:16 PM (Cqx++)
This kinda thing always makes me wonder-
Just how many people in gov't and/or the military are there to support the system and serve the American people, and how many are there to purposely subvert the system as much as possible?
Subversion
The Squeaky, Little Egoist's Revenge On Life
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2026 06:26 PM (iJfKG)
That was just Dearborn, right?
No, we've only gotten as far as Alvarez
Posted by: Michigan at July 23, 2026 06:26 PM (AaEou)
They're used tp park wealth, launder money, and keep clear of overseas inflated liability settlements.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2026 06:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2026 06:27 PM (u73oe)
Long after LBJ died, his broker disclosed that during the blind trust years, LBJ would call him every night & "suggest" trades.
Posted by: mnw at July 23, 2026 06:12 PM (RCjYY)
He never said it was a DEAF trust
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Halfhand at July 23, 2026 06:28 PM (djaq4)
Well, not exorcism, that's for damned sure!
Posted by: Pentagon. Totally not Pentagram! at July 23, 2026 06:28 PM (AaEou)
Bootyjudge 21%
Mark Kelly 9%
Newsom 8%
Bernie 6%
Kumala 5%
I couldn't think of a more immoral , evil , incompetent group of people . Mark Kelly is probably the most evil imo.
Posted by: polynikes at July 23, 2026 06:29 PM (KC5Lt)
Those demos don't really have the Judeo-Christian respect for the sanctity of life. Not a group of people worth pissing off.
Posted by: Zombie Jamal Khashoggi at July 23, 2026 06:32 PM (a6PrB)
Bootyjudge 21%
Mark Kelly 9%
Newsom 8%
Bernie 6%
Kumala 5%
It would be entertaining to watch their internal demons fight among each other for dominance on a public stage.
For a grand finale, have Associazione Internazionale degli Esorcisti show up and perform exorcisms.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 06:35 PM (a6PrB)
AI doesn’t think billwould apply a young Warren Buffet while his father was in Congress!
Posted by: Goatweed at July 23, 2026 07:12 PM (jK3NL)
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