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Axios: Kamala Harris Is Leaning Towards Running Again in 2028;
Unnamed Democrats Are Attacking Gavin Newsom to Deny Him His Coronation

I'm a pessimist, so I never believe that the best possible outcome will come to pass just because I want it to. I never believed, for example, that Biden would wind up being the nominee in 2024, despite my intense desire that he be so.

But Kamala Harris is making me focus on what can be, unburdened by what has been.

Maybe this dingbat ding-a-ling really will run again -- and maybe the most important cohort in the Democrat Party, black women, will give her the win.

What, did you just fall out of the coconut tree?

LOS ANGELES -- Kamala Harris isn't planning to go gentle into that good night. This week the former vice president made clear to potential 2028 rivals that she's working to keep another White House campaign viable.
Why it matters: Despite worries from party leaders and donors that she can't win, Harris remains at or near the top of most 2028 Democratic primary polls. She also has strong support among Black voters -- the most critical voting bloc in most recent Democratic presidential primaries.
Driving the news: After lying low the first part of this year and then embarking on a 2024-focused book tour, Harris made several moves this week that many Democrats see as the beginnings of a 2028 campaign.
Her book tour expanded. Harris announced many more stops on her tour to promote "107 Days," her story of her short presidential campaign last year. Tour stops in early 2026 will include the historically critical primary state of South Carolina and cities with many Black voters, including Detroit, Jackson, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., and Montgomery, Ala.
She appeared before the Democratic National Committee. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, mingled with national party officials and state party chairs in Los Angeles this week during the DNC's winter meeting.
At a reception Wednesday evening, DNC chair Ken Martin introduced Emhoff as the former second gentleman and quipped that he could be the future first gentleman, people who heard the remarks told Axios.
Harris is rolling out new rhetoric.
She railed against both parties and the status quo in a speech Friday to Democratic officials. Many in the room told Axios they were struck by how different Harris' remarks were from her Biden-defending message on the campaign trail last year.
"Both parties have failed to hold the public's trust," Harris said. "Government is viewed as fundamentally unable to meet the needs of its people.... People are done with the status quo and they're ready to break things to force change."
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What they're saying: Harris spokesperson Kirsten Allen said Harris "will approach 2026 with the same commitment that anchored 2025 -- listening to the American people, reflecting where leadership has fallen short, and helping shape the path forward beyond this political moment."
Allen added that includes "supporting efforts to win back Democratic majorities in the House and Senate."

She'll be appearing on leftwing church elder Jimmy Kimmel's televangelist show next week.

Meanwhile, unnamed Democrats -- though we know with 100% confidence they're supporters and employees of the likely candidates Pritizker, Bootyjudge, Harris, and even the Fiercely Heterosexual Spartacus Booker -- are planting disparaging information about Gavin Newsom in their allied press.

They're even attacking him as... too left wing???!!?!

Gavin Newsom's Democratic rivals are plotting how to take down the early 2028 frontrunner, with a heavy emphasis on how unpopular his left-leaning views are outside deep-blue California.
Driving the news: Our conversations with more than 20 Democratic operatives, including several working for 2028 hopefuls, reveal that they see the California governor as the guy to beat -- and a guy with a lot of personal baggage that's exploitable for a presidential primary.
The consensus themes to expect in attacks on Newsom:
The "too liberal, coastal elite" argument
If primary voters prioritize electability, Newsom -- a former San Francisco mayor -- could be seen as a risky choice, the operatives say.
...
The wealthy Getty family has been a key backer of Newsom's political and business career, leading some of his foes in California to call him a slick "Davos Democrat."
2. The scandals
When he was San Francisco's mayor in early 2007, Newsom apologized for having an affair with his campaign manager's wife, who was also a subordinate in his mayoral office.
...
During strict COVID lockdowns he imposed as governor, Newsom in November 2020 attended a birthday dinner for a lobbyist and adviser at the posh French Laundry in Napa.
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Zoom in: Some of Newsom's potential rivals and other Democratic leaders have begun going public with attacks.
California Rep. Ro Khanna, referring to Newsom's former chief of staff recently being charged with corruption, said the aide's indictment is a "toxic stain" on the state.

Kamala Harris: Tried and tested. Tanned, rested, and ready.

Posted by: Ace at 01:15 PM

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1 Better call the others

Posted by: 496 at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (ICj+9)

2 not first even

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (CWTWj)

3 That's the ticket! No, that is the ticket- Harris/Newsom. Make it so!

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 01:18 PM (dfgzq)

4 There is great significance in the passage of time.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 17, 2025 01:18 PM (1Nv0l)

5 DO IT!!!!!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 01:18 PM (bPc+B)

6
Newsome getting anywhere in federal government would be doom for all involved.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 17, 2025 01:19 PM (IifOV)

7 Didn't Newsome buy $1billion in masks during covid? Did those ever get distributed? Sounds like a perfect opportunity for graft.

Posted by: 496 at December 17, 2025 01:19 PM (ICj+9)

8 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 01:19 PM (bFu5X)

9 I want the Vance Harris debate I was cheated out of last time

Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 17, 2025 01:19 PM (fgmuN)

10
We already know who the Democrats will nominate: whoever mimics Mumdummy the best in the primaries. Then that Democrat nominee will fake "pivot" to center-left.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:19 PM (Oonfw)

11 Dems do best when they nominate moderate sounding candidates without much of a notable record - see Obama and Clinton.

If they want to win they should be looking at governors from purple states like Shapiro...

People hate Harris (and she is stupid) and Newsom is knowing for being a corrupt leftwing SOB

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

12 Don't worry ace, the coconut won't be the nominee

It'll be somebody far, far worse

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (HYKHz)

13 in early 2007, Newsom apologized for having an affair with his campaign manager's wife, who was also a subordinate in his mayoral office.

Had I known the facts, I would have had an affair with someone else.

Posted by: Just Call Me Gav! at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (dfgzq)

14 The prize Democrats really want is Congress. Everything else is a distraction. People are going to rue the day they let that happen. Democrats have already said what they’re going to do and they’re using every tactic possible to delay getting anything done. Along with the House’s complete failure to get major things done, and the overall cowardice of Congress, plus a desire to constantly play by the marquis of queensbury rules, we will be lucky to avoid a return to tyranny.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (hcEyG)

15 Don't forget about me!

Posted by: Josh Shapiro at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (NgqoH)

16 ""Kamala Harris: Tried and tested. Tanned, rested, and ready.""

With new and improved cackle.

And still can't tell her ass from a hole in the ground.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (snZF9)

17 Nothing will happen

(Oops - wrong thread. I'll tuck that away to use later)

Posted by: 496 at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (ICj+9)

With Illegals Being Deported or Self-Deporting, Foreign Demand for Rental Properties Falls, and Rents Finally Start Falling as Well

I know commenters have been hammering the direct impact of open borders on rents.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the early evidence is in: President Trump's renewed border enforcement and mass deportation campaign is easing pressure on the housing market, delivering tangible relief for renters who were hammered during the Biden years. Speaking on Fox Business Channel, Bessent pointed to fresh rent data showing apartment prices fell 1.1 percent compared to a year ago and are now down 5.2 percent from their 2022 peak, when housing costs were surging nationwide. Bessent argued the decline isn't accidental, but the predictable result of reversing what he called years of "unfettered immigration" that flooded local housing markets and forced working Americans to compete for limited supply.
Citing a recent Wharton School study, Bessent noted a near one-to-one relationship
between population growth and rent increases, saying the research found that "every one percent increase in population" translated into roughly a one percent rise in rents. "Rents are down," Bessent said, adding that the Biden administration refused to acknowledge how mass migration fueled the affordability crisis.

.@SecScottBessent: "There's a recent study out from Wharton School that shows every 1% increase in population, rents went up 1%. So, @POTUS, by enforcing the border, sending home more than 2 million illegals, we're now seeing [rents] coming down substantially." pic.twitter.com/VtzSj7SiFf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 16, 2025

Could this be true? Could it really be that 60% of the demand for rental properties came from the foreign-born?

It does have a chart, which makes it True in my opinion.

This is treasonous�

60% of rental demand in America during the Biden Administration was foreign born.

50% of FHA loans with US government tax credits were given to foreigners. pic.twitter.com/GRvKWxbkKx
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 11, 2025

Trump's boasting about the job numbers released earlier this week, but they're not great. At least, not at first glance. I think 64,000 jobs were created last month, which is a bad number. You want to see a minimum of 100,000 per month and you wouldn't say the market is strong until it gets up over 200,000.

What makes them look better is that new American jobs are going to, get this, actual Americans.

I have nothing against Hondurans or Indians or Haitians but I could not give a fuck about whether they have jobs or not. In fact, as it relates to jobs in America, I would like them not to have jobs at all.

The White House touted fresh labor data Tuesday as evidence that President Trump's economic reset is taking hold, pointing to sustained private-sector hiring, shrinking federal payrolls, and rising wages as hallmarks of what the administration calls a restored "America First" economy.
In a statement accompanying the release, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the latest jobs report shows Trump "fixing the damage caused by Joe Biden" and redirecting growth back to where it belongs.
"Since President Trump took office, 100% of the job growth has come in the private sector and among native-born Americans -- exactly where it should be," Leavitt said, adding that wages are rising, prices are falling, and investment is pouring back into the country as the economy heads into 2026.
According to the White House, the private sector has added 121,000 jobs since September and 225,000 since August, even as the federal government has shed 168,000 positions during the same period.
Federal employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade, down 271,000 jobs since Trump returned to office, reflecting the administration's push to rein in what it describes as an overgrown bureaucracy.
Overall, Trump's second-term economy has produced 687,000 new private-sector jobs since January, with the gains concentrated among American workers.

Posted by: Ace at 12:14 PM

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1 Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (3ek7K)

2 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:14 PM (xcxpd)

3 And good morning, Ace

Hope you're feeling better

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

4 You want to see a minimum of 100,000 per month and you wouldn't say the market is strong until it gets up over 200,000.

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Why do we want these numbers?

What are the assumptions about these being good numbers?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

5 So... supply and demand is an immutable law of the universe or something...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (XV/Pl)

6 TJM was just talking about this.
Deporting illegals has all sorts of benefits.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

7 It wasn't the greedy Boomers after all

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (+mUZM)

8 It does have a chart, which makes it True in my opinion.

Well, yes, but it would be much more convincing with error bars. They don't have to reflect actual statistics, they just need to be there.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

9 Testing

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

10 Whoa

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (BEQiS)

11 There are so many collateral benefits from getting the illegals the F out of our country, it's ridiculous. It's like a huge powerwash, removing the barnacles from the hull for good.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (bNf8H)

12 It shouldn't just be housing prices coming down. Consumer goods should retract, too. I guess we'll see.

Posted by: huerfano at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (98kQX)

13 This has always been so obvious that it's amazing that all the people crying for "affordability" haven't been able to see it.

Best and fastest way to increase Affordability for everyone:
1) move out the illegals
2) support policies that drop oil and gas prices, thus dropping the price of almost everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (uWKK8)

14 I didn't do it.

Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (79pEw)

15
uh oh chongo

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (DUeFe)

16 As a homeowner, the only renting I want to do is Eastern European laydees, so this deportation thing isn't helping me at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (wCwnN)

17 new American jobs are going to, get this, actual Americans.

Now, how in the hell is that supposed to work? Unsustainable!

Posted by: t-bird at the Chamber of Commerce at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (dfgzq)

18 I like the part where the illegals self deport. $1,000 and a free plane trip to the country of their choice is way cheaper than trying to round them all up and have the lefty's drag their deportations through the court system for months and even years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (0N4FZ)

19 Aww, man. I broke the thread.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (dfgzq)

20 It’s odd. In states like NY, CA and IL these figures don’t hold. In fact those states economies are running converse to most of the good news.

Somebody- help me out.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 12:18 PM (E/qck)

21 Isn’t that graph perilously close to violating the no maths rule? I guess it’s okay because it’s color coded…the Biden part of the graph should not be purple, though… brown (shitstained) would be more appropriate

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:18 PM (OW907)

22 I think we're back?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (O7YUW)

23 And my comment which had disappeared into the ether is now back like magic!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:21 PM (OW907)

24 Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (BEQiS)

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From last thread: no, not Muslim, but they are all younger than me. So I guess it's an age thing. And now I feel old.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (DRSnL)

25 Federal employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade, down 271,000 jobs since Trump returned to office, reflecting the administration's push to rein in what it describes as an overgrown bureaucracy.

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This cheers me up

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (+El+t)

26 WTF happened to gasoline? $2.11 last night on way home. $2.59 9 hours later on the way back to work.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (T+ixL)

27 6 TJM was just talking about this.
Deporting illegals has all sorts of benefits.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

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It's the supply/demand curve.

Demand jacked up mightily for everything, especially essentials, unnaturally over the course of four years.

Helped not at all by NGOs laundering government funds to illegals to pay for things from groceries to rents to mortgages.

Removing that pressure by decreasing demand will have a lot of knock-on effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

28 I’ll say it again: any Biden color coding should have his era the color of a shitstain…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (OW907)

29 As a homeowner, the only renting I want to do is Eastern European laydees, so this deportation thing isn't helping me at all.

I would also accept Mexican weather girls.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (QZThv)

30
75 phone winds here in SW Wyoming.

It's scary.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (3ek7K)

31 It’s weird. In states such as NY, CA, and IL the economic data runs contra to all the good trends. Those states are also facing a loss of revenue, and budget deficit.

Somebody please help me out. An answer escapes me.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 12:23 PM (E/qck)

32 Welcome back, Ace. We missed you. What’d you bring us?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 12:23 PM (rHAVa)

33 Demand jacked up mightily for everything, especially essentials, unnaturally over the course of four years.

Helped not at all by NGOs laundering government funds to illegals to pay for things from groceries to rents to mortgages.

Removing that pressure by decreasing demand will have a lot of knock-on effects.

Half of lefties talking about this on X is them claiming to not understand how 50 million illegals would increase demand and constrain supply. The "lefties pretend not to understand things to make argument impossible" meme has been getting a workout.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM (QZThv)

34 WTF happened to gasoline? $2.11 last night on way home. $2.59 9 hours later on the way back to work.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM

When we went to sherman yesterday I saw gas for $2.59 a gallon. Went to sams there and got gas for $2.08. I have no idea what is going on.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM (0N4FZ)

35 Could this be true? Could it really be that 60% of the demand for rental properties came from the foreign-born?
_________
Doesn't that mean that 6% of rental money went to Brandon?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM (s0JqF)

36 Please get these motherf’rs off the commercial flights and drive down that demand. I thought real ID would get rid of them. Nope.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM (E/qck)

37 75 phone winds here in SW Wyoming.

It's scary.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (3ek7K)

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Windy here, too. All the schools are either on a delay or closed.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM (DRSnL)

38 This post is indecipherable without Venn Diagrams.

Posted by: Mrs. Emhoff at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (oftw2)

39 33 Half of lefties talking about this on X is them claiming to not understand how 50 million illegals would increase demand and constrain supply. The "lefties pretend not to understand things to make argument impossible" meme has been getting a workout.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM (QZThv)

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They've been told that the supply and demand curve may be real but it won't apply in instances where government decides to interfere.

Like labor. Surely there are no negative side effects to artificially increasing the price of labor with a higher minimum wage, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

40 Federal employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade, down 271,000 jobs since Trump returned to office, reflecting the administration's push to rein in what it describes as an overgrown bureaucracy.

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This cheers me up

Just as important, possibly even MORE important, is that the worst offenders in politicizing the government, e.g. USAID, are being fired, and DEI is being dismantled. It's not just the numbers of Feds, it's the specific people and bureaus.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

41 Here in the DFW area as far as I can tell rents are still ridiculously high. For this area I suspect this is due to an amazing amount of growth (population and related). Houses and apartment buildings under construction everywhere… maybe supply is just not keeping up with demand here…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (OW907)

42 "60% of rental demand in America during the Biden Administration was foreign born. 50% of FHA loans with US government tax credits were given to foreigners."

Except the charts under that quote don't show that at all. The first chart shows an increase in general foreign-born population growth (including legal immigrants). It has nothing to do with how that increase affects rental demand.

The second chart shows an increase in the percentage of FHA loans going to foreigners (including legal ones), but it still only shows about 4-6% of those loans going to foreigners. That's a very far cry from 50%.

I don't know where this guy is getting his top-line conclusion from. I think he's pulling them out of his ass.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

43 Could this be true? Could it really be that 60% of the demand for rental properties came from the foreign-born?

Supply and Demand are the iron laws that control price.

Biden brought in tens of millions of immigrants, legal and otherwise, and each one of them needed housing.

Though I am amused, we went through a few months of "How come Trump hasn't lowered the cost of eggs!" until he did.

Are we soon going to get complaints Trump's deportations are lowering housing costs too much?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (sKqQm)

44 I bet insurance premiums come down too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (NwnyJ)

45 WTF happened to gasoline? $2.11 last night on way home. $2.59 9 hours later on the way back to work.
Posted by: rickb223

Oh, now you want four quarts per gallon?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (dfgzq)

46 Helped not at all by NGOs laundering government funds to illegals to pay for things from groceries to rents to mortgages.

Removing that pressure by decreasing demand will have a lot of knock-on effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM

All of the ngo illegal shelters in south Texas have closed down. No more customers means that the catholic charities groups aren't banking over $1K of federal government money per illegal anymore.

They have literally lost their paying customer base.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (0N4FZ)

47 41 Here in the DFW area as far as I can tell rents are still ridiculously high. For this area I suspect this is due to an amazing amount of growth (population and related). Houses and apartment buildings under construction everywhere… maybe supply is just not keeping up with demand here…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (OW907)

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The combination of deportations and builder over-creation that's been going on for years is going to create a different crisis in a year or two:

The "builders need a bailout" crisis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

48 FHA loans, you would think, should require proof of citizenship.

There is a Tokker who does foreclosure inspections in the DFW area.
Lot's of houses just abandoned; self-deportations; not on the market yet but coming.
Most with all the furnishings left behind.
Like one, even the Christmas Tree.
It's really a bit sad, on a human level, to see a life uprooted like that.

OTOH, the majority of comments, and I agree with, "why are they getting loans when American citizens can't?!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (HXT0k)

49 Lobstuh, wagyu, Carnival Cruises, it's a tough life for us "renters".

Posted by: Section 8 at December 17, 2025 12:27 PM (oftw2)

50 Willowed…

Comments about colors on graphs aren't that wise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

TJM! This pierces me to the marrow!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:27 PM (OW907)

51 The rents illegals were paying were financed with taxpayer debt laundered through charities like Catholic Charities and Lutheran Family Services. Another Bush legacy.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 12:27 PM (CAnCX)

52 When we went to sherman yesterday I saw gas for $2.59 a gallon. Went to sams there and got gas for $2.08. I have no idea what is going on.
Posted by: Mister Scott

TXB is asshoe. Sam's is always way cheaper. But the new Wal Mart in Melissa was where I saw $2.11 on the way home last night. It was $2.59 on the way back in this morning. I've never seen WM or Sam's jump that much overnight.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 12:27 PM (T+ixL)

53 Are we soon going to get complaints Trump's deportations are lowering housing costs too much?

From the snapper-uppers of tremendous amounts of rental housing across the US? Oh, they are going to squeal loudly.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:27 PM (dfgzq)

54 46 All of the ngo illegal shelters in south Texas have closed down. No more customers means that the catholic charities groups aren't banking over $1K of federal government money per illegal anymore.

They have literally lost their paying customer base.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (0N4FZ)

They're still doing it a ton in some states, including mine, unfortunately.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (UnA8+)

55 The internet says there are about 40M foreign born people in the US legally - immigrants/H1B holders/etc

Add in another 40M illegals.

So that's about 1/4 of the population.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

56 50 Willowed…

Comments about colors on graphs aren't that wise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

TJM! This pierces me to the marrow!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:27 PM (OW907)

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I expected the post to be hidden for longer, making me look like some kind of wizard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

57 From last thread: no, not Muslim, but they are all younger than me. So I guess it's an age thing. And now I feel old.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (DRSnL)

Don't let the bastards get you down. Start feeling old when you don't remember what it is either.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (BEQiS)

58 WTF happened to gasoline? $2.11 last night on way home. $2.59 9 hours later on the way back to work.
Posted by: rickb223

Gas station is owned and operated by Instacart.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (w9Wax)

59 You would think with all the deportations, unemployment would be going down dramatically.

If there millions less people in the US, just the way the math works, if the job situation was relatively stable, the numerator stays the same but the denominator decreases.

But no idea what sort of complex equations they use to come up with those numbers.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (eIzlH)

60 Job growth in Biden's administration was almost exclusively public sector and health care sector.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (6/Q3k)

61 53 Are we soon going to get complaints Trump's deportations are lowering housing costs too much?

From the snapper-uppers of tremendous amounts of rental housing across the US? Oh, they are going to squeal loudly.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:27 PM (dfgzq)

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"Everyone's housing values need to go down but mine."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

62 I went to grab celebration ice cream for me and my kid at a fast food place. $2 for a dinky cone with some soft serve vanilla in it.

If slashing the prices on rents and gas makes the food costs come down again, so a cheap cone isn't more than a dollar, it can't come too soon.

(Yes we could grab ice cream at the store and bring it home for cheaper. That wasn't the point.)

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2025 12:29 PM (gWBY1)

63
What's the story with WB? They rejected Paramount/Ellison?

Does this mean Netflix will get WB?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:29 PM (DUeFe)

64 My rent is still pretty high for a one room apartment. I hope this self deporting continues at a brisk pace.

Posted by: dantesed at December 17, 2025 12:30 PM (Oy/m2)

65 47 The combination of deportations and builder over-creation that's been going on for years is going to create a different crisis in a year or two:

The "builders need a bailout" crisis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

Where I live, 55+ Condo Complexes have been sprouting up like weeds. All of them pretty expensive for this area, all of them 55+.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:30 PM (UnA8+)

66 Here in the DFW area as far as I can tell rents are still ridiculously high. For this area I suspect this is due to an amazing amount of growth (population and related). Houses and apartment buildings under construction everywhere… maybe supply is just not keeping up with demand here…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (OW907)
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Same in NYC and most big cities. A significant reason for this is reduced development during Covid. A lot of apartment and housing projects were delayed for years.

Not only does that mean that newer housing isn't coming on line as fast, it also means that in cases where a new apartment or housing project was replacing an older one, the older units were taken off the market for years.

All this resulted in reduced supply, which of course increased prices.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

67 Half of lefties talking about this on X is them claiming to not understand how 50 million illegals would increase demand and constrain supply. The "lefties pretend not to understand things to make argument impossible" meme has been getting a workout.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM

Don't make us come over there.

Posted by: The Gods of the Copybook Headings at December 17, 2025 12:30 PM (bFu5X)

68 It's all diagrams, all the way down

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:30 PM (xcxpd)

69 You would think with all the deportations, unemployment would be going down dramatically./i]

The formal unemployment rate tracks how many people are getting unemployment insurance.

If an illegal is working a non-blackmarket job and they get deported that will generally open up a job for an American and they'll get off unemployment.

BUT

I think the percentage of illegals working non-blackmarket jobs is much less then we've been led to believe, only around 10%.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (sKqQm)

70 They've been told that the supply and demand curve may be real but it won't apply in instances where government decides to interfere.

Like labor. Surely there are no negative side effects to artificially increasing the price of labor with a higher minimum wage, right?
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My favorite quote about minimum wage is "The real life minimum wage is always zero."

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (TN0g+)

71 Added 20 million illegals and didn't add any infrastructure.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (J6Evq)

72 63
What's the story with WB? They rejected Paramount/Ellison?

Does this mean Netflix will get WB?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:29 PM (DUeFe)

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Still about 18 months of regulatory approval to go. And the DOJ has said, off record, that it has concerns, that Netflix is already showing monopolistic behavior, and Trump himself has expressed reservations about the merger.

So...we'll see.

Large mergers have been killed before in relatively recent history. think AT&T trying to buy T-Mobile about 14 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

73 Wait till you see the school test scores!

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (cS1cw)

74 I think the I saw that the DC gov public sector jobs have been slashed by at least 200k since Trump took office. Reducing the amount taxpayers shell out for their inflated salaries, pensions, and health care hopefully makes a dent too.

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (gWBY1)

75 Trump's boasting about the job numbers released earlier this week, but they're not great.

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I expect them to be adjusted later unexpectedly higher.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (WO8bP)

76 The "lefties pretend not to understand things to make argument impossible" meme has been getting a workout.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM

I don't get it.

Posted by: Ketanji Jackson at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (BEQiS)

77 Rents down here too in Wilmington. Still need to know-who shit my pants?

Posted by: Scranton Joe at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (oftw2)

78 I'm in the camp that housing prices going through the help doesn't really benefit anyone unless you plan some exit where you are leaving the area for somewhere cheaper or dramatically downsizing.

Just really makes your property taxes go up.

My house has basically tripled since Covid and it's depressing because I feel stuck now. Even though I like my house.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:32 PM (eIzlH)

79 Wharton.
Whartoff.

Posted by: Compound W at December 17, 2025 12:32 PM (npFr7)

80 71 Added 20 million illegals and didn't add any infrastructure.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (J6Evq)

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Well, there was a bunch of added funding marked as for infrastructure, to be fair.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

81 "Everyone's housing values need to go down but mine."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

True, but I was referring more to places like BlackRock, who are highly screwed.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:33 PM (dfgzq)

82 The generations following the baby boom generation don't have the ability to buy the assets of the baby boomers. This will have consequences.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 17, 2025 12:33 PM (vd6bO)

83 59 You would think with all the deportations, unemployment would be going down dramatically.

If there millions less people in the US, just the way the math works, if the job situation was relatively stable, the numerator stays the same but the denominator decreases.

But no idea what sort of complex equations they use to come up with those numbers.
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Even before covid, response rates for BLS surveys were awful. They got much worse during covid, and under Brandon numbers were just made up.

Add to this that the current situation is pretty unprecedented (foreigners leaving, jobs are for skilled non-college educated, lots of people currently have no skills) and you get a weird period where nothing makes sense.

Take CDLs as an example. 100% all of those illegals should be taken off the roads and dumped into the nearest large body of water. But who do you replace them with, short-term, especially when the CDL mills are being close down for certifying illegals? These things will work themselves out, but they need time (and people getting off their asses to improve their hire-ability).

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 12:33 PM (Dg7ng)

84 Good afternoon all!

Just found out that my health insurance premiums are going up next year because of the "increased cost of providing healthcare". WTH??

Posted by: jmel at December 17, 2025 12:33 PM (RWHIh)

85 I bet insurance premiums come down too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Hold my Pinot~!

Posted by: Navin Gruesome at December 17, 2025 12:33 PM (mlg/3)

86 75 Trump's boasting about the job numbers released earlier this week, but they're not great.

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I expect them to be adjusted later unexpectedly higher.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (WO8bP)

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If the overall population is decreasing, an average jobs report would be negative.

And the census bureau says that the US is going to have the first population decrease in a very long time this year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

87

The DNC is a criminal racketeering operation.

In a just word this would be investigated.

BUT NOOOOOoooooo

NOOOOOOoooooo

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (och2J)

88 In addition to my comment above, another reason for increased rents and housing prices is -- wait for it -- increased gov't regulation and requirements for x, y, and z. Building new housing today is much more expensive than building it 10 years ago.

And much like with cars, the newer housing is usually bigger, more luxurious, and has many more features and amenities than older housing. Of course that costs more on average.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

89 True, but I was referring more to places like BlackRock, who are highly screwed.
Posted by: t-bird

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I honestly think you'd make rents go down way quicker just passing some laws against firms like BlackRock or BlackStone being in housing rentals at all.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (eIzlH)

90 Anecdotally… because I lived there a long time and still have friends and family there and visit regularly, house prices in SoCal are dipping (slightly, not significantly). Lots of properties dropping their asking price $30-50K after being on the market for a few months. This surprises me because I thought the folks whose houses burned in the Pacific Palisades back in January would jump into the market and drive prices up. Maybe they’re renting because rent is still outrageous… like $6000 per month for a modest house

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (/iXAp)

91 I have nothing against Hondurans or Indians or Haitians

QUACK

Posted by: Ducks for Trump at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (v0R5T)

92 Too bad. I was cramming 20 Beaners into a 2 bed 2 bath house for $300 a month apiece and a handy from Graciela when they were all work as roofers.

Making 6,000 a month all in cash too. Told the irs the place was empty so I could write it off.

Posted by: Slum Lord Joe at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (m8zKa)

93 Slum lords hardest hir.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (Tbj3s)

94 I like the part where the illegals self deport. $1,000 and a free plane trip to the country of their choice is way cheaper than trying to round them all up and have the lefty's drag their deportations through the court system for months and even years.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (0N4FZ)

If they take that deal, does it prejudice any future attempt on their part to become a legal immigrant to the USA?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (npFr7)

95 Half of lefties talking about this on X is them claiming to not understand how 50 million illegals would increase demand and constrain supply. The "lefties pretend not to understand things to make argument impossible" meme has been getting a workout.

This is a more general thing the left does. When some policy they support has pluses and minuses they just argue the latter doesn't exist.

So they will tell you here illegals add to the GDP and pay taxes. And...yes...some do. But their contributions are drowned out by welfare and other government funds going to them.

If you have 9 illegals on welfare and one illegal roofer getting paid under the table their overall contribution is going to be negative even if they pay sales taxes and the roofer does his part in making roofs.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (sKqQm)

96 WTF happened to gasoline? $2.11 last night on way home. $2.59 9 hours later on the way back to work.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM
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Venezuelan oil tanker quarantine raised some eyebrows, I think.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (rj6Yv)

97 Every year around this time (during Republican administrations) we get those memes about baby Jesus being an illegal.

Except he wasn't. At that point, all the lands were part of the Roman empire. They were just better at conducting their census than we are.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Jn9oG)

98 Don't let the bastards get you down. Start feeling old when you don't remember what it is either.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:28 PM (BEQiS)

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Well that's a good way to look at it. Thanks.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (DRSnL)

99
Trump's been doing a lot of bragging, lately. A lot of self back-patting. It reeks of panic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Oonfw)

100 afternoon all. late to the party

but in relation to the jobs numbers, i'll gladly take slightly smaller overall numbers if it means much smaller federal jobs and an increase in us born workers getting employed

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (nXhwP)

101 In my area housing doubled in cost under Biden and is flat under Trump

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (sKqQm)

102 ...noted a near one-to-one relationship between population growth and rent increases,

So...that supply and demand stuff really works huh?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (2WIwB)

103 99
Trump's been doing a lot of bragging, lately. A lot of self back-patting. It reeks of panic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Oonfw)

The walls are closing in, eh?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (xcxpd)

104 Crap. Hate typing on a phone, sitting in the dog pen.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Tbj3s)

105 Are we soon going to get complaints Trump's deportations are lowering housing costs too much?

From the snapper-uppers of tremendous amounts of rental housing across the US? Oh, they are going to squeal loudly.

*does that look-of-delight thing in the Antonio Banderas clip frequently shown by Critical Drinker.*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

106 You would think with all the deportations, unemployment would be going down dramatically.

If there millions less people in the US, just the way the math works, if the job situation was relatively stable, the numerator stays the same but the denominator decreases.
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Back before the 2 sides got to the point where we can't even agree what day it is, the consensus used to be that "full employment" was reached in the US when the unemployment rate was...4%...I think?

Now there's no consensus about anything--if 10 people in the US didn't have jobs, the Dems and the mainstream media would have a full court blitz on about how Trump's policies were destroying those 10 people's lives.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (TN0g+)

107 Good afternoon all!

Just found out that my health insurance premiums are going up next year because of the "increased cost of providing healthcare". WTH??
Posted by: jmel
.......

Don't blame me.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (v0R5T)

108 @61

>>"Everyone's housing values need to go down but mine."

The only people worried about home values are people who want to sell.

I'm going to die in this house, so, housing prices are not important.

What is important is I saw KB: TWBA and was less than whelmed.

There is something unseemly about directors jiggering with their movies. And seeing more blood in the Crazy 88 fight does not make the scene better, it actually makes it less than it was, because your mind does not have to infer the gore and carnage.

Eh, it's still my favorite Tarantino film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (XV/Pl)

109 94
If they take that deal, does it prejudice any future attempt on their part to become a legal immigrant to the USA?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (npFr7)

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If I remember correctly, they cannot legally re-enter the country for 10 years, barring any other issues with their status.

And if they do re-enter, they are banned for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

110 I saw some breakdown of the numbers on the WSJ, and the biggest job loss, by far, was from federal workers.

So there is some ray of sunshine there.

My guess is NGO's and "foundations" were in the mix as well, but didn't see any numbers.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (eIzlH)

111 65 47 The combination of deportations and builder over-creation that's been going on for years is going to create a different crisis in a year or two:

The "builders need a bailout" crisis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

Maybe...or maybe kids will be able to move out before 40. I know my kid would, but she currently finds it unattainable on her salary. I told her keep saving and wait a few years, and I think she'll be surprised.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (tOcjL)

112
But our Big Problem is Congress.

We have a Congress that completely stopped passing "big" bills. Are they scared rabbits? Are they out of ideas? Are they bored of control of Congress?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (Oonfw)

113
34 WTF happened to gasoline? $2.11 last night on way home. $2.59 9 hours later on the way back to work.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM

When we went to sherman yesterday I saw gas for $2.59 a gallon. Went to sams there and got gas for $2.08. I have no idea what is going on.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025

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Convection pricing.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (iTNuP)

114 If they take that deal, does it prejudice any future attempt on their part to become a legal immigrant to the USA?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (npFr7)

During the Civil War, they had a system where a rich guy could pay a poor guy to take his place in the draft.

So the poor guys would get their cash, desert, then go enlist somewhere else and get more cash.

I suspect we'll employ a system like that.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (Jn9oG)

115 Added 20 million illegals and didn't add any infrastructure.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (J6Evq)

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Cloward-Piven, version 425.7 beta

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (iILYa)

116 Steve Martin is a comedy genius.
I wish he had done more standup.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:38 PM (xcxpd)

117 Trump's been doing a lot of bragging, lately. A lot of self back-patting. It reeks of panic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Oonfw)

Have you not been paying attention to typical Trump behavior over the last, say, 40 years? He’s always been a braggart. Used to bother me, no I find it endearing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:38 PM (/iXAp)

118 Trump's been doing a lot of bragging, lately. A lot of self back-patting. It reeks of panic.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Yes, the one thing Trump is known for is panic.

Posted by: Navin Gruesome at December 17, 2025 12:38 PM (mlg/3)

119
Our second Big Problem is: also Congress.

In just 6 weeks, the CR expires.

And there will be another Democrat shut down. OR...Republicans will cave on obamacare, which I think they will because Republicans are SPOOKED and are in Panic-Before-Elections Mode.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:38 PM (Oonfw)

120 I shan't buy into this speculative thinking until I hear from Jake Tapper.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (nljXp)

121 Trade High Schools long long over due.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (KDPiq)

122 108 What is important is I saw KB: TWBA and was less than whelmed.

There is something unseemly about directors jiggering with their movies. And seeing more blood in the Crazy 88 fight does not make the scene better, it actually makes it less than it was, because your mind does not have to infer the gore and carnage.

Eh, it's still my favorite Tarantino film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (XV/Pl)

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A few years back I wrote about three movies where the directors had gone back and added things years later: Apocalypse Now, The Tree of Life, and The Exorcist.

All three were best in the theatrical versions.

TWBA, though, was a creation of business-related compromises from the ratings board to Weinstein not wanting to release a four-hour film. I figured the singular version might actually slightly improve on things. But, I defer to your impression, since you have seen it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

123 Venezuelan oil tanker quarantine raised some eyebrows, I think.

Releasing them will do the same. Uncertainty in the marketplace!

Posted by: Gas Station Surge Pricing at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (dfgzq)

124 "Trump's boasting about the job numbers released earlier this week, but they're not great. At least, not at first glance. I think 64,000 jobs were created last month, which is a bad number."

Two thoughts on this...all during the Biden (and Obama years) they would count the seasonal part-time jobs. I don't think they do that now under Trump. So these are REAL jobs.
The second is most of these are private sector jobs...not government jobs.
Also,

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

125 Every year around this time (during Republican administrations) we get those memes about baby Jesus being an illegal.

Probably the most accurate summation of Roman views of illegal immigration would be Caesar's dealings with the Helvetii. When they decided to migrate into Gaul without Roman approval he met them in open battle and returned them back to where they started...after killing half of them.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (sKqQm)

126 119 And there will be another Democrat shut down. OR...Republicans will cave on obamacare, which I think they will because Republicans are SPOOKED and are in Panic-Before-Elections Mode.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:38 PM (Oonfw)

House Republicans already caved on it.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (UnA8+)

127 The rent is still too damn high in my neck of VA. I blame climate change.

Posted by: turambar at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (Q0yOR)

128 If they take that deal, does it prejudice any future attempt on their part to become a legal immigrant to the USA?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:34 PM (npFr7)

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If I remember correctly, they cannot legally re-enter the country for 10 years, barring any other issues with their status.

And if they do re-enter, they are banned for the rest of their lives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm not sure how it works now, but back in the day it was fatal to overstay a legal visa. If you were here even one day longer than allowed, that meant you were fucked on any future visas or attempts to get a green card etc. I know a few people who left the country rather than run the risk of an expired visa, and then got a visa renewal/extension and came back. It was too big a risk to overstay. Of course, that changed under Obama and Biden.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

129 I like the part where the illegals self deport. $1,000 and a free plane trip to the country of their choice is way cheaper than trying to round them all up and have the lefty's drag their deportations through the court system for months and even years.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

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I would be willing to go up to 10x-20x that number, assuming it doesn't become a magnet for new illegals to enter.

An illegal alien family, that's like $100k a year it's costing the taxpayer. Just two kids in a public school is like $40k+. Add in healthcare, food stamps, free everything, it adds up quick.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (eIzlH)

130 @116

>>I wish he had done more standup.

He did nearly 20 years of comedy before he made it big in films, and he became a big star as soon as he started making them so there was no way for him to go back.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (XV/Pl)

131 Convection pricing.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (iTNuP)

The Instacart way?

You drive up in a '94 Geo, they charge you $2.79.

You drive up in a '25 Cadillac Suburban... $3.96.

You drive up in a Tesla? $8.56 per gallon. Good luck!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (Jn9oG)

132 These things will work themselves out, but they need time (and people getting off their asses to improve their hire-ability).

They can't. They're all down at Starbucks buying $10 coffee.
*ducks*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

133 The 100,000 jobs per month figure is a commonly cited benchmark among economists for the minimum level of U.S. nonfarm payroll growth needed to roughly keep pace with population increases and new entrants into the labor force, thereby preventing the unemployment rate from rising under normal conditions.

This threshold helps maintain economic stability by absorbing demographic-driven expansions in the working-age population (typically ages 16-64), ensuring that job creation matches or slightly exceeds the influx of potential workers. Without hitting this level consistently, unemployment could tick upward over time, signaling weakness in labor market dynamics and potentially dampening consumer spending, wage growth, and overall GDP expansion.

The 200,000+ jobs per month threshold is viewed as a sign of a "strong" labor market because it represents job gains well above the breakeven point for population growth, indicating robust economic expansion, business confidence, and the ability to reduce unemployment or draw more people back into the workforce (e.g., via higher labor force participation).

Grok full: https://bit.ly/4s4cYOn

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (P5BPp)

134 Have you not been paying attention to typical Trump behavior over the last, say, 40 years? He’s always been a braggart. Used to bother me, no I find it endearing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:38 PM (/iXAp)

Yeah but I’m still trying to let that Reiner post go.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (KDPiq)

135 122
I'm glad to hear that someone else doesn't like the "Reduc" version of Apocalypse Now. I thought I was alone in that view.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (Dg7ng)

136 126 119 And there will be another Democrat shut down. OR...Republicans will cave on obamacare, which I think they will because Republicans are SPOOKED and are in Panic-Before-Elections Mode.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:38 PM (Oonfw)

House Republicans already caved on it.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (UnA8+)

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Well, since the Senate already voted it down, it's failure theater in the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

137 Afternoon Ace.
At Verizon getting a new phone. Google phone. Nice machine

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (vqNC8)

138 Too bad. I was cramming 20 Beaners into a 2 bed 2 bath house for $300 a month apiece and a handy from Graciela when they were all work as roofers.

I saw a picture from Louisiana someplace where ICE nabbed an all-illegal roofing crew in the middle of doing somebody's house. All the tools and supplies were left behind and the roof was only partially on. I love that in general, but I'd hate to be the homeowner.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (QZThv)

139 126 119 And there will be another Democrat shut down. OR...Republicans will cave on obamacare, which I think they will because Republicans are SPOOKED and are in Panic-Before-Elections Mode.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:38 PM (Oonfw)

House Republicans already caved on it.
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (UnA8+)

3 did...but Johnson is making the traitors wait for a vote til January, after it almost becomes moot...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 12:41 PM (tOcjL)

140 >>> 81 "Everyone's housing values need to go down but mine."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

True, but I was referring more to places like BlackRock, who are highly screwed.
Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:33 PM (dfgzq)

Oh no!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 12:41 PM (ULPxl)

141 I also wonder if we can trust any numbers coming out after the last administration lied about every single thing. I just don't trust anything out of DC. Trump is doing what he can and I am glad to see that but DC is going to be DC.

Posted by: turambar at December 17, 2025 12:42 PM (Q0yOR)

142 Be careful, if rents fall too much it will kill Beau Biden again.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 12:42 PM (5aZAZ)

143 Ace, are you going to do a post about the Suzie Wiles thing? When somebody mentioned it yesterday I didn't know who she was. Now I think Trump needs to put her head on a pike as a warning to the next seven generations of "smart" Republican consultants.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 12:42 PM (3nLb4)

144 Added 20 million illegals and didn't add any infrastructure.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (J6Evq)

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

Cloward-Piven, version 425.7 beta
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (iILYa)
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Collapsing systems Americans won't collapse.

Posted by: Axeman at December 17, 2025 12:42 PM (Q4cxx)

145 Probably the most accurate summation of Roman views of illegal immigration would be Caesar's dealings with the Helvetii. When they decided to migrate into Gaul without Roman approval he met them in open battle and returned them back to where they started...after killing half of them.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:39 PM (sKqQm)

One of those bands I still love, Mission Of Burma, have a line in one of their songs: "The Roman Empire never died. It just turned into the Catholic Church!"

I wish.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:42 PM (Jn9oG)

146 The only people worried about home values are people who want to sell.

They were debating a tax increase in a town near mine. The anti-tax crowd noted that taxes had already increased dramatically because of the massive increase in house prices. The pro-tax crowd argued this meant people had more money to spend. And as you note the anti-tax people noted that if you didn't want to sell and move increasing house prices did you no good and many, many individuals noted they could not afford the higher rates.

The response from the empathetic, caring pro-tax crowd? Then sell and move if you can't afford to pay more taxes.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

147 132 These things will work themselves out, but they need time (and people getting off their asses to improve their hire-ability).

They can't. They're all down at Starbucks buying $10 coffee.
*ducks*
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

You need money to improve your hireability.

Classes are f***ing expensive.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:43 PM (UnA8+)

148 The Dems really rolled out the red carpet to foreigners didn't they?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 12:43 PM (Vh9CX)

149 Good afternoon all!

Just found out that my health insurance premiums are going up next year because of the "increased cost of providing healthcare". WTH??
Posted by: jmel
.......

Maybe it's time for a Horde Hospital.
Lots of free medical advice and we could probably franchise out with MoMe Immediate Care Centers.
And ya gotta know someone would buy the movie rights.
I'm thinking big $$$ here.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:43 PM (2WIwB)

150 The rent is still too damn high in my neck of VA. I blame climate change.
Posted by: turambar
.......

Too bad you don't live here in CA because High Speed Rail will solve this problem.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

151 143 Yes, Trump should definitely fire a Chief of Staff running the most successful Republican Administration since Calvin Coolidge because of a Vanity Fair article. That makes sense.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 12:43 PM (Dg7ng)

152 Every year around this time (during Republican administrations) we get those memes about baby Jesus being an illegal.

Except he wasn't. At that point, all the lands were part of the Roman empire. They were just better at conducting their census than we are.

Both Nazareth and Bethlehem were part of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea. When Jesus was born in a stable, He was NOT an illegal and neither were his parents.

When they fled to Egypt to avoid the slaughter of innocents, they might be considered political refugees.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 12:44 PM (Yp6az)

153 "lefties pretend not to understand things to make argument impossible"
------

I don't think it is 'pretend'.

William G. McAdoo — 'It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 12:44 PM (XeU6L)

154 150 I know, right?? I keep reading all about that miracle.

Posted by: turambar at December 17, 2025 12:44 PM (Q0yOR)

155 If I remember correctly, they cannot legally re-enter the country for 10 years, barring any other issues with their status.

And if they do re-enter, they are banned for the rest of their lives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

Which probably explains why so many are simply slipping back across the border. If they were truly "undocumented" then there is no official record of their presence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (npFr7)

156 He did nearly 20 years of comedy before he made it big in films, and he became a big star as soon as he started making them so there was no way for him to go back.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (XV/Pl)

Most good standup comes from desperate guys (it's always guys, sorry ladies) who are poor and hungry, or have deadly drug addictions. Or both.

Rich and happy stars aren't funny.

Just the way it is.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (Jn9oG)

157 Brown arrested the white dude to cover for Mustafa.

no doubt in my mind

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (gbOdA)

158 Just found out that my health insurance premiums are going up next year because of the "increased cost of providing healthcare". WTH??
Posted by: jmel
.......

Maybe it's time for a Horde Hospital.
Lots of free medical advice and we could probably franchise out with MoMe Immediate Care Centers.
And ya gotta know someone would buy the movie rights.
I'm thinking big $$$ here.
Posted by: Diogenes
......

If only the price of hot irons would come down.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (v0R5T)

159 So the poor guys would get their cash, desert, then go enlist somewhere else and get more cash.

I suspect we'll employ a system like that.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (Jn9oG)
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The way it worked was that the drafted could pay $300 for a one-time exemption (per notice), or be permanently exempted by paying a fee for someone to serve in your place (which is what T. Rooselvelt, Sr. did). Bounty jumping proved to be so troublesome that it was necessary to send the worst offenders to training camps under armed guard. The guards were usually veterans and they were more than willing to shoot the jumping jumpers.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)

160 @122

>>But, I defer to your impression, since you have seen it.

I love the films, but it's 4.5 hours long, and even with the intermission, it was a struggle to go back to my seat.

And the adding and removing of stuff does not make for a better narrative flow.

I'll never watch that version ever again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (XV/Pl)

161 It's not unusual for gas prices to jump up during holidays.
Also price gouging is not unusual.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (G1OIb)

162 WTF happened to gasoline? $2.11 last night on way home. $2.59 9 hours later on the way back to work.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM

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"Drumphfff is pouncing on and seizing ALL oil tankers on ALL the High Seas -- depositing their contents into his personal secret underground lair on Epstein Island! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (WO8bP)

163 What really matters is how people feel about the economy. If unemployment s in the 4% range, I would argue that's close enough to full employment.

What really has people agitated is the cost of living. That's the biggest single reason why Biden&Harris lost.

And while I think it has very little to do with why things cost more, I think Trump's tariffs have gotten at least some of the blame. It's like people forgot gas was $5 a gallon and CPI was over 9% under Biden.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (eIzlH)

164 They can't. They're all down at Starbucks buying $10 coffee.
*ducks*
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

You need money to improve your hireability.

Classes are f***ing expensive.

It was just a little joke. Very little.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

165 Oh, keep in mind that inflation calculations include "cost of housing."

You know what is really scary?
The 40 year interest cycle.
We are past-due to enter the increase side; where 2050s sees mortgage rates peak over 15%.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 12:46 PM (HXT0k)

166 Another fun debate I've seen locally - a number of people have noted and complained the towns in my area are all rapidly urbanizing - it is no longer the town I grew up in!

And some people have pointed out "if you believe immigration is a right you know those people have to live somewhere right!?!"

The responses to that from the mostly leftwing people are:

1) That's racist
2) Nuh uh! Its all greedy developers!
3) The government should make more low income housing that doesn't increase density!

So deny, deny, and insane.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:46 PM (sKqQm)

167 DiVeRsItY iS oUr StReNgTh.

There are places in the agricultural regions of California where the per capita income is the 20K per year and remarkably the average home prices are in 250-300K plus range. How are they afforded? Let me count the likely uninsured cars out front.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 17, 2025 12:46 PM (HTCU3)

168 Trade High Schools long long over due.

I would apply to go to school all over again if they did that. I mean, aren't school taxes for school?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (dfgzq)

169
Why no Infrastructure bills?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (Oonfw)

170 King David was from Bethlehem, which is located in the southern region of ancient Israel.

ya know what other King was born in Bethlehem?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (gbOdA)

171 167 They are putting up single family homes and apartments all over where I am and the prices are insane. I keep asking: who is giving loans for these houses and how are people paying the rent?

Posted by: turambar at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (Q0yOR)

172 164 It was just a little joke. Very little.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

Yeah, I wasn't commenting on the Starbucks part.

That's a well worn-out Horde Meme (and it'll get worn out even more) at this point.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (UnA8+)

173 163 What really matters is how people feel about the economy. If unemployment s in the 4% range, I would argue that's close enough to full employment.

What really has people agitated is the cost of living. That's the biggest single reason why Biden&Harris lost.

And while I think it has very little to do with why things cost more, I think Trump's tariffs have gotten at least some of the blame. It's like people forgot gas was $5 a gallon and CPI was over 9% under Biden.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (eIzlH)

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By next fall, all the left will have on that front will be beef prices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

174 $2 for a dinky cone with some soft serve vanilla in it.

At $2 all you’re paying for is the existence of the store and the cost of the people who got the cone to you.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 12:48 PM (EXyHK)

175 MSM: Affordability crisis!!ty

Also MSM: plummeting gas price is bad because reasons

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 12:48 PM (udlma)

176 What % of FHA loans were given to non-H-1B foreigners is the better question?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:48 PM (Mb4p6)

177 Trump's been doing a lot of bragging, lately. A lot of self back-patting. It reeks of panic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Oonfw)

Very out of character.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:48 PM (BEQiS)

178 At Verizon getting a new phone. Google phone. Nice machine
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (vqNC

Nice data you got there. Pity if something happened to it.

Posted by: Google at December 17, 2025 12:48 PM (npFr7)

179 "I have nothing against Hondurans or Indians or ~~Haitians~~"

Haiti is a shithole country populated by shithole people.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 12:49 PM (1Nv0l)

180 >>> 128
_______

I'm not sure how it works now, but back in the day it was fatal to overstay a legal visa. If you were here even one day longer than allowed, that meant you were fucked on any future visas or attempts to get a green card etc. I know a few people who left the country rather than run the risk of an expired visa, and then got a visa renewal/extension and came back. It was too big a risk to overstay. Of course, that changed under Obama and Biden.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

I *really* hope you are hired so you can update your nic to "Elric The Blade and Immigration Judge".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 12:49 PM (ULPxl)

181 next fall, all the left will have on that front will be beef prices.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Beef is evil and causes global warming so the left should be happy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 12:49 PM (udlma)

182 Limiting trade training to only high school students doesn't do much to help low-skill adults.

And I know, "LOL, Get f***ed!", but...

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (UnA8+)

183 The way it worked was that the drafted could pay $300 for a one-time exemption (per notice), or be permanently exempted by paying a fee for someone to serve in your place (which is what T. Rooselvelt, Sr. did). Bounty jumping proved to be so troublesome that it was necessary to send the worst offenders to training camps under armed guard. The guards were usually veterans and they were more than willing to shoot the jumping jumpers.
Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)

I suspect the much ballyhooed superiority of the Confederate soldier was substantially due to the fact that they had a higher ratio of volunteers than the North, who had a high number of people in uniform who weren't really all that keen on fighting.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (Jn9oG)

184 William G. McAdoo — 'It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 12:44 PM (XeU6L)

Um no. He just won't know he's been defeated.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (BEQiS)

185
I hope this self deporting continues at a brisk pace.
Posted by: dantesed

They will all come back in when the Dems take over again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (pkeXY)

186 "I have nothing against Hondurans or Indians or Haitians"

Haiti is a shithole country populated by shithole people.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
......

They're eating our pets!

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

187 Fanni Willis is being questioned by Fulton County officials today.
I expect the usual savagery.

Posted by: Mr_Fastbucks at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (tqQmY)

188 The Dems really rolled out the red carpet to foreigners didn't they?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 12:43 PM (Vh9CX)
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Yeah, they rolled it out and we paid for it.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (rj6Yv)

189 Looking at the LFPR numbers is generally more interesting then the nominal unemployment numbers

This number increased starting in the late 60s, generally attributed to women entering the workforce in mass

But it peaked in around 2000 and ignoring COVID has been slowly decreasing since then.

Part of it is an aging population true, but I suspect another part is an increase in the number of people on federal/state assistance.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

190 Maybe it's time for a Horde Hospital.
Lots of free medical advice and we could probably franchise out with MoMe Immediate Care Centers.
And ya gotta know someone would buy the movie rights.
I'm thinking big $$$ here.
------

Perhaps we could offer relationship advice as well--there's some money to be made there as well.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (TN0g+)

191 They are putting up single family homes and apartments all over where I am and the prices are insane. I keep asking: who is giving loans for these houses and how are people paying the rent?
Posted by: turambar

==
They get a bunch of people/family piled in them.

I have a relative that owns a lot of rental properties in that starter home market. It's like one pretends to rent it and then 8 end up living there.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (eIzlH)

192
Susie Wiles isn't to blame for VF's Lies.

The VF faggot Democrat took Wiles way out of context and then totally editorialized (made up shit) to fake "explain" what she "really" meant.

For instance, the Reichstagg bullshit in the hit piece. Total fabrication/imagination.

Another example is Wiles' description of Elon Musk: she never called him a doped-up "Nosferatu," VF did.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (Oonfw)

193 187 Fanni Willis is being questioned by Fulton County officials today.
I expect the usual savagery.

Posted by: Mr_Fastbucks at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (tqQmY)

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"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the N-word!"
-direct quote

Not a joke. She's not having a fun time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

194 "Federal employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade, down 271,000 jobs since Trump returned to office, reflecting the administration's push to rein in what it describes as an overgrown bureaucracy."

This is the part that I like. I'd be fine if the government was run by 5 guys out of their garage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (bss/y)

195 170 King David was from Bethlehem, which is located in the southern region of ancient Israel.

ya know what other King was born in Bethlehem?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (gbOdA)

Elvis?

Posted by: Thank you very much at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (O1WpD)

196 ya know what other King was born in Bethlehem?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (gbOdA)

Don?

BB?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (Jn9oG)

197 They were debating a tax increase in a town near mine. The anti-tax crowd noted that taxes had already increased dramatically because of the massive increase in house prices. The pro-tax crowd argued this meant people had more money to spend. And as you note the anti-tax people noted that if you didn't want to sell and move increasing house prices did you no good and many, many individuals noted they could not afford the higher rates.

The response from the empathetic, caring pro-tax crowd? Then sell and move if you can't afford to pay more taxes.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

Argh. This is soooo braindead leftist, always thinking they know better what other people should be doing with their money. And they are always assuming other people are hoarding their resources when "they should be sharing."

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 17, 2025 12:52 PM (FMtrg)

198 Stahlman?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 12:52 PM (EXyHK)

199 "I have nothing against Hondurans or Indians or Haitians"
.......

tortilla vendors, call centers, and duck ponds hardest hit

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

200 They're eating the cats!
They're eating the dogs!
They're eating the pets!
Of the people that live there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 12:52 PM (1Nv0l)

201 "Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the N-word!"
-direct quote

Not a joke. She's not having a fun time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

Which one of you called her a Negligent Bitch?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y)

202 193 That would be time for the old: "I don't really care, Margaret, errr, Fani" line.

Posted by: turambar at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (Q0yOR)

203 At $2 all you’re paying for is the existence of the store and the cost of the people who got the cone to you.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 12:48 PM (EXyHK)

Free ice cream at Jimmy Changas

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (gbOdA)

204 I suspect the much ballyhooed superiority of the Confederate soldier was substantially due to the fact that they had a higher ratio of volunteers than the North, who had a high number of people in uniform who weren't really all that keen on fighting.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (Jn9oG)
====

Quantity has a quality of its own.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (rj6Yv)

205
VF queer pervert also Lied about Venezuela with pure conjecture.

The entire article is fake "journalistic" trash. It's the shit you'd see in a movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (Oonfw)

206 196 ya know what other King was born in Bethlehem?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (gbOdA)

Don?

BB?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (Jn9oG)

Elvis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)

207 Haiti is a shithole country populated by shithole people.
___

My former neighbors (townhouse, Massachusetts) were Haitian. When they sold a few years ago, they left the new owners (Jewish) with a large, jetted tub full of urine.

Oh, and the Haitian woman was a nurse.

Posted by: Haitian Remorse at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (qUkBO)

208 If illegals leave anonymously now so as to avoid any penalty for reentry, when the next Dem administration comes in, they won't have the records to say "this person was already here and should be let in". Unanticipated consequences can be painful.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

209 >>> 164
==
It was just a little joke. Very little.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

You mean, like, a Short joke???

Posted by: Sixbucks Barista at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (ULPxl)

210 Again, the question is, why the f**k is anyone sitting down with VF or any leftist outlet?

If you don't talk to them, they won't be able to make up sh*t you said to them or "take you out of context."

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (XV/Pl)

211 Jobs reporting should be private sector job gains net of public sector job gains, with NGOs considered public sector.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (Dv3i1)

212 Who would have thought that removing freeloaders would cause prices to go down

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (vqNC8)

213 >>Biden administration refused to acknowledge how mass migration fueled the affordability crisis.

Is this like an Instacart thing?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (viF8m)

214 n word times x people = nx

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (EyfuW)

215 194 "Federal employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade, down 271,000 jobs since Trump returned to office, reflecting the administration's push to rein in what it describes as an overgrown bureaucracy."

This is the part that I like. I'd be fine if the government was run by 5 guys out of their garage.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (bss/y)

And more were fired/left, b/c the overall number includes both the decrease AND the ICE increase (which was 50K)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (tOcjL)

216
And that, I predict, will be candace owens' next move: accuse TPUSA (and her critics, i.e., us) of calling her a _____er.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (Oonfw)

217 211 Jobs reporting should be private sector job gains net of public sector job gains, with NGOs considered public sector.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (Dv3i1)

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And government spending should be counted against GDP, not positively.

And I should have a pony.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

218 204 I suspect the much ballyhooed superiority of the Confederate soldier was substantially due to the fact that they had a higher ratio of volunteers than the North, who had a high number of people in uniform who weren't really all that keen on fighting.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (Jn9oG)
====

Quantity has a quality of its own.
Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (rj6Yv)

This, also can explain the performance of the US military in conflicts with draft and without (absent WWII.)

Which, what are the numbers for WWII for volunteer vs draft?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (bss/y)

219 These things will work themselves out, but they need time (and people getting off their asses to improve their hire-ability).

Posted by: The Lower Depths

Complicating things is that the Americans who got locked out of everything have often deteriorated...aging, lack of staying in practice, the results of despair...lots of moving parts. The bottom line is that the people who in theory could have stepped into those spaces aren't in the same spot they were five years ago--sometimes even two--and it's questionable whether those employers are willing or even able to meet them where they are.

This is going to be a large problem for quite a while, I'm afraid.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (OUMaO)

220 Quantity has a quality of its own.
Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (rj6Yv)

Truth.

Something we seem to have forgotten, with this little dustup in Ukraine.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (Jn9oG)

221 Jobs reporting should be private sector job gains net of public sector job gains, with NGOs considered public sector.

Agree with the first part but the second is an interesting question.

What percentage of NGO dollars are direct public sector dollars (eg grants from fedgov) AND indirect public sector dollars (contributions from federal/state workers)?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (sKqQm)

222
Because all blacks do it eventually. They always pull the race card.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (Oonfw)

223 216
And that, I predict, will be candace owens' next move: accuse TPUSA (and her critics, i.e., us) of calling her a _____er.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (Oonfw)

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"I defeated Erika Kirk in single combat with knunchucks!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

224 Question on the job creation front: Is the jobs created number above and beyond any replacement numbers occurring if an illegal employee is replaced with a citizen?

Posted by: Fish at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (WVxc/)

225 DDG AI says:

In 2022, non-permanent residents, including those who are not on H-1B visas, accounted for approximately 5.5% of all Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan volume.
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So, the majority of FHA loans to foreigners was H-1B.
And 5.5% of the loans were given to people who should have been arrested when they walked in the door.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (Mb4p6)

226
And candace owens will revert to type.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (Oonfw)

227 I'm not sure how it works now, but back in the day it was fatal to overstay a legal visa. If you were here even one day longer than allowed, that meant you were fucked on any future visas or attempts to get a green card etc. I know a few people who left the country rather than run the risk of an expired visa, and then got a visa renewal/extension and came back. It was too big a risk to overstay. Of course, that changed under Obama and Biden.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

I *really* hope you are hired so you can update your nic to "Elric The Blade and Immigration Judge".
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 12:49 PM (ULPxl)

For now ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

228 Which one of you called her a Negligent Bitch?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y)

She wasn't negligent. Malicious, yes. Crooked, yes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (npFr7)

229 I suspect the much ballyhooed superiority of the Confederate soldier was substantially due to the fact that they had a higher ratio of volunteers than the North, who had a high number of people in uniform who weren't really all that keen on fighting.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (Jn9oG)
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Quantity has a quality of its own.
Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 12:53 PM (rj6Yv)

Some historian, I forgot which, stated that US Grant was the first Union general to understand the “bloody arithmetic” needed to defeat the confederacy….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (k0PcD)

230 Doesn't mean I'm not aware of the how badly the odds are stacked against us.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (wCwnN)

I sorry to hear it bud. Truly. Don't let my japes and ripostes sour you. America sucks and has long been full of grifters and charlatans at the top but it's still somehow the greatest on earth.

I know you're not asking for it but I will say some prayers for what that's worth.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (BEQiS)

231 68 It's all diagrams, all the way down

word.

Posted by: diagram island liberation front at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (v3pYe)

232 219 These things will work themselves out, but they need time (and people getting off their asses to improve their hire-ability).

Posted by: The Lower Depths

Complicating things is that the Americans who got locked out of everything have often deteriorated...aging, lack of staying in practice, the results of despair...lots of moving parts. The bottom line is that the people who in theory could have stepped into those spaces aren't in the same spot they were five years ago--sometimes even two--and it's questionable whether those employers are willing or even able to meet them where they are.

This is going to be a large problem for quite a while, I'm afraid.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (OUMaO)

The "staleness" of a resume problem...it normally requires one to start at the beginning again to get hired and then work back up...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 12:57 PM (tOcjL)

233 Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

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There is only one way to read this:

Elric demands that we judge him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

234 Which, what are the numbers for WWII for volunteer vs draft?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (bss/y)

I'm sure someone has studied it. That there's some precise ratio that determines whether your army is going to be effective or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:57 PM (Jn9oG)

235 Ok, found it on one site:

(During WWII)
38.8% (6,332,000) of U.S. servicemen and all servicewomen were volunteers
61.2% (11,535,000) were draftees

Me: I am actually surprised. I always assumed the volunteer rate was higher.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:57 PM (bss/y)

236 Jobs reporting should be private sector job gains net of public sector job gains, with NGOs considered public sector.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:54 PM (Dv3i1)

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And government spending should be counted against GDP, not positively.

And I should have a pony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)
_________

I want a dragon

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

237 The bottom line is that the people who in theory could have stepped into those spaces aren't in the same spot they were five years ago--sometimes even two--and it's questionable whether those employers are willing or even able to meet them where they are.

I wonder if this will start showing up in an uptick in Wrongful termination cases.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

238 "Federal employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade, down 271,000 jobs since Trump returned to office, reflecting the administration's push to rein in what it describes as an overgrown bureaucracy."

The jobs are being cut massively at the federal level. Guess what? They are also falling at the state and local level. As the government shrinks, that is going to drag down employment for some time, until those fed workers get other jobs.

Word is the former feds are having a tough go of it - seems like a lot of private employers don't want them.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 12:58 PM (gDhA9)

239 She wasn't negligent. Malicious, yes. Crooked, yes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (npFr7)

I was looking for an N word, man.

Nefarious?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:58 PM (bss/y)

240 196 ya know what other King was born in Bethlehem?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (gbOdA)

Don?

BB?
Posted by: BurtTC

Elle?

Posted by: Musikologist at December 17, 2025 12:58 PM (oftw2)

241 192
Susie Wiles isn't to blame for VF's Lies.

The VF faggot Democrat took Wiles way out of context and then totally editorialized (made up shit) to fake "explain" what she "really" meant.

For instance, the Reichstagg bullshit in the hit piece. Total fabrication/imagination.

Another example is Wiles' description of Elon Musk: she never called him a doped-up "Nosferatu," VF did.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (Oonfw)

No, but she's to blame for sitting down with people who could be expected to tell such lies.

What's the reward in this risk/reward assessment anyway? Assume it went well instead. Who the fuck are we trying to reach with Vanity Fair?

I remember ace railing at Trump during his first term for giving some NYT reporter repeated access even though the Times always slandered him.

This seems like that.

Not the end of the world. Not even a big deal. Just kind of a naive, bush-league mistake.

But who cares? No one, I think.

Posted by: 2 pounds of shit in a 1 pound sack at December 17, 2025 12:58 PM (Puw3U)

242 >>> 227
==
For now ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 12:58 PM (ULPxl)

243 Maybe it's time for a Horde Hospital.
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Some of you really close to 29 may recall ....
But, long past, I was talking with my Ancients, the aunts who've now passed on, about their home remedies in their youth.

You know, dirt-floor poor.

Things like reducing onions down to make a cough syrup.
And a mustard paste on cloth wrap for pneumonia (I think) where you had to be careful to avoid blistering the chest.
And I surprised someone the other day with the "drink some baking soda in water to calm your stomach."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 12:58 PM (HXT0k)

244 Allowing foreigners to own American property isn't appealing. It is part of first world business but each purchase should be reviewed. - Looking at you, China.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:58 PM (Mb4p6)

245 Some historian, I forgot which, stated that US Grant was the first Union general to understand the “bloody arithmetic” needed to defeat the confederacy….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (k0PcD)

Actually Winfield Scott did right at the outset - no one wanted to believe him (although even he slightly underestimated)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (tOcjL)

246 I'm not sure how it works now, but back in the day it was fatal
I'm not sure how it works now, but back in the day it was fatal to overstay a legal visa. If you were here even one day longer than allowed, that meant you were fucked on any future visas or attempts to get a green card etc. I know a few people who left the country rather than run the risk of an expired visa, and then got a visa renewal/extension and came back. It was too big a risk to overstay. Of course, that changed under Obama and Biden.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

That is how the law and the regulations were written and enforced until Clinton. There was a surge of illegal overstays (adjustments) under his administration and both State Consular and INS (now ICE I guess??) were told to deal. It got better, slightly, under Bush, but was basically scrapped with Obama. Trump 1 was fighting too many other battles to deal with it. He had focus in his second term, but faced the deluge of Obama 3.

Posted by: moki at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (wLjpr)

247 During WWII)
38.8% (6,332,000) of U.S. servicemen and all servicewomen were volunteers
61.2% (11,535,000) were draftees

Me: I am actually surprised. I always assumed the volunteer rate was higher.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at

My grandpa went in to volunteer so he could pick his service. They told him you won't be drafted don't worry. He was drafted 3 months later. I assume there are many many like this in the drafted number.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (MGB5H)

248 I sorry to hear it bud. Truly. Don't let my japes and ripostes sour you. America sucks and has long been full of grifters and charlatans at the top but it's still somehow the greatest on earth.

I know you're not asking for it but I will say some prayers for what that's worth.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (BEQiS)

I genuinely appreciate it.

One of the last meaningful conversations I had with my mother before she died was to try to tell her, in spite of it all, I still have the spirit in me, to keep moving forward, even though I'm not exactly sure why.

I told her not to worry about me, but she did anyway.

God, I miss that woman.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (Jn9oG)

249 240 196 ya know what other King was born in Bethlehem?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 12:47 PM (gbOdA)

Don?

BB?
Posted by: BurtTC

Elle?
Posted by: Musikologist at December 17, 2025 12:58 PM (oftw2)

Chicken ala?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (bss/y)

250 6 ya know what other King was born in Bethlehem?
Posted by: rhennigantx

We have over 18,000 Kings listed in our City birth records.
Can you be more specific with a birthdate or SS#?

Posted by: Bethlehem PA City Clerk of Records at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (w9Wax)

251 Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Can’t Just Impeach Trump Because They Want To
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True. They need to set up all the lies, false witnesses and slander first. These things take time. You can't just conjure up some military fatass out of nowhere.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (BEQiS)

252 Me: I am actually surprised. I always assumed the volunteer rate was higher. Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:57 PM (bss/y)

My father got drafted. He got drafted because he went to the draft board and said "please for the love of god draft me."

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (gDhA9)

253 William G. McAdoo — 'It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 12:44 PM (XeU6L)

Um no. He just won't know he's been defeated.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:50 PM (BEQiS)

You can beat a narcissist in an argument but he will walk away still thinking he is right.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (KDPiq)

254 It's not just housing that they increased the demand for.

@Buck Throckmorton, if you're around, I'd love to see you expand on this in long form some morning.

They created phony growth that was counted in the national economic accounts, and as they depart by the millions, they will create phony recession. Think about it: An illegal alien spends $10000 a year on food and housing, that's counted. If it's public money, it's counted twice, because government spending also counts. So $20,000 is added to GDP but it creates no actual economic value. (Never mind all the secondary effects, which are too complex for this little gray box.) When that illegal alien goes back, as far as the economic statistics show, the economy is losing $20,000 of GDP.

So for a while things will be getting better all around us, but the stats will be showing DOOM.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (E2l9i)

255 This, also can explain the performance of the US military in conflicts with draft and without (absent WWII.)

Which, what are the numbers for WWII for volunteer vs draft?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:55 PM (bss/y)
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My read on the US military prep for a major conflict is that it usually takes about 12 to 18 months for the incompetents in the officer corps to be cashiered or transferred to non-combat duties and for the competent to get the necessary experience to conduct offensive operations.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (rj6Yv)

256 Speaking of illegals. The Tricolor executives who catered to illegals for car loans have been indicated. Wonder if they'll go after Jamie Dimon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (vqNC8)

257 149 Maybe it's time for a Horde Hospital.

go long on irons?

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (v3pYe)

258 If illegals leave anonymously now so as to avoid any penalty for reentry, when the next Dem administration comes in, they won't have the records to say "this person was already here and should be let in". Unanticipated consequences can be painful.
Posted by: Archimedes

Which is why that's not their policy. Dem policy is:
"brown person?" + 10pts
"from shithole country?" +10 pts
"criminal?" + 10pts

"white?" -100pts
"from western country?" -1000pts
"no criminal record?" -1000000pts

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (1Nv0l)

259 In my area single family home building is virtually non existent. It’s all apartments, condos and duplexes/triplexes.

The only SFH building is custom. Like someone buys some land and builds. But subdivisions of single family homes, that’s no longer a thing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (udlma)

260 How were the US draft numbers compared to other countries?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:01 PM (sKqQm)

261 She wasn't negligent. Malicious, yes. Crooked, yes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (npFr7)

I was looking for an N word, man.

Nefarious?
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Nagger?

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+)

262 wasn't negligent. Malicious, yes. Crooked, yes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (npFr7)

I was looking for an N word, man.

Nefarious?
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Nagger?
Posted by: Crusader

Nincompoop?

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 01:02 PM (MGB5H)

263 She wasn't negligent. Malicious, yes. Crooked, yes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (npFr7)

I was looking for an N word, man.

Nefarious?
-----

Nagger?
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Nigerian?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 01:02 PM (1Nv0l)

264 Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Can’t Just Impeach Trump Because They Want To

==

It will start on Day 1.

The best message for the GOP and Trump in the 2026 election will be that's it's bad for the nation to have another impeachment.

For the record, I'm not a fan of Republicans promising impeachment either. I remember lots of Republicans being mad that Obama wasn't impeached. Just politically dumb and the numbers aren't there anyway.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 01:02 PM (eIzlH)

265 Fani Gets Frothy In Epic Meltdown Over Payments To Lover

"Investigate how many times they called me the N word..."

... it's always about her

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 01:02 PM (RHGPo)

266 OK back to hunting for a job and trying to stay positive. Be well, Horde. Keep the faith.

Posted by: turambar at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (Q0yOR)

267 Chicken ala?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (bss/y)

I still have PTSD from the MRE version of that.

*shudder*

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (Jn9oG)

268 The rent decline is also going to be very uneven. In states and cities cooperating with ICE, the decline will be much more profound.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (gDhA9)

269 260 How were the US draft numbers compared to other countries?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:01 PM (sKqQm)

That I don't know. This site just has US figures that I can find easily.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (bss/y)

270 House Advances GOP Healthcare Bill With No Enhanced ACA Extension

The GOP bill includes market reforms to lower health care premiums but does not extend the expiring Obamacare subsidies.

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (RHGPo)

271 Some historian, I forgot which, stated that US Grant was the first Union general to understand the “bloody arithmetic” needed to defeat the confederacy….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:56 PM (k0PcD)

Actually Winfield Scott did right at the outset - no one wanted to believe him (although even he slightly underestimated)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (tOcjL)

Well for outright pessimism at the beginning, no one out-did William Tecumseh Sherman. Grant though was the guy who knew (because of manpower disparities) he could eventually grind down Lee’s army through attrition and actually did it…. I suspect during the Wilderness he began to wonder whether or not he had the stomach for it though…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (k0PcD)

272 Indicted not indicated

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (vqNC8)

273 go long on irons?
Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (v3pYe

(designs microwave iron heater; 30% faster than a forge)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 01:04 PM (npFr7)

274 That I don't know. This site just has US figures that I can find easily.

I poked around as well and couldn't get an answer.

I'm going to guess the highest volunteer rates would be Finland, Poland, and Japan and the highest draftees rates would be Italy and the USSR.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

275 Could this be true? Could it really be that 60% of the demand for rental properties came from the foreign-born?

My mother is an evil “foreign-born”. The fact that she came here the right way with her family will not change the fact she is an evil foreign-born, I guess.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 01:05 PM (rQwsY)

276 House Advances GOP Healthcare Bill With No Enhanced ACA Extension

The GOP bill includes market reforms to lower health care premiums but does not extend the expiring Obamacare subsidies.
Posted by: SMOD

==

my understanding is Johnson refused a vote to even be allowed on it. The covid subsidies are dead as far as I know.

Republicans are better off just running on reform than to keep trying to fix Obamacare.

Run on what a failure Obamacare is.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 01:05 PM (eIzlH)

277 I missed if this was already mentioned:

Nuno F. Loureiro
https://shorturl.at/9c560
Wikipedia
"Loureiro was shot in his apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts, on the evening of 15 December 2025. He was transported to a Boston hospital with gunshot wounds, where he was pronounced dead early on 16 December. Authorities opened a homicide investigation that received widespread publicity.

Shortly after, Portugal's minister of foreign affairs, Paulo Rangel, announced his death to the Parliament of Portugal. The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, issued a statement calling his death 'an irreplaceable loss for science', and the U.S. ambassador to Portugal released a statement with condolences...."

???
Straight to the Point (Catherine Herridge): Directed Energy Weapons
LA Times Studios
https://youtu.be/_0ifEgrxVgk

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 01:05 PM (ULPxl)

278 @El Mariachi, my dad was working as a carpenter building what later became Oak Ridge. He got a 6 month deferment the first time because his work was supporting the war effort. 6 months later, he told the draft board, everybody else is going, go ahead and take me. But he could have had deferments through the whole war.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 17, 2025 01:05 PM (E2l9i)

279 If only the price of hot irons would come down.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 12:45 PM (v0R5T)
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The bronze plan supplies dirt to rub on it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 17, 2025 01:05 PM (Q4cxx)

280 The number of kids in the school system here has fallen to 2010 levels. I doubt that's all because of home schooling. Hopefully eastern Meck Co is heading back to Mexico.

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 01:05 PM (uQzkA)

281 Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (Jn9oG)

I'm sorry. Awful to say but in a weird way I'm jealous? My mother is a genuine gaslighting BPD narcissist and that's on her good days. I sometime wonder what it would have been like for me if she wasn't all that - it killed me to lose my dad, I don't think I would have been able to handle losing a mom like yours all that well.

That said, you can take to the bank that I worry too, and cash it.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (BEQiS)

282 President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation – 12/17/25 9pm ET

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (RHGPo)

283 Elvis?
Posted by: Thank you very much at December 17, 2025 12:51 PM (O1WpD)

TCB King

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (gbOdA)

284 Grant though was the guy who knew (because of manpower disparities) he could eventually grind down Lee’s army through attrition and actually did it…. I suspect during the Wilderness he began to wonder whether or not he had the stomach for it though…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (k0PcD)
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Had Hunter in the Valley and Butler at Bermuda Hundred actually done their jobs the war would have been over by the fall of 1864.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (bPc+B)

285
Too bad I missed the Art Thread.

Aeneas: "This is no shit. There we were..."

Dido: (*thought bubble*) "Is he ever going to shut up?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (tgvbd)

286 33 Half of lefties talking about this on X is them claiming to not understand how 50 million illegals would increase demand and constrain supply. The "lefties pretend not to understand things to make argument impossible" meme has been getting a workout.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:24 PM (QZThv)

To be fair, my observation on the ground here in California is there has been years of indoctrination that ' illegal immigrants are a net plus for the economy paying in far more in taxes and increased demand than they cost in welfare and other benefits. '

This is obviously propaganda but intuition and critical thought don't seem to be strong points of 50% of the electorate.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (QGaXH)

287 Me: I am actually surprised. I always assumed the volunteer rate was higher.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 12:57 PM (bss/y)

Obviously If there was no draft the volunteer rate would have been higher and imo would have produced close to the same numbers.

Guys were just biding their time before they knew they would be drafted.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (KDPiq)

288 Is it really self deporting if they’re just going to come back as soon as a democrat or rino is elected?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (nyH/f)

289 Investigate how many times they called me the N word..."

... it's always about her

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 01:02 PM (RHGPo)

It's always about racism.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (BEQiS)

290 My read on the US military prep for a major conflict is that it usually takes about 12 to 18 months for the incompetents in the officer corps to be cashiered or transferred to non-combat duties and for the competent to get the necessary experience to conduct offensive operations.
Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 01:00 PM (rj6Yv)

I forget which war they were talking about specifically, but I've heard that the majority of rifles are never fired in a battle. That the majority of those that are, they aren't aiming at anything, often being fired into the sky by men who are cowering behind something.

The percentage of men who fire consistently and accurately is quite low.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (Jn9oG)

291 18 I like the part where the illegals self deport. $1,000 and a free plane trip to the country of their choice is way cheaper than trying to round them all up and have the lefty's drag their deportations through the court system for months and even years.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (0N4FZ)

We still need exit visas and have CBP check everyone’s passport, doing AND going.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (rQwsY)

292 There's housing, and then there's affordable housing. I've been toying with a move to a more desirable area, but as our financial advisor has pointed out, do you want to do stuff, or do you want to spend it on a mortgage?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (MZ+PY)

293 280 The number of kids in the school system here has fallen to 2010 levels. I doubt that's all because of home schooling. Hopefully eastern Meck Co is heading back to Mexico.
Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 01:05 PM (uQzkA)

There is a county near Harris county the is closing 6 elementary schools.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 01:07 PM (gbOdA)

294 Relatedly, the geese and duck are making comeback.

Posted by: Ripley at December 17, 2025 01:07 PM (GUOwU)

295 Booming, baby, booming. That's the economy under Trump, especially beginning in January when American taxpayers start seeing the lower withholding from the One Big Beautiful Bill.

The tenuous hiring market, especially scary for young families, is the last bastion of Bidenism. It's the last part of the economy that will recover, but even that should start happening early next year.

Of course, SCOTUS could throw us a curve with a contrary tariff decision, but Scot Bessent says they have a plan ready to go to fix whatever damage SCOTUS does.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:07 PM (EJgoP)

296 Wasn't that the Minnesota tactic? Cover your wrongdoing with cries of racism? Guess the kumquat doesn't fall too far from the Somali.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:07 PM (BEQiS)

297 Extraterrestrial beings hitching a ride on the 3I/ATLAS comet may have already landed on Earth, according to controversial psychic Uri Geller's bold assertions.

... Jasmine Crockett ??

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 01:07 PM (RHGPo)

298 I'm anticipating a post on the article "The Lost Generation" (https://is.gd/jDg7ui), which is currently causing a lot of buzz:

Why “The Lost Generation” is a Lost Opportunity
The Problem with Jacob Savage's Viral Article on Millennial White Men.
https://is.gd/kXion7

The people who discriminated against a generation of white men need to be sued into oblivion.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 01:07 PM (Riz8t)

299 Another local news tidbit in my area - one of the towns is having some sort of debate about changing the way that students are sent to various schools.

I couldn't make much sense of why it mattered until someone posted the racial makeup of the schools.

You see the schools that were all Asian/Caucasian were doing "too well" versus the other schools and that's racist dontchaknow

Also I was amazed to see that in these schools the asian population was over 50%. This is a town that had no significant asian populations 20 years before...but now it had a big Diwali and Chinese New Years celebration...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

300 Is $1000 really an incentive? That’s a month’s worth of snap benefits.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:08 PM (udlma)

301 They're eating the cats!
They're eating the dogs!
They're eating the pets!
Of the people that live there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

♫ ♪ ♪ ♬
QUACK
♪ ♪ ♬

Posted by: Ducks for Trump at December 17, 2025 01:08 PM (v0R5T)

302 School allowed dad to take his finals the day he turned 17 and already had the release signed by his mom and all the USAAF work done.

He went straight from taking his finals to boot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:08 PM (Mb4p6)

303 Also I was amazed to see that in these schools the asian population was over 50%. This is a town that had no significant asian populations 20 years before...but now it had a big Diwali and Chinese New Years celebration...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

Replacement theory is a vast right wing conspiracy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:09 PM (udlma)

304 Rent? Falling? Bravo Sierra, mon chér … they're only rising in the towns SE of N'ville … new apartment complexes are sprouting from the ground like ass-tumors in a dog with mange - and the rents sho' 'nuf ain't goin' nowheres but UP … I'd love to see it start comin' down, but that ain't a happenin' thang here …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 17, 2025 01:09 PM (ayRl+)

305 I'm sorry. Awful to say but in a weird way I'm jealous? My mother is a genuine gaslighting BPD narcissist and that's on her good days. I sometime wonder what it would have been like for me if she wasn't all that - it killed me to lose my dad, I don't think I would have been able to handle losing a mom like yours all that well.

That said, you can take to the bank that I worry too, and cash it.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (BEQiS)

I think you can rest assured, if your dad was the person who your seem to be saying he was, he more or less cancelled out the negative impact of your mother.

It's still sad when anyone has a parent who is not capable of loving their children. There are too many of them.

My difficult year is survivable, precisely because of who my parents were.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:10 PM (Jn9oG)

306 "I have nothing against Hondurans or Indians or Haitians"

Haiti is a shithole country populated by shithole people.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 12:49 PM

As is India. Where a ridiculous percentage of the population shits outside in public. Not to mention most of their population is retarded. (Stellantis chose to hire the majority of their outsourced engineering and product development work from this demographic.)

The two are probably correlated somehow...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 01:10 PM (P5BPp)

307 The percentage of men who fire consistently and accurately is quite low.

My memory on the research here is that it is easy to get new recruits to engage in suppression fire but very hard to get them to target specific enemy soldiers and kill them, especially if they are in no immediate danger from the enemy target.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:10 PM (sKqQm)

308 Of course, SCOTUS could throw us a curve with a contrary tariff decision, but Scot Bessent says they have a plan ready to go to fix whatever damage SCOTUS does.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

==

As much as I hate to admit this, the markets would probably rally if the SC goes against Trump on tariffs.

Trump has other levers, but the scuttle I'm hearing is since "affordability" is the buzzword this coming election, the Trump admin is thinking of backing off a bit.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 01:10 PM (eIzlH)

309 Another local news tidbit in my area - one of the towns is having some sort of debate about changing the way that students are sent to various schools.

I couldn't make much sense of why it mattered until someone posted the racial makeup of the schools.

You see the schools that were all Asian/Caucasian were doing "too well" versus the other schools and that's racist dontchaknow
Posted by: 18-1

Oh yeah, let's bring back busing. Was so popular and effective last time around...

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 01:11 PM (1Nv0l)

310 The people who discriminated against a generation of white men need to be sued into oblivion.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 01:07 PM (Riz8t)

You misspelled thrown into a tire fire.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:11 PM (snZF9)

311 @Linus, during the Wilderness, as the Union troops were retreating around him, Grant sat in a chair and chewed on a cigar. One of his staff said, "General, we need to get moving." Grant's answer? "It strikes me that it would be a better idea to order up some artillery and defend the present location."

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 17, 2025 01:11 PM (E2l9i)

312 Is it really self deporting if they’re just going to come back as soon as a democrat or rino is elected?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 17, 2025 01:06 PM (nyH/f)

Extended vacation.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:11 PM (Jn9oG)

313
I give up, HH.

What's the significance of that port-a-gee getting murdered in Boston?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:12 PM (Oonfw)

314 $25k payment per illegal to leave would get a ton of them out. $25k is a fortune for 3rd world shitholes. A family of four would be the richest family in their town.

And we’d recuperate that $25k in no time once they’re out of the country and we don’t have to support them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:12 PM (udlma)

315 Over at Insty, he links to a long piece by, I think a leftie, going on about how dumb the progressive "new improved" and "one simple trick to win elections" of "pivot and blame the rich."

LOL, they really think they have a perfect counter to every issue by changing the subject "is that really important when billionaires have stolen $50 trillion from the Americans?"

They ... actually think the Bernie and AOC Show was a super duper success.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 01:12 PM (HXT0k)

316 The percentage of men who fire consistently and accurately is quite low.
Posted by: BurtTC

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Damned split stream.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 01:12 PM (1Nv0l)

317 Well for outright pessimism at the beginning, no one out-did William Tecumseh Sherman. Grant though was the guy who knew (because of manpower disparities) he could eventually grind down Lee’s army through attrition and actually did it…. I suspect during the Wilderness he began to wonder whether or not he had the stomach for it though…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 01:03 PM (k0PcD)
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Grant was extremely perceptive when it came to evaluating the competency of his direct counterpart(s) in Gray. He ran into problems when he judged the military stamina of the Confederate rank-and-file. Hence, he accepted the murderous attrition rate incurred during the Overland Campaign, because his objective was the dissolution of the ANV, either through a crushing defeat (unlikely) or a siege (worst case).

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 01:12 PM (rj6Yv)

318 78 I'm in the camp that housing prices going through the help doesn't really benefit anyone unless you plan some exit where you are leaving the area for somewhere cheaper or dramatically downsizing.

Just really makes your property taxes go up.

My house has basically tripled since Covid and it's depressing because I feel stuck now. Even though I like my house.
Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 12:32 PM (eIzlH)

The ONLY entity that can raise your property taxes is government. Don’t buy the line they feed you when they say “appraisals went up so property taxes went up”. The government, and the government only, sets tax rates.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 01:12 PM (rQwsY)

319 My memory on the research here is that it is easy to get new recruits to engage in suppression fire but very hard to get them to target specific enemy soldiers and kill them, especially if they are in no immediate danger from the enemy target.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:10 PM (sKqQm)

One of those things I learned, being an infantry soldier, is that it's best for us to not do too much thinking.

When faced with an enemy force, we should be fully trained on what to do, so it's basically muscle memory. If we start thinking, that's when we would shit our pants and run away.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:13 PM (Jn9oG)

320 Remember to always dispute the increase in your appraisal value.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 01:14 PM (KDPiq)

321 You want to see a minimum of 100,000 per month and you wouldn't say the market is strong until it gets up over 200,000.

——

Gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.

Posted by: Mark Hanna at December 17, 2025 01:15 PM (+/y+R)

322 Rent? Falling? Bravo Sierra, mon chér … they're only rising in the towns SE of N'ville … new apartment complexes are sprouting from the ground like ass-tumors in a dog with mange - and the rents sho' 'nuf ain't goin' nowheres but UP … I'd love to see it start comin' down, but that ain't a happenin' thang here …
Posted by: Dr_No at December 17, 2025 01:09 PM (ayRl+)
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I think Nashville is a relocation destination these days.

You can't judge by areas that are receiving a bunch of legal influx, because those areas are going to have an increase anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at December 17, 2025 01:15 PM (Q4cxx)

323
Are POT ROAST prices going down?

My supermarket had a roast yesterday for 9.49/lb. Looked like a good deal.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:15 PM (Oonfw)

324 @Leupold, the tariffs at the Supreme Court are tariffs under the Emergency Economic Act. Tthey can be replaced under other laws like Section 232, but it's not as simple to implement.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 17, 2025 01:15 PM (E2l9i)

325 If we start thinking, that's when we would shit our pants and run away.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:13 PM (Jn9oG)
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"I can see by your foolish faces that you're all going to be crack troops. Ah, that chap with the five-and-a-half hat size has the makings of a bloody hero!"
---Daniel Dravot, Esq.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 01:16 PM (bPc+B)

326 The arguments against Tarriffs boil down to “I can’t make enough money selling Chinese shit”. If that’s all we care about then we’re done as a country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (udlma)

327
new one

Posted by: four seasons at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (3ek7K)

328
nood drunk

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (Oonfw)

329 >>>As is India. Where a ridiculous percentage of the population shits outside in public. Not to mention most of their population is retarded. (Stellantis chose to hire the majority of their outsourced engineering and product development work from this demographic.)

The two are probably correlated somehow...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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You forget that India is a conglomeration of different peoples. India has two official languages and 22 accepted other languages. Indians from one area are almost entirely different than Indians from another.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (Mb4p6)

330 Nood

Posted by: 496 at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (ICj+9)

331 Prices are falling because Americans do not have money
McDs did not lower their prices because business was booming
Wendys is not closing locations because business is good.
Japan and China are selling off their US Treasury note(debt)
Trump is the King of Debt

Mexico just nationalized their oil
Unemloyment at a 4 year high.
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (+DEP/)

332 Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:10 PM (Jn9oG)

Good to hear and you've got a point, I just lost him way too early. Hang in.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (BEQiS)

333 The tenuous hiring market, especially scary for young families, is the last bastion of Bidenism. It's the last part of the economy that will recover, but even that should start happening early next year.

Of course, SCOTUS could throw us a curve with a contrary tariff decision, but Scot Bessent says they have a plan ready to go to fix whatever damage SCOTUS does.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:07 PM (EJgoP)
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The Big Beautiful Bill provisions start kicking in Jan. 1, right? Working people getting their tax refunds, the new building season with the massive amount of foreign investments pouring in? The future looks a bit brighter, I think. As for the Supremes, they have equity portfolios, too.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 01:17 PM (rj6Yv)

334 Another odd fact I remember running across was that in the research on assaults, failed assaults had a bunch of KIA/WIA around 100 yard from the target. And successful assaults had most of their losses nearer the target and fewer losses overall.

The takeaway was that presuming enough resources were given to support the attack its success mostly came down to whether the low level officers/NCOs on the seen could lead a charge across the final distance or not, because the normal human reaction was to find whatever cover there might be about 100 yards away and return fire.

But...since the defenders were entrenched just laying prone in the open was unlike to work...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

335 "I can see by your foolish faces that you're all going to be crack troops. Ah, that chap with the five-and-a-half hat size has the makings of a bloody hero!"
---Daniel Dravot, Esq.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 01:16 PM (bPc+B)

I would be curious too, once you have a group of men who have been tested in battle, how many of them go on to be "super soldiers," and how many learn how to keep their heads down and survive, without really contributing to defeating the foe in front of them.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:18 PM (Jn9oG)

336 The response from the empathetic, caring pro-tax crowd? Then sell and move if you can't afford to pay more taxes.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

I agree!

Posted by: Curtis Parrish, Lubbock County Judge at December 17, 2025 01:18 PM (rQwsY)

337 @Linus, during the Wilderness, as the Union troops were retreating around him, Grant sat in a chair and chewed on a cigar. One of his staff said, "General, we need to get moving." Grant's answer? "It strikes me that it would be a better idea to order up some artillery and defend the present location."
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 17, 2025 01:11 PM (E2l9i)

I remember that account. I was thinking of how on day 2 of the Wilderness battle IIRC after he’d nearly been flanked twice, when the crisis was over he went to his tent and collapsed in tears. Completely composed when it mattered but the weight of it all hit him after the fact

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 01:19 PM (xT8gx)

338 Im hoping she goes with "Erika told me Charlie is a secret Jew and the 'assassination' was actually a Mossad exfil op to bring their top man in from the cold."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 01:19 PM (BI5O2)

339 I think Nashville is a relocation destination these days.

You can't judge by areas that are receiving a bunch of legal influx, because those areas are going to have an increase anyway.
Posted by: Axeman
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Location is still a good marker for market real estate prices/rentals likewise the U Haul index is pretty decent predicting where people are moving from and to.

Rule of thumb is when the monthly housing cost including mortgage, insurance, etc. is lower than the same house description rental prices, then buy a home. If reverse, then rent because the market is likely overpriced.

There is also a time factor involved---you won't recover transaction costs from buying and selling with moves within a certain time frame something like 3-5 years in residence. That is assuming no employer assistance for the move.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (WDjG6)

340 #323 a pot roast is not a Standing Rib Roast

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (+DEP/)

Wednesday Morning Rant

Hidden Costs

Last week, the New York Post ran an article on an obviously predatory activity with a major online grocery ordering platform - and managed to seriously miss the real point. The article is about a recent study of Instacart, which exposed wildly different pricing for the same items at the same stores at the same time, depending on who did the ordering. Per the study, prices varied by an average of 13% and as much as 23%. That's a huge range.

Too bad the Post misses the problem entirely in its coverage of the story and misinterprets the underlying issue. As the paper put it:

It's the latest example of so-called "dynamic pricing" -- the hated practice introduced more than a decade ago by Uber and Lyft, hiking prices for rides during rainstorms -- that is nickel-and-diming consumers, even as relentless inflation has sparked an affordability crisis.

Not at all. These are entirely different things, and they should not be conflated.

"Dynamic pricing" - or "surge pricing" as it is sometimes called - is a response to suddenly increased demand. Rain? Ballpark emptying out? End of a concert? Enjoy a higher price for your ride. There is more demand for rides, and the price goes up. The crucial difference between "dynamic pricing" and what Instacart is allegedly doing is that "dynamic pricing" applies to everyone trying to get a ride in that area at that time. Two people standing next to each other ordering an Uber will both get the surge price in that scenario. One guy won't get socked with a surcharge while the other guy doesn't. That is not at all like what Instacart is doing.

Instacart is showing different prices for the same goods at the same store at the same time. That's "dynamic" all right, but it ain't the same. There is no reason for it (besides the obvious one), and it doesn't apply evenly. Arbitrary and opaque pricing differences are completely counter to the entire concept of prices - and per Instacart, it is arbitrary:

In response to a query by The Post, Instacart said its price "tests" are never based on the personal or behavioral characteristics of shoppers.

That's even worse if true, since there's no way to end-run its filtering. When prices change arbitrarily or are hidden, markets fail to function properly and people get rooked - which is why it's illegal. It breaks the market.

Like the Post however, Instacart also makes a false comparison - though unlike the Post, the company must know that it's false:

"Just as retailers have long tested prices in their physical stores to better understand consumer preferences, a subset of only 10 retail partners -- ones that already apply markups -- do the same online via Instacart," an Instacart spokesperson told The Post in a statement.

Except that the price in any given store applies equally to everyone in that store. The price doesn't randomly change for every person who walks in the door.

This is likely a violation of antitrust law. Goods must be offered to all competing customers on the same terms. If you offer a discount - say, for quantity purchase, or for paying cash instead of with a credit card, or for being a member of a club, etc. - that discount applies to anyone who meets the terms. Anyone buying 1000 units gets the 1000-unit discount, and anyone with the club card gets the club card price. That is not what is going on here if the study is accurate. Competing customers, purchasing the same items on the same terms from the same location and at the same time are charged different prices. The FTC ought to be very interested in this, but they aren't.

And why should they be? As we see time and time and time again, federal regulators and investigators aren't there to do their stated jobs, they're there to protect the anointed and punish the disfavored. If confirmed, Instacart's behavior would make for a prosecutorial lay-up.

Too bad there are more important things to do, like subverting the President, shielding the Clintons and defending Pfizer. Not even the low-hanging fruit is worth plucking if the only benefit is to Americans.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 WLNSSEODQY.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 17, 2025 11:00 AM (0sNs1)

2 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM (zjgNU)

3 Mannix!
*Jazzy music plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM (xcxpd)

4 Mannix!
*Jazzy music plays*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM

* Jazzy hands flap *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 11:02 AM (0sNs1)

5 Willowed:

I was never sure if the Dean Martin drunk schtick was an act or real.
Posted by: ShainS

Act. What looked like bourbon was apple juice according to his daughter.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 11:03 AM (T+ixL)

6 I was known for being jazzy.

Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at December 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Vp8JP)

7 Populism is fun! If you don't like it, don't shop there. They will get the message.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 17, 2025 11:03 AM (P7Iz+)

8 Grep.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 11:03 AM (UnA8+)

9 Caveat Emptor.

Posted by: It's Latin at December 17, 2025 11:04 AM (EYPJc)

10 IIRC Wendys is also trying this Instacart version of 'dynamic pricing' and yes Wendys is dead to me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:04 AM (2GVsD)

11 "Dynamic pricing" - or "surge pricing" as it is sometimes called - is a response to suddenly increased demand. "

This is literally economics 101. Increased demand leads to increased prices. Reduce the demand and prices go down.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 11:04 AM (0N4FZ)

12 Competing customers, purchasing the same items on the same terms from the same location and at the same time are charged different prices.

Is Instacart using the 'bad neighborhood' excuse? That a box of corn flakes costs $1.00 when it goes to Muffy Bradford at 1234 Whitebread Lane and $10.00 when it goes to Shani'qua Jaaa-cksonn at 1234 MLK Boulevard?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (ufSfZ)

13 Sounds to me like they're jacking the prices up on some things at some random times just to see what people are willing to pay for it. If they see the price and scroll away/back, the algo will know and report on it.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (5aZAZ)

14 This happens every day in so many businesses. And you do it too. Ever bought a car? Ever booked a hotel room? If you're in sales, ever given a lower price to move your product?
Much ado about nothing.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (P7Iz+)

15 Bitch, do you even history?

Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Can’t Just Impeach Trump Because They Want To

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

16 Now do High Occupancy Toll lanes.

Posted by: Instantaneous at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (EYPJc)

17 Dynamic pricing: "Oh, you've selected a destination and dates for a flight? Here's the price..."

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 11:06 AM (KqZNZ)

18 Is Instacart using the 'bad neighborhood' excuse? That a box of corn flakes costs $1.00 when it goes to Muffy Bradford at 1234 Whitebread Lane and $10.00 when it goes to Shani'qua Jaaa-cksonn at 1234 MLK Boulevard?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (ufSfZ)
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Where you at?
I'm on Martin Luther King!

RUUUUUUNNNN!

-Chris Rock

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:06 AM (5aZAZ)

19 There is no reason for it (besides the obvious one)
____

Islamophobia!

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at December 17, 2025 11:06 AM (Dv3i1)

20 Hole in one!

Golf Legend Phil Mickelson: The Terrorists Were Not Affected by Australia’s Tough Gun Control Laws

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

21 Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Can’t Just Impeach Trump Because They Want To
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She's drunk.

Posted by: Hakeem Jeffries at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM (Dv3i1)

22 15 Bitch, do you even history?

Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Can’t Just Impeach Trump Because They Want To

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

=====

She knows that impeaching Trump in his first term didn't hurt him.

They had to instill panic over covid.

They had to shut down ballot counting across six states at the same time in the middle of the night to barely beat him.

She also knows that the 4 year legal battle against him led to him winning the presidency again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

23 11 "Dynamic pricing" - or "surge pricing" as it is sometimes called - is a response to suddenly increased demand. "

Dynamic Tension is the key to muscle health and fitness.

Posted by: Charles Atlas at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM (oftw2)

24 20 Hole in one!

Golf Legend Phil Mickelson: The Terrorists Were Not Affected by Australia’s Tough Gun Control Laws

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

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They weren't supposed to be.

What's his point?

Oh, he's speaking like a normal person who loves his country, not like a politician who hates his own country. I get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

25 If you want to pay the same price, go to the store and buy the item.

You want to use Instacart, then comply with their terms of service.

I pay more in taxes because my poor neighbor pays less.

Isn't that the way this is supposed to work?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 11:08 AM (8SdDq)

26
POKER MONKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 11:08 AM (y9nCu)

27 Dynamic pricing - so, $20 might not be the same as in town?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:09 AM (Dv3i1)

28 Mannix!
*Jazzy music plays*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM

Music for the season which I have to figure out a way to download onto a playlist:

https://tinyurl.com/46y69hun

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 11:09 AM (ufSfZ)

29 Is Instacart using the 'bad neighborhood' excuse? That a box of corn flakes costs $1.00 when it goes to Muffy Bradford at 1234 Whitebread Lane and $10.00 when it goes to Shani'qua Jaaa-cksonn at 1234 MLK Boulevard?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (ufSfZ)

In which case, one can argue that the higher price reflects to elevated cost of doing business in neighborhoods full of crime and shoplifting. Should that not be allowed?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

30 Not instantly entirely clear on the anti-trust or legal issue here.

No special conditions - club card, temporary discount, sale - every customer on the same basis. Prices vary for different customers. Odd, but illegal?

If it's random, especially hard to see the legal problem.

But I'm probably glitching. Early, and focusing on Pooootin's remarks and the continuing surreal situation in European security blather.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2025 11:09 AM (U/Byj)

31 My question: Are the prices varied for DEI purposes? Or what? You didn't say.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 11:09 AM (g8Ew8)

32 and yes Wendys is dead to me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:04 AM (2GVsD)

I hope I'm not dead to you.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:09 AM (BEQiS)

33 This happens every day in so many businesses. And you do it too. Ever bought a car? Ever booked a hotel room? If you're in sales, ever given a lower price to move your product?
Much ado about nothing.
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No. The activities you cited involved "negotiation" to one degree or another. There's not any negotiation involved with clicking on a website. If you and I click on the same item, we're supposed to be offered the same price (all other things being equal).

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:10 AM (TN0g+)

34 Grep.
Posted by: XTC

These are not the spaces you are searching for.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 17, 2025 11:10 AM (kfTpm)

35 I've never used Instacart so this doesn't directly affect me. But isn't that a 3rd party entity? Performing a service? If I am understanding this correctly, consumers are choosing to use them instead of going to the store directly where everyone would see the same prices, so anti-trust laws shouldn't apply.

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 11:11 AM (c2vsb)

36 That's horrible. When my dad was housebound I set up a Walmart account, there was better selection of some of things he needed via online than at the local store plus saved me some time. I noticed then that some of the non-perishable food items were much higher for the delivery option than in store, but they have to cover the delivery costs somehow, I just didn't buy those items.

But charging different instacart shoppers different prices, that seems like it should be illegal and for sure seems immoral, if they are not giving 'preferred' addresses a price break then they are gouging people who don't have the time or ability to do some price checking and refuse to buy whatever item(s) they are being overcharged for. I don't buy that this gouging is completely random. I'm sure they track whether someone passes on a normal purchase if the price is jacked up and take them off their list of marks.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 17, 2025 11:11 AM (hhkIi)

37 Don't tell Schumer!

U.S. Military Destroys Another Three Drug Boats in Pacific, Eight Killed

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

38 I got hit by Uber surge pricing a couple of months ago, the normal price for a trip from mid-town/east side to Hoboken ranges between 50 and 60 dollars, one day it stormed in NYC and Uber priced the same trip at 200 bucks, I paid it, but I was not happy about it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 11:11 AM (XV/Pl)

39 If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal,
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 11:12 AM (8SdDq)

40 If you want to pay the same price, go to the store and buy the item.

You want to use Instacart, then comply with their terms of service.
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I disagree. If you and I were to both click on an online item, you and I should both be given the same displayed cost for that item (all other things being equal).

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:12 AM (TN0g+)

41 No. The activities you cited involved "negotiation" to one degree or another. There's not any negotiation involved with clicking on a website. If you and I click on the same item, we're supposed to be offered the same price (all other things being equal).
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:10 AM (TN0g+)
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The point is that you and I could both go to Hyatt.com at the same time and look at the same type of hotel room for the same dates, and it's entirely possible if not likely that we'll be shown two different prices. No negotiation involved.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:12 AM (5aZAZ)

42 It's definitely not random. Random would offer them no advantage other than potentially market testing the prices faster - but in this day and age, it's quite obviously not random.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:13 AM (BEQiS)

43 If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal,
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel.

That'll be enough out of you, Mungo Jerry.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

44 Australia focuses on the real threats - Novak Djokovic didn't take the vaccine for covid, so not allowed*. Moslim** has terrorist sympathies, allowed. Throw some halal shrimp on the barbie for 'im!

*Even worse actually, one jurisdiction said he was allowed, another one said he wasn't. So he flew in, denied entry, and had to fly back out.

**Yes, I get red underlined for 'moslem'. I don't remember when this perfectly good spelling was changed, and I don't care.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)

45 Well, this sounds malicious, and crooked. But I don't use Instacart, and see no reason for its existence, other than to coddle the lazy. As for the shut-ins, and disabled individuals, there should be honestly-run shopping services for them, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:13 AM (npFr7)

46 The point is that you and I could both go to Hyatt.com at the same time and look at the same type of hotel room for the same dates, and it's entirely possible if not likely that we'll be shown two different prices.
Posted by: ballistic

Why is that? Are they showing the different prices based on where the customer is located?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

47 People could just not use Instacart. That's an option isn't it?

Posted by: CM Delta at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (SJVBN)

48 Dynamic Tension is the key to muscle health and fitness.
Posted by: Charles Atlas at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM

True. Charles Atlas and Dr. Furter made me who I am.

Posted by: Rocky Horror at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (0sNs1)

49 Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ in unhinged rant against Kyiv’s allies
Putin accused West of ‘hysteria’ insisting claims Russia wanted war were ‘a lie’
Maira Butt & Namita Singh
Wednesday 17 December 2025 16:06 GMT
The Independent UK
====

Alec Baldwin to the white courtesy phone, please!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (8SdDq)

50
I'm wondering if you could game the system by going through VPN servers in different locations.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (y9nCu)

51 That study seems flawed on its face . Location ,distance can also be factors in pricing. I don’t use instacart but seems weird to have delivery fees based on the product you’re buying. I know other grocery stores I used for my mother had a flat fees.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (KDPiq)

52 People could just not use Instacart. That's an option isn't it?
Posted by: CM Delta at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (SJVBN)

Exactly what I was getting at in my comment at 35.

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (c2vsb)

53 Music for the season which I have to figure out a way to download onto a playlist:

https://tinyurl.com/46y69hun
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

And now for something completely different.

https://is.gd/I5XlDn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)

54 While yes, it's tempting to say "LOL, eat shit, Shaniqua!", I still don't particularly like surge pricing.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 11:16 AM (UnA8+)

55 Why is that? Are they showing the different prices based on where the customer is located?

Posted by: Bulg

Yeah

Use a vpn

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 11:16 AM (tG1pe)

56 >In response to a query by The Post, Instacart said its price "tests" are never based on the personal or behavioral characteristics of shoppers.

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Sure - pull the other one, it has bells.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 17, 2025 11:16 AM (NgqoH)

57 54 While yes, it's tempting to say "LOL, eat shit, Shaniqua!", I still don't particularly like surge pricing.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 11:16 AM (UnA8+)

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Surge pricing is supposed to increase supply in the face of increased demand by attracting more people to drive the Uber or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

58 Let me get this straight. Grocery store which work on Reddit thin margins of 1-3.5% and interstate is bumping those efficient price up between 23-25%?

Sounds like a windfall profit tax rich area.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 17, 2025 11:17 AM (xvV+O)

59 Well, this sounds malicious, and crooked. But I don't use Instacart, and see no reason for its existence, other than to coddle the lazy. As for the shut-ins, and disabled individuals, there should be honestly-run shopping services for them, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:13 AM

walmart and other grocery stores in my area all have delivery services, sometimes they are free based on your order. Sometimes they charge $5 or more depending on how far you are away from the store. They work great for the home bound people that we know and they don't jiggle with the prices like instacart does.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 11:17 AM (0N4FZ)

60 one day it stormed in NYC and Uber priced the same trip at 200 bucks, I paid it, but I was not happy about it.

I can understand that; I’ve hit it myself. but I can also understand that drivers will want more money to drive during a storm than not, and that Uber will want to encourage more drivers to get out and pick up riders when there are more people trying to get rides.

For that matter, when I’m one of those riders, I also want more drivers out when there are more people using the service.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 11:18 AM (EXyHK)

61 Shouldn't white people pay more than others for reparations?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 11:19 AM (/aHTH)

62 Unhinged rants are politics, a lot of the time.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 11:19 AM (Tbj3s)

63 Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ in unhinged rant against Kyiv’s allies
Putin accused West of ‘hysteria’ insisting claims Russia wanted war were ‘a lie’

Why is this a surprise? He's run into a cul-de-sac of his own making and he's lashing out because he can't figure out how to escape. It's what dictators do.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

64 61 Shouldn't white people pay more than others for reparations?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 11:19 AM (/aHTH)

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I just feel comforted that the people getting most of the reparations are Somalians who don't have any ancestors who were American slaves instead of the descendants of American slaves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

65 I dunno, if you are dumb and lazy enough to use some racket like Instacart, you get what you deserve. Or, if you just like the service, then know you are paying for it. I would say just get off your ass and go get your own groceries.

It's like Uber eats and all that shit. You are paying a 20% premium -- easy -- to get your food delivered. If you're OK with that, then so be it. If you're not, then don't use the service.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

66 Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

You should preface your posts on this subject with
Full Disclosure ………

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:20 AM (KDPiq)

67
**Yes, I get red underlined for 'moslem'. I don't remember when this perfectly good spelling was changed, and I don't care.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)

I prefer the term "mohammedan". First, all the right people get offended. But more importantly, that's the term that Winston Churchill used in his books. Good enough for the greatest Briton in history (mostly because he was half American), it's good enough for me.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 11:20 AM (y9nCu)

68 Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ in unhinged rant against Kyiv’s allies
Putin accused West of ‘hysteria’ insisting claims Russia wanted war were ‘a lie’
Maira Butt & Namita Singh
Wednesday 17 December 2025 16:06 GMT
The Independent UK
====

Alec Baldwin to the white courtesy phone, please!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (8SdDq)

Putin's not wrong, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:20 AM (npFr7)

69 I'm wondering if you could game the system by going through VPN servers in different locations.

Order from Sweden and have it delivered to Hoboken? I suspect they could code the algorithm to catch that. Also, the whole point of something like Instacart is that you're willing to pay for convenience. How much time and how many VPN connections and shopping carts are you willing to experiment with to save a buck fifty?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 11:20 AM (3nLb4)

70 52 People could just not use Instacart. That's an option isn't it?
Posted by: CM Delta at December 17, 2025 11:15 AM (SJVBN)

Exactly what I was getting at in my comment at 35.

By that logic, landlords would be able to charge different rents for people of different races. After all, they don't HAVE to rent the property.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

71 This is likely a violation of antitrust law. Goods must be offered to all competing customers on the same terms.
======================
If this is in fact the law, and in my superficial contacts with antitrust law I never heard antitrust law expressed this way, I bet it has never been litigated.

If it isn't enforced, it isn't really law, because companies will do what they think they can get away with doing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 11:21 AM (5ZDo1)

72 Do restaurants that deliver usually charge more for the food that they deliver than the food that is consumed on the premises?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

73 I just feel comforted that the people getting most of the reparations are Somalians who don't have any ancestors who were American slaves instead of the descendants of American slaves.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Like, stop talking, you're making my brain hurt! They're Black, so, like, pay them!

Posted by: Grad Student at Prestigious University at December 17, 2025 11:22 AM (Dv3i1)

74 While yes, it's tempting to say "LOL, eat shit, Shaniqua!", I still don't particularly like surge pricing.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 11:16 AM (UnA8+)

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Surge pricing is supposed to increase supply in the face of increased demand by attracting more people to drive the Uber or whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)
_

Surge pricing does work. The reverse is true too: duing off-hours, the fares are much cheaper. What significantly increases the fares are government-added taxes and fees and charges. Take an Uber and look at the final bill. Easily 20% goes right to the gaping maw of government.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

75 If I were going to get grocery delivery I would set it up with Safeway or Kroger, not use an outfit like instacart. But if I were using instacart I would expect that the delivery surcharge has some rationality, based on how far they have to drive to get the order to me, and maybe some weight and volume factor.

What Mannix wrote does not sound like that, it sounds like instacart just 'randomly' inflates the prices of some items for some of the shoppers. In today's world I'm sure instacart can tell if a price spike results in a customer passing on that item or just making their normal order and they keep a list of the marks vs the tuned in customers.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 17, 2025 11:22 AM (hhkIi)

76 I just donated to a GoFund account for the first time with a CC. I was charged a 16.5% ‘tip’.

Holy crap.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (KDPiq)

77 Holy shit autocucomber is fucking with me today. Better start proofreading before posting.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (xvV+O)

78 Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

You should preface your posts on this subject with
Full Disclosure ………

Because you disagree? Tough.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

79 20% goes right to the gaping maw of government.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

Kamala?

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (BEQiS)

80 **Yes, I get red underlined for 'moslem'. I don't remember when this perfectly good spelling was changed, and I don't care.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:13 AM
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I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: The United Negro College Fund at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (EYPJc)

81 77 Holy shit autocucomber is fucking with me today. Better start proofreading before posting.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (xvV+O)

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I just bank on the keyboard until the red squiggles go away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

82 Do restaurants that deliver usually charge more for the food that they deliver than the food that is consumed on the premises?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

By rights, they should charge less. No dishes to wash, no tables to bus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (npFr7)

83 GoFundMe is predatory

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (WeQvm)

84 Do restaurants that deliver usually charge more for the food that they deliver than the food that is consumed on the premises?

Oddly, I think many charge less. I think the theory is that delivery is less work than in-person service. Also, the delivery person often gets paid jack, in the hope of making it up in tips. Which, they often do, at least when delivering pizza to drunks.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (EXyHK)

85 That's even worse if true, since there's no way to end-run its filtering. When prices change arbitrarily or are hidden, markets fail to function properly and people get rooked - which is why it's illegal. It breaks the market.

What are you some kind of Marxist commie? Anything corporations do to make money is free market capitalism. Go march in Red Square already.

Posted by: Tongue firmly planted in cheek at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (TbWk/)

86 Did Trump speak last night?

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (BEQiS)

87 Do restaurants that deliver usually charge more for the food that they deliver than the food that is consumed on the premises?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)\
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Yes, and it's not even close. One reason is because when you eat inside the restaurant, you usually spend quite a bit on drinks. That's almost pure profit to the restaurant. Delivered orders don't have that easy revenue stream.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

88 "Dynamic pricing" - or "surge pricing" as it is sometimes called - is a response to suddenly increased demand. "

This is literally economics 101. Increased demand leads to increased prices. Reduce the demand and prices go down.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 11:04 AM

And yet blue state attorneys general are forever launching price gouging investigations over this. All of which are quietly dropped after the splashy headlines run and the sheeple have read them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (bFu5X)

89 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (RpkZ3)

90 Do restaurants that deliver usually charge more for the food that they deliver than the food that is consumed on the premises?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

By rights, they should charge less. No dishes to wash, no tables to bus.

It's my guess that they don't give the same size portions in the carryout.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

91 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (EYPJc)

92 By that logic, landlords would be able to charge different rents for people of different races. After all, they don't HAVE to rent the property.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

Not exactly a direct analogy. If there happened to be a 3rd party service called "Instarent" who provided a service on behalf of the renter, and Instarent itself was charging different amounts, then that would be a direct analogy. And Instarent should be free to charge whatever it wants because it's an optional service.

Renter and landlord direct relationship is the same as shopper and grocery store direct relationship.

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 11:26 AM (c2vsb)

93 Just wait until muzzie mayor Mamdami opens the NY run grocery stores. That ought to be fun.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:26 AM (Dv3i1)

94 Let's leave "hotel rooms" and other such things that searching for might be more nebulous out of the discussion and focus on commodity items instead.

So something simple like 16 ounces of orange juice, and whatever the most popular brand of that might be: why would it be ok that TJM clicks on instacart and gets quoted one price and Bulg clicks on instacart and gets quoted a different price? Leave delivery charges and taxes out of the equation.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:26 AM (TN0g+)

95 People could just not use Instacart. That's an option isn't it?
Posted by: CM Delta

True, but the problem, if I understand it correctly, is that the discriminatory pricing is illegal already, and if it spreads, would be a massive problem. You wouldn't want your hotel room to be priced according to your zip code or your monthly spending, yes? What if Instafart decides that whitey must pay more?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 11:26 AM (mlg/3)

96 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer

What was the context in which Kramer said this? What was he talking about?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

97 By rights, they should charge less. No dishes to wash, no tables to bus.

I think it’s a wash with the take out packaging costs.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:26 AM (KDPiq)

98 This week I was in a tiny mom&pop electric store and asked about their whats-its at N size and they had three: priced at x, y, and z. I said o.k., I'll think about it. This is the kind of store where it would be entirely unsurprising for an owner to say, "I'll let you have that one for this lower price" without any indication that that would be extended to other people. I guess that's dynamic?

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 11:26 AM (RuTUS)

99 Dude, do you even history?

John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
nobody told anyone that "Obamacare would solve everything"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

100 Huh, how about that?

>>@gCaptain
·
Dec 16
>>Russia Deploys All Eight Nuclear Icebreakers for First Time to Keep Arctic Export Routes Open

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (viF8m)

101 78 Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

You should preface your posts on this subject with
Full Disclosure ………

Because you disagree? Tough.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

I am curious. Are you Ukrainian, or have Ukrainian friends/relatives?? You have always been passionate about that war.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (Tbj3s)

102 100

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (RuTUS)

103 Is Instacart using the 'bad neighborhood' excuse? That a box of corn flakes costs $1.00 when it goes to Muffy Bradford at 1234 Whitebread Lane and $10.00 when it goes to Shani'qua Jaaa-cksonn at 1234 MLK Boulevard?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (ufSfZ)

In which case, one can argue that the higher price reflects to elevated cost of doing business in neighborhoods full of crime and shoplifting. Should that not be allowed?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t)
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I actually think it's the other way around. I think what IC is really doing is charging what the customer will bear. They are probably trying to identify "marks" (most likely affluent people) who aren't as price-sensitive as others, and then charge those people more money.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

104 Putin's not wrong, you know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:20 AM (npFr7)
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Да, конечно!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (6/Q3k)

105 Renter and landlord direct relationship is the same as shopper and grocery store direct relationship.
Posted by: Doof

Wow, Doof, you're being amazingly unobtuse today. You must've stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

106 By that logic, landlords would be able to charge different rents for people of different races. After all, they don't HAVE to rent the property.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

Not exactly a direct analogy. If there happened to be a 3rd party service called "Instarent" who provided a service on behalf of the renter, and Instarent itself was charging different amounts, then that would be a direct analogy. And Instarent should be free to charge whatever it wants because it's an optional service.

Renter and landlord direct relationship is the same as shopper and grocery store direct relationship.

I'm not sure why an intermediary makes a difference. Can you elaborate?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

107 Why is that? Are they showing the different prices based on where the customer is located?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
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Location, browsing history and cookies and stored data on your machine, etc. etc. etc.

Hell, hit expedia.com on your laptop at the same time as your phone all on your home wifi and I'd bet even money you get two different prices for the same thing.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:28 AM (5aZAZ)

108 Yes, I get red underlined for 'moslem'. I don't remember when this perfectly good spelling was changed, and I don't care.
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Writing the word moslem seems to be event-free for me.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:28 AM (TN0g+)

109 If stupid people want to pay more, I say let them.

Delivery of a service that should expand your customer base and hence your sales this bringing greater revenue and profit. I can see varying delivery charges based on location but not varying prices on the same thing at the same retailer.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 17, 2025 11:28 AM (xvV+O)

110 I prefer the term "mohammedan". First, all the right people get offended. But more importantly, that's the term that Winston Churchill used in his books. Good enough for the greatest Briton in history (mostly because he was half American), it's good enough for me.

I like "Mussleman," myself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 11:29 AM (ufSfZ)

111 >>Russia Deploys All Eight Nuclear Icebreakers for First Time to Keep Arctic Export Routes Open
Posted by: JackStraw

Global Warming will be the death of us all, in a few short years, about 150 or so if this keeps up!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:29 AM (Dv3i1)

112 I actually think it's the other way around. I think what IC is really doing is charging what the customer will bear. They are probably trying to identify "marks" (most likely affluent people) who aren't as price-sensitive as others, and then charge those people more money.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

Exactly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:29 AM (npFr7)

113 John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
nobody told anyone that "Obamacare would solve everything"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)
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Oh? Well then, giving billions to insurers and having them funnel the money into the personal accounts of House members is A-OK. Barely an inconvenience to all us not-in-on-it taxpayers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 11:29 AM (yNGcr)

114 By that logic, landlords would be able to charge different rents for people of different races. After all, they don't HAVE to rent the property.

Constitutionally that's correct, and it's one of the reasons the 1964 Civil Rights Act is considered to be problematic.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 11:29 AM (QZThv)

115 I am curious. Are you Ukrainian, or have Ukrainian friends/relatives?? You have always been passionate about that war.

Not a bit. I callz 'em as I sees 'em.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

116 I actually think it's the other way around. I think what IC is really doing is charging what the customer will bear. They are probably trying to identify "marks" (most likely affluent people) who aren't as price-sensitive as others, and then charge those people more money.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

Exactly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:29 AM (npFr7)
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Which is not only lawful, but smart.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (yNGcr)

117 99 Dude, do you even history?

John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
nobody told anyone that "Obamacare would solve everything"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

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Did anyone say that it would make things worse?

Can Harwood investigate that real quick?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

118 Writing the word moslem seems to be event-free for me.
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Maybe it's the browser. I'm using the European based Vivaldi.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (Dv3i1)

119
Kramer and the write off:

It was a damaged stereo.

https://youtu.be/Gw4ACM5SjQw

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (EYPJc)

120 >They are probably trying to identify "marks" (most likely affluent people) who aren't as price-sensitive as others, and then charge those people more money.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

It's exactly what they are doing, hence their strong denial that they would never, ever, use customer financial data and location in their pricing algorithms...swearsies.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (NgqoH)

121 Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (BEQiS

I thought it was yesterday as well, but apparently it's tonight.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (6jy2V)

122 94 So something simple like 16 ounces of orange juice, and whatever the most popular brand of that might be: why would it be ok that TJM clicks on instacart and gets quoted one price and Bulg clicks on instacart and gets quoted a different price? Leave delivery charges and taxes out of the equation.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:26 AM (TN0g+)

Because one lives in the wealthier neighborhood and therefore has proven he's more responsible because he has a better job and manages money better, and should be thus rewarded.

The other should be punished for his failures.

(This post is probably sarcasm, unless you agree with it.)

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (UnA8+)

123 All's well in Oz.

When asked about Islamic violence, Aussie minister defends "multiculturalism," says government has "criminalized the Nazi salute" to protect citizens

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

124 Not sure dynamic pricing at the same store, but to me Uber for instance costing more during a storm seems reasonable to me.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 11:31 AM (RpkZ3)

125 What they are doing is price discrimination at it is patently illegal.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 11:31 AM (QPpHv)

126 By that logic, landlords would be able to charge different rents for people of different races. After all, they don't HAVE to rent the property.

Constitutionally that's correct, and it's one of the reasons the 1964 Civil Rights Act is considered to be problematic.

Which is a yuuuge new can of worms.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

127 I use Instacart all the time. Guess I am lazy….OR what little downtime I have, I don’t want to spend going to Mobile to get bulk products for my business. I will say my business account has different pricing than my personal. But I pay more for the business membership. I also had to prove I am a legit business to get it. I definitely add personal stuff to the order (it gets separated), and it’s worth it to me. I run a small business that operates 7 days a week. I homeschool. I am not on the couch eating bon bons. Right now I am developing a New Years ad as I check in with y’all.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:31 AM (ZdaMQ)

128 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
12m
🚨 BREAKING: DA Fani Willis just went BERSERK during her testimony about her persecution into Donald Trump, she is losing it 🤯

"It's a DUMB*SS QUESTION!"

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We may be getting at least one more Fani Willis thread out of ace!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

129 Also in Oz -

Avner’s, a Jewish-owned bagel bakery in Sydney, has closed effective immediately following the Bondi chanukah massacre and escalating antisemitic threats.

The owners say police and security agencies warned the bakery had become a potential target, and that they were unable to guarantee their safety, making it unsafe to continue operating as a publicly Jewish business.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (Dv3i1)

130 If I understand the complain, which I probably don't, I could see how corpo-commies could use this pricing scheme to effect a techno-communist economy; to each his own according to his kulak status. I imagine the techno-commies are drooling at the thought of punishing middle-class Americans for existing, and exempting the good and pure 1%ers who bow to the Globo-blob. Yes, that's a bit sweaty of a conspiracy, but plausible.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (mlg/3)

131 I'm glad I've never used instacart. If they go with 'digital price tags' in grocery stores, I'd shop elsewhere. Even if that means going to the fucking Plaid Pantry.

Frankly, I do most of my shopping at Costco nowadays.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (xcxpd)

132 Hard to believe that the reporter missed this obvious distinction, but that is more and more the case with news reporting.

Plus, the notion that Uber introduced dynamic pricing is way off. Airlines have been doing this for decades, and nearly all theaters that offer live performances do this as well.

Posted by: Henry O. at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (X5Mi4)

133 for a prosecutorial lay-up.

If these businesses were even tried let alone convicted they'd all quit in a hurry. vs. Individuals who keep offending right thru parole.

Posted by: DaveA at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (FhXTo)

134 Surge pricing makes sense. Does one demand that the driving time after the game or concert be the same as the driving time when there is no event? The deal with surge pricing is when it gets to a point of gouging.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (xvV+O)

135 What the market will bear.

Posted by: Like your Economics teacher used to tell you at December 17, 2025 11:33 AM (EYPJc)

136 >>Global Warming will be the death of us all, in a few short years, about 150 or so if this keeps up!

Also a pretty strong indicator of why Trump was so focused on Greenland. Obviously, Putin gets it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)

137 iSlime

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:33 AM (BEQiS)

138 The pogrom seems well underway in Australia.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 11:33 AM (Tbj3s)

139
I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: The United Negro College Fund at December 17, 2025 11:23 AM (EYPJc)

Hey, at least the UNCF is run by black folks and had been since it was founded. NAACP was founded and run by pasty white commies for over 60 years, before the organization had a black President in the mid 70s.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 11:33 AM (y9nCu)

140 Did Trump speak last night?
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM (BEQiS)

Probably.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:33 AM (Ws9M3)

141 The perfect response to "Dynamic pricing" .. haggling

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 11:33 AM (RHGPo)

142 “They believed in freedom because they believed that things are real.”—Larry P. Arnn

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 11:34 AM (EXyHK)

143 Writing the word moslem seems to be event-free for me.
___

Maybe it's the browser. I'm using the European based Vivaldi.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (Dv3i1)

I usually go with "muzzie", but "mohammedan" is a fine choice. Pisses them off because they claim that it implies they worship mohammed (which of course they do, even as they insist they don't). Deranged fucktards, all of them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:34 AM (npFr7)

144 I use Instacart all the time. Guess I am lazy….OR what little downtime I have, I don’t want to spend going to Mobile to get bulk products for my business. I will say my business account has different pricing than my personal. But I pay more for the business membership. I also had to prove I am a legit business to get it. I definitely add personal stuff to the order (it gets separated), and it’s worth it to me. I run a small business that operates 7 days a week. I homeschool. I am not on the couch eating bon bons. Right now I am developing a New Years ad as I check in with y’all.

I figured it was just a matter of time before someone bridled at the assumption that all Instacart users are stupid and/or lazy.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

145 The owners say police and security agencies warned the bakery had become a potential target, and that they were unable to guarantee their safety, making it unsafe to continue operating as a publicly Jewish business.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (Dv3i1)

Israel is behind this I just know it.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:34 AM (BEQiS)

146 125 What they are doing is price discrimination at it is patently illegal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 11:31 AM (QPpHv)
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You don't think Instacart has an entire legal team that vetted this, and they agreed that it's legal?

They're just probing for rubes. Instacart quoting you a price of $3.95 for a can of baked beans when the beans are $1.25 in the store isn't illegal by any stretch of the imagination. They're just seeing if you're dumb enough to buy the beans at a ridiculous markup.

Just like if you tried to charge $30 when it's $20 in town. You might get some takers who don't want to go all the way to town, but some will keep on truckin.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:34 AM (5aZAZ)

147 And yet blue state attorneys general are forever launching price gouging investigations over this. All of which are quietly dropped after the splashy headlines run and the sheeple have read them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM

blumenthal was famous for that when he was the AG for conneticut. Whenever he could he would hold a press conference to announce yet another criminal investigation into what ever was news worthy at that moment in time. When he resigned to run for his senate seat the interim AG quietly closed over 300 active criminal investigations he had personally launched.

There was never a TV camera in the state that blumenthal would not try to hog while he was AG.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (0N4FZ)

148 145 The owners say police and security agencies warned the bakery had become a potential target, and that they were unable to guarantee their safety, making it unsafe to continue operating as a publicly Jewish business.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (Dv3i1)

Israel is behind this I just know it.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:34 AM (BEQiS)

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Tucker's brother...is that you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

149 San Francisco Hillel Set Aflame, Building Destroyed, Shabbat and Chanukah Events Canceled

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (RHGPo)

150 I saw The Fucking Plaid Pantry open for the Partridge Family at Encino Heights in '68.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)

151 Probably.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:33 AM (Ws9M3)

Thank you. At least SOMEONE here is informed.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (BEQiS)

152 I'm not sure why an intermediary makes a difference. Can you elaborate?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

Just my view / opinion, but I'm seeing the intermediary as a service. An optional service used for convenience. Not a necessary monopoly. Their market behavior should be met with market reaction - not government intervention. Market reaction could be reflected in a variety of ways. Maybe people just stop using their service. Maybe a competitor arises. Let the market decide.

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (c2vsb)

153 Just wait until muzzie mayor Mamdami opens the NY run grocery stores. That ought to be fun.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

All the nothing you can eat for free!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (L/fGl)

154 I saw the other day that Keir Starmer said NATO must stop Russia from invading Europe (something nobody with an IQ over 50 thinks is remotely possible, given how Ukraine's gone). Putin replied that Starmer can't even stop rubber boats full of Muslims from coming and raping everyone.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (QZThv)

155 Deranged fucktards, all of them
==============
I think that might be the proper English translation of their actual name

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (yNGcr)

156 Also note the pricing is based on store price model. Instacart up charges it. It happens in stores, too. The Publix next door to my studio has higher prices on somethings as the one 3 miles down the road near my house. So it’s not national account pricing - it starts at the store level.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:36 AM (ZdaMQ)

157 The Trump administration is quietly authorizing millions of dollars in refugee resettlement funding, including to organizations operating at the center of the illegal immigration crisis. According to Federal Register notices published on September 22, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement intends to award nearly seven million dollars in replacement grants to two nonprofit organizations involved in refugee case management and integration services. One of those awards directs more than two and a half million dollars to a St. Paul based organization operating in Minnesota, the focal point of the Somali fraud investigations.

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

158 NAACP was founded and run by pasty white commies for over 60 years, before the organization had a black President in the mid 70s.
___

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

A real bang-up job you did there, commies.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)

159 John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood

nobody told anyone that "Obamacare would solve everything"

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lol gf

If only there were unanimous historical examples of the results and concomitant corruption, graft, & destruction of fascistic government-controlled redistribution of wealth schemes designed as "rights" -- especially in healthcare insurance and practice -- which would have definitively predicted this nightmare.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 11:36 AM (bnb+L)

160 And yet blue state attorneys general are forever launching price gouging investigations over this. All of which are quietly dropped after the splashy headlines run and the sheeple have read them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 11:24 AM

blumenthal was famous for that when he was the AG for conneticut. Whenever he could he would hold a press conference to announce yet another criminal investigation into what ever was news worthy at that moment in time. When he resigned to run for his senate seat the interim AG quietly closed over 300 active criminal investigations he had personally launched.

*cough*

Posted by: Chuck Schumer, investigator extraordinaire of gas price gouging at December 17, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

161 One of those awards directs more than two and a half million dollars to a St. Paul based organization operating in Minnesota, the focal point of the Somali fraud investigations.
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WTAF?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (Dv3i1)

162 Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree

More people were killed in the Sudan in the last three weeks than the whole war in Gaza. Have you heard a peep? Nope. Why? Because it doesn’t further the case of dismantling western civilization.

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (RHGPo)

163 Plus, the notion that Uber introduced dynamic pricing is way off. Airlines have been doing this for decades, and nearly all theaters that offer live performances do this as well.
Posted by: Henry O.

Airlines and hotels charge different rates depending upon when you book, but they don't charge different rates to people who book at the same time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (QPpHv)

164 Because one lives in the wealthier neighborhood and therefore has proven he's more responsible because he has a better job and manages money better, and should be thus rewarded.

The other should be punished for his failures.

(This post is probably sarcasm, unless you agree with it.)
Posted by: XTC

*0% For Well Qualified Buyers has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (T+ixL)

165 "This is likely a violation of antitrust law. Goods must be offered to all competing customers on the same terms."

I think you're referring to the Robinson-Patman Act. It's useless because there are so many exceptions, limitations, etc. As there should be in a free market. Buyer beware. If person X can negotiate a better price on a good or service, or can get a better price because he's a good customer or whatever, then person X should get that better price.

I personally think everyone should know by now that sales and retail -- and especially services like Instacart or Uber eats -- is Thunderdome and you are getting fleeced. If you are OK with that, then fine. But know that you're paying a substantial premium.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

166 They're just probing for rubes. Instacart quoting you a price of $3.95 for a can of baked beans when the beans are $1.25 in the store isn't illegal by any stretch of the imagination. They're just seeing if you're dumb enough to buy the beans at a ridiculous markup.
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That's not what some of us are questioning. We're simply asking why it would be ok to list the price for TJM as $3.95 and list the price as $1.25 for Bulg if they both were to pull up Instacart at the same moment? (Leave delivery fees and taxes out of the calculation.)

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

167 The perfect response to "Dynamic pricing" .. haggling
Posted by: SMOD

Website: $350 because you can afford it.
You: $150
Website: $350
You: $170
Website: $350
You: ...
Website: Thank you for your payment of $350
You: WTF? Mastercard, cancel that payment!
Website: I can't do that, Dave.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (mlg/3)

168 Plus, the notion that Uber introduced dynamic pricing is way off. Airlines have been doing this for decades, and nearly all theaters that offer live performances do this as well.
Posted by: Henry O. at December 17, 2025 11:32 AM (X5Mi4)

Hotels, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (npFr7)

169 I am ignorant of such things, since I don't use Instacart or anything like that, but is delivery factored into the pricing? I could see delivery time/distance/location being part of the pricing differential.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (MZ+PY)

170 This has to be one of the stranger "problems" I've ever seen.

So a business... sets its prices..... according to its own rules? And those prices vary?

How is this anybody's business except the business and its customers?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (Ws9M3)

171 Tucker's brother...is that you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

The more it looks like Jews are being oppressed worldwide, the more they have to go into hiding, the less Jews everywhere are able to live and practice freely or openly, and the less support they have from Western governments, the more it looks like they need Israel. Think about it.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (BEQiS)

172 A $27 cheeseburger from DoorDash vs $6 at Wendy's isn't a lesson in economics.

It's an IQ test.

Posted by: And you failed it at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (EYPJc)

173 nobody told anyone that "Obamacare would solve everything"
___

The jedi mind trick doesn't work on people who can easily remember stuff from 5 minutes ago.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (Dv3i1)

174 22.95 same as in town

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:38 AM (BEQiS)

175 Surge pricing is a different category than what instacart is doing, because it is market driven and does not discriminate based on the nature of the user, but only on the timing of the order.

I believe that in a society that espouses democratic ideals, allowing pricing based only on the personal characteristics of the purchasor is far too socially corrosive to be tolerated. To put it another way; over time the practice will cause problems for all, while providing profits for only a few.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 11:38 AM (uWKK8)

176 ...I'm seeing the intermediary as a service. An optional service used for convenience. Not a necessary monopoly. Their market behavior should be met with market reaction - not government intervention. Market reaction could be reflected in a variety of ways. Maybe people just stop using their service. Maybe a competitor arises. Let the market decide.

Posted by: Doof

I'm still not getting it. A monopoly is not what's being charged here. Market price signals can easily be transmitted through intermediaries. I shall ponder.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

177 I use Instacart all the time. Guess I am lazy….OR what little downtime I have, I don’t want to spend going to Mobile to get bulk products for my business. I will say my business account has different pricing than my personal. But I pay more for the business membership. I also had to prove I am a legit business to get it. I definitely add personal stuff to the order (it gets separated), and it’s worth it to me. I run a small business that operates 7 days a week. I homeschool. I am not on the couch eating bon bons. Right now I am developing a New Years ad as I check in with y’all.
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:31 AM (ZdaMQ)

Nah, you're not lazy. You are choosing to use their service. You weighed out your options and determined what you are are willing to pay someone else to do instead of doing it yourself.

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (c2vsb)

178 We're simply asking why it would be ok to list the price for TJM as $3.95 and list the price as $1.25 for Bulg if they both were to pull up Instacart at the same moment?

Because Instacart is tired of hearing about Prometheus?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (QZThv)

179 Putin replied that Starmer can't even stop rubber boats full of Muslims from coming and raping everyone.
Posted by: Ian S.

--

Guy's got a point

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (dE3DB)

180 Да, конечно!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Are you able to type the Cyrillic directly, or do you write it in Word and cut-and-paste it here?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

181 I figured it was just a matter of time before someone bridled at the assumption that all Instacart users are stupid and/or lazy.
Posted by: Archimedes

I didn’t bridle that much, because I don’t have the energy. It was maybe just a little prickly that quickly went into this is why I use it. 😊

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (ZdaMQ)

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Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (T+ixL)
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You make a good point. If lower costs of credit are available for the affluent, why shouldn't the inverse also be true? Charge the rich more for convenience.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (yNGcr)

183 She probably deserved it. I wonder what she was wearing.

New York wins lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia for not making cars harder to steal 🤡

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

184 You don't think Instacart knows the per capita income of the ZIP code you're ordering from?

Posted by: I gotta ask at December 17, 2025 11:40 AM (EYPJc)

185 "As we see time and time and time again, federal regulators and investigators aren't there to do their stated jobs, they're there to protect the anointed and punish the disfavored."

They are either in on the take, or they are too stupid and poorly trained to do their jobs properly.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:40 AM (2WIwB)

186 $200 for a cab ride sounds excessive

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 11:40 AM (ZxPkt)

187 I did watch the video related to the Instacart scandal.
And it does look sleazy (again, see above about me never using Instacart), but the people doing the investigation really seemed pissed off by the pursuit of profit more than the lying.

And there was lying, like about Target using Instacart. They don't, they have a competing service. But Instacart was listing Target items without an agreement, etc.

Instacart should burn for this.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:40 AM (xcxpd)

188 A $27 cheeseburger from DoorDash vs $6 at Wendy's isn't a lesson in economics.

It's an IQ test.
Posted by: And you failed it

And they passed because they used SNAP for free.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 11:40 AM (T+ixL)

189 Nah, you're not lazy. You are choosing to use their service. You weighed out your options and determined what you are are willing to pay someone else to do instead of doing it yourself.

Actual free market capitalism, who knew?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 11:40 AM (QZThv)

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Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (T+ixL)

Has it though

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:41 AM (BEQiS)

191 "Oh, you are actually about to buy it! Well, that changes everything..."

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 11:41 AM (KqZNZ)

192 Also note the pricing is based on store price model. Instacart up charges it. It happens in stores, too. The Publix next door to my studio has higher prices on somethings as the one 3 miles down the road near my house. So it’s not national account pricing - it starts at the store level.
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:36 AM (ZdaMQ)
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Yea. There is as much as a 25% different in price for certain scotches at 3 different liquor stores within a few miles of each other, all in affluent towns in NJ. I know which store has the cheapest Laphroaig, which has the cheapest Lagavulin, which the cheapest Balvenie.

And oddly, they are different stores: the store with the cheapest Lagavulin doesn't have the cheapest Balvenie.

As I said above: BUYER BEWARE. Do some research and shop around and you'll cut your overall costs -- on everything -- at least 10% a year.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

193 I figured it was just a matter of time before someone bridled at the assumption that all Instacart users are stupid and/or lazy.
Posted by: Archimedes

I didn’t bridle that much, because I don’t have the energy. It was maybe just a little prickly that quickly went into this is why I use it. 😊
Posted by: Piper

Neigh!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (T+ixL)

194 That's not what some of us are questioning. We're simply asking why it would be ok to list the price for TJM as $3.95 and list the price as $1.25 for Bulg if they both were to pull up Instacart at the same moment? (Leave delivery fees and taxes out of the calculation.)
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)
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The same way it's okay if the person at the farmer's market stall selling turnip greens thinks a person looks like an easy mark and marks the greens up on the spot just to see if they'll pay it.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (5aZAZ)

195 Many $200 cab rides, just stealing a car and then ditching it becomes plausible.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (Tbj3s)

196 Archimedes even dresses like Zelenskyyy. He's a shill.

Posted by: Russian/Penguin Alliance at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (oftw2)

197 Doof- competitors are Door Dash, Uber Eats, Grub Hub, Shipt. So clearly people beside me use it. I am not keeping all of them in business!

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (ZdaMQ)

198 Putin replied that Starmer can't even stop rubber boats full of Muslims from coming and raping everyone.
Posted by: Ian S.

UK Boat Migrant Crossings Hit Daily High, Total for 2025 Passes 40,000

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (L/fGl)

199 Airlines and hotels charge different rates depending upon when you book, but they don't charge different rates to people who book at the same time.

Not always. If I contact an airline for a price, and then shop around, when I return to the original airline, the price is usually higher than when I started. Someone who started at the same time I returned would presumably get the lower price, but I wouldn't.

I believe that in a society that espouses democratic ideals, allowing pricing based only on the personal characteristics of the purchasor is far too socially corrosive to be tolerated. To put it another way; over time the practice will cause problems for all, while providing profits for only a few.

I've always opposed having businesses told by the government who they must allow to use their wares. You've put the counterargument in a very compelling way.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

200 A $27 cheeseburger from DoorDash vs $6 at Wendy's isn't a lesson in economics.

It's an IQ test.
Posted by: And you failed it at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (EYPJc)

Aside from the number being off, the problem with this logic is that the $27 (or whatever they're charging) isn't JUST for the cheeseburger. It's also for the convenience of not having to go get it, of having it dropped at your door.

Now, you can argue that's not a very wise use of one's money, but the person who ordered food delivery obviously sees value in being able to sit on their fat ass, and have the food shoved into their face without any more effort on their part.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (Ws9M3)

201 Caroline Ellison has been moved from federal prison to community confinement. That means the former Alameda Research CEO is either in home confinement or a halfway house. Ellison served about 11 months of her two-year prison sentence. Caroline Ellison, the former cryptocurrency executive and [ nerdy four-eyes ] ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, has been quietly moved out of federal lockup after serving roughly 11 months of her two-year prison sentence, Business Insider has learned.

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 11:43 AM (RHGPo)

202 Always dress down when you go to the car dealership.

Posted by: Like grandad told you at December 17, 2025 11:43 AM (EYPJc)

203 OK, I'm calling it a day. Hope you all have a lovely week.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 11:43 AM (ufSfZ)

204 Archimedes even dresses like Zelenskyyy. He's a shill.

Can he play "Fur Elise" with his dick like Zelensky?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 11:43 AM (QZThv)

205 I'm still not getting it. A monopoly is not what's being charged here. Market price signals can easily be transmitted through intermediaries. I shall ponder.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

I used the word monopoly because of the discussion of anti-trust laws.
To me, instacart is similar to Tag and Title shops. I use a local one, and I realize I am paying for their service. There are a few of them here. They all charge different prices. I could go to the MVA / DMV myself, but I choose to pay for the convenience of not having too.
Another example might be legal services. Do all lawyers charge the same amount? Do lawyers charge every client the same amount? Services are optional and/or negotiable.

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 11:43 AM (c2vsb)

206 A $27 cheeseburger from DoorDash vs $6 at Wendy's isn't a lesson in economics.

Self imposed idiocy tax.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:44 AM (L/fGl)

207 I didn’t bridle that much, because I don’t have the energy. It was maybe just a little prickly that quickly went into this is why I use it. 😊
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (ZdaMQ)

And if Instacart did not exist, how would you handle the shopping chores?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:44 AM (npFr7)

208 Now, you can argue that's not a very wise use of one's money, but the person who ordered food delivery obviously sees value in being able to sit on their fat ass, and have the food shoved into their face without any more effort on their part.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (Ws9M3)

But I can’t afford to buy a house !!!

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:44 AM (KDPiq)

209 OT
I am outside XCel's blackout zone, but I fully expect them to cut my power anyway

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 11:44 AM (ZxPkt)

210 Delivery services are one of the few things good that came out of the Covid scam. I use Walmart for about 90% of my groceries being a bit crippled up. I have Walmart Plus,costs me $100 a year and then there's no delivery charge, normally $10. And you get a steaming service free. If I was more mobile, I wouldn't use it but when you have to walk a mile to get a gallon of milk and are to stupid and stubborn to use the electric go karts it's handy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)

211 Have 5 different people walk into a car dealership and inquire about the same car and see if ANY of them get quoted the same deal. I'll wait.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:45 AM (5aZAZ)

212 Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav

Rapes per 100,000. What is going on in Poland?

Poland: 1.3 / Austria: 25.5 / Norway: 42.1 / France: 62.7 / Sweden: 84.4 / England: 117.2

Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEagleman

@Grok, what is the Muslim population in these countries?

Grok @grok

Based on 2024-2025 estimates from sources like World Population Review and Pew Research:

- Poland: ~0.02% (6,800 Muslims)
- Austria: ~8% (720,000)
- Norway: ~3.2% (176,000)
- France: ~10% (6.7 million)
- Sweden: ~7% (700,000)
- UK: ~6% (3.9 million)

X: https://bit.ly/44TIPHV

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 11:45 AM (P5BPp)

213 Actual free market capitalism, who knew?
Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 11:40 AM (QZThv)

I thought it was AoSHQ policy that free markets are bad.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:45 AM (Ws9M3)

214 Somewhat OT but I was reminded
The Power by Snap
https://youtu.be/nm6DO_7px1I

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:46 AM (xcxpd)

215 Airlines and hotels charge different rates depending upon when you book, but they don't charge different rates to people who book at the same time.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (QPpHv)
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This is patently false.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:46 AM (5aZAZ)

216 DOT put express lanes on the freeways around here a couple years ago. Recently, there was great outrage because they instituted dynamic pricing on the tolls. Not peak or non-peak, but changing by the hour, if not minute. DOT's rationale was, I shit you not, they were trying to discourage use of the express lanes.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (MZ+PY)

217 208 Now, you can argue that's not a very wise use of one's money, but the person who ordered food delivery obviously sees value in being able to sit on their fat ass, and have the food shoved into their face without any more effort on their part.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (Ws9M3)

But I can’t afford to buy a house !!!

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:44 AM (KDPiq)

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The problem is insurance and housing:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/
1999468528966205504

A weirdly large spike which happened with the election of Joe Biden when he opened up the borders, which I'm sure is completely unrelated because the supply/demand curve is racist and should be forgotten as an artifact of imperialism over black bodies and no more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

218 Archimedes even dresses like Zelenskyyy. He's a shill.

Can he play "Fur Elise" with his d*** like Zelensky?

Nope. The extreme length makes it difficult to control over the keyboard.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

219 But I can’t afford to buy a house !!!
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:44 AM (KDPiq)

Now you got me wondering if these services deliver to homeless encampments.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (Ws9M3)

220 All's well in Oz.

When asked about Islamic violence, Aussie minister defends "multiculturalism," says government has "criminalized the Nazi salute" to protect citizens

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM

Yet, they have not criminalized Islam or Muslims, who are essentially modern-day Nazis.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (P5BPp)

221 AFAIK

q up

20$ same as in town +
(rolls dice on counter for all to see) 3$
legal

20$ same as in town +
(rolls dice under counter no one sees) 5$
illegal violation of long established anti-trust law

20$ same as in town +
(doesn't like your face) 6$
illegal violation of anti-discrimination law

Posted by: DaveA at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (FhXTo)

222 198 Putin replied that Starmer can't even stop rubber boats full of Muslims from coming and raping everyone.
Posted by: Ian S.

Hah, Putin is such a liar.

Surely he knows that Starmer is actively involved in bringing those moslims over and covering up the raping.

That Putin, he'll say anything! It's what dictators do!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:48 AM (Dv3i1)

223 That's not what some of us are questioning. We're simply asking why it would be ok to list the price for TJM as $3.95 and list the price as $1.25 for Bulg if they both were to pull up Instacart at the same moment? (Leave delivery fees and taxes out of the calculation.)
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

Are TJM and Bulg neighbors shopping at the same store? Remember, pricing starts at the store being shopped and Instacart up charges.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (ZdaMQ)

224 Not always. If I contact an airline for a price, and then shop around, when I return to the original airline, the price is usually higher than when I started.

Have done that quite a few times. If you show interest, those search criteria are saved for quite a while. If you can switch IPs and browsers, and swoop in on the flight, you can get the better price.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (KqZNZ)

225 Have 5 different people walk into a car dealership and inquire about the same car and see if ANY of them get quoted the same deal. I'll wait.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:45 AM (5aZAZ)

Generally based on whether you're a dude or a chick.

But I'm guessing car dealers will see some young fella, especially if he's wearing expensive sneakers, and guide him toward the "sports" car with the 4 cylinder engine, that has the glass pipe noisemakers on it, and upcharge the hell out of him.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (Ws9M3)

226 Why are most individual attacks today on American Jewish people are by African-Americans? Worse than the KKK back in the day.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (KDPiq)

227 I thought it was yesterday as well, but apparently it's tonight.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM (6jy2V)

Ah

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 11:50 AM (BEQiS)

228 Airline and hotel room prices are determined by the number of remaining seats or rooms. They will raise the price as that number decreases or the date approaches, and prices then fall when the possibility of unsold slots starts to rise close to the date. Thus is not the same as charging different prices for two customers who book at the same time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 11:50 AM (QPpHv)

229 I didn’t bridle that much, because I don’t have the energy. It was maybe just a little prickly that quickly went into this is why I use it. 😊
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (ZdaMQ)

And if Instacart did not exist, how would you handle the shopping chores?

My daughter used to live in midtown Manhattan, and had no car. When she first moved there, she and my wife walked to the grocery store, which was not close, because there was no parking. They lugged all the groceries home, and said "never again". They thought about taking an Uber, but that was very expensive.

From then on, she used a delivery service, not for one or two items, but after she'd developed a list of things she needed.

In some situations, division of labor makes sense.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

230 But I'm guessing car dealers will see some young fella, especially if he's wearing expensive sneakers, and guide him toward the "sports" car with the 4 cylinder engine, that has the glass pipe noisemakers on it, and upcharge the hell out of him.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (Ws9M3)

You forgot the towel rack on the trunk lid.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:50 AM (npFr7)

231 All's well in Oz.

When asked about Islamic violence, Aussie minister defends "multiculturalism," says government has "criminalized the Nazi salute" to protect citizens

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:30 AM

Yet, they have not criminalized Islam or Muslims, who are essentially modern-day Nazis.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (P5BPp)

You really have to marvel at the suicidal behavior of these formerly first world nations.

As much as we bicker and argue about things here in Amerka, it really does seem to be just about the last bastion of freedom on the planet.

Well, here and Qatar.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:51 AM (Ws9M3)

232 Generally based on whether you're a dude or a chick.

But I'm guessing car dealers will see some young fella, especially if he's wearing expensive sneakers, and guide him toward the "sports" car with the 4 cylinder engine, that has the glass pipe noisemakers on it, and upcharge the hell out of him.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (Ws9M3)
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Correct, and also based on how long the car has been sitting on the lot, has the salesman made quota yet that month, are they tired of that car being in the showroom, is the finance manager in a good mood, did the secretary blow the GM earlier that morning....et cetera.

I'm trying to say that what Instacart is doing here isn't something new, revolutionary, or particularly evil on its face. As always, when you get your wallet out you should watch where the money goes.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:51 AM (5aZAZ)

233 216 DOT put express lanes on the freeways around here a couple years ago. Recently, there was great outrage because they instituted dynamic pricing on the tolls. Not peak or non-peak, but changing by the hour, if not minute. DOT's rationale was, I shit you not, they were trying to discourage use of the express lanes.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (MZ+PY)

Same thing here in Western WA

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

234 Why does the Instacart idea bother me when I’m totally cool with Amazon doing almost the exact same thing for video rentals/purchases. They offer huge discounts that vary on a user-by-user basis. If Bob will buy at “10% off” while Carl won’t buy unless it’s 50% off, Amazon will give them each those different offers. Is this fair to Bob?

Posted by: wooga at December 17, 2025 11:52 AM (OQLo+)

235 I know a guy who owns many AirBNBs. When certain protected classes call for reservations, he explains so sorry, unit is being refit for a better stay next time.

He learned the hard way.

Posted by: No Soup For You at December 17, 2025 11:52 AM (m8zKa)

236 Australia focuses on the real threats - Novak Djokovic didn't take the vaccine for covid, so not allowed*. Moslim** has terrorist sympathies, allowed. Throw some halal shrimp on the barbie for 'im!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:13 AM

Australia has also banned some anti-Islam YouTubers.

Candace Owens (2024-2025)
Hillel Fuld (2025)
Milo Yiannopolous (2019)

Yet, they allow ISIS brides no problem.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/49esVKs

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 11:52 AM (P5BPp)

237 Are TJM and Bulg neighbors shopping at the same store? Remember, pricing starts at the store being shopped and Instacart up charges.
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (ZdaMQ)

Correct.

By the way, those shoes that you said were $995 -- I got them for $50. The store said the $995 price tag was for people they knew would pay that amount.

*ducks and runs away*

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 11:52 AM (c2vsb)

238 You forgot the towel rack on the trunk lid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:50 AM (npFr7)

Heh, I never heard it called a towel rack before.

I sometimes long for a new car with a manual transmission, but one of the few left is the Honda Civic Z (or whatever). And that one comes with the towel rack.

No thank you.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:53 AM (Ws9M3)

239 Every year, the cost of my health insurance increases substantially. (I don't have dental, vision, etc. separately & I'm not on Medicare.)

>Shots - Health News
ACA shoppers face sticker shock as Congress dithers on health care, December 15, 2025

BS. Paying nothing or almost for years. How can it be so shocking for up to (an additional) $1,000 spread out over the year for premium plans?

In 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) made special Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies available for people receiving unemployment compensation, allowing them to get lower-cost (even $0 premium) health plans on the Health Insurance Marketplace starting July 1, 2021, and these enhanced subsidies were later extended through 2025 by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Anyone who received unemployment benefits at any point in 2021 qualified, regardless of their yearly income.
Benefits: This meant access to significant premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, often resulting in $0 monthly premiums for benchmark Silver plans.

Then Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) extended these "enhanced subsidies" through 2025, continuing the benefit for the unemployed "and others."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 17, 2025 11:53 AM (NFX2v)

240 My daughter used to live in midtown Manhattan, and had no car. When she first moved there, she and my wife walked to the grocery store, which was not close, because there was no parking. They lugged all the groceries home, and said "never again". They thought about taking an Uber, but that was very expensive.

From then on, she used a delivery service, not for one or two items, but after she'd developed a list of things she needed.

In some situations, division of labor makes sense.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

I still walk groceries home almost every other day, since we are also now short cars after the fall. I also use Amazon's new free delivery service (which has given me unbelievable produce deals, probably to get me hooked).

So, it's one big weekend shop, and then oopsies and sales the rest of the week in small quantities for a fam of 6.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 11:53 AM (tOcjL)

241 Have 5 different people walk into a car dealership and inquire about the same car and see if ANY of them get quoted the same deal. I'll wait.
Posted by: ballistic

Sticker prices are already framed by legislation. This isn't about negotiation. It's about the listed price. FAIL, as the kids say.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 11:53 AM (mlg/3)

242 Have 5 different people walk into a car dealership and inquire about the same car and see if ANY of them get quoted the same deal. I'll wait.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:45 AM (5aZAZ)

Generally based on whether you're a dude or a chick.

But I'm guessing car dealers will see some young fella, especially if he's wearing expensive sneakers, and guide him toward the "sports" car with the 4 cylinder engine, that has the glass pipe noisemakers on it, and upcharge the hell out of him.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (Ws9M3)
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I was in car sales for years. It's how I put myself through college and law school. The reality is in the modern world the buyer comes in knowing almost exactly what he wants. And based on my experience, it's very hard to spot the "mark" from appearance alone. Or really to tell much of anything from appearance alone.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

243 The same way it's okay if the person at the farmer's market stall selling turnip greens thinks a person looks like an easy mark and marks the greens up on the spot just to see if they'll pay it.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:42 AM (5aZAZ)

In that case, we're talking about personal 1 on 1, face to face transactions, and we don't want to have a government minder standing over every single interaction. Also presumably there will be other small vendors available for the same product, which can be easily compared.

But with something like Instacart, we're looking at a computer algorithm with vast power that deals with tens of thousands of individuals a day, and the bargaining power between an individual and that kind of mechanized computing power is not even close to equal. It does not help anyone to make shopping for every individual kumquat a 2 hour exercise in price matching.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK8)

244 228 Airline and hotel room prices are determined by the number of remaining seats or rooms. They will raise the price as that number decreases or the date approaches, and prices then fall when the possibility of unsold slots starts to rise close to the date. Thus is not the same as charging different prices for two customers who book at the same time.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 11:50 AM (QPpHv)
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This is correct in part but it also willfully ignores all of the other factors they use in deciding what price to show you at the time of booking.

As I have said in this thread before, hit Expedia on your laptop and your phone, at the same time, from the same network, and pull up the same product (flight, hotel room) and I would bet you even money that you don't get the same price on both devices.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:54 AM (5aZAZ)

245 I always feel I leave about 2k on the table when buying a car. I have a price in mind and if the dealer takes it I’m good. I’m almost positive I could squeeze out a lower price but just want to get the F out of there.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:54 AM (KDPiq)

246 225 "Hey, kid. I wouldn't be able to sleep if I didn't include the rustproofing for $496 and these custom floor mats for $195. Think of it as an investment". "Hey,Chuck, run down to O'reilly's and get some of those $10 floor mats and a couple cans of that spray shit. Give the spray shit to Jose. He knows what to do".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 11:54 AM (gm9Sb)

247 This has to be one of the stranger "problems" I've ever seen.

So a business... sets its prices..... according to its own rules? And those prices vary?

How is this anybody's business except the business and its customers?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (Ws9M3)

Yeah. I'm with the people that say the free market will take care of this one way or another.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (g8Ew8)

248 207 I didn’t bridle that much, because I don’t have the energy. It was maybe just a little prickly that quickly went into this is why I use it. 😊
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:39 AM (ZdaMQ)

And if Instacart did not exist, how would you handle the shopping chores?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:44 AM (

I would probably just order it all on Amazon, which would take a little bit longer since I couldn’t get it all from the same place at the same time.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (ZdaMQ)

249 DogeDesigner @cb_doge

Javier Milei on Censorship in UK

"Since the socialists came to power, they have been jailing people for posting on social media, and the journalists here would like that too, because they don't like that they have lost the monopoly of the microphone and the ability to use that tool to extort and smear, to defame without any cause.

Social media makes them accountable, and they don't like it. Now the people are doing it organically because they realized many of them are criminals."

X video: https://bit.ly/3KBJSoX

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (P5BPp)

250 I'm trying to say that what Instacart is doing here isn't something new, revolutionary, or particularly evil on its face. As always, when you get your wallet out you should watch where the money goes.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:51 AM (5aZAZ)

Agreed.

I remember some guy at some time saying something about a sucker and his money and the parting of their ways.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (Ws9M3)

251 If dynamic pricing is illegal, the biggest offender is...the US government. I get a much smaller return on the money I paid in to SS and Medicare than someone who paid in much less. Is that fair? I'm oppressed, is what I am.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

252 A federal judge on Tuesday turned down preservationists’ request to halt President Donald Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom project, concluding that allowing below-ground construction to continue in the coming weeks was unlikely to produce irreparable harm to those opposed to the plan.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s request for a temporary restraining order, but said he would hear arguments early next year about whether to issue a longer-term preliminary injunction against the project.

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (RHGPo)

253 But with something like Instacart, we're looking at a computer algorithm with vast power that deals with tens of thousands of individuals a day, and the bargaining power between an individual and that kind of mechanized computing power is not even close to equal. It does not help anyone to make shopping for every individual kumquat a 2 hour exercise in price matching.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK

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It's still 1000% Your Fault if you're dumb enough to pay a wildly inflated price for a product or service.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (5aZAZ)

254 >202 Always dress down when you go to the car dealership.

Posted by: Like grandad told you at December 17, 2025 11:43 AM (EYPJc)

I'm an absolute dick when negotiating the price of a car. You either want to sell the car or you don't. If you do, you're going to take a haircut on the sticker price. And you'll give me the out the door cost before I discuss financing. And don't give me that 'I have to discuss with my manager' nonsense.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (NgqoH)

255 223 That's not what some of us are questioning. We're simply asking why it would be ok to list the price for TJM as $3.95 and list the price as $1.25 for Bulg if they both were to pull up Instacart at the same moment? (Leave delivery fees and taxes out of the calculation.)
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

Are TJM and Bulg neighbors shopping at the same store? Remember, pricing starts at the store being shopped and Instacart up charges.
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:49 AM (ZdaMQ)

In the expose Consumer Reports did with The Post, they had a room full of people, all in the same place, shopping the same store, at the same time. And there was a big variation of price on the same items.

Instacart is basically testing price gouging on its customers

https://youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

256 There is an argument to be made that the sorts of pricing seen in delivery services--especially where groceries and such are involved--could be seen as having particular predatory impact on the disabled or individuals otherwise physically hampered from shopping in person. One wonders if there's an ADA case an adventuresome litigator might be tempted to push...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (OUMaO)

257 Did Trump speak last night?
Posted by: ...

He was at some Hannukah thing last night, and spoke. Tonight at 9pm, Trump Standard Time, is his address to the nation.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (dfgzq)

258 Well whether Putin wanted war is disputable. I'd argue he did, failing some diplomatic solution that left him with Ukraine.

But what wasn't disputable is this: European leaders are, in point of fact, little piggies. Grasping, obsequious lickspittle piggies, snuffling greedily at the globalist trough.

Nothing "unhinged" about that part of Putin's statement. They're all demonstrably piggy AF.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 11:56 AM (BI5O2)

259 I’m almost positive I could squeeze out a lower price but just want to get the F out of there.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Buying a car is one of the most unpleasant experiences one can go through. I hate it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

260 @186

>>$200 for a cab ride sounds excessive

Sure is, but when your car is parked in Hoboken and a rain storm has brought NYC MTA to it's knees, what are you going to do, swim to Hoboken?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 11:56 AM (XV/Pl)

261 1 ) no shop has prices listed
2 ) every shop has a price listed and honored

Which economy do you wish to live in?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 11:56 AM (mlg/3)

262 Social media makes them accountable, and they don't like it. Now the people are doing it organically because they realized many of them are criminals."
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All the journalists I know are the most honest, upright, hardworking truth-tellers. What Milei is saying is straight out of an authoritarian's playbook.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 17, 2025 11:57 AM (Dv3i1)

263 I just bank on the keyboard until the red squiggles go away.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE MISSPELLED "BANG" IN A WAY THAT WOULDN'T MAKE A RED SQUIGGLE.

Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at December 17, 2025 11:57 AM (CLARQ)

264 The problem is insurance and housing:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/
1999468528966205504

A weirdly large spike which happened with the election of Joe Biden when he opened up the borders, which I'm sure is completely unrelated because the supply/demand curve is racist and should be forgotten as an artifact of imperialism over black bodies and no more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
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The insurance graph is odd because not only is there a yuge spike starting with Biden (for reasons which are obvious), there are also earlier spikes and falls that don't seem to correspond to anything.

I wonder what data is being used for this chart. I'm always skeptical when I see things like this. My own insurance hasn't gone up much at all. Certainly not that big a spike.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

265 How many more times are we going to hear "Muhammad Al Al bib Muhammad bin aluakbar Muhammad" murdered people before the real backlash kicks in?

Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 17, 2025 11:57 AM (B5hSh)

266 Sticker prices are already framed by legislation. This isn't about negotiation. It's about the listed price. FAIL, as the kids say.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 11:53 AM (mlg/3)
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Didn't say anything about sticker price, hoss.

I said "Quoted the same deal."

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:57 AM (5aZAZ)

267 I would probably just order it all on Amazon, which would take a little bit longer since I couldn’t get it all from the same place at the same time.
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (ZdaMQ)

As a business owner, do you have employees that could be given the task of doing a shopping run?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:57 AM (npFr7)

268 Why does the Instacart idea bother me when I’m totally cool with Amazon doing almost the exact same thing for video rentals/purchases."

Because we view groceries as necessities, while we view video rentals as discretionary entertainment. Now it may be argued that some high end foods, as well as cookies, cakes, and pies are just discretionary luxury items. I believe that's long been the justification for extra alcohol taxation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 11:58 AM (uWKK8)

269 10 IIRC Wendys is also trying this Instacart version of 'dynamic pricing' and yes Wendys is dead to me.
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Their Frosty's are pretty damned good. Not like a McDonald's 'Shake.'

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 11:58 AM (Wg6v7)

270 I always feel I leave about 2k on the table when buying a car. I have a price in mind and if the dealer takes it I’m good. I’m almost positive I could squeeze out a lower price but just want to get the F out of there.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:54 AM (KDPiq)

Agreed. I did my research (which is nothing more than going to more than one site and looking at what they say the price should be), went to the dealer, selected the vehicle I wanted, presented them with the printout of the agreed price and the value of my trade-in, and walked out with the keys.

People like me, they don't haggle, or play markup games, but I'm guessing there's some trick or two they know that I don't that could have gotten me a few more bucks in my pocket.

I don't care. The whole process took about an hour.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 11:58 AM (Ws9M3)

271 The sticker price of the can of beans is what you get if you walk into the store and buy it yourself. Instacart shows you something different because A) you're using a service to get the beans and B) They want to see if you're dumb enough to eat a 300% markup. This isn't difficult...

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:58 AM (5aZAZ)

272 AOC's Puerto Rico Trip Highlights the Hollow Core of Performative Socialism

AOC rails nonstop against “the rich,” yet drops tens of thousands in campaign cash on luxury hotels, upscale catering, and elite venues on a Puerto Rico trip.

Socialism for you, first-class living for her.

The hypocrisy writes itself. Nicolás Maduro look-alike.
With all the romance of the Ton-Ton Macoute

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (RHGPo)

273 Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav

Rapes per 100,000. What is going on in Poland?

Poland: 1.3 / Austria: 25.5 / Norway: 42.1 / France: 62.7 / Sweden: 84.4 / England: 117.2

Polacks don't play.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (T+ixL)

274 Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ in unhinged rant against Kyiv’s allies

Did they go wee-wee-wee all the way home?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (w9Wax)

275 This sort of rapacity is something I DO believe the Boomers started. I often defend the bastards of my age group, not on grounds of character, but merely of accuracy. A lot of the BS we were full of was fed to us, and most my age were docile sheep about it.

But when it comes to the attitude that customers and employees exist to be ripped off, well, that does come from when the rip-off generation got into managment.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (s0JqF)

276 But what wasn't disputable is this: European leaders are, in point of fact, little piggies. Grasping, obsequious lickspittle piggies, snuffling greedily at the globalist trough.

See! Common ground.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

277 "Tell you what, I'll throw in the fuzzy dice on the rearview for free."

Posted by: Car dealer who knows how to close the deal at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (vSSIL)

278 273 Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav

Rapes per 100,000. What is going on in Poland?

Poland: 1.3 / Austria: 25.5 / Norway: 42.1 / France: 62.7 / Sweden: 84.4 / England: 117.2

Polacks don't play.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (T+ixL)

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Maybe Polish fathers still take care of business when their daughters are raped.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

279 254 I'm an absolute dick when negotiating the price of a car. You either want to sell the car or you don't. If you do, you're going to take a haircut on the sticker price. And you'll give me the out the door cost before I discuss financing. And don't give me that 'I have to discuss with my manager' nonsense.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (NgqoH)

The last dealership I bought from, they adamantly refused to sell to me, and so I basically had to look like the lamest person on earth and get multiple family members involved before they finally agreed to do so.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (UnA8+)

280 *ducks and runs away*
Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 11:52 AM (c2vsb)

Very funny.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

281 Now, let's do plumbers and HVAC guys.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (Wg6v7)

282 As I have said in this thread before, hit Expedia on your laptop and your phone, at the same time, from the same network, and pull up the same product (flight, hotel room) and I would bet you even money that you don't get the same price on both devices.
Posted by: ballistic

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There's an article that says mobile users get charged more

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (gDlxJ)

283
Tucker's brother...is that you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That Shaft is one bad Tucker Brother!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (pkeXY)

284 269 10 IIRC Wendys is also trying this Instacart version of 'dynamic pricing' and yes Wendys is dead to me.
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Their Frosty's are pretty damned good. Not like a McDonald's 'Shake.'
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 11:58 AM (Wg6v7)

Strangely good with french fries

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (xcxpd)

285 Negotiate for a car in first week of January.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (ehY6c)

286 Homeowners Insurance has gone up tremendously in Hurricane zones even though we haven’t had one hit in 8 years in my area. I moved out of the zone and my insurance was cut in half for a higher priced home.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (KDPiq)

287 261 1 ) no shop has prices listed
2 ) every shop has a price listed and honored

Which economy do you wish to live in?
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 11:56 AM (mlg/3)
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The prices in the grocery store are listed and honored. When you hire someone else to go to the grocery store for you, those prices are subject to negotiation with the person or entity you've selected to make your grocery run.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 12:01 PM (5aZAZ)

288 "unhinged rant"

That is opinion trying to slip by as a fact. My assumption is the writer is a liar whenever they try this trick.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:01 PM (Dv3i1)

289 Didn't say anything about sticker price, hoss.

I said "Quoted the same deal."
Posted by: ballistic

The deal begins with a sticker price.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 12:01 PM (mlg/3)

290 You see this cat, Shaft is a bad motha-
(Shut your mouth!)
But I'm talkin' about Shaft!
(Then we can dig it!)

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 12:01 PM (RHGPo)

291 >Buying a car is one of the most unpleasant experiences one can go through. I hate it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

I called a second dealer about a similarly equipped car while sitting at the sales desk of dealer number one.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 17, 2025 12:01 PM (NgqoH)

292 Never buy a new car. Never place a bet on a game until the game is underway. Stuff you learn about real markets.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 12:01 PM (Wg6v7)

293 How many more times are we going to hear "Muhammad Al Al bib Muhammad bin aluakbar Muhammad" murdered people before the real backlash kicks in?
Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 17, 2025 11:57 AM (B5hSh)

It sure looked like slaughter, what he did to Joe Bugner and Jerry Quarry, but I wouldn't call it murder.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:02 PM (wCwnN)

294 A federal judge on Tuesday turned down preservationists’ request to halt President Donald Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom project, concluding that allowing below-ground construction to continue in the coming weeks was unlikely to produce irreparable harm to those opposed to the plan.

=

hahah

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 12:02 PM (g47mK)

295 >>Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ in unhinged rant against Kyiv’s allies

It was perfectly hinged and Putin is exactly right.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 12:02 PM (viF8m)

296 You see this cat, Trump is a bad motha-
(Shut your mouth!)
But I'm talkin' about Trump!
(Then we can dig it!)

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 12:02 PM (RHGPo)

297 >285 Negotiate for a car in first week of January.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (ehY6c)

Last week of December. There is a hefty incentive to book the sale by the end of Q4.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 17, 2025 12:02 PM (NgqoH)

298 What is going on in Poland?

Poland: 1.3 ... England: 117.2

Well, I think we can figure out what is NOT going on in Poland.

I wonder if the EU expects them to get their numbers up?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:02 PM (dfgzq)

299 It's still 1000% Your Fault if you're dumb enough to pay a wildly inflated price for a product or service.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 11:55 AM (5aZAZ)

Agreed. I order a good bit of things on Amazon but I try to make sure that what I find is cheaper than if I tried to find it locally. And that isn't even counting the time and transportation expense if I had to hunt some of the things down. (I have Prime because it pays for itself 2 or 3 times over with the no shipping charges. )

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (uWKK8)

300 Their Frosty's are pretty damned good. Not like a McDonald's 'Shake.'
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 11:58 AM (Wg6v7)

Strangely good with french fries
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (xcxpd)
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I had Wendy's for the first time in decades earlier this year. Naturally I bought a Frosty (chocolate, of course), and dipped my fries in it, just like I did when I was a kid. Great stuff.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (ESVrU)

301 ‘ i want Hunt’s ketchup, not Heinz, Hal.’
‘I can’t do that, Dave.’

Posted by: Eromero at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (o2ZRX)

302 That's not what some of us are questioning. We're simply asking why it would be ok to list the price for TJM as $3.95 and list the price as $1.25 for Bulg if they both were to pull up Instacart at the same moment? (Leave delivery fees and taxes out of the calculation.)
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

Are TJM and Bulg neighbors shopping at the same store? Remember, pricing starts at the store being shopped and Instacart up charges.
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Yes, thank you for the clarifying question!

This has been a frustrating topic because so many here aren't willing to keep the discussion to a single commodity item available at the same time and the same date under the same terms and instead have gone out of their way to invoke rental agreements, airlines, cab rides, and hotel rooms. This topic originated about Instacart, which provides exactly ZERO of those services.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (TN0g+)

303 The deal begins with a sticker price.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 12:01 PM (mlg/3)
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Yeah and the birth of a child begins with someone getting a boner.

There's a lot in between, though.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (5aZAZ)

304 300 Their Frosty's are pretty damned good. Not like a McDonald's 'Shake.'
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 11:58 AM (Wg6v7)

Strangely good with french fries
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:00 PM (xcxpd)
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I had Wendy's for the first time in decades earlier this year. Naturally I bought a Frosty (chocolate, of course), and dipped my fries in it, just like I did when I was a kid. Great stuff.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (ESVrU)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (xcxpd)

305 II just destroyed both ends of a car deal end of October. I had boughy from them before which helped.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (BEQiS)

306 295 >>Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ in unhinged rant against Kyiv’s allies

It was perfectly hinged and Putin is exactly right.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 12:02 PM (viF8m)

I think he watched Andy Serkis' new take on Animal Farm.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (uWKK8)

307 273 Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav

Rapes per 100,000. What is going on in Poland?

Poland: 1.3 / Austria: 25.5 / Norway: 42.1 / France: 62.7 / Sweden: 84.4 / England: 117.2

Polacks don't play.
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England must really like rape.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (Wg6v7)

308 >>Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ in unhinged rant against Kyiv’s allies

... I always figured the "little piggies" in the Beatles song "Pigies" to be the media, while the bigger piggies are the 'elites'

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (RHGPo)

309 This topic originated about Instacart, which provides exactly ZERO of those services.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (TN0g+)
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Instacart is a cab ride taken by your groceries.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (5aZAZ)

310 Sure is, but when your car is parked in Hoboken and a rain storm has brought NYC MTA to it's knees, what are you going to do, swim to Hoboken?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

There are a couple ferries across, as well as private jitneys that operate through the Lincoln Tunnel. You don't need to pay $200!

Posted by: Prudence Dictates at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (oftw2)

311 306 I think he watched Andy Serkis' new take on Animal Farm.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (uWKK

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Eh.

Putin is nostalgic for the days of the Soviet Union. Calling Stalin a traitor to the communist cause probably doesn't sit well with Putin in any form.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

312 Ten years ago I needed a ride from a motel to the airport. Tucson. Middle of a Sunday morning. I planned to use Uber until I saw the prices at that time! Few Uber were drivers up early on a Sunday morning. Took a cab. Saved 15-20 bucks IIRC, believe it or not..

Posted by: Gref at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (5rh/l)

313 As a business owner, do you have employees that could be given the task of doing a shopping run?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:57 AM (npFr7)

No- we are very small. My employees are instructors with the exception of one of my best friends who works the front desk and follows up on leads for me. Her husband is the biggest plastic surgeon in the area, she does NOT need to work for me. lol. But by the time I pay what I would pay for them to do it, Instacart is cheaper.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

314 Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ in unhinged rant against Kyiv’s allies

Did they go wee-wee-wee all the way home?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 11:59 AM (w9Wax)

The man's right. When he's right he's right.

And there's probably not an human on this planet who is more hinged than Vlad the Pooter. I suspect the word "unginged" in that article was a wee bit of editorializing.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (wCwnN)

315 Negotiate for a car in first week of January.
Posted by: Kingsman

Last Friday of September while it's raining. After eating a bowl of garlic.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (mlg/3)

316 y'all pay fo yo shit? lol

Posted by: hood rats "instacarting" at CVS at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (Y1sOo)

317 Never buy a new car. Never place a bet on a game until the game is underway. Stuff you learn about real markets.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 12:01 PM (Wg6v7)

I bought one new vehicle in my life. Had no complaints about the dealership, or the vehicle. But that was 40 years ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (npFr7)

318 Last week in Dec. for auto buy; first week in Jan. Okay, use both weeks and have price in mind.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (ehY6c)

319 >>I think he watched Andy Serkis' new take on Animal Farm.

It's one thing to know the west ran a color revolution in Ukraine. It's another thing to know why.

Both of Trump's impeachments were centered around Russia/Ukraine. Not a coincidence.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (viF8m)

320 I saw the other day that Keir Starmer said NATO must stop Russia from invading Europe (something nobody with an IQ over 50 thinks is remotely possible, given how Ukraine's gone). Putin replied that Starmer can't even stop rubber boats full of Muslims from coming and raping everyone.

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He has to be watching DJT hot takes !

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (g47mK)

321 Twenty years ago pundits argued that this would be the century of the Anglosphere.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (rJ48h)

322 300 Steak and Shake fries are great.They went back to beef tallow. Should be stores up in MO, Perfesser. Sadly, the one I went to didn't have malt vinegar but still good.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (gm9Sb)

323
We charge white males more. We also put something extra in their food.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (iTNuP)

324 Actually, buying a car is the most straight forward of big money purchases a person could do.

I think people trying to get "a good deal" makes them over-complicate this simple financial transaction.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (XV/Pl)

325 300 Steak and Shake fries are great.They went back to beef tallow. Should be stores up in MO, Perfesser. Sadly, the one I went to didn't have malt vinegar but still good.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (gm9Sb)
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We do have a Steak and Shake here in town, but I'm rarely in that part of town so I tend to forget about it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (ESVrU)

326 321 Twenty years ago pundits argued that this would be the century of the Anglosphere.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 17, 2025 12:05 PM (rJ48h)

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Pretty sure they were arguing Chinese hegemony.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

327 I try to make sure that what I find is cheaper than if I tried to find it locally.

I’m willing to pay more for local if it is already available locally, just on the theory that if I want to be able to buy stuff locally in the future, it’s best to incentivize it now.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (EXyHK)

328 I also wonder what's going on with Instacart and their shoppers. Three times now in the past six months I've gotten moldy bread. Do the stores keep old food for them?

Their AI customer service will refund you if you send a picture, but something is wrong.

Posted by: Random PJ at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (RRCAT)

329 The Obamas said "at some point you've made enough money" and are now worth a billion.

Key word: "you"

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (BEQiS)

330 I know a guy who owns many AirBNBs. When certain protected classes call for reservations, he explains so sorry, unit is being refit for a better stay next time.

He learned the hard way.

Posted by: No Soup For You at December 17, 2025 11:52 AM

Our old vfw post in connecticut did that with the hall rental years back. The place would literally be trashed when certain groups rented out the hall. We would hire off duty cops to slow down the violence and the underage drinking but it would never stop completely. Finally said nope after one night when two ambulance calls were made. One stabbing and one beer bottle smashed over a guys head.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (0N4FZ)

331 1 ) no shop has prices listed
2 ) every shop has a price listed and honored

Which economy do you wish to live in?
Posted by: weft cut loop

1) Market in Hyderbad with haggling
2) Stores in US

Since I'm not in the market for a goat, a wife, or a little boy, I pick #2.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (T+ixL)

332 Serkis played Snoke in Star Wars (or voiced the AI) , and then played a character in Andor too.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (g47mK)

333 311 306 I think he watched Andy Serkis' new take on Animal Farm.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (uWKK

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Eh.

Putin is nostalgic for the days of the Soviet Union. Calling Stalin a traitor to the communist cause probably doesn't sit well with Putin in any form.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

I think Putin misses the might and power of the Soviet Union, but I never got the impression he was a Communist idealist.

He's a tzar, the first tzar since the October Revolution.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (xcxpd)

334 I remember the latest and greatest discrimination against women was charging them more for dry cleaning than men.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (KDPiq)

335
Today's fake "outrage" from the confederates on "our side" is directed towards...[spins wheel].../tick.../tick...Kash Patel...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (DUeFe)

336 Instacart cheated me years ago, and I quit it. It does not honor in store sales. I originally ordered bottles of soda. My shopper texted me a picture of a major sale on cans. I agreed to get that instead. However, cans were not on sale at the Instacart web page. They paid the sale price but charged me full. They refused to refund the difference. Instacart pays the store and you pay Instacart, so you never get store sales only what Instacart chooses to put on sale on their website. I left. I still shop online for delivery, but I'm able to pay the store directly (different supermarket). They honor their in store sales as shown in their circular, and once in a while I get an additional online discount.

Posted by: hadsil at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (Xht4H)

337 I wonder if the EU expects them to get their numbers up?
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Poland is making the rest of the EU look bad. Can't have that.

I wonder what the rate in England is for the combo of rape/murder/sell-meat-in-kebab-shop is? (yes, this horror did happen)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (Dv3i1)

338 324 Actually, buying a car is the most straight forward of big money purchases a person could do.

I think people trying to get "a good deal" makes them over-complicate this simple financial transaction.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (XV/Pl)
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It's also one of the most comically opaque processes on the face of the earth, if you actually dig into how dealerships make money on cars.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (5aZAZ)

339 I think he watched Andy Serkis' new take on Animal Farm.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (uWKK

I saw Drinker's take on that one. Sheesh.

Has me wondering if Seth Rogan has a son with "mental health problems," and access to knives.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (wCwnN)

340 Their Frosty's are pretty damned good. Not like a McDonald's 'Shake.'
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 11:58 AM (Wg6v7)

We'll have a guy there to repair that damn machine next week ... promise

Posted by: Taylor Corp at December 17, 2025 12:08 PM (3sXRv)

341 This topic originated about Instacart, which provides exactly ZERO of those services.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (TN0g+)

If it helps, my friend and I tested this. We are getting the exact same prices.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 12:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

342 327 I try to make sure that what I find is cheaper than if I tried to find it locally.

I’m willing to pay more for local if it is already available locally, just on the theory that if I want to be able to buy stuff locally in the future, it’s best to incentivize it now.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (EXyHK)

This is my long standing practice, especially with single site restaurants...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 12:08 PM (tOcjL)

343 I was in car sales for years. It's how I put myself through college and law school. The reality is in the modern world the buyer comes in knowing almost exactly what he wants. And based on my experience, it's very hard to spot the "mark" from appearance alone. Or really to tell much of anything from appearance alone.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:53 AM

The nice thing about working for an auto company is getting the employee discounts. Which are usually a certain percentage below MSRP. So there's no hassle at all.

Go in there with your employee discount paperwork for the vehicle you want and that's that. All the salesperson has had to do for me is setup a test drive for me to confirm I like the vehicle I plan to buy and then input my information into the computer.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 12:08 PM (P5BPp)

344 Rapes per 100,000. What is going on in Poland?

Poland: 1.3 / Austria: 25.5 / Norway: 42.1 / France: 62.7 / Sweden: 84.4 / England: 117.2

Polacks don't play.

Posted by: rickb223

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Poland refusing to import mohammedans.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 12:08 PM (aTUmd)

345 There is no reason not to get a great deal on a car anymore. The info on pricing is all out there. Customer has a HUGE advantage now. They try to make it miserable to keep their footing but that's about all they have.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:08 PM (BEQiS)

346 Steak and Shake fries are great.They went back to beef tallow. Should be stores up in MO, Perfesser.

There was a S&S across from my hotel in Springfield while traveling for Thanksgiving, so I thought I’d try it. The fries were good. The garlic burger was even better.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 12:08 PM (EXyHK)

347
Andy Serkis is overrated.

You think he came up with Gollum's voice himself? He didn't. A radio broadcast from decades ago did.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 12:09 PM (DUeFe)

348 299 Agreed. I order a good bit of things on Amazon but I try to make sure that what I find is cheaper than if I tried to find it locally. And that isn't even counting the time and transportation expense if I had to hunt some of the things down. (I have Prime because it pays for itself 2 or 3 times over with the no shipping charges. )
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:03 PM (uWKK

Amazon generally has me over a barrel because a lot of the things I get from them, there's about zero chance of me finding it locally where I am.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:09 PM (UnA8+)

349 I don’t know why some people refuse to consider the context of the Ukraine-Russian war as a border war.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 12:09 PM (KDPiq)

350 >>I think Putin misses the might and power of the Soviet Union, but I never got the impression he was a Communist idealist.

>>He's a tzar, the first tzar since the October Revolution.

There was a time Putin was interested in joining NATO. Back in the early 2000s. He was not met with open arms.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 12:09 PM (viF8m)

351 I think he watched Andy Serkis' new take on Animal Farm.

He probably saw that the US media is still melting down over Trump calling someone "piggy".

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:09 PM (QZThv)

352 Speaking of garlic, I was in an "upscale" supermarket on Monday, and they had Alberta-grown "organic" garlic for $3.29 per 100 grams. Roughly $10 USD per pound. No, I didn't buy any, not being a garlic fan.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:10 PM (npFr7)

353 I bought one new vehicle in my life. Had no complaints about the dealership, or the vehicle. But that was 40 years ago.
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Same here. I bought a F-150 in 1974. Ford's response to high gas prices was adding another tank to the truck. It was a $1,000 cheaper than a Toyota truck.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 12:10 PM (Wg6v7)

354 Actually, buying a car is the most straight forward of big money purchases a person could do.

I think people trying to get "a good deal" makes them over-complicate this simple financial transaction.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (XV/Pl)
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Nowadays, yea. Everything is online (including dealer prices and costs). You should know within a few bucks what's a good deal and what isn't before you ever go to the dealer. You still gotta watch out for upcharges and bullshit, but it ain't nearly like it was back in the day.

Things are different for certain cars (exotics and rarer cars), but otherwise car shopping is easy now. You can probably do it all over the phone.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

355 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 12:10 PM (00DEY)

356 >Pretty sure they were arguing Chinese hegemony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

James Bennett "The Anglosphere Challenge:..." got a lot of run when it was published in 2007.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 17, 2025 12:10 PM (rJ48h)

357 There was a time Putin was interested in joining NATO. Back in the early 2000s. He was not met with open arms.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 12:09 PM (viF8m)

I remember...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (xcxpd)

358 Well I'm glad a reporter did this story. People at least now may learn that instacart does this. Instacart probably has a line in the terms of service that most people barely skim if the read at all that says they can vary prices arbitrarily and so are legally protected. But it feels like they are gouging marks.

Piper puts enough of a premium on her time that she isn't worried about a bit of random price inflation and will notice and switch services if she starts getting gouged on evertyhing.

But I'm sure many folks that use a service like this start because their health is declining so not having to drive and walk the store is worth it initially. If the brain then declines as well, and I'm thinking of my dad (dad did no online stuff but for a younger or just more tech savvy person) the instacart practice seems like it could really harm those folks if instacart is probing to see if they notice ridiculous prices and then charges them 23% more just because they can when the customer fails to notice the gouging.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (hhkIi)

359 I think Putin misses the might and power of the Soviet Union, but I never got the impression he was a Communist idealist.

He's a tzar, the first tzar since the October Revolution.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (xcxpd)

There are arguments that can and have been made, that a benevolent dictator (or monarch) is a better system of government than corrupt democracies.

Now, I'd like to take a shot at fixing THIS democracy before we go back to the old ways, but for the Rooskies, I'm not sure they'd be any better off with something other than what they have now.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (wCwnN)

360 @338

>>It's also one of the most comically opaque processes on the face of the earth, if you actually dig into how dealerships make money on cars.

What's opaque about it?

A person buying a car has all of the tools at their disposal to make an informed purchase.

And nothing is final until you sign on the line that is dotted and if a person allows themselves to be pressured into making a deal, then that's on them.

I've never had a bad experience buying a car.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)

361 troll isn't even trying, he must be tired of shit pebbles

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (xcxpd)

362 OT: did anyone else play Steal the Bacon as kids? My coworkers have never heard of it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 12:12 PM (DRSnL)

363 There was a time Putin was interested in joining NATO. Back in the early 2000s. He was not met with open arms.

Perhaps because NATO decision to go to war must be unanimous. What do you think the odds are of Putin agreeing to go to war with himself? It would have made NATO utterly impotent against the very reason it was created.

Yes, NATO decisions, including going to war or undertaking major operations, require consensus (unanimous agreement) among all member countries, meaning no formal voting occurs, but individual nations still decide their own military contributions voluntarily. While Article 5 triggers collective defense with an attack on one, implementation (like troop deployment) is national, and for non-Article 5 missions, allies consult until agreement is reached, though debates exist about acting without full consensus

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:12 PM (Riz8t)

364 There was a time Putin was interested in joining NATO. Back in the early 2000s. He was not met with open arms.

According to Mike Benz, that's because the State Department and George Soros spent most of the 90s and early 2000s trying to destabilize the Russian government and buy all the distressed former Soviet assets. State wanted Ukraine to join NATO immediately to keep the pressure on for their various ops, but Bill Clinton wouldn't go along because why immediately antagonize Russia instead of trying to get them on our side?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:12 PM (QZThv)

365 Amazon generally has me over a barrel because a lot of the things I get from them, there's about zero chance of me finding it locally where I am.
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 12:09 PM (UnA8+)

most of the stuff my wife wants falls into that category.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:12 PM (uWKK8)

366 Actually, buying a car is the most straight forward of big money purchases a person could do.

I think people trying to get "a good deal" makes them over-complicate this simple financial transaction.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:06 PM (XV/Pl)
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It's also one of the most comically opaque processes on the face of the earth, if you actually dig into how dealerships make money on cars.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 12:07 PM (5aZAZ)
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Many if not most dealers make more money on service and warranty repairs than sales. The profit margins on the sales side are usually very low, even on very expensive cars. As I said above, I was in the business for many years. The dealer cost for cars isn't nearly as low as most people think it is.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

367 There was a time Putin was interested in joining NATO. Back in the early 2000s. He was not met with open arms.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 12:09 PM (viF8m)

I was wondering what happened with that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (snZF9)

368 Now, I'd like to take a shot at fixing THIS democracy

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (wCwnN)

LMAO well THERE'S your problem. I had no idea you were an idealist

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (BEQiS)

369 361 troll isn't even trying, he must be tired of shit pebbles

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (xcxpd)

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4+ GDP with slowing government spending, mass deportations, and low employment numbers is different, for sure. Throw in wage growth outpacing inflation, and it's just confusing.

Unless you realize that government numbers are bullshit and mass deportation of an excess population actually has a lot of positive effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

370 Steal the bacon is the game my dad played with us whenever mom made bacon....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

371 @354

>>You can probably do it all over the phone.

Not only that, they will deliver your car to you and pick up your trade-in.

I mean, it's so easy even a cave man can do it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (XV/Pl)

372
ACE IS UP

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 12:14 PM (3ek7K)

373 I was in car sales for years. It's how I put myself through college and law school. The reality is in the modern world the buyer comes in knowing almost exactly what he wants. And based on my experience, it's very hard to spot the "mark" from appearance alone. Or really to tell much of anything from appearance alone.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 11:53 AM

It's prolly a good thing you went into law, because I would think the first rule of finding the "mark" is to look at the chestal region. Does the person have tits or not?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:14 PM (wCwnN)

374 352 Speaking of garlic, I was in an "upscale" supermarket on Monday, and they had Alberta-grown "organic" garlic for $3.29 per 100 grams. Roughly $10 USD per pound. No, I didn't buy any, not being a garlic fan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:10 PM (npFr7)

my wife, who believes in organic food, is annoyed when I say "organic means that this produce got old and started to look dodgy."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:14 PM (uWKK8)

375 I've only bought one new car in my life. Was working for Ford Aerospace in early '89 -- and all Ford employees could buy a new car at 2% below dealer's cost (no haggling).

I miss that old '89 Ford Escort (the one persistent issue I had was its fuel filters frequently getting clogged) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 12:14 PM (WO8bP)

376 OT: did anyone else play Steal the Bacon as kids? My coworkers have never heard of it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 12:12 PM (DRSnL)

But of course.

They're not muslim by chance? Because I bet they called it something different...

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:14 PM (BEQiS)

377 It was a $1,000 cheaper than a Toyota truck.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Oh, yeah?

Posted by: Mechanics at December 17, 2025 12:14 PM (mlg/3)

378 Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)

I believe the trade in is where the potential to get a different price is today. Yeah you have blue book but condition is subjective and other factors.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (KDPiq)

379 LMAO well THERE'S your problem. I had no idea you were an idealist
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (BEQiS)

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (wCwnN)

380 I mean, it's so easy even a cave man can do it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:13 PM (XV/Pl)

I miss the Geico caveman commercials. They were great…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (OW907)

381 You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (wCwnN)

It's finally all making sense.... 😅

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (BEQiS)

382 A person buying a car has all of the tools at their disposal to make an informed purchase.

And nothing is final until you sign on the line that is dotted and if a person allows themselves to be pressured into making a deal, then that's on them.

I've never had a bad experience buying a car.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)
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Not trying to say it's a bad experience, but the average car buyer has much less of a clue about the nature of how cars are priced and sold than they think they do. There's all kinds of funny math, floorplan, dealer holdbacks, incentives on the dealer side, etc. It's not that you can't go in and get a "good deal" but you're probably not getting a really smokin' one unless you're a very savvy consumer.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (5aZAZ)

383 IIRC Wendys is also trying this Instacart version of 'dynamic pricing' and yes Wendys is dead to me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:04 AM

I put that statement into Grok:

No, Wendy's is not implementing the same kind of "dynamic pricing" as the recent Instacart controversy.

Wendy's Situation (from 2024)
Wendy's CEO mentioned testing dynamic pricing starting in 2025, using new digital menu boards. This sparked backlash with media calling it "surge pricing" (like Uber hikes during peak demand). Wendy's quickly clarified:

They have no plans to raise prices during busy times.
Instead, it focuses on offering discounts and value deals during slower periods (e.g., off-peak happy hour-style promotions).

They explicitly stated they will not implement surge pricing.

As of late 2025, there's no evidence they've rolled out any price increases tied to demand — it's framed as customer-friendly flexibility for lower prices.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (P5BPp)

384 372
ACE IS UP

But the comments appear to be down.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

385 Someone took our Nood away!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (xcxpd)

386 OK I'd call that an aborted launch process...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (uWKK8)

387 Amazon generally has me over a barrel because a lot of the things I get from them, there's about zero chance of me finding it locally where I am.

That's why I stay with them. But their customer service is now mostly AI and completely frustrating to deal with. I read once what every entrepreneur dreams of is a biz with subscription fees and AI customer service.

Posted by: Random PJ at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (RRCAT)

388 The ol Fake o Spades

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:17 PM (BEQiS)

389 $5 says that ace made a change after posting and didn't realize that the status auto-changed back to draft.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

390 Fine, I'll post it here:

As a homeowner, the only renting I want to do is Eastern European laydees, so this deportation thing isn't helping me at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:18 PM (wCwnN)

391 Did I just break the blog? I swear ace had a new post up and I commented on it but it disappeared.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 12:18 PM (0N4FZ)

392 > What is going on in Poland?
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they insist on staying Polish in every way

homogeneity makes for peace

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 12:18 PM (ZxPkt)

393 389 $5 says that ace made a change after posting and didn't realize that the status auto-changed back to draft.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

That’s COB talk. Speak English.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 12:18 PM (KDPiq)

394 $5 says that ace made a change after posting and didn't realize that the status auto-changed back to draft.

It's what the industry calls "dynamic posting"

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 12:19 PM (dfgzq)

395 They honor their in store sales as shown in their circular, and once in a while I get an additional online discount.
Posted by: hadsil at
Instacart now publishes store flyers. So they do honor our sales now. But they’re still going to be a little bit of a difference because of the markup.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 12:19 PM (nioq/)

396 391 Did I just break the blog? I swear ace had a new post up and I commented on it but it disappeared.

Yes, but don't worry.
*picks up stones*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

397 Virtual stores:

Add things to your cart you want, but don't like the price on.
Add one thing that does have a price you're willing to pay.
Begin the checkout process.
Remove all the items that you didn't like the price on.
Make the one purchase, or remove it too and close the site.

Send the "No Sale" message to them often. They'll get the message (at least if they're monitoring things like that.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 12:19 PM (O7YUW)

398 As of late 2025, there's no evidence they've rolled out any price increases tied to demand — it's framed as customer-friendly flexibility for lower prices.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (P5BPp)
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They have detectors on the drive-thru menu boards that sniff for marijuana smoke coming from the car and which automatically doubles all the prices.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (5aZAZ)

399 Who broke the NOOD?

Posted by: Discerning Gent at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (oftw2)

400 I made a brilliant comment on the new Ace post and it disappeared into the ether… I can’t duplicate that wisdom it’s a shame

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (OW907)

401 One day Dairy Queen will embrace dairy again. I have a dream!

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (Wg6v7)

402 $5 says that ace made a change after posting and didn't realize that the status auto-changed back to draft.

It's what the industry calls "dynamic posting"
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Yeah, just like the airlines and hotel chains do with their posting.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (TN0g+)

403 False noods spends a night in the barrel.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (T+ixL)

404
Ace must be editing?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (3ek7K)

405 400 I made a brilliant comment on the new Ace post and it disappeared into the ether… I can’t duplicate that wisdom it’s a shame

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 12:20 PM (OW907)

======

Comments about colors on graphs aren't that wise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

406 Who broke the NOOD?

It's back.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

407 OK everybody stay cool
it's just a glitch
it's not the Fall Of Man from Genesis

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 12:21 PM (ZxPkt)

408 As a homeowner, the only renting I want to do is Eastern European laydees, so this deportation thing isn't helping me at all.

I would also accept Mexican weather girls.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:21 PM (QZThv)

409 OT: did anyone else play Steal the Bacon as kids? My coworkers have never heard of it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 12:12 PM (DRSnL)
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That's a thing?

I figured the first person who attempted it was disappeared and never seen again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (ESVrU)

410 You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:15 PM (wCwnN)

It's finally all making sense.... 😅
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:16 PM (BEQiS)

If I'm being serious (for once), I don't believe we WILL fix our system, but I'm also not willing to stop trying.

Sometimes it feels like we're those guys on the western front, being told to assault that German machine gun position, climbing up over the walls, with a brief sense of relief that the guns don't open up right away.

No, they're waiting for us to get further into no-man's land, so we don't have the ability to crawl back to the trench. They'll wait for us to get slogged down in the mud, before the bullets start ripping our chests open.

I'm still willing to go up over the wall. Knowing what's to come.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:22 PM (wCwnN)

411 @382

>> It's not that you can't go in and get a "good deal" but you're probably not getting a really smokin' one unless you're a very savvy consumer.

You're not going to get a "good deal" on a new car, really, the only "good deal" is paying MSRP or something slightly below MSRP and adding in whatever incentives the manufactures has, your trade in is going to be valued at the black book by the dealer as a base and then he's going to pick it apart and probably offer you 10-20pct less, financing is straight forward, you are either going to bring your own cash, however that is or you are going to finance through the dealer and they are going to finance it above prime and their own points.

The bottom line is, what do you ultimately want to pay for this vehicle.

And all of important questions can be derived before you step foot onto the showroom floor.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

412 I would also accept Mexican weather girls.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 17, 2025 12:21 PM (QZThv)

Absolutely, but they have jobs. I suspect they'll take one look at me, and do some of that "dynamic pricing" we're hearing about.

I want a woman who's afraid ICE is going to show up at any moment, so I can court her the same way my grandpappy courted granma.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:25 PM (wCwnN)

413 I'm still willing to go up over the wall. Knowing what's to come.

Posted by: BurtTC at Decem

Funeral industry can always use an extra body.

You know I'm kidding, I get it, but it's quite possible I'm more worn out by this country than you are.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (BEQiS)

414 I'm still willing to go up over the wall. Knowing what's to come.

Posted by: BurtTC at Decem

Funeral industry can always use an extra body.

You know I'm kidding, I get it, but it's quite possible I'm more worn out by this country than you are.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:26 PM (BEQiS)

Maybe. It's been a tough year for me personally. I'm trying to be optimistic. I'm trying not to let the shit get me down.

Doesn't mean I'm not aware of the how badly the odds are stacked against us.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (wCwnN)

415 Not even the low-hanging fruit is worth plucking if the only benefit is to Americans.
-------

Don't be unpleasant, peasant, you may be up for an audit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (Mb4p6)

416 Ok, apparently the new thread is back.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (Jn9oG)

417 >>>The Publix next door to my studio has higher prices on somethings as the one 3 miles down the road near my house. So it’s not national account pricing - it starts at the store level.
Posted by: Piper
----

That's been going on since the last century.
But the price at that specific store is the same for everyone.
Wait until the price display is an electronic phone reader and it changes as each different customer observes it. Until then pricing at that store is the same.

It's an uptown downtown thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:37 PM (Mb4p6)

418 Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Can’t Just Impeach Trump Because They Want To
___

True. They need to set up all the lies, false witnesses and slander first. These things take time. You can't just conjure up some military fatass out of nowhere.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 12:59 PM (BEQiS)

419 This doesn’t bother me as long as the customer is selected at random (I.e., no “black people get lower prices” or “poor people pay less” nonsense). Neutral price testing on a temporary basis is reasonable and non-discriminatory.

Posted by: OnPoint at December 17, 2025 01:01 PM (RK/h9)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Aeneas Tells Dido the Misfortunes of the Trojan City
Pierre-Narcisse Guerin

I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:31 AM (T+ixL)

2 Uhhhh, the shrunken one?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 09:32 AM (NuV6c)

3 Aeneas Tells Dido the Misfortunes of the Trojan City

"The dildo of consequence rarely arrives pre-lubed"

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:32 AM (T+ixL)

4 They all look so casual and civilized as they speak of 'misfortunes.'

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 09:32 AM (NuV6c)

5 Aeneas, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, and founder of the future dynasty that would rule Rome.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 17, 2025 09:32 AM (0RiMX)

6 The nekkid little kids were angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at December 17, 2025 09:32 AM (7aSbN)

7
I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Charlie Brown's Dido?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 09:33 AM (iJfKG)

8 I'm a gonna' sex you up!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 17, 2025 09:33 AM (NwnyJ)

9 Where's Frodo and Elrond?
Like the pale coloring. Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 09:33 AM (sBuNl)

10 Aeneas, that's quite the Colossus you have down there!
- Dido

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

11 It wasn't ribbed for her pleasure.

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 17, 2025 09:34 AM (7aSbN)

12 Dido, credited with the founding of Carthage. Given what Rome would do to Carthage in the Third Punic War, she would have done well to kill him right then and there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 17, 2025 09:34 AM (0RiMX)

13 Not what I was expecting on National Maple Syrup Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

14 ART

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

15
Coming in wet and wild fellas,, wet and wild!

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dido at December 17, 2025 09:35 AM (DDJSl)

16 Museo Nacional del Prado

Inventory number
P006277
Author
Guérin, Pierre
Title
Aeneas tells Dido of the Misfortunes of Troy
Date
Ca. 1815
Technique
Oil
Support
Canvas
Dimension
Height: 147 cm; Width: 195 cm

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

17 But I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be . . .

Posted by: Dido, raising the White Flag at December 17, 2025 09:35 AM (NuV6c)

18 I'm a narcissist. It's right there in my name.

Posted by: Pierre Guerin at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (7aSbN)

19 The Royal Navy light anti-aircraft cruiser Dido well knew of empires and cities falling dear Aeneas.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (2GVsD)

20 "Well, I'd better be going. I've got a long Aeneid to finish."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (0RiMX)

21 What's with the naked child or muse? Does Big Hair need a comfort animal?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (Wg6v7)

22 Why's this dude wearing his helmet indoors while talking to some chick?

Posted by: important hat club for men at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (tioGF)

23 The city with the reservoir tip.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (wVcYX)

24 Aeneas tells Dido of the Misfortunes of Troy

Sounds like getting a building permit in Pacific Palisades.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

25 There's innuendo all across the title to this pic.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (g8Ew8)

26 In college, I volunteered as a reader for blind students.

One of the books I read for one of my students was the Aeneid. I didn't read the whole thing, but a good chunk of it.

The plot of the Aeneid is basically this: Aeneas escapes from Troy and wanders around the Mediterranean wondering what he should do with his life. Everywhere he goes, somebody tells him to go to Italy. But he spends most of the epic NOT going to Italy.

In the end, something seeps in. "Gee, maybe I should go to Italy," he says to himself. Then he does finally go to Italy, where he kicks ass.

Most of those Greek/Roman mythological heroes were pretty dim bulbs. Odysseus excepted.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

27 Walls are missing, no roof- I don't think the inspector is pleased.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 09:37 AM (KqZNZ)

28 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

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And she was no Fido!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 17, 2025 09:37 AM (0RiMX)

29 ‘ I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido’

I think you forgot the ‘L,’ bro

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 17, 2025 09:37 AM (Wu29I)

30 Alternate title:

"Aeneas Tells Dido That She's a Great Gal But That He Must Leave Her to Fulfill His Destiny ins Italy With the Founding of Rome, Which Will Lead Centuries Later to the Invention of the Pizza"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

31 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Hope she didn't kill herself when you broke up with her.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

32 If you were a king up there on your throne
Would you be wise enough to let me go?
For this queen you think you own

Wants to be a hunter again
I want to see the world alone again
To take a chance on life again
So let me go, let me leave

Posted by: Dido at December 17, 2025 09:38 AM (NuV6c)

33 Why's this dude wearing his helmet indoors while talking to some chick?
Posted by: important hat club for men

Looks like they're outside by the ceemint pond.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:38 AM (T+ixL)

34 Caption:

"No!, you silly bitch. For the last time, my name is not pronounced "Anus!!!""

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

35 Dido was a crazy bitch

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 17, 2025 09:39 AM (Wu29I)

36 Not familiar with this artist. Always like being exposed to new painters. Thanks.

Poor Dido. That Aeneas is gonna break your heart.

Posted by: Tuna at December 17, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

37 Remember kids, the Aeneid is Roman propaganda dressed up as literature.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 09:39 AM (2GVsD)

38 29 ‘ I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido’

I think you forgot the ‘L,’ bro
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 17, 2025 09:37 AM (Wu29I)

Coach Z, You're Nasty.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 09:39 AM (UnA8+)

39 Dido looks to have a very long arm.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2025 09:39 AM (wVcYX)

40 21 What's with the naked child or muse? Does Big Hair need a comfort animal?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 09:36 AM (Wg6v7)
*****
That kind of ruins it for me. It is giving me creepy vibes.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

41 If you were a king up there on your throne
Would you be wise enough to let me go?
For this queen you think you own

If you love someone let them go.
If they come back understand no one else wanted them either.
So let them go again.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:40 AM (T+ixL)

42 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD

Well? We're waiting...

Posted by: Limerick Fans at December 17, 2025 09:40 AM (KqZNZ)

43 A Flying Green Dido is just out of frame.

Posted by: WNBA at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (EYPJc)

44 Dido looks to have a very long arm.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Obligatory: That's what she said!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (T+ixL)

45 >>Aeneas Tells Dido the Misfortunes of the Trojan City

Painted during a pregnant pause?

Posted by: Dido at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (NuV6c)

46 Dido looks to have a very long arm.

Maybe she is part Lamia and wants to give Aeneas a good hug before devouring him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (2GVsD)

47 Who is the tiny naked person?

Posted by: why is this happening? at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (irVum)

48 "And then, we all saw this cool wooden statue of Sydney Sweeney. And King Priam yells 'Dibs!' and orders it to be brought into his palace..."

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

49 That dude's no soldier. He looks as soft and manicured as the ladies.

Posted by: red speck at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (Ve/HL)

50 But no one is talking about Neptune and his golden trident in the background.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (2GVsD)

51 Affectatious and attitudinizing!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (6qf1m)

52 Telling, not showing.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (WPL6O)

53 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30

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

She could have been Mrs Dido Dildo.

You would have been obligated to name your firstborn Dodo ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 09:43 AM (/U+kM)

54 That dude's no soldier. He looks as soft and manicured as the ladies.
Posted by: red speck at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (Ve/HL)

Another Greek homo.

Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at December 17, 2025 09:43 AM (wVcYX)

55 He's wearing his helmet in case he says something and she takes it the wrong way.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 09:43 AM (L/fGl)

56 Who is the tiny naked person?

Taylor Lorenz the Younger.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 09:43 AM (2GVsD)

57 Not really sure I even want to know what is going on here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 09:43 AM (93/YK)

58 49 That dude's no soldier. He looks as soft and manicured as the ladies.
Posted by: red speck at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (Ve/HL)

The proud tradition of Greek Faggotry.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 09:43 AM (UnA8+)

59 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30

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She could have been Mrs Dido Dildo.

You would have been obligated to name your firstborn Dodo ...
Posted by: ShainS

Dado & Daddio.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:44 AM (T+ixL)

60 That dude's no soldier. He looks as soft and manicured as the ladies.

Posted by: red speck at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (Ve/HL)

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

Transphobe!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 09:44 AM (/U+kM)

61 >>You would have been obligated to name your firstborn Dodo ...

Second born, Deedee

Posted by: Dido at December 17, 2025 09:44 AM (NuV6c)

62 Aeneas, stop manspreading with your scabbard!
- Dido

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 09:44 AM (w9Wax)

63 Third child, Dum-Dum?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 09:45 AM (2GVsD)

64 Layabouts.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 17, 2025 09:45 AM (8mulE)

65 That dude's no soldier. He looks as soft and manicured as the ladies.

Posted by: red speck at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (Ve/HL)

He's a Soldier for Avon and explaining to Dido how Honey Smooth, Baby Fresh Sun Block with KXZ17 will keep her skin young and smooth.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 09:46 AM (iJfKG)

66 >>You would have been obligated to name your firstborn Dodo ...

Second born, Deedee

>>>

Third child, Dum-Dum?

>>>

I can just imagine the Mom standing on her porch calling out to the neighborhood for the kids to come home for supper.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2025 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

67 Chick at the back of the settee is anxiously waiting for Aeneas to cross his legs, Sharon Stone style.

Posted by: red speck at December 17, 2025 09:47 AM (Ve/HL)

68 That dude's no soldier. He looks as soft and manicured as the ladies.

Posted by: red speck at December 17, 2025 09:42 AM (Ve/HL)

He's a Soldier for Avon and explaining to Dido how Honey Smooth, Baby Fresh Sun Block with KXZ17 will keep her skin young and smooth.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 09:46 AM (iJfKG)

Ah, a multi-level marketing gambit!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2025 09:48 AM (wVcYX)

69 cardboard cutout sundown

Posted by: cmeat at December 17, 2025 09:48 AM (R11M+)

70 Who is the tiny naked person?
Posted by: why is this happening?
----------------

I think it's Ashley

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 17, 2025 09:48 AM (DDJSl)

71 De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

Posted by: The Police at December 17, 2025 09:48 AM (EYPJc)

72 He's wearing his helmet in case he says something and she takes it the wrong way.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

When she attacks him, he'll cut a Dido.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

73 67 newsom style

Posted by: cmeat at December 17, 2025 09:48 AM (R11M+)

74 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

OK, but did she write a song thanking you for giving her the best day of her life?

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 09:49 AM (c2vsb)

75 Nice hats, first-rate!

Posted by: Susquehanna Hat Company at December 17, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

76 You would have been obligated to name your firstborn Dodo ...

Second born, Deedee

>>>

Third child, Dum-Dum?

Their favorite song?

"Da Da Da"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=xqTBlft8gQA&list=RDxqTBlft8gQA

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

77 I can just imagine the Mom standing on her porch calling out to the neighborhood for the kids to come home for supper.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Neighbor behind my cousin had five kids. They had a ship's bell mounted on a post. If you didn't hear the bell, that was on you and you missed dinner.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:50 AM (T+ixL)

78 They named the really weird kid Dada.

And the showoff they named Ta-DAAAAH.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

79 The art...
I like the colors and the composition. The characters seem relaxed and comfortable with one another and in their surroundings.
However....
The naked girl is young and seems to be treated like a favorite pet. That's creepy as fuck. And she is completely superfluous and serves no purpose to the scene.

Wonder what the artist was thinking and trying to convey by adding her to the group.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 17, 2025 09:50 AM (2J/Lj)

80 anus tells dildo of the torn sums of the trojan tickler.

Posted by: cmeat at December 17, 2025 09:51 AM (R11M+)

81 Are those outfits machine-washable?

Posted by: Betty White For Spray 'n' Wash at December 17, 2025 09:51 AM (oftw2)

82 De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"

"Da Da Da"

/Trio

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 09:52 AM (XuXeR)

83 Greece seems to be too far south for decent maple syrup. Probably why their empire fell.

Posted by: Mrs. Butterworth at December 17, 2025 09:53 AM (oftw2)

84 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM
=======

Did she sing you a song?

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 09:53 AM (rj6Yv)

85 77 we had a softball sized one, nextdoor had a big rope pull one with a giant clapper. too bad if you didn't hear that one.
the other house had a lady that used to scream "that kids got rickets!"

Posted by: cmeat at December 17, 2025 09:53 AM (R11M+)

86 80 anus tells dildo of the torn sums of the trojan tickler.
Posted by: cmeat at December 17, 2025 09:51 AM (R11M+)

The kind of serious, mature discourse, handled with gravitas, that you'll receive on the Smart Military Blog.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 09:54 AM (UnA8+)

87 Damn. Slow again

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 09:54 AM (XuXeR)

88 What's a Grecian earn these days?

Posted by: Digging In Bottle Dump at December 17, 2025 09:54 AM (oftw2)

89 "Oh, if only I hadn't alienated the affections of that nice Dildo boy by putting carrots in the chili."
-- The never-married Miss Dido McGillicuddy, talking to her cats

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

90 >>They named the really weird kid Dada.

I heard you really got sick
Sick in Santorini
You found a greek who liked martinis
You used the olives for bikinis . . .

Posted by: DADA at December 17, 2025 09:54 AM (NuV6c)

91 Nobody insists that Zeus or Apollo or even just literary characters like Ajax were ever "real". But Dido ? Totally real according to most familiar with the name.

Posted by: Howdy at December 17, 2025 09:55 AM (jzWBS)

92 >>What's a Grecian earn these days?

Let's see, there's a formula. . . take 66, then,uh

Posted by: DADA at December 17, 2025 09:55 AM (NuV6c)

93 What's a Grecian earn these days?

There's a formula you can use to determine that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

94 Is Aeneas I?

Posted by: Palindromes R Us at December 17, 2025 09:56 AM (w9Wax)

95 One speech in it I chiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido; and thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of
Priam's slaughter.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 17, 2025 09:56 AM (R86kT)

96 Let's see, there's a formula. . . take 66, then,uh
Posted by: DADA at December 17, 2025 09:55 AM

Divide by zero. Ignore that whole ripping the fabric of time thing and just go for it!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 17, 2025 09:57 AM (2J/Lj)

97 They had some nice furniture back then.

Posted by: dantesed at December 17, 2025 09:57 AM (Oy/m2)

98 Second Effort - a limerick

Aeneas here. Checking in.
We fought a good fight. Didn't win.
But the gods have decreed
If you first don't succeed
Then you must Troy. Troy again.

Posted by: muldoon at December 17, 2025 09:59 AM (/iMjX)

99 They had some nice furniture back then.
Posted by: dantesed

From Ethan Athens.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

100 Guerin uses a calm scene from mythology, Aeneas recounting his trevails to Dido and her sisters. His posture is relaxed while the women are paying close attention and are clearly attracted to him. The colors are subdued unlike many of the more dramatic images from Neo-classical art. The power comes from the viewer knowing the story of Dido's doomed love for him and her suicide in despair when he is required to leave her by the gods to fulfill his destiny. That adds a layer emotion to a quiet scene. Interesting understatement.

I actually prefer Guerin's portraits. His portrait of a young girls perfectly combines that time of innocence and sensuality for a young teen.

Posted by: JTB at December 17, 2025 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

101 The vast wealth on display here is the result of hard work-nose to the grindstone. The extended family opened a chain of diners in the Northeast.

Posted by: Gus, Niko, and Stavros at December 17, 2025 09:59 AM (oftw2)

102 Mom had a cowbell. Which could be heard throughout the neighborhood. Which was the point.
Mama did not need More Cowbell.

Posted by: RI Red at December 17, 2025 10:00 AM (7Pd3v)

103 Washington Post Editorial Board Slams Mayor Johnson’s Budget Plan: ‘Chicago Has Lost its Mind’

-
Mister, we could use a man like Al Capone again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:01 AM (L/fGl)

104
Twas Aeneas' tale to Dido
of Priam's death in Hokkaido
They chopped him to pieces
And mixed those with cheeses
Then made him Hot Pockets with fried dough!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 10:01 AM (iJfKG)

105 Mom had a cowbell. Which could be heard throughout the neighborhood. Which was the point.
Mama did not need More Cowbell.
Posted by: RI Red at December 17, 2025 10:00 AM (7Pd3v)

Hey there - good to see you!

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:01 AM (c2vsb)

106 Nowadays, little naked Ashley would have a tablet in hand, or scrolling on a phone.

Posted by: Biden Family Circus at December 17, 2025 10:01 AM (oftw2)

107 a lovely young lady named Dido

Muldoon...limerick first line...go!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 10:01 AM (bFu5X)

108 Muldoon-- you are on a role! I'd certainly buy a book of your limericks, but luckily here, I get to enjoy your wit and talent for free.

Posted by: LASue at December 17, 2025 10:01 AM (Kcw7x)

109 Aeneas could tell one hecuba story.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

110 Those triangles are an effective dinner announcer. Opened every episode of The Real McCoys, 1957-63.

Posted by: Pepino In The Barn at December 17, 2025 10:03 AM (oftw2)

111 Nowadays, little naked Ashley would have a tablet in hand, or scrolling on a phone.
Posted by: Biden Family Circus

Have you seen the new Apple iClay 17.0? It converts speech instantly into cuneiform?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 10:03 AM (w9Wax)

112 Who is the tiny naked person?
Posted by: why is this happening? at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (irVum)

Cupido (before he became famous).

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 10:03 AM (g8Ew8)

113 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Paging Dr. Muldoon. Dr. Muldoon to the limerick instantiator. Dr. Muldoon to the limerick instantiator.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 10:04 AM (0sNs1)

114 99 They had some nice furniture back then.
Posted by: dantesed

From Ethan Athens.
Posted by: Bulg

We prefer Drunken Fife!

Posted by: The Keno Brothers at December 17, 2025 10:05 AM (oftw2)

115 Most of those Greek/Roman mythological heroes were pretty dim bulbs. Odysseus excepted.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:37 AM

And Prometheus.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

116 Weird little 70's pr0n stache on Aeneas.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 10:05 AM (bFu5X)

117 And Prometheus.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

DON'T get me started on the low IQ of that movie's fans.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

118 Aeneas could tell one hecuba story.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:01 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 10:06 AM (bFu5X)

119 Weird little 70's pr0n stache on Aeneas.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Looks like a Bluetooth.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

120 What's a Grecian earn these days?
Posted by: Digging In Bottle Dump a

It's a secret formula.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 17, 2025 10:06 AM (mlg/3)

121 Looks like folks will have a late Christmas, from what I can see of online sites and items at USPS and UPS. Orders sit for awhile before being processed then run late once they are shipped. Maybe they just don't care any more.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 17, 2025 10:07 AM (+mUZM)

122 What's a Grecian earn these days?

Posted by: Digging In Bottle Dump at December 17, 2025 09:54 AM (oftw2)

$20.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:07 AM (oMo5x)

123 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD

A Bat-signal for Muldoon?

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 10:09 AM (Y8DZL)

124 Mama did not need More Cowbell.

Mama's got a squeezebox. Daddy never sleeps at night.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 10:09 AM (ufSfZ)

125 117 And Prometheus.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

DON'T get me started on the low IQ of that movie's fans.
Posted by: Bulg

Time was, we would house Prometheus fans to protect the rest of society.

Posted by: Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital at December 17, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)

126 Nowadays, little naked Ashley would have a tablet in hand, or scrolling on a phone.
Posted by: Biden Family Circus

Have you seen the new Apple iClay 17.0? It converts speech instantly into cuneiform?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:09 AM (T+ixL)

127 DON'T get me started on the low IQ of that movie's fans.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:06 AM

TJM is low IQ? I never would have suspected.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 10:10 AM (0sNs1)

128 Chuck Schemer Calls for More Gun Control After Handgun Attack at Gun-Free Brown University

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It'd been a whole different story if he had had only a bow and arrow.

P.S. Adam Kinzinger looks on the sunny side of life.

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini)
@AdamKinzinger
Notice the shooters didn’t have ARs? Would have been way worse if they did.

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He's a glass full kind of guy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

129 Hearing that the Biden Presidential Library plans have been downsized to a Presidential Bookmobile.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 10:11 AM (em/hR)

130 Hearing that the Biden Presidential Library plans have been downsized to a Presidential Bookmobile.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

With picture books only.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

131
Who is the tiny naked person?
Posted by: why is this happening? at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (irVum

That is a representation of Aeneas’ unfaithfulness to Dido and foreshadowing of her death. Dido fell in love and equated having sex as being married. Aeneas did not. When he broke Dido’s heart, she killed herself.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 10:12 AM (ZdaMQ)

132 > Looks like folks will have a late Christmas, from what I can see of online sites and items at USPS and UPS. Orders sit for awhile before being processed then run late once they are shipped. Maybe they just don't care any more.
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Last year the mega sorting site in Louisville, KY had an estimated 3 month backlog in December. People up there just wouldn't do their job.

This year's backlog is about the same.

I have a purchase, done through Amazon, but delivered by the USPS that is currently running about 4 days late. Bitching to Amazon is useless. Bitching to USPS is useless. Neither give a shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 17, 2025 10:12 AM (NwnyJ)

133 TJM is low IQ? I never would have suspected.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

We're not shocked you are so obtuse.

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at December 17, 2025 10:12 AM (oftw2)

134 P.S. Adam Kinzinger looks on the sunny side of life.

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini)
@AdamKinzinger
Notice the shooters didn’t have ARs? Would have been way worse if they did.

-
He's a glass full kind of guy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:10 AM

Adam...does it physically hurt to be that stupid?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 10:12 AM (bFu5X)

135 Hearing that the Biden Presidential Library plans have been downsized to a Presidential Bookmobile.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude

Segway with a couple of pouches.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:13 AM (T+ixL)

136 $20"

Same as in polis?

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 10:13 AM (XuXeR)

137 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!
Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, THE Dido?
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Beautiful painting of pretty perverts. I don't see the dramatic story coming from it.

Passing on this one. Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 17, 2025 10:13 AM (NFX2v)

138 Aeneas Tells Dido the Misfortunes of Troy

*********

1. Fumbled the snap on what would have been a game winning field goal.
2. Dated Jessica Simpson
3. A few too many concussions
4. Has to spend hours at a time in a broadcast booth with the insufferable Joe Buck

Eh? What's that? Wrong Troy? Oh OK, never mind.

Posted by: muldoon at December 17, 2025 10:13 AM (/iMjX)

139 Hearing that the Biden Presidential Library plans have been downsized to a Presidential Bookmobile.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 10:11 AM (em/hR)

Further downgraded to a stolen grocery cart......minus one wheel.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 10:14 AM (g8Ew8)

140 That is a representation of Aeneas’ unfaithfulness to Dido and foreshadowing of her death. Dido fell in love and equated having sex as being married. Aeneas did not. When he broke Dido’s heart, she killed herself.

Posted by: Piper

Well, she showed him!

Posted by: Women Are Irrational at December 17, 2025 10:14 AM (oftw2)

141 Franklin Pierce may have been stupid . However this may very well have affected his Presidency. co :

Franklin Pierce's son, Benjamin Pierce, tragically died in a train wreck on January 6, 1853, just weeks before his father's inauguration as President. The accident occurred in Andover, Massachusetts, and resulted in Benjamin being decapitated, which deeply affected Franklin Pierce and his fragile wife, Jane, who had already lost two other children. This loss likely had a significant impact on Pierce's presidency

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:14 AM (Yl2Ob)

142 Last year the mega sorting site in Louisville, KY had an estimated 3 month backlog in December. People up there just wouldn't do their job.

This year's backlog is about the same.

I have a purchase, done through Amazon, but delivered by the USPS that is currently running about 4 days late. Bitching to Amazon is useless. Bitching to USPS is useless. Neither give a shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I was lucky. Everything came in by yesterday.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:14 AM (T+ixL)

143 Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 10:12 AM (ZdaMQ)

OK, Everyone! Let's do 500 squats while we recite the Aeneid in Latin! Ready? GO!!!

Piper's Classical Epic Fitness Studio

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

144 Hearing that the Biden Presidential Library plans have been downsized to a Presidential Bookmobile.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude

The glove compartment of the Corvette.

Posted by: dantesed at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (Oy/m2)

145 Kumbaya.

Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, risked his life to disarm a murderer who was shooting down Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney.
Religion must not divide our common humanity.
We must stand together and end antisemitism, Islamophobia and all hate — no exceptions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

146 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

Posted by: CBD

Was her tea cold?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (aWIqB)

147 Ok, the woman is Dido, who are the other two?

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (r9GKo)

148 OK, Everyone! Let's do 500 squats while we recite the Aeneid in Latin! Ready? GO!!!

Piper's Classical Epic Fitness Studio
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

Education and fitness! Two for 1!

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 10:16 AM (ZdaMQ)

149 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

I thought that the fellow was a Syrian Maronite Christian?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:16 AM (Yl2Ob)

151 Kick the little one out and start the party!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

152 I see Bernie gets his info the old fashioned way - out of his ass...

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 10:17 AM (XuXeR)

153 The Joey Bidet Presidential Library is a rusty van missing a tire parked down by the river.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:17 AM (2GVsD)

154 Sanders need to shut the fuck up. Like, 20 years ago.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 10:17 AM (g47mK)

155 I remember a singer who picked the stage name Dido.

And...I think the number of people who knew who the historical Dido was are less then 10%...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 10:17 AM (sKqQm)

156 >>>Religion must not divide our common humanity.

>>>We must stand together and end antisemitism, Islamophobia and all hate — no exceptions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

Stunningly empty platitude and glaring false equivalence is so words. Impressive.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:17 AM (oMo5x)

157
Eh? What's that? Wrong Troy? Oh OK, never mind.
Posted by: muldoon at December 17, 2025 10:13 AM (/iMjX)

Not mentioning 1 and 2 were Tony, not Troy......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

158 Franklin Pierce's son, Benjamin Pierce, tragically died in a train wreck on January 6, 1853, just weeks before his father's inauguration as President. The accident occurred in Andover, Massachusetts, and resulted in Benjamin being decapitated, which deeply affected Franklin Pierce and his fragile wife, Jane, who had already lost two other children. This loss likely had a significant impact on Pierce's presidency
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I think that both Franklin and his wife became alcoholics as a result of their loss.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

159 Dido did nufink wrong!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (6U1c2)

160 150 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

I thought that the fellow was a Syrian Maronite Christian?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:16 AM (Yl2Ob)

People wanted him to be, but he's not. He's a Lebanese Muslim.

Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) did a video about the incident where he explained it.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (UnA8+)

161 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, risked his life to disarm a MUSLIM murderer who was shooting….
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (KDPiq)

162
Franklin Pierce's son, Benjamin Pierce, tragically died in a train wreck on January 6, 1853

He never made it to Korea!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (pkeXY)

163 For someone ranting about language, you spelled Dido wrong!

Posted by: JSpicy at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (pZoON)

164 Have they finally identified the Brown University killer yet?

Or a campus with 800+ cameras still has no idea?

Was it a one-armed man?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:19 AM (2GVsD)

165 ‘A Foundation of My Politics’: Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’

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Hey! I saw that episode of Murder She Wrote!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:20 AM (L/fGl)

166 For someone ranting about language, you spelled Dido wrong!
Posted by: JSpicy

But let's not sew division because of it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

167 Kumbaya.

Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, risked his life to disarm a murderer who was shooting down Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney.
Religion must not divide our common humanity.
We must stand together and end antisemitism, Islamophobia and all hate — no exceptions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

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

lol gf

"Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked."

-- Psalm 97:10

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 10:20 AM (LlvtX)

168 You're wright!

Posted by: JSpicy at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (pZoON)

169 ‘A Foundation of My Politics’: Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’

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Hey! I saw that episode of Murder She Wrote!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Everyone knows that the entire indigenous population of Maine was singlehandedly wiped out by Jessica Fletcher.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

170 161 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, risked his life to disarm a MUSLIM murderer who was shooting….
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (KDPiq)

=====

Is Ahmed al Ahmed the one who's actually a Lebanese Christian?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

171 @BernieSanders
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, risked his life to disarm a MUSLIM murderer who was shooting….
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

He was saving his own life, not the Jews. He was going to die by their hand just for being in the vicinity of Jews.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

172 ‘A Foundation of My Politics’: Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’

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Make Scalping Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM (LlvtX)

173 169 ‘A Foundation of My Politics’: Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’

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Hey! I saw that episode of Murder She Wrote!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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Collins is going to have her easiest path to re-election in decades next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

174 170 Is Ahmed al Ahmed the one who's actually a Lebanese Christian?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

People thought he was, but he's not.

They interviewed his parents.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM (UnA8+)

175 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

A Happy Anniversary to you, sir. I hope you and your lovely bride have a special day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

176 and end antisemitism, Islamophobia and all hate — no exceptions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Somehow, I suspect certain kinds of hate are just fine with him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (3WkkF)

177 Religion must not divide our common humanity.

>>>We must stand together and end antisemitism, Islamophobia and all hate — no exceptions.

Leftists alternate between saying things like this, then calling for people of religions they don't like to be imprisoned.

And one thing I remember that gives me a chuckle - in the late 90s the left argued the only reason the US didn't depose the Taliban was because the US was a patriarchal society and approved of the Taliban

And then after 9/11 when the US did depose them, for a while at least, the left started arguing the only reason the US did it was because we wanted to bully a weak 3rd world country and were too racist to respect their sovereignty.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (sKqQm)

178 139 Hearing that the Biden Presidential Library plans have been downsized to a Presidential Bookmobile.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 10:11 AM (em/hR)

Further downgraded to a stolen grocery cart......minus one wheel.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 10:14 AM (g8Ew

I heard that the Bookmobile was gonna be in a Van down by the River!

But I think it would be a great move for Trump to put up a "Joe Biden's Free Little Presidential Library" on the white house lawn.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (uWKK8)

179 174 170 Is Ahmed al Ahmed the one who's actually a Lebanese Christian?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

People thought he was, but he's not.

They interviewed his parents.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM (UnA8+)

=====

So, Bernie's point then is that Muslims will happily turn on the extremists in their midst? Can that become policy? Can we pursue that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

180 Still weird to me that there happened to be another Muslim in the vicinity of a Hanukkah celebration.
From all the info, that was a very fortunate coincidence.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (KDPiq)

181 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

Yo! It's the birthday boy. Good day so far?

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (c2vsb)

182 How California’s GOP Wasted $45 Million for Nothing

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And their chicks for free?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

183 Is Ahmed al Ahmed the one who's actually a Lebanese Christian?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

People thought he was, but he's not.

They interviewed his parents.
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM

So...the rest of the Muslim community will be coming for him next for interfering in their Koran-mandated Jew killing?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (bFu5X)

184 175 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

A Happy Anniversary to you, sir. I hope you and your lovely bride have a special day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

=====

And happy birthday to you!

May your 28th birthday, as you approach your 29th year, be relaxing, a break from your troubles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

185 Hey, TJM, Happy Anniversary to you and Dolley!

And Happy Birthday to you, Sponge!

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

186 Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ

Which wouldn't help his Presidency either.. Poor Pierce family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (Yl2Ob)

187 somehow the terrorist attack is being overshadowed by the "muslim hero"; he is an exception that proves the rule

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (g47mK)

188
Is Ahmed al Ahmed the one who's actually a Lebanese Christian?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

And if this is ACTUALLY the case, Bernie is a lying asshole and should be dragged in the comments for his being a lying asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

189 37 Remember kids, the Aeneid is Roman propaganda dressed up as literature.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 09:39 AM (2GVsD)

Well, yeah. Virgil was getting paid.

Aeneas supposedly seals the eventual Punic Wars by seducing and abandoning Dido. And thus the fate of Carthage and the eventual supremacy of Rome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (bss/y)

190 That picture disturbs me.

Posted by: Eromero at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (o2ZRX)

191 164 Have they finally identified the Brown University killer yet?

Or a campus with 800+ cameras still has no idea?

Was it a one-armed man?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:19 AM (2GVsD)

Don't you think it's odd that the investigators say not to worry even though there is a mass shooter still on the loose ? What do they know that we don't ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:25 AM (VE6XX)

192 Was it a one-armed man?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:19 AM (2GVsD)

You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/Pz8-H4gBBo0

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:25 AM (c2vsb)

193 185 Hey, TJM, Happy Anniversary to you and Dolley!

And Happy Birthday to you, Sponge!

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

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Thanks!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

194 Trailer for Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' has dropped. Watched it. Doesn't pique my interest even a little bit. And the CGI looks like some high school IT geeks did it.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 17, 2025 10:25 AM (Y1sOo)

195 And happy birthday to you!

May your 28th birthday, as you approach your 29th year, be relaxing, a break from your troubles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

Thanks. FiL is here and no worse for wear. Bruised forehead and ego, and his shoulder is a bit tender, but he's fine.

Game show network, here we come...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

196 Nobody insists that Zeus or Apollo or even just literary characters like Ajax were ever "real". But Dido ? Totally real according to most familiar with the name.

I suspect that many of them were in fact real. They were not gods and they weren't able to kill hundreds of enemies in one go, but they were important warlords and leaders in ancient Greece and their stories were enhanced over time.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 10:25 AM (sKqQm)

197 Hey, TJM, Happy Anniversary to you and Dolley!

And Happy Birthday to you, Sponge!

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

Thanks!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

198 Sponge, how is your father-in-law?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

199

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Tuesday that President Donald Trump could gain a political advantage over Democrats if he moves forward with reclassifying marijuana under federal law.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (pkeXY)

200 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

I couldn't recall which "aquatic poster" was having a birthday today. I thought it was flat fish, Comrade Flounder.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (Yl2Ob)

201 A TJM anniversary and a Sponge birthday on the same day?!

A happy one to both of you!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (bFu5X)

202
Yo! It's the birthday boy. Good day so far?

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (c2vsb)

Didn't get woke up by an alarm and am just now getting up an moving, so, so far, so good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Pixy's thread - there was a comment with a link to a Jewish prof at MIT getting murdered at home yesterday or the day before

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:27 AM (dE3DB)

204 Never mind, Sponge, I see you already gave an update on your FiL. Good to hear he's OK.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

205 Everyone knows that the entire indigenous population of Maine was singlehandedly wiped out by Jessica Fletcher.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

Oh my. I got some blood on my dress. Anyone want some tea?

-----Jessica Fletcher

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 10:27 AM (g8Ew8)

206
Don't you think it's odd that the investigators say not to worry even though there is a mass shooter still on the loose ? What do they know that we don't ?/i]

In 6 months or so we'll find out they knew there were threats from one of their students against Cook and know with a fair degree of certainty who the shooter is. And they know he's only going to go after right leaning people so...who cares if he stays on the loose?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 10:27 AM (sKqQm)

207 What's with the mini-me.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:27 AM (1Nv0l)

208 Sponge, how is your father-in-law?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

See #195

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

209 A TJM anniversary and a Sponge birthday on the same day?!

A happy one to both of you!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (bFu5X)

Much to his chagrin, we are tied together forever.

And thanks!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

210 I thought it was flat fish, Comrade Flounder.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:26 AM (Yl2Ob)

No. I got an "insurrection" for mine. Anniversary soon, though.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:28 AM (oMo5x)

211 Should take your hat off when talking to a lady in her house.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:28 AM (KDPiq)

212 Happy birthday, Sponge!
Are you having a birthday sponge cake?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:28 AM (6U1c2)

213 test

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:28 AM (1Nv0l)

214 203 Pixy's thread - there was a comment with a link to a Jewish prof at MIT getting murdered at home yesterday or the day before
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:27 AM (dE3DB)

Local story.

Posted by: MSM at December 17, 2025 10:28 AM (udlma)

215 179 So, Bernie's point then is that Muslims will happily turn on the extremists in their midst? Can that become policy? Can we pursue that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

It's Bernie. I don't think he has a point.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (UnA8+)

216 Nobody insists that Zeus or Apollo or even just literary characters like Ajax were ever "real". But Dido ? Totally real according to most familiar with the name.

I suspect that many of them were in fact real. They were not gods and they weren't able to kill hundreds of enemies in one go, but they were important warlords and leaders in ancient Greece and their stories were enhanced over time.
Posted by: 18-1

I agree. I think that most of the human mythological characters, and even some of the semi-divine ones (e.g., Hercules), were based on actual people.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

217 Does anyone here remember Sniglets by Rich Hall -- he came up with new words to describe everyday phenomena, like Icelanche: When ice at the bottom of an upturned glass suddenly moves toward the mouth as one attempts to finish drinking the liquid.

Does anyone have a term for when you cough up a good old dark brown winter lougie in the shower, but you can't get it to go down the shower drain because it's too thick and sticky? This one was chunky and it felt like it came up out of my colon. Sure is satisfying though.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (qwx/I)

218 Looks like Aeneas is getting ready to do the Dido Shuffle.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (bFu5X)

219
You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/Pz8-H4gBBo0
Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:25 AM (c2vsb)

Or, you could've played a guessing game of "One arm, or two" by playing a Def Leppard song.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

220 Reading the Aeneid now. IIRC the scene where his story was related involved a large audience.

Not historically accurate, would not hang.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 17, 2025 10:30 AM (E66lT)

221 Dido? One is reminded of a line from the old bawdy song, Charlotte The Harlot.

Which I shan't repeat here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:30 AM (npFr7)

222 Happy birthday, Sponge!
Are you having a birthday sponge cake?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:28 AM (6U1c2)

LOL. Thank you. Likely, no. Even the hint of cannibalism is off-putting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

223 Everyone knows that the entire indigenous population of Maine was singlehandedly wiped out by Jessica Fletcher.
Posted by: Bulg

Senator John Iselin didn't fair too well being in her circle either.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:30 AM (cYBz/)

224 Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Clean that up before Mrs Big Fat Meanie sees it

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:30 AM (GhIJO)

225 I believe I have unlocked the secret of the formatting tags. mwahahahaha.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM (1Nv0l)

226 Beautiful painting today/ Love the palette.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM (xmTG8)

227 How California’s GOP Wasted $45 Million for Nothing

—

I wouldn’t call it wasted, Bob.

Posted by: Consultants hired for $45M at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM (udlma)

228 Happy birthday, Sponge and JJ.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM (oMo5x)

229 Or, you could've played a guessing game of "One arm, or two" by playing a Def Leppard song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

Ha! I actually have, on occasion, mentioned earlier tracks of theirs as "that was back when the band had an even number of limbs".

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM (c2vsb)

230 I think that both Franklin and his wife became alcoholics as a result of their loss.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

It didn't help, but Pierce had alcohol troubles long before his son's death. When he ran for President, he was mocked as being "the hero of many a well-fought bottle."

Jane Pierce didn't drink, so far as I know, but never wanted Pierce to hold political office, was angry with him when he ran and considered their son's death to be God's judgement on them both.

And Pierce came pretty close to treason when he hooked up with Buchanan, Fillmore, Van Buren and Tyler to thwart POTUS-elect Lincoln's plans to handle the South.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 10:32 AM (ufSfZ)

231 Or, you could've played a guessing game of "One arm, or two" by playing a Def Leppard song.
Posted by: Sponge

*sob*
-- Michelle Fields

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

232 Posted by: Duncanthrax

We're not shocked you are so obtuse.
Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at December 17, 2025 10:12 AM

When I'm serving as The Paolo's wingman in Italian bars, the women remark, how you say, I'm a-cute.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 10:32 AM (0sNs1)

233 I believe I have unlocked the secret of the formatting tags. mwahahahaha.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM (1Nv0l)

Just don't forget to close them.....the barrel awaits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

234 Happy birthday, Sponge!
Are you having a birthday sponge cake?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:28 AM (6U1c2)

LOL. Thank you. Likely, no. Even the hint of cannibalism is off-putting.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, I threw up in my mouth a bit when I read that comment.

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:32 AM (c2vsb)

235 Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (qwx/I)

Lougie Lougie
Oh yeah

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:32 AM (KDPiq)

236 I believe I have unlocked the secret of the formatting tags. mwahahahaha.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM (1Nv0l)

Soon.

Posted by: The Barrel at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (oMo5x)

237 Happy birthday, Sponge and JJ.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM (oMo5x)

Thanks. It is quite the honor sharing a special day with JJ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

238 Dido was one of my favorite singers in the 2000s.

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (gWBY1)

239 MIT nuclear scientist Nuno Loureiro killed inside Brookline home

Nuno Loureiro, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was found shot multiple times at his Massachusetts home, with authorities saying the investigation is ongoing.

ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DECEMBER 17, 2025 04:07
Updated: DECEMBER 17, 2025 16:13

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (VMttT)

240 155 I remember a singer who picked the stage name Dido.

And...I think the number of people who knew who the historical Dido was are less then 10%...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 10:17 AM (sKqQm)

And the percentage of middle school boys who called her "Dildo" was about 93%.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (0bjKf)

241 Is having a bday this close to Christmas a good thing, bad thing or neutral? I’ve always thought kids get kinda screwed present wise since they’re so close together.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (udlma)

242 I believe I have unlocked the secret of the formatting tags. mwahahahaha.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM

~~WLNSSEODQY~~

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (0sNs1)

243 There is only one cake. Chocolate cake.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:34 AM (VMttT)

244 And Pierce came pretty close to treason when he hooked up with Buchanan, Fillmore, Van Buren and Tyler to thwart POTUS-elect Lincoln's plans to handle the South.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

When Lincoln was assassinated, an angry mob surrounded Pierce's house, blaming him for it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

245 How California’s GOP ~~Wasted~~ $45 Million for Nothing

Laundered. The term you’re looking for is laundered.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 17, 2025 10:34 AM (EXyHK)

246 Was there a white flag above her door or no?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY)

247 Happy birthday, Sponge!

29 again ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:34 AM (VE6XX)

248 79 So, Bernie's point then is that Muslims will happily turn on the extremists in their midst? Can that become policy? Can we pursue that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

It's Bernie. I don't think he has a point.
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (UnA8+)

Yup. He's just having another dry orgasm.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 10:34 AM (g8Ew8)

249 Is having a bday this close to Christmas a good thing, bad thing or neutral? I’ve always thought kids get kinda screwed present wise since they’re so close together.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It kind of sucks - my youngest's BD was on the 15th. We worked hard to make sure he got two buckets of coal.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:35 AM (cYBz/)

250 I believe I have unlocked the secret of the formatting tags. mwahahahaha.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

~~Awesome!~~

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:35 AM (T+ixL)

251 Happy birthday, Sponge!

29 again ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:34 AM (VE6XX)

Thanks! You guessed it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

252 Dido was one of my favorite singers in the 2000s.
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (gWBY1)

And I, Want to thank you for his comment. 😉

Posted by: Dido at December 17, 2025 10:35 AM (udlma)

253 241 Is having a bday this close to Christmas a good thing, bad thing or neutral? I’ve always thought kids get kinda screwed present wise since they’re so close together.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 10:33 AM (udlma)

We have 4 Christmas BDays plus Christmas.. Really hits the old pocketbook

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (VE6XX)

254 Crap , ruined my own snark .

It’s Louie Louie , oh no not oh yeah.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (KDPiq)

255 Is having a bday this close to Christmas a good thing, bad thing or neutral? I’ve always thought kids get kinda screwed present wise since they’re so close together.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

I have a cousin whose birthday is on Christmas Day. I don't know what it was like for her, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

256 Does anyone have a term for when you cough up a good old dark brown winter lougie in the shower, but you can't get it to go down the shower drain because it's too thick and sticky? This one was chunky and it felt like it came up out of my colon. Sure is satisfying though.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (qwx/I)

Go to a hospital NOW because the darker it is the deeper inside your respiratory system it originates.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (rQwsY)

257 Is having a bday this close to Christmas a good thing, bad thing or neutral? I’ve always thought kids get kinda screwed present wise since they’re so close together.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It kind of sucks - my youngest's BD was on the 15th. We worked hard to make sure he got two buckets of coal.
Posted by: Tonypete

Stepson's bday is December 26. Take a guess.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (T+ixL)

258 &FE60

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (OUMaO)

259 Drat. So much for that.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 17, 2025 10:37 AM (OUMaO)

260 Is having a bday this close to Christmas a good thing, bad thing or neutral? I’ve always thought kids get kinda screwed present wise since they’re so close together.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

As a child, yes. It pretty much blew because everything was revolving around Christmas and I would occasionally get a separate gift under the tree marked "Birthday."

Now, I don't really care. It's not about me as I have a family to care for and Jesus is the reason for the season.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:37 AM (Zz0t1)

261 I I want to thank you

Posted by: Dido at December 17, 2025 10:37 AM (BEQiS)

262 Barrel? I'm nervous...

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:37 AM (1Nv0l)

263 Game show network, here we come...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

BUZZR Network is running a "Betty White Christmas". You'll love it!

Posted by: Gene Rayburn's Ghost at December 17, 2025 10:37 AM (oftw2)

264
Go to a hospital NOW because the darker it is the deeper inside your respiratory system it originates.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (rQwsY)

Or, he drank too much Guinness last night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

265 "The Misfortunes of the Trojan City"

The "nice" mall went to hell years ago.
Parking meters now $5/hour.
They put in three more of those fucking roundabouts!
Crappy public 'art' springing up all over.
Buses no longer run on Sunday.

Posted by: gp at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (GHIyr)

266 My proposal is to have the birthday tradition changed and you give away presents on your BD instead of receiving them.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (KDPiq)

267
BUZZR Network is running a "Betty White Christmas". You'll love it!
Posted by: Gene Rayburn's Ghost at December 17, 2025 10:37 AM (oftw2)

I love her and will push him in that direction. We were watching The Match Game last night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

268 Stand back! He's gonna blow!

BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"
Chuck can't stand seeing American-killers get blown up.
"I demanded to Hegseth's FACE he let every senator see the unedited video...I've seen it. It turns your stomach! It is awful!!!
"What the hell is Hegseth hiding!?"
Sadly, Chuck came out empty-handed: "We had a DEEPLY unsatisfying briefing."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

269 Or, you could've played a guessing game of "One arm, or two" by playing a Def Leppard song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

Ha! I actually have, on occasion, mentioned earlier tracks of theirs as "that was back when the band had an even number of limbs".
-----

The 10-armed version of Def Leppard was amazing. That's the first 3 studio albums (concluding with Pyromania). I saw them live in January of 1983 right when Pyromania was climbing the charts and their videos were all over MTV. They put on an EPIC show, and the music itself was closer to Judas Priest than it was to pop.

Things all went to went to hell after Pyromania. They were never the same band.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (TN0g+)

270
Stepson's bday is December 26. Take a guess.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (T+ixL)

My neighbor's b day is that day, making him almost exactly 10 years older than me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

271 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Happy birthday!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (T+ixL)

272 @256 -- thanks, Mrs Meanie threw a bottle of conditioner at me so I'm going to the hospital anyway.

Happy birthday Sponge!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (qwx/I)

273 268 Stand back! He's gonna blow!

BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"
Chuck can't stand seeing American-killers get blown up.
"I demanded to Hegseth's FACE he let every senator see the unedited video...I've seen it. It turns your stomach! It is awful!!!
"What the hell is Hegseth hiding!?"
Sadly, Chuck came out empty-handed: "We had a DEEPLY unsatisfying briefing."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

======

That angry exchange will raise him at least $5,000 from small dollar donors.

Not much for him, but he's gotta eat!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

274 War usually does turn stomachs.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (KDPiq)

275 I've got cousins born just days apart Dec. 24 and Dec. 30.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (VMttT)

276 Wind came rolling through last night and this morning. Majority of the surrounding area is without power. The elementary school in the nearby village, Mrs. Sock's employer, is closed so she has the day off. I suggested we go back to bed. She told me to put my pants on and go start the generator. She is vacuuming the window blinds. I'm pouting.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 10:40 AM (em/hR)

277 268 Stand back! He's gonna blow!

BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"
Chuck can't stand seeing American-killers get blown up."

If by "storming" you mean Mincing and Prancing, well yeah.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 10:40 AM (uWKK8)

278 "What the hell is Hegseth hiding!?"
Sadly, Chuck came out empty-handed: "We had a DEEPLY unsatisfying briefing."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

Democrats, constantly fighting for those wanting to kill you. Not for you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

279
Happy birthday!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (T+ixL)

272 @256 -- thanks, Mrs Meanie threw a bottle of conditioner at me so I'm going to the hospital anyway.

Happy birthday Sponge!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (qwx/I)

Thank you!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

280 275 I've got cousins born just days apart Dec. 24 and Dec. 30.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (VMttT)

Daughter is the 29th, SIL 22nd, Step-Daughter 1st and step-grandson 3rd.. Not to mention Grandson Jan3rd...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:41 AM (VE6XX)

281 BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

That's saying something for a guy who eats raw burgers with cheese.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:41 AM (1Nv0l)

282 MPPPP, Professor Squirrel, Orange Ent, and all Moron writers.

Got an hour?

"Fanfiction has Destroyed Writing (And Everything Else)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NPxraALq0

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:42 AM (2GVsD)

283 >>>the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"

Eating raw hamburgers, not so much.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (oMo5x)

284 I believe I have unlocked the secret of the formatting tags. mwahahahaha.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:31 AM

*snigger*

Soon...

Posted by: The Barrel at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (bFu5X)

285 Has anyone seen these?
Little Jesus Figures

https://tinyurl.com/yr7x3pn7

Saw my first one in the wild yesterday in the building lobby.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (T+ixL)

286 275 I've got cousins born just days apart Dec. 24 and Dec. 30.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:39 AM (VMttT)

Your poor Aunt. That must've been one hell of a labor.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (0bjKf)

287 Imagine being pissed off that the US Military is destroying drug cartel boats and killing narco-terrorists all while being an elected member of the US Congress.

Boggles the mind.

"HOW DARE YOU QUELL THE FLOW OF ILLEGAL NARCOTICS INTO THIS COUNTRY!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

288 Hegsex should have rammed a flagpole up Schumer's arse while yelling "This is a Code Red!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (2GVsD)

289 BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"

We must be hitting the right targets.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (KqZNZ)

290 Has anyone seen these?
Little Jesus Figures

https://tinyurl.com/yr7x3pn7

Saw my first one in the wild yesterday in the building lobby.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (T+ixL)

I believe the First Lady was handed one at the oncology center one day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

291 287 Imagine being pissed off that the US Military is destroying drug cartel boats and killing narco-terrorists all while being an elected member of the US Congress.

Boggles the mind.

"HOW DARE YOU QUELL THE FLOW OF ILLEGAL NARCOTICS INTO THIS COUNTRY!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

======

"This is worse than Obama bombing a wedding!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

292 Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 10:40 AM (em/hR)
====

Pro Tip: The generator. It won't start.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:44 AM (VMttT)

293 "The Misfortunes of the Trojan City"

'Imma tell you about the shitshow in Troy, but first may I please ask who is that miniature human you have your arm around?'

Posted by: gp at December 17, 2025 10:44 AM (GHIyr)

294 Birthday problem: how many people do you need at a party for there to be a greater than 50% chance two of them share a birthday?

A: 23

At 50 there's a 97% chance.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:44 AM (1Nv0l)

295 Chuck Schumer is going through addiction withdrawal.

He no longer has the power he has become accustomed to.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:44 AM (2GVsD)

296 Birthday prayer for Sponge-

God of all creation, I offer you grateful praise for the gift of life . Hear the prayers for the poster known here as Sponge, who recalls the day of his birth. Thanks for the way you have blessed him to be a light to others, and how he has people in his life who love and appreciate him. Bless him with your presence and surround he and his family with your love that those dear to him may enjoy many happy years, all of them pleasing to you. I ask this through Christ the Savior. Amen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:45 AM (2sfNr)

297 But your picture on the wall, it reminds me, it's not so bad at all . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 10:45 AM (gKWVE)

298 281 BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"

I'm sure Chuckie didn't use the words "Narco terrorist strikes" I'm betting on fishing boats...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:45 AM (VE6XX)

299 Has anyone seen these?
Little Jesus Figures

https://tinyurl.com/yr7x3pn7

--

My first thought upon seeing these was of Mr. Bill.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 10:45 AM (qBdHI)

300 BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"
----

It's all just (bad) theater with them. Why would any sane adult believe that blowing up drug runners turns their stomach? Really? Its one thing to say "I have an intellectual problem with the equivalent of passing death sentences on people without a trial." Ok, I could at least entertain a discussion in that regard. But "it turns my stomach that drug runners got squashed"..??? That's just silly.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 10:45 AM (TN0g+)

301 Also apparently an AWFL was harassing an older target employee the other day for wearing a red FREEDOM tshirt with a us flag on the back, following her around calling her racist

Good news is jot only is the AWFL getting blowback and possibly consequences at her job, the someone set up a give-send-go for the target employee to go on a vacay and it's past $60k last I looked.

Small donations $5, $10 etc

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:46 AM (0JWOm)

302 Blowing up high sea pirates is worse than Gaylord using a drone to blow up an American citizen and his son in a foreign country.

Or Gaylord putting illegal immigrant children in cages.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:46 AM (2GVsD)

303 In case you're wondering whose side the Democrats are on . . .

House Dems Introduce Resolution to Force Military to Stand Down Against Designated Terrorist Orgs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

304 Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 10:40 AM (em/hR)

Same, except we're snuggling on the couch, listening to Christmas music.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:46 AM (oMo5x)

305 Birthday prayer for Sponge-

God of all creation, I offer you grateful praise for the gift of life . Hear the prayers for the poster known here as Sponge, who recalls the day of his birth. Thanks for the way you have blessed him to be a light to others, and how he has people in his life who love and appreciate him. Bless him with your presence and surround he and his family with your love that those dear to him may enjoy many happy years, all of them pleasing to you. I ask this through Christ the Savior. Amen.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:45 AM (2sfNr)

Thank you. Bless you for that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

306 My first kid's birthday is June 25th. I immediately thought good planning kid.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 17, 2025 10:47 AM (sl73Y)

307 "I demanded to Hegseth's FACE he let every senator see the unedited video...I've seen it. It turns your stomach! It is awful!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

Schumer is obviously lying, but I think he has been doing the same schtick for so long that it's second nature.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 10:47 AM (n9ltV)

308 Good news is jot only is the AWFL getting blowback and possibly consequences at her job, the someone set up a give-send-go for the target employee to go on a vacay and it's past $60k last I looked.

Small donations $5, $10 etc
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:46 AM (0JWOm)

I saw that story.. The poor woman stood there being yelled at.. I hope that "Nurse" gets fired...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:47 AM (VE6XX)

309 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:46 AM (0JWOm)

I saw that story. What a terrible thing for that woman to do to the cashier and it's nice of people to give to the cashier.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:47 AM (2sfNr)

310 The Democrat Party is a domestic terrorist organization.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:47 AM (2GVsD)

311 278 "What the hell is Hegseth hiding!?"
Sadly, Chuck came out empty-handed: "We had a DEEPLY unsatisfying briefing."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

He's keeping the US Military's specific plans secret from the Cartels and from Maduro's government, which they would have known instantly if he had allowed you to see any of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 10:48 AM (uWKK8)

312 My first kid's birthday is June 25th. I immediately thought good planning kid.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 17, 2025 10:47 AM (sl73Y)
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I insisted Girl F. be born a virgo like her dad.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:48 AM (VMttT)

313
BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"
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It's all scripted hyperemotional psy op claptrap from these faux moral busybodies. Always.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 10:48 AM (BEQiS)

314
That angry exchange will raise him at least $5,000 from small dollar donors.

Not much for him, but he's gotta eat!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Cheeburger cheeburger cheeburger

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 10:49 AM (pkeXY)

315 June 25th?

The start of the Korean War.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:49 AM (2GVsD)

316
I insisted Girl F. be born a virgo like her dad.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:48 AM (VMttT

My Son is a Leo like me.. Born the day after my B-Day

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:49 AM (VE6XX)

317 Our son's due date was supposed to be Dec. 7, but he came a few weeks earlier than that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

318 I saw that story.. The poor woman stood there being yelled at.. I hope that "Nurse" gets fired...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:47 AM (VE6XX)

Sad that none of the other customers called the AWFL a deranged c*** and slugged her in the chops.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:50 AM (npFr7)

319 The cartels and illegal drug trade help fund the DNC. Never forget. This is why it's "turning" their fake stomachs.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 10:50 AM (BEQiS)

320 Hamburglar or Chuck Schumer?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:51 AM (2GVsD)

321 I believe I have unlocked the secret of the formatting tags. mwahahahaha.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔢...?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 10:51 AM (KqZNZ)

322 BUZZR Network is running a "Betty White Christmas". You'll love it!
Posted by: Gene Rayburn's Ghost at December 17, 2025 10:37 AM (oftw2)

Gene Rayburn always gave off the impression that he was drunk off his ass when he hosted Match Game.

And I miss the ID channel showing A Very Kenda Christmas and doing a marathon of Homicide Hunter.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 10:51 AM (ufSfZ)

323 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:45 AM (2sfNr)

Amen that was beautiful Fen. You should think about doing this for a living.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (BEQiS)

324 Gene Rayburn always gave off the impression that he was drunk off his ass when he hosted Match Game.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

He actually invented that long microphone he used.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

325
It's Bernie. I don't think he has a point.
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 10:29 AM (UnA8+)

Yup. He's just having another dry orgasm.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 10:34 AM (g8Ew

DACHA!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (y9nCu)

326 Doesn't help Chuckie that the opposition leader in Venezuela and Nobel peace prize winner agrees with the bombing of the narcos

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (VE6XX)

327 We have so many family members with December birthdays!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (6U1c2)

328
𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔢...?
Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 10:51 AM (KqZNZ)

That's impressive.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

329 Gene Rayburn always gave off the impression that he was drunk off his ass when he hosted Match Game.

And I miss the ID channel showing A Very Kenda Christmas and doing a marathon of Homicide Hunter.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 10:51 AM (ufSfZ)
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I recall Richard Dawson being drunk while on Match Game.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (VMttT)

330 I know a dude who golfed with ol Gene. Said he was an amazing dude. Nicest guy in the world.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 10:53 AM (BEQiS)

331 323 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 10:45 AM (2sfNr)

Amen that was beautiful Fen. You should think about doing this for a living.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (BEQiS)

Agreed....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:53 AM (VE6XX)

332 Internet raises over $80,000 for Target employee with Charlie Kirk shirt after woke white lady goes postal on her

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

333 326 Doesn't help Chuckie that the opposition leader in Venezuela and Nobel peace prize winner agrees with the bombing of the narcos

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (VE6XX)

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Create controversy out of everything. Make everything Trump does an issue, no matter what.

Make Trump not-normal to the point where an entire generation of voters thinks that Trump is normal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

334 IIRC, Humphrey Bogart's birthday was Jan. 1.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

335 Is having a bday this close to Christmas a good thing, bad thing or neutral? I’ve always thought kids get kinda screwed present wise since they’re so close together.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It kind of sucks - my youngest's BD was on the 15th. We worked hard to make sure he got two buckets of coal.
Posted by: Tonypete

Stepson's bday is December 26. Take a guess.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:36 AM (T+ixL)

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My father's birthday was the 27th, and he used to joke that he'd get one shoe of a pair on Christmas -- and the other on his birthday.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 10:53 AM (LlvtX)

336 I've got cousins born just days apart Dec. 24 and Dec. 30.

"I once knew two sisters, whose name it was 'Christmas,'
And one was called 'Dawn,' of course,
The other one was named 'Eve' -
I wonder if they grew up hating the season
Of the good will that lasts 'till the feast of Saint Stephen?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 10:54 AM (ufSfZ)

337 *He actually invented that long microphone he used.*

It's a phallic symbol.

Posted by: Your 11th grade English Lit teacher at December 17, 2025 10:54 AM (EYPJc)

338
My father's birthday was the 27th, and he used to joke that he'd get one shoe of a pair on Christmas -- and the other on his birthday.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 10:53 AM (LlvtX)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

339 Gene Rayburn always gave off the impression that he was drunk off his ass when he hosted Match Game.

And I miss the ID channel showing A Very Kenda Christmas and doing a marathon of Homicide Hunter.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Gene Rayburn had a long commute. Lived in Scituate, MA, worked in Hollywood. Took up needlepoint for all the long flights.

Posted by: Bye, Bye Birdie at December 17, 2025 10:54 AM (oftw2)

340 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔢...?
Posted by: t-bird
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I'm nervous about experimenting with the nether-regions of html-space. I'm told "the barrel" is in my future should I fail...

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:54 AM (1Nv0l)

341 My father's birthday was the 27th, and he used to joke that he'd get one shoe of a pair on Christmas -- and the other on his birthday.
Posted by: ShainS

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 10:54 AM (T+ixL)

342 Talk about breathless and stupid media

"Trump assembling largest armada..."

Operation Overlord and Operation Forager would beg to differ. Both launched within a week of each other and on opposite sides of the world.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:55 AM (2GVsD)

343 This is worse than Obama bombing a wedding!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

Or maybe worse than droning an American citizen. (Just to clarify I agreed with that droning)

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:55 AM (KDPiq)

344 342 Talk about breathless and stupid media

"Trump assembling largest armada..."

Operation Overlord and Operation Forager would beg to differ. Both launched within a week of each other and on opposite sides of the world.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:55 AM (2GVsD)

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"Trump's actions are without precedent. They haven't been done in 20 years!"
-stuff editors let through all the time

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

345 German books printed before about 1850 are illegible.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 10:56 AM (gKWVE)

346 343 This is worse than Obama bombing a wedding!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

Or maybe worse than droning an American citizen. (Just to clarify I agreed with that droning)

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:55 AM (KDPiq)

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I didn't. Obama should have been impeached and thrown in jail for executing an American citizen extrajudicially.

He should also have been impeached and thrown in jail for Fast and Furious, an effort to overthrow the 2nd Amendment by getting firearms into the hands of foreign cartels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

347 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

*************

Dido, Guido, Speedo, Frito Bandito, The Jackson 5 and Tito, Cheetoh, neat-o, Pedo, mosquito, credo, veto, Manuelito

Meh, I've got nothing

Posted by: muldoon at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (/iMjX)

348 Lori Lightfoot was a horrible mayor for Chicago, but Brandon Johnson somehow makes her look like a genius. How is that even possible?

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (RHGPo)

349 Hegseth to make military chaplaincy great again by getting rid of New Age "self-help" and bringing back God

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

350 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Late again. Big storm last night. No sleep. And that my excuse. Cool art.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (2WIwB)

351 Ex-SiL had her birthday on Christmas Day. Had to remember to wish her a happy-birthday before a merry-Christmas lest she get grumpy for the rest of the Christmas dinner.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (1Nv0l)

352 Hamburglar or Chuck Schumer?

Hamburglar was a thief, but at least he had hustle.

Schmuck is just a greasy thief.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 10:58 AM (ufSfZ)

353 BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"
Chuck can't stand seeing American-killers get blown up.
"I demanded to Hegseth's FACE he let every senator see the unedited video...I've seen it. It turns your stomach! It is awful!!!
"What the hell is Hegseth hiding!?"
Sadly, Chuck came out empty-handed: "We had a DEEPLY unsatisfying briefing."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

Did he emerge with his glasses shoved up his ass? If not, why not? Time for him to be told to leave and perform an anatomically impossible act upon himself.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 17, 2025 10:59 AM (5xuJ/)

354 345 German books printed before about 1850 are illegible.
Posted by: gKWVE

Mein was printed well after that. Popular tome it was.

Posted by: A. Schickelgruber at December 17, 2025 10:59 AM (oftw2)

355 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

American ‘citizen’ without the context makes it sound worse than it was .

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:59 AM (KDPiq)

356 351 Ex-SiL had her birthday on Christmas Day. Had to remember to wish her a happy-birthday before a merry-Christmas lest she get grumpy for the rest of the Christmas dinner.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (1Nv0l)

My Daughters is the 29th and we took the tree down on the 26th... No hint of Christmas anywhere in the house... Got in that habit and still take it all down on the 26th...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)

357 7 I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Charlie Brown's Dido?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 09:33 AM (iJfKG)

Cobs coulda laid bets on how long it would take to get that posted!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 10:59 AM (RuTUS)

358 355 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

American ‘citizen’ without the context makes it sound worse than it was .

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:59 AM (KDPiq)

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Both were American citizens (dude and his son), and the strike was targeting them outside of anything like combat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

359 There was a question?

Senate Democrats’ Loyalties Questioned After Blocking Bill to Cut Taliban Funding

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

360 I recall Richard Dawson being drunk while on Match Game.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:52 AM (VMttT)

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I was never sure if the Dean Martin drunk schtick was an act or real.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 11:00 AM (4vd8A)

361 My point of course is that it is far worse thann killing foreign narc-terrorists and the Left never said a word. Only Rand Paul.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:00 AM (KDPiq)

362 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl

Glad to hear that!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:00 AM (Yl2Ob)

363 Stand back! He's gonna blow!

BREAKING: A livid Chuck Schumer reveals he STORMED up to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, announcing the narco-terrorist strikes "turn my stomach!"
Chuck can't stand seeing American-killers get blown up.
"I demanded to Hegseth's FACE he let every senator see the unedited video...I've seen it. It turns your stomach! It is awful!!!
"What the hell is Hegseth hiding!?"
Sadly, Chuck came out empty-handed: "We had a DEEPLY unsatisfying briefing."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

War is hell, Chucky.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 11:00 AM (g8Ew8)

364 I didn't. Obama should have been impeached and thrown in jail for executing an American citizen extrajudicially.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

He was a member of an Islamic terror group. That made him fair game as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

365 Nood.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM (0sNs1)

366 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

You go with that.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM (KDPiq)

367 The American citizen was not convicted.

Gaylord even threw that out to drone him and his son.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM (2GVsD)

368 I was never sure if the Dean Martin drunk schtick was an act or real.
Posted by: ShainS

It was mostly an act, with Martin.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

369 Gene Rayburn nearly ruined Break the Bank (1985), though.

He took up way too much of the bonus round's running clock, making it harder for the contestants to actually win.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 11:02 AM (UnA8+)

370 American ‘citizen’ without the context makes it sound worse than it was .
Posted by: Opinion fact

There was a period of time where citizenship was handed out like moslims handing out candy after they coerced a mentally disabled recruit to self-detonate in an Israeli school playground.

If I were in the Trump admin, I'd hire a team to scour through all citizen grants starting with Bush's first term and revoke on any technicality.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Dv3i1)

371 365 Nood.
Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM (0sNs1)

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 11:04 AM (RuTUS)

372 He was a member of an Islamic terror group. That made him fair game as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

Counts as a de facto renunciation of citizenship, as far as I am concerned. And if he was born outside the USA, and got citizenship by naturalization, then going back to Shitcanistan and joining ISIS is proof that he lied when he took the citizenship oath.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:05 AM (npFr7)

373 And is that a helmet Aeneas is wearing, or is it the horn of a gramophone on the side table?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:06 AM (npFr7)

374
He should also have been impeached and thrown in jail for Fast and Furious, an effort to overthrow the 2nd Amendment by getting firearms into the hands of foreign cartels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

Not to mention being an Act of War against Mexico, since the point wasn't just to get arms into cartel hands, but to have them picked up AT CRIME SCENES with Mexican blood on the ground.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM (y9nCu)

375 🚨#BREAKING: I have obtained voting records of Asheville NC's Vice Mayor, Antanette Mosley...

...and she appears to have cast ballots in BOTH Georgia and North Carolina in 2008, 2012, and 2014.

Furthermore, it appears she also claimed a "homestead tax exemption" in Georgia which is legally only available to those with a permanent residence.

... public corruption should be a capital offense

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM (RHGPo)

376
Nood monkey

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 11:07 AM (y9nCu)

377 [Awlaki] was a member of an Islamic terror group. That made him fair game as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: Bulg

Ditto. That was a fine thing Obama did and he should have sent many more Islamists to meet the seventytwo of whatever it was they've been promised.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 11:18 AM (gKWVE)

378 "Misfortunes"? Aeneas has the Gift of Understatement …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 17, 2025 12:31 PM (ayRl+)

The Morning Report — 12/17/25

Good morning kids. From friend and co-blogger CBD's excellent Morning Rant essay yesterday on potential US involvement in Ukraine.

Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy.

I read that and then I remembered a link from yesterday which takes the expression "batshit crazy" to a whole new level.

Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea held a welcome back ceremony for soldiers serving in the battlefield of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this weekend, acknowledging a regiment believed to have been helping clear landmines in which at least nine soldiers died.

So the Norks are clearing mines for Putin. And what would happen if suppose there was an encounter with US troops and a firefight broke out? Despite the armistice of 1953, the North Korean regimes under successive generations of the Kim dynasty still consider themselves in a state of war with the USA and have maintained their goal of retaking and absorbing South Korea. Yeah, batshit crazy but what if Ukraine somehow devolved into a second front of the ongoing Korean "conflict?" Considering the bizarre and often testy relationship between President Trump and "Rocket Man" Kim . . . again, batshit crazy indeed.

Elsewhere in the world, we have an incident involving the USA and North Korea's prime ally:

A US special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing US officials.
The cargo consisted of components potentially useful for Iran’s conventional weapons, one official said, adding the shipment had been destroyed.
US forces boarded the ship several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, according to the newspaper, which added the vessel was later allowed to proceed….. The report cited an American official as saying US intelligence indicated the shipment was headed for Iranian companies known to be intermediaries for the country’s missile development efforts.
The action was part of a campaign by the US Defense Department to cut off Iran’s covert arms supply networks….The Iran-China relationship is a cause for concern, but is also unpredictable, since according to analysts across the board, China does not want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
The incident of American commandos raiding the ship that was heading from China to Iran was “part of a campaign by the US Defense Department to cut off Iran’s covert arms supply networks.”
Nonetheless, in the global arena, the red-green alliance is growing stronger and expanding strategically, which isn’t good news for American interests.

It should be noted that Iran and North Korea have also had and likely still have a very close relationship due to their mutual animosity and hatred of the USA and now more than ever with Trump as President. Over the years they have collaborated on both nuclear weapons and missile technology. Iran and China have made inroads in our own backyard, most especially in Venezuela first with Chavez and now Maduro, as well as some of the other Commie dictators in the region. It's why the recent elections in Chile and elsewhere installing more American aligned leaders and a rejection of the Leftists are most welcome and gratifying.

The most welcome IMHO and vocal and strident reassertion by this President of the Monroe doctrine could not come at a more crucial time in geopolitics both in this hemisphere and with repercussions that go far beyond it. That said, given the nature of the players in Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran and Caracas as well as Moscow the word RISK takes on a meaning well beyond that of a mere old time kids' board game.

Yet with all this going on in the world, the greatest risk to America and of our way of life still remains the enemy within.

Here are but two items from the links wherein greasy greaseball Gavin Newsom

and Nazi-afficionado and fanboi Graham Platner are primed and ready to seize vast tracts of land from the citizenry for the most heinous of politicized reasons.

And where does this insanity begin? Kindergarten!

Do you know what a “neopronoun” or a “xeopronoun” is?
The teachers’ unions want to make sure your little kids do. . .Got it?
No?
But our kids are being force-fed this garbage in America’s public schools.
The NEA touts over 3 million members, many of them teachers in our schools.
The union steeps the teachers in this leftist brain rot, and the teachers spread it at schools across the country.
It’s not just the gender bunk that was presented at the conference, either.
The NEA is not entirely sure this whole “America” thing is going to stick, so they refer to it as “what we know as the United States of America” and “What we now call the United States of America” in multiple slides.
Apparently xeopronouns are rock-solid but a 249-year-old country might just be a fad.
Also, sorry gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA. . . Also, sorry gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA.
Why?
Because “this term comes across as clinical and dog whistle-y.”
Well, yes, it sounds clinical because it’s a biological term and not a word made up by some TikTok influencer to describe the gender identity of the moment.
How can the NEA still be prioritizing this foolishness in the year 2025?
And why does an openly political special interest group continue to have so much sway over our kids?
Why? How much longer can groups like this, pushing a crazy agenda, have access to our kids and their schools?
Parents need to remain on guard from this asininity oozing into their kids’ classrooms.

Unless and until we wrest control over the Education of our chlldren from the sick, twisted power-mad fiends, we as a nation and society are doomed. Well, there's batshit crazy and then there's the above.

Have a good day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Iran desperately seeking out allies, shifts to China for support.
US Commandos Raid Ship Carrying Military Items to Iran From China
Karol Markowicz: Do you know what a “neopronoun” or a “xeopronoun” is? The teachers’ unions want to make sure your little kids do.
Teachers union pushes ‘neopronouns’ but claims name ‘America’ is a problem

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

It is apparent that the American Right, as a whole, is the group that shows grace, caring, and humanity.
Conservative condolences to Reiner murder is stark contrast to leftists' reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination
The time for swift, strategic, and sweeping steps to end organized left-wing violence is now or it might be never.
Foiled Left-Wing Terrorist Attack Must Be The Beginning, Not End, Of Trump’s Antifa Crackdown
Since 1912 and the election of Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat Party has been America’s left-wing political party. Nonetheless, over the decades it has maintained tenuous ties to the basic tenets of the nation’s founding. In the 1930s, beginning with what was a de facto “cult of... More
The Marxist Transformation of the Democrat Party
Democracy dies when citizens demand benefits instead of freedom.
Democracy’s Great Temptation
The pursuit of a noble lifestyle in agriculture should transcend pernicious identity politics.
Gavin Newsom’s DEI Land Grab Is An Assault On American Farmers
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
This week, Mills said she will allow LD 1971 to become law because she feels Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have engaged in “unacceptable actions,” though she still feels the law is “imperfect,” according to WMTW-TV. (when will this filthy criminal shit-whore be arrested and imprisoned?! - jjs)
Maine Gov. Janet Mills Approves Law Preventing Police from Aiding Immigration Enforcement
Rep. Omar accused ICE agents of racial profiling, despite providing no proof of the incident actually happening.
ICE Denies Rep. Bro-Fo Omar’s Allegation of inbred haploid Son Being Stopped for Citizenship Check.
. . . comparable to illegal aliens, as he criticized the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Minneapolis Police Chief Depicts Mary and Joseph as ‘Outsiders’
The left insists that birthright citizenship is “plainly written” into the Constitution and immune from any challenge. But cases like that of Chinese billionaire Xu Bo expose just how stupid that claim is.
Chinese Billionaire’s U.S. Baby Factory Exposes Birthright Citizenship Scam
Reducing terror migration saves lives.
Trump Adds Syria, Mali and ‘Palestinian Authority’ to Travel Ban
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
it looks as if we just got more jihad in Washington state. . . the very real possibility that he did all this because his namesake, the prophet of Islam, commanded his followers to “kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5).
Washington State: Man Lures Cops With Fake 9/11 Call, Stabs One — Guess the Perp’s Names
“Christmas market in Brussels turns into an Islamic hell. Elsewhere in Europe, Christmas markets are under extra surveillance."
'Islamic hell': Former Dutch MP slams pro-'Palestine' mob who staged protest at Christmas market in Brussels
Muslim terrorism cancels New Year’s Eve in Paris.
All of France is a No Go Zone Now
An Indonesian adventure in the land of Sharia.
Famous Prostitute Deported and Banned from a Place She Should Have Known Not to Go
We stand on the threshold of a mandatory choice.
The Civilizational Equation No One Wants to Face
BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH
Hanukkah is not a festival of vague illumination or seasonal warmth. It is not about universalism. Bondi should have taught us that. The story of Hanukkah is about Jews who refused — violently, unapologetically, and at great cost — to stop being Jews.
Bondi Beach brings back the true meaning of Hanukkah: resistance
Public statements from elected officials across the Anglosphere added insult to injury, erasing or gaslighting Jews.
Anglosphere Leaders’ Bad Responses to Bondi Beach Terrorism
Douglas Murray: Australia has long tolerated the proponents of such mayhem and silenced those who raise the alarm.
The Massacre at Bondi Beach Was Inevitable

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Emails released by Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office show that officials at the FBI and DOJ communicated about FBI concerns about the warrant in the months leading up to the August raid.
Docs: FBI Believed It Lacked Probable Cause To Raid Mar-A-Lago But Did So Anyway
Far-left Attorney General Brad Kaul brought charges against three defendants in what many see as a proxy trial aimed at President Trump.
Judge Rules Wisconsin Show Trial Against Trump Allies Will Go On
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The cuts redirected funding from initiatives such as diversity grants, green energy projects, and programs for illegal immigrants, sparking outrage among Democrats.
Republicans Are Implementing Major Spending Cuts for Leftist Initiatives in This State:
“By making it more expensive to do business or hire workers in the city, these measures threaten Chicago’s future economic growth and tax collections.”
Washington Post Editorial Board Slams Mayor Johnson’s Budget Plan: ‘Chicago Has Lost its Mind’
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“Under the Biden junta, most job growth came from government jobs and foreign labor. Now, with [President Trump] at the helm, every single job created has been in the PRIVATE SECTOR for NATIVE-BORN AMERICANS,” the Labor Department wrote on X.
Golden Age: All Net Job Growth Going to Americans as Foreign-Born Employment Keeps Declining
Despite media hype, rising incomes outpacing prices show there’s no broad affordability crisis—just isolated struggles in housing and select markets.
Trump’s Right: The Affordability Crisis Is a Misconception
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“I think with the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a campus there’s a question, no answers yet, but there’s a question whether this was a targeted killing.”
Lack Of Information About Brown University Murders “Allows a Lot of Speculation to Flourish”
The same intersection in Midtown was the scene of a stabbing three days earlier during a road rage clash that left a 38-year-old man wounded.
Two Thugs Arrested in Deadly Beating, Stabbing of Rhode Island Man near Times Square (Shvarzyorim, I assume - jjs)
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
“Is the world waiting for a Chanukah massacre in NYC before it understands how catastrophic the situation has become?”
Two Young Jewish Men Attacked on NYC Subway — America Must Act
The group, Turtle Island Liberation Front, planned to blow up buildings in Los Angeles marked by painted Hamas triangles
California Dems Silent on Radical Anti-Israel Group's Foiled Los Angeles Bomb Plot (They either approve or are smart enough to keep their mouths shut to stay off TILF's target list - jjs)
‘You’d think Wisconsin would take a 9-0 Supreme Court loss as a hint to stop digging,’ said Becket Fund attorney Eric Rassbach.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Ends Democrat AG’s Bid To ‘Defy’ SCOTUS’ Catholic Charity Ruling
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The media will never tell you stories that expose their dangerous ideology.
ABC Downplays a Huge Left-Wing Terror Plot Busted by Trump's FBI
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
“When a company takes a billion dollar loss just to leave, you know something is seriously broken.”
Valero Eats $1.1 Billion Loss to Escape Newsom’s Toxic California
If signed into law, Republican Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman and Democrat Maine Rep. Rep. Jared Golden’s SPEED Act would reform the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a keystone federal environmental law that the White House recently targeted. Like many deregulatory proposals, environmental groups are fighting the SPEED Act, though some hardliner House Republicans have also been resisting the measure, arguing that it would pave the way for offshore wind projects President Donald Trump has staunchly opposed.
Congress Nears Bipartisan Permitting Reform. Hardline Republicans Argue It Threatens Trump’s Agenda. (Bipartisan = Gang-Rape - jjs)
SECOND AMENDMENT
Democrat pederast Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota lashed out in an angry diatribe against the Second Amendment during a Tuesday press conference in which he signed executive orders he claims will reduce gun violence.
‘It’s All Bullsh*t’: Tim Walz Goes On Anti-Second Amendment Rant
Instead, Schumer went with the standard Democrat talking point of pushing more gun laws after extant gun control fails to prevent a criminal from acting out his heinous intentions.
Chuck Schemer Calls for More Gun Control After Handgun Attack at Gun-Free Brown University
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
While Gov. Shapiro attacked Trump during the government shutdown, his own mal-administration was failing to deliver critical info on SNAP and other services through the mail.
Pennsylvania Officials Let Unsent Mail Pile Up For A Month, But Promise Mail Voting Is Super Secure
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
How else to explain why they are so often caught with their hands in the till, and why they routinely try to thwart anti-fraud efforts?
For Today’s Democrats, Fraud Is A Feature, Not A Bug
Alleged fraud has cost taxpayers over $1 billion, with calls for accountability and potential political consequences for Walz.
Trump Cabinet Member Demands Tim Walz Resign Amid Fraud Scandal.
‘I also am a firm supporter of any legislation on the federal level that begins to give more, frankly, land back to the indigenous peoples,’ Platner says
‘A Foundation of My Politics’: Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’
There are too many politicians in Washington who believe there is no life outside of Congress or the halls of D.C. bureaucracy. It is when their job is threatened that they act.
Henry Cuellar proves that career politicians cannot be trusted—even when they're pardoned
Wesley Lowery determined to force his way back into the national discourse
Disgraced BLM Sex Pest Says It's 'Racist' to Think Jasmine Crock-(O'sh)ett Can't Turn Texas Blue
Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate. Her mouth is her own biggest obstacle. In April, Crockett claimed she “had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country … The fact is, ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now.”
Jasmine Crock(o'sh-)ett Backtracks On ‘Picking Cotton’ Comments
The California’s GOP biggest problem isn’t Democrats, but strategy.
How California’s GOP Wasted $45 Million for Nothing
Democrat candidate Erik Murray credits Elaine Brown with changing the 'wiring' in his brain (Recalls lobotomized astronaut Landon from Planet of the Apes- jjs)
Kansas Senate Candidate Names His Political Inspiration: A Black Panther ‘Soldier’ Working To Destroy the American ‘Empire’
POLITICS
The Trump administration has aggressively touted Trump's economic policies in recent weeks.
Trump To Address The Nation Tonight, Tease Policies Coming In 2026
The midterm clock is ticking, and the Republican majority in the House has never been more fragile. To my Senate colleagues: Please, with sugar on top, do not waste this opportunity.
Sen. John Kennedy Op-Ed: Hey, Senate GOP, let’s get moving — pass more big, beautiful bills before it’s too late
As Republicans seek to maintain control of Congress in 2026, several key races are poised to play a decisive role in determining whether the party can hold its majorities — and whether alignment with Trump is still enough to motivate GOP voters in midterm elections.
Six Primaries That May Determine The Future Of The GOP After Trump
Musk, who attempted to launch a third party earlier this year, appears to have had a change of heart, as he is now cutting large checks to help the GOP secure congressional seats in next year’s midterm elections, two sources familiar with the matter told Axios. The amount Musk is donating to help Republicans stop Democrats from reclaiming a majority in Congress will not be revealed until next month, when campaign finance reports are released.
Report: Elon Musk Is Funding Republican Campaigns in 2026 Midterms
Rubio’s remarks signal strong GOP unity behind Vice President Vance as a potential 2028 presidential candidate.
Rubio Pledges to Support Vance If He Runs in 2028.
Pelosi — who sounded more sober but perhaps less coherent than usual — gave a rambling response before getting a firm redirect from Page. "Just to make sure I understand you, [impeachment] should not be the agenda of Democrats for this last two years?"
Wait, Malig-Nancy Pelosi Just Said WHAT?
The Democrats seem to be preparing to coronate Newsom as their nominee for 2028.
Gavin Newsom's Barbaric Stand on Young Children
There are two problems with Newsom's viability as a presidential candidate, and I've been highlighting both for a long time. The little miracle agreement I alluded to at the beginning of this column has to do with the first one: Newsom's brand of crazy leftism doesn't play well once it moves inward from the West Coast. This is from a recent Axios newsletter: "Gavin Newsom's Democratic rivals are plotting how to take down the early 2028 frontrunner, with a heavy emphasis on how unpopular his left-leaning views are outside deep-blue California."
Even Some Democrats Are Starting to Side-Eye Gavin Newsom’s Coastal Lefty Elitism
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
If Europe’s elites want war, they should pick up a rifle and fight.
Why Should Americans Die for European Tyranny?
After Jimmy Lai’s conviction under Hong Kong’s national security law, Trump and allies urge Xi Jinping to free the ailing pro-democracy publisher before it’s too late.
Jimmy Lai’s Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders
Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar Assad fled to Moscow when he was driven from power and has reportedly settled into a new life as a celebrity ophthalmologist since his usefulness to the Russian government has come to an end.
Reports: Deposed Syrian Dictator Bashar Assad Resurfaces in Moscow as Celebrity Ophthalmologist
Thai bombing raids have struck near shelters for displaced people and about 50 miles away from the country’s key tourist spot of Angkor Wat.
Continuing Cambodia–Thailand Clashes Leave 38 Dead, Border Towns Emptied Out
The fight occurred during debate over proposed reforms to Mexico City’s transparency oversight agency.
Cat fight in Mexican congress as ladies tussle, pull hair over government accountability
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“I thought it was pretty comprehensive. And this idea, some things out in the media, it’s kind of putting out this that the military’s just picking off any boat that comes across. That’s just not true."
Fetterman: Military Knows Who and What’s on Boats, ‘Quite Frequently’ Declines to Strike
The move seeks to cut off funding and resources to the Clan del Golfo and curb its violent activities.
Trump Designates Colombian Cartel as Foreign Terrorist Group.
The company, WuXi AppTec, 'operates genetic testing centers established in coordination with the PLA,' lawmakers warned last year
Chinese Investment Firm Funded By Yale and Princeton Buys Slice of Shanghai Tech Company That Works With China's Military
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The investigation could influence whether Obamacare’s enhanced premium subsidies are extended or allowed to expire, amid concerns of fraud and inefficiencies.
House GOP Investigates Obamacare Brokers Over Fraud Allegations, Soaring Premiums.
The government is standing between patients and their health care.
Stop forcing patients to choose between pain or addiction
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
There are several theories as to what causes these flashes, but none are accepted whole-heartedly. Now a team of astronomers have looked at one flash and proposed a new theory.
Astronomers propose a new explanation for “Bright Blue Outbursts”
The location is about 50 miles to the southwest of Jezero Crater where the rover Perseverance landed.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high resolution camera takes its 100,000th picture
Since it was discovered July 1 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, a telescope backed by NASA, scientists have been tracking the rare comet. (RELATED: Strange-Looking UFO Spotted Hovering Over Bogotá, Colombia In Hair-Raising Video)
3I/ATLAS: Here’s What To Know And How You Can See Rare Interstellar Comet
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“The world is not rooting for you—in fact, it’s deliberately rooting against you. . .The demographic shift reshaped not only who told the stories, but which stories got told...“Among sixteen tenured or tenure-track millennials, just one is a white man...“He has recurring fantasies of changing his name and moving to Thailand. . .The white men shut out of the culture industries didn’t surge into other high-status fields...That was the last time either of us saw the inside of a writer’s room.”
The Lost Generation
Christian Toto: Eco-friendly franchise delivers more sumptuous visuals, storytelling dead space
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Won’t Save Mother Earth
The West is increasingly in the grips of a killing cult, whose champions mask terminating human life from prebirth to old age and everywhere in-between in the language of compassion and right.
The West’s Growing Killing Cult

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1 its hump day

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 17, 2025 07:14 AM (gbOdA)

2 Yowza!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2025 07:18 AM (wVcYX)

3 Homo homo homo homo homosexual

Posted by: Culture Crud at December 17, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

4 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 07:21 AM (Cjt/F)

5 It's full of content!

Posted by: Count Dave Bowman de Monet at December 17, 2025 07:22 AM (wVcYX)

6 "FBI Believed It Lacked Probable Cause To Raid Mar-A-Lago But Did So Anyway"

So people are being arrested today, right?

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

7 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:23 AM (IC093)

8 The report also recommends the development of local ordinances to restrict citizens from purchasing land unless they are part of a certain minority group.

This policy would encourage the state and nonprofits to outbid legacy farms at auction and then only offer agricultural leases back to minority farmers after the purchase.

Sounds like the share cropper plan used postbellum.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

9 The information on the British farmers posted last night is confusing. A search says this was in November but another protest is planned for today but without all the tractors?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:27 AM (sDNVV)

10 Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy.

Its beyond that. This is Demonic in it Totality. UK is just a couple train cars ahead of us on this train to a Thousand Years of Darkness.

The West has deliberately killed off its men in WW2, wash rinse, repeat with Korea, Vietnam, ME and now they have a low-T population that can't reproduce.

Three generations of telling the remaining men that they are worthless, evil and toxic. Then they backfill with the Replacement Population of third worlders who only have T and no skills or intelligence. The Elite are almost there with a male population that they feel they are superior too.

Then the men that they spent the last 30 years shitting on they want to run through the meat grinder of Ukraine to finally kill off so that the imported savages can rape their sisters, mothers and daughters.

Putin is not the problem. The demonic sociopaths in Western government is an existential crisis personified.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 07:27 AM (/TiS1)

11 How Mary and Joseph themselves were considered outsiders and forced to stay in a barn.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

Sounds to me like they went to their families home town.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

12 Huh. One might infer then, that the NEA is not fond of “Buggery” either, except in a clinical sense

Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 07:28 AM (P7T1m)

13 A friend who is a teacher and a very lefty one was surprised when one of her kids now wants to be regarded as the opposite sex. This friend is indulging said kid. She was astonished this had happened but none to us. The chickens have come to roost. I think the kid has other mental health issues and do hope they somehow get addressed.
May you all find blessings in your day.

Posted by: Paisley at December 17, 2025 07:28 AM (9wPBr)

14 Every night we light menorah candles, we send a clear message: We are still here.

We will not convert. We will not disappear.

We will not reshape ourselves to be acceptable.

We will not turn our history into a children’s story that offends no one and teaches nothing.
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Thanks JJ. Mrs. F. read this article aloud last night when we kindled the lights.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:28 AM (IC093)

15 >The Democrats seem to be preparing to coronate Newsom as their nominee for 2028.
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he has no accomplishments to run on
it will be pointless blather and posturing all the way
Democrats will eat it up

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:29 AM (ZxPkt)

16 “ But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1:20

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 07:30 AM (VnVVA)

17 Trump economy highest unemployment in 5 years !
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All those former bureaucrats looking for productive work warms the cockles of my heart.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:30 AM (IC093)

18 ICE Denies Rep. Bro-Fo Omar’s Allegation of inbred haploid Son Being Stopped for Citizenship Check.
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It's like the end of Chinatown, but the sexes are reversed. He's her son AND her brother.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:30 AM (s0JqF)

19 The Susie Wiles story has bleak implications. How could the person arguably closer to Trump than anybody in his administration believe that entertaining Vanity Fair was a good idea or wouldn't lead to gross distortions? Moreover, her response has been pathetic -- whining about misrepresentation without a single specific rebuttal and instead alluding to Trump's accomplishments as if that had anything to do with it.

Apparently some still believe that opening up or ingratiating ourselves to these Stalinist mofos will make a difference. Sad.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 07:31 AM (VnsnO)

20 Cat fight in Mexican congress as ladies tussle, pull hair over government accountability
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THAT is the legislature Jasmine was made for.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:33 AM (s0JqF)

21 How Mary and Joseph themselves were considered outsiders and forced to stay in a barn.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

Sounds to me like they went to their families home town.

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Leftists love to mangle the Bible to suit their ideology.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 07:34 AM (qBdHI)

22 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

23 Fetterman: Military Knows Who and What’s on Boats, ‘Quite Frequently’ Declines to Strike
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Is there some way to ensure that EVERYONE in DC has a stroke? That would be the best thing that could happen to us, apparently.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (s0JqF)

24 Nonetheless, in the global arena, the red-green alliance is growing stronger and expanding strategically, which isn’t good news for American interests.

While Trump and his cast of first chair talent is playing the most challenging pieces to be taken on, what happens when Trump leaves, no longer directing, and is replaced with AutoPen 2.0 and an orchestra of retards and simians?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (+4Cf6)

25 Apparently some still believe that opening up or ingratiating ourselves to these Stalinist mofos will make a difference. Sad.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 07:31 AM (VnsnO)
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My disappointment is more profound in that I thought they had absorbed the lessons of the last 10 years.

But no, they'd rather appear in the pages of Vanity Fair.

????

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:37 AM (IC093)

26 How Mary and Joseph themselves were considered outsiders and forced to stay in a barn.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

Sounds to me like they went to their families home town.

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Leftists love to mangle the Bible to suit their ideology.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 07:34 AM

Duh...everyone knows not to travel at Christmas, it's the second busiest travel season of the year and everything is already booked. That's why they couldn't find a room

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 07:37 AM (0N4FZ)

27 A friend who is a teacher and a very lefty one was surprised when one of her kids now wants to be regarded as the opposite sex. This friend is indulging said kid. She was astonished this had happened but none to us. The chickens have come to roost. I think the kid has other mental health issues and do hope they somehow get addressed.

Tell lefty to hide her knives and change the locks. Just saying...

Posted by: Zombie Rob Reiner at December 17, 2025 07:38 AM (m8zKa)

28 For Today’s Democrats, Fraud Is A Feature, Not A Bug
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Today's? When was it not?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:38 AM (s0JqF)

29 Airbnb didn't have a footprint in Bethlehem.

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:39 AM (ZxPkt)

30 Has anyone else watched the clip posted at. 272 in the. ONT?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:39 AM (sDNVV)

31 Some propaganda press shill hit Bessent with the unemployment number and he casually pointed out that 100,000 of those lost jobs were government employee parasites. I got a little light headed and had to sit down and catch my breath.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 17, 2025 07:39 AM (cxFcK)

32 So reading the email the Agent in charge in Miami FBI said that documents were not classified but should remain secured and they should work out with the Presidents Lawyer that agreement on security.

1. FBI knew what was in Mar a Lago
2. Archives had copied (haha that how they knew what cover sheets to make up)
3. GSA had shipped the boxes and inspected the storage area
4. USSS knew the boxes were coming and where to place them

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 07:40 AM (gbOdA)

33 Sounds to me like they went to their families home town.

That was my first observation when I heard years ago. As someone who reads things and in my mind I try to implement or imagine the scene as in a movie, the reaction to all of this was that Joseph had a really shitty family who would delight in seeing his late stage pregnant betrothed have to deliver in a filthy barn.

I guess we should all be grateful that they didn't stone her for getting knocked up before the marriage could be consumated.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 07:40 AM (WCaCG)

34 An Indonesian adventure in the land of Sharia.
Famous Prostitute Deported and Banned from a Place She Should Have Known Not to Go
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An example of why I don't trust Spencer. It was Bali, which is overwhelmingly Hindu, not Mahometan.

Frankly, outside the liberal West, whores are not highly regarded anywhere.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:41 AM (s0JqF)

35 >Democrat candidate Erik Murray credits Elaine Brown with changing the 'wiring' in his brain (Recalls lobotomized astronaut Landon from Planet of the Apes- jjs)

Ask Elaine Brown what happened to Betty Van Patter.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 17, 2025 07:42 AM (rJ48h)

36 Victor Davis anson still owns a farm in California, and won't be happy about Gavin Newsom's land grab

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 07:42 AM (7cpPc)

37 The Brown shooter speculation has begun focusing on one student, a trans-supporting Palestinian activist. And more reports are claiming the shooter yelled Alahu Snackbar! as he/it was firing. Brown has professed no knowledge of this student and the Rhode Island AG says such talk is "dangerous".

https://tinyurl.com/mt2uf88h

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 07:43 AM (SQPqL)

38 I think the kid has other mental health issues and do hope they somehow get addressed.

I would wager that sexual abuse is involved.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 07:44 AM (WCaCG)

39

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 17, 2025 07:45 AM (DDJSl)

40 How California’s GOP Wasted $45 Million for Nothing
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Expecting rational behavior by Republicans in California is insane. It's grift all the way down.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:45 AM (s0JqF)

41
Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate

Astounding to us. To both sides, it's just another day at the office. Civilian or uniformed, your life is ultimately at the disposal of the State.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:46 AM (tgvbd)

42 oh come on, the whole idea (in certain circles) of raiding Mar A Lago was the opportunity to cap PDT while resisting arrest

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 07:46 AM (Cjt/F)

43 Rhode Island AG says such talk is "dangerous".

Because gunning down a conservative in a formerly prestigious university and the killer getting protection from the authorities because ideology over civilization is NOT dangerous.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 07:46 AM (WCaCG)

44 For Today’s Democrats, Fraud Is A Feature, Not A Bug
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Today's? When was it not?

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Wouldn't it be eye-watering to know just how many elections Democrats have stolen over the last 100 years.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 07:46 AM (qBdHI)

45 I want to note some good news.

Despite the nation-ending casualties in the Ukraine War, we as a species are getting less violent. Well, except for those genetic throwbacks that believe Islam.

In the past, Hunter-Gatherer tribes lost 30% of their men due to violence, mostly directed at other tribes. Plus there was lots of cannibalism.

Violence is hard-wired in our DNA, but so is more positive virtues like altruism.

The demographics of war casualties are going to change Russia and Ukraine. It is not, yet, as bad as WWI.

So, progress.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

46 Good morning JJ and horde

Are they trying to hide the Brown University murderer?

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 07:47 AM (RpkZ3)

47
Brown has professed no knowledge of this student and the Rhode Island AG says such talk is "dangerous".

Dangerous to whom?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:47 AM (tgvbd)

48 Jasmine Crock(o'sh-)ett Backtracks On ‘Picking Cotton’ Comments
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I'm curious who the miracle worker was who got her to shut up and listen.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:47 AM (s0JqF)

49 32 Has anyone else watched the clip posted at. 272 in the. ONT?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:39 AM

+++

You mean this one?

+++
British farmers' 1,800 big tractors paralyze London, tanks JOIN them:

https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum
Posted by: Beverly
++++

Posted by: No farms, no food at December 17, 2025 07:48 AM (7aSbN)

50
Leftists and the media (BIRM) keep looking for the Great White Perp but all that comes up are Musloids and trannies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:48 AM (tgvbd)

51 Supposedly, blacks are already lining up behind supporting one of the stupidest women to ever enter politics...just because her skin is tan. It will be interesting to watch Greasy try and woo them to secure the nomination.

Then, it will be equally interesting to watch Vance tear apart that namby pamby on the debate stage. And yes, I take nothing for granted when it comes to the American public, but he will not fare well up against JD Vance.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

52 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

53 #49. Yes.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:50 AM (sDNVV)

54 Are they trying to hide the Brown University murderer?
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 07:47 AM (RpkZ3)

yes
he knew when and where she would be
Who told him that? Another student that is who!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

55 Hadrian the Seventh

Hope the news on Finn is good news.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

56 Trump To Address The Nation Tonight, Tease Policies Coming In 2026

Sorry, but unless he tells us that the traitors who are fomenting sedition, insurrection and resistance are, at that moment, being arrested and jailed, I don't give a fuck about his future policies.

I would gladly pay $10-gallon gas if it meant Walz, Kelly and others like them were shipped to Gitmo.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 07:52 AM (ufSfZ)

57 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Cows are huddling for warmth these days. But there are plenty of round bales for them to eat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

58 54 Are they trying to hide the Brown University murderer?
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 07:47 AM (RpkZ3)

No question about it. Collusion of law enforcement and college administration.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 07:53 AM (VnsnO)

59 The entire earthly premise of Mary and Joseph going to Bethlehem was to be counted in a census of inhabitants AKA “citizens”, dunce.

“ By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?”

Matthew 7:16

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 07:53 AM (kIFVO)

60 And yes, I take nothing for granted when it comes to the American public, but he will not fare well up against JD Vance.

The interesting thing about Mass Delusion, is not only is it feature of fallen mankind, it is also a major component in leading populations into the abyss of God's Divine Wrath.

To the regenerate, JD would make perfect sense and his opponent would look like a frenzied ape, but to those who are under the spell of spiritual delusion, they will side with the Father of Lies and his surrogate.

Replace a people of faith with the faithless heathen you get the Third World. We are there.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 07:53 AM (pUU4E)

61 Are they trying to hide the Brown University murderer?"

"Trying"? They're doing a fine job... in their own minds.

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 07:53 AM (XuXeR)

62
Hope the news on Finn is good news.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

He horked a few times last night and this morning, but no blood or even fluid. So that's good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:54 AM (tgvbd)

63 Economist E.J. Antoni pointed out that the “number of native-born Americans w/ jobs is up 2.6 million over the last 12 months while the number of foreign-born workers employed saw a slight decline.”

That 2.6 M payroll in money spent here in the area now called the USA and not sent to India or Mexico.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

64 I saw Asininity Oozing open for Indoctrination Satan at The Brooklyn Bazaar in '14.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 07:54 AM (NNq22)

65 The Civilizational Equation No One Wants to Face
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That makes a useful point. To put it another way, we often hear people quote John Adams on the fact that our system is suitable only for "a moral and religious people". But we don't reflect on what that entails.

What it entails is minimize the number of Somalis, and Mahometans generally. It is an error or classical (right wing) liberals to think our system is of universal applicability. Not so. Jefferson might have fallen for that, but Adams didn't. It is dependent on existing in a certain kind of society. And we are close to the point of no longer being that (if we haven't already passed it.)

Here's one I heard, in bad taste, but funny: "When they came for the Gypsies, I said nothing, as I'm not a Gypsy. When they came for the Somalis I said 'Be sure you get all of them.'"

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:54 AM (s0JqF)

66 54 Are they trying to hide the Brown University murderer?
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 07:47 AM (RpkZ3)

No question about it. Collusion of law enforcement and college administration.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 07:53 AM (VnsnO)

It's for the Greater Good.

Posted by: Brown University Community Neighborhood Watch at December 17, 2025 07:55 AM (wVcYX)

67 you get the Third World. We are there."

Tribalism = standard human nature. We in the West today are the oddest ducks in all of human history...

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 07:55 AM (XuXeR)

68 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Preach it, brother. Any properly working society has mechanisms to keep it vibrant. A world without trust, and every hand against another, is a return to our violent, tribal past. Billions would die.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

69 NaCly dearest, we keep bouncing between freezing and mid 70's

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:56 AM (sDNVV)

70 He horked a few times last night and this morning, but no blood or even fluid. So that's good.

--

Is the vet optimistic? I'm glad to hear he's doing a bit better!

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

71 I am proud to live in what we know as the United States of America
where at least I know I'm free from about April 25th thru the rest of the year until my school property taxes come due 12/31.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 07:57 AM (gbOdA)

72 man

I aver that the Constitution and the land it was the guiding ethos for was and sorta still is the apogee of the human race. All other paths are downhill.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

73 rhennigantx

Paying my semiannual tax bill today, down at the courthouse in the county seat. Somewhere a homeless person owes me a ton of chores.

It went up a lot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

74 I aver that the Constitution and the land it was the guiding ethos for was and sorta still is the apogee of the human race. All other paths are downhill."

*tips cap in salute*

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 07:59 AM (XuXeR)

75 38 I would wager that sexual abuse is involved.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 07:44 AM (WCaCG)

If FtM, probably.

If MtF, probably not. He just played too many MMOs and watched too much anime and now wants to skinwalk whatever girl character he was lusting over.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 07:59 AM (UnA8+)

76 I would gladly pay $10-gallon gas if it meant Walz, Kelly and others like them were shipped to Gitmo.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 07:52 AM (ufSfZ)

Likewise. "Affordability" doesn't come close to importance to me as dealing with the Left. The domestic forces of anarchic-tyranny are stronger than ever and I do not see as effort to deal with them as equivalently monomaniacal as their effort to destroy us. And nothing less will do the job.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 07:59 AM (VnsnO)

77 Sorry, but unless he tells us that the traitors who are fomenting sedition, insurrection and resistance are, at that moment, being arrested and jailed, I don't give a fuck about his future policies.
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You big softie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:00 AM (CA6zO)

78 On that note, chores await.

Have a blessed day in your local high-trust neighborhood.

Head on a swivel, have a plan, and OPSEC, OPSEC, OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

79 Valero Eats $1.1 Billion Loss to Escape Newsom’s Toxic California.
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Communists on X are calling this "corporate greed" and insisting that California pass a law requiring any company that leaves the state to pay all laid off employees one year of salary and benefits.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:02 AM (N00eL)

80
Is the vet optimistic? I'm glad to hear he's doing a bit better!
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

A couple of years ago, Finn's brother Val was also coughing up blood, as in, it looked like a homicide scene. But Val responded well to antibiotics and is hale and healthy today.

Basically, we don't know what's wrong. But we're giving him a chance with the same treatment. Right now, things look a bit better. His vitals were surprisingly normal. He's also not acting like a dog that's on the way out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:04 AM (tgvbd)

81
Gavin Newsom’s DEI Land Grab Is An Assault On American Farmers

[Pull Quote:] "The latest episode in Governor Gavin Newsom’s war against agriculture comes in the form of redistributing agricultural land in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

The California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force is thinking up clever ways to steal land from hardworking farmers, ranchers, and agricultural producers to pay reparations to tribes and other minorities in the form of land. Even more troubling, they doubtless plan to use this scheme as a template for future use at the national level."

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Gruesome Newscum and his Califzuela Butt-Boys can simply go full-South Africa and -Zimbabwe by sanctioning the murder all the white farmers and their families.

/What could go wrong?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 08:05 AM (NNq22)

82 Ah, the directive 10-289 ploy.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 08:06 AM (sDNVV)

83 Tribalism = standard human nature.

Of course. Despite the desires of the demonic, the Creator wired up people to cluster into families.

I submit, that at Babel, the division was made along family lines. The receipt is the 70 families of the Table of Nations listed in Genesis 10.

Further in Scriptures we learn that there are "spiritual princes" over each of the nations (read into it what you want). Under Mimetic Theory this makes perfect sense as to how language, culture and traditions are made and kept by "tribes" aka "nations".

Now get some evil people who want to reverse Babel to suit their own wicked desires. With the division of the families, the spirit world was also split to follow the tribal migrations around the globe. I believe that this was an underlying reason for creating a post Babel world.

Its Stan trying to get the band back together again. Certain 'judgement prophecies are, in effect, the Devil's Day Timer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 08:06 AM (pawvM)

84 Paying my semiannual tax bill today, down at the courthouse in the county seat. Somewhere a homeless person owes me a ton of chores.

It went up a lot.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

On April 16th every person on EBT and Section 8 should be forced to go to their town hall and sing praises to the hard working tax paying citizens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:07 AM (gbOdA)

85 "Atlas Shrugged" was suppose to be a cautionary tale, not a "how-to" manual.

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 08:08 AM (W7XSX)

86 https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum

Ben Had this looks fakey to me and I have seen no other reporting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:08 AM (m6HS6)

87
Paying my semiannual tax bill today, down at the courthouse in the county seat.

Yay! Now the migrants can have the latest phone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:08 AM (tgvbd)

88 SanFranpsycho, it was confusing at best.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 08:10 AM (sDNVV)

89 "Communists on X are calling this "corporate greed"

It's called corporate survival. But this is the morally inverted Communist lexicon fashioned to serve their power. As in patriotism means Christian nationalism, and border control and sane immigration policies mean xenophobia and racism, and free speech means hate speech, etc.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 08:10 AM (VnsnO)

90 Valero Eats $1.1 Billion Loss to Escape Newsom’s Toxic California.
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Communists on X are calling this "corporate greed" and insisting that California pass a law requiring any company that leaves the state to pay all laid off employees one year of salary and benefits.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:02 AM (N00eL)

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I'm surprised they'd limit the "reparations" to one year instead of indefinitely for all successive generations.

What's great about this is that were such a bill passed, every company doing business in Califzuela would have an immediate incentive to flee prior to the "start date" of such a ruinous "law."

I really can't take many more of these four-hour-plus schadenboners ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 08:10 AM (NNq22)

91 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
A new Avatar movie. I saw the first one, didn't see the second and won't bother with this one. I can't remember anything interesting about the first one and I like sci-fi. Cameron has stupid money and can be indulgent

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:10 AM (sBuNl)

92 I aver that the Constitution and the land it was the guiding ethos for was and sorta still is the apogee of the human race. All other paths are downhill."

It started with the Puritans and others fleeing Europe, its dysfunctions and the State's persecution of Christians.

You clean out the stalls of its demonic excrement, and humanity flourishes. Return the steaming piles of demonic excrement and you get what the entire planet has been subject to since expulsion from the Garden.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 08:11 AM (/TiS1)

93 Thank you JJ. Morning all

It’s hard to believe that, not only have they not yet caught the Brown murderer, they haven’t shown even the slightest indication of competence or even a desire to catch the guy. Fuzzy, masked images released to the public are useless… shooter still in the loose yet they insist it’s safe to be back on campus… what??!! That makes zero sense

But we should all feel good because every press conference features some sign language person with their arms flailing about like they’re imitating Elaine’s little kicks dancing….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 08:11 AM (uo8Bw)

94 The teachers’ unions want to make sure your little kids do.

And they should be treated like sex offenders for this. Actually scratch that; sex offenders are better people than these union reps.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 08:11 AM (jjoN6)

95 The parade of incompetence at the press conferences in Providence make me weep for how degraded this country's leaders have become.

The police chief can hardly even communicate in English.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:11 AM (m6HS6)

96 51 Supposedly, blacks are already lining up behind supporting one of the stupidest women to ever enter politics...just because her skin is tan. It will be interesting to watch Greasy try and woo them to secure the nomination.

Then, it will be equally interesting to watch Vance tear apart that namby pamby on the debate stage. And yes, I take nothing for granted when it comes to the American public, but he will not fare well up against JD Vance.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

There won't be a 2028 debate.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

97 The average young person would say "why didn't Mary and Joseph get an Airbnb?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:14 AM (sBuNl)

98 "Communists on X are calling this "corporate greed"

It's called corporate survival. But this is the morally inverted Communist lexicon fashioned to serve their power. As in patriotism means Christian nationalism, and border control and sane immigration policies mean xenophobia and racism, and free speech means hate speech, etc.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 08:10 AM (VnsnO)

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You know, Califzuela and the rest of the nation's Commies might really benefit from a good Hollywood movie faithful to Orwell's "Animal Farm" novel.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 08:14 AM (NNq22)

99 There won't be a 2028 debate.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

Why would you say that?

Trump gonna declare martial law and himself dictator for life no more elections our democracy destroyed?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 08:15 AM (uo8Bw)

100 t's called corporate survival. But this is the morally inverted Communist lexicon fashioned to serve their power.

And when you say "corporation" you are really saying pension and retirement plans. The wealthy are mostly invested in private equity deals that only Qualified Investors™ are allowed to participate.

So when the Marxists are demanding "reparations" from "corporations" they are really saying that they want to confiscate and seize all of your investment savings leaving you destitute and at the mercy of people who hate "Boomers"

(you now know why the psy-op to hate "Boomers" - its to precondition the population into finding it morally acceptable if not a mandate to strip them of all their life's savings)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 08:15 AM (/TiS1)

101 There won't be a 2028 debate.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

Correct. From a traditionalist perspective, the contest won't be recognizable.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 08:15 AM (VnsnO)

102 91 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
A new Avatar movie. I saw the first one, didn't see the second and won't bother with this one. I can't remember anything interesting about the first one and I like sci-fi. Cameron has stupid money and can be indulgent
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:10 AM (sBuNl)

Apparently, you have to have seen Avatar 2 to watch this one, b/c it's part 2 of 2. I'm thinking how could a movie be almost 7 hours? I only watched the 1st Avatar and it wasn't for me, but the scuttlebutt on this one is repetitive and boring...aka, even the uber-fans are not loving it.

I might watch David or Spongebob this Christmas (Spongebob only b/c my phone gave me $5 tickets that I can use for the fancy DBox seats as a kid Christmas present)...or I might stay home from it all.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 08:16 AM (tOcjL)

103 Seems to be a run on black pills this morning.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 08:16 AM (viF8m)

104 I've seen videos of angry Muslims trying those roundhouse MMA type kicks. Why? Seems retarded.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 17, 2025 08:17 AM (8CIFn)

105 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 08:17 AM (T+ixL)

106 The fact is, ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now.”

“Okay, so I’m lyin’?” Crockett asked a nervously laughing crowd. “You’re not. You’re not. We’re done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.”

Dems admit they need Mexicans to be semi slaves on the farm.
What is the purpose of Somalians?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

107 99 There won't be a 2028 debate.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

Why would you say that?

Trump gonna declare martial law and himself dictator for life no more elections our democracy destroyed?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 08:15 AM (uo8Bw)

No, Dems won't say yes. They almost didn't debate in 2024, and probably realized they shouldn't have. You think they are gonna wanna take on Vance?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 08:17 AM (tOcjL)

108 RE: Texas' property tax Constitutional Amendments passed in the past couple of legislative cycles -

The age of 29+ having been bereached, my base exemptions and age-related exemptions have reduced my aggregate property tax bill by over half.

God Bless Texas!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2025 08:18 AM (wVcYX)

109 If 2014 was the hinge point where DIE became the new business fad/religion, I was darned lucky. A boomer at a private university, I was able to move in 2018 from my solid but mid-range pay office job to a better-paying, easier, but more boring one -- in the same building. That last seven years bumped up my income, and thus my SS payout when I retired this past March.

If I were thirty now . . . brrr.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 08:18 AM (wzUl9)

110 No, Dems won't say yes. They almost didn't debate in 2024, and probably realized they shouldn't have. You think they are gonna wanna take on Vance?

They have three years to replace elections with AI.

The GOP will help the Demonic Party in this endeavor.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 08:20 AM (kHd4y)

111 A fool and his time watch Avatar movies.

Posted by: This is known at December 17, 2025 08:20 AM (7aSbN)

112 There won't be a 2028 debate.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

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♫♫ ♫♫

"Joe Biden killed the Dem debate spar ..."

♬♬ ♩ ♪

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 08:21 AM (NNq22)

113 The lone GOP rep in NYC who came right out and said "Moslems need to get out" -- she should not have taken the X post down, and should have shouted louder. Not sure it would have done much good. We've sunk too far, I fear. But it would have been refreshing to see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 08:22 AM (wzUl9)

114 It's National Maple Syrup Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

115 I've seen videos of angry Muslims trying those roundhouse MMA type kicks. Why? Seems retarded.
Posted by: Northernlurker

I was always taught, that unless your last name was Lee or Van Damme, keep both feet on the ground.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 08:22 AM (T+ixL)

116 No, Dems won't say yes. They almost didn't debate in 2024, and probably realized they shouldn't have. You think they are gonna wanna take on Vance?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 08:17 AM (tOcjL)

Ah, I understand your point now. Perhaps not… however my thought is that Gavin Hairgel is so full of himself and deluded he probably thinks he can clean the floor with Vance so he’ll probably dash to the debate stage. These people (Kamala included) are nothing if not delusionally self confident

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 08:23 AM (WnEm5)

117
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Won’t Save Mother Earth

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I look forward to The Little Platoon's takedown. He was brutal on the previous Avatar movie.

https://youtu.be/Ql2VVMMOsto

Critical Drinker, Little Platoon, and Despot of Antrim make RLM look lazy and woke.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:23 AM (gRVoI)

118 104 I've seen videos of angry Muslims trying those roundhouse MMA type kicks. Why? Seems retarded.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 17, 2025 08:17 AM (8CIFn)

You can still kick while holding a rifle in your hands.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 08:24 AM (UnA8+)

119 Gavin Newsom is like every very dumb person. He thinks most other people are dumber than him.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:26 AM (m6HS6)

120 Jewish folk can't catch a break. High winds, snow, rain in NW. News said Levy's were breached.

Reread the story. Apparently it's Levees. Never mind.

Posted by: Emily Litella at December 17, 2025 08:26 AM (oftw2)

121 Nice image of Califzuela up top, J.J.

"From Disneyland to DEI-Land (1955-2025, R.I.P.) in 70 years ..."

/Coincidentally, the same lifespan as the old Soviet Union.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 08:27 AM (NNq22)

122 The NEA needs to be outlawed. It is one of the most destructive "domestic enemies" we have. Because they know, fiendishly and demonically, that seizing future generations - by indoctrinating our young - is their most powerful tool.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 17, 2025 08:27 AM (YxMyw)

123 115 I've seen videos of angry Muslims trying those roundhouse MMA type kicks. Why? Seems retarded.
Posted by: Northernlurker

I was always taught, that unless your last name was Lee or Van Damme, keep both feet on the ground.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 08:22 AM (T+ixL)

A good way to get shot in the dick here in Texas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

124 >>Ah, I understand your point now. Perhaps not… however my thought is that Gavin Hairgel is so full of himself and deluded he probably thinks he can clean the floor with Vance so he’ll probably dash to the debate stage. These people (Kamala included) are nothing if not delusionally self confident

The reason they sent Joe out to slaughter in the debate is because he was losing. They had nothing to lose. The leader never wants to debate because the downside risk outweighs the benefits. If we get to the 28 election and the Democrat nominee is losing they will demand a debate.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 08:28 AM (viF8m)

125 Reposted from the Tech Thread:

The latest goofballiness from Da Swamp: The city is talking about erecting a *permanent* gate at the entrance to Bourbon St., where the terror attack took place this past January 1 (and where I grew up). "18 permanent swing gates to be installed along Bourbon Street from Canal to St. Ann streets" -- which is half the length of the thoroughfare.

I've said for years the city, which for decades has been frantically catering to tourists instead of locals, was going to erect a big shiny gate at that point and charge people to enter. Looks like they've found an excuse to do it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 08:28 AM (wzUl9)

126 I was always taught, that unless your last name was Lee or Van Damme, keep both feet on the ground.
Posted by: rickb223
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Really?

Posted by: Chuck Norris at December 17, 2025 08:28 AM (DDJSl)

127 Jewish folk can't catch a break. High winds, snow, rain in NW. News said Levy's were breached.

Reread the story. Apparently it's Levees. Never mind.
Posted by: Emily Litella at December 17, 2025

***
"You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Love Levees!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 08:30 AM (wzUl9)

128 Gavin Newsom is like every very dumb person. He thinks most other people are dumber than him.

Keep importing enough third world primates and keeping the K-12 demographic doing nothing more than mouth breathing exercises and you have a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 08:30 AM (kHd4y)

129 I was always taught, that unless your last name was Lee or Van Damme, keep both feet on the ground.
Posted by: rickb223
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Really?

Posted by: Chuck Norris

You don't have to fight. People see you and just stop.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 08:30 AM (T+ixL)

130 I asked this right after Mamdani got elected. "Will the pogroms start before or after he's sworn in?". Unfortunately watching the vid of the subway fight and now the stabbing in Crown Heights (history repeats itself) I think I have an answer. SMH

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:31 AM (sBuNl)

131 We were fast as lightning.

Posted by: Those cats. at December 17, 2025 08:31 AM (7aSbN)

132 “Brokers have targeted individuals with deceptive advertisements and pressured enrollees to lie about their incomes to obtain Obamacare subsidies. Evidence suggests that many individuals do not even know they are signing up for health insurance or agreeing to switch plans.” — House Judiciary Committee letter

There are between 9 and 12 million Ocare enrollees that had made ZERO claims in the 2024 calendar year.
No rx, no er, no Planned Parenthoodlums.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

133 Really?

Posted by: Chuck Norris
*
You don't have to fight. People see you and just stop.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025

***
"Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. He just *waits*."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 08:32 AM (wzUl9)

134 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

135 >>@GBNEWS

>>Australia New Years Eve fireworks event cancelled amid terror fears

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 08:32 AM (viF8m)

136 The left and Islam both worship death.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:33 AM (77rzZ)

137 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 08:22 AM (wzUl9

Her name is Vicki Palladino, but I wouldn't expect anyone not near NYC to know that. I just heard her interviewed on the radio. She said that she woke up early and was angry and horrified by the Sydney attack, but she should have said "Radical Islam " rather than all Muslims. Someone asked her to take it down. She is also horrified who Mamdani is appointing to his Cabinet. So if people are going to gripe, don't gripe at me please. . Write to Ms. Palladino directly . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 08:34 AM (2sfNr)

138 I was always taught, that unless your last name was Lee or Van Damme, keep both feet on the ground.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 08:22 AM (T+ixL)

The Chuck Norris has entered the chat.

(I do agree, the practitioner of that move should expect a blown out knee delivered by a trained fighter)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 08:34 AM (kHd4y)

139 "It's worse than a mugshot"

https://tinyurl.com/4ppep9tk

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

140 I AM the County Seat!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at December 17, 2025 08:34 AM (oftw2)

141 I used to be able to roundhouse kick.

Posted by: Steven Seagal at December 17, 2025 08:34 AM (wVcYX)

142 Morning JJ and the Horde

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

143 It's National Maple Syrup Day!
Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)
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It would be hilarious if it was also National French Toast Day.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 08:35 AM (ESVrU)

144 His name is Damien (Newsome). Watch Omen 3, and tell me I am wrong

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)

145 Pittsburgh scanner on x right now

"Sheraden. Bergman Street. Neighbors were calling in people fighting in the street and ICE called into 911 with a backup request that they are trying to detain someone and they are fighting back. An ICE agent appears to be injured."

"First local PD on scene said that two ICE agents were pepper sprayed."

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 08:36 AM (7/NKC)

146 Bondi cancels New Year's Eve events. Paris cancels same.
The slow surrender continues

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:37 AM (sBuNl)

147 Always wanted to visit NZ and Austrailia, until I heard the covid enforcement horror stories

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:37 AM (YCxFk)

148 I think that Bonnie Blue, the porn address, sounds like an idiot. She didn't investigate Indonesia before she went over there ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 08:37 AM (2sfNr)

149 Critical Drinker, Little Platoon, and Despot of Antrim make RLM look lazy and woke.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:23 AM (gRVoI)
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Drinker has already voiced his opinion on the newest Avatar movie.

Forgettable spectacle slop, basically.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 08:37 AM (ESVrU)

150 146. Right Glove. Give Islam a inch and it spreads

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:38 AM (YCxFk)

151 I don’t get why women supposedly think that Newsome is good-looking. He just looks like a doofus to me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:39 AM (77rzZ)

152 This curious class of objects is known as luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs)

Not to be confused with
uminous fast Mocha Mousse optical transients
uminous fast Cloud Dancer optical transients

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

153 Forgettable spectacle slop, basically.
------

So .. an Avatar movie

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:39 AM (uWaKr)

154 136 The left and Islam both worship death.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:33 AM (77rzZ)

For the Left, if they can kill whoever they want, whenever they want, with zero punishment, they feel that they have usurped the Power of G-d, thereby disproving his existence (in their eyes).

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 08:40 AM (UnA8+)

155 She didn't investigate Indonesia before she went over there ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Like a lot of folks, they forget that the protections they have in this country don't apply outside of our borders.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 08:40 AM (jjoN6)

156 "First local PD on scene said that two ICE agents were pepper sprayed."

And that's in Pittsburgh. Steel City. Home of the Steelers, Pirates, and Iron City Beer.
Solid, upright 'murricans all...

Is there any human being who believes that there are *only* 11,000,000 illegal immigrants in the US today?

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

157 Indonesians should have said "Miss Blue we would like to see you mate with a Komodo"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:41 AM (sBuNl)

158 155 Oops. It was pointed out to me that she's British.

But yeah; she's an idiot.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 08:41 AM (jjoN6)

159 I don’t get why women supposedly think that Newsome is good-looking. He just looks like a doofus to me.
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He looks like the villain in an eighties movie that wants to tear down the community center to build a strip mall.
.
Yet, Likeks recounted a conversation with a liberal neighbor lady who knows California is a dumpster fire but will still vote for Nepo Baby Newsom because "He seems nice."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (uWaKr)

160 it is great that we have Vance as VP, but we sure could use him back in the Senate. Two lefty Dem rats have blocked all floor nomination votes due to the Epstein files. GOP Senate is just too nice

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

161 The city is talking about erecting a *permanent* gate at the entrance to Bourbon St."

So cities with "gates" to control entrance (and exit)...

Sounds... historic.

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

162 159 Yet, Likeks recounted a conversation with a liberal neighbor lady who knows California is a dumpster fire but will still vote for Nepo Baby Newsom because "He seems nice."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (uWaKr)

Translation : "He still has a full head of hair at his age".

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (UnA8+)

163 GOP Senate is just too nice"

You misspelled "stupid" and "grasping for power"

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 08:43 AM (XuXeR)

164 “We won’t be silenced!”

Well .. maybe a little bit. OK, a whole lotta bit.

Christmas is hereby Cancelled, gang. And Hannukaha and New Years and anything that might offend 4th century ‘tards, cuz reasons.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 08:43 AM (gpdYK)

165
Is there any human being who believes that there are *only* 11,000,000 illegal immigrants in the US today?
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🙋‍♂️,,<- George W Bush

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:43 AM (uWaKr)

166 160 it is great that we have Vance as VP, but we sure could use him back in the Senate. Two lefty Dem rats have blocked all floor nomination votes due to the Epstein files. GOP Senate is just too nice
Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

Nice, Cucked, Potato, Po-tah-to.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 08:43 AM (UnA8+)

167 Bondi cancels New Year's Eve events. Paris cancels same.
The slow surrender continues

The correct response is, "We expect a happy, peaceful ushering in of the New Year. If so much as a single Muslim looks crosswise at another person, every mosque and madrassa in this country will, by the end of the day tomorrow, be a pile of rubble. This is your only warning."

But as I said yesterday, there is no-one in the West with the stones to stand up to the unbeatable combination of Islam, media and the left.

At least I won't be around to see the RCC add Allah to the Prayers of the Faithful.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 08:43 AM (ufSfZ)

168 Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 08:40 AM (jjoN6

Yep; I don't care about the size of her boobs ( and I wouldn't care about the powerful pectorals of a male porn star either) who was stupid enough to think the should be able to do whatever they want in another country.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 08:44 AM (2sfNr)

169 Translation : "He still has a full head of hair at his age".
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (UnA8+)
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Yeah like Gordon Gecko in 1988.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:44 AM (ofkVZ)

170 GOP Senate is just too nice"

You misspelled "stupid" and "grasping for power"
Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 08:43 AM (XuXeR)

Sharply creased trousers, though.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2025 08:44 AM (wVcYX)

171 How’s about we just lock down the Muzzie neighborhoods for the whole month of December, and turn Christmas markets into no-go zones for the religion-of-peaceniks?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:44 AM (77rzZ)

172 The downfall will start when a radical muslim becomes Prime Minister or Prez, of big nation in Western Europe like Germany or France etc..

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

173 At least I won't be around to see the RCC add Allah to the Prayers of the Faithful."

You going somewhere next year?

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

174 Two lefty Dem rats have blocked all floor nomination votes due to the Epstein files. GOP Senate is just too nice

"GOP" Senate is composed mostly of Democrats. The Republican party hates MAGA, Trump and We The People.

They are all in on the Dems blocking floor nominations because they want to block America's healing.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 08:45 AM (WCaCG)

175 He looks like the villain in an eighties movie that wants to tear down the community center to build a strip mall.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (uWaKr)

Indeed. With a blazer jacket sleeves pushed up to his elbows and the obligatory Porsche, he's perfectly cast.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 08:45 AM (VnsnO)

176 Pittsburgh scanner on x right now

"Sheraden. Bergman Street. Neighbors were calling in people fighting in the street and ICE called into 911 with a backup request that they are trying to detain someone and they are fighting back. An ICE agent appears to be injured."

"First local PD on scene said that two ICE agents were pepper sprayed."
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Ooooooh. Chemical weapons. Respond with chemical elements Pb & Cu.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 08:46 AM (T+ixL)

177 Newscum is like Tony Geary. First he rapes you and then you get Stockholm Syndrome and fall in love with him.

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 08:46 AM (W7XSX)

178 🙋‍♂️,,

Ok, got me there... but you left out !Jeb!

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 08:46 AM (XuXeR)

179 143 It's National Maple Syrup Day!
Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)
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It would be hilarious if it was also National French Toast Day.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 08:35 AM (ESVrU)
********
This needs to happen!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

180 Newsom always remind me of James Spader's character in Pretty in Pink

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:47 AM (sBuNl)

181 He looks like the villain in an eighties movie that wants to tear down the community center to build a strip mall.
.

Thanks. That made me laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 08:47 AM (2sfNr)

182 He looks like the villain in an eighties movie that wants to tear down the community center to build a strip mall.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 08:42 AM (uWaKr)

Indeed. With a blazer jacket sleeves pushed up to his elbows and the obligatory Porsche, he's perfectly cast.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 08:45 AM (VnsnO)

He's no Jake.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2025 08:47 AM (wVcYX)

183 Dems plan in the past was to run pretty boys against old White dudes like Bush 1, McCain,Dole and Romney.

Problem is JD is a pretty boy that is also a stud fighter

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:47 AM (YCxFk)

184 a liberal neighbor lady who knows California is a dumpster fire but will still vote for Nepo Baby Newsom because "He seems nice."
——-

That’s how Kennedy beat Nixon, or at least close enough to plausibly steal it anyhow. JFK looked handsome.

Nixon did look a little strange, and he sort of looked permanently rumpled, as if he was hanging in a clothes closet and trotted out for speeches.

Choosing leaders based on physical appearance is retarded, but that’s how chicks operate. By the time Billy Jeff was up, the media had refined this to an art form.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 08:48 AM (gpdYK)

185 yes Spader

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

186 Newsom always remind me of James Spader's character in Pretty in Pink
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:47 AM (sBuNl)
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Layabout douchebag with rich detached dad and a nice car

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:48 AM (ofkVZ)

187 It seems very likely that the Brown shooter was an ardent pro Palestine activist of Palestinian heritage

Mustapha Kharbouch

Brown is actively scrubbing his online presence; a student they formerly celebrated

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

188
Debates in their current state are stupid. The only thing anyone watches them for is one or the other either delivering a zinger or saying something stupid.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:49 AM (tgvbd)

189 168 Yep; I don't care about the size of her boobs ( and I wouldn't care about the powerful pectorals of a male porn star either) who was stupid enough to think the should be able to do whatever they want in another country.

Mind you, I think she's not going to face jail time. More likely get booted out and told to never come back.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 08:50 AM (jjoN6)

190 So how come no one ever tells Muslims that Islamophobia would be reduced if they stopped murdering people?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 17, 2025 08:50 AM (8CIFn)

191 Mustapha Kharbouch"

I'd rather have Karbach. Tasty...

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

192 The women got the vote and the first man elected was Warren G. Harding. He was considered to be fairly good looking.

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 08:50 AM (W7XSX)

193 Rumour here in Chicago financial circles, is Elon musk is going to write a blank check for Vance/Rubio in 2028.

It might not solve everything, but at least Vance will not be a pauper like McCain

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:50 AM (YCxFk)

194 Our first morning here in St. Croix. Took a walk, had an iced coffee, watched a few thousand passengers disembark a cruise ship, saw a rainbow, and was briefly surrounded by a flock of feral poultry while I was eating a bagel. Fun way to start Day 1.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (O6icp)

195 Debates in their current state are stupid. The only thing anyone watches them for is one or the other either delivering a zinger or saying something stupid.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:49 AM (tgvbd)
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Wait, whut?

Posted by: Zombie Gerald R. Ford at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (ofkVZ)

196 Musk hates Newsome with a passion

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk)

197
MELANIA TRUMP
@MELANIATRUMP

MELANIA, the film, exclusively in theaters worldwide on January 30th, 2026.

https://tinyurl.com/39ybjazb

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

198 a liberal neighbor lady who knows California is a dumpster fire but will still vote for Nepo Baby Newsom because "He seems nice."
——-

That’s how Kennedy beat Nixon, or at least close enough to plausibly steal it anyhow. JFK looked handsome.

Nixon did look a little strange, and he sort of looked permanently rumpled, as if he was hanging in a clothes closet and trotted out for speeches.

Choosing leaders based on physical appearance is retarded, but that’s how chicks operate. By the time Billy Jeff was up, the media had refined this to an art form.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 08:48 AM (gpdYK)

Bill Clinton's jeans crackled with power.

Posted by: Fawning Media Slutster at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (wVcYX)

199 190 So how come no one ever tells Muslims that Islamophobia would be reduced if they stopped murdering people?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

Because the person saying it knows they'd get murdered?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (jjoN6)

200 It seems very likely that the Brown shooter was an ardent pro Palestine activist of Palestinian heritage

Mustapha Kharbouch

Brown is actively scrubbing his online presence; a student they formerly celebrated
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

Could this be considered obstruction of justice by… somebody? Brown administration, Providence city govt? Somebody (whoever is scrubbing)?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (+kWhq)

201 192 Harding was a better president than he’s given credit for being.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

202 Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (O6icp)
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You need a morning Mai Tai

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:52 AM (ofkVZ)

203 Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk

For that alone. Elon should be considered a very smart man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 08:52 AM (2sfNr)

204 We cannot have a neutral debate anymore. Kamala would not go on Fox, so we are stuck with the usual suspects. CBS is a little better now

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

205 For many decades we have been ceding power to the federal government. Nowhere was that more evident than the China virus response. KBJ gave the game away when she railed against taking power away from unelected "experts" and returning it to the elected representatives of the people.

That's what the uniparty is all about, keeping power in the hands of the few in DC. Obamacare was never about health insurance. It was about giving the government the power over healthcare. Far too many elected officials forget they are supposed to represent us when they get to DC and start to believe they were chosen by divine right to rule over us.

Tearing down decades of allowing this to happen, and we did, was never going to happen overnight. But we finally have an administration that is trying. Might as well keep fighting cause if we give up we are going to be slaves.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 08:53 AM (viF8m)

206 192 Harding was a better president than he’s given credit for being.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

He gave us Coolidge.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 08:54 AM (VnsnO)

207 Silver lining over a speaker Jeffries, is that Vance can run against the radical fool. With that nasty brooklyn accent, he is no Obama

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

208 Bill Clinton's jeans crackled with power.
Posted by: Fawning Media Slutster at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (wVcYX)

Sharts?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:54 AM (gbOdA)

209 @Sanfran, I just might.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2025 08:55 AM (O6icp)

210 192 Harding was a better president than he’s given credit for being.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

Return to normalcy!! Teapot dome!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 08:55 AM (P/Wjn)

211 You need a morning Mai Tai
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:52 AM (ofkVZ)

aka Beach Rules

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

212 I'm so glad that the courts will be forced to deal with Chinese rent-a-womb schemes to gain "birthright" citizenship for their children.

I have a relative who has been a surrogate for several couples. She made more than her husband from the transactions. The first I heard of it was when my cousin showed me photos of her grandchildren and they were playing with a Chinese toddler. The surrogate gave birth during the Covid lockdown, so he was in the US a couple years before he could go home to his parents.

The courts don't have long before those kids come back with their American birth certificates in hand, demanding their "birthright".

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 17, 2025 08:56 AM (fxCK2)

213 But Coolidge gave us Hoover.

Posted by: Jonah at December 17, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

214 @208 nah, that's Hillary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 08:56 AM (sBuNl)

215 Could this be considered obstruction of justice by… somebody? Brown administration, Providence city govt? Somebody (whoever is scrubbing)?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 08:51 AM (+kWhq)

As I said on Sunday who what where when it had to be a student that knew.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

216 Can't wait for Prez/Gavin and Pyscho Dancin'/AOC-vp?

The Denouement:
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-CaliforniaPsychos
ABC7/... 10 months since the Palisades Fire, and the city of Malibu has issued 11 permits to rebuild.

$50K up front, not including nominal fees and reconstruction costs +10%, and, without final permit to proceed, applicants are rewarded with an additional fine for not following the process to the amount of the assessed value of the pre-existing structure, per year.

LIBs what price their Vision? {easily computed}

The only Common Ground with the Desperate and Deliberately Evil is to put you in it.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsTheChickenRun
Remember this well, there will be no Peace as long as Kirk (Charlie) Lives {or even if he doesn't} ---Klingon Ambassador, Libbing-out

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- ctHILLARY'04, preparing a special 13th day of Jeffmas for us all !!!

https://tinyurl.com/EvilDoktor-GavinUberAlles
https://tinyurl.com/EvilDoktor-HillarySoSerious

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 17, 2025 08:58 AM (TK3Gn)

217 Reporter ask VP JD about conspiracy theories he belived:

For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask 3-year-olds at the height of the Covid pandemic, that we should actually let them develop some language skills.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

218 Dr Mike Yeadon's last interview (former pfizer ceo drug research developement) at 6:30 mark Starmer is member WEF, digital ID, mandatory mrna jabs and cashless economy by 2030.

Last post here...farewell and stay safe.

Posted by: ju at December 17, 2025 08:58 AM (EgpoY)

219 Harding was a better president than he’s given credit for being.

There's a series of (at the moment) 42 books under the rubric of "The American Presidents" which are short bios of the men who have occupied the POTUS seat. John Dean (yes, that one) did one on Harding in 2004 which is a surprisingly good and even-handed evaluation. I recommend it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 08:59 AM (ufSfZ)

220 I like how people feel the need of appending “radical” onto Islam or Moslem.

The implication of course is that the concept of a touchy-feely OK version exists, somewhere out there in theory, it’s only those radicals that are a problem. Good luck with that, gang

Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 08:59 AM (PQwzA)

221 If Mustapha is the perp he got on a plane out of the country after he killed the students.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 08:59 AM (2sfNr)

222 VP JD contd

And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponents.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

223 Read the link about how white men are no longer welcome in writing jobs, etc, and the entire piece felt to me like an insiders view of the death of journalism, and the death of Hollywood.

When an industry abandons the idea of hiring for talent and instead starts doing all hiring to score political and ideological points, that industry is dead. It can shuffle along for awhile like a zombie, but the day it all falls apart is approaching soon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:00 AM (QS6eO)

224 Gil Gerard aka Buck Rogers has passed away . RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 09:00 AM (sBuNl)

225 Far-left Attorney General Brad Kaul brought charges against three defendants in what many see as a proxy trial aimed at President Trump.
Judge Rules Wisconsin Show Trial Against Trump Allies Will Go On
____

The left continues to collect political prisoners, while real criminals skate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 09:00 AM (Dv3i1)

226 WATCH: US Attorney Announces Rob Reiner’s Son Charged with 2 Counts of First Degree Murder – Faces Life in Prison or Potential Death Penalty

Give the poor guy a break.
Not only is he the spawn of meathead but now he is an orphan too

Posted by: Operator Error at December 17, 2025 09:00 AM (NUqPs)

227 200 It seems very likely that the Brown shooter was an ardent pro Palestine activist of Palestinian heritage

Mustapha Kharbouch

Someone asked them yesterday at a press conference about scrubbing certain student bios and they said they were doing it because the student was being doxed....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 09:01 AM (VE6XX)

228 I don’t get why women supposedly think that Newsome is good-looking. He just looks like a doofus to me.
Posted by: Bulg

Its his wallet.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 17, 2025 09:01 AM (ItWcy)

229 Korea's military action against South Korea on Nov. 23, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3EX_5GeLQ8

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

230 Moreover, her response has been pathetic -- whining about misrepresentation without a single specific rebuttal and instead alluding to Trump's accomplishments as if that had anything to do with it.
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Never apologize or explain to the left: Attack, attack, attack.

Call them a liar who doctored the quotations, a dishonest loser who can't tell the truth, a media whore for radical leftists that hates Republicans.

Also: 30 years on and the Republicans are still too stupid to follow the highly effective Clinton playbook?

Deflect, deny, evade and act stupid.

Don't hate what works just b/c you hate who did it 1st.
(Trump does it best, though; pay closer attention to how he swats away leftists attacks)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 09:02 AM (HXT0k)

231 Newscum is like Tony Geary. First he rapes you and then you get Stockholm Syndrome and fall in love with him.
Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 08:46 AM (W7XSX)

Mmmmm....Laura.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 17, 2025 09:02 AM (5xuJ/)

232 JD Vance has an everyman appeal. Democrats try to fake that, usually by adopting a faux ethnic nickname (Beto) but they rarely pull it off. Fetterman did. That communist in Maine doesn't, but Maine gonna Maine

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 09:02 AM (PT2ax)

233 Put Reiner's kid in a cell with a pound of meth and a kilo of blow and let nature take it's course

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (sBuNl)

234 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
New JD Vance just dropped 😭

https://tinyurl.com/5n8ehkbw

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

235 Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi are connected by a distant family tie by marriage, not by blood: Newsom’s aunt, Barbara (sometimes referenced as Belinda or Barbara Newsom), was married into the Pelosi family, creating an aunt/uncle-by-marriage relationship that later ended in divorce.

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

236 The left continues to collect political prisoners, while real criminals skate.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 09:00 AM (Dv3i1)

Even in relative political exile they operate with more audacity and determination than we can muster holding the reins of power.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (VnsnO)

237 Tony Geary died two days ago as well. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (sBuNl)

238 The GOPe playbook:
Discuss, dodder, entertain the premise, be stupid.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (HXT0k)

239 Las Vegas Teens Who Callously Mowed Down Biking Retired Police Chief Sentenced to Life in Prison

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

240 196 Musk hates Newsome with a passion
Posted by: Jonah

New crap remake of Animal Farm casts tech billionaire and cybertruck driver as the real villain.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

241 Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

I don't get it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 09:04 AM (Yl2Ob)

242 I hope Pacific Palisades becomes a sharecropper vineyard making bad box wines sold only in Government Ran Grocery Stores that have the boxes stacked at the checkout and you are forced to buy a box.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:05 AM (gbOdA)

243 220 I like how people feel the need of appending “radical” onto Islam or Moslem.

The implication of course is that the concept of a touchy-feely OK version exists, somewhere out there in theory, it’s only those radicals that are a problem. Good luck with that, gang
Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 08:59 AM (PQwzA)

A "Radical" Muslim wants to kill you.

A "Moderate" Muslim wants a "Radical" Muslim to kill you.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 09:05 AM (UnA8+)

244 New crap remake of Animal Farm casts tech billionaire and cybertruck driver as the real villain.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

The little pr*ck who made this movie played Gollum in LOTR.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 09:06 AM (VnsnO)

245 #218 forgot the link to Dr Yeadon interview

https://tinyurl.com/2avncp4k

Posted by: ju at December 17, 2025 09:06 AM (EgpoY)

246 I believe Trump’s Venezuela strategy is going to work. Maduro’s regime is too weak to survive the loss of its income.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:07 AM (QS6eO)

247 Ilhan Omar flails at 'sick' Republicans for investigating her alleged marriage to brother

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

248 Silver spot this morning at $66.20 per oz. This means an average circulated Franklin half dollar has $23.64 worth of silver in it.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 17, 2025 09:07 AM (Da7Vv)

249 Las Vegas Teens Who Callously Mowed Down Biking Retired Police Chief Sentenced to Life in Prison

Over / under on "out in five years?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 09:07 AM (ufSfZ)

250 Mustapha Kharbouch

Someone asked them yesterday at a press conference about scrubbing certain student bios and they said they were doing it because the student was being doxed....
Posted by: It's me donna

Which came first, the doxxing or the scrubbing?

Brown University knew who it was, got nervous, and are now aiding and abetting the killer who killed someone that Brown didn't like anyway. Seems to me, anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)

251 From Yeshiva World News:

A Jewish, pro-Israel professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was shot multiple times inside his home Monday night and died of his injuries early Tuesday, authorities announced.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 17, 2025 09:08 AM (rJ48h)

252 I don't get it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 09:04 AM (Yl2Ob)
*******
JD is wearing a hairnet while passing out food.
The left tries to make fun of him, but everyone especially JD turn the tables on them and start posting hilarious memes of JD. If you scroll down you'll see the memes that are being posted..

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

253 There is a Shia Muslim ( Mohammed Tawhidi) who is supposedly focused on peace and interfaith dialogue but I don't know what he's said about the Sydney attack.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 09:09 AM (Yl2Ob)

254 Reiner, Gerard and Geary. Bad week for former TV stars

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 09:09 AM (sBuNl)

255 226 WATCH: US Attorney Announces Rob Reiner’s Son ...Give the poor guy a break. Not only is he the spawn of meathead but now he is an orphan too

TRUMP should commission the ICE/Homeland Security Drones as the SS Archie Bunker(s). Non-lethal. Warns first by making Raspberry Sound before it deploys skin dyeing blue ink on the crowds that refuse to disperse -- for easy later retrieval.

Who deserves a TACO now?
https://www.tinyurl.com/ctHARRIS-FamousLastWords

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 17, 2025 09:09 AM (QxivM)

256 >>I believe Trump’s Venezuela strategy is going to work. Maduro’s regime is too weak to survive the loss of its income.

It will be interesting to see how it affects China and Russia.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 09:09 AM (viF8m)

257 246 I believe Trump’s Venezuela strategy is going to work. Maduro’s regime is too weak to survive the loss of its income.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:07 AM (QS6eO)

Agreed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 09:10 AM (VnsnO)

258 Hungary has a new law aimed at prosecuting people and organizations who aid and abet illegal aliens.

They're calling it the "Stop Soros" law.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 17, 2025 09:10 AM (IG3/x)

259 244 New crap remake of Animal Farm casts tech billionaire and cybertruck driver as the real villain.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

The little pr*ck who made this movie played Gollum in LOTR.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 17, 2025 09:06 AM (VnsnO)

"Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously"

AOC and Jazzmine had each played a Race Card simultaneously

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)

260 Mind you, I think she's not going to face jail time. More likely get booted out and told to never come back.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 08:50 AM (jjoN6)

Yeah, it's probably a publicity stunt.

But hopefully she winds up like that Johnny Somali - he misjudged the Koreans. They're judicially manhandling that little bastard.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 09:10 AM (BI5O2)

261 It can shuffle along for awhile like a zombie, but the day it all falls apart is approaching soon.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:00 AM

There are a number of zombies who comment here. Why the H8?

Posted by: zombie Felix Steiner at December 17, 2025 09:11 AM (0sNs1)

262 I believe Trump’s Venezuela strategy is going to work. Maduro’s regime is too weak to survive the loss of its income.
____

The Biden strategy of smooching Maduro's fat hairy ass didn't appear to work. Who knew?

Sickens me how many people are coming to Maduro's defense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 17, 2025 09:11 AM (Dv3i1)

263 We were talking last week/over the weekend about the cursed auto stop start switch in vehicles.

I just installed it in my 2021 F150 and it works just like they promised. Simple plug and play. It remembers the last setting. So if you had auto stop/start "off" when you turn your truck off, it remembers it and keeps it off next time you turn it on.

4D Tech Auto Start Stop Eliminator - Easy-Install Auto Start/Stop Eliminator Made for 2021-2025 Ford F150

https://tinyurl.com/48pzfphk

Goes to Amazon.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:12 AM (T+ixL)

264 Goes to Amazon.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:12 AM (T+ixL)

All Stellanis autos (Ram Dodge etc) can be learned to no Stop/Start. When you stop just ease up on the brake a bit to get the start. After about 2 weeks it does not Stop.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:14 AM (gbOdA)

265 For you single 'Rons who aren't already in line, Amy Schumer is back on the market.

Don't delay.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 17, 2025 09:14 AM (0sNs1)

266 260 But hopefully she winds up like that Johnny Somali - he misjudged the Koreans. They're judicially manhandling that little bastard.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 09:10 AM (BI5O2)

And his fat butt buddy Hank.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 09:14 AM (UnA8+)

267 I like how people feel the need of appending “radical” onto Islam or Moslem.
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Poll after poll consistently show that up to 80 to 90% of all Muslims believe death is an appropriate punishment for leaving Islam. Or for not converting.

There are no moderate Muslims.

The Muslim either wants to slit your throat or will hold you down while others do.
The palis holding Jewish children, torturing, raping and starving them in Gaza?
Those are the so-called moderate Muslims.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 09:14 AM (HXT0k)

268 Was watching a video of a guy in LA who tried converting a backyard shed into a 700 SF rental. Paid $4000 to get the permit. Spent a quarter million to convert the building. Had a tenant lined up. All that was left was the inspection.

1st City Inspector saw a problem with the A/C drain. Contractor was onsite during the inspection and offered to fix on the spot. A ten minute fix. But the inspector refused because it was 4 o' clock in Friday and he wanted to start his weekend.

So, the owner had to schedule a new inspection. Took two weeks to get an appointment. The new inspector, rather than just note the repair, insisted on running CCTV through the sewer line. Spotted a small crack where it connected under the street to the city sewer. $22,000 to repair and a three month delay before work could start because city regulations require the owner of a property to provide 75 days notice to everyone in the neighborhood about scheduled sewer repairs.

And then, another inspector demanded he replace the sidewalk in front of the house because a city-owned tree was intruding g on the sidewalk. Which would require a pruning permit from the city bureaucracy of Forestry

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 09:14 AM (PT2ax)

269 256 >>I believe Trump’s Venezuela strategy is going to work. Maduro’s regime is too weak to survive the loss of its income.
...It will be interesting to see how it affects China and Russia.

VZ's are even *MORE* Lazy than LIBs. and Machado more incompetent than even the entry level DQ Shake-flipper.

VZ. Always a bad trade.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 17, 2025 09:16 AM (DSCH5)

270 Happy Wednesday!. . . . now on to the links

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 09:16 AM (NuV6c)

271 Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

Ok. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 09:17 AM (Yl2Ob)

272 Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Star, Dies at 82.Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Star, Dies at 82.

R R R R Rest in P P Peace

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:17 AM (gbOdA)

273 1st City Inspector saw a problem with the A/C drain. Contractor was onsite during the inspection and offered to fix on the spot. A ten minute fix. But the inspector refused because it was 4 o' clock in Friday and he wanted to start his weekend.

So, the owner had to schedule a new inspection. Took two weeks to get an appointment. The new inspector, rather than just note the repair, insisted on running CCTV through the sewer line. Spotted a small crack where it connected under the street to the city sewer. $22,000 to repair and a three month delay before work could start because city regulations require the owner of a property to provide 75 days notice to everyone in the neighborhood about scheduled sewer repairs.

And then, another inspector demanded he replace the sidewalk in front of the house because a city-owned tree was intruding g on the sidewalk. Which would require a pruning permit from the city bureaucracy of Forestry
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Oh! But we just HAVE TO HAVE an HOA because the city will let everything crumble.
Posted by: F'n Karen

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:19 AM (T+ixL)

274 >>House GOP Investigates Obamacare Brokers Over Fraud Allegations, Soaring Premiums.

I'm old enough to remember when Obamacare brokers were being set up the Obama administration sought out radical activist groups, such as ACORN, that employed illegal immigrants as their brokers.

Who knew 15 years later there would be fraud??!!??
How about EVERYONE?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 09:19 AM (NuV6c)

275 190 So how come no one ever tells Muslims that Islamophobia would be reduced if they stopped murdering people?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 17, 2025 08:50 AM (8CIFn)

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Mighty haram of you...

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 17, 2025 09:19 AM (KadT+)

276 Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Star, Dies at 82.Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Star, Dies at 82.

R R R R Rest in P P Peace
Posted by: rhennigantx

Bidi Bidi Bidi Bummer Buck!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:20 AM (T+ixL)

277 a 700 SF rental. Paid $4000 to get the permit. Spent a quarter million to convert the building. Had a tenant lined up.

Was the tenant Nick Reiner? Can't imagine 'investing' that much for the privilege of having a stranger live in my backyard.

Apply for a permit and friends will tell friends...who are inspectors and contractors.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 09:20 AM (KqZNZ)

278 Ben Had,

I read that British farmers are considering euthanasia so they can die before the April tax kicks in

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 17, 2025 09:21 AM (+mUZM)

279 >>. . . .And then, another inspector demanded he replace the sidewalk in front of the house because a city-owned tree was intruding g on the sidewalk. Which would require a pruning permit from the city bureaucracy of Forestry

Meanwhile, the Mexican burrito cart a few blocks away had no inspections, no permits, collected cash only - no sales tax, left their trash and food waste on the side of the road, and moved on before anyone had a chance to complain.

Victor Davis Hanson's "Two Californias"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 09:22 AM (NuV6c)

280 Rape and murder are Sacraments of Islam.

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 09:22 AM (W7XSX)

281 239 Las Vegas Teens Who Callously Mowed Down Biking Retired Police Chief Sentenced to Life in Prison
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This was the black guys out driving around and filming there travels, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 09:23 AM (Wg6v7)

282 Would you say that I have a plethora of City Inspectors?

Posted by: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at December 17, 2025 09:24 AM (wVcYX)

283 Islamophobia has failed

A working group was established in February to provide the government with a working definition of anti-Muslim hatred/Islamophobia.

They submitted their proposal to the government in October.

The definition will be non-statutory, meaning it is not set in law or legally binding, but will provide a form of words public bodies can adopt.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:24 AM (gbOdA)

284 >>. . . .And then, another inspector demanded he replace the sidewalk in front of the house because a city-owned tree was intruding g on the sidewalk. Which would require a pruning permit from the city bureaucracy of Forestry

And we all know that if a homeless couple squatted in his back yard, the homeowner would not be allowed to evict them do to 'tennant protection' polices, etc..

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 09:25 AM (NuV6c)

285 This was the black guys out driving around and filming there travels, rite?
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Also, the car was stolen. Sorry ... "Undocumented"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 17, 2025 09:26 AM (PT2ax)

286 In a serious country Graham Platner would be on a street corner yelling at passersby not a Senate candidate.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

287 Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Star, Dies at 82.Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Star, Dies at 82.

Thinking back on that show I honestly barely remember him.

But Erin Grey? Her I remember

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 09:29 AM (sKqQm)

288 >>Also, the car was stolen. Sorry ... "Undocumented"

We need to apply that descriptor to more things!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 09:29 AM (NuV6c)

289 Art up!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 09:33 AM (T+ixL)

290 Las Vegas Teens Who Callously Mowed Down Biking Retired Police Chief Sentenced to Life in Prison
Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)
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Misleading title. They won’t be in jail for life. They got 16 years “to life” which means both will be out in 10-15 years. Maybe sooner. They should have been executed.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 17, 2025 09:34 AM (Wu29I)

291 Here's one I heard, in bad taste, but funny: "When they came for the Gypsies, I said nothing, as I'm not a Gypsy. When they came for the Somalis I said 'Be sure you get all of them.'"

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 07:54 AM

Reminds me of the joke Rocco told in "Boondock Saints":

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4s7BE90

I'll rewrite it for modern times:

These three guys are walking along the beach, a Somali, a Muslim and an American. They see this pot. They rub it. And a genie comes out. Genie says, you can wish for anything you want.

So he asked the Somali what he wants and he goes I want all my people in America to be happy and free and in Somalia. And so the genie, poof!, and all the Somalians are in Somalia.

And then he asks the Muslim, what do you want? I want all my Muslim brothers in America to be back in the Middle East and happy and everything. So you know, the genie goes poof! and all the Muslims in America are in the Middle East.

So the genie says to the American, what's your one wish? And the American goes, you mean to tell me all the Somalians and Muslims are out of America? Genie says yeah. So the American says, well, um, I'll have a Coke then.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 09:43 AM (P5BPp)

292 I was under the impression that Franklin Pierce was the first President elected by the woman's vote... by all reports, he was almost certainly the stupidest man ever elected to the office until the modern era.

Posted by: American Hawkman at December 17, 2025 10:02 AM (6nplM)

293 https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum

Ben Had this looks fakey to me and I have seen no other reporting.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:08 AM (m6HS6)
=====================
It's real.

https://tinyurl.com/tc8axszh

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 10:30 AM (xmTG8)

Daily Tech News 17 December 2025

Top Story

Coupang - South Korea's equivalent to Amazon - got hacked. (WSJ) (archive site)

Initial disclosure indicated that 4500 customers were affected.

This number has since been updated to 34 million.
Speaking of which, Midjourney is alemwjsl. (Aadill Pickle)

Me: That's someone typing the local name for Midjourney on a CJKV keyboard with the language accidentally set to English.

Article: Uh... Yes. Korean.

Tech News

Is the Commodore 64 Ultimate any good? Yes. (Tom's Hardware)

It's an FPGA emulator rather than just software, so it's more precise, and it supports existing hardware like ROM cartridges and disk drives if you still have one in working order.

And it includes not a mere 64K of RAM but 128MB. (Of which you can attach 16MB as an expansion cartridge.)

And you can dial the speed up from 1MHz to 64MHz.

And it has modern niceties like HDMI, USB, Ethernet, and wifi.

And it has a high-quality mechanical keyboard.

$299, or $349 for the translucent Starlight edition, but that's about what a second-hand C64 will set you back these days once you get it working.
The US government has signed a deal with Korea Zinc to build a rare earth processing facility in Tennessee. (Tom's Hardware)

The company will be building a $6.6 billion facility to produce 540,000 tons of material per year, including gallium, germanium, and indium, none of which are rare earth elements.

Also, 540,000 tons of these metals would be a lot. Hundreds of times more than current global output. So someone is leaving something out somewhere.
Canada's postmaster-general or whatever he is Mark Carney has been criticised over his choice of British spellings in official documents as opposed to American ones. (The Guardian)

Canada is not a real country.
Texas has sued a bevy of TV makers including Sony, LG, Samsung, TCL, and Hisense for taking screenshots of what you are watching without your consent. (Bleeping Computer)

Good.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Agawhat?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (Ia/+0)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

3 Way to go, Skip!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

4 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (Cjt/F)

5 >>>Initial disclosure indicated that 4500 customers were affected.
This number has since been updated to 34 million.

"More than 4500."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

6 Good morning. I don't know about you, but 2025 fatigue has set in for me. I'm ready for a new round of terrible.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 17, 2025 04:06 AM (CPS7C)

7 Huh.

I always thought "British spelling" was the official spelling of Canadian English anyways.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:07 AM (06Hmj)

8 Good for Texas!
We bought a spare 30-something-inch dumb tv last year because of the whole Winston Smith's telescreen thing.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:09 AM (Cjt/F)

9 5 >>>Initial disclosure indicated that 4500 customers were affected.
This number has since been updated to 34 million.

"More than 4500."
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

Lol.

"We named you after Thomas Jefferson, son."

"But Mom, my name is Robert...."

(stolen from Brian Regan)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:09 AM (06Hmj)

10 Wikipedia: "Agadoo" is a novelty song recorded by the British band Black Lace in 1984.

I missed this at the time.
Thankfully.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

11 Korea Zinc, huh?
I'm so old that I remember when we mined stuff in this country !
who knew, right?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:11 AM (Cjt/F)

12 Man from WA reflects on untimely grief, loss during the holiday reason and John 14:1-6 in this Christian devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/bdd79zea

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:12 AM (B+8Pw)

13 Maybe he just wants to spell it "poustmaster" and make the Gouvournment beat up anyone who laughs at him for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:15 AM (06Hmj)

14 Local shack is a Texas BBQ joint drive up and pickup. Weights a good 5 pounds of various goodies. Will last me for at least 3 meals. And the lady at the counter calls me sweety All for 16 dollars and they have been around for years. And its in upstate NY well away from NYC (350 miles) Now if only we could saw off NYC and float it out to see and watch it sink, that would be a great. I hope the new mayor of NYC and Kathy Hochul don't screw the state but they probably will.

Posted by: colin at December 17, 2025 04:16 AM (wlQdF)

15 America crossed a frozen river on Christmas to murder some German mercenaries in their sleep for our independence.

Canada just waited out the Empire for a couple centuries until it collapsed, and then Asked Nicely.

I'm not sure which one is more brutal, to be honest.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:18 AM (06Hmj)

16 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 17, 2025 04:18 AM (sAmhv)

17 Baby bunnies think Golden Retriever is their mom:

https://tinyurl.com/msuhj5kp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:18 AM (B+8Pw)

18 14 degrees here this morning

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:20 AM (Ia/+0)

19 School help lift boys spirit after tragic accident:

https://tinyurl.com/2s3c5prb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:22 AM (B+8Pw)

20 14 Local shack is a Texas BBQ joint drive up and pickup. Weights a good 5 pounds of various goodies.
Posted by: colin at December 17, 2025 04:16 AM (wlQdF)

Yum. Coleslaw, taters of some sort?

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:23 AM (RuTUS)

21 36 and clear on the island.
6am starts kinda suck, but, I like getting home in daylight.

Posted by: Accomack at December 17, 2025 04:25 AM (GbONR)

22 Re : Commodore 64 -

I'm never sure what the point of retro is sometimes. I love a bit of nostalgia, especially retro computing as someone who rode the wave of new home computing as a kid, but I'm not sure what the point of this is.

Why create hardware to run things that you can run on a free emulator? I don't think people want to choose playing 8 bit games for anything other than the nostalgia factor. I don't think there would be much interest in an equivalent 8 bit game that runs on an xbox.

Posted by: Political Mcguffin at December 17, 2025 04:26 AM (8x4B6)

23 My first computer was a C64. Disk drive, printer and modem (300 bit). I tried the emulator and didn't really enjoy it. It was fun for about an hour, and that was it.

Posted by: colin at December 17, 2025 04:38 AM (wlQdF)

24 I think some of the love for things like the Commodore 64 is less nostalgia for the technology but instead nostalgia for something I was really good at when I was young.

Posted by: Wally at December 17, 2025 04:38 AM (R+nQW)

25 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 27 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high somewhere in the low 40s predicted. It is supposed to rain on Friday, which I hope will wash away the snow still on the ground.

The usual 3 hours of work ahead.

Took a quick look at the stories Ace posted yesterday. I see the impotent mouth-flapping from the usual suspects in lieu of action. As I live in Maskachusetts, my vote has already been stolen and I have no representation in DC, so midterm 'voting' would be a useless enterprise anyway, but even if it weren't, I see absolutely no reason to vote GOP.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 04:38 AM (ufSfZ)

26 25 Maskachusetts
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 04:38 AM (ufSfZ)

heh
I mean, not, but.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:40 AM (RuTUS)

27 The current senators are Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.

*shudder*

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:41 AM (RuTUS)

28 R. I. P. Gil Gerard, aka, Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century.

Bummer, Buck.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 04:44 AM (QVuuq)

29 eh, the point is, they think it's cool, interesting, fun, whatever.
people are different. difference of opinion is what makes horse races.
I try real hard not to judge, just because I don't get the kick.

I've gotten really hard-line on this, lately, because I enjoy ham radio, which is apparently so pointless and fucked-up that some people feel perfectly okay about shitting on it and think that that is funny.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:44 AM (Cjt/F)

30 oh, the first half was re: 22, above.

the rest was me, venting. sorry. big issue for me, here in the season of Airing of Grievances.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:47 AM (Cjt/F)

31 Current representatives
As of January 2025:

1st district: Richard Neal (D) (since 1989; 36 years ago)
2nd district: Jim McGovern (D) (since 1997; 28 years ago)
3rd district: Lori Trahan (D) (since 2019; 6 years ago)
4th district: Jake Auchincloss (D) (since 2021; 4 years ago)
5th district: Katherine Clark (D) (since 2013; 12 years ago)
6th district: Seth Moulton (D) (since 2015; 10 years ago)
7th district: Ayanna Pressley (D) (since 2019; 6 years ago)
8th district: Stephen F. Lynch (D) (since 2001; 24 years ago)
9th district: Bill Keating (D) (since 2011; 14 years ago)

man oh man

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)

32 Evening and morning on this Woden's Day to you late toilers and insomaniacals! I'm among the latter group. For some reason I snapped awake about 3:20, out of a dream that did not seem like a dream about Miss Linda coming over, moving around in my living room without turning on a light, then sliding into my bathroom for a shower -- still without turning on a light. I could have sworn I was awake for that, but I guess not. Weirdness indeed.

Anyhoo: I'm up, sipping coffee, with Stirling zooming about like an SR-71 Blackbird. Not sure where Dagny is.

55 F. here, almost no wind, so I plan to work out in a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 04:48 AM (wzUl9)

33 Priest became masked wrestler to help fund orphanage:

https://tinyurl.com/ycfbsns7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:49 AM (Yl2Ob)

34 Good morning! It's a very pleasant 57 out on the patio here in Cowtown and headed for the mid 60s later this afternoon. Gotta take the pups in for a bath and a haircut at lunch so a visit to the driving range might be on the schedule. And it looks like there's gonna be plenty of extra work to do between now and March which means increased funding for spring landscaping.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 17, 2025 04:49 AM (3Ope8)

35 man oh man
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)

Last prominent Republican in office was... oh, who was that guy. Drawing a blank. Shiny teeth. Newsomesque hair. Never accomplished much of anything except for something to do with foreigners coming here to slide down a ski slope on their ass....

Oh well. It'll come to me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (06Hmj)

36 Maskachusetts
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025
*
heh
I mean, not, but.
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025

***
MP4 has his Maskachusetts, I have my Lousy-ana.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (wzUl9)

37 35 man oh man
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)

Last prominent Republican in office was... oh, who was that guy. Drawing a blank. Shiny teeth. Newsomesque hair. Never accomplished much of anything except for something to do with foreigners coming here to slide down a ski slope on their ass....

Oh well. It'll come to me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (06Hmj)

Repress the Bad Thoughts!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (RuTUS)

38 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 17, 2025 04:50 AM (2Ez/1)

39 LOL headline over at DM:
"Trump aide reveals the exact moment they realized Vanity Fair profile was a terrible idea: 'We’re all going to get fired' "

srsly, who the f thought that was a good idea? they should all be fired, preferably from a trebuchet "to encourage the others"

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:51 AM (Cjt/F)

40 I'm probably the target audience for the C64 Ultimate. I didn't know I wanted it till I saw it just now. No, I can't justify it. It's like I was bitten by a spider who's venom makes serotonin flood my brain so that I'm docile and happy while it eats me.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 17, 2025 04:52 AM (CPS7C)

41 oh, and Pixy? something you might find interesting?

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:53 AM (Cjt/F)

42 srsly, who the f thought that was a good idea? they should all be fired, preferably from a trebuchet "to encourage the others"

*spit*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:51 AM (Cjt/F)

Oh, pish. No one in the White House is saying "we're all gonna be fired". 100% certain that's a fabricated quote.

What did they accomplish? They got the newsfaces talking about Literally Nothing again. They disseminated the message that "Yes, yes indeed, we are Coming For You". I'm not overly fussed about any of that.

I'm sick to death of all these people who want me dead making a living tut tutting me for not having the correct Feels about other people they want dead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:54 AM (06Hmj)

43 The Movies! channel is off air, so I've got a Barnaby Jones episode from 1974 on. This show has been running on MeTV for at least five solid years, maybe longer. Time for something new(er). Or older. They used to run 77 Sunset Strip at 3 am for quite a while before Mr. Jones seized the time slot.

My local Fox outlet has their "news" starting at four, so I can get an update on the weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 04:54 AM (wzUl9)

44 eh, you may be right, W-o

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:57 AM (Cjt/F)

45 The latest goofbally-ness from Da Swamp: The city is talking about erecting a *permanent* gate at the entrance to Bourbon St., where the terror attack took place this past January 1. "18 permanent swing gates to be installed along Bourbon Street from Canal to St. Ann streets" -- which is nearly half the length of the thoroughfare.

I've said for years the city, which for decades has been frantically catering to tourists instead of locals, was going to erect a big shiny gate at that point and charge people to enter. Looks like they've found an excuse to do it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:00 AM (wzUl9)

46 some good (and some bad) guesses in the comments here:

LB
@beyondreasdoubt
5h
Ms. Wiles didn't just fall off the turnip truck. She's an experienced and successful woman who has been in the business for a long time. There is no way she didn't know there was a risk of malevolent framing when sitting down with Vanity Fair. The question, of course, is why do it, then?

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS)

47 Bears in zoo figure out how to make a seesaw from some limbs. You can watch video-if you want to by going to the YouTube site:

https://tinyurl.com/4h756ajk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:03 AM (Yl2Ob)

48 The Movies! channel is off air, so I've got a Barnaby Jones episode from 1974 on.

Those Quinn Martin shows never did anything for me, although watching The Streets of San Francisco is a time machine back to the Tony Bennett days.

I did enjoy Cannon, because, like me, William Conrad always did the fat man's hands-in-the-pockets-to-keep-the-pants-from-falling run whenever he chased a suspect.

Back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 05:05 AM (ufSfZ)

49 I may have made my coffee too strong this morning. It needs sweetener, which is usual, and milk, which is not. Whew.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:06 AM (wzUl9)

50 Revolver News has a clip of 2 women police officers wrestling with a fairly light guy and can't control him at all. Finally a large Black guy comes over and helps them put him down.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)

51 This:

Rubric Marlin
@RubricMarlin
15h
Presumably Trump told her to do the interview. Why, I don’t know, but he gives interviews to anyone.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:07 AM (RuTUS)

52 I've said for years the city, which for decades has been frantically catering to tourists instead of locals, was going to erect a big shiny gate at that point and charge people to enter. Looks like they've found an excuse to do it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:00 AM (wzUl9)

Bring back Storyville.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 05:07 AM (ufSfZ)

53 44 eh, you may be right, W-o
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 04:57 AM (Cjt/F)

it's all so frustrating. Of course we want Our Team to look like the protagonist in a good movie, never making a misstep, always looking like a badass, always being one step ahead of the Bad Guys. But that isn't possible without everything being scripted and workshopped to death and going through twenty takes and copious editing. In reality we just have a bunch of people we can only hope don't want us quite as dead as the mutants they're up against, who explicitly and vociferously want us dead. So I'm more or less at the point where if a story is not about an actual story, and entirely about What I'm Supposed To Feel About What We Say That Your Guy Said, I assume that the people pushing the Feels are manipulative scumbags and I should probably, to be safe, feel the opposite.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:07 AM (06Hmj)

54
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 17, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

55 Of course Coupang's robust security systems immediately detected the data breach that impacted about 90% of the adult population of Korea.

Just kidding.

It went undetected for 5 months and the only reason they knew about it was a customer inquired about unusual activity in his or her account.

Undisclosed in the article is whether or not North Korea smugly noted in their propaganda that something like this could never happen there.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:12 AM (HTCU3)

56 And this:

David M. Drucker
@DavidMDrucker
16h
From the perspective of GOP politics in the Trump era, there's an immense amount of political utility in getting a Vanity Fair spread and then using the piece itself to attack the press. Hardly takes a genius to understand that.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:13 AM (RuTUS)

57 No plans today for me. Wash clothes, grocery shop, take a walk. Went to Mt Vernon yesterday. GW has a lovely place. Sort of a mini vacation this week. I have one extra night off. Don't have to go back to work till Friday night. I do work all of Christmas (Eve and Day+Boxing day and whatever the 27th is) and which is a bummer.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 17, 2025 05:14 AM (sAmhv)

58 I think part of it at least fits in with the growing "meta" of demonstrating almost Socratically that all these people are lying to us about everything and have been for years.

It started with the judo-flip of their term "Fake News", which Trump seized on like a starving wolf wandered into the meat section of the local grocery store.

We've had a slew of lawsuits, successful or not, forcing various newsface agencies to admit publicly and officially that their pants are, indeed, combustible.

Latest one is the BBC fiasco of slobberknockingly disingenuous editing concerning The Thing We Were All Required To Care About for a solid half of a decade.

I have to imagine this interview was just another little combat patrol on this very same front.

Telling everyone that these people are liars gets you nowhere. Showing everyone, maybe, might.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:16 AM (06Hmj)

59 Watched musical interlude and have no clue what that was

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 05:17 AM (Ia/+0)

60 And I just don't give a crap about the whole Trump/Vanity Fair thing or what he said about Reiner. If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything. I try and succeed, occasionally, in doing that. Better over all for me. But neither of those guys (Reiner and Trump) did or do that. shrugs Imperfect world with imperfect people.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 17, 2025 05:18 AM (sAmhv)

61 From imaginary-land (apparently) I greet you all.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

62 If you don't want a SmartTV it's getting more and more difficult to find a TV without the internet connection.

However, if you're looking for a smaller size, you can buy computer monitors without internet connections and use one of those instead. They are usually topping out at 32" but you can get some up to 37".

A TV manufacturer could probably make decent sales if they sold several 'dumb' models these days. If somebody wants to add streaming to it they could always add a streaming box, but you're opening yourself up to the same privacy problems with those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:19 AM (6ydKt)

63 Eh, it's one, single Vanity Fair article. This, too, shall pass.

I'm betting on PDT.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:23 AM (RuTUS)

64 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 17, 2025 05:18 AM (sAmhv

Very true.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:23 AM (2sfNr)

65 In a perverse kind of way, right now is the perfect time to be destabilizing and dismantling the Newsface Industrial Complex. They've just spent a solid decade or more firing everyone who knows how to psy-op, and hiring a bunch of theater kids who are too obsessed with their own crotches to know how to even write in complete sentences. You'd have never busted the Palace Guard of the Krankheit era just by mocking them. Hell, thirty years ago Bernie Goldberg started to gently, politely insinuate that maybe the NIC wasn't quite as objective as they made out, and they crucified the poor bastard.

Now? It's pretty much the conventional wisdom amongst people who aren't network or cable news addicts that the Newsfaces' shit is all retarded and they do, actually, kinda talk like fags.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:24 AM (06Hmj)

66 It is cold outside, I won't be happy until May
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 05:25 AM (Ia/+0)

67 @66/Skip: I can dress warm enough to cope with the cold. What I don't like is all the slip-sliding around on surfaces that should have been plowed or shoveled, but weren't.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:28 AM (O7YUW)

68 A TV without internet is effectively either a computer monitor, or you're watching satellite TV or cable.

Satellite is for people who eat with their hands and arrange their kids' marriages. Cable is for comatose people in hospitals.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:28 AM (06Hmj)

69 I had a C64 as a kid.

Problem is the only thing I manged to do with it is play 'Pole Position' on a 13" CRT TV.

Then I got a Nintendo and never looked back.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:28 AM (6ydKt)

70 Actor David Suchet ( "Poirot") reads Psalm 3-encouragement that God is our glory and the lifter of our head:

https://tinyurl.com/yyks6sbp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:29 AM (2sfNr)

71 @32/Wolfus: "Anyhoo: I'm up, sipping coffee, with Stirling zooming about like an SR-71 Blackbird. Not sure where Dagny is. "

Wisely staying out of the flight path?

Thanks for the "furry thugs" update!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

72 !!!

Townhall.com
@townhallcom
11h
"Some webpages for students and faculty have been taken down..."

BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

73 Satellite is for people who eat with their hands and arrange their kids' marriages. Cable is for comatose people in hospitals.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:28 AM (06Hmj)

*looks at his Dish box and wonders where he can get a good falafel*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:32 AM (6ydKt)

74 Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:23 AM (RuTUS

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:32 AM (2sfNr)

75 The tower my cell phone and home internet hits from where I live went from providing 300 plus mbs to 1 mbs on Monday. That cured all concerns about my Smart TV spying on me. On the upside Verizon did provide very good information about when the outage occurred and when it would be fixed which they accomplished about 8 hours earlier than they thought it would be. On the downside the text message I was supposed to get telling me it was fixed arrived 12 hours later which I found rather amusing.

1 mbs. How did we survive in the dark ages?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:34 AM (HTCU3)

76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

77 I mean, if "They" were going to come for us and kick in our door over something they caught us watching on our Big Brother Telescreen, it'd probably be for my wife.

"Man. This chick is, like, reaaallllly into murder, isn't she?"

"But... but I want to dismantle the entire federal government and strip everything back to the bill of rights and the original US Code?"

"Oh, who doesn't. We're here for Murder Girl, get out of the way, bub."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:36 AM (06Hmj)

78 1 mbs. How did we survive in the dark ages?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:34 AM (HTCU3)

We'd start a download, cook and eat dinner, watch a few shows on TV, go to bed, and wake up to find we only had a few more hours left until we could listen to that new Nickleback CD off of Napster.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:38 AM (6ydKt)

79 76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

IIRC, in the first interview she gave, she said that she had just arrived back in town. From somewhere Stateside; like, Philadelphia? DC?

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:38 AM (RuTUS)

80 What's Vanity Fair?

Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 05:39 AM (2Ez/1)

81 @aghamiilton29
AG retweeted
Rabbi Poupko
@RabbiPoupko
Dec 15
HE STEPPED IN TO PROTECT A LITTLE GIRL

27-year-old Dan Elkayam from France was killed in the Sydney terror attack.

Dan was a young French Jewish engineer from Le Bourget.

Dan loved playing soccer and was proud to represent France and the Jewish community at the 2022 Maccabiah International Tournament.

On the first night of Hanukkah, like so many young Jews far from home, he came to bond with his people at the Chanukkah Menorah lighting.

As the bullets began flying, Dan rushed to protect a little girl with his own body and succumbed to the terrorists' bullets.

May his memory be a blessing.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:40 AM (RuTUS)

82 80 What's Vanity Fair?
Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 05:39 AM (2Ez/1)

it's a Thackeray novel that broadly mimics the themes of Anna Karenina.

But that's not important right now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:40 AM (06Hmj)

83
@aghamiilton29 --> @aghamilton29

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)

84 77 I mean, if "They" were going to come for us and kick in our door over something they caught us watching on our Big Brother Telescreen, it'd probably be for my wife.

"Man. This chick is, like, reaaallllly into murder, isn't she?"

"But... but I want to dismantle the entire federal government and strip everything back to the bill of rights and the original US Code?"

"Oh, who doesn't. We're here for Murder Girl, get out of the way, bub."

Posted by: Warai-otoko

'We think you've watched just enough cat video's Mr Puddleglum'.

'What? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was America!! What about my rights, man!!!'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 17, 2025 05:41 AM (sAmhv)

85 82 80 What's Vanity Fair?
Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 05:39 AM (2Ez/1)

it's a Thackeray novel that broadly mimics the themes of Anna Karenina.

But that's not important right now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:40 AM (06Hmj)

; )

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)

86 @75/Alteria Pilgram: "1 mbs. How did we survive in the dark ages?"

I remember 300 bps. That was slooooooow.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:41 AM (O7YUW)

87 "I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check."

Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: They can't handle it at December 17, 2025 05:42 AM (2Ez/1)

88 Almost summoned the Italicans again. Hurray for extra closure tags after my name.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

89 And stop calling me surely!

Posted by: Vanity Fair at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (2Ez/1)

90 @81/m: "May his memory be a blessing."

John 15:13 : Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (O7YUW)

91 What's Vanity Fair?
Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 05:39 AM (2Ez/1)

it's a Thackeray novel that broadly mimics the themes of Anna Karenina.

But that's not important right now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025

***
I've been using that joke on Miss Linda for a while. Yesterday a delivery truck was parked outside the coffee shop, and she says, "What's that truck?"

Me: "It's a large vehicle, normally with more than four wheels, used to transport cargo over long or short distances . . . but that's not important right now."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

92 I remember 300 bps. That was slooooooow.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

My first modem was 28 kbs. Or maybe it was 14.4 kbs. Or maybe that was the amount of RAM in my first PC. The truth being I really can't recall because that was back the dark ages when we use Sears catalog pages for toilet paper.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (HTCU3)

93
76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

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There are fundraising luncheons also.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 05:45 AM (kf4RM)

94 Me: "It's a large vehicle, normally with more than four wheels, used to transport cargo over long or short distances . . . but that's not important right now."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

My wife made an absolute banger of a dad-joke the other day, then immediately looked at me in wide eyed horror and said "What have you done to me?!?!?!?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:45 AM (06Hmj)

95 Good morning, everyone. It's a bit of a sad day over here. Kroger had a vet appointment yesterday as the limp he'd been dealing with got a lot worse over the previous 24 hours. They did an x-ray and it looks like he has osteosarcoma. We're waiting for the radiologist to look things over for a second opinion but it's not looking very good.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:46 AM (jjoN6)

96 93 76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

I'm starting to thunk this college president never leaves her office except to cash her check.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

There are fundraising luncheons also.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 05:45 AM (kf4RM)

And award ceremonies.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:47 AM (RuTUS)

97 Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:46 A

Poor Kroger!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:47 AM (WFtAr)

98 /Alteria Pilgram: "1 mbs. How did we survive in the dark ages?"
*
I remember 300 bps. That was slooooooow.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025

***
I installed my first modem in my 8088 Compuadd PC in '89 or so, to upload my COBOL programs to the school mainframe -- which would compile it and print out the result. Then the next day at work, I'd pick up the printout and see just how many errors I'd made. Fortunately, when you fixed one error in COBOL, that often cleared up four others.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:48 AM (wzUl9)

99 My wife made an absolute banger of a dad-joke the other day, then immediately looked at me in wide eyed horror and said "What have you done to me?!?!?!?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I would sleep in the car with the windows up and the doors locked for the next few months. She seems rather schooled in the art of murder given the TV habits you mentioned.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:49 AM (HTCU3)

100 100

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:49 AM (RuTUS)

101 94 Me: "It's a large vehicle, normally with more than four wheels, used to transport cargo over long or short distances . . . but that's not important right now."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

My wife made an absolute banger of a dad-joke the other day, then immediately looked at me in wide eyed horror and said "What have you done to me?!?!?!?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:45 AM (06Hmj)

Tell us the joke!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)

102 I think College Presidents are not known for doing much of anything except to raise money for the school. I don't know that it had much to do with having a woman in charge in this particular case. They should be grilling whoever is in charge of security over there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (WFtAr)

103 G'morning, all.

I see that a Professor at MIT was murdered in his home on Monday.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419454

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (Ytdv9)

104 "Hospital?"

"It's a large building with sick people, doctors, and nurses . . . but that's not important right now."

(I think that was an actual joke in the movie)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

105 @92/Alteria Pilgram: I remember the modem years all too well. We are well rid of those things.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:51 AM (O7YUW)

106 There's a 1955 movie with Dana Andrews and Piper Laurie named Smoke Signal where Dana Andrews is explaining something to a captain and after he finishes he says: "But that's not important right now."

I laugh every time I hear it (Encore Western had it on a lot last month).

I wouldn't be surprised if that's where Airplane got the line.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:51 AM (6ydKt)

107 Poor Kroger!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Osteo hates greyhounds for some reason as this was what took the life of one of my other dogs last year. I'm certain the radiologist is going to agree with the doctor but I'd rather have the second opinion than agonize if we made the right choice.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:52 AM (jjoN6)

108 Tell us the joke!
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)

I can't even remember it! I think it was a riff on a poorly worded sign going in to a store somewhere or something. I do remember that the people behind us laughed at it...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:53 AM (06Hmj)

109 108

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 05:53 AM (HTCU3)

110 Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:52 AM (jjoN6)

Second opinion always sounds like a good idea. It must be very hard to be attached to the greyhounds and lose so many over the years.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:54 AM (WFtAr)

111 108 Tell us the joke!
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)

I can't even remember it! I think it was a riff on a poorly worded sign going in to a store somewhere or something. I do remember that the people behind us laughed at it...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:53 AM (06Hmj)

hahahahahaha

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 05:55 AM (RuTUS)

112
Good morning, Hordians.

Mr. Finn is a house dog whilst we medicate him with antibiotics to try to stem whatever is ailing him. I heard him horking a few times last night and this morning, but he hasn't coughed up any blood. Also, even though he's 10 years old, he doesn't look or act like a dog on the way out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 05:57 AM (tgvbd)

113
I can't even remember it! I think it was a riff on a poorly worded sign going in to a store somewhere or something. I do remember that the people behind us laughed at it...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 05:53 AM (06Hmj)

The one I saw many years ago was "For Faster Service, Drive Thru Window".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 05:58 AM (tgvbd)

114 President Trump has "completely surrounded" Venezuela by ordering a naval blockade. When did Venezuela become an island?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 06:01 AM (HTCU3)

115 The one I saw many years ago was "For Faster Service, Drive Thru Window".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 05:58 AM (tgvbd)

Signs are constricted spaces, and sometimes you can't fit all the words, which is unfortunate when a three-letter word like "use" would completely clear up any unfortunate misunderstandings.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:03 AM (6ydKt)

116 114 President Trump has "completely surrounded" Venezuela by ordering a naval blockade. When did Venezuela become an island?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 06:01 AM (HTCU3)

I guess it could be done if he sent a fleet up the Orinoco river.

*Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:06 AM (6ydKt)

117 76 BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "I know nothing about webpages being taken down."
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Every university has an IT Help Desk. Maybe start there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 06:10 AM (ESVrU)

118 *Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away*

I happen to like that song, even though it's ridiculously overplayed.

I also, for no reason I could articulate, think Enya would be a very strange woman to be married to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 06:11 AM (ufSfZ)

119 I remember driving past the original "GIANT / DICK'S" sign from the meme in my town when it first went up.

It wasn't long before they reversed the order of the sign.

(Giant is a local grocery store chain)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:12 AM (06Hmj)

120 118 *Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away*

I happen to like that song, even though it's ridiculously overplayed.

I also, for no reason I could articulate, think Enya would be a very strange woman to be married to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 06:11 AM (ufSfZ)

I like it, too.
Enya has a beautiful voice.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:13 AM (6ydKt)

121 Good morning tech fans.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 17, 2025 06:14 AM (WPL6O)

122 @41/sock_rat_eez: "https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/"

And people wonder why I scatter things around different dissociated services so much.

Poor guy. I'll keep that post open and monitor it over the upcoming days to see if he gets any relief from Apple.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 06:16 AM (O7YUW)

123 Venezuela has made the fundamental error of pissing off all of its direct neighbors.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (06Hmj)

124
114 President Trump has "completely surrounded" Venezuela by ordering a naval blockade. When did Venezuela become an island?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 06:01 AM (HTCU3

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To the east is Guyana, which Maduro has threatened with invasion, and regards hiim as an enemy. US troops stationed there.

To the west, Columbia, despite the anti-American ranting of its drug-addled communist president, doesn't need the trouble of taking on the US.q

To the south -- nothing much. Mountains, few roads.

No way to transport oil, their only remaining source of revenue aside from narcotics, without tankers, which are effectively blockaded.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (kf4RM)

125
Brown's prex is being deliberately and calculatingly obtuse. But the more she talks like this, the more the perception grows that there's something she doesn't want to come out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)

126 Brown's prex is being deliberately and calculatingly obtuse. But the more she talks like this, the more the perception grows that there's something she doesn't want to come out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)

How does one make it to such a lofty position when their strategic instincts allow for their final defensible position to be "No, no, I really am that stupid"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:21 AM (06Hmj)

127 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)

Yes,; if they're removing faculty and student pages it's because they're covering up for faculty and students with some very dark thoughts about Christians and Jews and Israel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:22 AM (oT1li)

128 They can't claim they're worried about "copycats" because this mutant's body of work is indistinguishable from official university policy that is not only celebrated but enforced.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:23 AM (06Hmj)

129 which means increased funding for spring landscaping.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 17, 2025 04:49 AM (3Ope

The landscapers are coming today! They are doing some leveling, spreading the dirt we bought last spring before he broke his arm, laying a paver path, putting out some sod and maybe doing some tree trimming.
Then- they are re-working my garden extensively: new beds, new path, re-setting the little patio. I can't wait, I love my little plot.

Posted by: sal at December 17, 2025 06:23 AM (f+FmA)

130 Delurks

Okay problem here. The site is all tiny. All the words are quite small on Samsung phone. I have too read it landscape.

Any answers out there from people more knowledgeable then myself?

Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 06:24 AM (3QsZU)

131 Was there a President who was fired after the outrageous anti semetism on their campus - which she claimed to know nothing about - after the attack on Israel on October 7th?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:24 AM (oT1li)

132 Oh, brave browser, and chrome did same.

Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 06:25 AM (3QsZU)

133 124

To the east is Guyana, which Maduro has threatened with invasion, and regards hiim as an enemy. US troops stationed there.

To the west, Columbia, despite the anti-American ranting of its drug-addled communist president, doesn't need the trouble of taking on the US.q

To the south -- nothing much. Mountains, few roads.

No way to transport oil, their only remaining source of revenue aside from narcotics, without tankers, which are effectively blockaded.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 06:19 AM (kf4RM)

To the north -- the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

134 Posted by: sal at December 17, 2025 06:23 AM (f+FmA

Congratulations! I will be nice for you to a have a garden respite come Spring.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:28 AM (oT1li)

135 Good morning, All.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 06:30 AM (tlviZ)

136 It would not be easy to be the Providence Police Chief at this time. However:

Greg Price
@greg_price11
12h
Providence Police Chief: "The video that we showed you came from inside the building."

RI Attorney General: "It's from the outside of the building."

Police Chief: "Both inside and outside. I'm sorry! Just outside."

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:31 AM (RuTUS)

137 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 17, 2025 06:10 AM (ESVrU)

Perfessor, FYI: The Federalist has an article on Notable books of 2025.

https://tinyurl.com/2x6wh79n

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 17, 2025 06:32 AM (FIlGS)

138 130 Delurks

Okay problem here. The site is all tiny. All the words are quite small on Samsung phone. I have too read it landscape.

Any answers out there from people more knowledgeable then myself?

Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 06:24 AM (3QsZU)

Pixy mentioned last week he's noticed something happening.

Basically, your phone is picking up the Desktop version of the site instead of the Mobile version.

If there's a way to switch between the two in your browser, that's an option.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

139 Nice.

Frank McCormick | Educator
@CBHeresy
15h
No matter how many ‘likes’ you get, you’ll still have to answer to God.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)

140 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 17, 2025 06:38 AM (bQ4nt)

141
https://thenewneo.com

Friends were not all that surprised:

quote:

Rob Reiner’s son Nick was notorious for being violent, and those around him “instantly knew’’ he was the one who allegedly murdered his parents, friends, and neighbors, told The Post on Monday.

“This is not the first time their son has been violent,’’ a longtime neighbor of the victims said of Nick Reiner, 32, who is charged with fatally slitting the throats of his parents in the family’s Los Angeles mansion. …

A former classmate of Nick’s told The Post that the suspect — who had been in and out of rehab since age 15 — has “always been troubled’’ and that she “instantly knew it was him’’ when she heard the news.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:41 AM (RuTUS)

142
Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 17, 2025 06:38 AM (bQ4nt)

_________

Did you bring donuts?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:42 AM (tgvbd)

143 tcn in AK is having shoulder surgery today. Please keep tcn and her surgical team in prayer as well as her husband for patience as he takes over a lot of duties for her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:42 AM (Yl2Ob)

144
If there's a way to switch between the two in your browser, that's an option.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

__________

Tried that. Doesn't help. It's a site problem, not a phone problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:43 AM (tgvbd)

145 I like it, too.
Enya has a beautiful voice.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:13 AM (6ydKt)

Here is a live performance of "My! My! Time Flies," from her album And Winter Came:

https://tinyurl.com/bddddwrc

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 17, 2025 06:44 AM (ufSfZ)

146 @130/Dandalo: "The site is all tiny. All the words are quite small on Samsung phone. I have too read it landscape."

Yep. Landscape mode. Or pinch and grab and zoom in a bit, but that's pretty unworkable.

@Pixy: I'm seeing this too, and landscape mode is the only way to reasonably deal with it. The other day you said you were going to go skulking around in the CSS code. Could you look at this too while you're in there?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 06:44 AM (O7YUW)

147 Eyes not focusing

Air inside is so dry

Eyedrops!

Ahhhhh

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 06:44 AM (YCq3A)

148
A former classmate of Nick’s told The Post that the suspect — who had been in and out of rehab since age 15 — has “always been troubled’’ and that she “instantly knew it was him’’ when she heard the news.
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:41 AM (RuTUS)

___________

Don't know anything about the family but there are some people who are no damn good regardless of how they're raised. Sounds like an exorcist should have been called in.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:47 AM (tgvbd)

149 147 Eyes not focusing

Air inside is so dry

Eyedrops!

Ahhhhh
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 06:44 AM (YCq3A)

Hydrate!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:47 AM (RuTUS)

150 Did you bring donuts?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Sorry, no. Got a late start this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 17, 2025 06:49 AM (bQ4nt)

151
When the site went Desktop on Chrome, I tried Brave and it looked fine for a while but that too has gone Desktop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:50 AM (tgvbd)

152 Tried that. Doesn't help. It's a site problem, not a phone problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 06:43 AM (tgvbd)

Could be that browsers have added something in updates that screwed up Responsive Design site loading.

As in; it was working fine for years, and then the developers did something that screwed up everything down the line.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

153 I've gotten really hard-line on this, lately, because I enjoy ham radio, which is apparently so pointless and fucked-up that some people feel perfectly okay about shitting on it and think that that is funny.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

--
Gam radio seems like fun and from the outside seems a lot about reaching out to other humans and being in a community

Does not seem pointless at all to me

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 06:55 AM (eZ5tL)

154 Satellite is for people who eat with their hands and arrange their kids' marriages.

*Elon Musk has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 06:55 AM (T+ixL)

155 As in; it was working fine for years, and then the developers did something that screwed up everything down the line.

Translation: "You code monkeys better do something by the end of the year if you want your bonuses."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 06:55 AM (jjoN6)

156 Poor kid was probably passed around like a joint at Woodstock. Hollywood has a very long sordid history, right from the start. They used to be a little better about keeping stuff under wraps.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 06:55 AM (Tt+ej)

157 We're waiting for the radiologist to look things over for a second opinion but it's not looking very good.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 05:46 AM (jjoN6)

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Praying for good news.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 06:58 AM (GgH4p)

158 @redsteeze
Stephen L. Miller retweeted

ShipofTheseus
@JewishSpaceLazr
15h
Prof. Loureiro, an MIT professor researching nuclear fusion, was Jewish and had voiced a strong defense of Israel on social media. He lived in a quiet residential neighborhood where shootings - esp multiple times in his own foyer - are rare. This needs to be investigated deeply.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)

159 Apropos of the C64, my current fascination is the Quark Linux SOC I picked up, inside of its 3d printed case it measures 1.5x1.75x.75 inches has a oled monitor, USB, WiFi, Bluetooth and has enough horsepower to emulate a c64 and serve the games on webpage.

Picked it up for 50 bucks and it’s a blast.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 06:59 AM (XV/Pl)

160 How does one make it to such a lofty position when their strategic instincts allow for their final defensible position to be "No, no, I really am that stupid"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 06:21 AM (06Hmj)

We have reached the point in our culture where one HAS to be that stupid in order to make it to a lofty position.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 07:00 AM (QS6eO)

161 people in the comments are throwing doubt on this:

158 @redsteeze
Stephen L. Miller retweeted

ShipofTheseus
@JewishSpaceLazr
15h
Prof. Loureiro, an MIT professor researching nuclear fusion, was Jewish and had voiced a strong defense of Israel on social media. He lived in a quiet residential neighborhood where shootings - esp multiple times in his own foyer - are rare. This needs to be investigated deeply.
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 07:02 AM (RuTUS)

162 NR Pax, praying for Kroger

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 07:02 AM (DoBxX)

163 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Agalagaldingdong.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 07:02 AM (Bh17p)

164 Praying for good news.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

Thank you. The one consolation is that we're here for him as opposed to it happening while we were on vacation.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 17, 2025 07:02 AM (jjoN6)

165 To the north -- the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean
Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

And currently, the US Navy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (QS6eO)

166 thank you, vmom!

I'm a little bent out of shape because of a few commenters (don't know, consciously avoided knowing who) who very openly feel ... differently.

I know most everyone here is not like that, but once in a while it busts loose inside me ... and yes, I was just thinking how, in its way, that's like yelling back at a troll - you're letting them know that they actually scored a touch. stupid.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (Cjt/F)

167 I also, for no reason I could articulate, think Enya would be a very strange woman to be married to.
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Being wealthy might help with that.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (Bh17p)

168
Gam radio seems like fun and from the outside seems a lot about reaching out to other humans and being in a community

________

And talking about women's legs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (tgvbd)

169 "When did Venezuela become an island?"

Careful. It might capsize.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (7aSbN)

170 "L.A. Story" should have gotten an award for most effective use of an Enya song. Twice!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (Bh17p)

171 Basically, your phone is picking up the Desktop version of the site instead of the Mobile version.

If there's a way to switch between the two in your browser, that's an option.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

I use brave on android an each site can be viewed as normal (mobile) or desktop.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (gbOdA)

172 @169/"Hank Johnson": *snort*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (O7YUW)

173 Watching the pressers following all of these tragedies, I'm struck by how totally incompetent the "leadership" is. It seems like we used to install people who were both talented and competent. Now we have women and men who have absolutely no achievements in life but are really, REALLY proud of their gender studies degree. But they can deflect, deny and blame others with great confidence (with an assist from the propaganda press).

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (cxFcK)

174 Gam radio seems like fun and from the outside seems a lot about reaching out to other humans and being in a community

________

And talking about women's legs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:03 AM (tgvbd)
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Betty Grable! Great gams!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 07:06 AM (Bh17p)

175 @171/rhennigantx: That's good news, so how, exactly, do you switch between desktop and mobile on your android based phone?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 07:07 AM (O7YUW)

176
Delurk

Okay problem here. The site is all tiny. All the words are quite small on Samsung phone. I have too read it landscape.

Any answers out there from people more knowledgeable then myself?
Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 06:24 AM (3QsZU)

For about a week now , the Brave browser on my phone has shown tiny print. I shifted to Edge and the text is larger. I do not understand

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 07:07 AM (Raw4f)

177 Hedley Lamarr: “You said murder twice”
Dem politician: “ I really like murder!”

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 17, 2025 07:07 AM (1FEc1)

178 Local schools are closed today because of wind.

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:10 AM (ZxPkt)

179 173 Watching the pressers following all of these tragedies, I'm struck by how totally incompetent the "leadership" is. It seems like we used to install people who were both talented and competent. Now we have women and men who have absolutely no achievements in life but are really, REALLY proud of their gender studies degree. But they can deflect, deny and blame others with great confidence (with an assist from the propaganda press).
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 17, 2025 07:05 AM (cxFcK)

And the president of Brown is paid $3mil/year.

https://www.browndailyherald.com

https://tinyurl.com/5f7xbr8e

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 07:10 AM (RuTUS)

180
We have reached the point in our culture where one HAS to be that stupid in order to make it to a lofty position.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 07:00 AM (QS6eO)

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Youse talkin' about me?

Posted by: Claudine Gay, Harvard at December 17, 2025 07:15 AM (+Z4Ez)

181
JJS

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 17, 2025 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

182 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

183 Hoping you're doing ok, Pixy!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 07:17 AM (RuTUS)

184 I love Commodore 64, no one needs more than 640k to worship me and my fat, soft and moist mammaries!

Love me! Love me! Take my vax! Yeah, Oh yeah!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Huge Man Hooters at December 17, 2025 07:18 AM (m8zKa)

185 via Instapundit:

RIP: Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 07:20 AM (RuTUS)

186 Thank you for the answer.
Brave is set on mobile, but maybe Pixie will five into the code.

Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (tdTJF)

187 * Local schools are closed today because of wind.*

Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: Timeless truth at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (7aSbN)

188 186 Thank you for the answer.
Brave is set on mobile, but maybe Pixie will five into the code.
Posted by: Dandalo at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (tdTJF)

I am not a techie, but, online, when a site is mis-sized, if I grab a corner and pull it out and then in and what have you, the site sometimes resizes to where I want it. I have to do this at Instapundit every time.

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 08:55 AM (RuTUS)

189 She's singing about Doof!?

Posted by: GWB at December 17, 2025 09:41 AM (cxcqL)

190 * Local schools are closed today because of wind.*

Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: Timeless truth at December 17, 2025 07:36 AM (7aSbN)

We've had a power outage since 6 am. How can kids go to school and stare at their phones all day with no power?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 10:00 AM (oMo5x)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 16, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Tuesday night ONT time. Glad you're here. Single digit number of days left until Christmas. Have you bought your gifts for your favorite ONT host? There's still time!

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Beam Me Up, Florida Man!

Florida Man Claims He Was ‘Teleported Into’ Stolen BMW Before Crash

A man who crashed a BMW convertible in Volusia County this week told deputies he didn’t steal the car—he was “teleported into” it, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
The incident occurred Monday near the intersection of Old Dixie Highway and Plantation Oaks Boulevard. Authorities said 36-year-old Calvin Curtis Johnson crashed the vehicle after allegedly taking it from Bicentennial Park.
According to deputies, the BMW had been left unlocked with the keys inside a cupholder while its owner walked his dog. Moments later, the car was reported stolen.
Shortly after, the BMW crashed. Witnesses at the scene reportedly helped pull Johnson from the wrecked vehicle. When questioned by deputies, Johnson admitted to driving over 100 mph before the crash but claimed he didn’t steal the car—instead, he said he had been “teleported into” the driver’s seat.

Video segment at the link. Check it out.

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Aviation Monstrosity

We haven't seen occasional ONT host and flying fanatic Roger Ball in a while. Perhaps he's here tonight and maybe knows a thing or 2 about this wide winged bird.

The World’s Largest Aircraft by Wingspan is Considerably Wider Than a Football Field

Nicknamed ROC after the giant mythical bird capable of carrying off elephants in its talons, the Stratolaunch Model 351 is a one-of-a-kind engineering marvel. Originally designed to carry air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO) rockets, it was subsequently repurposed to offer air launch hypersonic flight testing following the death of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who had also co-founded Scaled Composites, the maker of the ROC.
Looking like two jets fused together, the Stratolaunch ROC is an impressive sight to behold. Each of its two fuselages is 238 ft (73 m) long and supported by 12 main landing gear wheels and two nose gear wheels, for a total of 28 wheels. The combined wingspan of these two fuselages adds up to 385 feet (117 m), making the ROC wider than a 300 ft (91 m) American football field.
Interestingly, the pilot, copilot, and flight engineer are located in the right fuselage cockpit, while the flight data systems are in the left fuselage, which is completely unmanned. This massive aircraft is powered by six massive Pratt & Whitney PW4056 engines capable of providing 56,750 lbf (252.4 kN) of thrust per engine.

Lots of numbers and stuff there that don't make much sense to me. But the thing looks kewl! Multiple video clips at the link.

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2A Corner

Rhetorical question?

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Hmmm. Is "Fred" available for the next Texas MoMe? I'll bring the paper plates!

fred is fine he’s holding 500 paper plates 🔫 pic.twitter.com/dHWlZObOAQ
— kekius tees (@kekmaximusk) December 14, 2025

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Another one that shouldn't be confusing

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'Tis the Season

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Science, Yo!

Where are my fellow whiskey lovers?

A single drop of whiskey vs. millions of bacteria.

pic.twitter.com/p622kbseX6
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) December 13, 2025

Notice that the dropper was loaded with "neat" whiskey. Not on the rocks or mixed with Diet Coke. Just sayin'.

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DJ Doof - Guess The Theme

Easy one tonight - Difficulty level 1 out of 5

What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by the good ol' days

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Tonight's ONT was produced by the only guy not burning end of year use or lose time at Doof Enterprises, LLC. No clue why he even showed up. He must care about you!

Your feedback may or may not be very important to Doof Enterprises. Follow Mr. Doof on X @doof2112 or do the email thing – doof2112 at proton dot me. All I want for Christmas are some Rush deep cuts!

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Almost forgot - something for a moron friend who celebrates a birthday tomorrow.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:55 PM

Comments

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1 rtvgwrts

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2025 09:55 PM (n7rxJ)

2 Good Day, eh

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 09:56 PM (pkeXY)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 09:56 PM (cYBz/)

4 Have you bought your gifts for your favorite ONT host? There's still time!

I searched all over, but couldn't find an autographed copy of The Princess Bride for you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 09:57 PM (uQesX)

5 Happy ONT. God Bless us, everyone.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 09:57 PM (6p0Jv)

6 I searched all over, but couldn't find an autographed copy of The Princess Bride for you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Inconceivable!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 09:58 PM (cYBz/)

7 Definitely not first

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at December 16, 2025 09:59 PM (coIGd)

8 I searched all over, but couldn't find an autographed copy of The Princess Bride for you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 09:57 PM (uQesX)

Well played!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 09:59 PM (QMAsf)

9 Good evening morons en bedankt Disko

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:59 PM (A0sqA)

10 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 10:00 PM (sAmhv)

11 Note to self: Doof cannot be trusted to post the ONT at o'clock sharp. For future reference.

Good even', folks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - need to start my Christmas shopping at December 16, 2025 10:00 PM (lbDMw)

12 Don't be Fred.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:00 PM (pkeXY)

13 Good evening morons en bedankt Disko
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:59 PM (A0sqA)

Howdy SF. Nice hash.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:00 PM (QMAsf)

14 How old am I? I remember when Google was the obvious site to use in areas of low bandwidth, because an entire page would only consist of a few hundred bytes and no time-wasting rewritten links.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 10:01 PM (EXyHK)

15 The three songs are all about magic? That seems too easy.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 16, 2025 10:02 PM (P/woT)

16

Doof is awesome.

Oh wait, some of his music selections are questionable, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:02 PM (3ek7K)

17 Note to self: Doof cannot be trusted to post the ONT at o'clock sharp. For future reference.

Good even', folks.
Posted by: mindful webworker - need to start my Christmas shopping at December 16, 2025 10:00 PM (lbDMw)

One of many things I can't be trusted with.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:02 PM (QMAsf)

18 Magic and Queensryche...someone is living dangerously...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 16, 2025 10:03 PM (EOjZq)

19 The three songs are all about magic? That seems too easy.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 16, 2025 10:02 PM (P/woT)

Occam's razor is in effect tonight.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

20 Think I'll have some cheese and potato juice with that,
thank you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 10:04 PM (wCq0Y)

21 I don't know if this is meaningful or simply a coincidence:

I live in very rural TN. This year alone we have had approximately 10 folks that have moved in and immigrated here from the UK- they're working on their American citizenship. Mostly folks in their 40s or 50s.

Interesting.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

22 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!!

Well done Fred!

Posted by: TRex - teleported dino at December 16, 2025 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

23 I thought the .45 or .308 would do nicely, but they had to go to the 50 cow. Who knew?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:04 PM (47diA)

24 Sorry I'm late, the dik dik screwed up the dictation, so I had to get the Irish setter to re-write the letter.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2025 10:04 PM (26Csg)

25 What a magical set of music videos.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2025 10:05 PM (26Csg)

26 16

Doof is awesome.

Oh wait, some of his music selections are questionable, lol.

Posted by: four seasons

But totally in line with the other disc jockeys.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 10:05 PM (wCq0Y)

27 The bacteria all just passed out and they will all wake up with a wicked hangover in the morning.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 16, 2025 10:06 PM (P/woT)

28 Hi friends!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

29 Howdy SF. Nice hash.

That is a good one. I feel like I need to go to Hong Kong just so mine makes sense.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (EXyHK)

30 I live in very rural TN. This year alone we have had approximately 10 folks that have moved in and immigrated here from the UK- they're working on their American citizenship. Mostly folks in their 40s or 50s.

Yes, interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/bdehe92y

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

31 Have you bought your gifts for your favorite ONT host? There's still time!

I searched all over, but couldn't find an autographed copy of The Princess Bride for you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 09:57 PM (uQesX)

Clearly he said he was bluffing, so you're playing cards...

Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (NZPfR)

32 I can say I saw Focus in concert when they had their big hit. Don't remember who opened for them. Interesting night. Not really a voice concert, more progressive jazzy rock.

Wasn't the worst concert I've ever been to.

Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (gKDq2)

33 Hello all...very busy couple of days, has anyone seen Teresa posting? I do wonder how she is doing....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

34 I see the wands are out with the music section this evening. Thanks for the ONT, Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (z7fDz)

35 King of California
9% more of gas refineries gone in March
No power for elec
Citizens 3rd class to illegals
1 house built in Pacific Palisades
#1 homeless
#1 poverty

I could be a speech writer for his opposition.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (gbOdA)

36 BTW, love the top photo Doof...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

37 I can't even with the musical quiz.

All I know is Abracadabra is one of Adam Carolla's least favorite songs because he bitches about it at least once a month.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (A0sqA)

38 Theme is magician

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

39
Teresa posted on a thread today. She seems to be doing okay.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (3ek7K)

40 Have you bought your gifts for your favorite ONT host?

===

Yep! Just mailed them today !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (g47mK)

41 One of many things I can't be trusted with.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:02 PM (QMAsf)

It's always good for us to know your limitations.

Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)

42 Very nice gifts, the best!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:09 PM (g47mK)

43 I thought the .45 or .308 would do nicely, but they had to go to the 50 cow. Who knew?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:04 PM (47diA)

That's 400 teats in Metric.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 10:09 PM (npFr7)

44 I lived near Mojave in the late 70s. The Rutan brothers were already involved in non-metal aircraft at that time and called the company Scaled Composites. I am not sure Paul Allen had anything to do with it.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:09 PM (47diA)

45 I miss old Google.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 16, 2025 10:09 PM (FMtrg)

46 BTW, love the top photo Doof...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

Glad you enjoyed it!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:10 PM (QMAsf)

47 26 16

Doof is awesome.

Oh wait, some of his music selections are questionable, lol.

Posted by: four seasons

But totally in line with the other disc jockeys.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 10:05 PM (wCq0Y)

He could have included "Magic" from the motion picture Xanadu. Which is tragic or awesome, depending on your opinion.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:10 PM (6p0Jv)

48 I miss working for old Google.
Best food ever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 16, 2025 10:10 PM (EOjZq)

49 Clearly he said he was bluffing, so you're playing cards...
Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (NZPfR)

Was never good at cards. It was hard playing with short sleeves.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 10:10 PM (uQesX)

50 Thank you four seasons for the Teresa sighting...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

51 Spent the beautiful afternoon roaming around Mt Vernon. I can understand why Washington never wanted to leave the place. It's probably my favorite historical site in the DC region and there are lots to choose from.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 10:10 PM (sAmhv)

52 Hello all...very busy couple of days, has anyone seen Teresa posting? I do wonder how she is doing....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

She is home, convalescing from her surgery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 10:11 PM (npFr7)

53 Howdy SF. Nice hash.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:00 PM (QMAsf)
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I'm doing my internship with Quality Assurance tonight so remember everyone, "Poise Counts!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:11 PM (A0sqA)

54 https://tinyurl.com/bdehe92y

Interesting but I keep expecting her to start comparing the gastric effects of Australian wines.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 10:11 PM (EXyHK)

55

We are blessed we have people who stepped up to take on posting the ONT's.

Thank you all for giving your time to AOS.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:12 PM (3ek7K)

56 Magic. That is the theme.
0.50 caliber is magic for me.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 16, 2025 10:12 PM (tN1Hx)

57 The booze verses bacteria thing was encouraging. Hmm, where's my shot glass..

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:12 PM (snZF9)

58 Howdy all. Thanks for the ONT Doof. You put in a lot of work and you should know it is much appreciated.

Posted by: Farmer at December 16, 2025 10:12 PM (55Qr6)

59 have you bought your gifts for your favorite ONT host?
….
No one has asked me for my address or favorite color, shoe size, nothing.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

60 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (lUFok)

61 Interesting but I keep expecting her to start comparing the gastric effects of Australian wines.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 10:11 PM (EXyHK)

?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (uQesX)

62 Piper, how did the Christmas Pajama day go? It sounded fun.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (6p0Jv)

63 Black Magic Woman by Santana, and Hypnotized by Fleetwood Mac enter the chat. There are a lot of pop tunes that reference magic in some form.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 10:15 PM (npFr7)

64 I never really used Google that much. Webcrawler in the old old days. I like the interface and results from Bing better.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

65 Though I suppose I am not an ONT host, so it makes sense. Never mind. 😀

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

66 Went to Mt Vernon and thought it was wonderful.
Named for a Brit, George's stepbrother named it for his commander. He never changed the name. I think it was out of his great admiration of his brother.
George Washington was the greatest man since Jesus. That may be partly why America is nearer to heaven than any other nation. Despite progressives attempts to pave a road to hell with good intentions!

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 16, 2025 10:15 PM (tN1Hx)

67 Oh and thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

68 I knew there was a reason I drank whiskey in my younger years - enhanced health!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (47diA)

69
King of California
9% more of gas refineries gone in March
No power for elec

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar

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That right there. How do big tech companies support him? I keep hearing they need power for AI.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (n7rxJ)

70 62 Piper, how did the Christmas Pajama day go? It sounded fun.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (6p0Jv)

Good! I wore snowman pjs that belong to my daughter. 😂.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

71 Is the bacteria dead or just drunk, eh? Altho I do like Scotch in the winter.

We still need snow in the mountains of the West. If y'all could think or pray snowy thoughts for all of us I would appreciate it. With the magic of Doof's songs, snow is possible. Please!!!

I LOVE STEVE MILLER!

Here's his "Winter Time"

https://tinyurl.com/szhteab7

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (WONhk)

72 Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 16, 2025 10:15 PM (tN1Hx)

Oddly, I like this guy's opinions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (zZu0s)

73 We are blessed we have people who stepped up to take on posting the ONT's.

Thank you all for giving your time to AOS.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:12 PM (3ek7K)

Good thing the powers that be passed on the rotating posters. Nobody would want an OrangeEnt ONT....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (uQesX)

74 Duckduckgo for me. At work and home. Tired of ads in search results.
Adblockers help.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (tN1Hx)

75
A lot of my growing up time was spent with my grandparents who lived in Alexandria VA.

Trips to Mt. Vernon were awesome.

I love that place.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:17 PM (3ek7K)

76 No wonder I feel so good drinking whiskey!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:17 PM (2WIwB)

77 Fred is dead.

Posted by: Condolences at December 16, 2025 10:17 PM (oftw2)

78 Hocus Pocus is my all time favorite one hit wonder.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:17 PM (MXpA1)

79 That right there. How do big tech companies support him? I keep hearing they need power for AI.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (n7rxJ)

Because Newscum will ensure Big Tech gets power before little people do.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 10:18 PM (npFr7)

80 Has Stateless been around? I haven't seen him in awhile, though sometimes I just miss people.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 16, 2025 10:18 PM (nz1sK)

81 Though I suppose I am not an ONT host, so it makes sense. Never mind. 😀
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

You looking to push me out of Sunday nights so you can take over?

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

82 King of California
9% more of gas refineries gone in March
No power for elec

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar

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

That right there. How do big tech companies support him? I keep hearing they need power for AI.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
**********
Just read that Valero announced leaving California...with this and Phillips leaving, in addition to their stupid special blends, they can just say hello and welcome to even higher gas prices..

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

83 Good! I wore snowman pjs that belong to my daughter. 😂.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

😆
Sounds like fun was had!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (6p0Jv)

84 80 Has Stateless been around? I haven't seen him in awhile, though sometimes I just miss people.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at

I haven’t seen him, nurse was asking, too. I am a bit worried at this point.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

85
(QMAsf)

A Quinn-Martin Production

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (pkeXY)

86 I miss old Google.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 16, 2025 10:09 PM (FMtrg)

I knew they were going to be a PITA when they bought DoubleClick ad network in the 90s.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (S/Y4j)

87 Stateless is one i haven't seen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (zZu0s)

88 NASA and Other Space Agencies Deploy Largest Planetary Defense Drill in History as Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Approaches Planet Earth...

It's aliens.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (a0Lo1)

89 I got so much booze left over from the party I think its JD night. Hmm on the other hand I have some kick ass mead from denmark that somebody brought. We got twisted on that shit. No wonder the vikings got tanked up and went pillaging.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (snZF9)

90 AVENGE ME!

Posted by: Frank Zappa at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (A0sqA)

91 Duckduckgo for me. At work and home. Tired of ads in search results.
Adblockers help.
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (tN1Hx)

I love it when AdBlock pops up with an 'We've saved you from 4 gazillion ads, do you want to give us some money?' ad. Pretty funny, in an infinity mirror kind of way.

Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (gKDq2)

92 83 Good! I wore snowman pjs that belong to my daughter. 😂.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

😆
Sounds like fun was had!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (6p0Jv)

It was. Tomorrow we are turning one of the dressing rooms into a Photo Booth with silly Christmas themed props. That’s going to be fun!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

93
I'm hoping Stateless isn't having a bad time.

He's been missing for a long time.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (3ek7K)

94 No wonder I feel so good drinking whiskey!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:17 PM (2WIwB)

It's time to switch to whiskey:

https://youtu.be/3mNCER2pq4U

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (npFr7)

95 Some kind words from some of you. Thank you. I enjoy trying to entertain you knuckleheads!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (QMAsf)

96 welcome to even higher gas prices..

In OKC a coupla days ago, I saw ethanol gas for $2.11/gallon. What is Cali paying now?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (47diA)

97 OrangeEnt, I was referring to a Monty Python skit. Australian Table Wines. I expect they would go over well at a MoMe.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (EXyHK)

98 Stateless is one i haven't seen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (zZu0s)

Maybe he found a state?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)

99 80 Has Stateless been around? I haven't seen him in awhile, though sometimes I just miss people.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 16, 2025 10:18 PM (nz1sK)

I haven't seen him either and wonder. I often miss the daytime threads. Maybe he is there. Hole he is well.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:21 PM (6p0Jv)

100 Gas here went up by .30 cents overnight.

Thankfully, for once, I got gas last night.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

101 Gut bacteria are beneficial and essential to good health. What does whiskey do to your gut biome?

Posted by: Several Of You Are Doomed at December 16, 2025 10:21 PM (oftw2)

102 Has Stateless been around? I haven't seen him in awhile, though sometimes I just miss people.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at

I haven’t seen him, nurse was asking, too. I am a bit worried at this point.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

Haffhourshower also - he has been conspicuously missing for more than a month.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

103 Has Stateless been around? I haven't seen him in awhile, though sometimes I just miss people.
Posted by: TecumsehTea
************
Agreed, hope he is ok....and haven't seen Notorious BFD or Halfhourshower....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

104 Hypnotized is great.
Although I think when Stevie Nicks and her big bag of white powder joined the band, there was a lot more witchery in the lyrics.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 10:22 PM (gKWVE)

105
phone home people!!

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:23 PM (3ek7K)

106 Stateless is one i haven't seen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (zZu0s)
------

Maybe he found a state?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)

I don't know about anybody else, but I find The State Of Confusion easy to find. Or maybe it finds me.

Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:23 PM (gKDq2)

107 Some kind words from some of you.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (QMAsf)

F*ck off!

[Balance is important]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:23 PM (n9ltV)

108 Haffhourshower also - he has been conspicuously missing for more than a month.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

Might he graduated to threehourshower.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:23 PM (snZF9)

109 Continuing with the musical theme, Pandora started playing this band for me, and I'm not displeased at all. The singer has quite the ethereal voice.

https://youtu.be/vhnpl9xbUPo

Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2025 10:23 PM (26Csg)

110 Some kind words from some of you.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (QMAsf)

F*ck off!

[Balance is important]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:23 PM (n9ltV)

Love you too!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:24 PM (QMAsf)

111 I got gas last night.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

Rice and Beans for dinner?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:24 PM (n9ltV)

112 102 Has Stateless been around? I haven't seen him in awhile, though sometimes I just miss people.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at

I haven’t seen him, nurse was asking, too. I am a bit worried at this point.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

Haffhourshower also - he has been conspicuously missing for more than a month.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)

We need emergency contact number buddies. If I went missing, you could get me, Ben Had, Nurse, Grateful.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

113 Jesus I can't type tonight.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9)

114 I don't know about anybody else, but I find The State Of Confusion easy to find. Or maybe it finds me.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:23 PM (gKDq2)

If you read social media, you'll find the State of Delusion quite quickly.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 16, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)

115 Some kind words from some of you. Thank you. I enjoy trying to entertain you knuckleheads!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (QMAsf)
====

If I didn't love you I wouldn't bust your balls.

Posted by: Frank Zappa at December 16, 2025 10:25 PM (A0sqA)

116 [Balance is important]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:23 PM (n9ltV)

Is that like the ad for the poker diet/food? Sitting at the table for 12 hours, 'you need that fiber'.

Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:25 PM (gKDq2)

117 /superhero sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:25 PM (A0sqA)

118

Kind words on AOS?

LMAO

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:26 PM (3ek7K)

119 113 Jesus I can't type tonight.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9)

"That's ok. I still love you, Berserker."
-Jesus

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 16, 2025 10:26 PM (EOjZq)

120 Doof, thank you for the music.

Without music life would be very dull. This is what I think and will ignore everyone else who thinks otherwise. Don't mess with me.

xoxo
70's and early '80's rock and roll girl, and man it was fun!!!

Also a sometimes disco queen at a ghey bar..strobe lights and mostly girls with the ghey's pre AIDS. My bf and future husband would "escort" a gang of us nurses. I was told that I had to pay because I was the "competition" while he got in for free. Ha!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 10:26 PM (WONhk)

121 I'm doing my internship with Quality Assurance tonight so remember everyone, "Poise Counts!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:11 PM (A0sqA)

I’m screwed if you’re checking for typos and nonsense.

Might as well slap a No-Pass sticker on my ass and send me to recycling.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 10:27 PM (6ydKt)

122 59 No one has asked me for my address or favorite color, shoe size, nothing.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Your taste in shoes has me priced out.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2025 10:27 PM (26Csg)

123 If you read social media, you'll find the State of Delusion quite quickly.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 16, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)

I don't read social media. No X, no other blogs, no instasham, dicktok, etc. JJ's morning report is one stop shopping, and because of that I is sane.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:27 PM (snZF9)

124 That right there. How do big tech companies support him? I keep hearing they need power for AI.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2025 10:16 PM (n7rxJ)

AI Data Farms are going to be built in Texas and other states with cheap energy, not in California. Elon Musk is already starting a huge plan to turn the area around Bastrop, TX into a new high tech center that will outshine Silicon Valley.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:27 PM (MXpA1)

125 * dons gay apparel, settles in to peruse some grey box wisdom and wit*

Thanks Doof. You continue to live up to the high moron standards.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 16, 2025 10:28 PM (em/hR)

126 The last we heard from Stateless it sounded like he was actually doing pretty well.
Bummer.
Prayers for the missing Morons.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 16, 2025 10:28 PM (nz1sK)

127 No one has asked me for my address or favorite color, shoe size, nothing.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

You're the fashion babe, we're unworthy to know these things.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:29 PM (snZF9)

128 Kind words on AOS?

LMAO
Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:26 PM (3ek7K)

Both admirals are correct:

"It's a trap!"

And

"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

129 I have always wondered why the Brits didn't burn Mt Vernon, on the way to DC. It's because the Brit commander admired George Washington. Saw that today at Mt Vernon. I always recommend Mt Vernon as the must visit around here. It's $28 to get in but worth every penny.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv)

130 Piper, your shoes cost more than my clothes budget for a year. Or two. You would not want me as your Secret Santa 😆

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (6p0Jv)

131 122 59 No one has asked me for my address or favorite color, shoe size, nothing.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Your taste in shoes has me priced out.
Posted by: tankdemon at December

I am a living, breathing first world problem.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

132 I think Ben Had has some comments available about data farms, just down the road from her. They aren't nice.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (47diA)

133 70's and early '80's rock and roll girl, and man it was fun!!!
====

That sounds like every girl in my h.s. yearbook.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (A0sqA)

134 Thankfully, for once, I got gas last night.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

I got gas this afternoon at $2.02

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (MXpA1)

135 AI data farms only serve to increase our electric rates...ask me how I know...
Of course, Elon has a plan to move AI data to space, and I am all for that...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

136 According to deputies, the BMW had been left unlocked with the keys inside a cupholder while its owner walked his dog. Moments later, the car was reported stolen.

Was that car really stolen or just kind of lost and found?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 16, 2025 10:31 PM (3nLb4)

137 No one has asked me for my address or favorite color, shoe size, nothing.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

What's your shoe size?

Posted by: Christian Louboutin at December 16, 2025 10:32 PM (n9ltV)

138
Continuing with the musical theme, Pandora started playing this band for me, and I'm not displeased at all. The singer has quite the ethereal voice.

https://youtu.be/vhnpl9xbUPo
Posted by: tankdemon

Sounds like A Flock Of Seagulls.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:32 PM (pkeXY)

139 130 Piper, your shoes cost more than my clothes budget for a year. Or two. You would not want me as your Secret Santa 😆
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (6p0Jv)

Joking aside, yes I would. I have someone who will buy me ridiculous shoes. I would appreciate any gift that was gotten with me in mind, even a pretend grey box one!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

140 I got gas this afternoon at $2.02
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (MXpA1)

Man, I wish Taco Bell was that cheap anymore.

Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:33 PM (gKDq2)

141 OrangeEnt, I was referring to a Monty Python skit. Australian Table Wines. I expect they would go over well at a MoMe.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 10:20 PM (EXyHK)

Oh, don't remember that one. Of course, I haven't seen any Python in quite a long time.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 10:33 PM (uQesX)

142 Sounds like A Flock Of Seagulls.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:32 PM (pkeXY)

Flock of seaweed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 10:33 PM (snZF9)

143 I think Ben Had has some comments available about data farms, just down the road from her. They aren't nice.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (47diA)

Does she rate above or below feral hogs?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 16, 2025 10:33 PM (S/Y4j)

144 137 No one has asked me for my address or favorite color, shoe size, nothing.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

What's your shoe size?
Posted by: Christian Louboutin at December

Don’t be silly- Louboutin has it on file. 😂😂😂😂

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

145 Evening all,

Launch in about 50 minutes

Arianespace - Ariane 62 - Galileo FOC FM33-34
ELA-4 - Guiana SC, Korou - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 17, 2025
Launch Time: 02:01 GFT (0501 UTC, 06:01 CET)

https://youtu.be/9Y9pMW-HlgY

Posted by: Joyenz at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (2F0/Y)

146 I got gas this afternoon at $2.02
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (MXpA1)
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Last I saw that was in San Diego over 30 years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (A0sqA)

147 Yeah that guy was teleported into that beemer, for sure.

I've personally suffered from unwanted teleportation on several occasions. I've been teleported into shrubs, stairwells, and strange beds with ugly women in them. Jail cells, gurneys, you name it, I've been teleported there.

I'm not sure exactly how the teleporter works - but I do know you have to drink a bottle of Wild Turkey before you get in.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (BI5O2)

148 Flock of seaweed.

===

😂😂

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (g47mK)

149 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (Zz0t1)

150 Thanks Doof. You continue to live up to the high moron standards.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 16, 2025 10:28 PM (em/hR)

Wait!
What????
High standards?
So now I gotta wear pants now?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

151 AI Data Farms are going to be built in Texas and other states with cheap energy, not in California. Elon Musk is already starting a huge plan to turn the area around Bastrop, TX into a new high tech center that will outshine Silicon Valley.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:27 PM (MXpA1)

Bastrop.is no longer podunk BFE TX.. it is growing and quickly becoming unrecognizable. I'm looking to move to west TX to get away from it.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (6p0Jv)

152 I got gas this afternoon at $2.02

===

unreal

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (g47mK)

153 Hocus Pocus is an all-time jam.

Posted by: mot at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (fIPNY)

154 The do nothing cope in Bondi were all females.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (fBbkm)

155 Rice and Beans for dinner?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:24 PM (n9ltV)

Had rice and chili at Zippy's for lunch. Not very gassy at all.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (uQesX)

156 I want to thank Senior Doof for the musical tribute. That's awesome. And crippling at the same time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (Zz0t1)

157 Sponge - up late!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (47diA)

158 Sponge! Great to see you my friend....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

159 AI Data Farms are going to be built in Texas and other states with cheap energy, not in California. Elon Musk is already starting a huge plan to turn the area around Bastrop, TX into a new high tech center that will outshine Silicon Valley.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:27 PM (MXpA1)

Does the Bastrop area have coal deposits? Because if I were Elon, I would buy dozens of square miles of coal deposits, build a modern private coal-thermal plant to generate electricity for the server farms, and sell surplus power into the Texas grid. I would also be looking for ways to use coal as rocket fuel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 10:36 PM (npFr7)

160 I believe that as soon as the details are worked out, which shouldn’t be more than a couple years, every detail farm should be built with its own SMR and any extra power put into the local grid to lower electricity prices for the area. Make it a requirement.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:36 PM (MXpA1)

161 Now explain to me why ribeye is 20 American Dollars/lb.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:36 PM (g47mK)

162 I was in a slow motion fender bender during my lunch break today - in the road that's part of a shopping center property. There's an intersection with stop signs. I stop, proceed through, another guy arrives at perpendicular to me stop signs, pauses, and goes right through even though my car is literally in front of his. If I had been a second slower he would have t-boned me.

He managed to rip off a strip of my bumper.
But at least he was civil and we pulled over & waited for cops to basically document it. Private property and minor crash so "non reportable" incident apparently.

I was very calm, went back to work after, then tonight I feel stressed and wrung out.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (tcsrY)

163 131 I am a living, breathing first world problem.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

Being a first world solution is overrated. Being a problem is a lot more joyous.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (26Csg)

164 Ribeye Roasts are $9.00 a pound at Kroger tomorrow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (fBbkm)

165
I was very calm, went back to work after, then tonight I feel stressed and wrung out.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (tcsrY)

What a day! People just don’t pay attention.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

166 Bastrop.is no longer podunk BFE TX.. it is growing and quickly becoming unrecognizable. I'm looking to move to west TX to get away from it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (6p0Jv)

Yeah that is sad. I remember going through it when it was still small and laid back, I think we were camping at Lost Pines.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:39 PM (MXpA1)

167 I have decided to embrace my inner racist.

tiny.cc/3piw001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 16, 2025 10:39 PM (em/hR)

168 I got gas this afternoon from eating lefto er Chinese food.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:39 PM (Zz0t1)

169 I was very calm, went back to work after, then tonight I feel stressed and wrung out.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
************
Sorry you are stressed out, but thank God you are ok...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

170
That sounds like every girl in my h.s. yearbook.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (A0sqA)
..................
Believe it or not, I was a very good girl as I rarely dated. Waited for the right guy in college.

I had a gang of guys I hung out with before I met my guy. Concerts, camping, hiking, skiing.Some of theseapproved of him and some did not. Boys liked me and vice versa, and my girlfriends liked me because I brought boys with me everywhere in college. Sometimes one of my brothers, too.

Then my bf/future husband, who broke up with me (for no reason) every season for a year was lurking. Male college friends of ours would come over to my apt for a beer and girl advice. Two of them said, sheepishly, that they'd ask me out but I was HIS girl. During an off season. I wish now I had played games and to see if he got jealous, but I was too busy trying to graduate to think this way.

I had fun!!! (I hope this is written on my urn drawer thing someday and will request it). Not ready to go yet, however. Have a baby granddaughter I have to teach how to dance and others that are not born yet. The other two dance with me on the deck or whenever we want.
Rebel Yell!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 10:39 PM (WONhk)

171 Oops the changed it from Ribeye Roasts to Standing Rib Roasts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 10:40 PM (fBbkm)

172 I was very calm, went back to work after, then tonight I feel stressed and wrung out.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (tcsrY)
====

Glad to hear you weren't hurt but what a hassle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:40 PM (A0sqA)

173 I was very calm, went back to work after, then tonight I feel stressed and wrung out.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (tcsrY)

Rats. Was hoping to see a vid of a stabbing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 10:40 PM (uQesX)

174 All right Piper, I'll bite: what's your favorite nothing?

Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 16, 2025 10:40 PM (NZPfR)

175 157 Sponge - up late!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (47diA)

158 Sponge! Great to see you my friend....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

-- - - - - - - - -

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:40 PM (Zz0t1)

176 Does the Bastrop area have coal deposits? Because if I were Elon, I would buy dozens of square miles of coal deposits, build a modern private coal-thermal plant to generate electricity for the server farms, and sell surplus power into the Texas grid. I would also be looking for ways to use coal as rocket fuel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 10:36 PM (npFr7)

---
AOP. There were lignite strip mines north of Bastrop. ALCOA mined these for their smelter in Rockdale, TX. They have since closed operations on this mine I believe.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:40 PM (6p0Jv)

177 If I lived near a place called Lost Pines, I would definitely sneak out one night and switch the "i" and "e" on the sign.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)

178 It’s past bedtime. Hope our wayward posters pop in. Good night everyone!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

179 Bastrop.is no longer podunk BFE TX.. it is growing and quickly becoming unrecognizable. I'm looking to move to west TX to get away from it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (6p0Jv)

Yeah that is sad. I remember going through it when it was still small and laid back, I think we were camping at Lost Pines.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:39 PM (MXpA1)

I'm looking at the Dripping Springs area.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

180 I want to thank Senior Doof for the musical tribute. That's awesome. And crippling at the same time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (Zz0t1)

Happy Birthday eve, brother! Hope you have a great day tomorrow.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:41 PM (QMAsf)

181 I had fun!!! (I hope this is written on my urn drawer thing someday and will request it). Not ready to go yet, however. Have a baby granddaughter I have to teach how to dance and others that are not born yet. The other two dance with me on the deck or whenever we want.
Rebel Yell!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
**************
You go girl!!!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 16, 2025 10:41 PM (IQ6Gq)

182
174 All right Piper, I'll bite: what's your favorite nothing?
Posted by: Nerd Herd at December

My favorite! Thank you!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

183 Which are the same.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 10:43 PM (fBbkm)

184 I was very calm, went back to work after, then tonight I feel stressed and wrung out.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (tcsrY)

That's ususally the case. Adrenaline post-accident gets you through for a while then you crash (no pun intended).

Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

185 138 Sounds like A Flock Of Seagulls.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:32 PM (pkeXY)

I get that, but Magic Wands' music seems more laid back, and, as I wrote earlier, the singer's voice is very ethereal.

Kind of funny, Flock of Seagulls (one of the openers for the Police in '83, my first concert) is best known for "I Ran," and the song I linked was "Hide," so there is a sort of connection there.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2025 10:43 PM (26Csg)

186 Back when google still used the "don't be evil" motto

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 10:44 PM (tcsrY)

187 Does the Bastrop area have coal deposits? Because if I were Elon, I would buy dozens of square miles of coal deposits, build a modern private coal-thermal plant to generate electricity for the server farms, and sell surplus power into the Texas grid. I would also be looking for ways to use coal as rocket fuel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 10:36 PM (npFr7)

Interesting idea - I don’t know if there are any coal deposits there, but I know of a strip mine in Leon County near a town called Jewett which got shut down when coal went out of favor.
A couple years ago I drove through the area and one of huge bucket loaders was still sitting out there, rusting away. I guess it was too big to move it anywhere.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:44 PM (MXpA1)

188
Happy Birthday eve, brother! Hope you have a great day tomorrow.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 10:41 PM (QMAsf)

*brohug*

There might be golf. With the recent happening with the FiL, that might change.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:45 PM (Zz0t1)

189

New refrigerator and new dishwasher are our presents this year.

Dishwasher is still in the garage. We can't find anyone to install it. We think it must be because of insurance shit. It seems like no one wants to risk installing it in case something goes wrong.

We have the handwashing down pat now, lol.

Oh well, people have worse problems.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:46 PM (3ek7K)

190 Ribeye Roasts are $9.00 a pound at Kroger tomorrow.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (fBbkm)

$9.99/lb with Kroger card
-4.99/lb digital coupon offer

$5.99/lb net price after digital coupon. Limit 1 with $25 additional purchase

Ham (limit 1 with $25 additional purchase) and Pork Shoulder (limit 2) both at 97 cents/lb with card.

EAT THE MEATS!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 10:47 PM (wVcYX)

191 Dishwasher is still in the garage. We can't find anyone to install it.

Where's CBD? Burn the house down and start over. (FWP)

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:48 PM (47diA)

192
Lol LRob!

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 10:48 PM (3ek7K)

193 First Lady did actually find some Buffalo Trace local, so I'll be partaking here shortly as I'm out of most everything else.

The Jim tribute whiskey has been emptied, unfortunately, fortunately. I raised a glass each time I poured........I miss him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:48 PM (Zz0t1)

194 Wait, Buck Rodgers is mort? Noooo!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:48 PM (XuXeR)

195 Elon has a plan to move AI data to space, and I am all for that...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Odd choice. Doing serious computation where you can't cool the computers effectively. Vacuum doesn't conduct or convect; you can only radiate the heat away.

Having to use all rad-hard parts because the universe keeps throwing cosmic rays through your computer ups the cost, too.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 10:49 PM (nhCoE)

196 I'm looking at the Dripping Springs area.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

Diogenes, Dripping Springs is a very.nice area in Hays Co., TX. I remember when it was its own small town community. It has been overcome with growth from Austin. I live about an hour from there.

It's all relative. I am a small town person who dislikes cities and the problems they bring. I hope you find your happy place in Texas. God bless.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:50 PM (6p0Jv)

197 "According to deputies, the BMW had been left unlocked with the keys inside a cupholder while its owner walked his dog. Moments later, the car was reported stolen."

Oh, no! I had only 48 more payments left to go on that over-priced, over-rated, constantly breaking POS! Fortunately, I had coincidentally removed all my personal possessions from the car before I took my dog for his walk. Now, where did I put the phone number for my insurance company?

Posted by: Surprisingly Happy BMW Owner at December 16, 2025 10:50 PM (xceqr)

198 I need to get a pork shoulder. I want to make carnitas. I will add a bunch of fat I recently trimmed off a Serrano ham for extra flavor, and pull it out later.

It will be awesome.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:51 PM (BI5O2)

199
I was very calm, went back to work after, then tonight I feel stressed and wrung out.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 10:37 PM (tcsrY)
..........
Glad you are ok! Decades ago I had a rather stupid job 30min north of where we lived. Had to drive up US-1 or the Dixie Hwy in FL. Took the job because we'd just signed on a house to build and I was laid off by a neonatologist (great job!). The mean director of the newborn NICU could only offer me a night job and I said no.Politics exist in all professions.

Anyway, it was raining and I went to pass a log truck. Right as I was passing him a little pick up popped out into the left lane in front of me that I could not see due to the truck. Locked the brakes of my car and fishtailed. My back window was about a foot from a pointy log when I got control and finished driving to work in shock.

The next day I was drying my long hair with my head bent over, and my shoulder spazzed out from stress. My husband had to finish drying and styling my hair. It did not look that great, but I realized how stressed I was and frozen at the wheel.

Guardian angels are real.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 10:51 PM (WONhk)

200 So if I’m sick drink whiskey and the bacteria go away.

Sweet!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:52 PM (udlma)

201 Diogenes, Dripping Springs is a very.nice area in Hays Co., TX.

They also distil a wonderful vodka.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:52 PM (Zz0t1)

202 Had rice and chili at Zippy's for lunch. Not very gassy at all.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Has Zippy's expanded beyond Hawaii?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 10:53 PM (a0Lo1)

203 So if I’m sick drink whiskey and the bacteria go away.

Sweet!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

That's basically Listerine's marketing, right?

With the added bonus that you can swallow the whiskey.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 10:53 PM (nhCoE)

204 It’s funny how the story just says BMW, as if there is only 1 BMW model.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:54 PM (udlma)

205 Also load up your nicotine receptors with nicotine if you are sick.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 10:55 PM (fBbkm)

206
Burt Rutan

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 10:55 PM (wCq0Y)

207 I'm tired of fixing the big expensive traditional sit down meals for holidays. It makes it about the food instead of the togetherness because I'm then stuck in the kitchen for days. This year I'm fixing chili and nibble foods and sweets for grazing. Also every beverage I can think of. Self serve. Come and go. And it's going to be in the 70s so I'll have some of the spread and mess outside.

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2025 10:55 PM (uQzkA)

208 Sponge, we are a fan of Deep Eddy Vodka. There are so many distilleries and wineries opening. We can't keep up.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:55 PM (6p0Jv)

209 Rice and Beans for dinner?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:24 PM (n9ltV

No. White Castle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 10:55 PM (1oltZ)

210 Dripping Springs is a very.nice area"

A bit of understatement... it's quite nice. Really lovely country they're...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:56 PM (XuXeR)

211 There. Autocucumber...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:56 PM (XuXeR)

212 Rice and Beans for dinner?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:24 PM (n9ltV

I just had an orgasm.

Posted by: Dave Ramsey at December 16, 2025 10:57 PM (udlma)

213 And it's going to be in the 70s so I'll have some of the spread and mess outside.

Will you have the carpet and the wood grain television?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 10:57 PM (EXyHK)

214 132 I think Ben Had has some comments available about data farms, just down the road from her. They aren't nice.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (47diA)

Gotta be better than hog confinements.

Posted by: a.moron at December 16, 2025 10:57 PM (X5Jzz)

215 It’s funny how the story just says BMW, as if there is only 1 BMW model.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:54 PM (udlma)

It's the 760i. It's the only one you can get with a teleporter.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:57 PM (BI5O2)

216 Has Zippy's expanded beyond Hawaii?
Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 10:53 PM (a0Lo1)

Yeah. Quite a few areas, I think. I'm nowhere near Hawaii.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 10:58 PM (uQesX)

217 A bit of understatement... it's quite nice. Really lovely country they're...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:56 PM (XuXeR)

shhh. Don't tell. Everyone is moving there already.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:58 PM (6p0Jv)

218 Watched a 11 minute short called "Doomlands" and somehow it was too long.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)

219 Happy Christmas

Tim Allen Reveals Original 'The Santa Clause' Plot
https://youtu.be/Y_9cah_c9gw

Why is Matthew 17:21 missing or only a footnote in my Bible? (Video 4:27)
https://youtu.be/qMRUA2I3nC0
I greatly enjoy the KJV, but it had its flaws.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Santa Tim at December 16, 2025 10:58 PM (lbDMw)

220 A single drop of whiskey.

Rumors in Europe, back in the beginning of the strangled times, rumor was that drinkers didn't catch covid.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 10:58 PM (wCq0Y)

221 Gotta be better than hog confinements.

That's for sure with her group. Horses and hogs don't go well together.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:58 PM (47diA)

222 upon further review, I think this is what Doof MEANT to post for the birthday eve tribute.........

https://youtu.be/z9v6K3Tavyw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:59 PM (Zz0t1)

223 I'm starting to wonder if the 80's Buck Rogers tv show had it right. A council of AIs is far less likely to hallucinate us into extermination if they are all unique.

Maybe 435 of them. With that many, what could go wrong?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 10:59 PM (pIfcn)

224 Not that Ace will read his thread or these comments......I might be safe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:00 PM (Zz0t1)

225 Watched a 11 minute short called "Doomlands" and somehow it was too long.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)

Was it just a guy with a GoPro walking around in Philly?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 11:00 PM (BI5O2)

226 now do whiskey vs virus

Posted by: a dude in MI at December 16, 2025 11:00 PM (+I6Y/)

227 Odd choice. Doing serious computation where you can't cool the computers effectively. Vacuum doesn't conduct or convect; you can only radiate the heat away.

Having to use all rad-hard parts because the universe keeps throwing cosmic rays through your computer ups the cost, too.
Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 10:49 PM (nhCoE)

I was going to be snarky and say quick you need to teach physics to Elon Musk but there are lots of good conversations about this topic out there. Energy is basically free and that makes a lot of other things economically feasible.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 16, 2025 11:00 PM (RoO7G)

228 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:00 PM (77rzZ)

229 Sponge, we are a fan of Deep Eddy Vodka. There are so many distilleries and wineries opening. We can't keep up.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:55 PM (6p0Jv)

First Lady REALLY wrecked herself with some Deep Eddy Grapefruit. She doesn't touch it anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:01 PM (Zz0t1)

230 Notice that the dropper was loaded with "neat" whiskey. Not on the rocks or mixed with Diet Coke. Just sayin'.
--

Tony Blankley and Christopher Hitchens have entered the chat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:01 PM (wCq0Y)

231 now do whiskey vs virus

virus - bacteria - pfffft!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

232 I think Ben Had has some comments available about data farms, just down the road from her. They aren't nice.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 10:30 PM (47diA)

That think is an eyesore and just might be affecting the local farm animals.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:02 PM (Zz0t1)

233 Why do antibiotics kick viruses in the shins generally?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 11:04 PM (fBbkm)

234 A Marine Regiment was dispatched to France in WW1. During transit, peace broke out and upon arrival the Marines were assigned duty as litter bearers and orderlies during the Spanish Flu epidemic. The Regimental CO, a man of means, provided each of his troops with a pint of rum every day. Not one got sick.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 11:04 PM (gm9Sb)

235 We are living in disastrous times for raconteurs, because the accessible stories they tell are anachronistic old hat, and the sensational ones require entire pages out of the encyclopedia and a university textbook.—Stanislaw Lem

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 11:04 PM (EXyHK)

236 First Lady REALLY wrecked herself with some Deep Eddy Grapefruit. She doesn't touch it anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:01 PM (Zz0t1)

Bless her. I had an outer body experience with the Lemon Vodka. We don't drink a lot of cocktails or hard liquor, lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 11:05 PM (6p0Jv)

237 Rumors in Europe, back in the beginning of the strangled times, rumor was that drinkers didn't catch covid.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 10:58 PM (wCq0Y

Katherine Hepburn wrote a book about the making of The African Queen, she wrote that during filming she caught some African disease and almost died, and that almost the entire crew got something. The only two who were completely unaffected were Humphrey Bogart and director John Huston, because from the moment they got up in the morning they sat together and drank straight whiskey every day, never touching any water.
Apparently no other organisms could survive within their bloodstreams.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:06 PM (MXpA1)

238 Might have to try Deep Eddy. Have not drank much vodka since I discovered good rum.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 11:07 PM (1oltZ)

239 Notice that the dropper was loaded with "neat" whiskey. Not on the rocks or mixed with Diet Coke. Just sayin'.

Also notice that I poured an entire shot of Jack when I only needed a couple of drops. Oh, no! Whatever shall I do to dispose of this excess whiskey!

Posted by: Surprisingly Happy Lab Tech at December 16, 2025 11:08 PM (xceqr)

240 @nypost
·
2m
Last US pennies ever minted fetch whopping $16.7 million at auction https://trib.al/9y3cRcx

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 11:08 PM (ZxPkt)

241 Wasn't that also in the Andromeda strain? The one guy was drinking sterno with methyl alcohol (which also causes insanity, btw) and did not get sick and die.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 11:08 PM (1oltZ)

242
NCKate,

Nothing wrong with that. We've all agreed to have a lowkey Christmas Day.

No huge meal. I'm making breakfast muffins and that is it. The grandkids 4 to 11 y/o don't care about eating a big meal on Christmas.

It's supposed to be in 50s on Christmas Day and hubby wants to grill burgers. We're all happy with that.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 11:09 PM (3ek7K)

243 39
Teresa posted on a thread today. She seems to be doing okay.
Posted by: four seasons
---

Good to hear, been concerned.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:09 PM (wCq0Y)

244 195 Elon has a plan to move AI data to space, and I am all for that...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Odd choice. Doing serious computation where you can't cool the computers effectively. Vacuum doesn't conduct or convect; you can only radiate the heat away.

Having to use all rad-hard parts because the universe keeps throwing cosmic rays through your computer ups the cost, too.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 10:49 PM (nhCoE)

My thoughts, also. Plus the problem of updating or repairing the systems. Everything is harder to do and more expensive in space.

I recently read a detailed white paper extolling the advantages of server farms in space, written by a startup company trying to raise funding for putting server farms in space. They hand-waved away what seem to me to be several major problems with the idea.

One thing that jumped out at me is that they assumed that their server farms in space would have a ten year lifetime. No one is running ten year old servers, doing serious work.

The heat removal problem seem like a big deal, too.

Posted by: a.moron at December 16, 2025 11:09 PM (X5Jzz)

245 Was Wilford Brimley the alcoholic im the movie?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 11:09 PM (1oltZ)

246 Space does not do as good a job as you'd think of removing heat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 11:10 PM (1oltZ)

247 Ah, I see mikeski got there first.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 11:11 PM (1oltZ)

248 See ya around, morons! Thanks for another entertaining evening.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 16, 2025 11:12 PM (47diA)

249 Not cooking a big ol' meal on Christmas is my gift to me. I cook every meal every day all year round. We will eat some sausage balls and chex mix on Christmas day. Or go get something at Buc-ees.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 11:13 PM (6p0Jv)

250 he said he had been “teleported into” the driver’s seat.
If he wasn't naked and covered in slime, I don't believe him.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 11:13 PM (Bjfbw)

251 I was going to be snarky and say quick you need to teach physics to Elon Musk but there are lots of good conversations about this topic out there. Energy is basically free and that makes a lot of other things economically feasible.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat

Yeah, he's not poised to be the world's first trillionaire because he's dumb.

I was just wondering how much of "AI datacenters in orbit" was a near-term economic possibility, versus just being more of Elon's Cool Shit like his underground Mars colony.

No cooling, no natural radiation shielding, no natural physical shielding (don't put the datacenter where the meteor showers happen every year), really hard to replace that failed HDD.....

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 11:13 PM (nhCoE)

252 Why is Matthew 17:21 missing or only a footnote in my Bible? (Video 4:27)

because KJV is based on Erasmus' textus-receptus, which is the Byzantine text, which is a composite of texts from wherever the Greeks could find stuff.
The modern bibles are mostly based on the Alexandrian text which is stripped down. Usually correctly removing late-antique commentarial clutter but not always, and sometimes removing good readings for reasons of some doctrinal foofaraah or other.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 11:14 PM (gKWVE)

253 >>>The only two who were completely unaffected were Humphrey Bogart and director John Huston, because from the moment they got up in the morning they sat together and drank straight whiskey every day, never touching any water.
Apparently no other organisms could survive within their bloodstreams.
Posted by: Tom Servo
------

Our forefathers rarely drank straight water. They didn't know about boiling it but they did know that drinking brewed or distilled didn't make them sick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:15 PM (wCq0Y)

254 I'm so glad to be here when a Queensrhyche video was part of the *official* timeline! Ace and I have talked about him eventually spending an hour listening to "Operation Mindcrime". It's the hard rock/metal answer to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of The Moon".

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:15 PM (Cjcf6)

255 California has got to be the most FUped state in the country followed closely by NY and Minnesota. It's all about their stupid politicians they elect yet the voters don't see that. Or don't want to see it.

Posted by: Case at December 16, 2025 11:15 PM (G1OIb)

256 246 Space does not do as good a job as you'd think of removing heat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 11:10 PM (1oltZ)

Right. Space isn't cold, it's an almost perfect insulator. The only way to get rid of heat is radiation, and that requires keeping the radiator pointing away from the sun or earth.

Posted by: a.moron at December 16, 2025 11:15 PM (X5Jzz)

257 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 11:17 PM (SRRAx)

258

Tony Blankley was on a Highway Patrol episode.

https://tinyurl.com/37u7bpdc

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:18 PM (pkeXY)

259 244 195 Elon has a plan to move AI data to space, and I am all for that...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Odd choice. Doing serious computation where you can't cool the computers effectively. Vacuum doesn't conduct or convect; you can only radiate the heat away.

Having to use all rad-hard parts because the universe keeps throwing cosmic rays through your computer ups the cost, too.

Posted by: mikeski
---

The technology involved will be most useful for the trip to Mars.
Not as much after being established on Mars because everything will be underground in bored tunnels.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:18 PM (wCq0Y)

260 Teresa, hope you are home and doing well. People have been concerned and asking.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 11:19 PM (6p0Jv)

261 British farmers' 1,800 big tractors paralyze London, tanks JOIN them:

https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum

Posted by: Beverly at December 16, 2025 11:19 PM (reMys)

262 Right. Space isn't cold, it's an almost perfect insulator. The only way to get rid of heat is radiation, and that requires keeping the radiator pointing away from the sun or earth.
Posted by: a.moron

You seem smart for a moron.
There's a problem down here so close to the Sun. Which I guess is solved by turning the radiators edge-on to the Sun.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 11:19 PM (gKWVE)

263 The Dream Theater link is always much appreciated. 😎

HS sucked but for many a morning my junior year I got going by riding the school bus jamming to Queensryche on the way to school. “Revolution Calling” usually featured early on. By the time I got to school it was the end of “SPEAK”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 11:19 PM (4786I)

264 258

Tony Blankley was on a Highway Patrol episode.

https://tinyurl.com/37u7bpdc
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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Didn't know that. Knew him as columist for the Washington Times? In the early 2s I would stay up for his column to post at midnight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:21 PM (wCq0Y)

265 Wind really howling.

Power flickering.

Raining HARD.

Y’all be good. Stay warm and dry.
Smooches.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 11:22 PM (mT+6a)

266 The British farmers are Furious and desperate because the Starmer regime is threatening a tax on their Estates that will strip their families of their farms and of course make this land available to Giant corporations, and also Starmer's claim is that they need the money to house, feed, clothe, and otherwise pamper the illegal alien Muslim population.

Check out the videos linked above, the tanks showing up is completely wild and I'm not sure what's going on with that but there they are! Apparently siding with the farmers.

Posted by: Beverly at December 16, 2025 11:22 PM (reMys)

267 35 King of California
9% more of gas refineries gone in March
No power for elec
Citizens 3rd class to illegals
1 house built in Pacific Palisades
#1 homeless
#1 poverty

I could be a speech writer for his opposition.

But I coun't the ballots beechez!

Posted by: King Newscum at December 16, 2025 11:23 PM (y7zkd)

268 Right. Space isn't cold, it's an almost perfect insulator. The only way to get rid of heat is radiation, and that requires keeping the radiator pointing away from the sun or earth.
Posted by: a.moron at December 16, 2025 11:15 PM (X5Jzz)

Old White Men Engineers had a mysterious method called "Back of the Envelope Calculations" which quickly determined if an idea was worth pursuing. This method is now discouraged, as it gets in the way of projects based on feeling good about a subject. Showing that disposing of a mere 1000 watts of waste heat requires a radiator the size of a football field is no way to get investor funding.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 16, 2025 11:27 PM (xceqr)

269 So you’re showing us proof that whiskey is health food?

I’ll drink to that

Posted by: PMRich at December 16, 2025 11:27 PM (RqfTw)

270 Hey, Teresa! Good to see you here!

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:27 PM (77rzZ)

271 262 Right. Space isn't cold, it's an almost perfect insulator. The only way to get rid of heat is radiation, and that requires keeping the radiator pointing away from the sun or earth.
Posted by: a.moron

You seem smart for a moron.
There's a problem down here so close to the Sun. Which I guess is solved by turning the radiators edge-on to the Sun.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 11:19 PM (gKWVE)

Or mount them on the backside of the (massive) solar panels, so the same system that keeps the solar panels pointing at the sun keeps the radiators pointed away from the sun. In that case, only one surface of the radiator is doing anything useful, since the other surface is facing the backside of the solar panel, which is warm.

Posted by: a.moron at December 16, 2025 11:29 PM (X5Jzz)

272 261 British farmers' 1,800 big tractors paralyze London, tanks JOIN them:

https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum
Posted by: Beverly
----

Yee Haww, thank's, Beverly.

Miss Britannia at 3:22

Pray for the farmers and

Thanks to the tanks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:29 PM (wCq0Y)

273 The British farmers are getting screwed. From everything ive watched, I doubt anyone in Britain has the gumption to do what is needed.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 11:31 PM (6p0Jv)

274 Old White Men Engineers had a mysterious method called "Back of the Envelope Calculations" which quickly determined if an idea was worth pursuing. This method is now discouraged, as it gets in the way of projects based on feeling good about a subject. Showing that disposing of a mere 1000 watts of waste heat requires a radiator the size of a football field is no way to get investor funding.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 16, 2025 11:27 PM (xceqr)

Vibe engineering.

I'm actually beginning to look forward to the collapse of civilization. My neighbors have been eating well, and they look delicious.

Posted by: Crypto-Cannibal at December 16, 2025 11:32 PM (2wadn)

275 Wind really howling.
Power flickering.
Raining HARD.
Y’all be good. Stay warm and dry.
Smooches.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Yikes! Stay safe, nurse!

We'll be getting it here, too... in a couple hours, I reckon. Got the grill & patio table strapped down. Can't do much about the rest besides tuck away into sheltered places and hope for the best.

Posted by: JQ at December 16, 2025 11:32 PM (rdVOm)

276
Fuck migrants.

I'm so sick of the kowtowing about the migrants.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 11:33 PM (3ek7K)

277 So, shifting from boobs to legs: Amanda Righetti has righteous gams.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:33 PM (77rzZ)

278 London has 2 to 3 days tops. Pull down Minas Morgul already.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 11:34 PM (fBbkm)

279 Police Vans torched in Belfast.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 11:35 PM (fBbkm)

280
Starmer; MBA man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:35 PM (wCq0Y)

281 Starmer the Farmer Harmer.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 11:36 PM (6p0Jv)

282 Stupid fucking farmers just poke a seed in the ground and wait for it to grow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:38 PM (wCq0Y)

283 British farmers' 1,800 big tractors paralyze London, tanks JOIN them:

https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum
Posted by: Beverly at December 16, 2025 11:19 PM (reMys)

They are vintage tanks, privately owned by collectors. Doubtfull that the guns work, but even without guns, they could mess up a metric fuckton of police vans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 11:38 PM (npFr7)

284 Ok, that UK stuff seems fake. Heard nothing about it before, and the Ireland stuff was a month ago. I knew about burning one hotel, but nothing about 37. The vids looked hinkey, like AI.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 11:38 PM (uQesX)

285 276
Fuck migrants.

I'm so sick of the kowtowing about the migrants.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 11:33 PM (3ek7K)

At least buy us dinner first.

Posted by: Migrants at December 16, 2025 11:40 PM (26Csg)

286
What benefit do countries get from letting the migrant pigs into their country?

Look at our country. They come here to steal our tax money, they live like pigs and they want to kill us.

I don't get it.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 11:40 PM (3ek7K)

287 In my home it's still okay to say illegals. There are migrant workers who have visas to work and be in the US. I have no beef with them. The others are illegals. They bring crime and trash along the roadways.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 11:40 PM (6p0Jv)

288 Daily Mail.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 11:41 PM (fBbkm)

289 Showing that disposing of a mere 1000 watts of waste heat requires a radiator the size of a football field is no way to get investor funding.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
--------

Collect waste heat in water, make steam, drive turbine, produce electricity?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:43 PM (wCq0Y)

290 Did anyone else notice the Charmin TP ads have the kid bear waving his dingleberries on tv?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 11:45 PM (2WIwB)

291 261 British farmers' 1,800 big tractors paralyze London, tanks JOIN them:

https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum
Posted by: Beverly

Looks like some serious shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 11:45 PM (snZF9)

292 282 Stupid fucking farmers just poke a seed in the ground and wait for it to grow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:38 PM (wCq0Y)

Farming is easy.

Posted by: Mike Bloomberg & The CHAZ Metro Players at December 16, 2025 11:45 PM (2wadn)

293 News Blackout. 1984 was a how to book.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 11:46 PM (fBbkm)

294 I got home yesterday afternoon - stayed in bed all day today, because I needed the rest. Don't know how I will feel tomorrow - myasthenia complicates things....

Remembered this afternoon why I don't like to take oxycodone - I am one of those unfortunate souls for whom oxy INCREASES the perception of pain, and I end up wanting it sooner than I should. It also makes it harder to come off of it.

So I have taken myself off of it, and will try to will myself off of it over the next couple of days - I was still in considerable pain and wasn't getting any better, which is unusual for me.

I have questions in to my doctor - wondering if the 130 pounds that I have lost since my last abdominal surgery in 2015 might have some bearing on that. I am sure that the fact that I am very petite (5'0"), and the surgeon's hands are rather massive doesn't help 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 11:46 PM (SRRAx)

295 Magic by Pilot. Better known today as O O O Ozempic

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 16, 2025 11:46 PM (3/XaG)

296 Have I mentioned here that I despise with a capitol PISE The Grinch directed by Opie Cunningham and starring Jim Carrey?

It turns Whoville into a town full of grade A douchenozzles while trying to justify the Grinch's disdain for them. Nope, can't handle the stupidity. Give me the Karloff version with Tony the Tiger singing about the Grinch having termites in his smile any day.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2025 11:48 PM (26Csg)

297 286
What benefit do countries get from letting the migrant pigs into their country?

Look at our country. They come here to steal our tax money, they live like pigs and they want to kill us.

I don't get it.
Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 11:40 PM (3ek7K

They are motivated by the desire to think well of themselves, to fortify their self-regard.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 16, 2025 11:48 PM (FMtrg)

298 Watch out for those WW2 sea mines, too.

Posted by: Nicholas Angel at December 16, 2025 11:49 PM (wVcYX)

299 They are motivated by the desire to think well of themselves, to fortify their self-regard.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 16, 2025 11:48 PM (FMtrg)

I rather think it's because they hate us and want us dead.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 11:49 PM (uQesX)

300
Once they kill off we the taxpayers who do they think is going to pay for everything for them?

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 11:52 PM (3ek7K)

301 Teresa, continued prayers for you and your family 🙏

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 11:52 PM (6p0Jv)

302 Farmers THREATEN to dump MANURE in London if Starmer DOESN'T reverse inheritance tax

https://tinyurl.com/426y3e3e

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:55 PM (wCq0Y)

303 Another story. Naval blockade of Venezuela.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 11:56 PM (fBbkm)

304 OK, G’night, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:57 PM (77rzZ)

305 Farmers captured protesting in London earlier today, ahead of this evening's Finance Bill debate in Parliament.

The pressure on the Government continues to grow as farmers call for the family farm tax to be axed. ❌

https://tinyurl.com/ajvpt6ey

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 11:58 PM (wCq0Y)

306 Once they kill off we the taxpayers who do they think is going to pay for everything for them?
Posted by: four seasons

If they could reason that well, they wouldn't have needed us in the first place.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 11:59 PM (nhCoE)

307 21 h . KEIR STARMER DOESN'T CARE IF FARMERS KILL THEMSELVES

In one of the most cold blooded, emotionless, vile responses ever delivered by a Prime Minister

Keir Starmer says he doesn't care if inheritance tax will make old farmers want to end their lives

He's doing it anyway

https://tinyurl.com/2awrjm6p

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:01 AM (wCq0Y)

308 TiFW-- Glad to see you tonight; many have been asking about you... Sorry you're in pain! I hate codeine compounds too, but for different reason.

Is there something you can focus your mind on, as a distraction from pain? I have sometimes been successful with pain control by concentrating on / visualizing the solution to a particular problem or planning step-by-step a complicated chore.

(and I mean *real* pain, like when I had a fingernail removed and the local wore off)

Prayers up for your continued recovery!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:01 AM (rdVOm)

309 Hahaha

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
11h
JUST IN: JD Vance fires back at reporter who asked him about Susie Wiles' alleged comment that he is a conspiracy theorist, starts listing off every conspiracy theory he believes in.

"I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true."

"I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask three-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic..."

"I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job."

"I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponents."

"So at least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it."

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 12:01 AM (rbvCR)

310 Any word from Charles the Bastard?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:01 AM (fBbkm)

311
mikeski,

You're right.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 12:02 AM (3ek7K)

312 Any word from Charles the Bastard?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:01 AM (fBbkm)

I think he recently said he chemo will restrict the number of hours he can pretend to work

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 12:02 AM (rbvCR)

313 Dang. Brit army joins the farmers???
Serious stuff.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:03 AM (2WIwB)

314 Ok, that UK stuff seems fake. Heard nothing about it before, and the Ireland stuff was a month ago. I knew about burning one hotel, but nothing about 37. The vids looked hinkey, like AI.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Tractor protest took place on November 24th or so. No media coverage. I saw that vid awhile back and thought the same thing. That particular Utube channel is a bit suspect.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 12:04 AM (em/hR)

315 Strangely enough, I didn't need more than Ibuprofen after total hysterectomy. *shrugs*

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

316 mikeski,
You're right.
Posted by: fourseasons

Blind squirrel, nut, etc.

Posted by: mikeski at December 17, 2025 12:05 AM (nhCoE)

317 I've seen some Brisish farmer proests on YouTube before. At this point I don't know what is real or fake.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 12:05 AM (6p0Jv)

318 Dang. Brit army joins the farmers???
Serious stuff.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:03 AM (2WIwB)

Not the army. At one point the woman narrator speaks of "vintage tanks". And the crews/passengers of the tanks appeared to be mostly in civvie clothes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:07 AM (npFr7)

319 Not the army. At one point the woman narrator speaks of "vintage tanks". And the crews/passengers of the tanks appeared to be mostly in civvie clothes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:07 AM (npFr7)

Yeah. Digging into it, it seems suspect. Didn't look right.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:11 AM (2WIwB)

320 _ #10 on the Media ite Suzy Wiles outrage meter:

10. Trump isn’t running for a third term — but he loves the outrage

Oh, my gosh, now they know. How could she ever say such a thing to the public.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:11 AM (wCq0Y)

321 255 California has got to be the most FUped state in the country followed closely by NY and Minnesota. It's all about their stupid politicians they elect yet the voters don't see that. Or don't want to see it.

Illinois enters the chat

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 17, 2025 12:11 AM (y7zkd)

322 So if we're going to invade anywhere during the OrangeManBad Admin v2, I say it should be England, and we make them a colony of ours.

(Joke ratio has dropped under 50%)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 12:14 AM (ULPxl)

323 Go long on California Rickshaw Futures.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:14 AM (fBbkm)

324 California has got to be the most FUped state in the country followed closely by NY and Minnesota. It's all about their stupid politicians they elect yet the voters don't see that. Or don't want to see it.

Illinois enters the chat
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 17, 2025 12:11 AM (y7zkd

***

Hey! Don't forget us!!!

Posted by: Washington State at December 17, 2025 12:15 AM (2WIwB)

325 Go long on California Rickshaw Futures.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:14 AM (fBbkm)

Get a rickshaw ride to the high-speed rail station...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:16 AM (npFr7)

326 >>>Not the army. At one point the woman narrator speaks of "vintage tanks". And the crews/passengers of the tanks appeared to be mostly in civvie clothes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------

So much for gun control, bring on the big un's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:16 AM (wCq0Y)

327 Assault Tanks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:17 AM (fBbkm)

328 So if we're going to invade anywhere during the OrangeManBad Admin v2, I say it should be England, and we make them a colony of ours.

(Joke ratio has dropped under 50%)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 12:14 AM (ULPxl)

***

Let's stick with Greenland. England has too many muzzles.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:18 AM (2WIwB)

329 Has anyone else seen the Providence press conf deaf interpreter? She is hilarious. Not only does she really get into the signing, but her facial expressions are priceless.

Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2025 12:18 AM (55Qr6)

330 So much for gun control, bring on the big un's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:16 AM (wCq0Y)

I wonder how hard it would be to UN-demil a tank main gun? Even if the best you could do were to be able to shoot large lead slugs propelled by bags of black powder, you could still do serious damage. Or fire canister shot at the bad guys.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:20 AM (npFr7)

331 Silver at $66.19 per oz. That means a Mercury dime in average circulated condition has $5.43 worth of silver in it.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 17, 2025 12:20 AM (Da7Vv)

332 @JaipurDialogues . 23h
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan:

“People only attack me because I am Muslim and Pakistani. Islamophobia is the biggest problem in society.”
---

To the Tower, build the gibbets.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:21 AM (wCq0Y)

333 Silver Dimrs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:22 AM (fBbkm)

334 To the Tower, build the gibbets.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:21 AM (wCq0Y)

Executions in the Tower were usually done chop-chop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:23 AM (npFr7)

335 It wasn't that long ago that a silver quarter was $5.00.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:23 AM (fBbkm)

336 Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan:

“People only attack me because I am Muslim and Pakistani.

Okay.
So what's your point?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:23 AM (2WIwB)

337
If you want to see some fancy thermal engineering in space, read up on the James Webb telescope.

The Sun facing side has a temperature of about 230F. The cold side, where the actual instruments are maintains about -380F. Call that a 600F gradient across the thing. How they achieved that, well, read up.

The telescope side has to be that cold because it images in infrared.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 12:24 AM (w6EFb)

338 Bastrop.is no longer podunk BFE TX.. it is growing and quickly becoming unrecognizable. I'm looking to move to west TX to get away from it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 10:34 PM (6p0Jv)

Mr. TiFW and I have fond memories of a primitive rest stop in Bastrop, Texas. After visits to his parents' house in our pre-marriage days (A 7-hour drive from College Station), Bastrop was a convenient little stopping place for a couple of healthy college students to take a few minutes out and get busy. We always left their house later in the day, so it was usually dark by the time we made it to the rest stop (which was literally one picnic table underneath some mature trees).

Nobody tell our kids....😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:24 AM (SRRAx)

339 California has got to be the most FUped state in the country followed closely by NY and Minnesota. It's all about their stupid politicians they elect yet the voters don't see that. Or don't want to see it.

Illinois enters the chat

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 17, 2025 12:11 AM (y7zkd)

jersey says hold my beer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 12:24 AM (snZF9)

340 Tower for storage
Gibbets for the public

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:24 AM (wCq0Y)

341 Silver Quarter $11 to $12..

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:25 AM (fBbkm)

342 286
What benefit do countries get from letting the migrant pigs into their country?

Look at our country. They come here to steal our tax money, they live like pigs and they want to kill us.

I don't get it.
Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 11:40 PM (3ek7K)

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

I nominate this post for the replacement poem on the Statue of Liberty.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 17, 2025 12:25 AM (JkO4W)

343 @JaipurDialogues . 23h
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan:

“People only attack me because I am Muslim and Pakistani. Islamophobia is the biggest problem in society.”
Posted by: Braenyard

It was mentioned in earlier threads, but here it is again:

Groundbreaking New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time -- The Babylon Bee

Posted by: mikeski at December 17, 2025 12:26 AM (nhCoE)

344 Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan:

“People only attack me because I am Muslim and Pakistani.

Okay.
So what's your point?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 12:23 AM (2WIwB)

Right? No shit sherlock, where did you park your bus.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 12:26 AM (snZF9)

345 They may want to restrict tanks before hatchets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:26 AM (fBbkm)

346 Teresa, hope you are home and doing well. People have been concerned and asking.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 16, 2025 11:19 PM (6p0Jv)

If you followed me on Facebook (Teresa Hamilton Koch), you would get regular updates! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:26 AM (SRRAx)

347 336 Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan:

“People only attack me because I am Muslim and Pakistani.

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

Nope. You're ugly too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 17, 2025 12:26 AM (JkO4W)

348 Mr. TiFW and I have fond memories of a primitive rest stop in Bastrop, Texas. After visits to his parents' house in our pre-marriage days (A 7-hour drive from College Station), Bastrop was a convenient little stopping place for a couple of healthy college students to take a few minutes out and get busy. We always left their house later in the day, so it was usually dark by the time we made it to the rest stop (which was literally one picnic table underneath some mature trees).

Nobody tell our kids....😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Why do you ask, Startled Squirrel?

Posted by: just the punchline at December 17, 2025 12:27 AM (nhCoE)

349 Remember how they told us not to keep those 1964 Kennedy half dollars, because they would never be worth anything. That half dollar in average circulated condition has $23.64 worth of silver in it.

By the way I made a mistake calculating the silver value in a Mercury Dime the correct silver value is $4.72 Sorry for the error.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 17, 2025 12:27 AM (Da7Vv)

350 LMAO, Teresa!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:27 AM (rdVOm)

351 People attack him becauae he is an inbred retard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:28 AM (fBbkm)

352 332 @JaipurDialogues . 23h
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan:

“People only attack me because I am Muslim and Pakistani. Islamophobia is the biggest problem in society.”
..........................................
I'm glad you don't use your nationality and religion as a shield against all criticism.

LoL!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 17, 2025 12:29 AM (sAmhv)

353 The NHL Winter Classic will be played in Miami

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 12:31 AM (ZxPkt)

354 I just heard a horrible pronunciation of Tuvalu.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:31 AM (fBbkm)

355 Queensryche! My #1 band in my formative years, Saw them well over 20 times between 89-94. Geoff Tate was a vocal God. Saw him up here last summer on his one last time Mindcrime tour. Not bad but his high notes are an octave down. At least Take Hold was again in E, having chromatically descended a half step every two years. Still, great memories....

Posted by: Alaska Viking at December 17, 2025 12:32 AM (6Bc88)

356 National Hurling League?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:32 AM (fBbkm)

357 “People only attack me because I am Muslim and Pakistani. Islamophobia is the biggest problem in society.”

Not big enough asshole. For 1400 years your fellow retards have been shitting on civilization.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 12:33 AM (snZF9)

358 "...Islam~~ophobia~~ is the biggest problem in society."

FIFY, asshoe khan.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

359 Nobody tell our kids....😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:24 AM (SRRAx)

The kids still don't think you ever had sex.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 17, 2025 12:33 AM (6Bc88)

360 How many Pakiatanis do we need tops? Four?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:34 AM (fBbkm)

361 Queensryche! My #1 band in my formative years, Saw them well over 20 times between 89-94. Geoff Tate was a vocal God. Saw him up here last summer on his one last time Mindcrime tour. Not bad but his high notes are an octave down. At least Take Hold was again in E, having chromatically descended a half step every two years. Still, great memories....

Posted by: Alaska Viking at December 17, 2025 12:32 AM (6Bc8

I saw them in the very early 80's when they only had an EP. they opened for twisted sister who themselves at the time weren't a flea on a frog's ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 12:35 AM (snZF9)

362 Nobody tell our kids....😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:24

Good to see you here Teresa.

That story reminds me of the stories my Dad started telling me in the last few yrs...No Dad, I don't want to hear about what you did at Lowell Park with Mom while on lunch break from high school.

Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2025 12:36 AM (55Qr6)

363 335 It wasn't that long ago that a silver quarter was $5.00.
Posted by: Boss Moss
--

I'm going to buy a couple of those Trump silver dollars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:36 AM (wCq0Y)

364 How many Pakiatanis do we need tops? Four?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:34 AM (fBbkm)

I'm going with none.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 12:36 AM (snZF9)

365 Got back into the Suburban this afternoon. Took out the resistor block used to give the reduced blower speeds for the heater fan. Easy to see; hard to get hands on it. But I got the old one out, no visible burnt wires. Found a matching part in one of my parts drawers, and winkled it in there. Plugged in the wire, and it worked! Replaced all the screws, and Bingo! My heater now works 100% at all speeds. It appears the resistor block incorporates a thermal fuse, a little bullet-shaped metal device that resembles a diode. Similar ones are found in coffee makers. Working theory: worn-out bearing in fan motor causes armature to drag on magnets. Motor stalls on a reduced-speed setting. Resistors get hot as Hell feeding a stalled motor, thermal fuse melts, preventing possible fire in air plenum. Motor still runs (badly) on high setting, because resistor block not in circuit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:37 AM (npFr7)

366 Teresa, this is as close to social media as I get. But I'm so glad you're doing well.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 12:38 AM (6p0Jv)

367 Wow, AOP-- nice work!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm)

368 I've had the blower on a car that is fine on dome settings and not on others.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 12:39 AM (fBbkm)

369 I saw them in the very early 80's when they only had an EP. they opened for twisted sister who themselves at the time weren't a flea on a frog's ass.

Holy Hell! He still had his full range back then. I've seen youtubes from early 80s, just crazy doing that night after night. AS it always does, it caught up to him. His top end was already going when they opened for Metallica on Justice tour for all tour but still best in the game in 89. As many QRyche shirts as Metallica ones at those shows.

Posted by: Alaska Viking at December 17, 2025 12:39 AM (6Bc88)

370 Bastrop.is no longer podunk BFE TX..
---

err

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:40 AM (wCq0Y)

371 Strangely enough, I didn't need more than Ibuprofen after total hysterectomy. *shrugs*
Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

They cut a giant L-Shaped incision right in the middle of my torso and started playing around with my liver. They were planning on removing one of the lobes, but once they got in there, they realized that there were more tumors than showed up on the scans (A common occurrence), so they installed an HAI pump instead.

The area where the pump was placed doesn't hurt at all - the other side of my abdomen hurts like a son-of-a-bitch. Probably because they were manipulating the liver (a very large organ) in my itty-bitty abdominal cavity with their giant meat paws.

I've had 4 C-sections and got away with minimal painkillers. Same with 2 knee replacements.

This surgery was....different.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:44 AM (SRRAx)

372 It's painful to see the growth in Central TX. For those who have been here in the country for a long time, there isn't much country anymore. Guess it's that way in a pot of places.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 12:45 AM (6p0Jv)

373 Resistor block is old tech.
Earliest heater fans: one speed.
Second generation: two speeds; either double field winding in motor, or resistor on fan switch.
Third generation: resistor block in heater plenum, so cooled by airflow. 2, 3, or 4 speeds.
Third generation: solid-state speed controller, with its heat sink in air plenum. My 2008 Suburban has that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:46 AM (npFr7)

374 Sure hope weather service is wrong about that "high wind warning" tonight. Last night's "wind advisory" was cancelled early due to being a nothingburger.

It was breezy, but nothing like they predicted.

I don't mind *some* wind, it's winter after all, I'm just hoping we don't get 50-60mph gusts overnight.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

375 Theresa, having met you in Texas, your are amazing. You remain in my and TCN's prayers. And thanks for the pen!

Posted by: Alaska Viking at December 17, 2025 12:48 AM (6Bc88)

376 I don't mind *some* wind, it's winter after all, I'm just hoping we don't get 50-60mph gusts overnight.
Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

Must have had some wind here last night. An old Studebaker door shell that was leaning against the wall of my shop got blown down last night. Also saw tracks of some large-hoofed animal in the snow out back of the shop. Maybe a moose. Too big to be deer tracks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 12:50 AM (npFr7)

377 Sorry to have fat fingered your name Teresa. Not sure where that rogue H came from...

Posted by: Alaska Viking at December 17, 2025 12:50 AM (6Bc88)

378 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:44 AM
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UGH! Sorry-- I hope you can get pain relief somehow! Sounds awful.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)

379 This surgery was....different.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:44 AM (SRRAx)

Well, that sucks. Never fun having one’s ass kicked. Take the drugs. Live in LaLa Land for a bit. At this point it won’t cause any more damage.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 17, 2025 12:51 AM (6Bc88)

380 Pain is a burden on the body. It has to work to overcome it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 12:55 AM (wCq0Y)

381 AOP, we've had plenty of 20-30mph winds, on & off for the last week. Meh.

But when NWS predicts 50-60, I worry a bit. Grill & table are strapped down, out on the deck.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:55 AM (rdVOm)

382 My surgical scar (I am also MASSIVELY swollen):

https://tinyurl.com/LiverSurgeryScar

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:57 AM (SRRAx)

383 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at

I hope you find pain relief.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 12:57 AM (6p0Jv)

384 Rob Reiner, you reap, what you sow...

If you are offended by this? too bad.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 17, 2025 12:58 AM (mP0Kj)

385 "LiverSurgeryScar"--

**Gasp** Oh, dear God...

More prayers, Teresa! I'm so sorry.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:59 AM (rdVOm)

386 Rob Reiner, you reap, what you sow...

If you are offended by this? too bad.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 17, 2025 12:58 AM (mP0Kj)

That is exactly true. If he had not been so eaten up by TDS, he might have realized that his middle child was the predictable outcome of permissive attitudes toward drug use and vagrancy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 01:01 AM (npFr7)

387
Well, they pretty much slit you wide open, didn't they?

What was that joke about potential serial killers becoming surgeons so they can direct their "urges" to productive purposes?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 01:01 AM (w6EFb)

388 Prayers being said for your shoulder surgery tcn.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 01:02 AM (em/hR)

389 384 Rob Reiner, you reap, what you sow...

Knife farming is hard but honest work.

Posted by: Old McStabold at December 17, 2025 01:02 AM (NeXA9)

390 By the way I made a mistake calculating the silver value in a Mercury Dime the correct silver value is $4.72 Sorry for the error.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 17, 2025 12:27 AM (Da7Vv)

This pretty useful for silver values, plus there's links to various coin melt values by country at the bottom.

https://tinyurl.com/nmrv9rfe

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 17, 2025 01:03 AM (pIfcn)

391 Yikes Teresa. Wow. More pain meds for you. Stat.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 01:03 AM (6p0Jv)

392 Guess it's that way in a pot of places.

Put the bong down, hippy.

Posted by: Keep Austin Weird at December 17, 2025 01:05 AM (40eS+)

393 Sock Monkey (and others), TCN wants me to thank you for all your prayers and well wishes. The pre-surgical gin is keeping her from her keyboard. All doctors orders you understand...

Posted by: Alaska Viking at December 17, 2025 01:06 AM (6Bc88)

394 But when NWS predicts 50-60, I worry a bit. Grill & table are strapped down, out on the deck.
Posted by: JQ

The NWS has us at 35 to 50 with 70mph gusts. They were supposed to hit about now but it's as calm as can be right now. Mrs. Sock asked me to gas up the chainsaws and put sharp chains on. I neglected to do that today. I might have to sharpen some chains. I hope I don't regret my distractions today.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 01:07 AM (em/hR)

395 Prayers, tcn - shoulder surgery is another pne of those "high pain" procedures/recoveries ♥️♥️♥️

Gentle hugs being sent your way -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 01:07 AM (SRRAx)

396
I was just reading. An astronaut, even in even the earth's shadow doing a spacewalk still needs active cooling. Even there, he'd overheat just from his own metabolic output. But the load is less than in direct sunlight.

It can get tricky -- the hands tend to get too cold, and they have heated gloves (and maybe some other heating systems). It's very inefficient -- heating one spot, while cooling the brunt, but that's the way it has to be given the constraints.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 01:07 AM (w6EFb)

397 Lord grant our sister Teresa relief from her pain. Give her peace, restful sleep and Your strength.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 01:08 AM (em/hR)

398 Holy Hell! He still had his full range back then. I've seen youtubes from early 80s, just crazy doing that night after night. AS it always does, it caught up to him. His top end was already going when they opened for Metallica on Justice tour for all tour but still best in the game in 89. As many QRyche shirts as Metallica ones at those shows.

Posted by: Alaska Viking at December 17, 2025 12:39 AM (6Bc8

Yeah they had their vid queen of the reich on MTV and I thought shit this dude can sing, so shortly after they were playing at the Ritz in NYC, so we went. Yeah his voice started to get little off after some years, but from what heard he smoked, which isn't going to help. I worked with enough singers to see their range dwindle from not taking care of their voice and hammering it night after night, but shit happens. Us asshole guitarists are usually the sole survivors. Singer's voices go, drummers shoulders go, but unless we get arthritis usually we endure. Sometimes the bass players get back problems from wearing that damn thing so low then can pee over the top of it. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:10 AM (snZF9)

399 But when NWS predicts 50-60, I worry a bit. Grill & table are strapped down, out on the deck.
Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 12:55 AM (rdVOm)

Here in southern Idaho, the reader boards on the interstate today had warnings for high winds on Wednesday.

When I was moving here, I hit high winds on the interstate. I had the accelerator floored and could barely keep going 55 in my pickup. Twenty miles from my home-to-be I saw semi trucks that had been blown off the road. I remember thinking, "My God, what have I done?"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 17, 2025 01:11 AM (xceqr)

400 Hubby had EGD-- don't ask me to spell it, I can't LOL-- aka "upper endoscopy" today.

Gastro doc suspected his esophagus was constricted (it was) and to "expand" it if so. Procedure went well, and hubby went back to nursing home... hungry! They gave him some pudding in Recovery Room.

Hopefully, he won't be choking on his food & drinks anymore!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:11 AM (rdVOm)

401 Prayers for tcn's surgery and recovery. May your healing be swift.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 01:12 AM (6p0Jv)

402 393 Sock Monkey (and others), TCN wants me to thank you for all your prayers and well wishes. The pre-surgical gin is keeping her from her keyboard. All doctors orders you understand...
Posted by: Alaska Viking
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That gin will help keep tcn's parts sterile and kill germs.
Hey, tcn, when they ask you about pain remember, it's 4 or more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:13 AM (wCq0Y)

403 Lord grant our sister Teresa relief from her pain. Give her peace, restful sleep and Your strength.
Posted by: Sock Monkey
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Amen.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:13 AM (rdVOm)

404 Prayers for tcn's surgery and recovery. May your healing be swift.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Amen.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

405 I've had 4 C-sections and got away with minimal painkillers. Same with 2 knee replacements.

This surgery was....different.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 12:44 AM (SRRAx)

4 c-sections? Good lord. Every women I ever met who had one..one, complained about it for eternity. 4 of them is some warrior class shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:16 AM (snZF9)

406 That gin will help keep tcn's parts sterile and kill germs.
Hey, tcn, when they ask you about pain remember, it's 4 or more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:13 AM (wCq0Y)

Pretty fucking sterile by now! I will feel no pain…. Until I do.

Thanks for all the prayers folks. It means more than you know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 17, 2025 01:16 AM (6Bc88)

407 JQ, glad hubby's procedure went well and they were able to get him some much-needed relief!

As for me, I should be fine now that I have discontinued the oxy - like I mentioned earlier, I am one of those people for whom oxy increases the PERCEPTION of pain, and everything hurts whether it is getting better or not.

I am actually starting to feel less pain now, and it has only been about 8 hours since my last oxy pill. Muscle relaxants and Tramadol FTW!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 01:17 AM (SRRAx)

408 >>Muscle relaxants and Tramadol FTW!
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Glad to hear it, Teresa!

I suppose basic anti-inflammatories like aspirin & ibuprofen are out, due to their blood-thinning properties, but maybe there's some other way to ease inflammation? (which seems a likely issue, from what you've described)

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

409 Keep fighting the good fight JQ. You and hubby are on my prayer list.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 17, 2025 01:21 AM (em/hR)

410 Don't know what Tramadol is... but hey, as long as it works, it's great!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:22 AM (rdVOm)

411 4 c-sections? Good lord. Every women I ever met who had one..one, complained about it for eternity. 4 of them is some warrior class shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:16 AM (snZF9)

Well, the time between #1 and #2 was 5 years, and the time between #3 and #4 was 9 years. They were all planned, so I never had any labor - I think that helped a great deal. Plus, I usually recover very quickly from surgery - this is the first time I haven't bounced right back.

Yeah, other women really hated me back in my child-bearing years....🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 01:22 AM (SRRAx)

412 Thank you, Sock Monkey!

Stay safe. Hope you don't need the chainsaws this week.

Wind is still pretty calm here, too.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

413 Come to think of it, the recovery from the tonsillectomy I had when I was 32 was pretty brutal - it didn't help that you can't exactly keep from constantly swallowing (ow-ow-ow-ow-ow!)....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 01:27 AM (SRRAx)

414 so...short url, won't shorten tweets????
anyway, check out Benny Johnson, (in case this hasn't been mentioned) someone of interest perhaps removed from the Brown University website that was a free Palestine guy???

Posted by: zigggggy at December 17, 2025 01:31 AM (/Pwrg)

415 (ow-ow-ow-ow-ow!)....
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Had tonsils out summer before 2nd grade. Still remember it-- ice cream and spaghetti for about 2 weeks. And coughing up scabs, ugh.

But, it was the *last* sore throat I would have, for many years. Most of my childhood, I had a constant sore throat & endless regimens of penicillin ("tonsillitis")-- until that one summer.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

416 Mom would crush an aspirin between 2 spoons, and add it to apple juice for me, because throat was too sore to swallow pills. (back in the days when you could give aspirin to a child)

Penicillin was flavored powder, that she added water to & stored in fridge until all doses were gone.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:41 AM (rdVOm)

417 Mom would crush an aspirin between 2 spoons, and add it to apple juice for me, because throat was too sore to swallow pills. (back in the days when you could give aspirin to a child)

Penicillin was flavored powder, that she added water to & stored in fridge until all doses were gone.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:41 AM (rdVOm)

That was a trick of my mother's, crush the aspirin into a spoon of applesauce.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:46 AM (snZF9)

418 Tonsils. I'd assumed wrongly that everyone had them removed before turning 29. A friend came down with tonsillitis last week. It was a miserable experieexw.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 01:47 AM (6p0Jv)

419 British farmers' 1,800 big tractors paralyze London, tanks JOIN them:
https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum
Posted by: Beverly

Is this real? It's surreal! Posted Dec 10. How have I not heard of this before? Footage is repetitive. Seems like an AI narrator. Ends abruptly mid-sentence. Odd.

Would like to see this kind of massive backlash everywhere. Siiigh.

Anyway, it's late. Gotta go.

https://youtu.be/9Yl8SW5s11s

G'nite, y'all. 💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - save the ranchers - eat more beef at December 17, 2025 01:48 AM (lbDMw)

420 Experience. Fat sleepy fingers argh.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 01:48 AM (6p0Jv)

421 Yeah, other women really hated me back in my child-bearing years....🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 01:22 AM (SRRAx)

Oh I bet, my mother, my aunt, and a friend of mine off the top of my head would want a word with you, lol. I remember my mother and aunt comparing scars when I was young. My brother was the source of her C-section, not me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:49 AM (snZF9)

422 Tonsils. I'd assumed wrongly that everyone had them removed before turning 29. A friend came down with tonsillitis last week. It was a miserable experieexw.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 01:47 AM (6p0Jv)

Still got mine.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:49 AM (snZF9)

423 That was a trick of my mother's, crush the aspirin into a spoon of applesauce.
Posted by: Berserker

They still use that trick at the nursing home, for patients what can't swallow pills, or refuse pills.

Hubby has a liquid med that he hates to take (rebel that he is), so they pour it into cranberry juice & he drinks it up. LOL

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

424 Well, getting near midnight. Time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde. Hoping all the folks facing or recovering from surgery get well ASAP.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 01:52 AM (npFr7)

425 A friend came down with tonsillitis last week. It was a miserable experieexw.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 01:47 AM
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Oh, it absolutely IS! Tonsils get inflamed and throat just *aches* all the time. Swallowing hurts, eating hurts, speaking hurts. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

426 They still use that trick at the nursing home, for patients what can't swallow pills, or refuse pills.

Hubby has a liquid med that he hates to take (rebel that he is), so they pour it into cranberry juice & he drinks it up. LOL

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

I should have tried that on my dog. I had to give him a pill one time. Little white one. I buried it in a mound of food. He was a samoyed,. He usually got a can of dog food and whatever was left over from dinner. He ate like a gavone. I'm surprised he didn't just swallow it all whole and spit out the dish, and his dish was always licked clean like came out of the dishwasher. I figured the way he eats I'll just bury the pill in his food. Right, I checked his dish later, completely licked clean, and at the bottom was the little white pill, also licked clean. It took a few attempts to get him to eat that frigging pill.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:56 AM (snZF9)

427 'Night AOP. So cool to read about your projects!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:57 AM (rdVOm)

428 Anyway, it's late. Gotta go.

https://youtu.be/9Yl8SW5s11s

G'nite, y'all. 💤
Posted by: mindful webworker -
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Slippin' that screecher in as you run out the door.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:58 AM (wCq0Y)

429 Well, mindfull was correct.

DDG AI

The outcome of the farmer rebellion against Keir Starmer's government was a vote in favor of the proposed inheritance tax on farmers, with the government winning by a majority of 145 votes.

Despite protests and significant opposition from rural Labour MPs, the plans to impose a 20% tax on inherited agricultural assets worth over £1 million will proceed as scheduled.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:03 AM (wCq0Y)

430 Bers-- dogs are different LOL.

Ours (GSD & aussie mix + whatever, 75#) would gobble the food and spit out the pill. She needed a 2x daily Big Pill med, so this was a problem!

Until I took that one pill and forced it down her throat. (She was quite obedient, generally, so just needed to know who's boss?)

After that, I'd wrap her pill in a slice of "plastic cheese" which she loved. She still tried to spit out the first cheesy one, but again-- I opened her jaw and forced it down and she *got the idea*

It became a treat, breakfast and dinner, for her.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

431 The Hill is another communist house organ. It parrots Sen. Chris Murphy who claims Trump's drug boat strikes are illegal because they are carrying COCAINE, not fentanyl.

This is where we are at with these maniacs. They're trying to get us killed.

Posted by: torabora at December 17, 2025 02:07 AM (fPASK)

432 Sen. Murphy needs to be drug-tested for coke, huh? What a dumbass.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

433 Clicking this one renders, This Story is Unavailable:

MSN
Farmers' protest live: NFU leader fights back tears as tractors ... - MSN

6 days agoFarmers' protest live: NFU leader fights back tears as tractors block Westminster over inheritance tax rise - Hundreds of farmers blocked Whitehall outside Parliament as Sir Keir Starmer also ...
But the STAR link worked
FARM TAX WAR Rural Labour MPs plotting fresh rebellion over Sir Keir Starmer’s farming taxes in the New Year
One Labour MP was stripped of the whip for voting against it Updated: 12:08, 15 Dec 2025
https://tinyurl.com/3jnkt7rc

It appears that Jeremy Clarkson is helping to organize it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:12 AM (wCq0Y)

434 All of the US reps & senators should be subjected to drug testing-- weekly-- every single one of them.

And have to pass breathalyzer as they enter chambers *each time* while in session.

Just ONE illegal family, kicked off of public assistance, would "pay" for this.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:13 AM (rdVOm)

435 friend came down with tonsillitis last week. It was a miserable experieexw.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 01:47 AM
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Oh, it absolutely IS! Tonsils get inflamed and throat just *aches* all the time. Swallowing hurts, eating hurts, speaking hurts. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 01:55
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I was about 5 years old in Asmara, Ethiopia with tonsillitis. Army brat. Army flew mom and me from there to Air Force hospital Dhahran Saudi Arabia. I don't remember much. Plane had cot seats. Carried bananas. Co-pilot was a black officer who sat me in his lap and let me fly the plane. Airport was blazing hot on walk from plane to terminal. Hospital had green paint. I kept the tonsils for years in a jar. I think mom tossed them. Quite the adventure.

Posted by: torabora at December 17, 2025 02:18 AM (fPASK)

436 431 The Hill is another communist house organ. It parrots Sen. Chris Murphy who claims Trump's drug boat strikes are illegal because they are carrying COCAINE, not fentanyl.

This is where we are at with these maniacs. They're trying to get us killed.
Posted by: torabora
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Those congresspersons need their cocain and Trump is cutting them short. When supplies run out we are going to see public withdrawal symptoms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:18 AM (wCq0Y)

437 When supplies run out we are going to see public withdrawal symptoms.

Posted by: Braenyard
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We can point and laugh!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)

438 We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-99
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 17, 2025
Launch Time: 8:42 a.m. EST (1342 UTC, 1442 CET)

https://youtu.be/6SGOvgqwzys

I'm really sick, so if someone could post a reminder closer launch.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 17, 2025 02:24 AM (2F0/Y)

439 seems Mustapha Kharbouch is a person of interest in the murder of 2 students at Brown University...but little into out tonight...

Posted by: zigggggy at December 17, 2025 02:25 AM (/Pwrg)

440 Hope you feel better soon, Joyenz.

Thanks for the launch info.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

441 I went outside for a while.. still not much wind, but it started raining a little. Will see what happens overnight...

Only 3 trees here. Hope they stay upright!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:42 AM (rdVOm)

442 After that, I'd wrap her pill in a slice of "plastic cheese" which she loved. She still tried to spit out the first cheesy one, but again-- I opened her jaw and forced it down and she *got the idea*

It became a treat, breakfast and dinner, for her.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

I think I started putting the pill in a piece of candy and he swallowed it whole. The dog ate anything and everything. Loved beer too. One day when I still lived home I was working on my bike in the back yard on the apron of the shed. I had my cigarettes on the porch and I had a small bag of weed in the pack. I rolled the bike out front, went to grab a smoke and thought shit, I left it on the porch and the dog is there. Sure enough, I went into the back, and the pack was laying on the lawn and was destroyed, but all the cigarettes were in a nice little pile untouched, the pack was shredded, and there was the bag laying flat with the corner bit out of it. He was selective. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 02:49 AM (snZF9)

443 What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?

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Rick Beato never did a video about any of them?

/You know who else was into leitmotifs?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:51 AM (NNq22)

444 Funny, Bers!

Never knew if our doggy cared for w33d. Hubs & I both worked in a "drg-free workplace" and had to submit urine samples for der fuhrer sometimes. Hubs doubly so, due to commercial DL. Bleh!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

445 Neighbor told me one of their goldens was refusing his pills & they tried everything they could think of... I went over with a small container of rendered bacon fat... it worked!

Every golden I've known, would just gobble first & not bother with questions afterward, LOL. Theirs needed some enticement.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

446 When I lived at an apartment and already had 2 cats, a kitten showed up at my door.. lil dude was just crying so I brought him in.

He *loved* beer and potato chips! (BF at the time was a beer drinker & kitten would climb up and beg for his beer LOL) And so it went-- one cat adopted the lil guy & the other had nothing to do with the New Kid but at least tolerated the situation.

Until I saw a "lost cat" on the bulletin board-- description was *exactly* that kitten. So I called the number. If I had only known what the lil guy was going back to, I'd never have called. Sad.

Big dude loved his cat and his old lady hated it. Fk. Too bad and I hope the guy left that b!tch, jeepers.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

447 He *loved* beer and potato chips! (BF at the time was a beer drinker & kitten would climb up and beg for his beer LOL) And so it went-- one cat adopted the lil guy & the other had nothing to do with the New Kid but at least tolerated the situation.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

A friend of mine had a cat that loved french fries. One night we were eating and she was holding a french fry while talking and the cat sneaked up and swiped it right out of her hand, lol. I never saw a cat eat a french fry, but it acted like a dog, it ate just about anything.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 03:24 AM (snZF9)

448 Oh, yeah! Big Kitty loved french fries! And potato chips (I think the kitten taught her that)

'Tato was her treat-word. LOL.

The older cat liked ketchup, and any other tomato-based sauce.

What a pair they were.

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 03:28 AM (rdVOm)

449 Update (2035ET): On Tuesday evening Trump revealed he has ordered a "total and complete blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela. This, he said on Truth Social, is based on Venezuela's leadership having been declared a "foreign terrorist organization".

He further boasted of the country having been "completely surrounded" with the "largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America."

"For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Therefore, today, I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela," Trump said.

He then warned, "It [the blockade] will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us." Minutes after the announcement:
_ZH

A nation under seige. Putin approves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:30 AM (wCq0Y)

450 WAYMO the self driving electric cab car/company is owned by Alphabet. Probably why its running red lights and other things has received little attention.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:49 AM (wCq0Y)

451 'Night, horde. Thanks for being here!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 03:54 AM (rdVOm)

452 Time tk rise and shine

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:57 AM (Ia/+0)

453 "Lots of numbers and stuff there that don't make much sense to me. But the thing looks kewl! Multiple video clips at the link."

Don't worry, Doofinator.

That's what people call "metric". It's what silly people who haven't been to the moon use to count things on their ten little monkey fingers.

Pay it no mind, and just look at the Freedom Fractions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:59 AM (06Hmj)

454 My little goofball of a dog is easy to feed a pill to when he needs them.

I started using peanut butter and a spoon. One time, the pill fell out of the peanut butter and landed on the kitchen floor. So Pooch finished what was on the spoon, looked at the pill and visibly thought "oooh there's peanut butter on that thing, too!" and snarfled it right off the tile.

Little goober.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 04:03 AM (06Hmj)

455 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

456 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:04 AM (Ia/+0)

457 https://tinyurl.com/4mkbfnum

Ben Had this looks fakey to me and I have seen no other reporting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 08:07 AM (m6HS6)

458 California has got to be the most FUped state in the country followed closely by NY and Minnesota. It's all about their stupid politicians they elect yet the voters don't see that. Or don't want to see it.

Illinois enters the chat

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 17, 2025 12:11 AM (y7zkd)

jersey says hold my beer.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 12:24 AM (snZF9)

Blame certain counties, beginning with Bergen and Essex. Solid blocks of Dems. Also, never forget the state and teachers unions. Also locked in votes for Dems.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 17, 2025 10:05 AM (5xuJ/)

Goat Lover Cafe

Buck Moon over Northumberland,
by Jim Scott Photography

Yield.

Triple dog stare.

Dog knows better than to screw around with the kitten when the mama's around.

Hangry dogs need you to know it's feeding time.

Duncanthrax's nightmare job.

Cat thinks Christmas is all staged for him. When in reality, it's all for the alpacas.

Dogs hate the media too and they must be right because they're very good boys.

Kind of a rude Benny-Hill style sight gag.

River otter, being evil.

It's getting hard to find real content because people are now posting fake AI slop. It's getting annoying.

China opens a new electricity plant.

Charge by an adult rhino.

I hope this isn't AI slop.

The most innocent thing you'll see today. 🤗🤗 pic.twitter.com/HNzjkLwm9P
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) December 16, 2025

New hair stylist..🐈🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/3ZfUS3D4zy
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 15, 2025

Animals have beautiful feelings. pic.twitter.com/KYrN3omGQg
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) December 16, 2025

A man inside his car in Canada had an extreme close encounter with a wild bison when it calmly approached the vehicle. pic.twitter.com/kujz6PxrQV
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) December 14, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:20 PM

Comments

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1 Baaaah

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:19 PM (P5BPp)

2 Hmmmm

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:21 PM (P5BPp)

3 Ha

Posted by: Auspex at December 16, 2025 07:21 PM (Y8DZL)

4 Ba-ah-ah-ah!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 07:22 PM (nljXp)

5 Sure

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 16, 2025 07:23 PM (7yDg3)

6
Beaver Moon >> Buck Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 07:23 PM (w6EFb)

7 It's getting hard to find real content because people are now posting fake AI slop. It's getting annoying.

Yeah, it sucks. I assume everything I see now that looks amazing or incredible is just AI.

Most times you can see in the corner the AI software symbol pop up at the end of the video showing it was made with AI.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:24 PM (P5BPp)

8 Is goat tasty? I've never had it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 07:24 PM (nljXp)

9 Did you all know that one of those oil tankers carries between $100 million an $200 million in oil?

Now, finding a buyer if you're a pirate, may be difficult.

But not when you're the US government.

Now, about those Letter of Marque .....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 07:25 PM (HXT0k)

10 Rev. Cabrito is delicious.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 07:26 PM (sDNVV)

11 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)

12 So, petting the bison- what's the life expectancy on that?

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 07:27 PM (KoMOq)

13 hmmm

"Trump orders 'total and complete' blockade of all oil tankers bound for Venezuela while warning Maduro with 'largest Armada ever assembled'"

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:27 PM (g47mK)

14 Mountain goats have very little fear of humans. I've fed them potatoes chips and given them drinks out of my water bottle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 07:28 PM (nljXp)

15 and.... "Trump said that Maduro - whom he once again called 'illegitimate' - must give the United States the oil, land and other assets stolen by Venezuela. "

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:28 PM (g47mK)

16 Is goat tasty? I've never had it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Not especially. I've had goat curry. Indian and Caribbean styles. Put enough spices in it, and cardboard curry would taste good.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 07:28 PM (nhCoE)

17 Is goat tasty?

Yes, tasty bad.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 16, 2025 07:29 PM (Kt19C)

18 Charge by an adult rhino.
---

Fella's backing up at a hot clip, pretty good.
As it goes you can see Toyota turds on the road.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:29 PM (wCq0Y)

19 Ron DeSantis apparently does not like AI slop either:

Cryptid Politics @CryptidPolitics

I love this BEATDOWN DeSantis is giving to the pro-AI crowd:

“All that stuff is mindless slop, and if that floats your boat ok, but don't tell me that is what we need to beat China. Fake songs, fake videos, and all these other things.”

X video: https://bit.ly/4rWZlAN

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:29 PM (P5BPp)

20 My God, is that a stable or a castle dungeon? (Alpaca video)

Brick walls, stone tile floors, crafted wooden ceilings and doors.
And Christmas decorations that would make a boutique store proud.

I'd love to see the house that goes with it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 07:30 PM (6ydKt)

21 Thought this was going to be a thread about muslims.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 07:30 PM (npFr7)

22 I've had mutton and wasn't overly thrilled.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 07:31 PM (nljXp)

23 But not when you're the US government.

Now, about those Letter of Marque .....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 07:25 PM (HXT0k)

Just put it in the Strategic Oil Reserve.
I seem to remember Biden depleting it to keep gas prices steady at $3.50.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 07:31 PM (6ydKt)

24 21

Dammit, AOP. I was just getting ready to type that.

Oh well. GMTA.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 07:31 PM (fd80v)

25 Evening all.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 07:32 PM (QVuuq)

26
Finn is home. They were not able to diagnose his problem. He has fluid in his chest and he was coughing up bright red blood.

A couple of years ago Finn's brother Val was similarly coughing up blood. A course of antibiotics cured him. We're hoping the same treatment works for Finn.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:33 PM (tgvbd)

27 Cant see how that goat could get up on that wall

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)

28 I found goat to be flavorful, but tough and stringy.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:33 PM (Cjt/F)

29 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

JUST IN - JESSE WATTERS: "We're hearing reports that the Vice President of the Brown Republicans [Ella Cook] might have been shot multiple times. We still don't understand if this was a targeted shooting and they're not giving us any clue about that."

"[The shooter looked one guy] directly in the eye and then the shooter didn't kill him. Why didn't the shooter shoot the guy if this is a random attack? He's just spraying bullets around. Why didn't he shoot the guy?"

"The president of the university, I mean, everybody's talking about these websites being taken down, and she has no idea, right afterwards in the aftermath, immediately, she had no idea what the class was! How is she, the leader of the school, so unaware about the basics of this case?! It's just frustrating?"

X video: https://bit.ly/4aU5reV

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:33 PM (P5BPp)

30 I hope so, H7!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:34 PM (Cjt/F)

31 Hadrian, give Finn an extra hug from me. He is my favorite.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 07:34 PM (sDNVV)

32 That's the nicest stable I've ever seen. Is it real?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)

33 Is goat tasty? I've never had it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Lot of Hispanics like it. Birra tacos.
I have never had goat, so I honestly can't say.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 07:34 PM (QVuuq)

34 The "sight gag" link is blocked as "adult content". Not being 12 years old anymore, I cannot figure out how to beat the block.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 07:35 PM (npFr7)

35
Yeah, it sucks. I assume everything I see now that looks amazing or incredible is just AI.

Most times you can see in the corner the AI software symbol pop up at the end of the video showing it was made with AI.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
------------

Two necessary inventions:
1. an AI disgronificator
2. a bot (click count) and country of origin clarifier

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:35 PM (wCq0Y)

36 I am starting to think most of YouTube is AI

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

37 If Venezuela is to be stripped of all the stolen assets...I want a fair distribution !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

38 From the nood, I assumed this would be a thread about Islam and their Goat fucking lying Prophet, Mohammed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 07:36 PM (zZu0s)

39 Australia needs (inter alia) public education in What To Do After You've Wrestled a Firearm Away from a Terrorist.

2 separate videos of two different people (first dead, not explained or shown, second the Syrian immigrant who was wounded - also how did that happen?). Both take a long gun away from White Pants Dude (the son?) - the first one when the vermin is just getting out of his car, before any shooting (I think).

In both cases, the dweeb pudgy son gets easily bested by an older guy. But both older guys don't know what to do next. Bizarre. Happened *twice* in the course of that incident.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 16, 2025 07:36 PM (U/Byj)

40 I am starting to think most of YouTube is AI
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

A lot of it is. Has been getting worse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 07:36 PM (zZu0s)

41 Is there a blocker like ad blocker but an ai blocker?

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2025 07:36 PM (uQzkA)

42 Goat cooked properly is very good.

Gyros is goat.
Mexicans use much goat. Carnitas

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:36 PM (wCq0Y)

43 Yes, this incident occurred on December 16, 2025, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

A 35-year-old visibly Jewish man was walking on Kingston Avenue near Lincoln Place around 5:00 p.m. when he was approached by an unidentified Black male. The assailant made explicit antisemitic statements — including remarks like "F these Jews" and expressing approval of the Holocaust happening today — before pulling out a knife and stabbing the victim multiple times in the chest.

The attack was unprovoked. The victim was transported to Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover.

The suspect, described as approximately 5'10", 170 lbs, wearing a black varsity jacket, blue jeans, and white sneakers, fled the scene and remains at large. The NYPD is investigating it as an antisemitic hate crime.

X: https://bit.ly/4qejq3Q

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:37 PM (P5BPp)

44 Overstimulating a penguin is generally a bad idea. Look at what happened to Soupy Sales.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 16, 2025 07:37 PM (vFG9F)

45 (Alpaca video)

Brick walls, stone tile floors, crafted wooden ceilings and doors.
And Christmas decorations that would make a boutique store proud.

I'd love to see the house that goes with it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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That stable is way nicer AND cleaner than my house! I want to live there.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 16, 2025 07:37 PM (VCgbV)

46 "Trump orders 'total and complete' blockade of all oil tankers bound for Venezuela while warning Maduro with 'largest Armada ever assembled'"
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:27 PM (g47mK)

Yeah, about that ...

Posted by: zombieKing Philip II of Spain at December 16, 2025 07:37 PM (3sXRv)

47 Gyros is lamb.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:38 PM (g47mK)

48 Braenyard, gyro is lamb.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 07:38 PM (sDNVV)

49 zombieKing Philip II of Spain

===

who ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:38 PM (g47mK)

50 Baby and kitten is adorable.Thanks, Ace

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:38 PM (8Xy/A)

51 I had goat in Texas last year. A little mom and pop Mexican place. Somewhere near noblesville I think. It was very good.

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2025 07:38 PM (uQzkA)

52 The Brown/Providence situation, based on just casual observation, might be the most spectacular and ridiculous example of a dumbed-down hollowed-out clown car society yet (which is saying something). Of course the university people are idiots, that is now just assumed. Poh-leece also seem clueless (both at their actual jobs, and explaining things to the public).

Kind of hilarious in a dark end-times kinda way.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 16, 2025 07:39 PM (U/Byj)

53 >>>But both older guys don't know what to do next. Bizarre. Happened *twice* in the course of that incident.
Posted by: rhomboid
---------

They die.
Australian aristocracy would rather it's people die than have knowldge of guns. Guns, evil.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:39 PM (wCq0Y)

54 JUST IN - JESSE WATTERS: "We're hearing reports that the Vice President of the Brown Republicans [Ella Cook] might have been shot multiple times. We still don't understand if this was a targeted shooting and they're not giving us any clue about that."

"[The shooter looked one guy] directly in the eye and then the shooter didn't kill him. Why didn't the shooter shoot the guy if this is a random attack? He's just spraying bullets around. Why didn't he shoot the guy?"

1. Because a clue would fuck the narrative in the ass.

2. Professional courtesy? He already shot his target?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 07:40 PM (QVuuq)

55 47 Gyros is lamb.
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:38 PM (g47mK)

48 Braenyard, gyro is lamb.
Posted by: Ben Had
---------

Bah

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:41 PM (wCq0Y)

56 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:33 PM (tgvbd)

Hope Finn makes a full recovery.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:41 PM (8Xy/A)

57 I am starting to think most of YouTube is AI

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 07:35 PM

A lot of it is. Has been getting worse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 07:36 PM

Most of social media videos can't be trusted anymore. YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, X, whatever. Anywhere there are videos, you can't trust anything you're seeing. Whether it's the AI slop or the stupid filters people use to make cover up all their imperfections or the deepfake videos.

Just can't trust anything. I guess it fits considering we are no longer a high-trust society (or even a low-trust for that matter) in general.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:41 PM (P5BPp)

58 Also, the mayor of Providence does not look old enough to shave.

Posted by: Wenda at December 16, 2025 07:41 PM (A65Zh)

59
If you're determined to appear clueless and ignorant, you could not improve on the performance of Brown's prexy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:42 PM (tgvbd)

60 Gyros is lamb.
Posted by: runner

Gyros is the bomb.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 07:42 PM (QVuuq)

61 That stable is way nicer AND cleaner than my house! I want to live there.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 16, 2025 07:37 PM (VCgbV)

I'm with JackStraw wondering if it's real it looks so perfect.

I'm leaning on real, but wow.
You could eat off the floors.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 07:43 PM (6ydKt)

62 51 I had goat in Texas last year. A little mom and pop Mexican place. Somewhere near noblesville I think. It was very good.
Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2025 07:38 PM (uQzkA)

Yeah I’ve had it too. We kind of feel funny about eating goat, but in Hispanic culture (at least the Tex Mex part) they mostly consider goat and sheep to be the same thing. At least as far as eating goes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 07:43 PM (MXpA1)

63 I am starting to think most of YouTube is AI
Posted by: Skip

It's why we urgently need AI data centers.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 07:43 PM (KoMOq)

64 Gyros is the bomb.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 07:42 PM (QVuuq)

no, that is Souvlaki !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:44 PM (g47mK)

65 The "sight gag" link is blocked as "adult content". Not being 12 years old anymore, I cannot figure out how to beat the block.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

change x.com to xcancel.com and leave the rest of the URL alone.

That's the first one that is sort of "adult content." The previous 2 or 3 cafe links I had to xcancel because the were "adult" weren't any more "adult" than the top pic.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 07:45 PM (nhCoE)

66 Yeah I’ve had it too. We kind of feel funny about eating goat, but in Hispanic culture (at least the Tex Mex part) they mostly consider goat and sheep to be the same thing.

At least as far as eating goes.
Posted by: Tom Servo

A lot of the world feels that way. That's why they've developed meat goats vs milk.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 07:45 PM (QVuuq)

67 so, what part of Venezuela do you want ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:45 PM (g47mK)

68 "The president of the university, I mean, everybody's talking about these websites being taken down, and she has no idea, right afterwards in the aftermath, immediately, she had no idea what the class was! How is she, the leader of the school, so unaware about the basics of this case?! It's just frustrating?"

X video: https://bit.ly/4aU5reV
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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She knows, the cops know, at best they a punting for time. Being whack-a-doodles they may be intentionallly letting the shooter escape.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:46 PM (wCq0Y)

69 The Crown Heights incident (not all that rare over the last many years, actually) along with a less bloody subway incident this week, next to the murder of the MIT physicist (if as reported he was Jewish and high-profile pro-Iz'rl) sorta makes it look like there's a problem.

Israel has already gone to security levels at its overseas facilities that match anything ever done before. And has advised Jewish communities/institutions to go to red alert.

The expanded travel ban list timing might be coincidental, might not be.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 16, 2025 07:46 PM (U/Byj)

70 Yeah, about that ...
Posted by: zombieKing Philip II of Spain at December 16, 2025 07:37 PM (3sXRv)

Also Jutland. Midway.

Also Acta(sp?) During the Punjc wars was supposed to have something like 300k men engaged.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 07:46 PM (zZu0s)

71 Do not pet the bison.

Moose out front should have told you that.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 07:46 PM (nljXp)

72 Gyros is lamb.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:38 PM

Just watched this the other day. This guy has great Chicago (my hometown) food recipes and adds a lot of history of the food to his commentary as well:

Most people think of gyros as straight-up Greek street food, but the real story is way messier and somehow leads straight to Chicago. This video is part food history lesson and part love letter to meat spinning on a stick. We’ll trace how a dish born in the Ottoman Empire ended up in American diners and mall food courts everywhere, then I’ll show you how to make your own classic Greek-American gyro cone at the crib like a total psycho. Let’s cook.

YouTube (Adam Witt): https://bit.ly/44vyHVx

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:46 PM (P5BPp)

73 52 The Brown/Providence situation, based on just casual observation, might be the most spectacular and ridiculous example of a dumbed-down hollowed-out clown car society yet (which is saying something). Of course the university people are idiots, that is now just assumed. Poh-leece also seem clueless (both at their actual jobs, and explaining things to the public).

Kind of hilarious in a dark end-times kinda way.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 16, 2025 07:39 PM (U/Byj)

The officials in this are kinda reminding me of that Nova Scotia police-lady who opened a press conference about a missing girl with a land acknowledgment.

It does not give one confidence in our 'betters'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 07:47 PM (6ydKt)

74 Don't pet the Moose or elk either.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 07:47 PM (zZu0s)

75 I'm with JackStraw wondering if it's real it looks so perfect.

I'm leaning on real, but wow.
You could eat off the floors.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

In addition to the unstableness (unstability?) of the materials and the decor, I don't get the layout. Who builds a stable with all those corners? Aren't they usually just big boxes?

I vote "AI." Even if it's not very sloppy.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 07:47 PM (nhCoE)

76 Question everything.. only way to be sure

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 16, 2025 07:47 PM (/6GbT)

77 The Crown Heights incident

===

what incident ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:47 PM (g47mK)

78 That river otters is just lulling him into a false sense of security.

He's 2 minutes away from surprise anal.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 07:48 PM (Wnv9h)

79 --
A lot of the world feels that way. That's why they've developed meat goats vs milk.
Posted by: rickb223
---

Uncle was on the protein kick years before it was a thing. Raised rabbits to eat and had a goat for milk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:48 PM (wCq0Y)

80 Question everything.. only way to be sure
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 16, 2025 07:47 PM (/6GbT)

sun rises in the east??? I.don.think.so!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:48 PM (g47mK)

81 Do not pet the ~~bison~~ heavy assault cows.

Moose out front should have told you that.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

FIFMoose.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 07:48 PM (nhCoE)

82 what incident ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:47 PM

This one (comment 43):

Yes, this incident occurred on December 16, 2025, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

A 35-year-old visibly Jewish man was walking on Kingston Avenue near Lincoln Place around 5:00 p.m. when he was approached by an unidentified Black male. The assailant made explicit antisemitic statements — including remarks like "F these Jews" and expressing approval of the Holocaust happening today — before pulling out a knife and stabbing the victim multiple times in the chest.

The attack was unprovoked. The victim was transported to Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover.

The suspect, described as approximately 5'10", 170 lbs, wearing a black varsity jacket, blue jeans, and white sneakers, fled the scene and remains at large. The NYPD is investigating it as an antisemitic hate crime.

X: https://bit.ly/4qejq3Q

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:50 PM (P5BPp)

83 so, what part of Venezuela do you want ?"

Tell me about...Ohio...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 07:50 PM (XuXeR)

84 Goat is what lamb wants to be: a blend of beef and gamey that is best braised.

Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 07:50 PM (RBD82)

85 >>In addition to the unstableness (unstability?) of the materials and the decor, I don't get the layout. Who builds a stable with all those corners? Aren't they usually just big boxes?

If it's real then it's some ceremonial thing. Working stables aren't even that pretty the day they open.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 07:51 PM (viF8m)

86 Uncle was on the protein kick years before it was a thing. Raised rabbits to eat and had a goat for milk.

Posted by: Braenyard

Before my wife passed, we were planning on getting meat goats because neither one of us want to have to milk them. That's when I started looking into meat goats.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 07:51 PM (QVuuq)

87 67 so, what part of Venezuela do you want ??
Posted by: runner
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All of it.
And Colombia better straigten up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:52 PM (wCq0Y)

88 >>Yeah I’ve had it too. We kind of feel funny about eating goat, but in Hispanic culture (at least the Tex Mex part) they mostly consider goat and sheep to be the same thing.

I had Goat for lunch.
Curried Lentil and Goat Stew. It was fantastic.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 07:52 PM (IaZ7c)

89 Old goats gotta stick together or else they'll have nobody.

Posted by: Lonely goat heard yodelady at December 16, 2025 07:52 PM (TbWk/)

90 YouTube (Adam Witt): https://bit.ly/44vyHVx

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:46 PM (P5BPp)

I love some gyro. Will watch.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 07:52 PM (6ydKt)

91 change x.com to xcancel.com and leave the rest of the URL alone.

That's the first one that is sort of "adult content." The previous 2 or 3 cafe links I had to xcancel because the were "adult" weren't any more "adult" than the top pic.
Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 07:45 PM (nhCoE)

That just yields a 403 "forbidden" error.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 07:53 PM (npFr7)

92 >> That's when I started looking into meat goats.

I've looked into many goats...

Posted by: mohammed at December 16, 2025 07:53 PM (IaZ7c)

93 Never had goat as far as I know.

Been up since 2:45am so calling it
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

94 I had ostrich burgers ! *looks around triumphantly
(Not today, though.... )

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:54 PM (g47mK)

95 so, what part of Venezuela do you want ??

Isn't Sofia Vergara from Venezuela? That part.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 16, 2025 07:55 PM (3nLb4)

96 Isn't Sofia Vergara from Venezuela? That part.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 16, 2025 07:55 PM (3nLb4)

ah, you like leftovers !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:55 PM (g47mK)

97 83 so, what part of Venezuela do you want ?"

Tell me about...Ohio...
Posted by: man
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It may be more difficult to turn Ohio than Venezuela.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:55 PM (wCq0Y)

98 >>I had ostrich burgers ! *looks around triumphantly

I used to duck hunt on a guy's land up the road from me and he raised Emu.
I have had many good Emu Burgers and Sausage from his flock.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 07:55 PM (IaZ7c)

99 Meetgoats dot com the new Muslim dating app

Posted by: Where horny goats find each other at December 16, 2025 07:57 PM (TbWk/)

100 I used to duck hunt on a guy's land up the road from me and he raised Emu.
I have had many good Emu Burgers and Sausage from his flock.
Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 07:55 PM (IaZ7c)

You have to slaughter them in the right season, though. They get very gamey when they are emulating.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 07:57 PM (npFr7)

101 That just yields a 403 "forbidden" error.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Differences in browser, firewall, ad-blocker, etc, I guess? It works on my ancient Windows machine (firefox), and on my iPhone (safari).

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 07:57 PM (nhCoE)

102 I used to duck hunt on a guy's land up the road from me and he raised Emu.
I have had many good Emu Burgers and Sausage from his flock.

====

I'll be honest with you, pheasant. That one is very good.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 07:58 PM (g47mK)

103 Young goats, 6 months or less are the best. Older ones must be treated like beef. Best goat I had was three month old kid cooked in a Big Green Egg.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 16, 2025 07:58 PM (+mUZM)

104 Differences in browser, firewall, ad-blocker, etc, I guess? It works on my ancient Windows machine (firefox), and on my iPhone (safari).
Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 07:57 PM (nhCoE)

I am using Brave running on Linux.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 07:59 PM (npFr7)

105 There was an Amish store near Middlefield Ohio that Mom and Dad would stop at after visiting my Uncle. They always picked up some goat milk cheese and some goat milk fudge. Good stuff. Also, Amish trail bologna with the cheese and some crackers had a short life expectancy when Dad and I would start sampling.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 07:59 PM (gm9Sb)

106 Overstimulating a penguin is generally a bad idea. Look at what happened to Soupy Sales. - Penguin Facts

Permit me to preempt the anticipated misinformation that will inevitably follow from the forces of Spheniscidaphobia.

Penguins emphatically do not operate slave labor camps in which prisoners are compelled to scratch and massage them. In fact, the young man in the video, Mr. Pok Ho, is a highly trained penguin chiropractor who is under no restraint or restriction whatsoever. He simply chooses to do this work, for free, in return for an occasional bowl of rice and a straw mattress in the bunkhouse.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 07:59 PM (2L+MU)

107 Penguin Facts is a pakistani bot, banned on all respectable platforms.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:01 PM (g47mK)

108 I used to duck hunt on a guy's land up the road from me and he raised Emu.
I have had many good Emu Burgers and Sausage from his flock.
Posted by: garrett

You have to slaughter them in the right season, though. They get very gamey when they are emulating.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

* golf clap *

Great day for new vocabulary at the HQ. "Emulating" as "doing emu things" now, and "bedirndled" to describe a German lass earlier today.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 08:01 PM (nhCoE)

109 From the Bee:

Groundbreaking New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:01 PM (QVuuq)

110 I wish the Crown Heights jews would carry Things would calm down pretty quick, i think.

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 08:01 PM (lCppi)

111 change x.com to xcancel.com and leave the rest of the URL alone.

That's the first one that is sort of "adult content." The previous 2 or 3 cafe links I had to xcancel because the were "adult" weren't any more "adult" than the top pic.
Posted by: mikeski
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xcancel worked for me with Brave. I keep Opera handy. For example, Brave renders, Sign in to confirm etc. . Put it on Opera and it runs.
It's not 100% but Opera will run most anything.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:02 PM (wCq0Y)

112 I wish the Crown Heights jews would carry Things would calm down pretty quick, i think.
Posted by: LASue

They have two weeks to get their permits. I doubt Mayor Jihadi will be granting Jews carry permits after the first.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:04 PM (QVuuq)

113 85 >>In addition to the unstableness (unstability?) of the materials and the decor, I don't get the layout. Who builds a stable with all those corners? Aren't they usually just big boxes?

If it's real then it's some ceremonial thing. Working stables aren't even that pretty the day they open.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 07:51 PM (viF8m)

Ya'll are convincing me it's AI.

Which is kinda scary what this means in the next several years, because that vid looks good.

Not only is Hollywood going to get some serious layoffs but it's going to be almost impossible to figure out what's real and what's not anymore.

There's a black comedy movie named Mountainhead that gets into this topic with wars starting worldwide because of the spread of an AI on a social media platform. It allows users to make free AI generated videos, and it becomes impossible to tell what's real and what's true very quickly. The mainstream media's entire job becomes sorting out what is AI. The chaos intensifies while everybody, including the president, pressures the site owner to turn off the free AI video generation feature to stop a potential WWIII.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)

114 110 I wish the Crown Heights jews would carry Things would calm down pretty quick, i think.
Posted by: LASue
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Problem; they defend themselves successfully they go to jail. Permanently.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:05 PM (wCq0Y)

115 2 The Brown/Providence situation, based on just casual observation, might be the most spectacular and ridiculous example of a dumbed-down hollowed-out clown car society yet (which is saying something). Of course the university people are idiots, that is now just assumed. Poh-leece also seem clueless (both at their actual jobs, and explaining things to the public).

Kind of hilarious in a dark end-times kinda way.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 16, 2025 07:39 PM (U/Byj)

The officials in this are kinda reminding me of that Nova Scotia police-lady who opened a press conference about a missing girl with a land acknowledgment.

It does not give one confidence in our 'betters'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 0

I think the Rhode Island and Brown police squads will end up making even the Canton pd look like Scotland Yard, MI6 and Father Brown rolled into one in comparison to these fools.

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 08:05 PM (lCppi)

116 Does not work in Firefox, either.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 08:06 PM (npFr7)

117 They are going to run AI on medical operating robots.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:06 PM (wCq0Y)

118 Made that up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:06 PM (wCq0Y)

119 108 Great day for new vocabulary at the HQ. "Emulating" as "doing emu things" now, and "bedirndled" to describe a German lass earlier today. - mikeski

And "stochastic", which means...er...which m-e-a-n-s...Dang! I've got to look it up again.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 08:07 PM (2L+MU)

120 Does not work in Firefox, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Then I got nothin'. I guess "403 forbidden" is a server-side message, so maybe xcancel just doesn't like Canada, or your ISP doesn't like xcancel?

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 08:08 PM (nhCoE)

121 They are going to run AI on medical operating robots."

Will they scan your bar code prior or during?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:08 PM (XuXeR)

122 They have two weeks to get their permits. I doubt Mayor Jihadi will be granting Jews carry permits after the first.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:04 PM (QVuuq)

Maybe if they can get extra time if they agree to wear an identifying mark of some kind?

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 08:08 PM (lCppi)

123 Made that up."

Sci fi theme...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:09 PM (XuXeR)

124 OK I think I'm ready for the forced blackout tomorrow. I have candles, batteries, 2 small LED lanterns, a fully charged power bank, 9 packs of Luckies, 3 6-packs of soft drinks, and assorted cans of non-perishable food.

XCel delenda est

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 08:09 PM (ZxPkt)

125 116 Does not work in Firefox, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Brave Linux Mint here and no problem.

It could be the internet provider or your ip address.
If you use a vpn try another place.
I use Opera for these ocasions, it's very accepting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:09 PM (wCq0Y)

126 OK, finally got xcancel version of link to work, using Tor in a private window. Funny.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 08:10 PM (npFr7)

127 Muslim emus emulululate just before blowing themselves up.

Posted by: Die rhea! at December 16, 2025 08:12 PM (TbWk/)

128 Maybe if they can get extra time if they agree to wear an identifying mark of some kind?
Posted by: LASue

I just wish Ace & CBD would get the hell out of NYC/NE area.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:12 PM (QVuuq)

129 67 so, what part of Venezuela do you want ?? - ruuner

I'll take a box of Cuban cigars - assuming Cuba is still capable of turning out good cigars. I have heard that the overall quality has become erratic.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 08:12 PM (2L+MU)

130 Speaking of moose, idiot dog has been out conversing with one all day. The moose doesn't seem to care much, but idiot dog is wearing herself out running out the doggie door and barking her head off.

I'd make more effort to shut her up, but then I remember my asshole neighbor with the rooster who never shuts up, and I'm good.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 08:14 PM (6Bc88)

131 I just wish Ace & CBD would get the hell out of NYC/NE area.
Posted by: rickb223
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Did you see how many Muslims are in official office in NJ?
The Italian mafia is definitly no longer in charge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:15 PM (wCq0Y)

132 Has anyone seen a picture of
Mustapha Kharbouch Identified as Prime Suspect in Brown University shooter?

He's a sweet looking bitch.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:15 PM (QVuuq)

133 Watching Fox. Jesse Waters is reviewing the clusterfuck that is the Brown U. shooting investigation. I think in the next day or two it will really suck to be a 5'8" fat guy (like me) in Providence. The order will go out to pick up somebody, anybody and say they got the right guy this time. Swearsies.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:15 PM (gm9Sb)

134 Gyros is goat.
Mexicans use much goat. Carnitas

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:36 PM (wCq0Y)

Gyros, as has been noted by others, is lamb. And carnitas is always pork. If you had goat in Mexico it was almost certainly birria. Which is very good, by the way, although it can also be made with beef or lamb and my personal favorite is lamb.

Posted by: HTL at December 16, 2025 08:15 PM (JpF5W)

135 YouTube (Adam Witt): https://bit.ly/44vyHVx

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:46 PM (P5BPp)

I love some gyro. Will watch.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 07:52 PM (6ydKt)
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Gotta admit...he makes it look easy and delicious

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 08:16 PM (ESVrU)

136 No defense of the clowns running this goat rodeo at Brown but something else is going on. They aren't just incompetent they appear to be actively covering this up.

Who the hell is wiping the Brown websites of anything having to do with this Mustapha and why are the authorities claiming to know nothing about it? They guy at the very least fits the build of the guy in the videos and today all his information starts being taken down?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:16 PM (viF8m)

137 Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson

Ella Cook was just 19 years old—a Conservative, a Christian, and Vice President of the Republican Club at Brown University. If you still don’t see what’s happening, you haven’t been paying attention.

Just this year alone:
- Tricia McLaughlin threatened w/ public execution
- 2 National Guard shot in DC
- Seditious 6 Democrats claim President Trump tell military to not follow orders
- Jay Jones fantasizing on murdering Republicans & their children wins election in Virginia
- President Trump - 2 assassination attempts
- Charlie Kirk assassinated on live TV, the left celebrated
- Attacks on ICE officers skyrocketed over 1000%
- LA Riots and terror attacks
- Leftist sniper murders 3 at ICE facility in Texas
- Massive violent riots at ICE facility in Broadview, IL & Portland OR
- Annunciation Catholic Church children shot while praying by left wing Trump-hating transgender
- ABC News stations shot up
- Alina Habba attacked
- Ed Martin Attacked
- Rogue judges release career criminals onto streets, terrorizing Americans

The left’s violent rhetoric has turned into nationwide violence. If we don’t crush this threat now, we lose everything.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:17 PM (wCq0Y)

138 Did you see how many Muslims are in official office in NJ?
The Italian mafia is definitly no longer in charge.

Posted by: Braenyard

They've made enough generational wealth that they can afford to go legit.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:17 PM (QVuuq)

139
Old goats gotta stick together or else they'll have nobody.
Posted by: Lonely goat heard yodelady

Yodelady who?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 08:19 PM (pkeXY)

140 No defense of the clowns running this goat rodeo at Brown but something else is going on. They aren't just incompetent they appear to be actively covering this up.

Who the hell is wiping the Brown websites of anything having to do with this Mustapha and why are the authorities claiming to know nothing about it? They guy at the very least fits the build of the guy in the videos and today all his information starts being taken down?
Posted by: JackStraw

She/he's a converted goat fucker and they are legit afraid that we are fed up.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:19 PM (QVuuq)

141 Wife likes older goats.
NFL refs are gonna get AI’d right out. I think they are beta testing now which IMO is why the review calls are so wonky.

Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 08:19 PM (YVT+g)

142

Nuno F. G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor at MIT, was shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 15, 2025, and died the following morning. The authorities are currently investigating the incident as a homicide, with no suspects in custody at this time.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 08:21 PM (pkeXY)

143 Gyros, as has been noted by others, is lamb. And carnitas is always pork. If you had goat in Mexico it was almost certainly birria. Which is very good, by the way, although it can also be made with beef or lamb and my personal favorite is lamb.

Posted by: HTL

A hot, fresh Gyro with cold tzatziki sauce on a warm flatbread. Mmmmm.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:21 PM (QVuuq)

144 Gyros keep you stable.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 08:22 PM (pkeXY)

145 DDG AI:
Name Title Location
Al Abdelaziz Ward 6 Councilman City of Paterson
Mohamed T. Khairullah Mayor Borough of Prospect Park
Muhammad “Anjum” Zia Councilman City of Atlantic City
Rizwan Malik Former Councilman City of East Orange
Intashan Chowdhury Business Administrator Borough of Prospect Park
County Government
Name Title Location
Assad R. Akhter Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders Passaic County
Shereef M. Elnahal Former Commissioner of New Jersey Department of Health Statewide
Ehsan F. Chowdhry Immediate Past President - New Jersey Muslim Lawyers Association Statewide
State Government
Name Title Location
Huma Abedin Aide to United States Secretary of State Statewide
Muhammad A. Zubair Member of Governor Murphy’s Healthcare Transition Team Statewide
Jessica Berrocal Co-Chair, New Jersey State Democratic Committee, Muslim Caucus Statewide

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:22 PM (wCq0Y)

146 If you go to an American restaurant supply and order a gyro for the spit, you will get a cone shaped loaf made of ground beef, lamb, and/or pork compressed. Evidently it's compressed under a lot of pressure as it comes off in slices (very sharp knife). The Greeks in my home town said it was really preferable to the stuff in the old country, usually a poorer cut of lamb or pork.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:23 PM (gm9Sb)

147 They guy at the very least fits the build of the guy in the videos and today all his information starts being taken down?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:16 PM (viF8m)

I'd like to see gait analysis on Mustapha. The guy on the video camera has a distinctive waddle.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 16, 2025 08:24 PM (zYpTz)

148 I'm ferrying my wife into a service center tomorrow for a demod. They are removing all the plates and doublers they bolted on over a year ago to fix some structural cracks on her undercarriage and will be bringing her back to drawing spec.

She fell coming down one of our stairs back then. A really bad break, her foot folded under and she completely sheared both sides, fibula and tibula, tore all her ligaments. They put a lot of steel on both sides to hold everything together while she healed. But after a year the hardware has caused various nerve issues, pinching and compression and the NDI (mri I think) has showed a good bit of tissue inflammation. So they're taking it all out tomorrow.

That's my way of asking everyone for prayers for my dear wife's safe surgery tomorrow and quick healing.

thank you.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 08:24 PM (3uBP9)

149 Did you see how many Muslims are in official office in NJ?

It's no surprise the intifada muzzie scum and violent homosexuals have risen to become the threat they are. Millions of idiots and some even on this blog rushed to vote for Barack Obama, not once but twice. Hope and Change Baby! Hope and Change!

Well, you voted for it, now you gets it.

Posted by: Free Shit Comes At A Price at December 16, 2025 08:24 PM (R/m4+)

150 Best thing I have seen AI contribute so far is this christmas vid. Tis the season.

https://tinyurl.com/mwd3krnp

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 08:25 PM (snZF9)

151 >>Nuno F. G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor at MIT, was shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 15, 2025, and died the following morning. The authorities are currently investigating the incident as a homicide, with no suspects in custody at this time.

Couple of other details, he was a top professor of nuclear fusion and a strong Jewish supporter of Israel.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:26 PM (viF8m)

152 That's my way of asking everyone for prayers for my dear wife's safe surgery tomorrow and quick healing.

thank you.
Posted by: banana Dream

Poor thing! Lots of prayers!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 08:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

153 Couple of other details, he was a top professor of nuclear fusion and a strong Jewish supporter of Israel.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:26 PM (viF8m)

Time to spool up a few Flying Crowbars.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 08:29 PM (npFr7)

154 Holy shit.

It’s freaking stormy and gnarly out here. Epic floods not just in the normal places. Lots of power outages due to trees falling on power lines.

I’m safe and dry. I should have filled up my gas tank today though. Gotta commute to the north end tomorrow and it’s going to be windy and raining. Maybe in the morning before I get on the fwy.

Love y’all. Hug your people. I’ll hug Lucy the Fink. She’s the best.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 08:29 PM (mT+6a)

155
She/he's a converted goat fucker and they are legit afraid that we are fed up.
Posted by: rickb223
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They are so _ _ _ _, they don't comprehend that their actions feed the frustration.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:29 PM (wCq0Y)

156 That's my way of asking everyone for prayers for my dear wife's safe surgery tomorrow and quick healing.
thank you.
Posted by: banana Dream

Done!

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 08:29 PM (nhCoE)

157 Love y’all. Hug your people. I’ll hug Lucy the Fink. She’s the best.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Check in as you can tomorrow so we know you are okay, please!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 08:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

158 I’m safe and dry. I should have filled up my gas tank today though. Gotta commute to the north end tomorrow and it’s going to be windy and raining. Maybe in the morning before I get on the fwy.

Love y’all. Hug your people. I’ll hug Lucy the Fink. She’s the best.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 08:29 PM (mT+6a)

Safe and dry here, too. Never got above freezing today, but was sunny, bright, and barely under freezing, so not too bad.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 08:31 PM (npFr7)

159 >Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 08:24 PM (3uBP9)
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Best wishes for a positive outcome.

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 08:32 PM (ZxPkt)

160 That's my way of asking everyone for prayers for my dear wife's safe surgery tomorrow and quick healing.

thank you.
Posted by: banana Dream

You have my prayers without needing to ask.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:34 PM (QVuuq)

161 The Greeks in my home town said it was really preferable to the stuff in the old country, usually a poorer cut of lamb or pork.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:23 PM (gm9Sb)
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A lot of "authentic" food is inferior in quality to what we can have here, and it was originally made of scraps and whatever they could find. The US has some of the cheapest, highest quality meats in the world.

Everyone I know who has been to China has said: "You don't really want authentic Chinese food. You want the American stuff."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 16, 2025 08:34 PM (ZOv7s)

162 asking everyone for prayers for my dear wife's safe surgery tomorrow and quick healing"

Done. And if I can add: bad times with Dad. He's refusing meds, can barely wake up, and hit hospice nurse twice... all this am. Didn't know who I was, told me to get the F out ...

Dementia sucks.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:34 PM (XuXeR)

163 That's my way of asking everyone for prayers for my dear wife's safe surgery tomorrow and quick healing.

thank you.
Posted by: banana Dream
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Said and done.
You do know that she won't be able to predict weather changes any more?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:36 PM (wCq0Y)

164 Some good news.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
29s
>>🚨 BREAKING: John Bolton was just indicted on 18 federal FELONIES by a grand jury, per John Solomon

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:39 PM (viF8m)

165 It's also possible Mustapha has been falsely accused. They picked some rando white twink earlier (who was a hard Leftist, sure... like 80% of Providence) and it wasn't him.
I'm holding to a somethingsomething Hour Rule on this.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 08:40 PM (gKWVE)

166 BREAKING: John Bolton was just indicted on 18 federal FELONIES by a grand jury, per John Solomon

In other news, Mustache Rides announced at the Federal Prison commissary. Get your tickets early.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 08:41 PM (gKWVE)

167 Here in west Arkansas good gyros are hard to find. Actually, Arbys does a fair, not great, job with them (they have the sauce down OK). Trouble is, you hit the drive through, order gyros (saying Yee rohs) and you have to 'splain. "Oh, y'all want Ji Rohs".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:41 PM (gm9Sb)

168
I'm holding to a somethingsomething Hour Rule on this.
Posted by: gKWVE

72 day rule.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 08:42 PM (pkeXY)

169 Do muslim mothers make airplane noises when feeding their kids and then crash the spoon into their forehead?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 PM (QVuuq)

170 AI may have the unintended, but virtuous, effect of turning people off of social media.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 16, 2025 08:43 PM (Vh9CX)

171 162

Sorry, man.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 08:43 PM (fd80v)

172
Lol rickb223

Posted by: fourseasons at December 16, 2025 08:43 PM (3ek7K)

173 169 Do muslim mothers make airplane noises when feeding their kids and then crash the spoon into their forehead?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 PM (QVuuq)
Heartwarming image.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 08:45 PM (QS4uR)

174 Dementia sucks.
Posted by: man at December

It does. I am so sorry.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 08:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

175 Didn't know who I was, told me to get the F out ...

Dementia sucks.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:34 PM (XuXeR)

Indeed. I'm so sorry. Prayers for your dad, and you, in a addition to banana dream's wife.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 16, 2025 08:45 PM (zYpTz)

176
Is President Trump speaking now?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 16, 2025 08:45 PM (3ek7K)

177 170 AI may have the unintended, but virtuous, effect of turning people off of social media.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 16, 2025 08:47 PM (9X60i)

178 I hear that Trump's Chief of Staff gave 11 DAYS worth of interviews to a reporter with Vanity Fair. His articles having her slamming Trump and team. She complains about it being all taken out of context.

What a stupid bitch.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 16, 2025 08:47 PM (Vh9CX)

179 That's my way of asking everyone for prayers for my dear wife's safe surgery tomorrow and quick healing.
thank you.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 08:24 PM (3uBP9)
~~~~~

Absolutely. Praying for her right now.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 16, 2025 08:48 PM (3ImbR)

180 Is President Trump speaking now?

Nothing at whitehouse.gov.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 16, 2025 08:48 PM (3nLb4)

181 The Greeks in my home town said it was really preferable to the stuff in the old country, usually a poorer cut of lamb or pork.

I thought the loaf was the cheap stuff. Always preferred the slices of meat stacked on the spit (from the Turks, but same difference)

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 08:48 PM (KoMOq)

182
MAGA_Ken,
I'm so disappointed in Wiles. I don't understand why she fell for that.

Big Head maybe?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 16, 2025 08:49 PM (3ek7K)

183 Is President Trump speaking now?

Tomorrow night. The 17th.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (KoMOq)

184 Someone in x wrote that Trump had banned Palestinians from coming to the us.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (MXpA1)

185 164 Some good news.
John Bolton was just indicted on 18 federal FELONIES by a grand jury, per John Solomon

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:39 PM (viF8m)

DC grand jury? Hard to believe...

Posted by: Joemarine at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (y171U)

186 178 I hear that Trump's Chief of Staff gave 11 DAYS worth of interviews to a reporter with Vanity Fair. His articles having her slamming Trump and team. She complains about it being all taken out of context.

What a stupid bitch.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

I bet she has the recordings. And she set up
The press to get their asses sued for reporting a false narrative and defamation.

She has to be smarter than this and Trump had to know she was giving these interviews.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (mT+6a)

187 176
Is President Trump speaking now?
Posted by: fourseasons
---

That's some kind of a joke isn't it?
Is he awake?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (wCq0Y)

188 That penguin enclosure cleaner, even with his obviously impaired sense of smell, nearly gagged a couple of times. And there's no telling what polymorphic perversities the second penguin that went behind him was doing to him while the first was distracting him.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (0sNs1)

189
Thank you t-bird.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 16, 2025 08:51 PM (3ek7K)

190 Do muslim mothers make airplane noises when feeding their kids and then crash the spoon into their forehead?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 PM (QVuuq)

lol. funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 08:51 PM (snZF9)

191 It’s on x- Hanukkah reception.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 08:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

192 Someone in x wrote that Trump had banned Palestinians from coming to the us.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (MXpA1)

true. and from Syria. and a few more.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:51 PM (g47mK)

193 It’s on x- Hanukkah reception.

===

oh no, someone do a wellness check on Cucker Tarlson and his drunker loser brother, stat!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:53 PM (g47mK)

194 Trump Speaks: Hanukkah

https://shorturl.at/oeIwu

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 08:54 PM (wCq0Y)

195 She has to be smarter than this and Trump had to know she was giving these interviews.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (mT+6a)

They really did everyone dirty. For example, they zoomed in on Karoline Leavitt’s lip injections right after she got them and used that as a picture in the article. Now I think it was mistake to do the interview, we don’t have time for this type of noise. But I have no doubt what was sold and what was delivered were very separate things.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 08:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

196 Almost every video posted on that "Crazy Moments" twitter is AI generated.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 08:55 PM (36PRH)

197
Wiles is not a stupid person. I was shocked she gave interviews.

I think nurse is right.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 16, 2025 08:58 PM (3ek7K)

198 So do not read Kurts The Attack
Do not know that there are 10 divisions of islamofascist terrorist that Biden let in
Do not worry that 100 30 06 rounds could black out 10 million homes
Do not worry that 10 teams of 4 terrorist could kill 5000 to 10,000 people

It is just a book

PS China could double those numbers

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:00 PM (gbOdA)

199 DC grand jury? Hard to believe...
Posted by: Joemarine at December 16, 2025 08:50 PM (y171U)

It’s John Bolton, though.
The Mustache has no fans anywhere, outside of NeoCons and NeverTrumpers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:00 PM (6ydKt)

200 Wat the actual fakk?

@wdsu 44m
Razor blades found in bread at two Walmart stores in Biloxi, suspect arrested | Click on the image to read the full story

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 09:00 PM (mlg/3)

201 We do not need gun control. We need Mustafa control. Along with Ahmed and Mohammed control.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:01 PM (udlma)

202 They really did everyone dirty. For example, they zoomed in on Karoline Leavitt’s lip injections right after she got them and used that as a picture in the article. Now I think it was mistake to do the interview, we don’t have time for this type of noise. But I have no doubt what was sold and what was delivered were very separate things.
Posted by: Piper
------------

Maybe it'll encourage her to abandon artificial enhancements.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:02 PM (wCq0Y)

203 Charlie was a big fish

Ella was a little fish

For every Ella on campus there 1000 people that hate her.
100 people that would throw coffee at her.
10 people that would punch her.
2 or 3 people that would kill her.

This is not just Brown but every school in the US.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:03 PM (gbOdA)

204 So, when's the talk about Susan Wiles E. Coyote? She sure got beep beeped by Vanity Fair.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 09:03 PM (gKWVE)

205 If the reporter didn’t make it all up, Wiles really did get quite candid with inside baseball and her own little psychological profiles of Trump and his people.

She really shouldn’t do more interviews if her tongue gets that loose with media.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:06 PM (6ydKt)

206 >>DC grand jury? Hard to believe...

Maryland I believe.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:06 PM (viF8m)

207 It sucks. When your target populations include a lot of people who are high achievers, like Christian college students and Jewish physicists, you can inflict such asymmetrical damage. How many people who have laws about the distance from their homes at which they can legally sell meat from the farm animals they bugger do you have to kill to make up for one nuclear fusion expert, or one promising young student leader?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:06 PM (BI5O2)

208 Problem for assholes like Bolton is the left hates him as much as the right. He thought he’d be Liz Cheney he just ended up being a traitorous cuck.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:06 PM (udlma)

209 If the reporter didn’t make it all up, Wiles really did get quite candid with inside baseball and her own little psychological profiles of Trump and his people.

She really shouldn’t do more interviews if her tongue gets that loose with media.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:06 PM (6ydKt)

trump should shit can her.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:07 PM (snZF9)

210 204 So, when's the talk about Susan Wiles E. Coyote? She sure got beep beeped by Vanity Fair.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 09:03 PM (gKWVE)

One of these days conservatives will learn to STFU.
When suzie q (and that is every mag) speaks up, then shit the fuck up.
No noise No Data No Nothing

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:08 PM (gbOdA)

211
Berserker,

I agree.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 16, 2025 09:08 PM (3ek7K)

212 How many people who have laws about the distance from their homes at which they can legally sell meat from the farm animals they bugger do you have to kill to make up for one nuclear fusion expert, or one promising young student leader?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:06 PM (BI5O2)

I like things simple, so I'll say "all".

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:09 PM (snZF9)

213 205
'Wiles really did get quite candid with inside baseball and her own little psychological profiles of Trump and his people.'

That's pretty naive. I hope her judgment is better than that as chief of staff.
A lot better.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 09:09 PM (fd80v)

214 She really shouldn’t do more interviews if her tongue gets that loose with media.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:06 PM (6ydKt)

trump should shit can her.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:07 PM (snZF9)
-------------

Where is this information?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:09 PM (wCq0Y)

215 What did Wiles say?
TLDR version.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:10 PM (udlma)

216 She really shouldn’t do more interviews if her tongue gets that loose with media.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

The GOPrs should never do an interview with hostile media unless the GOPrs set up an ambush of the 'reporter.' Grill the fuck out of them instead. Make their propaganda very expensive.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 09:10 PM (mlg/3)

217 trump should shit can her.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:07 PM (snZF9)

thats just stupid

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:10 PM (gbOdA)

218 Here in west Arkansas good gyros are hard to find. Actually, Arbys does a fair, not great, job with them (they have the sauce down OK). Trouble is, you hit the drive through, order gyros (saying Yee rohs) and you have to 'splain. "Oh, y'all want Ji Rohs".

gyros are great, however, you are best not to settle for something second best. if you're after the gyro taste, go to youtube, there are recipes for using thinly sliced beef, with gyro spices, that way better than fast food gyros.

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:10 PM (4hlpI)

219 One of these days conservatives will learn to STFU.
When suzie q (and that is every mag) speaks up, then shit the fuck up.
No noise No Data No Nothing

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:08 PM (gbOdA)

Sometimes trump reminds of me some of the people I build harleys for. Everything in the engine, and squat for the shit around it. He gets some good muscle in a few key positions, and still has retards in the periphery.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:12 PM (snZF9)

220 thats just stupid
Posted by: rhe

quit holding women accountable!

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:12 PM (4hlpI)

221 Best wishes, banana dream, for your wife's full and quick recovery.

Also, very sorry to hear about the dementia situation, man. Old Paco suffered from occasional bouts in the last year or so of his life, generally coinciding with infections. Even though he lives in south/central North Carolina, he somehow got the notion that Mexican drug dealers were digging tunnels on his 40-acre property. My brother, who was his principal caregiver, dutifully went out in the pasture with a long piece of re-bar and reported back after a while that no tunnels had been detected. My father-in-law developed Parkinson's, and gradually fell prey to dementia, also. He used to hold imaginary board meetings in his kitchen, and once ordered one of his sons out of the room because he wasn't a director.

The human mind is a wonderful thing, but when it goes wrong, the effects are often devastating.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 09:12 PM (2L+MU)

222 Sometimes trump reminds of me some of the people I build harleys for. Everything in the engine, and squat for the shit around it. He gets some good muscle in a few key positions, and still has retards in the periphery.
Posted by: Bers

90% of everything is garbage, same with humans

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:13 PM (4hlpI)

223 trump should shit can her.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:07 PM (snZF9)

He must really like her and the job she’s been doing.

She says Trump has an “Alcoholic Personality” and he’s agreeing with her and expanding on the idea to reporters.

Trump’s a forgiving guy with his people, right up until he isn’t when the finally cross his line.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:14 PM (6ydKt)

224 trump should shit can her.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:07 PM (snZF9)

thats just stupid

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:10 PM (gbOdA)

you're right, short sighted on my part. If she indeed said exactly whats being reported, he should fucking blow torch her first, then shit can her.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:14 PM (snZF9)

225 209 trump should shit can her.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:07 PM (snZF9)

White House and cabinet are standing behind her 100% and blasting VF.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 16, 2025 09:15 PM (y171U)

226 I want to know more but this right here sucks:

https://tinyurl.com/y543dft2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:16 PM (wCq0Y)

227 White House and cabinet are standing behind her 100% and blasting VF.
Posted by: Joe

vf is dishonest, she's stupid, both are true

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:16 PM (4hlpI)

228 What did Wiles say?
TLDR version.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

The quote sniping version is:
Trump has an "alcoholic personality" and Vance is a "conspiracy theorist" and Vought is a "right-wing zealot" and Musk destroying USAID is a bad thing. Musk is a 'self-admitted' ketamine user.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 09:16 PM (mlg/3)

229 Where is this information?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:09 PM (wCq0Y)

Here’s the article I read:
https://tinyurl.com/yyfbeymw
(Mediate)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:17 PM (6ydKt)

230 I cannot imagine why somebody, anybody, in the Trump administration thought it was a good idea for his famously low-profile chief of staff to give an interview to Vanity Fair over some 11 days. I hope, along with nurse ratched, that she recorded the whole thing herself and that this is some kind of Trump op, but I just don't know.

And although Wiles and others are saying that the interviewer took things out of context, it's difficult to see why, even with proper context, some of these comments were made.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 09:18 PM (2L+MU)

231 Sometimes trump reminds of me some of the people I build harleys for. Everything in the engine, and squat for the shit around it. He gets some good muscle in a few key positions, and still has retards in the periphery.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:12 PM (snZF9)
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They're all in the picture; VP Vance, Rubio, Miller, Levitte, others.
This stinks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:18 PM (wCq0Y)

232 I used to love Christmas
Spent money like crazy
Opening gifts in Jan
Now my family just gets what they want every day
Kind of unfun

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:19 PM (gbOdA)

233 And although Wiles and others are saying that the interviewer took things out of context, it's difficult to see why, even with proper context, some of these comments were made.
Posted by: Paco
---

Doing an interview with Vanity Fair is just stupid.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:20 PM (wCq0Y)

234 The kitten and the baby has to be AI because it's too good to be real.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:20 PM (KDPiq)

235 They are lighting the Menora.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:20 PM (wCq0Y)

236 If Wiles really said all that she should be fired. No excuse.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:21 PM (udlma)

237 vf is dishonest, she's stupid, both are true
Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:16 PM (4hlpI)

I denounce you N, you are showing insufficient enthusiasm to the current group-think, and you are exposing yourself as a wrecker.
Let this be a warning to the rest of you. Consensus is a delicate thing, and can be destroyed by individual thought. Seeking compromise or merely asking questions is counter-social behavior that impairs enthusiasm.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2025 09:21 PM (rbvCR)

238 Their best and brightest are people who put on a turban and say "I have many great new laws about how you can fuck animals, Allah's way and also everything else," or who dig up municipal waterworks to convert them into crude, childlike rockets.

All they need to do is walk into our glittering institutions, pick a HVT, and do more damage to the world than a year of day and night carpetbombing of their homelands would.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:21 PM (BI5O2)

239 Even if she didn’t say it she should be fired for being an imbecile and Trusting vanity fair. Will Republicans never learn this basic lesson? They hate you and will fuck you over any chance they have.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:22 PM (udlma)

240 228
'The quote sniping version is:...'

A bunch of frigging gossip. It probably won't hurt very much since every Trump supporter hates the media.
But it doesn't help at ALL.
The interview shouldn't have occurred.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 09:22 PM (fd80v)

241 The entire White House is completely ,with no weasely words , defending Wiles . That's good enough for me.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:23 PM (KDPiq)

242 I like this web posting. Brings back memories of Africa and our family goat farm.

Not many women in our little town if you know what I mean ......

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at December 16, 2025 09:24 PM (J9q9v)

243 entire White House is completely ,with no weasely words , defending Wiles . That's good enough for me.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:23 PM (KDPiq)

She shouldn’t have done the interview to begin with. She’s too stupid or naive to understand the msm will twist her words. For that alone she should be fired.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:25 PM (udlma)

244 Why fire her? She’s still 100 times better than any other chief of staff that Trump has ever had.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:26 PM (MXpA1)

245 My cerumen is tightly impacted. Is there anyone I can sue?

Posted by: Beltone Bill at December 16, 2025 09:26 PM (oftw2)

246 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:25 PM (udlma)

That's certainly an opinion.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:27 PM (KDPiq)

247 Why fire her? She’s still 100 times better than any other chief of staff that Trump has ever had.
Posted by: Tom

that is not much of a brag

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:27 PM (4hlpI)

248 Kennedy does a Naval Blockade of Cuba and he is a hero ..

Trump does it to Venezuela and he is a WAR CRIMINAL worse than Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, UBL, and Ho Chi Minh...

Posted by: Jackson at December 16, 2025 09:28 PM (J9q9v)

249 It's a dud:

8. Wiles hints blowing up boats is about more than drugs — it’s about Maduro

SHOCKING

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:29 PM (wCq0Y)

250 She’s still 100 times better than any other chief of staff that Trump has ever had.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Do the Trumps own a cat? Maybe they should appoint her. She can meow at the reporters and ask for skritches and treats. The main different between her and Wiles is that reporters won't be able to translate her meows into hit pieces.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 16, 2025 09:30 PM (gKWVE)

251 243
'For that alone she should be fired.'

Trump will wait 3-4 months to save her embarrassment and then send her off to spend more time with her family.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 09:30 PM (fd80v)

252 Kennedy does a Naval Blockade of Cuba and he is a hero ..

Trump does it to Venezuela and he is a WAR CRIMINAL worse than Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, UBL, and Ho Chi Minh...
Posted by: Jackson at December 16, 2025 09:28 PM (J9q9v)

And the drugs are doing actual damage instead of potential damage.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:30 PM (KDPiq)

253 It is imortant to have perspective,because everything is an op now, everythign.

fit is the same with the vids about cave diving and caving in general, somebody is trying to get everybody out of underground spaces because the gov, aliens, gov + aliens need such spaces for something nefarious.

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:30 PM (4hlpI)

254 or who dig up municipal waterworks to convert them into crude, childlike rockets.

All they need to do is walk into our glittering institutions, pick a HVT, and do more damage to the world than a year of day and night carpetbombing of their homelands would.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:21 PM (BI5O2)

The pipes were asking for it like the children on England.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:30 PM (gbOdA)

255 234 The kitten and the baby has to be AI because it's too good to be real.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:20 PM (KDPiq)

The kitten sitting back on his hind legs with his paws up seemed a little off to me.

But it’s been awhile since I’ve played with a kitten and they might do that all the time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:31 PM (6ydKt)

256 Kennedy does a Naval Blockade of Cuba and he is a hero ..

Trump does it to Venezuela and he is a WAR CRIMINAL worse than Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, UBL, and Ho Chi Minh...
Posted by: Jacks

not entirely the same

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:31 PM (4hlpI)

257 247 Why fire her? She’s still 100 times better than any other chief of staff that Trump has ever had.
Posted by: Tom
---

It's not that new and not that shocking.
Some of it is blunt.
Who would have ever expected blunt from Trump White House?

PERPETUALLY OFFENDED PERSON!!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:32 PM (wCq0Y)

258 Who reads Vanity Fair? What effect will it have on anything? None. It’s just a 24 hour kerfluffle of no significance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:33 PM (MXpA1)

259 I will tell a story that may or may not be true

A girl got raped
400 bucks at the local hospital ER to 2 dude from a bar fight
an address or name
they never went back to school
I do not think they ever lived in that town again
It was a town of about 30k.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:33 PM (gbOdA)

260
not entirely the same
Posted by: n
----

Correct, Cuba is an island facing the Gulf of America and Venezuela is on the South American contenent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:33 PM (wCq0Y)

261 Got an email back from Pookette's teacher today. She's creating a paper trail, counseled K that threatening people is not okay and crossed a line, he wrote an apology email to Pookette and knows he's on thin ice (the school basically expelled someone in Pookette's class a few years ago, so they do have standards).

Talking to Pookette, the whole thing sounds like bragging/teasing/flirting that got waaaay out of hand. (He's been a bit sweet on her in the past.) She's moving on, but that kid is definitely on her "never-gonna-date" list. And she knows that Pooky will back her up if need be. I'm curious how Future Boyfriend will react if/when he hears about it, he adores Lil Pooky (and Pookette, obviously).

Posted by: pookysgirl didn't need this drama at December 16, 2025 09:36 PM (Wt5PA)

262 Jesse Kelly. I am tired of this brinksmanship bullshit terror mongering. If you truly fucking believe that Gavin Newsome is the next Stalin and is inevitable, then you should fucking act like it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:36 PM (zZu0s)

263 pick a HVT,
--

Haverty Furniture got the first page of DDG, didn't look any further.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:37 PM (wCq0Y)

264

I'm considering making breakfast muffins for Christmas morning. Ham and/or sausage. The grandkids will be to excited to eat a big breakfast.

Have any of you made savory muffins instead of sweet?

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 09:37 PM (3ek7K)

265 Not unless you count egg muffins with onion and bacon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)

266 Survival Kit Contents Check: “I have candles, batteries, 2 small LED lanterns, a fully charged power bank, 9 packs of Luckies, 3 6-packs of soft drinks, and assorted cans of non-perishable food”.
——
What, no prophylactics?

Still, a feller could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that stuff!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:39 PM (uMKV8)

267 One thing I noticed is that the media/government seem way, way more amped up about some penny ante interdiction missions against some dope boats than about a seemingly much more controversial heavy munitions strike on nuclear facilities in Iran.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:41 PM (BI5O2)

268 264

I'm considering making breakfast muffins for Christmas morning. Ham and/or sausage. The grandkids will be to excited to eat a big breakfast.

Have any of you made savory muffins instead of sweet?
Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 09:37 PM (3ek7K)

You could do a cornbread dressing style thing with maybe a diced rotisserie chicken.
Or maybe make biscuits with fired eggs and meat.
Let them make their own biscuit sammiches.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 09:41 PM (gbOdA)

269 Correct, Cuba is an island facing the Gulf of America and Venezuela is on the South American contenent.

Posted by: Braen

yeah, was the thing about not bomb and boarding boats too, that was different, indeed why it was interesting

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:41 PM (GuRx+)

270 I'm considering making breakfast muffins for Christmas morning. Ham and/or sausage.
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Hm, maybe just go with the basics? Scratch biscuits smothered with sausage gravy.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:41 PM (uMKV8)

271 It’s amazing how stupid so-called “reporters” are about Venezuela and the drug boats. Start with fact that the boats hit today, like all the boats on the Pacific side, are Columbian narcos , not Venezuelan. It’s obvious. But they’re all tied together, the whole narco trade

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:42 PM (MXpA1)

272
Aetius,

That sounds good. I'll find a recipe.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 09:42 PM (3ek7K)

273
Here’s the article I read:
https://tinyurl.com/yyfbeymw
(Mediate)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Thank's

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:42 PM (wCq0Y)

274 Please remember. Anything the press reports about Trump is through the prism of extreme TDS.

Give our side a chance to reply. My bet is, this is a setup to further destroy the legacy media.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 09:42 PM (mT+6a)

275 Who reads Vanity Fair? What effect will it have on anything? None. It’s just a 24 hour kerfluffle of no significance.
Posted by: Tom S

it was nothing but an opportunity for unrewarded risk, give an anti trump hack some opportunities to hammer Trump , no reward? smart

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:43 PM (GuRx+)

276 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:36 PM (zZu0s)

Who is he addressing that to?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:43 PM (KDPiq)

277
Lots of good ideas ya'll. We're trying to control the sugar overload, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 09:44 PM (3ek7K)

278 Newsom is the most telegenic guy the Dems have.

If he can maneuver around Kamala and AOC in the primaries I think he’s likely the next Dem nominee.

I’m not entirely convinced that more than half of the population won’t vote for the hair gel sitting in a yoga position, especially if he convinces them he’s the moderate, safe, choice like Biden did.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:44 PM (6ydKt)

279 267 One thing I noticed is that the media/government seem way, way more amped up about some penny ante interdiction missions against some dope boats than about a seemingly much more controversial heavy munitions strike on nuclear facilities in Iran.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:41 PM (BI5O2)

Yep it sure is easy to tell when someone gets mad because they’re losing a whole lot of money that they’d counted on.
It’s been obvious for years now that a big part of the American political establishment has been partnering with the cartels.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:44 PM (MXpA1)

280 it was nothing but an opportunity for unrewarded risk, give an anti trump hack some opportunities to hammer Trump , no reward? smart
Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:43 PM (GuRx+)

Trump did that to himself with the Reiner tweet.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:45 PM (KDPiq)

281

nurse,

I'm hoping you are right.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 09:45 PM (3ek7K)

282 it was nothing but an opportunity for unrewarded risk, give an anti trump hack some opportunities to hammer Trump , no reward? smart
Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:43 PM (GuRx+)

Trump did that to himself with the Reiner tweet.
Posted by: Opin

so having somebody do it again was smart?

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:46 PM (GuRx+)

283 It’s John Bolton, though. The Mustache has no fans anywhere, outside of NeoCons and NeverTrumpers.

However, we ARE fans of mishandling classified information, so we're not entirely enthused by this.

Posted by: The Uniparty at December 16, 2025 09:46 PM (KoMOq)

284 One thing I noticed is that the media/government seem way, way more amped up about some penny ante interdiction missions against some dope boats than about a seemingly much more controversial heavy munitions strike on nuclear facilities in Iran.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:41 PM (BI5O2)

Could be their dealers raised prices on them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:46 PM (6ydKt)

285 Who is he addressing that to?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:43 PM (KDPiq)

Seems to be the Trump administration. The tweet is over on insty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:47 PM (zZu0s)

286

The U.S. is offering Ukraine security guarantees similar to those it would receive as part of NATO, American officials said Monday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 09:48 PM (pkeXY)

287 Give our side a chance to reply. My bet is, this is a setup to further destroy the legacy media.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 09:42 PM (mT+6a)

Thats my hope. Then trump can sue the shit out of them too and finance new construction of his face on Mt Rushmore, or just buy his own private mountain to put his face on and call it Mt trump. That would piss off the left to end.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 09:48 PM (snZF9)

288 It’s obvious. But they’re all tied together, the whole narco trade
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Someone opined that the drugs from Colombia were going to the US while the drugs from Venezuela were going to Europe. Two days after reading that I read that drugs prices were going up in Europe because of supply issues.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:49 PM (wCq0Y)

289 Seems to be the Trump administration. The tweet is over on insty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:47 PM (zZu0s)

Seems a little over the top. He must have been drunk.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:49 PM (KDPiq)

290 Sydney Sweeny

Posted by: different subject at December 16, 2025 09:50 PM (Q+gd/)

291 so having somebody do it again was smart?
Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:46 PM (GuRx+)

Consider this : Trump may like working closely with Susie Wiles because they have similar who gives a fuvk? attitudes about stuff like this. Most of the stuff Wiles said was probably true; it was just uncomfortable. But who gives a fuck, if Trump doesn’t?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:50 PM (MXpA1)

292 If you truly fucking believe that Gavin Newsome is the next Stalin and is inevitable, then you should fucking act like it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:36 PM (zZu0s)
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Not Stalin. He's dumb so more like Emperor Bokassa I.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:50 PM (A0sqA)

293 262 Jesse Kelly. I am tired of this brinksmanship bullshit terror mongering. If you truly fucking believe that Gavin Newsome is the next Stalin and is inevitable, then you should fucking act like it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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Ah, but it brings him clicks and attention and that's what is truly important.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 09:50 PM (sAmhv)

294 He is uniquely dumb.

He will smear people with dyslexia by claiming dyslexia but its just dumbness.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:51 PM (A0sqA)

295 or just buy his own private mountain to put his face on and call it Mt trump. That would piss off the left to end.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:52 PM (wCq0Y)

296 The tweet:
The most egregious part was sitting down with Vanity Fair for 11 days and expecting an outcome different than the one we got.

We do not have time for this amateur hour crap. We have three years until Gavin Newsom starts arresting Republicans en masse.

Focus.

Me: yeah a bit psychotic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:52 PM (zZu0s)

297 Sydney Sweeny
Posted by: different subject at December 16, 2025 09:50 PM (Q+gd/)

Good idea. There is a troll in here what needs gassed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 09:52 PM (npFr7)

298 Dull. Empty. Vapid. Slow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:52 PM (A0sqA)

299 onsider this : Trump may like working closely with Susie Wiles because they have similar who gives a fuvk? attitudes about stuff like this. Most of the stuff Wiles said was probably true; it was just uncomfortable. But who gives a fuck, if Trump doesn’t?
Posted by: Tom Se

what is the gain from that?

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:52 PM (17ge5)

300 294 He is uniquely dumb.

He will smear people with dyslexia by claiming dyslexia but its just dumbness.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Who is he?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:53 PM (wCq0Y)

301 Newsom is the most telegenic guy the Dems have.

Did spellcheck not offer 'oleaginous' as a choice?

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 09:53 PM (KoMOq)

302 If you knew Susie like I know Susie…….

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:53 PM (LHPAg)

303 Nice word, t-bird.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:54 PM (zZu0s)

304 Please to remember its not just Gavin himself but the entire cadre of fascist bloodsuckers who surround him.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:54 PM (A0sqA)

305 Who is he?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:53 PM (wCq0Y)
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Gavinator.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:55 PM (A0sqA)

306 Please to remember its not just Gavin himself but the entire cadre of fascist bloodsuckers who surround him.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:54 PM (A0sqA)

Even so. If you believe this is inevitable and this is what is going to happen...

Why are you tweeting about it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)

307 Someone opined that the drugs from Colombia were going to the US while the drugs from Venezuela were going to Europe. Two days after reading that I read that drugs prices were going up in Europe because of supply issues.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 09:49 PM (wCq0Y)

I’ve read the same things, and it makes sense, because the biggest goal is crushing Maduro’s finances, in order to break his regime.
And that actually does MORE in the long run to cut drugs to the US, because if Maduro falls both Cuba and Columbia will be destabilized, and the entire framework within which the cartels operate could be overturned.
Trump is playing a much bigger game here than most people can grasp. Together with Rubio he’s trying to remake the entire western hemisphere.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:55 PM (MXpA1)

308 The U.S. is offering Ukraine security guarantees similar to those it would receive as part of NATO, American officials said Monday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 09:48 PM (pkeXY)

Putin will never go for that.
The most he’ll allow is Non-NATO international forces in a DMZ.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:55 PM (6ydKt)

309
Putin will never go for that.
The most he’ll allow is Non-NATO international forces in a DMZ.
Posted by: Spe

Americans are not going for that.

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:57 PM (17ge5)

310 Did spellcheck not offer 'oleaginous' as a choice?
Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 09:53 PM (KoMOq)

Put yourself in the place of an AWFL and go from there.

I think he’s a complete fake flake, but I’m not the Democrat base.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 09:57 PM (6ydKt)

311 The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.

Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story. I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team.

The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other President has accomplished in eight years and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have been honored to work for the better part of a decade.

None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of Making America Great Again!

The response from Susan Wiles.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 09:58 PM (ZdaMQ)

312 I hope we can make it through Christmas without all the good cheer being drained away.

Posted by: mindful webworker - need to start my Christmas shopping at December 16, 2025 09:59 PM (lbDMw)

313 what is the gain from that?
Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:52 PM (17ge5)

For one thing, she’ll always tell him what she thinks to his face, unlike all those slimy cocksuckers who worked for him before, like that Gen’l John Kelly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:59 PM (MXpA1)

314 For one thing, she’ll always tell him what she thinks to his face, unlike all those slimy cocksuckers who worked for him before, like that Gen’l John Kelly.
Posted by: Tom Se

spinning is not going to change that it was stupid, gained nothing, she gave more than Trump got

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 10:01 PM (17ge5)

315 Americans are not going for that.
Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 09:57 PM (17ge5)

True.

This war doesn’t get solved until Z and his EUie handlers have no other choices left.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 10:03 PM (6ydKt)

Federal Investigators Believed the Clintons May Have Committed a Crime in Taking Money from Russia and Then Approving the Sale of a Uranium Company to Russia, But the DOJ and FBI Let the Statute of Limitations Run

That pattern keeps occurring, huh?

Whoops, the statute of limitations ran out again. We just lost track of the dates!

If you don't remember the case: the Clinton's worldwide bribery and graft organization, the Clinton Funding Machine, I mean the Clinton Foundation, took money from a Russian-government controlled company. Then Hillary Clinton's State Department turned around and repaid the bribe by approving the sale of a uranium company to the same Russian-government controlled company.

The statute of limitations expired during Trump's first term, but Just the News reports that the DOJ and FBI gave investigators the run-around in arguing that the statute of limitations expired at the earliest possible time, rather than looking at arguments that the statute ran later (due to Clinton continuing the conspiracy).

Hillary Clinton's own Russia scandal: FBI memos detail how Uranium One probe thwarted
Running out the clock: The FBI and DOJ slow-walked their investigation into the Clinton Foundation and the sale of Uranium One to Russia-backed interests. As a result of roadblocks, the statute of limitations was allowed to lapse on any prosecution.
By Jerry Dunleavy

Federal investigators believed there was significant evidence worth pursuing related to possible criminality involving the Clinton Foundation and the State Department's approval of the sale of Uranium One to Russian state-owned interests, but delays by the Justice Department and FBI led the inquiry to whither and die because of statute of limitations issues.

The sale of the Canada-based Uranium One to the Russian state-owned Rosatom was the focus of great controversy and scrutiny from Republicans and others who argued that then-Secretary of State Clinton helped approve the deal and that the Clinton Foundation may have stood to benefit from it.
Career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ also believed the saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from DOJ leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it could no longer be pursued.
FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors in Little Rock, Arkansas and elsewhere closely scrutinized the scandal -- but were largely blocked from serious investigative action due to leadership delays and, following those delays, arguments that the statute of limitations had run out.
Jonathan Ross, then the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, argued in a 2018 email that "there is no legal barrier in continuing the present investigation" into the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. Ross has served as U.S. Attorney in Arkansas since 2022, including during Trump's second term.
Then-U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland of Arkansas also sent a 2018 email to then-U.S. Attorney John Huber of Utah, largely summarizing Ross's arguments, stressing that "we do not believe the prosecution is time-barred by a statute of limitations" in part "because payments from the subjects of the investigation to the Foundation were made continuously from 2007 through 2014."
A newly-declassified internal FBI investigative timeline also argued that claims that the statute of limitations had run out on the Uranium One inquiry "failed to include whether Acts of Concealment such as deleting emails in 2015 and making additional statements and representations about those deletions would have extended the statute of limitations" and also pointed to possible federal criminal statutes such as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, major fraud against the United States, and bank fraud.
The timeline also argued that 18 U.S. Code � 3287 -- Wartime Suspension of Statute of Limitations Act -- should have extended the statute of limitations for this alleged criminality as well.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made the records produced to him by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi available to Just the News this past weekend.

Looks like they gave Trump the run-around, and then he dropped the ball. In fairness to Trump -- the entire Deep State had gotten his chosen AG to step down and the DOJ was being run by a Deep State plant, Ron Rosenstein. Maybe this was the whole point of the RussiaGate op, tying Trump down while the statute of limitations ran.

Posted by: Ace at 06:20 PM

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1 Bold!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 06:21 PM (pkeXY)

2 I only read Ace of Spades for the boldness of the comments!

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at December 16, 2025 06:21 PM (f7m8C)

3 Bold there FBI

Let the play clock run out and then say 'oppps.'

F ewe

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 06:21 PM (2GVsD)

4 Cotton, cotton?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:22 PM (XT32A)

5 Bold and beautiful!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:22 PM (g47mK)

7 hello

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:22 PM (g47mK)

8 it worked!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:22 PM (g47mK)

9 Mebbe a few horseheads labeled "With love from H! Come visit Fort Marcy Park!" showed up in a few beds too....

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 06:23 PM (/ZkOF)

10 runner, now you too can sock Mitch McConnell!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:23 PM (XT32A)

11 make new laws and rules like Obama and Biden did and use those new rules and laws to convict their criminal asses

Posted by: DanMan at December 16, 2025 06:23 PM (8uzBS)

12 Statute of limitations should never apply to anyone in Government.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 06:24 PM (sDNVV)

13 Who could have seen this coming?

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at December 16, 2025 06:25 PM (vFG9F)

14 This was what, 20 fucking years ago, you retards?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

15 Democrats are good at being corrupt.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 06:26 PM (xcxpd)

16 Kinda makes me wonder why we have a statute of limitations at all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 06:26 PM (ESVrU)

17 Dog shit >> Bondi >> Barr >> Sessions

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2025 06:26 PM (abIsI)

18 Statute of limitations should never apply to anyone in Government.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 06:24 PM (sDNVV)

Treason. This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

19 Statute of limitations should never apply to anyone in Government.
Posted by: Ben Had

If the statute doesn't start until the end of a conspiracy, and the FBI/CIA/DOJ are "in on it" by delaying prosecution, that gets you twice the normal "statute" duration.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 06:27 PM (nhCoE)

20 "Guilty as sin, free as a bird!"

-- Bill Ayers, speaking the motto of today's Democrat party.

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 06:27 PM (/ZkOF)

21 But the DOJ and FBI Let the Statute of Limitations Run Like A Weeping Sore.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 16, 2025 06:27 PM (Kt19C)

22 It's amazing how effective the left is at always getting any little thing they want.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 06:27 PM (3uBP9)

23 I strongly endorse the notion that you cannot flee or hide from statutorial limitations. Go overseas? Clock doesn't run till you come back home.
And in that same vein, Political crimes ? Clock stops while your party is in power.
Allowing any other interpretation invites chicanery.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at December 16, 2025 06:28 PM (F/35S)

24 Kinda makes me wonder why we have a statute of limitations at all.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Because human memories are faulty.

Why it applies to crimes where the "witnesses" are paper documents, I don't know.

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 06:28 PM (nhCoE)

25 OT:

Ill just leave this here:
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Higher maternal vitamin D during pregnancy tied to less childhood tooth decay.

6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

26 12 Statute of limitations should never apply to anyone in Government.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 06:24 PM (sDNVV)

Absolutely! The only consolation is that Bill looks like the Crypt Keeper now, and Hillary is completely pickled; neither of them can last all that much longer.

saw a funny little news item a couple days ago - Biden is raising so little money for his "library" that the best he's gonna do is a bookmobile down in a van by the river.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 06:28 PM (uWKK8)

27 Tempis fugit

Posted by: Virgil at December 16, 2025 06:29 PM (98kQX)

28 That doesn't even touch on what they made by allowing MIRV missile tech being transferred to the Chinese while Billy was president.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 06:29 PM (8mulE)

29 Hilary is Pol Pot cray cray but is a hard zero.

Too white

Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 06:29 PM (GbONR)

30 >>> Kinda makes me wonder why we have a statute of limitations at all.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Because human memories are faulty.

Why it applies to crimes where the "witnesses" are paper documents, I don't know.
Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 06:28 PM (nhCoE)

The purpose is so our ruling class has a target date for how long they simply need to stall or hide things.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 06:30 PM (3uBP9)

31 Whoops, the statute of limitations ran out again.

Imagine that.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 16, 2025 06:30 PM (zYpTz)

32
5-year statute of limitations is designed to fail. You commit the crime during a friendly administration and you know the wheels of justice move so slowly you will never have to pay. Lousy Lerner played that game, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 16, 2025 06:31 PM (n7rxJ)

33 "Biden is raising so little money for his "library" that the best he's gonna do is a bookmobile down in a van by the river.
Posted by: Tom Servo "

They can put it in the basement of Barky's bunker.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

34 29 Hilary is Pol Pot cray cray but is a hard zero.

Too white
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Am I wrong in remembering a description for her during the Watergate farce as (and I might be paraphrasing) Crazy as a shithouse rat and constantly afflicted by snatch-stank?

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at December 16, 2025 06:32 PM (F/35S)

35 Clinton will never go to jail. We just have to accept it.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:32 PM (g47mK)

36 This corruption will kill us all.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 06:32 PM (2WIwB)

37 "Whoops, the statute of limitations ran out again.

Imagine that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!"

The cat's eaten it.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:32 PM (vFG9F)

38 They can put it in the basement of Barky's bunker.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

Next to the sump pump.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:32 PM (XT32A)

39 Hilary is Pol Pot cray cray but is a hard zero.

Too white
Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 06:29 PM (GbONR)

When she was younger (say 70s) she was kind of cute

Evil is never attractive though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:33 PM (zZu0s)

40 I figured yhis out long ago
And Hildabeast has no mofe chance of getting Federal charges ghan I do for no crimes

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 06:33 PM (Ia/+0)

41 Bill and Hillary will each have their own chapters in the demise of trust in our nation. Bill because the entire Democratic apparatus decided that they would rather sacrifice the importance of truth acknowledge that what Bill did was a violation of law and morally bankrupt. Hillary because more than a decade later the entire Democratic apparatus decided that they would rather decimate the notion that the law applies to ALL rather than allow prosecution and conviction of Hillary over her corrupt email system. As others have noted here, if an army private were to lose a rifle, they would suffer more consequences than the SECRETARY OF STATE did for "losing" EVERY SINGLE EMAIL SHE SENT AND RECEIVED.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 06:33 PM (TN0g+)

42 Celestial forces decided to give us Trump in the White House V 2.0, instead of Clinton in jail. We should thank them and move on...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:33 PM (g47mK)

43 Sandy Berger's socks smell good in comparison.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 06:34 PM (pkeXY)

44
Clinton will never go to jail. We just have to accept it.
Posted by: runner

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

We'll always have november 2016.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 16, 2025 06:34 PM (n7rxJ)

45 We'll always have november 2016.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 16, 2025 06:34 PM (n7rxJ)

AND November 2024!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:34 PM (g47mK)

46 Why should there be a statute of limitations on crimes by politicians? I don't ask why there is, because I know who writes the laws. But why should there be?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 16, 2025 06:34 PM (s0JqF)

47 Hillary does have an eventual appointment with a certain Judge she will not be able to skip out on.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:34 PM (XT32A)

48 Gosh Darn!!!

Ain’t it strange, remarkable really, that for the last 50 or 60 years ALL of these folks manage to stay one step ahead of the law. Over and over and over. Dozens and dozens, the same names keep popping up in the strangest places, too.

Just can’t get there from here. Undoubtedly though, it is due to our collective fealty and undying devotion to the Rule of Law, the Constitution, and commitment to the principle that No One Is Above the Law.

The system worked!!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 06:35 PM (Vj3lh)

49 Victoria Nuland was doable but the evil inside

Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 06:35 PM (T8bqm)

50
The one thing I want Hillary to know is that there will be books and college classes about her corruption.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 16, 2025 06:36 PM (n7rxJ)

51 better view of the Aussie detective with a handgun shooting the father, while the son was not yet shot.

https://tinyurl.com/yc8wt9a5

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 06:36 PM (vbXSk)

52 Since when has there been any limitations on the Clinton Crime Family? Or the Obamas? Or the Biden Crime Family?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 06:37 PM (nljXp)

53 "entire Deep State had gotten his chosen AG to step down and the DOJ was being run by a Deep State plant, Ron Rosenstein."

Rod ... but .. yeah.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 06:40 PM (vbXSk)

54 Accomack, Nuland was Killary 's bagman and henchman. I spent 8 years following the evil bitches machinations

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 06:40 PM (sDNVV)

55
Don't forget the Clinton Loral scandal which shoveled US military technology secrets to Red China.

I wonder how much cash found it's way into Clinton's pocket for that little bit of national betrayal?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 06:40 PM (iJfKG)

56 Billary were always adept at turning their own scandals into somebdoy else's scandal.

Hillary catches some hear over her email server (which was probably hacked by Russia and China), along with the Foundation taking money from the Russians at the same time she's approving the Uranium One deal.

So what do they do?
Turn it around on Trump.
Now he's the Putin stooge, and his asking Putin on stage to release their hacked emails from Hillary's server proves it... and the rest is conspiratorial history.

They've been doing this since the Whitewater thing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

57 All I can do is sigh at this stuff. All the oops oopsie stuff that was obvious when it happens just gets shoved under the carpet for the well connected.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 06:42 PM (n5tGW)

58 hear = heat.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

59 Nothing is ever going to happen to the clintons in this life, nothing. I suspect they will face judgement in the afterlife though.

One thing that I will always remember is her face when she lost to Trump in 2016. She spent almost her entire adult life knowing that she was going to be president one day and Trump* robbed her of that dream.

*obama had a small part to play in that as well when he jumped ahead of her in the line in 2008.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 16, 2025 06:43 PM (0N4FZ)

60 Denver omeletteers

Posted by: Ducks for Trump at December 16, 2025 06:44 PM (v0R5T)

61 Maybe this was the whole point of the RussiaGate op, tying Trump down while the statute of limitations ran.
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Yup.
And near the whole of the GOP was eager to help.
From Trey Gowdy et al. saying nothing while sitting in closed hearings as witness after witness testified there was no proof ...
To Paul Ryan convincing 50+ members to retire so the Dems could control the House ...
And more.

The whole of the federal employees and almost all elected to Congress were united in one, single goal:
Make sure the American people do not get a voice in government.

They then moved on to illegally arresting us.
And have now moved on to shooting and killing us.
To keep us, the people, out of power.

But the real problem facing America is Trump's tweets, says Erick Erickson.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 06:44 PM (HXT0k)

62 Ron Rosenstein really looked like a sort of weasel.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 06:45 PM (36PRH)

63 And they say experts are useless!

Groundbreaking New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time

-
From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 16, 2025 06:45 PM (+eApl)

64 She popped up in I think Hungary right before they had some troubles.

Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 06:45 PM (T8bqm)

65 I figured this out long ago the Clinton's wete on the take from the Russians. Hildabeast has no more chance of a Federal Court charge that I do with nothing to do with any Federal Bureau

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 06:46 PM (Ia/+0)

66 The Russian Collusion BS was Hildabeast Collusion with Russia then charged Trump with it.

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 06:47 PM (Ia/+0)

67 Oops
Oopsie

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 06:47 PM (udlma)

68 Accomack, after she and Rice did the bullshit about Benghazi she was moved to the Undersecretary of Europe and Asain affairs.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 06:48 PM (sDNVV)

69 >>>Denver omeletteers

Posted by: Ducks for Trump

>Tired of ham and eggers? Try green eggs and hambois.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 06:48 PM (nljXp)

70 Wasn't it Rod Rosenstein?

I seem to remember referring to him as 'HotRod' a few times back then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:50 PM (6ydKt)

71 In the latest clown judge news, the DC clown judge has achieved new levels of clownery:

He won't grant the injunction to block the construction of the ballroom.
But, he says they can't begin to lay the foundations, do any work "below ground" either.

So, he's totally not granting them an illegal injunction, he's just not allowing Trump to start any construction.

If you don't understand how that's not exactly the same, it's 'cause you are a stupid who didn't go to Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 06:52 PM (HXT0k)

72 Way the game is played:

Heads, they win.
Tails, you lose.

I'm waiting for them to prove me wrong.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 06:52 PM (wCq0Y)

73 But the real problem facing America is Trump's tweets, says Erick Erickson.

Who is Erick Erickson and why should anyone care what it has to say?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 06:52 PM (9s47C)

74 Education Secretary Linda McMahon Calls for Tim Walz to Resign over Reports of Education Fraud

Resign? Isn't fraud a crime?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2025 06:52 PM (abIsI)

75 There was an article about a year and half ago that broke down the meetings Hillary had in the State Department offices with parties unrelated to State Dept. business. The grand total was something like 86 separate parties, and of those 86....over 90% are listed as Clinton Foundation donators. Most of those 90% had not donated to the Clinton Foundation before those meetings.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 06:53 PM (dIske)

76 So, he's totally not granting them an illegal injunction, he's just not allowing Trump to start any construction.

If you don't understand how that's not exactly the same, it's 'cause you are a stupid who didn't go to Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 06:52 PM (HXT0k)

This is a judge who wants it both ways.

If he'd been King Solomon that baby would've been split it half for sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:53 PM (6ydKt)

77 Build the case anyway. Document everything. Then publish and let everyone see the extent of the Clintons' crimes.

Posted by: Tired of Living Under a Microscope at December 16, 2025 06:53 PM (MV++E)

78 The Clinton's are not motivated by money. They happily live in a house they bought for 1.5 million in a very nice town 25 miles from from NYC
They have a net worth 100+ million but choose to live a rather modest lifestyle. They are not interested in living a decadent luxury lifestyle you le. No jets no yachts no gold plated toilets

Unfortunately the " source" of that info about the Clinton's is finishing up his 5 year bid for previously lying to the FBI. About Ukraine sourced bribes

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 16, 2025 06:54 PM (L8Dgo)

79 70 Wasn't it Rod Rosenstein?

I seem to remember referring to him as 'HotRod' a few times back then.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:50 PM (6ydKt)
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"Hot Rod" yeah, that was the correct name.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 06:55 PM (36PRH)

80 Most of those 90% had not donated to the Clinton Foundation before those meetings.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 06:53 PM (dIske)

I always believed she had her people take hammers to her mobile phones for this very reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:56 PM (6ydKt)

81 Look breaking the law is NOT illegal, investigating it in a timely manner is...

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 06:57 PM (MUJd1)

82 Hillary should be frogmarched to Jeffrey Epstein's old cell. Place her in solitary confinement there. With a rope.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 06:57 PM (nljXp)

83 Who is Erick Erickson and why should anyone care what it has to say?
---
A pasty-white, pudgy meat gazer who used to run Red State.
Purged it of all actual conservative voices but allowed GOPe to ruin the place.
Moved on to city council run in GA.
Which makes him, in his own mind, an expert on not just GA politics but the whole of the US.
Guest hosted on Rush.
Has his own show now.
Dreams of not-gay but deeply sexual relations with Gabe Sterling and the Ratfucker GA SOS that helped rig GA for Biden.
Is an ever-present, on-the-spot scold for any conservative who strays from his perfect vision of Christians and conservatives.
Cries into his pillow nightly that CNN won't invite him back on.

That's the most of it, I'm sure I've missed some.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 06:58 PM (HXT0k)

84 A few..

Pro publica, 2013, After a Powerful Lobbyist Intervenes, EPA Reverses Stance on Polluting Texas County’s Water
The EPA changed its stance on an aquifer exemption needed for a uranium mining project in Goliad County, Texas, after prominent Democratic lobbyist Heather Podesta made entreaties to one of its top administrators

Forbes, 2017, No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists, By Paul Roderick Gregory ,Contributor

Lehigh valley live, We should be thankful for Podesta email leaks | Letter, Updated: Jan. 17, 2017

Vanity Fair, 2018, Trump’s “Witch Hunt” Theory Just Got a Lot More Complicated. The special counsel hasn’t forgotten about Tony Podesta.

The Columbus Dispatch, Check Democrats' ties to Russia, March 27, 2017

So O & Joe said stand down? 🤷

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 06:58 PM (NFX2v)

85 Elon Musk @elonmusk

Accurate

"Facebook's 'Race Blind' Algorithm Backfires In Their Face: Finds 90% of 'Hate Speech' Was Directed Toward White People and Men"

X: https://bit.ly/4j1xHyb

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:00 PM (P5BPp)

86 One of the most maddening things about this is shithead leftists who will claim that the Clintons are clean because they have not been prosecuted.

Such naivety and/or politically motivated intentional obtuseness should be fatal.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 07:00 PM (dK+Kv)

87 Resign? Isn't fraud a crime?

We don't prosecute crimes anymore, only persecutions of the sheepdogs of society.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:00 PM (xE0sV)

88 Erick Erickson aka Double-Wide Double-E....

a rotund asshole that occasionally shits out a coherent thought

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 07:02 PM (MUJd1)

89 Maybe this was the whole point of the RussiaGate op, tying Trump down while the statute of limitations ran.

Didn't he run around yelling he was being wire tapped, setup, etc?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 07:02 PM (NFX2v)

90 Trump just ordered a blockade of Venezuela on all sanctioned tankers. He also designated Venezuela a foreign terrorist organization.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 07:02 PM (viF8m)

91 Hillary should be frogmarched to Jeffrey Epstein's old cell. Place her in solitary confinement there. With a rope.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 06:57 PM (nljXp)

Too merciful.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 07:03 PM (dK+Kv)

92 Bill Belichick, 73, cozies up to girlfriend Jordon Hudson, 24, as she performs in a skimpy cheerleading uniform

https://tinyurl.com/mvb3kzxf

You dirty dog.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2025 07:03 PM (abIsI)

93 Japan launch coming up.

JAXA Michibiki 5 H3 Launch from Japan
Date: December 16, 2025
Launch time: 8:10p.m. EST

https://youtu.be/FD6OsthGmQE

Posted by: Joyenz at December 16, 2025 07:04 PM (2F0/Y)

94 They have a net worth 100+ million but choose to live a rather modest lifestyle. They are not interested in living a decadent luxury lifestyle you le. No jets no yachts no gold plated toilets

Unfortunately the " source" of that info about the Clinton's is finishing up his 5 year bid for previously lying to the FBI. About Ukraine sourced bribes

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 16, 2025 06:54 PM (L8Dgo)

Ya know, you wouldn't be such a naive dim-witted Democrat if you'd just ask yourself the simple question; "What did the Clintons do to earn that $100 million?"

People who just want to live modestly don't have $100 million to begin with. If that's even their real net worth and you just didn't pull a number out of thin air.

Everybody on the planet knows how Trump had made his money, but you never stop to ask how all of these politicians go from the poorhouse to multi-millionaires in the space of a few terms in elected office.

It's apparent that you love being lied to and mislead to as long as the show on TV makes you feel superior to the people you hate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 07:04 PM (6ydKt)

95 Maduro did not kill.himself. The narco-terrorists did

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 07:05 PM (sDNVV)

96
Education Secretary Linda McMahon Calls for Tim Walz to Resign over Reports of Education Fraud

Resign? He'll probably be reelected by a landslide.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 07:06 PM (pkeXY)

97 Education Secretary Linda McMahon Calls for Tim Walz to Resign over Reports of Education Fraud

Resign? Isn't fraud a crime?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
----

They only prosecute peasants, peasant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:06 PM (wCq0Y)

98 Ya know, you wouldn't be such a naive dim-witted Democrat if you'd just ask yourself the simple question; "What did the Clintons do to earn that $100 million?"
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Shrewd investing. Cattle futures.

Posted by: Hillary at December 16, 2025 07:07 PM (XeU6L)

99 the statute of limitations was allowed to lapse on any prosecution.

Well, sure. You can't cover things up forever. Our Transparency is too important!

Posted by: DOJ at December 16, 2025 07:07 PM (KoMOq)

100 "Maduro did not kill.himself. The narco-terrorists did
Posted by: Ben Had

they may kill him, but I don't think that stops Trump from blowing up their boats, and the rest of their drug trade.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 07:07 PM (vbXSk)

101
They are not interested in living a decadent luxury lifestyle you le. No jets no yachts no gold plated toilets

Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 07:07 PM (pkeXY)

102 Is an ever-present, on-the-spot scold for any conservative who strays from his perfect vision of Christians and conservatives.

So whatever "church" he might belong to refuses to let him be an elder for fear that he will "discipline" the entire congregation out of fellowship.

The Serpent spends a lot of time accusing the Saints too.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:08 PM (xE0sV)

103 >>> One of the most maddening things about this is shithead leftists who will claim that the Clintons are clean because they have not been prosecuted.

Such naivety and/or politically motivated intentional obtuseness should be fatal.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 07:00 PM (dK+Kv)

Also they'll also provide the number of felonies Trump was charged with. They know it is all BS and a feature of the wide spread corruption of our times, and are happy about that, because it very clearly shows they are still very much in charge of everything and all the Republicans are their bitch. They love it. They can't stop smiling and smirking while laying it all out. No, really watch them some time. They are enraptured.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 07:08 PM (3uBP9)

104 December 16, 2025 06:54 PM (L8Dgo)

Ya know, you wouldn't be such a naive dim-witted Democrat if you'd just ask yourself the simple question; "What did the Clintons do to earn that $100 million?"
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The profits from Uranium are obvious.
What profit did she receive for the murderous deaths in Libya?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:09 PM (wCq0Y)

105 The Uranium One deal had to go through the CFIUS Committee for approval because of national security issues. As Sec of State Hillary was on the committee but was replaced by her deputy for this case.

People like Geitner and Holder were on the committee and approved the deal. I assume they all got paid. If the Clintons went done a lot of others were going with them.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)

106
Nice blog ya got here, Ace.

Shame if anything should happen to it.

Posted by: Old Retired couple from Chappaqua at December 16, 2025 07:10 PM (Y8DZL)

107 The Clinton's are not motivated by money.

Everyone is motivated by money. Especially leftists who desire power and influence and control. Which is all leftists.

As eloquently stated in "The Wolf of Wall Street":

"Enough of this shit will make you invincible. Able to conquer the world and eviscerate your enemies.

See, money doesn’t just buy you a better life -- better food, better cars, better pussy -- it also makes you a better person. You can give generously to the church or the political party of your choice. You can save the fucking spotted owl with money."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:10 PM (P5BPp)

108 The Clinton's are not motivated by money.

I stopped reading Right There.

Random Question: Who do you know writes off on their taxes the estimated value of donated used underwear? And what would motivate someone to do that?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:11 PM (c3sdc)

109 101 They are not interested in living a decadent luxury lifestyle you le. No jets no yachts no gold plated toilets

Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be.

robinson crusoe on mars > robinson crusoe

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 07:11 PM (v3pYe)

110 Hildabeast knows nothing will ever touch her being protected by the Deep State

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 07:11 PM (Ia/+0)

111 It is nice to be part of the protected, political class.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 07:12 PM (NwnyJ)

112 86 One of the most maddening things about this is shithead leftists who will claim that the Clintons are clean because they have not been prosecuted.

Such naivety and/or politically motivated intentional obtuseness should be fatal.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

The Godfather, Who's being naive, Kay?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 07:12 PM (NFX2v)

113 Conspiracy SoL's can still be on the clock. Clinton's not out of the woods yet.

Nor her co-conspirators Comey, Wray, Rosenstein, Strzok, Page, etc., etc.

It will hang over their heads like the blood on Lady Macbeth's hands.

Posted by: Minuteman at December 16, 2025 07:12 PM (47/pr)

114 they may kill him, but I don't think that stops Trump from blowing up their boats, and the rest of their drug trade.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 07:07 PM (vbXSk)
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If anything, that makes Trump's job that much easier.

He can rain fire down on the cartels.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 07:13 PM (ESVrU)

115 Via Grok:

The bulk comes from post-presidency activities leveraging their fame and connections:

Paid Speaking Engagements: This is the largest source. From 2001 to 2015 alone, Bill and Hillary earned over $153 million from 729 speeches (average ~$210,000 each). Bill earned the majority -- over $100 million in his first decade post-presidency, with fees often $200,000 -- $500,000 (and up to $750,000 for international events). Hillary added tens of millions, especially after leaving the State Department in 2013 (e.g., ~$225,000 per speech to banks and corporations). Overall post-White House speaking income for the couple exceeds $250 million when including later years.

Book Deals and Royalties: Significant advances and sales contributed tens of millions.
Combined book earnings: ~$40–50 million+ from advances, royalties, and later works (e.g., joint books with Chelsea or thrillers co-authored by Bill).

Consulting and Advisory Roles: Bill earned millions from private consulting (e.g., ~$17 million over five years as honorary chancellor for Laureate Education, plus gigs with entities like UBS). Some overlapped with Clinton Foundation donors, but these were personal contracts.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:15 PM (P5BPp)

116 Build the case anyway. Document everything. Then publish and let everyone see the extent of the Clintons' crimes.

It will be used by a handful of talk show hosts and random pod casters and then after the first segment will be quickly forgotten.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:16 PM (c3sdc)

117
I never figured any of the insiders from the Clinton mob would rat out the duplicitous duo for any reason.

It's not just the going to prison or getting whacked; it's your family and friends being threatened, too.

Posted by: Auspex at December 16, 2025 07:16 PM (Y8DZL)

118 102 Is an ever-present, on-the-spot scold for any conservative who strays from his perfect vision of Christians and conservatives.

So whatever "church" he might belong to refuses to let him be an elder for fear that he will "discipline" the entire congregation out of fellowship.

The Serpent spends a lot of time accusing the Saints too.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:08 PM (xE0sV)

Thought you were talking about David French until I scrolled back to the earlier comment.

Posted by: Similar kind of vibe at December 16, 2025 07:17 PM (TbWk/)

119 Power. Just power. That's all & that's enough.

And everything they touch turns to crap -

The Clintons' connection to Ukraine involves Bill Clinton's role in the 1994 nuclear disarmament agreement, a decision he has since regretted, and Hillary Clinton's diplomatic efforts and the Clinton Foundation's activities which have drawn both praise and scrutiny.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 07:18 PM (NFX2v)

120 It is nice to be part of the protected, political class.

Which came first- the criminals that created the laws, or the laws that created the criminals?

Posted by: Shakespeare Couldn't Touch Us, Either! at December 16, 2025 07:18 PM (KoMOq)

121
they may kill him, but I don't think that stops Trump from blowing up their boats, and the rest of their drug trade.
Posted by: illiniwek
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About half of South America has voted out the socialists in favor of a more democratic/republican style of government. Both Argentina and Chile north until Colombia.

Trump wants the Western Hemisphere to be free of foreign influence, to be financially and materialy free, to be self sufficient. He and Milei are in the process of acheiving that goal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:18 PM (wCq0Y)

122 Nood goat lovers

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 07:20 PM (P5BPp)

123 I knew the speaking fees would come up.

$500k for an hour speech.
Even if it isn't a payoff for a job well done, that certainly isn't not being motivated by money, and it's certainly nowhere near modest.

And book advances...
If I've heard Ace explain the book advance scam once, IU've heard it a thousand times.

It's all slick corruption.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 07:20 PM (6ydKt)

124 >>>It will be used by a handful of talk show hosts and random pod casters and then after the first segment will be quickly forgotten.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

>Couldn't we say she's a Nazi? That would keep it in the news cycle for four more years.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 07:20 PM (nljXp)

125 07:08 PM (xE0sV)

Thought you were talking about David French until I scrolled back to the earlier comment.
Posted by: Similar kind of vibe
-----------

I've given up chasing down comments.
If they want you to know what/who they are talking about and who's being quoted, they will enter it in the comment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 07:22 PM (wCq0Y)

126 That Venezuelan bint won the NP because she will bring in the muzzles and rainbow people.
Leave Maduro and sink the boats.
Grenada was a long time ago.

Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 07:42 PM (RBD82)

127 But the real problem facing America is Trump's tweets, says Erick Erickson.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

The only problem facing America is an insufficiently large bag of dicks for Erick Erickson to eat.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 16, 2025 07:46 PM (rec3C)

128
Looks like they gave Trump the run-around, and then he dropped the ball. In fairness to Trump -- the entire Deep State had gotten his chosen AG to step down and the DOJ was being run by a Deep State plant, Ron Rosenstein.

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JackStraw ain't going to like it, but he defended Rosenstein repeatedly here.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 16, 2025 08:34 PM (Vh9CX)

129 I do not believe there is (or should be) a statute of limitations on TREASON.

Posted by: Tracy at December 16, 2025 10:36 PM (0CLA9)

130 As far as Hillary Clinton was concerned, of course it was! But Barack Obama had a vested interest in delaying any investigation past the Limitations. No doubt, Kathy Reummler, Obama's Legal Chief who had extensive ties to Epstein until he was suicided, also had a vested interest in no investigations. Yes, that also means Sally Yates did too.

Posted by: wferrin at December 17, 2025 02:54 AM (09PVu)

131 If you wish for to get a good deal from this paragraph then you have to apply
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Posted by: Dab Pen at December 17, 2025 11:31 AM (T9Kfu)

NYPost: Candace Owens Leaves a Trail of Enemies, and Lawsuits, Everywhere She Goes

This barely scratches the surface.

Candace Owens' attacks on Erika Kirk are fueled by her own jealousy and bitterness at being pushed out of Turning Point USA, sources claim to The Post.
The independent broadcaster, 36, described as "sadistic and dangerous" by insiders, didn't hold back from spreading baseless conspiracy theories about the grieving widow and her husband, activist Charlie Kirk, after he was assassinated on Sept. 10.
For those who have crossed her path, Owens' disregard for the truth, pursuit of attention and reckless behavior are all calculated.
Those who spoke to The Post claim Owens was loathed by staff when she worked at the Daily Wire, guests on her podcast doubt she believes her own lies and her pattern of inflammatory behavior can be traced all the way back to high school.
"Everything she is doing right now is because she wants to destroy Charlie's legacy and the organization he built because he threw her out of TPUSA," alleged one insider.
Influential voices on the right have become more and more conspiratorial in recent years -- and now, the paranoia is being wielded against its own: Erika Kirk in the wake of her husband Charlie's assassination.

For those of you who say "what does it matter," 1, she's trying to destroy the most effective youth-outreach conservative activist group because they fired her grifter ass, and 2, we're all being branded as insane conspiracy-theorist Nazi Jew-haters because we're trying to make friends with these people instead of just casting them out.

I'm so tired of hearing "Why don't you just stop talking about it." I'll offer you a deal: You start posting in Candace Owens' comments asking her to stop accusing Erika Kirk of murdering her husband. Report back to me what she says. If she stops, then I'll stop talking about her. Deal?

I'm so tired of these claims that criticism of Nazis like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens who are attempting -- successfully -- to destroy the right if out-of-line while they're allowed to continue demolishing everything good and true on the right.

Why is it that only Carlson's and Owens' critics have to duty to be silent for the sake of Unity? (Unity with Nazis, by the way.) Why don't they have a similar duty?

If you're a Nazi and you like this Nazi propaganda, don't be a coward, just say so. Stop with this bullshit that critics of Owens and Carlson have to remain silent while they're free to drop defamation after defamation on all of their many, many enemies on the right.

Owens worked for TPUSA as a communications director between 2017 and 2019.
"Charlie pushed her out because she was going a little bit nuts," a source close to TPUSA brass claimed to The Post, but noted "he would still text her to keep the friendship going."

False. She started off nuts. This deranged black Nazi has been a degenerate narcissist fame-chaser since high school.

She's also always been very litigious:

She is a graduate of Stamford High School in Connecticut.[7] In 2007, while a 17-year-old senior at Stamford High School, Owens received three racist death threat voicemail messages, totaling two minutes, from a group of white male classmates which included the son of then-mayor and future Democratic governor Dannel Malloy.[8][9][10][11] Joshua Starr, the city's superintendent of schools, listened to the voicemail messages and said that they were "horrendous".[11] Owens's family sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court, alleging that the city did not protect her rights, resulting in a $37,500 settlement in January 2008.[7][12]

I'm just going to say it: I don't believe those were real. If she can make snap conclusions based on who she likes and who she doesn't like, then so can I. Charges were dropped against the accused kids.

After Charlie started dating Erika in 2018, the source added: "[Owens] was feeling usurped. Who is this interloper, who knew nothing, taking over?" The source claimed.
"She wasn't invited to Charlie's [2021] wedding. That was really telling."
Owens and Erika agreed on a truce over the weekend and were set to meet Monday to hash out their differences.
Conspiracies that Owens has spread about Charlie's murder include the involvement of Israeli Mossad agents, the US military, Egyptian planes and the French government -- despite it having occurred in public and been captured on video. The alleged assassin is in custody awaiting trial.
...
StopAntisemitism named Owens "Antisemite of the Year" in 2024, citing her statement that Judaism is a "pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons [and] child sacrifice," and spreading untrue conspiracies such as Israel was involved in 9/11 and a secret group of Jews in Hollywood was involved in the death of Michael Jackson.
Owen has also promoted the "blood libel" conspiracy, that Jewish people murder Christians to use their blood in ceremonies.
...
Owens is also facing a huge reckoning in court when Bridgette Macron's defamation lawsuit against her comes to trial, expected next year.
Macron filed a 220-page lawsuit in July 2025 alleging 22 counts of defamation and a "campaign of global humiliation" for financial gain against her.
The lawsuit claims Owens continued to repeat false allegations that the French first lady was born a man even after her attorneys were provided with extensive documentation -- including birth records, childhood photos and pregnancy records from her three children -- all demonstrating Macron was born female.

...
"She's about to be in serious financial difficulty" if the Macrons succeed in their lawsuit, a source claimed to The Post.
"She really is on the line for a huge sum of money. I think she probably realizes that now."
...
Sources said if Lord Farmer cuts off his son, George Farmer, and Owens, they would face further financial complications.
A source who knows the family said George "has never had a real job" and is mostly known for his lackluster attempt to launch a right-wing Twitter alternative called Parler, which is still active, but has a dwindling number of users.
Owens and her husband now live in Nashville, where she broadcasts her show, which is very lucrative, according to Fortune magazine, which estimated this month her company "generates up to $10 million" a year.
That's a large turnaround from her more humble beginnings in Connecticut. There, in 2017, she owed six months in back rent on her $3,500-a-month, two-bedroom luxury apartment in Stamford.
Faced with eviction, she instead filed a lawsuit against her landlord, Three Harbor Point Square, claiming the apartment had mold and seeking $15,000 in damages for "systemic yeast infections," "impacted cerumen [earwax] in the left ear," and "emotional distress."
She lost the case and instead had to pay the landlord $20,000 in damages and legal expenses.
...
After leaving TPUSA, Owens moved on to the Daily Wire, and insiders claim she grated with other people who worked there from the start.
One source said that in her first week, she threw her car keys at a producer and expected them to park her car. She is also said to have expected others to conduct her research, demanded a huge studio to film in and attempted to use the company's publicity arm to push herself, questioning why she hadn't been placed on the cover of People magazine.
"She was one of the worst people I've ever worked with," said one source.

Candace Owens says she is still �alive� after meeting with Charlie Kirk�s widow Erika.

�I�m alive. I�m totally fine�.I asked every single question from Egyptian planes, to Turning Point USA Faith and I was very surprised by some of the answers that I got.� pic.twitter.com/yt1dHpPtJe
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) December 16, 2025

You may think the "I'm alive" is a joke. It's not. Candace Owens has spread so much defamatory poison about Erika Kirk and the TPUSA staff being murderers that her cadre of bored stupid housewife "mommysleuths" worried for hours that she had been murdered:

Candace insists that she NEVER said Erika Kirk was involved in Charlie's assassination, so why are her fans so convinced that Erika's plotting to murder her? 🤪 https://t.co/rAzL2bb1Sy pic.twitter.com/zOSv2OzIY9
— Britta | NoSoup4Knowles (@nosoup4knowles) December 16, 2025

The below is AI. I kind of want to lie, like Owens does, and claim it's real, but I also don't want to lie to you. It's pretty convincing AI, especially when you add in that Owens routinely offers up Conspiracy Slop just like this.

I'm crying 😭🤣 pic.twitter.com/Z9SKBr2V41
— Jes�s Enrique Rosas - The Body Language Guy (@Knesix) December 16, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 05:02 PM

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1 WooHoo!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK8)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Well, she needed to go. One way or another.

But, apparently didn't without a massive grudge.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (NwnyJ)

4 She's a nut.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (vFG9F)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (5IH8V)

6 What happened to Candace?

Oh yeah, $

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at December 16, 2025 05:05 PM (jZ3ZM)

7 Owens and her husband now live in Nashville, where she broadcasts her show, which is very lucrative, according to Fortune magazine, which estimated this month her company "generates up to $10 million" a year."

I don't believe that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 05:05 PM (uWKK8)

8 I believe the last video is real.

Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2025 05:06 PM (98kQX)

9 What broke her?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 16, 2025 05:06 PM (0N4FZ)

10 I see I was correct in my guessing that she was unsurped and offended when Charlie started dating the future Mrs. Kirk.

I was correct that Candace is a malignant narcissist.They crave attention. They think they are the smartest in the room and deserve your attention.

You do not offend a narcissist. Even if it is only in their own warped minds they are offended, they will go bonkers.If you tell them they are wrong, this is like pouring gasoline on a fire.

The difference in your random everyday narcissist is they don't have podcasts for clicks.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 05:07 PM (WONhk)

11 I give credit to Mrs Kirk. Because I would have lured this grifting, self-serving, self ingratiating, demonic SOB into a meeting and beat her like and old rug, then mailed the pieces back to her comrades like Tucker to put them on notice. People like this dunce, aren’t on the right or left. They’re on their own side.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 05:07 PM (KsZMV)

12 Nope. Tired of it. Please, I don't want to hear about any more earwax lawsuits.

Posted by: Beltone Bob at December 16, 2025 05:07 PM (oftw2)

13 She's giving conspiracy theorists a bad name. I believe in a lot of kooky shit but she's in a whole 'nother zip code than me.

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2025 05:08 PM (SwyyQ)

14 I guess I am just glad I never got interested in Owens.

I can remain indifferent.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 05:08 PM (jc0TO)

15 >>What broke her?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 16, 2025 05:06 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzbVn9Xx3YM

Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2025 05:08 PM (98kQX)

16 7 Owens and her husband now live in Nashville, where she broadcasts her show, which is very lucrative, according to Fortune magazine, which estimated this month her company "generates up to $10 million" a year."

I don't believe that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 05:05 PM (uWKK

I do - Dems and the Uniparty/Deep State pay a fortune to her to keep her dividing us...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 05:08 PM (tOcjL)

17 What broke her?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 16, 2025 05:06 PM (0N4FZ)

That might be good info to include in the post.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 05:08 PM (dK+Kv)

18 Parler failed mostly because people went to parlor looking for it, which was porn.

It was a stupid name choice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

19 And here’s my crazy theory for the day. I think Fox found out Tucker was an op, and they dumped him before he could fully carry it out.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 05:09 PM (KsZMV)

20 I suspected there would be some resistance from morons here to covering this maniac's decline from grifter to blithering straightjacket bait.

I appreciate the hardline pushback from the Ewok King.

*polite golf clap*

Posted by: spongeworthy at December 16, 2025 05:09 PM (sLLbN)

21 Sources and insiders are not witnesses. Name names or it's CNN.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 05:09 PM (fPASK)

22 legit helping you out, here, with a typo:

I'm so tired of these claims that criticism of Nazis like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens who are attempting -- successfully -- to destroy the right if out-of-line

... to destroy the right are out-of-line

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:10 PM (RuTUS)

23 >What broke her?

Charlie Kirk's refusal to try the Brown Sugar...apparently.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:10 PM (IaZ7c)

24 Hah, I was just coming here to share this:

Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead

Candace Owens called Tim Pool a bitch about an hour ago. I was wondering why.

I think I may have found why.

Tim Pool @Timcast

holy fuck nypost

X: https://bit.ly/4oRMiO1

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 05:11 PM (P5BPp)

25 I believe in a lot of kooky shit but she's in a whole 'nother zip code than me.

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2025 05:08 PM (SwyyQ)

That's because the Mossad got to you with their brain wave machines!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Antisemite at December 16, 2025 05:11 PM (n9ltV)

26 Thought Candice started out as a rising go getter but has turned into a train wreck.
No idea what flipped in her head

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 05:11 PM (Ia/+0)

27 I appreciate the hardline pushback from the Ewok King.

*polite golf clap*

Posted by: spongeworthy at December 16, 2025 05:09 PM (sLLbN)

But this does not mean that we have to start reading the posts, does it?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 05:12 PM (dK+Kv)

28 This bimbo has absolutely no influence in my world. As a matter of fact, I'd probably not tip her after breakfast at the greasy spoon, because of her caustic demeanor.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 05:12 PM (nljXp)

29 That video.....It was really nice of Owens to give a shout out to Tim Walz like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)

30 EGYPTION PLANZE!!!!!

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2025 05:13 PM (SwyyQ)

31 Meh. CO is just a whore who says whatever she thinks will pay the most, whether because of clicks (including ‘outrage’ clicks from our side) or just straight up payola. She’s always been a Machiavellian cunter who probably dumped boyfriends in high school as soon as a more popular dude became available. Pay her enough money and she’ll suddenly become a big supporter of Israel.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 16, 2025 05:13 PM (Wu29I)

32 Candace Owens called Tim Pool a bitch about an hour ago. I was wondering why.

I think I may have found why.

Tim Pool @Timcast

holy fuck nypost

X: https://bit.ly/4oRMiO1

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 05:11 PM (P5BPp)

That's hilarious and really, really nasty.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (dK+Kv)

33 Charlie Kirk's refusal to try the Brown Sugar...apparently.
Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:10 PM (IaZ7c)

The proof that he never actually porked this psycho is that she isn't claiming he porked her.

You can't actually come out and say a thing like that if it's not a scurrilous lie. That would just be wrong.

That's how psycho logic works.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (06Hmj)

34 What broke her?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 16, 2025 05:06 PM (0N4FZ)

—————

Being born.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (u73oe)

35 I'm glad you posted the bit about Stamford HS. Early on I saw some video of her talking about that and I decided she was a nut. I didn't know she was going to be completely looney tunes, though.

Before that moment, I was a bit undecided about her. I thought maybe she was going to refine her messages and grow up to be an OK spokesperson to reach people who were considering conservatism.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (Yp6az)

36 The Jews killed MJ too? I hadn’t heard that one.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (udlma)

37 Candice has a interest in former Soviet aircraft?

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (Ia/+0)

38 Never put your dick in crazy.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (VES6X)

39 oh, no, ace ! the ire of the AOS groypers and groyper adjacents!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:15 PM (g47mK)

40 That whole history sounds like it is describing a democrat US representative.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 05:15 PM (0U5gm)

41 The proof that he never actually porked this psycho is that she isn't claiming he porked her.

You can't actually come out and say a thing like that if it's not a scurrilous lie. That would just be wrong.

That's how psycho logic works.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (06Hmj)

That's not at all the thought I was thinking. That doesn't even make sense. Come on, waraiotoko, do better.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:15 PM (06Hmj)

42 Cut my finger the other day when using some tungsten carbide to sharpen my chef's knife. The knife was trying to kill me. There is a little bit of gold highlight on the bolster of the knife...so, you know, "gold"...."Goldstein" .... So, the Jews. They're everywhere!!!!

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 05:15 PM (dIske)

43 What broke her?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 16, 2025 05:06 PM (0N4FZ)

The Jews?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 05:15 PM (dK+Kv)

44 What happened to Candace?

Oh yeah, $

I don't think so. If you go back to some of her earliest videos, you can see it coming. She's always been an emotionally-charged, mental lightweight.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 16, 2025 05:16 PM (Yp6az)

45 "Mommy sleuths" is funny, as is "momvestigators" (TheQuartering).

Posted by: pookysgirl, with a teething Lil Pooky at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (Wt5PA)

46 Not on topic at all, but is garrett aware of these?

https://youtube.com/shorts/B0zC4yQMxkI

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (Wnv9h)

47 The Jews killed MJ too? I hadn’t heard that one.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

You apparently have not visited Zerohedge in a while.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (0U5gm)

48 While I am certainly not a fan of faggy Macron and his wighat elderly wife, I hope they sue Candace off her podcast throne.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (WONhk)

49
I don't think so. If you go back to some of her earliest videos, you can see it coming. She's always been an emotionally-charged, mental lightweight.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 16, 2025 05:16 PM (Yp6az)

Yeah, but then she got paid well to keep rolling down those tracks.

Now, she's full on mental retard. She's all in baby. Stackin bills.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (Zz0t1)

50 I think I just old switcheroo'd myself into straight up confusion.

I suck at psycho logic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (06Hmj)

51 Next stop for Owens: a padded cell, with a stylish very long-sleeved jacket that ties in the back, and delicious apple sauce fed to her on a long spoon through the bars.

I don't think Erika Kirk should have met with her unless she brought along some armed guards and a couple of big guys carrying extra-large butterfly nets.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 05:18 PM (2L+MU)

52 I just do t understand how anyone can take her seriously. It’s like OK Israel killed Kirk. That will fly with a lot of people cuz Jews run the world after all. But then you add France? And Egypt? Fucking Egypt!! What a random combo of France Egypt and Israel.

I mean what’s next Martians? Lizard people?

She’s obviously grifting. But who the fuck are the griftees and why are they not in an insane asylum?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 05:18 PM (udlma)

53 41 The proof that he never actually porked this psycho is that she isn't claiming he porked her.

You can't actually come out and say a thing like that if it's not a scurrilous lie. That would just be wrong.

That's how psycho logic works.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (06Hmj)

That's not at all the thought I was thinking. That doesn't even make sense. Come on, waraiotoko, do better.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:15 PM (06Hmj)

I've read it, like, a dozen times, trying to understand.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:18 PM (RuTUS)

54
https://youtube.com/shorts/B0zC4yQMxkI
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (Wnv9h)

Boobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:18 PM (Zz0t1)

55 citing her statement that Judaism is a "pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons [and] child sacrifice,"

Who knew?

Posted by: The Paolo at December 16, 2025 05:19 PM (Kt19C)

56
It sort of seems Candace is operating with a brain tumor pressing on her logic and decorum center. Or some such. I used to be a casual fan but the Macron thing and everything since has gotten too cray-cray.

Posted by: Sphynx at December 16, 2025 05:19 PM (P6qMv)

57 "Parler failed mostly because people went to parlor looking for it, which was porn. It was a stupid name choice."

she maybe figured she'd catch people looking for the porn site, but got her instead? But then when those people got Owens, they lost interest when Owens didn't strip.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 05:19 PM (vbXSk)

58 I'm crying 😭🤣 pic.twitter.com/Z9SKBr2V41

— Jes�s Enrique Rosas - The Body Language Guy (@Knesix) December 16, 2025

===

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:19 PM (g47mK)

59 JFC, the Providence COP is answering press questions asked English in Spanish.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 05:19 PM (bNf8H)

60 Candace has nearly died almost as many times as Donkeychompers.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 16, 2025 05:20 PM (znJ3m)

61 I haven't heard of any incidences of the Israeli military raping Palestinian women, children or black women. This proves they are racists.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 05:20 PM (nljXp)

62 I've read it, like, a dozen times, trying to understand.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:18 PM (RuTUS)

I know I know I was trying to Do A Thing, and completely tripped over my own dick.

Sometimes you just gotta take the L.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:20 PM (06Hmj)

63 JFC, the Providence COP is answering press questions asked English in Spanish.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 05:19 PM (bNf8H)

Fire him immediately, then check his legal status. He no es legal, he get visit from la migra.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

64 what broke her ? NOTHING! SHE WAS ALWAYS LIKE THAT.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:20 PM (g47mK)

65 the Providence COP is answering press questions asked English in Spanish.

Posted by: Frasier Crane

The police chief may very well be an illegal aliern.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 05:20 PM (0U5gm)

66 Hell hath no fury than of a nutty woman ignored.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:21 PM (2GVsD)

67 I haven't heard of any incidences of the Israeli military raping Palestinian women, children or black women. This proves they are racists.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 05:20 PM (nljXp)

They can't rape them when killing everything so violently, there's nothing left.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:21 PM (Zz0t1)

68 Can the sign language lady do Spanish?

Posted by: If It's Brown, Flush It Down at December 16, 2025 05:21 PM (qUkBO)

69 I cut some excess length off a composite tactical belt with Mrs.E's kitchen shears and she had a cow. Did you know shears or scissors could be sharpened with steel and ceramic? Knives sure, but shears and scissors? I told her she could shave her legs with them now.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 05:22 PM (LHPAg)

70 >>Can the sign language lady do Spanish?
__
No, she can't. She stopped signing and looked befuddled.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 05:22 PM (bNf8H)

71 62 I've read it, like, a dozen times, trying to understand.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:18 PM (RuTUS)

I know I know I was trying to Do A Thing, and completely tripped over my own dick.

Sometimes you just gotta take the L.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:20 PM (06Hmj)

; )

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:22 PM (RuTUS)

72 Jimmy Dore has jumped on this grift too. He has a lot of “proof” that the hit on Kirk was an inside job by TPUSA.

Lots of sad lonely deranged people out there who buy into this stuff.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 05:22 PM (udlma)

73 How about turn up the vitriol? Harsh Ace is funniest Ace.

Guest post by Paul Anka perhaps?

I don't have the chops to do the subject justice.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (cS1cw)

74 I don't really follow the Owen's thing other than thinking all the Macrons have to do is come to the court and submit a blood sample for DNA analysis and she's cooked.

As for Tucker, man that dude is loony tunes and funded by Quatar no matter how much he denies it. He may say none of it comes directly from them but we all know how these small donations from random bot accounts work. And he sure thinks these terrorist funders are just hunky dory.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (n5tGW)

75 Impacted cerumen killed Beau. No joke.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (XT32A)

76 I have never really watched her until, unfortunately now. It's bizarre the number of basic-level words she mispronounces. Who can't say "bury"? Who calls FOIA requests, "F-O-I-A requests"?

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (33LJY)

77 citing her statement that Judaism is a "pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons [and] child sacrifice,"

Who knew?
Posted by: The Paolo at December 16, 2025 05:19 PM (Kt19C)
----
Sounds like she has Judaism confused with Leftism, which is a ped0phile-centric religion that worships demons through child sacrifice.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (ESVrU)

78 Candace Owens: Should I stay or should I go?

Everyone else: GO!

Posted by: pookysgirl, infecting you with an earworm at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (Wt5PA)

79 >> Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:21 PM (2GVsD)

Was just watching two F18S air it out on radar just off the coast of Venezuela. Suddenly the entire airspace in country was clear. Weird.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (KsZMV)

80 oh, no, ace ! the ire of the AOS groypers and groyper adjacents!
----

The last time Ace posted about this particular class of *grifters* was Friday, and the AoS groypers and groyper-adjacents ignored the post...and re-appeared in the SATURDAY open thread spewing their Candace Ovens/Fuented/Qatarlson bullshit as if Ace had never posted on that gang. Their fervor to lamely pretend that "young people really dig that group" is laughably predictable, and cowardly in that they go noticably quiet when Ace is around.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (TN0g+)

81 66 Hell hath no fury than of a nutty woman ignored.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:21 PM (2GVsD)

True!

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (RuTUS)

82 Saw on X:

"I am canceling my subscription to the following psyops for 2026:

Islamophobia

It’s not antisemetic to criticize the Israeli government.

Jew hate and importation of a culture that hates us and commits terrorist attacks unvetted in massive numbers is no longer happening.

Leave the gaslighting in 2025. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

I would add "USS LIBERTY 11!11" to that.

Yeah, leave the fucking gaslighting in 2025.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (g47mK)

83 The PC of Providence is asked questions in English and is answering in Spanish?!! That's crazy. Maybe it's another way to hide information.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (2sfNr)

84 Not on topic at all, but is garrett aware of these?

https://youtube.com/shorts/B0zC4yQMxkI

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (Wnv9h)

I am pretty sure he is aware of boobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (dK+Kv)

85 CANDICE vs the UNIVERSE
-- the universe doesn't stand a chance.

Why? Well, where have we heard this before?
1) Admit Nothing. 2) Deny Everything. 3) Make Counter-Charges.

And how many dance to the tune she set?
Rilly? What fools these mortals be?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (lVuxt)

86 >>> You do not offend a narcissist. Even if it is only in their own warped minds they are offended, they will go bonkers.If you tell them they are wrong, this is like pouring gasoline on a fire.

The difference in your random everyday narcissist is they don't have podcasts for clicks.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 05:07 PM (WONhk)

Malignant narcissists feed on negative attention just as well as any other kind. As long as they are the center. And they are super geniuses at manipulating people into a frenzy and then placing themselves in the middle to absorb it. Definitely an upper tier in the WTDITS vampire hierarchy.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (3uBP9)

87 >>Lots of sad lonely deranged people out there who buy into this stuff.

Q says to 'trust the plan'.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:25 PM (IaZ7c)

88 "I haven't heard of any incidences of the Israeli military raping Palestinian women, children or black women. This proves they are racists."

Damn it, you are on to something!

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 05:25 PM (cS1cw)

89 I wonder how her husband feels. He's a white British conservative from a good family, how does he deal with her??

Posted by: beckster at December 16, 2025 05:25 PM (I7J98)

90 Judaism believes in demons and child sacrifice?

Like... believes how?

Because I believe that demons exist and I know child sacrifice happens.

Heck, the Epistle of James is pretty dang clear that even demons believe in Jesus. So they clearly exist.

But that's a whole long way from actually, you know, following demons or performing child sacrifice. Which makes me not a Democrat...

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:25 PM (/ZkOF)

91 I really can't grasp how she and Carlson have gone off the rails. They are both rolling in money, so why would they take qatari money to spread this crap?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 05:25 PM (0U5gm)

92 >>I am pretty sure he is aware of boobs.

I DO love me some boobs.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:25 PM (IaZ7c)

93 Their fervor to lamely pretend that "young people really dig that group" is laughably predictable, and cowardly in that they go noticably quiet when Ace is around.
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 05:23 PM (TN0g+)

I noticed too. They also leave comments on dead threads. Like from this morning.

USS LIBERTY 11!!!11

🤡🤮🤪🤪

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)

94 Hmmm, I don't like feeling manipulated- no matter who is doing it.

Candace is a piece of shit, but...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 05:26 PM (zZu0s)

95 from wiki
"Farmer proposed marriage to Candace Owens via a FaceTime call on 29 December 2018, 18 days after meeting each other for the first time in London,[33][34] and married in 2019 in Trump Winery.[35] They have four children[33][36] and reside in Nashville, Tennessee.[37][38] Farmer is a Catholic."

Bad Choices ... (I think that was a SNL skit ... Bad Choices Jeans)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 05:26 PM (vbXSk)

96 I wonder how her husband feels. He's a white British conservative from a good family, how does he deal with her??

Probably with a cricket bat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:26 PM (2GVsD)

97 86:... Malignant narcissists feed on negative attention

Case in point. LET'S EAT!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-BrennanBecomesSpookula

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 16, 2025 05:27 PM (lVuxt)

98 This presser with the "authorities" on the Brown murder is lit as fuck. That has to be a man, pretending to be a woman, doing the sign language shit.

Off the hook insane.

Great theater tho'

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 05:27 PM (NwnyJ)

99 Farmer is a bit femmy , no?

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:27 PM (g47mK)

100 She's never said that Kirk killed her husband, but the first thing she says coming out of the meeting with her is "I'm alive."

What a piece of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:27 PM (Zz0t1)

101 96 I wonder how her husband feels. He's a white British conservative from a good family, how does he deal with her??

Probably with a cricket bat.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:26 PM (2GVsD)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Ian Faith at December 16, 2025 05:27 PM (XT32A)

102 72 Jimmy Dore has jumped on this grift too. He has a lot of “proof” that the hit on Kirk was an inside job by TPUSA.

Lots of sad lonely deranged people out there who buy into this stuff.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 05:22 PM (udlma)

If they *had* proof of any kind, and weren't a bunch of manipulative clickbaity nutjobs about every stinking thing once they sink their teeth into the Crazy, I'd listen.

But they show their "Evidence", which is all preposterous nonsense demonstrating that they can't actually tell the difference between "evidence" and "nonsense story telling", and when you ignore it and call them idiots, they play the finely tuned and polished violin of "You're Part Of The Conspiracy and I'm Just Poor Widdle Me Just Asking Questions and you're trying to Silence Me!" Culty manipulative bullshit.

It's so damned predictable, and it's really tiresome.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:27 PM (06Hmj)

103
I can't believe that CO missed the ground glass in the bottom of her drink. She's cracking under the pressure!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 16, 2025 05:28 PM (xG4kz)

104 I've seen the croc gal before. She has a huge rack but she is unique on eweboob in that she does not seem to play into it much, if at all.

I saw a video she did on normal products unfortunately shaped like sex toys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 05:28 PM (zZu0s)

105 It may be time to conclude that anyone who makes their living by selling their opinions is not to be trusted. Ace is, of course, the exception.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 05:28 PM (Riz8t)

106 It's pretty frightening how crazy how many white woman have become. Maybe women of other races too, but I just don't know enough of those folks to know.

It just occurs to me right this minute. Could some of this be hormonal? Either from birth control or just lack of pregnancy/child birth/child rearing?

And, ftr I'm female and white myself. But not THAT crazy anyway.

Posted by: jocon307 at December 16, 2025 05:29 PM (EuROc)

107 Probably just a deep state op.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 05:29 PM (fBbkm)

108 Her big thing is to point out suggestive ads, and note that anyone with a 13 year old boy at home would see it, so why the hell can't the ad execs see it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 05:30 PM (Riz8t)

109 It may be time to conclude that anyone who makes their living by selling their opinions is not to be trusted. Ace is, of course, the exception.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 05:28 PM (Riz8t)

'Makes their living' is his out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 05:30 PM (zZu0s)

110 56 It sort of seems Candace is operating with a brain tumor pressing on her logic and decorum center. - Sphynx

I think her larynx has become disengaged from her brain, and the exhaust manifold fell off.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 05:30 PM (2L+MU)

111 Candace married a white man. She knows things.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 05:30 PM (cS1cw)

112 >>'Makes their living' is his out.

He's working on his Novel.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:31 PM (IaZ7c)

113 Manifold?

More like the muffler and muzzle break.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:31 PM (2GVsD)

114 It may be time to conclude that anyone who makes their living by selling their opinions is not to be trusted. Ace is, of course, the exception.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 05:28 PM (Riz8t)

Because he 'sells' them, yet doesn't give a f*ck whether you buy them or not and tells you such. He throws it out there, and you'll either buy in, or you won't. If you don't, that's your issue, not his.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:31 PM (Zz0t1)

115 Not going to tell anyone to stop talking about it, let alone on their own blog, and I do find Candace and the rest of the idiots to be loathsome grifters.

However, this shit is fucking exhausting, and I feel like continuing to talk about it just adds oxygen to the fire they started. In today's social media environment people live and die by clicks and engagement, and unfortunately rage-baiting is wildly effective in generating both. If we could somehow convince everyone on the right to just ignore Candace and Tucker, that would be best IMO, but here we are.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 05:32 PM (3BwY8)

116 112 >>'Makes their living' is his out.

He's working on his Novel.
Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:31 PM (IaZ7c)

He has a law license, too, doesn't he?

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:32 PM (RuTUS)

117 Did Erika Kirk survive the meeting with Candy?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 05:32 PM (8CIFn)

118 He's working on his Novel.
Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:31 PM (IaZ7c)

The Ewok Wookie Hobo milking Farm?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 05:32 PM (zZu0s)

119 What possible motivation could Israel have for wanting CK silenced, let alone dead?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 16, 2025 05:32 PM (Wu29I)

120 I think this whole thing for TPUSA future (not talking about Owens) is going to be sad. I don't think it can survive without Charlie. This is why political assassinations have that extra bit of evil over a normal killing. It kills movements.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (n5tGW)

121 >>> I cut some excess length off a composite tactical belt with Mrs.E's kitchen shears and she had a cow. Did you know shears or scissors could be sharpened with steel and ceramic? Knives sure, but shears and scissors? I told her she could shave her legs with them now.
Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 05:22 PM (LHPAg)

We have cutco kitchen shears.The knives aren't great, wish we never got them, but it supported some church kid, so whatever. But the shears are solid. High strength steel, each side about 3/8" thick and they separate into two halves. You could use them as tin snips easy. When the kid came out for the demo he cut coins in half. And because they separate they are easy to sharpen on my worksharp kit.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (3uBP9)

122 Most of the people, most of the time, are just about as ~~happy~~ sane as they decide to be.

- some folksy guy

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (a+4eV)

123 They diminish what she says by who is saying it. Another CIA Alex Jones Op.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (fBbkm)

124
He has a law license, too, doesn't he?
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:32 PM (RuTUS)

Holy crap. That would be like being represented by Shoresy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (Zz0t1)

125
26 Thought Candice started out as a rising go getter but has turned into a train wreck.
No idea what flipped in her head
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 05:11 PM

--------

I don't think she flipped. She's always been a deranged con artist, she's just had more chances
to demonstrate it over time.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (azNOR)

126 I learned bitches were really crazy once I got involved with the PTA when my kid started school. And I was in a sorority and those bitches didn't hold a candle.

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (uQzkA)

127 In Summary. Candace Owens is a Nazi Cunt. And Tuckit Carlson is Right up in her. Fuck both of them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (ewjUl)

128 Ace's book will be titled 50 Ways to Serve Hobo

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (2GVsD)

129 120 I think this whole thing for TPUSA future (not talking about Owens) is going to be sad. I don't think it can survive without Charlie. This is why political assassinations have that extra bit of evil over a normal killing. It kills movements.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (n5tGW)

I agree...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 05:33 PM (VE6XX)

130 critics have to duty to be silent for the sake of Unity?

Has anybody just tried telling her to
"STFU you whackjob"?

That ought to derail her for that conversation.

Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2025 05:34 PM (FhXTo)

131 I find it interesting that all of Candace’s conspiracy theories revolve around her enemies.

Shapiro helped get her fired from DailyWire, so now every Jew is in on it.

Erika Kirk married Charlie, Candace gets fired, now Erika helped murder her own husband.

The Brigitte Macron thing is the only one I can’t figure out.

Maybe a waiter was rude to her in Paris and she decided it was Macron trying to ruin her day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

132 It just occurs to me right this minute. Could some of this be hormonal? Either from birth control or just lack of pregnancy/child birth/child rearing?

And, ftr I'm female and white myself. But not THAT crazy anyway.
Posted by: jocon307 at December 16, 2025 05:29 PM (EuROc)
------
There was something posted here at some point in the last couple of weeks (I think) that said that without the outlet for the maternal instinct that is actual motherhood, women basically go batshit and try to parent everything and everyone else in their lives.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 05:35 PM (3BwY8)

133 The Brigitte Macron thing is the only one I can’t figure out.

Maybe a waiter was rude to her in Paris and she decided it was Macron trying to ruin her day.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

Sometimes you just throw out a line and see which white whale takes a nibble.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:35 PM (06Hmj)

134 I actually watched a series Candy did about Kamala's family history. I found it interesting.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 05:36 PM (8CIFn)

135 Those Cutco Shears are awesome.

I have a pair in pickup for processing Game Birds. They make quick work of Wing and Foot Removal.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:36 PM (IaZ7c)

136 89 I wonder how her husband feels. He's a white British conservative from a good family, how does he deal with her??
easy. one is a lizard and one is part human
-Matalin and Carville

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 05:36 PM (LHPAg)

137 Farmer figured out he could live off her.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:36 PM (g47mK)

138 I assume everyone has seen these:

x.com/Variety/status/
2000769025366950216

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 05:36 PM (3uBP9)

139 What possible motivation could Israel have for wanting CK silenced, let alone dead?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 16, 2025 05:32 PM (Wu29I)
*************************************

Every pro-Israel person killed was double-secretly planning on turning against Israel within the next few days, thus proving that Israel killed them.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at December 16, 2025 05:36 PM (f7m8C)

140
I can't believe that CO missed the ground glass in the bottom of her drink. She's cracking under the pressure!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 16, 2025 05:28 PM

it takes a while for the polonium to kick in

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 05:37 PM (tljrc)

141 Farmer figured out he could live off her.

So he's farming her?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:37 PM (2GVsD)

142 130 critics have to duty to be silent for the sake of Unity?

Has anybody just tried telling her to
"STFU you whackjob"?

That ought to derail her for that conversation.
Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2025 05:34 PM (FhXTo)

That would be attention. Like ChristyBlinkyTheGreat is saying, that's what Candace wants.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:37 PM (RuTUS)

143
To do CO the justice she deserves, every photo of her that shows up here in the HQ ought to be photoshopped to give her googly eyes.

Throw in AOC, too, for good measure.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 16, 2025 05:37 PM (xG4kz)

144
Call them, "The Sisterhood of the Lost Marbles".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 16, 2025 05:38 PM (xG4kz)

145 >>It just occurs to me right this minute. Could some of this be hormonal? Either from birth control or just lack of pregnancy/child birth/child rearing?

And, ftr I'm female and white myself. But not THAT crazy anyway.
Posted by: jocon307 at December 16, 2025 05:29 PM

She has three children. The most recent was born last May.

Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2025 05:39 PM (98kQX)

146
Did Erika Kirk survive the meeting with Candy?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 05:32 PM

good point

has anyone heard from her since?

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 05:39 PM (tljrc)

147 109 'Makes their living' is his out. - Aetius451AD

W-a-i-t a minute...Are you telling me that this monthly bill I get for $2,000 from - checks invoice - the Duncanthrax Blog Collection Agency is bogus?

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 05:39 PM (2L+MU)

148 She got the lawsuit fever early. Sued her school district for not preventing racist aholes from harassing her. The district settled. Sounded like a legit case. But from then on out it was lawsuits are us

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 05:40 PM (BLGhW)

149 Unfortunately petulant unstable narcissists will find terrible ways to make you notice them.

Better to keep the spotlight the vermin and mercilessly ridicule everything they say.

Make the attention painful.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:40 PM (2GVsD)

150 She just went live about 10min. on her meeting with Erika. I'm posting the URL for NYP article and their deleting it as i post it.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 05:40 PM (ugtaH)

151
She has three children. The most recent was born last May.
Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2025 05:39 PM (98kQX)

So, she'll be like that broad from Houston, Yates, was it? Where he kept knocking her up because she was postpartum and thought it would help?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:40 PM (Zz0t1)

152 131 The Brigitte Macron thing is the only one I can’t figure out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

That lawsuit is coming down the pike, isn't it?

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (RuTUS)

153 I don't think Ace has a law license; I think I remember him saying that once.

But he clearly, clearly has some sort of legal training, because his legal analysis shows pretty strong evidence of that. Perhaps he was or is a paralegal. Until he found out he was better writing for himself than for others.

As for Owens: I wish we could ignore her, but the left loves to hold her and Tucker and the rest of the loonies as "This is what MAGA is! REEE!" and so forth. So we have to publically excommunicate them.

I note the left NEVER excommunicates their extremists, by the way........

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (/ZkOF)

154 Cucker Tarlson is a bigger and better financed enterprise. Inexplicably, TPUSA is still planning on platforming him. He has nothing to say, he has no positive contribution to give to the conservative movement, his only contribution is asking the public to fall in love with Iran's bank - Qatar, and to dump Israel, because his inbred antisemitism just hates those perfidious hummus eaters.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (g47mK)

155 I have been listening to Candice Owens' podcast in bits and pieces (I I usually can't do full shows cuz she's so vile and crazy). I can't decide if she seriously believes this stuff or is playing a character. Regardless, what does come through is she keeps mining the same vein because it generates millions of dollars; in the end that seems to be the bullseye of the truth about her.

If you haven't listened to her and want a short cut to the core of her rotten center, listen to her December 1st episode titled, Charlie Kirk and Bridgette's Legionnaires as it is the Holy Grail of crazy.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (uv8gn)

156 So, she'll be like that broad from Houston, Yates, was it? Where he kept knocking her up because she was postpartum and thought it would help?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:40 PM (Zz0t1)

Let's not accuse her of murdering her kids yet.

She's a piece of shit, but no worse than say Keith Olbermann.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 05:42 PM (zZu0s)

157 152 131 The Brigitte Macron thing is the only one I can’t figure out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

That lawsuit is coming down the pike, isn't it?

They will bankrupt her LLC. Not only the money Candace will lose but the aspect of discovery. It works both ways in this lawsuit.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 05:42 PM (ugtaH)

158 Has anyone seen Keith Olberman's rubber duck lately?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:43 PM (2GVsD)

159 apple sauce fed to her on a long spoon

Start her off with
https://www.katom.com/005-582NMCC.html

Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2025 05:43 PM (FhXTo)

160 Let's not accuse her of murdering her kids yet.

She's a piece of shit, but no worse than say Keith Olbermann.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 05:42 PM (zZu0s)

Yet.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:43 PM (Zz0t1)

161 The law suit hearing are next year.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:44 PM (g47mK)

162 Honestly, I can't be bothered by all, or any - really, media inside baseball. It isn't important to me or any folks I love.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 05:44 PM (cYBz/)

163 153 I don't think Ace has a law license; I think I remember him saying that once.

But he clearly, clearly has some sort of legal training, because his legal analysis shows pretty strong evidence of that. Perhaps he was or is a paralegal. Until he found out he was better writing for himself than for others.

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (/ZkOF)

Thanks; that makes sense. He knows the lingo, for sure.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:44 PM (RuTUS)

164 23 >What broke her?

Charlie Kirk's refusal to try the Brown Sugar...apparently.
Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:10 PM (IaZ7c)

I expect it does boil down to jealousy. Some women have a hideous streak of it, and it drives their entire psyche.

She is at best a mid-wit, she has no actual ethics or morals, and she seems needy as fuck.

Her husband should have whacked her upside the head and taken her off the air months ago, but of course, she picked someone she can leach off and push around.

There are awful men out there, but there are plenty of awful women as well. Until Jesus hits her with the cluebat, she is up shit creek.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:44 PM (6Bc88)

165 This morning we were discussing drones and their impact on military establishments. Here is video of the Russian sub which just got blown to smithereens by a Uke drone.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2nZfEJu2KrQ?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 05:44 PM (Riz8t)

166 "I'm alive. I'm okay". What a bunch of melodramatic bullshit from the conspiracy queen. Like Erika was going to show up with her TPUSA gang and riddle Owens with bullets.

Posted by: Cheri at December 16, 2025 05:45 PM (FGQ5G)

167 150 She just went live about 10min. on her meeting with Erika. I'm posting the URL for NYP article and their deleting it as i post it.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 05:40 PM (ugtaH)

Do you have that URL?

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:45 PM (RuTUS)

168 159 apple sauce fed to her on a long spoon

Start her off with
https://www.katom.com/005-582NMCC.html - DaveA

Haw!

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 05:45 PM (2L+MU)

169 Who said candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 05:46 PM (8CIFn)

170 I note the left NEVER excommunicates their extremists, by the way........
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (/ZkOF)
------
Yeah, I think this is what makes most of this kind of shit so exhausting. We have to constantly police our own and spend cycle after cycle publicly excommunicating our whackos, and the left fucking never does, ever, and I'm tired of climbing the hill to The High Road because none of it ever matters.

And "our" whackos, for the most part, don't hold a candle to the left's whackos. Look at what's-his-nuts, the dog taser. I don't see anyone on the left spending half a second saying that guy probably has a skin suit in his closet.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 05:46 PM (3BwY8)

171 She has three children. The most recent was born last May.
Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2025 05:39 PM (98kQX)

So, she'll be like that broad from Houston, Yates, was it? Where he kept knocking her up because she was postpartum and thought it would help?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

He could try sticking it in her mouth every once in awhile...unless he's afraid of her biting it off.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 16, 2025 05:46 PM (znJ3m)

172 She reminds me of white liberal in black face.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 05:46 PM (ugtaH)

173 Has anyone seen Keith Olberman's rubber duck lately?
Posted by: Anna Puma

I'm sure it is on the 'Trophy Board' in the Emergency Department's Physician's rest room.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 05:46 PM (cYBz/)

174 Candace Owens @RealCandaceO

I was clear, bitch . I said that Charlie and I never used the same security people. So your point that I was being a hypocrite by critiquing their actions that day is complete and utter trash.

In fact, I regularly critiqued Charlie on his security team. And I’m sure I could dig up a text message or two to that effect.

Candace Owens @RealCandaceO

Tim Pool is the walking example of why we called people faggots in 90’s.

It was never about homosexuality.

It was about people who behave like faggots.

X: https://bit.ly/3XZbB5R

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 05:46 PM (P5BPp)

175 So Owens is doing the classic conspiracy theory ploy of "well sure, you have this evidence that disproves my claims but what about this (ever more obscure and irrelevant), you don't have that?!!"

Because, I'd not heard all the proof they have given her. So it's insane to still claim she was a man.
She is old, she is ugly, she is a graceful as a newborn calf--but she is a woman.

Candace: But what about a DNA swab, why can't you produce that??!! You won't produce that because she really is a man!!

Future Candace: DNA swabs can be faked!! That wasn't her real, really, real DNA!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 05:47 PM (HXT0k)

176 why the fuck would anyone chase owens' podcasts ? why give her money , views ? it is all lies and gaslighting, haven't you figure it out yet ?

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:47 PM (g47mK)

177
He could try sticking it in her mouth every once in awhile...unless he's afraid of her biting it off.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 16, 2025 05:46 PM (znJ3m)

Like I said about a coworker that has 5 kids, all under the age of 10.......You know, she has a face for a reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)

178 I wonder how her husband feels. He's a white British conservative from a good family, how does he deal with her??
===
He is running her. She is an op. He is British IC. Very connected.

Posted by: You hide q conspiracy in plain sight by calling everything else a conspiracy at December 16, 2025 05:48 PM (+TonC)

179 because his inbred antisemitism just hates those perfidious hummus eaters.
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (g47mK)

I don't understand how anyone gets to the point of antisemitism. Muslims, sure, because their devil-god tells them to murder people, and that is based on Mohammed being insanely jealous of the Jews and their successes. But a WASP like Tucker? And where does the Jew-hate come from in the black community?

I can't quite get my head around it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:48 PM (6Bc88)

180 Who said candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Ogdan Nash

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 05:48 PM (cYBz/)

181 Like I said about a coworker that has 5 kids, all under the age of 10.......You know, she has a face for a reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)

lol...I mean seriously lolol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 05:48 PM (snZF9)

182 In the Charlie Kirk murder, you didn't have to be a rival in conservative media to become Candace's enemy. You just had to be standing around on campus to be interviewed on the news without contacting her for an interview.

Several people with no prior involvement in the TPUSA universe became her suspects. Because they were where a camera or microphone which didn't belong to her happened to show up.

Posted by: KT at December 16, 2025 05:48 PM (7vIsy)

183 this x link shows a Aussie detective shooting the terrorist, with his handgun.

https://tinyurl.com/2ptu8dyf

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 05:49 PM (vbXSk)

184 Thanks Tonypete.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 05:49 PM (8CIFn)

185 162 Honestly, I can't be bothered by all, or any - really, media inside baseball. It isn't important to me or any folks I love.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 05:44 PM (cYBz/)

I'd say that to a large degree, the hook that gets people really wee wee'd up isn't so much that Stupid People are Stupid, it's the larger concern that humanity is in a constant state of epistemological crisis, and the explosion of anti-social media has ramped it up to infinity-plus-one.

It's almost like a dizzying counter-reaction to the so-called Enlightenment, where there was a bald, incontestable Truth that we can get at by pure logic, if only one is "smart enough". But that's not how life works, and it's certainly not how things like Trust or Value Preference work.

It's why I personally hate the whole "Facts and Logic" schtick that gets trotted out. You can't "prove" a whole lot of things that are True, but you can get as close as you need to Truth by judgement and experience and discernment.

Feh, I'm rambling. Ignore me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:49 PM (06Hmj)

186 Honestly, I can't be bothered by all, or any - really, media inside baseball. It isn't important to me or any folks I love.
Posted by: Tonypete

This is the sanest comment to date on this thread. I used to love listening to Rush so I have a propensity for talk radio, as a result I naturally gravitated to the podcasts. Eventually many end up spending their time gossiping about each other; the shallowness of the pool they play in is profound. As a result, I've pretty much have given up listening to any of them as examples of who I never hope I become.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 16, 2025 05:49 PM (uv8gn)

187 179 But a WASP like Tucker? And where does the Jew-hate come from in the black community?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:48 PM (6Bc8

How about: It's a version of how one views The Other.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:50 PM (RuTUS)

188 @179 blacks hate the Jews because they think they are the white devils exploiting them in the inner city. Landlords etc. Just general stupidity

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 05:50 PM (BLGhW)

189 Old and busted: You're a Nazi if you're for the German conquest of all the ancient German-speaking lands and the cleansing of non-Aryans from the land for the glory of the Aryan tribe, by Odin!

New hotness: You're a Nazi if you're NOT for the Jewish conquest of all the ancient Hebrew-speaking lands and the cleansing of non-Jews from the land for the glory of the Jewish tribe, by Jehovah!

Posted by: You're a Nazi! But I like it in the ass! at December 16, 2025 05:50 PM (Z9ALA)

190 I can't quite get my head around it.

The Paolo has heard this often.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 16, 2025 05:50 PM (Kt19C)

191
Ace's book will be titled 50 Ways to Serve Hobo

Fry it in a pan, Stan.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 05:50 PM (pkeXY)

192 177
He could try sticking it in her mouth every once in awhile...unless he's afraid of her biting it off.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 16, 2025 05:46 PM (znJ3m)

Like I said about a coworker that has 5 kids, all under the age of 10.......You know, she has a face for a reason.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)

This kind of talk cracks me up. Before the 70's, plenty of families were like that, even mine. One kid every two years was about par for the course, with a few twins in there for fun. Nothing wrong with big families, and if you are really Catholic, you will get one, nearly guaranteed.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (6Bc88)

193 I don't understand how anyone gets to the point of antisemitism. Muslims, sure, because their devil-god tells them to murder people, and that is based on Mohammed being insanely jealous of the Jews and their successes. But a WASP like Tucker? And where does the Jew-hate come from in the black community?

I can't quite get my head around it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:48 PM (6Bc8

it's the country club thing, WASPs thought they were special, then jews built better country clubs

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (g47mK)

194 Off Paolo sock.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (Kt19C)

195 Malignant narcissists feed on negative attention just as well as any other kind. As long as they are the center. And they are super geniuses at manipulating people into a frenzy and then placing themselves in the middle to absorb it. Definitely an upper tier in the WTDITS vampire hierarchy.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (3uBP9)

Yep...to add to my own personal knowledge of a malignant narcissist...she's was a trial attorney. One does not argue with an attorney to begin with, a failing thing that will go on into eternity.

But to tell a narcissist who is an egotistical attorney she is wrong is like playing tennis with a live grenade.

I have not spoken to her since 2007. She was wrong! Ha!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (WONhk)

196 But a WASP like Tucker? And where does the Jew-hate come from in the black community?

I can't quite get my head around it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:48 PM (6Bc8

------
Tucker is bought and paid for by Qatar, pretty simple.

The "black community" has been fed a buffet of victimization for the last 60 years by the left, and the easiest scapegoat is some nebulous cabal of minorities operating in the shadows, so Jews it is.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (3BwY8)

197 Candace is from the hood wearing a credentialed skin suit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (wCq0Y)

198 190 I can't quite get my head around it.

The Paolo has heard this often.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 16, 2025 05:50 PM (Kt19C)

Oooooooooh.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (RuTUS)

199 Who said candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Willy Wonka

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (znJ3m)

200 You start posting in Candace Owens' comments asking her to stop accusing Erika Kirk of murdering her husband.

She hasn't accused Erika Kirk of murdering her husband.

The fact that you have to attack something she hasn't said shows how dishonest you are.

Posted by: They Shall Say All Mannetr of Evil (but I really like it when they do it in my ass) at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (Mo4hw)

201 (Z9ALA)

we got one !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (g47mK)

202 >>> 185 162 Honestly, I can't be bothered by all, or any - really, media inside baseball. It isn't important to me or any folks I love.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 05:44 PM (cYBz/)

I'd say that to a large degree, the hook that gets people really wee wee'd up isn't so much that Stupid People are Stupid, it's the larger concern that humanity is in a constant state of epistemological crisis, and the explosion of anti-social media has ramped it up to infinity-plus-one.

It's almost like a dizzying counter-reaction to the so-called Enlightenment, where there was a bald, incontestable Truth that we can get at by pure logic, if only one is "smart enough". But that's not how life works, and it's certainly not how things like Trust or Value Preference work.

It's why I personally hate the whole "Facts and Logic" schtick that gets trotted out. You can't "prove" a whole lot of things that are True, but you can get as close as you need to Truth by judgement and experience and discernment.

Feh, I'm rambling. Ignore me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:49 PM (06Hmj)

dialectic vs rhetoric

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (ULPxl)

203 (Mo4hw)

we got two !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (g47mK)

204 This whole fucking thing is so fucking stupid.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (PSEDc)

205
This kind of talk cracks me up. Before the 70's, plenty of families were like that, even mine. One kid every two years was about par for the course, with a few twins in there for fun. Nothing wrong with big families, and if you are really Catholic, you will get one, nearly guaranteed.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM

Cost of living was a lot different back then. I have one child, 2nd was miscarried. The 2nd one, while we were exited about it, I was scared shitless on how I was going to provide for all of us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (Zz0t1)

206 (Mo4hw)

que?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:53 PM (2GVsD)

207 I thought Dorothy Parker said that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 16, 2025 05:53 PM (+mUZM)

208 How about: It's a version of how one views The Other.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:50 PM (RuTUS)

Everyone looks different. I guess I never understood "The Other." But then, I grew up without racism, so there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:53 PM (6Bc88)

209 I think I recall Ace saying he got the JD degree but chose not to work in the field. A lot of people who go to law school do that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 05:53 PM (uWKK8)

210 This whole fucking thing is so fucking stupid.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (PSEDc)

Thread winner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:53 PM (Zz0t1)

211 This whole fucking thing is so fucking stupid.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (PSEDc)

NO, People are getting death threats! People need to spend more on security because of this bitch.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:53 PM (g47mK)

212 Maybe most people don't think about religion

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (uQzkA)

213 Before the 70's, plenty of families were like that, even mine. One kid every two years was about par for the course, with a few twins in there for fun. Nothing wrong with big families, and if you are really Catholic, you will get one, nearly guaranteed.
Posted by: tcn in AK

I'm the oldest of eight kids. I was born in June. My sister was born the following April. My NEXT sister was born the next April, etc. etc.

Dad Dude! Give poor Mom a rest!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (cYBz/)

214 The bytch is live now and running a line of bullshit on the shooting of Kirk. I'm inserting the URL from the NYP article in the live chat and they keep trying and deleting it. lol

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (ugtaH)

215 The PC of Providence is asked questions in English and is answering in Spanish?!! That's crazy. Maybe it's another way to hide information.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (2sfNr)

We need Miklos there to ask the questions in Hungarian. That would be cool. I would volunteer, but sadly, I've lost much of what I learned as a child to time.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (5xuJ/)

216 204 This whole fucking thing is so fucking stupid.

exactly

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (ugtaH)

217 195 Yep...to add to my own personal knowledge of a malignant narcissist...she's was a trial attorney. One does not argue with an attorney to begin with, a failing thing that will go on into eternity.

But to tell a narcissist who is an egotistical attorney she is wrong is like playing tennis with a live grenade.

I have not spoken to her since 2007. She was wrong! Ha!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (WONhk)

I have a narcissist friend who has become a real friend. Once the narcissist part dawned on me, I just talk differently to her.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (RuTUS)

218 In Other News on Twixxer people are saying there's a new suspect in the Brown murders: Mustapha Kharbouch, radical muslim student. His profile and pictures are now deleted from the Brown University website and some were watching them do it in real time.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (V362x)

219 153 But he clearly, clearly has some sort of legal training, because his legal analysis shows pretty strong evidence of that. Perhaps he was or is a paralegal. Until he found out he was better writing for himself than for others.

or until his parachute got tangled up in the empennage due to a software bug in the release device.

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 05:55 PM (v3pYe)

220 If I were Erika Kirk, I'd have had Candace checked for any listening devices, and once I was sure we were completely in private, I'd say "listen, Candace. You don't know what you've gotten yourself into. Charlie isn't dead. He's in Tel Aviv right now being debriefed by his handlers. We're secret Jews sent here to control Trump (and find a red heifer). I've remained behind for that, but the assassination was just a Mossad exfil op to bring their top man in from the cold. His real name is Moishe Ben-Kirkstein, and you better stop talking about this, because Netanyahu wants a taxidermist to mount your head on the wall of the ark in his private synagogue as it is.

Also, my father was the mohel who circumcised Brigitte Macron."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 05:55 PM (BI5O2)

221 The extreme form of our side's ideology is "everyone just chill the fuck out and go get a job and take care of your own damn business". Our side simply can not, structurally, have an "Extreme".

Loudmouth whackos aren't the "extreme" of our party or our ideology. They're not even on our side of the graph.

They're just fake-ass albatrosses stitched together out of vulture feathers and pipe cleaners and hung around our necks by assholes and retards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:55 PM (06Hmj)

222 You know what's sad? I remember I came here after HotAir imploded, .... what, a decade ago or so now?

And back then, we had elbow threads, lots of fun threads, etc, because the world wasn't so stupid as it is now.

Now, Ace has to spend his time putting rabid dogs like Owens and Tucker down; and he can't post NFL elbows because everyone went woke, and it's just stupid. The closest we get is the occasional chance to appreciate Sydney Sweeney (and probably that's just because she has the apparently rare talent of keeping her mouth shut about politics).

I miss the chess thread and the like. Stupid world.

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (/ZkOF)

223 208 How about: It's a version of how one views The Other.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:50 PM (RuTUS)

Everyone looks different. I guess I never understood "The Other." But then, I grew up without racism, so there's that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:53 PM (6Bc8

Me, too, but some people have to take people down.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (RuTUS)

224 The internet already identified the Brown University shooter this morning. What are these idiots droning on about at the press conference? It’s like a Marx Brothers movie with sign language.

The shooter is Mustapha Kharbouch. He’s a student in Middle East Studies

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (+t04h)

225 Cost of living was a lot different back then. I have one child, 2nd was miscarried. The 2nd one, while we were exited about it, I was scared shitless on how I was going to provide for all of us.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:52 PM (Zz0t1)

Not exactly, but okay. We didn't have shit growing up. Didn't really need it.

I have a friends who started a bakery and runs it with his 11 kids and wife. After the first three, he says you don't even notice being any busier. And eventually the older ones do a lot of the work. She homeschools, too.

Not my path in life, but I wouldn't have turned it down, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (6Bc88)

226 The "black community" has been fed a buffet of victimization for the last 60 years by the left, and the easiest scapegoat is some nebulous cabal of minorities operating in the shadows, so Jews it is.
Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 05:51 PM (3BwY

The "jew hate" in the black community came from places like NYC, where most blacks were renters and most large property owners were Jewish, so they developed the view of Jews being the Evil Oppressor Landlord that took all their money.
And then Elijah Mohammad got going with all of his weirdness and he really poured it on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (uWKK8)

227 215 The PC of Providence is asked questions in English and is answering in Spanish?!! That's crazy. Maybe it's another way to hide information.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (2sfNr)

We need Miklos there to ask the questions in Hungarian.

we need an ethnically neutral journalist to ask questions in esperanto.

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (v3pYe)

228 185 I'd say that to a large degree, the hook that gets people really wee wee'd up isn't so much that Stupid People are Stupid, it's the larger concern that humanity is in a constant state of epistemological crisis, and the explosion of anti-social media has ramped it up to infinity-plus-one. - Warai-otoko

The thing that gets me really wee wee'd up is that, every time I see the word "epistemological", I have to look it up in the dictionary.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 05:57 PM (2L+MU)

229 I heard that Kirk had people with her at the "meeting". She did not go alone.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:57 PM (g47mK)

230 Booboo.

Posted by: Miken at December 16, 2025 05:57 PM (l481V)

231 I miss the chess thread and the like. Stupid world.
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (/ZkOF)

Sign your ass up for a COB.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:57 PM (6Bc88)

232 William Shatner speaks Esperanto and Klingon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:58 PM (2GVsD)

233 222 And back then, we had elbow threads, lots of fun threads, etc, because the world wasn't so stupid as it is now.

and we could post in comic sans when we were being silly.

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 05:58 PM (v3pYe)

234 We need Miklos there to ask the questions in Hungarian. That would be cool. I would volunteer, but sadly, I've lost much of what I learned as a child to time.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (5xuJ/)

I thought the official language of jersey was italian. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 05:58 PM (snZF9)

235 >>> I don't think Ace has a law license; I think I remember him saying that once.

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (/ZkOF)

Not a lot of people know this, but in ewok society disputes are settled mostly by "jubnub", an ewokese term that variously means, sexual intercourse, looking for your keys, and serving dessert. Jubnub rituals extend over many day and night cycles, can result in the extinction of entire species, and only end when all the cake (or pie) runs out. No one remembers anything at the end thus settling the issue.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 05:59 PM (3uBP9)

236 228 185 I'd say that to a large degree, the hook that gets people really wee wee'd up isn't so much that Stupid People are Stupid, it's the larger concern that humanity is in a constant state of epistemological crisis, and the explosion of anti-social media has ramped it up to infinity-plus-one. - Warai-otoko

The thing that gets me really wee wee'd up is that, every time I see the word "epistemological", I have to look it up in the dictionary.
Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 05:57 PM (2L+MU)

I have to do that for "stochastic."

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:59 PM (RuTUS)

237
Now, Ace has to spend his time putting rabid dogs like Owens and Tucker down; and he can't post NFL elbows because everyone went woke, and it's just stupid. The closest we get is the occasional chance to appreciate Sydney Sweeney (and probably that's just because she has the apparently rare talent of keeping her mouth shut about politics).

I miss the chess thread and the like. Stupid world.
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (/ZkOF)

I think we all feel that way a bit - except we're at war now, all of us, every day. A real culture war, civil war, religious war, international war, with every part of it except the WMD going off. Yeah, we've even got the shootings.
We can't ignore it, none of us can, because if we don't fight it and win we're going to be gone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 05:59 PM (uWKK8)

238 Then there was the day the whole blog blinked in multi-colour.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 05:59 PM (2GVsD)

239 lol. Brown scrubbed that students page.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 05:59 PM (+t04h)

240 235 >>> I don't think Ace has a law license; I think I remember him saying that once.

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 05:41 PM (/ZkOF)

Not a lot of people know this, but in ewok society disputes are settled mostly by "jubnub", an ewokese term that variously means, sexual intercourse, looking for your keys, and serving dessert. Jubnub rituals extend over many day and night cycles, can result in the extinction of entire species, and only end when all the cake (or pie) runs out. No one remembers anything at the end thus settling the issue.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 05:59 PM (3uBP9)

And the smell is ghastly.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:00 PM (RuTUS)

241 229 I heard that Kirk had people with her at the "meeting". She did not go alone.
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:57 PM (g47mK)

Hope it was her Lawyers

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 06:00 PM (VE6XX)

242 Hey Rhode Island law enforcement. The circus is in town. Maybe you can do some more recruiting.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 06:01 PM (+t04h)

243 I thought the official language of jersey was italian. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

The thought just occured to me - can you imagine an Jersey-Italian sign language interpreter dude?

Makes me laugh just thinking about it.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 06:01 PM (cYBz/)

244 She’s a nut, but, still a 1.

Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 06:01 PM (T8bqm)

245 So jubnub is slow motion snu snu?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:01 PM (XT32A)

246 237 I think we all feel that way a bit - except we're at war now, all of us, every day. - Tom Serrvo

Damn! Ace isn't going to start rationing coffee and tires, is he?

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 06:02 PM (2L+MU)

247 By scrubbing a suspect's page is Brown University deliberately hindering an active investigation?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 06:02 PM (2GVsD)

248 The shooter is Mustapha Kharbouch. He’s a student in Middle East Studies

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (+t04h)

Dude has a serious lead deficiency.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 06:02 PM (snZF9)

249 She's a PTA meeting 6.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:02 PM (vFG9F)

250 That bitch be crazy

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 06:02 PM (xcxpd)

251 Damn! Ace isn't going to start rationing coffee and tires, is he?
Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 06:02 PM (2L+MU)

We'll have a central Val-U-Rite magazine. Split right down the middle.

One half for molotov cocktails.

The other half for regular old cocktails.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 06:03 PM (06Hmj)

252 247 By scrubbing a suspect's page is Brown University deliberately hindering an active investigation?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 06:02 PM (2GVsD)

Saw his page this morning...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 06:03 PM (VE6XX)

253 The best part about picking up chicks at the PTA meeting is that you know they put out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 06:03 PM (06Hmj)

254 She’s a nut, but, still a 1.
Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 06:01 PM (T8bqm)
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Rule #1 > 1

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 06:03 PM (ESVrU)

255 tcn implies we can volunteer to be COBs? I would imagine you'd have to be asked, not just volunteer! To weed out the Malors of the world.

But I'd happily nominate a few ettes to be COB's. I think we have two, don't we? The one who does most of the Sunday threads, and I think there's one from way back who still has the keys but rarely posts anymore.

Come to think of it, I wonder if Maetenloch still has keys or is he completely gone, never to come back even if he wanted to?

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (/ZkOF)

256 I always thought Owens was as dumb as a bucket of paint. If she had a symbol above her head it would be a question mark. Like a retarded Riddler.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (+t04h)

257 No Champipple?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (XT32A)

258 236 I have to do that for "stochastic." - m

Ah, yes, that one, too!

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (2L+MU)

259 I don't understand how these people get traction.
The first couple of listens may be attractive but it doesn't take long to realize that they are taking you down a path and it isn't a good one.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 06:05 PM (wCq0Y)

260 257 No Champipple?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (XT32A)

Only for the Officer's club.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 06:05 PM (06Hmj)

261 Mustapha - well now the Allah Whackbar makes sense.

So what was that bit about arresting the white guy that they let go in 24 hours? What kind of idiocy was that?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 06:05 PM (uWKK8)

262 >> By scrubbing a suspect's page is Brown University deliberately hindering an active investigation?

That assumes a certain level of competency. And there seems to be one of that in RI

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 06:05 PM (+t04h)

263
I'm the oldest of eight kids. I was born in June. My sister was born the following April. My NEXT sister was born the next April, etc. etc.

Dad Dude! Give poor Mom a rest!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 05:54 PM (cYBz/)
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Dad couldn't pull out of a parking spot

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 06:05 PM (3BwY8)

264 She does seem to be off her nut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:06 PM (zZu0s)

265
Not exactly, but okay. We didn't have shit growing up. Didn't really need it.

I have a friends who started a bakery and runs it with his 11 kids and wife. After the first three, he says you don't even notice being any busier. And eventually the older ones do a lot of the work. She homeschools, too.

Not my path in life, but I wouldn't have turned it down, either.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM

My dad worked hard, traveled a lot and mom ran her own business. We had things, but not a lot, and there was only 4 of us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 06:06 PM (Zz0t1)

266 Scrubbing entire internet history does not look suspicious at all!

BTW, Trump expanded travel ban on palis, syrians and a few other today. in case you have not hear...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:07 PM (g47mK)

267 The best part about picking up chicks at the PTA meeting is that you know they put out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 06:03 PM (06Hmj)

Same as the coma unit.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2025 06:07 PM (lH8E4)

268 There's a whole series of "off your...." turns of phrase that amuse me.

Off your nut = crazy
Off your tit = drunk
Off your feed = sick

Got to be others.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 06:07 PM (06Hmj)

269 She’s a nut, but, still a 1.
Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 06:01 PM (T8bqm)

I hate to be racist, but aside from Vanessa Williams and 90s Toni Braxton and a gal I knew in college, Black woman do not do much for me.

Aside from that, there is fucking nuts crazy wild sex and then there is vicious bitch hairpin in the neck bitch. She's the latter. No thanks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:07 PM (zZu0s)

270 >I'm the oldest of eight kids. I was born in June. My sister was born the following April. My NEXT sister was born the next April, etc. etc.

AKA Irish twins.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 06:08 PM (rJ48h)

271 266 Scrubbing entire internet history does not look suspicious at all!

BTW, Trump expanded travel ban on palis, syrians and a few other today. in case you have not hear...
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:07 PM (g47mK)

After the first "mistaken" arrest I imagine they don't want to make the same "error"

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 06:08 PM (VE6XX)

272 251 We'll have a central Val-U-Rite magazine. Split right down the middle.

One half for molotov cocktails.

The other half for regular old cocktails. - Warai-otoko

That sounds fair, at least.

Btw, I have a story about molotov cocktails, a down-filled sleeping bag, and a very small forest fire which my friends and I tried to put out by pissing on it, but I'll save the tale for another day.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 06:09 PM (2L+MU)

273 Posted by: You're a Nazi! at December 16, 2025 05:50 P

ALL LIES.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 06:09 PM (9ipOP)

274 I hate to be racist, but aside from Vanessa Williams and 90s Toni Braxton and a gal I knew in college, Black woman do not do much for me.

Aside from that, there is fucking nuts crazy wild sex and then there is vicious bitch hairpin in the neck bitch. She's the latter. No thanks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:07 PM (zZu0s)
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Gabrielle Union in Bad Boys 2.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 06:09 PM (3BwY8)

275 256 I always thought Owens was as dumb as a bucket of paint. If she had a symbol above her head it would be a question mark. Like a retarded Riddler.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (+t04h)

Some of the things she's said about Israel are not just wrong, they are profoundly ignorant. For instance, she found out that Jerusalem has a section called the Muslim Quarter. (it's just a name for a neighborhood, and it's been called that for a very long time) She started saying that Israel had Apartheid because they only allowed Muslims to go into one quarter of Jerusalem.

Even Tim Walz isn't that retarded.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 06:09 PM (uWKK8)

276 A couple more on Tensor, green dress and red hair. You've been warned.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 06:10 PM (2GVsD)

277 258 236 I have to do that for "stochastic." - m

Ah, yes, that one, too!
Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (2L+MU)

And "solipsistic."

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:10 PM (RuTUS)

278 Gabrielle Union in Bad Boys 2.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 06:09 PM (3BwY

Not bad. Ellie the Empress from this millennium. That is a rack that I don't care who you are, thats impressive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

279 277 258 236 I have to do that for "stochastic." - m

Ah, yes, that one, too!
Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (2L+MU)

And "solipsistic."

it is a little-known fact that, in addition to being magically delicious, lucky charms are solipsistically stochastic.

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 06:11 PM (v3pYe)

280 66 Hell hath no fury than of a nutty woman ignored.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Candace can be the star of a revived ad for Almond Joy and Mounds candy bars.

"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't."

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 06:12 PM (WDjG6)

281 257 No Champipple? - I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

Haw! Remember Grady's special drink, vodka and prune juice? "I call it my 'Trotsky'".

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 06:12 PM (2L+MU)

282 AI tiene boca sucia.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 16, 2025 06:13 PM (YlWIZ)

283 Even Tim Walz isn't that retarded.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I dunno about that assertion. Lassie should have left Timmy in that well.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 06:13 PM (WDjG6)

284 Idle curiosity why you boob guys don't binge watch "Spartacus" ?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 06:13 PM (sDNVV)

285 Even Tim Walz isn't that retarded.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 06:09 PM (uWKK

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Let's not mis-underestimate him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 06:14 PM (ESVrU)

286 Timmy is the 12th Iman?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 06:14 PM (2GVsD)

287 Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is a common man now

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 06:14 PM (Ia/+0)

288 Aside from that, there is fucking nuts crazy wild sex and then there is vicious bitch hairpin in the neck bitch. She's the latter. No thanks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Um. Only Elon Musk can dare the crazy hot mix and live (or not be sent to prison).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 06:15 PM (WDjG6)

289 278 Gabrielle Union in Bad Boys 2.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 06:09 PM (3BwY

Not bad. Ellie the Empress from this millennium. That is a rack that I don't care who you are, thats impressive.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)
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Leila Arcieri from "Son of the Beach". At least she played a black girl in that show.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 06:15 PM (36PRH)

290 Nice. Curiously narrow right noob on the one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:15 PM (zZu0s)

291 I love Jesus Enrique Rojas!! I encourage all morons, but especially the moronettes, to follow him on YT. (he has 2 channels- the body language guy and a more political one, but I forget its name).

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 06:15 PM (UwBs6)

292 Walz isn't retarded, he is a well versed Marxist

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 06:17 PM (Ia/+0)

293 "generates up to $10 million" a year."

I don't believe that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 05:05 PM (uWKK

As in, "Up to 80 % off!" but when everything is 10% off, which technically is "up to"?

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 06:17 PM (UwBs6)

294
Some of the things she's said about Israel are not just wrong, they are profoundly ignorant. For instance, she found out that Jerusalem has a section called the Muslim Quarter. (it's just a name for a neighborhood, and it's been called that for a very long time) She started saying that Israel had Apartheid because they only allowed Muslims to go into one quarter of Jerusalem.

Even Tim Walz isn't that retarded.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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She's playing to Michelle O'bama's constituents. There is a word describing her but no one dare say it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 06:17 PM (wCq0Y)

295 Posted by: banana Dream at December 16, 2025 05:59 PM (3uBP9)

Posted by: m
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I'll send Jim over to take a look up close. They look peaceable enough.

Posted by: Marlon Perkins at December 16, 2025 06:17 PM (WDjG6)

296 >> Some of the things she's said about Israel are not just wrong, they are profoundly ignorant.

There are a monumental number of people such as this today, many of them internet grifters. Their only gift is reading something they read on the internet, sensationalizing it, and then bleating it out to other people who are either ignorant or willfully ignorant. Their knowledge is only puddle deep because they’ve never really studied, debated, factually explored or historically investigated anything. People like this doofus, can be recognized very quickly the minute someone who actually well read and informed. That’s because even the slightest questioning stays to raise red flags and show just how big of an ignorant mook they are. Today’s internet is a target rich environment for these people. Things get promoted fast and go viral, often for the wrong reasons, until time and scrutiny catch up to their game. This buffoon has finally been run over by reality.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 06:18 PM (EJWxb)

297 279 277 258 236 I have to do that for "stochastic." - m

Ah, yes, that one, too!
Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 06:04 PM (2L+MU)

And "solipsistic."

it is a little-known fact that, in addition to being magically delicious, lucky charms are solipsistically stochastic.
Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 06:11 PM (v3pYe)

Sufferin' succotash!

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:18 PM (RuTUS)

298 I have a thing for black girls. I am working at a Merck vax plant and there are plenty of black girls with jobs there.
And Karen’s. Lots and lots of Karen’s.

Posted by: Accomack at December 16, 2025 06:18 PM (GbONR)

299 I hate to be racist, but aside from Vanessa Williams and 90s Toni Braxton and a gal I knew in college, Black woman do not do much for me.

Aside from that, there is fucking nuts crazy wild sex and then there is vicious bitch hairpin in the neck bitch. She's the latter. No thanks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:07 PM (zZu0s)
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Gabrielle Union in Bad Boys 2.

Posted by: ballistic

What no Halle Berry love?

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 16, 2025 06:18 PM (TezPK)

300 284 Idle curiosity why you boob guys don't binge watch "Spartacus" ?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2025 06:13 PM (sDNVV)

That question reminds me of what someone once said about Samson and Deliliah, with Victore Mature and Hedy Lamar. Critics said it was one of the only movies where the male lead had larger breasts than his co-star.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 06:18 PM (uWKK8)

301 Leila Arcieri from "Son of the Beach". At least she played a black girl in that show.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 06:15 PM (36PRH)

Pretty. I'd call her white- but what the hell do i know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

302 You want a boob movie?
Watch Shaka Zulu

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 06:20 PM (Ia/+0)

303 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:20 PM (XT32A)

304 301 Leila Arcieri from "Son of the Beach". At least she played a black girl in that show.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 06:15 PM (36PRH)

Pretty. I'd call her white- but what the hell do i know.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)
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I think she has blue eyes, kind of different like Vanessa Williams.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 06:20 PM (36PRH)

305 299 I hate to be racist, but aside from Vanessa Williams and 90s Toni Braxton and a gal I knew in college, Black woman do not do much for me.

Aside from that, there is fucking nuts crazy wild sex and then there is vicious bitch hairpin in the neck bitch. She's the latter. No thanks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 06:07 PM (zZu0s)
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Gabrielle Union in Bad Boys 2.

Posted by: ballistic

What no Halle Berry love?
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 16, 2025 06:18 PM (TezPK)

Whitney Houston?
Diana Ross?

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:21 PM (RuTUS)

306 I protest! Gabriele Union is an insufferable racist.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 06:21 PM (g47mK)

307 The shooter is Mustapha Kharbouch. He’s a student in Middle East Studies

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 05:56 PM (+t04h)

It's no longer enough to just ask if the shooter was:
A) Muslim
B: LGBT... [etc]

One must also add:
C) All of the above

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 06:21 PM (8mulE)

308 303 Nood.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 16, 2025 06:20 PM (XT32A)

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:22 PM (RuTUS)

309 Feh, I'm rambling. Ignore me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Nope. Makes sense.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 06:23 PM (WDjG6)

310 I never listened or followed her to begin with. I rarely go outside the AoS, Instapundit or Zero Hedge for political/current events type news.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 16, 2025 06:23 PM (Vh9CX)

311 Very glad you are letting Owen and Carlson have it. They are vile, destructive thugs.

Posted by: Snard at December 16, 2025 06:24 PM (5ON+9)

312 The Nazi guy's hits have been exposed as foreign bots.

There should be a website, something like speed test, where any website's audience can be checked for the number of valid and invalid clicks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 06:27 PM (wCq0Y)

313 "I dig a hole under the shitter like El Chapo" is going in my Christmas letter.

Posted by: Wally at December 16, 2025 06:28 PM (R+nQW)

314 Does this mean that Brigitte is, in fact, female?

I am so disappointed. 😂😂😂

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 16, 2025 06:36 PM (Vvh2V)

315 Here's the thing.

When the right was on the outside looking in, Candice and tucker and MGT were on our side.

Once Trump succeeded in doing everything they asked, in a few months, they no longer felt like the rebels on the outside. That gave them the sadz. So, what to do? Shave your head, get a tattoo and slam the bathroom door? Nope. Rebel against Trump! because their whole schtick is to be on the outside looking in.

These people cam't tolerate winning. Can't tolerate getting what they want. their whole personality revolves around being the rebel, telling everyone things are not what they think.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 06:44 PM (C3IAS)

316 Does this mean that Brigitte is, in fact, female?

I am so disappointed. 😂😂😂

What's so lovely about this defamation case is that discovery works both ways. Candace will be exposed as will Jimmy Dore. Jimmy Dore is also being sued. The Macron's have two of the best defamation lawyers on the planet.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 06:52 PM (ugtaH)

317 Like I said about a coworker that has 5 kids, all under the age of 10.......You know, she has a face for a reason.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)

In Feb my wife will have our fifth and my son will turn nine.
I am thrilled about it though.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 08:06 PM (fLcJT)

318
Inogame,

Congratulations to you and your wife.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 16, 2025 08:11 PM (3ek7K)

319 So The Post is your twisted news source?

Posted by: Pkeaton at December 16, 2025 08:20 PM (fVTv8)

320 I am no fan of Candace Owens, and I think a lot of people have supported her because they had a financial interest in doing so. However, if you are going to call her and others Nazis, I stand by my original view on that, which is go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 08:40 PM (YINx+)

321 Ask yourself what the endgame for these Jewish bloggers is? At the end of the day, they want their Uniparty back, where the needs of Israel outweigh the needs of the United States. They will call us any name and slur us with any slander to do that. They'll blow up the whole MAGA agenda for this crap. And for what?

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 08:42 PM (YINx+)

322 Huh, which Jewish bloggers?

Posted by: Ah, the 80s at December 16, 2025 08:45 PM (FOrqn)

323 Deeply, deeply concerning concern about the end of the endgame of calling nazis nazis.

You're blowing up the Make Arabia Great Again agenda!

Posted by: Concerned Conservative Pakistani at December 16, 2025 10:07 PM (H6HAv)

324 Anyone that buys the shit Owens is selling is a fucking moron.

Posted by: Strelnikov at December 17, 2025 05:11 AM (LrEPG)

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Blasts Tim Walz, Now Accusing Him of Turning a Blind Eye to Somalis Stealing Student Aid By Registering as "Ghost Students" Who Don't Attend School and Don't Even Exist

Last time it turned out that he was enabling mass fraud of welfare money by Somali pirates (and Democrat voters, legal or not), Walz claimed that if he had any fault, it was just of being too "generous" during covid. He wanted to protect people's health, you know.

What's the excuse for allowing fraud on an industrial scale in student aid?

Via Twitchy, McMahon explained the scam to the retard allowing it:

A "ghost student" is a fraudulent application or enrollment created by scammers using fake or stolen identities to steal financial aid and other resources from colleges and universities. The "students" never actually attend classes, or use AI to simulate minimal engagement, before disappearing with the funds.

Dear @GovTimWalz: pic.twitter.com/6VbvrcNdiY
— Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) December 16, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:48 PM

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1 ah

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (zjgNU)

2 This is just their culture.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

3 Seems about right.

Posted by: Turn 2 at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (CyFyf)

4 All of the Democrats are grifters.

Their whole apparatus is supported by stealing from people who hate them.

Cutting the government MEANS cutting the Democrats pipeline.

It seems Trump is the only person willing to go after that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (zjgNU)

5 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (guLpK)

6 So, any comparing attendance numbers with census or tax data?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (XuXeR)

7 Yeah. And Squeaky Fromme just wanted to "protect people".

Fucking nihilist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (06Hmj)

8 Now do California.

Posted by: Tbird74 at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (dwt/P)

9 To be fair, he was erring on the side of being a retard

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (xcxpd)

10 Cucker Tarlson's fault

Posted by: the guy who says it's always cucker tarlson's fault at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (aBUxb)

11 GARMONBOZIA

Posted by: The Arm at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (FJl0E)

12 Walz Is We Todd Did

(Well, that's what I *heard* . . .)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 03:51 PM (wzUl9)

13 The left doesn't believe in the false compassion of taking taxpayer money to give it to the needy.

The left believes that false compassion will hide the grifting that supports them and their clients.

And they're right. (Until Trump.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:51 PM (zjgNU)

14 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 16, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

15 Ogaden of thieves.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

16 Posted by: the guy who says it's always cucker tarlson's fault at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (aBUxb)

Let him cook, I say...let's see where he's going with this

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:51 PM (xcxpd)

17 I wonder what the effect of massive fraud on a society wide scale has on inflation? It can't be zero.

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (SwyyQ)

18 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025

***
Fen, I got nuthin'.

And, I suspect, so does everyone else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (wzUl9)

19 The Dept of Education has a purpose after all?

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (GHIyr)

20 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 16, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

Kinda slow, octopus boy.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (zjgNU)

21 The typical turk or Arab thinks a Somali is an amusing circus flea who's only marginally useful but is still more or less an infidel by default regardless of how many times they face mecca and shag the shag.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (06Hmj)

22 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 16, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

Kinda slow, octopus boy.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (zjgNU)

But I guess you're at least still a sea creature.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (zjgNU)

23 The college is almost always in on the Ghost Student scam. In fact, colleges love the scam. They get free money without having to do anything for it.

I'd love to see federal indictments on this Ghost Student scam, but I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

24 GARMONBOZIA
Posted by: The Arm at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (FJl0E)

Let's get Ike the Spike on it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 16, 2025 03:53 PM (/HDaX)

25 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

There are some Somalis who finked on the others engaging in the fraud. Mebbe from a rival tribe.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:53 PM (mlg/3)

26 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 16, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

Kinda slow, octopus boy.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (zjgNU)

But I guess you're at least still a sea creature.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (zjgNU)

But is that evolution or devolution to have gone from a sponge to Eichenwald?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:53 PM (zjgNU)

27 The Dept of Education has a purpose after all?"

Got me elected...

/zombie Jimmy Carter

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:53 PM (XuXeR)

28 FFS........

I should just quit while I'm far far behind.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

29 There might be a handful of scattered Christian communities in Somali, but if there are, they're not telling anybody.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:53 PM (06Hmj)

30 But I guess you're at least still a sea creature.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

He lives in the shadows, on the porifera of society.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

31 19 The Dept of Education has a purpose after all?

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (GHIyr)

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To foster corruption?

I'm pretty sure that's in its charter, and McMahon should be impeached for failing to uphold the standards of her office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

32 The problem with Somalia is that it is full of Somalians. The same is now true for Minnesota.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (6Bc88)

33 O Tempore, O Mores ...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (3ZUWJ)

34 Please put someone in jail. Anyone at this point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

35 ghost student
-------

Too soon.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (Wo1GJ)

36 This is just their culture.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes of Minnesota!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (kfTpm)

37 Okay, well maybe some massive fraud took place when it comes to government money going to illegals and fictional people, but nothing like that has EVER happened in an election!

Posted by: Leupold at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (eIzlH)

38 High trust societies have a lot of government based on people obeying the law. Import millions of people who come from third world countries where there is little or no law, and you become a low trust society. Get used to putting up walls to protect your possessions and family.

Somalis and Afghans are cultures that have no regard for laws.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (0U5gm)

39 So a ghost student is just a regular student with the serial number filed off, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (06Hmj)

40 I dunno. I suppose at some point people will figure out Democrats don’t care.

They don’t care about billions in fraud
They don’t care about the law
They don’t care about corrupt courts
They don’t care about murder
They don’t care about rigged elections

They only care about winning power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)

41 He lives in the shadows, on the porifera of society.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

That's funny AND I learned the scientific classification of sponges today.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (zjgNU)

42 12 Walz Is We Todd Did

(Well, that's what I *heard* . . .)

Sofa King

Posted by: Oh noes at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (HcoTw)

43 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

https://is.gd/20ml1M

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

44 No Haitians. No Somalis. No Afghans. PERIOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

45 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Aayan Hirsi Ali

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (8CIFn)

46 He lives in the shadows, on the porifera of society.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

Deep pun, bro.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (06Hmj)

47 "The Dept of Education has a purpose after all?

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (GHIyr)

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To foster corruption?

I'm pretty sure that's in its charter, and McMahon should be impeached for failing to uphold the standards of her office."

The uncopyablr/unpastable text in greybox above sez it's DoE that's finding and investigating the fraud, which surprised me.

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (GHIyr)

48 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

2nd mandated criteria eliminates them all, Fen.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (kfTpm)

49 Governor Jazz Hands gots some explaining to do.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (rj6Yv)

50 "The US was great when we imported everyone in the 19th century!"

"Everyone from...?"

"What do you mean?"

"We didn't import hundreds of thousands of Indians or Pakistanis or Haitians. Whom did we import?"

"Everyone who asked?"

"And those people were...?"

"Irish, Germans, French... and like 3 Muslims!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

51
That's funny AND I learned the scientific classification of sponges today.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (zjgNU)

Woot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

52 It's not fair to blame the whole group for crimes that only 99% of them are committing.

Racists.

Islamophobes.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (vbXSk)

53 25 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Almost all the non-muslim Somali's were killed by the Muslim Somali's long ago.
And I wish that was some kind of joke, but its not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (uWKK8)

54 And Ayaan Hirsi Ali doesn't count.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (WFtAr)

55 47 The uncopyablr/unpastable text in greybox above sez it's DoE that's finding and investigating the fraud, which surprised me.

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (GHIyr)

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I understand, which was the explanation for the McMahon portion of my comment saying that she's going against standard practice.

This is an ironic inversion of accepted reality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

56 Watz has to be skkmming off funds or his Marxism is wanting to send money around the world

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Ia/+0)

57 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025

***
Fen, I got nuthin'.

And, I suspect, so does everyone else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 03:52 PM (wzUl9)
_____

There are a few Somali Christians but that's so rare as to be almost nonexistent. Somalis are basically feral cannibals with no respect for life or personal freedom. Any lone Somali Christian is sure to be persecuted and probably killed. It's submit to Islam or else. Somalis are the scummiest of all scumbags on earth.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

58 "And those people were...?"

"Irish, Germans, French... and like 3 Muslims!"

Italians, Jews, Greeks...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

59 High trust societies have a lot of government based on people obeying the law. Import millions of people who come from third world countries where there is little or no law, and you become a low trust society. Get used to putting up walls to protect your possessions and family.

Somalis and Afghans are cultures that have no regard for laws.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (0U5gm)

In defense of the Somalis and Afghans, that's true of almost every culture outside of Western civilization and a few of the eastern cultures.

(Which have a different understanding of "following the laws", but at least do so on the surface level.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (zjgNU)

60 I mean, what isn't a scam at this point?

I recently found out the there is such a thing as a Cologuard scam/op.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (XV/Pl)

61 That's funny AND I learned the scientific classification of sponges today.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

They were the first creatures on Earth, you know...

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

62 There is no such thing as voluntary compliance with the law in the third world. Anything not nailed down is open to theft, including government money, and also pets, if the imports are Haitian.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (0U5gm)

63 But I thought I had read that Ali converted to Christianity but the internet insists she's an atheist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (WFtAr)

64 58 "And those people were...?"

"Irish, Germans, French... and like 3 Muslims!"

Italians, Jews, Greeks...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

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Yeah. It's my understanding that 99% of all immigration pre-1960 was from about 6 countries. All European.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

65 I may have ghosted a few classes in college, but I didn't get rich off of it. The sleeping in or extra beer with my buddies was nice though.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (n5tGW)

66 And Ayaan Hirsi Ali doesn't count.

That's a bit arbitrary.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

67 Aayan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 03:56 PM (8CIFn)

And she had to get out, or else she'd have ended up looking like Rob Reiner.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (uWKK8)

68 They only care about winning power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)
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Winning power and crushing dissent.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (rj6Yv)

69 I recently found out the there is such a thing as a Cologuard scam/op.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (XV/Pl)

That's hot.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

70 44 No Haitians. No Somalis. No Afghans. PERIOD.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

Heck I'm practically in the no anyone of any kind period phase, myself. Shut it all the hell down. Tourism visas only. Overstays get hunted down by dogs and drones.

You want to work? F Off. You want to go to college? F Off. Go be wretched refuse somewhere else.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (06Hmj)

71 Non-muslim Somalis:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Iman

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (FMtrg)

72 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (uWKK

Very sorry to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (WFtAr)

73 They were the first creatures on Earth, you know...

Pffffffft.

Posted by: Stromatolites at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)

74 71 Non-muslim Somalis:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Iman

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 16, 2025 03:59 PM (FMtrg)

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"Only the hotties" > current immigration system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

75 We've been spoonfed since forever on this idea that okay, some fraud on gov't does exist, but it's a rounding error.

It's turning out to be real money.

I feel the same about elections, the tiny amount we're being told might be happening is probably way bigger than people realize.

If you can steal a few billion in fraud in just one state, you're telling me you can't get a few million extra votes nationwide?

Posted by: Leupold at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (eIzlH)

76 I recently found out the there is such a thing as a Cologuard scam/op.

Posted by: Thomas Bender"

No shit? What a load of crap.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (vFG9F)

77 Democrats.

Funding terrorism since 1862.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

78 I had American students ghosting my class this past semester. To be fair, some of them did do the work, though one fellow used ChatGPT for all his assignments.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (ESVrU)

79 I didn't think there could be a more portentous fuckstick than Newsom, but Walz is playing for the big leagues.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (nljXp)

80 A proper retard, or a Somali?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (fBbkm)

81 40 I dunno. I suppose at some point people will figure out Democrats don’t care.

They don’t care about billions in fraud
They don’t care about the law
They don’t care about corrupt courts
They don’t care about murder
They don’t care about rigged elections

They only care about winning power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)

Marcus T Johnson is right!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (xcxpd)

82 Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

Only because I already knew about her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (8Cor4)

83 Geez, if this were Clue, we have Professor Plum with the candle stick in the library…and STILL no arrests!

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (+/y+R)

84 Trump's the only one in the capitol city not "on the take." He's also the only person who has an interest in cleaning all that shit up.

Thus, the politicos there are 100% against anything to do with reducing government spending on anything, anywhere. It cuts into their bottom line.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (NwnyJ)

85 Think of all the ghost cancer that will be cured!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (Wo1GJ)

86 "And those people were...?"

"Irish, Germans, French... and like 3 Muslims!"

Italians, Jews, Greeks...
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

Who, incidentally, it took a significant break in immigration (almost zero allowed) for them to integrate into our society.

We need a similar break today or we're never returning to our high-trust society. (Also to kick out the grifter cultures that will refuse to assimilate. {COUGH} {ISLAM} {COUGH})

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (zjgNU)

87 I didn't think there could be a more portentous f***stick than Newsom, but Walz is playing for the big leagues.

*cough*pretentious*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

88 83 Geez, if this were Clue, we have Professor Plum with the candle stick in the library…and STILL no arrests!

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (+/y+R)

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Well, to be fair, this is coming to light because the fed USA in Minnesota is bringing a bunch of cases to trial and getting convictions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

89 "This is an ironic inversion of accepted reality."

A bureaucracy that doubles its funding by creating and funding fallible programs, and then also investigating their inevitable failures. It's like Jonas Salk running around infecting people with polio in order to boost vaccine sales.

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GHIyr)

90 80 A proper retard, or a Somali?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:00 PM (fBbkm)

A normal retard!

Get it!

It's a statistics joke!

Haaaaa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (06Hmj)

91 90 A normal retard!

Get it!

It's a statistics joke!

Haaaaa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (06Hmj)

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That's just mean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

92 They only care about ~~winning~~ taking power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)

Fixed it for ya.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (2WIwB)

93 Ali converted to Christianity in 2023, and her reason was that she saw that a soulless atheism could never stand up to militant Islam.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (uWKK8)

94 *cough*pretentious*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

That gelled up shitstack of frippery couldn't portend anything significant with both hands and a flashlight.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (06Hmj)

95 So the money doesn't go straight to the schools huh? The student just has cash deposited in his account and he decides how to spend it?

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (2ap+5)

96 Billions of dollars in fraud in just ONE STATE.

Imagine how much more is going on in every other blue shithole in this country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

97 The Provisional Federal Constitution of Somalia establishes Islam as the state religion and prohibits the propagation of any religion other than Islam

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (n5tGW)

98 I am certain that well over half a trillion per year in government spending is fraudulent.

What do they care? It is play money, and they can just print more. It goes with my comment from yesterday:

The scams go on until the country collapses. Why do these elites think it is a great idea to be a multimillionaire in a collapsed country? You are rich and have to live in a compound with 24 hour armed guards. That is no different than a prison, but they either don't care, or they think it is swell.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (0U5gm)

99 We can be assured the news media will be all over this. And of course Jake Tapper will now be especially alert if it happens under some Republican administration.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (s0JqF)

100 No Haitians. No Somalis. No Afghans. PERIOD.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)
______

Well, there are some hot Haitian girls, so under the new Immigration Rules laid down by Judge Blade, we have to let them in. And only them. Everyone else can fuck off.

Hot Haitian girl? Visa approved!

Norwegian millionaire neurosurgeon? Fuck off, troll!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

101 Well, Walz does strike me as exceedingly dumb, even for a government official.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (SRRAx)

102 You know, there is a side effect to this as well. Those statistical surveys that show a certain percentage of Somali immigrants participating in education so as to portray a semblance of assimilation are likely extremely exaggerated based on what is coming to light.

Their lack of assimilation into an American way of life is obfuscated by false statistics. Last I read, over 80% of Somalis in Minnesota are receiving some sort of Federal Assistance, and news stories like this suggest that it's actually higher.

BTW, how come we never hear about the massive amount of Somalis in San Diego? Because I think we're about to. Closing down the fraud in Minnesota is going to cause an Exodus to the next place to invade and abuse.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (dIske)

103 The *point* of leftwing politics is to get money from the government.

And it turns out immigration, legal and illegal both are GREAT ways to launder money.

Now the question is did Walz allow this fraud to get campaign donations, or is a relative on one of the NGOs that was stealing all the money?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

104 That's just mean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

I can't help it, I'm in snark mode today.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (06Hmj)

105 Billions of dollars in fraud in just ONE STATE.

Imagine how much more is going on in every other blue shithole in this country.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

The corruption will eventually kill us all.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (2WIwB)

106 104 That's just mean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

I can't help it, I'm in snark mode today.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (06Hmj)

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And mean in statistics talk is...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

107 It would almost be tragicomedy of Walz , Frey and the rest of the white Dems in Minnesota were slaughtered by the Somalis.
I can hear Walz "I let you steal everything, no kill I" . Somali " we'll kill you last, but first some ru -ru"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (D+mpw)

108 At what point is being a retard in a position of power a criminal offense?
I don't get to say whoops if I fail to dot I's and cross T's on Medicaid and Medicare forms. It is considered fraud.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (XBQSC)

109 105 The corruption will eventually kill us all.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (2WIwB)

=====

I'm going out by sex and wine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

110 Imagine how much more is going on in every other blue shithole in this country.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)
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Pick any city over a certain size and you'll find plenty of fraud. Enough to keep legal teams busy for generations.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (ESVrU)

111 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (uWKK

I thought she had, but didn't know any of the specifics. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (8Cor4)

112 Tim Walz is like Al Capone if Al Capone was retarded and liked diddling minors.

Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (YyIMQ)

113 "And mean in statistics talk is..."

The thing everything reverts to.

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (GHIyr)

114 Education Secretary Linda E. McMahon
US Department of Education

Dear Secretary McMahon,

TL : DR

Send money, please.

Sincerely,
Your friend Tim

Posted by: Almost Vice President Tim Walz at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM (mAcx5)

115 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025

I believe Iman converted to Christianity - she has always seemed to be a decent person.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM (SRRAx)

116
Didn't Robert Downey Jr ever tell Waltz that you never go full Somali?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM (y9nCu)

117 Critical Drinker reviews the new Animal Farm movie. It's exactly what you think it is.

https://youtu.be/8hyX3d9z7vs

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM (Riz8t)

118 That's just mean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

I can't help it, I'm in snark mode today.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (06Hmj

This talk is a serious deviation from the thread subject matter.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM (2WIwB)

119 Living in blue areas there is always, always someone in my circle of acquaintances without much in the way of work but plenty of money to spend and plenty of stories of living the high life.

Are they just up to their ears in debt? Working in the black market? Or just...grifting?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM (sKqQm)

120 Does Ms. McMahon not know that Mr. Walz is one of the four paragons of Modern Masculinity?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (7WVAA)

121 Good article at American Thinker on Somalians today.
corruption is a way of life, and .arry your cousin to keep the family together

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (Ia/+0)

122 I can't help it, I'm in snark mode today.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (06Hmj

This talk is a serious deviation from the thread subject matter.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM (2WIwB)

Pretty standard, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (06Hmj)

123 "And mean in statistics talk is..."

The thing everything reverts to.

We can't keep talking about statistics. People don't like it and leave. They bolts, man.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (Riz8t)

124 Retard Walz doesn't understand that you can't be generous with other peoples money. It's called theft.

Posted by: Cheri at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (FGQ5G)

125 121 Good article at American Thinker on Somalians today.
corruption is a way of life, and .arry your cousin to keep the family together

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (Ia/+0)

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The good news is that the rampant criminality and low IQ of the population is going to make it easy to catch them, convict them, and deport them, even if they have legal residency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

126 MRGA

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (+/y+R)

127 And mean in statistics talk is...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

Not the mode

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (Wo1GJ)

128 I am starting to think that maybe "other people's money" sometimes results in fraud.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (F1I3P)

129 127 And mean in statistics talk is...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

Not the mode

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (Wo1GJ)

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I was pretty close to the median when I thought of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

130 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM (SRRAx)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (8Cor4)

131 and .arry your cousin to keep the family together

In extremely low trust, high corruption, ultra low productive cultures like they have in Somalia a branching family tree risks diluting the wealth your clan has managed to steal.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

132 You know that "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity" concept? Time to embrace a corollary: "If a thing has gone on too long to credibly be stupidity, assume malice."

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 04:10 PM (OUMaO)

133 At least ghost students have school spirit...

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 04:10 PM (/iMjX)

134 This talk is a serious deviation from the thread subject matter.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM

Threads have a subject matter? When was this implemented? Why wasn't it announced?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 04:10 PM (7WVAA)

135 OT. Insty has story on possible Brown University murdering scumbag. If you had Tranny Free Palestine on your bingo card. Well, there you go. The media will bury this story ASAP if true. We may never know the motive...BTW Brown has scrubbed this POS off of any of their pages.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:10 PM (ewjUl)

136 “…to ensure that you will not be able to dodge accountability for your actions.”

Hahahahaha. As IF!

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at December 16, 2025 04:10 PM (JCLJi)

137 Try to imagine what our GDP number actually is once all of the fraud is discovered and stopped.

If a third of the fraud is being sent in remittances, there is still $300 billion or more in fraudulently obtained money being spent in the country.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 04:10 PM (0U5gm)

138 In before the nothing will happen guy!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 04:11 PM (jc0TO)

139 137 Try to imagine what our GDP number actually is once all of the fraud is discovered and stopped.

If a third of the fraud is being sent in remittances, there is still $300 billion or more in fraudulently obtained money being spent in the country.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 04:10 PM (0U5gm)

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I'd rather imagine that GDP was redefined so that government spending was a negative instead of a positive.

Because all the graft increases the GDP now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

140 Many ghost students are seance majors....

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 04:11 PM (/iMjX)

141 You know that "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity" concept? Time to embrace a corollary: "If a thing has gone on too long to credibly be stupidity, assume malice."

It is not incompetence.

The point is the graft.

If you can steal the money paying NGOs to "wharble garble" Somalias...sure! Or Spherical Guatemalans...or Ukrainians. Or Euro-niks...it really doesn't matter.

But the more money you spend the easier it is to make some of it disappear...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

142 "And mean in statistics talk is..."

The thing everything reverts to.

We can't keep talking about statistics. People don't like it and leave. They bolts, man.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (Riz8t)

OK. Bewbs it is then.
Oh wait, we started with Walz.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:12 PM (2WIwB)

143 Kurt Schlichter's latest book "Panama Red" predicts that after the Red-Blue split Minneapolis will be renamed Mogadishu and Somalis will be the Blue's armed muscle.

Posted by: Pepe LePew at December 16, 2025 04:12 PM (sFNX2)

144
It would almost be tragicomedy of Walz , Frey and the rest of the white Dems in Minnesota were slaughtered by the Somalis.
I can hear Walz "I let you steal everything, no kill I" . Somali " we'll kill you last, but first some ru -ru"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:06 PM

death by bunga-bunga

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 04:12 PM (tljrc)

145 121 Good article at American Thinker on Somalians today.
corruption is a way of life, and .arry your cousin to keep the family together
Posted by: Skip

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This is a distortion.
Corruption is common in almost all tribal societies, especially all muslim, african, chinese, or russian.

The only differences are that (a) the muslims are generally very bold and getting bolder, and (b) the somalians are very stupid people so they made it very obvious.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:12 PM (F1I3P)

146 125 121 Good article at American Thinker on Somalians today.
corruption is a way of life, and .arry your cousin to keep the family together

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (Ia/+0)

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The good news is that the rampant criminality and low IQ of the population is going to make it easy to catch them, convict them, and deport them, even if they have legal residency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

It was never hard, just the will is lacking

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (xcxpd)

147 In before the nothing will happen guy!
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 04:11 PM

Get in line please.

Posted by: Guy who always says False Flag at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (ewjUl)

148 Now, if the "Ghost Students" were stealing boys tampons and defrauding the boys tampon fund ... THAT WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE BLED DRY!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (V3JGC)

149 I'm beginning to think our debt is mostly due to fraud.

End grants, end welfare, NGO tax exempts.

Posted by: Random PJ at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (RRCAT)

150 Well when you base federal aid on numbers, then states are incentivized to increase their numbers.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (sX1BW)

151 This is so damned disgusting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (qBdHI)

152 Each federal agency subsidizing MN public service programs should send a battalion of auditors to the Gopher State.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (rj6Yv)

153 Official: EU scraps 2035 new ICE car sales ban

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (RHGPo)

154 We are going to need several years of congressional hearings and commissions and subpoenas and testimonies and Fiery Floor Speeches and Muggings for Cameras and Strongly Worded Letters and hundreds of millions of dollars to write a 3,000 page Scathing Report nobody will read that blame Failure to Follow Proper Procedures but will hold nobody to account for anything anywhere ever. It is The Way.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (V362x)

155 We must eliminate this corruption, or let me in on it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

156 Well, Walz does strike me as exceedingly dumb, even for a government official.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (SRRAx)

He's dumb and stupid. The perfect combination of a government official.

Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (qm5Wv)

157 Understand that this "ghost student" problem is easily solved IF STUDENTS HAD TO SHOW UP AT CLASS!

There is no excuse for subsidized remote classes. The only purpose for them is fraud.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (F1I3P)

158 I'm beginning to think our debt is mostly due to fraud.

Biden doubled the budget.

Now, government spending isn't either efficient or effective in the best of times.

But...does anyone think that citizens were getting more out of their government in 2023 vs 2019?

That $4T/year was just being stolen.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

159 A lot of ghost students play for the WSU football team. Especially on defense.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (2WIwB)

160 152 Each federal agency subsidizing MN public service programs should send a battalion of auditors to the Gopher State.
Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (rj6Yv)

Along with a battalion of gophers.

Posted by: Mostly because it would be funny at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (TbWk/)

161 Kurt Schlichter's latest book "Panama Red" predicts that after the Red-Blue split Minneapolis will be renamed Mogadishu and Somalis will be the Blue's armed muscle.

Posted by: Pepe LePew

When we were told that there would be a group that was just as powerful as the army soon, they didn't mention that it would be made up of somalis and afghans.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (0U5gm)

162 We shouldn't cast caspersions at ghost students...

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (/iMjX)

163 Democrat Party, you are under arrest. Put up your dukes.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM (EyfuW)

164 153 Official: EU scraps 2035 new ICE car sales ban

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 04:13 PM (RHGPo)

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It's like no one was every going to actually impose the mandates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

165 162 Ha!

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (GHIyr)

166 There is a short vid of cuck mayor Jacob Frey trying to choke down some slop that the Somali's made him eat. He's struggling mightily to pretend he likes it, meanwhile the Somali next to him is laughing. Turns out it's some sort of stinky grain and bean concoction that the Somali's force their kids to eat. They could have given him a nice Somali braised lamb instead. But they know Jacob Frey very well apparently.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (Dv3i1)

167 Thwy are here for the gibs?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (fBbkm)

168 The World Happiness Report says Canadians under 30 were the happiest age group in the country as recently as 2011.

Now, they’re the unhappiest.

The 2024 edition of the decades-long study of global happiness, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, asked participants to picture their life as a ladder, with the best possible life at 10 and the worst at zero.

While many countries among the 134 covered by the research have also seen happiness levels fall among those under 30 since 2006, the slide of young Canadians down the ladder is exceptional.

Only four countries have seen a worse decline — Jordan, Venezuela, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (RHGPo)

169 Official: EU scraps 2035 new ICE car sales ban

I was talking with some Euro-niks I know.

The government gives them subsidies and bennies to buy EVs, and punishes them if they buy an ICE car.

And still people want ICE cars...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

170 121 Good article at American Thinker on Somalians today.
corruption is a way of life, and .arry your cousin to keep the family together

Posted by: Skip

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The AT article on Entryism that JJ linked this morning is also very good. It is a must read about commies and muzzies.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (F1I3P)

171 OKAY...Paris cancels both now, (World famous) NYE AND Christmas celebrations. You are a prisoner in your own country !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (g47mK)

172 What's the excuse for allowing fraud on an industrial scale in student aid?

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Did Tiananmen "The Big Guy" Tim at least ask for a 20% cut instead of a piddling 10%?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (V3JGC)

173 Now we know why Tampon Timmy was selected for VP running mate. There were better choices. He’s a totally corrupt piece of shit, but he is a loyal party member apparatchik. That’s what really counts.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (WmF8p)

174 TJM but the Commissar judges in Minnesota will let them off even after being convicted

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (Ia/+0)

175 Why can't mediums prove they can speak to the dead?

It's not an exact seance. It's a pseudo seance

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (WFtAr)

176 Casper the Friendly Ghost > Muhammed Muhammed Muhammed The Ghost Student

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

177 169 Official: EU scraps 2035 new ICE car sales ban

I was talking with some Euro-niks I know.

The government gives them subsidies and bennies to buy EVs, and punishes them if they buy an ICE car.

And still people want ICE cars...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

Nice and roomy for deporting illegals.

Posted by: Seats 12 at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (TbWk/)

178 One of the more interesting graphs I saw recently was about spending of essentials as a percentage of income.

Both housing and vehicle insurance shot up dramatically around 2021. And haven't come down.

Now, how would importing 16 million people in 4 years, 11-12 million of those illegals, and granting anyone and everyone mortgage assistance and drivers licenses affect the costs of things like housing and vehicle insurance?

And why isn't Trump doing anything about the affordability crisis?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

179 When we were told that there would be a group that was just as powerful as the army soon, they didn't mention that it would be made up of somalis and afghans.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 04:14 PM

Well. Fortunately the average Somali IQ is 67. Which is barely functional. I stay away from the Twin Shiddies so my interaction with the skinnies is limited. Rudest fucking people I have ever encountered though. Hands down, ingrate, inbred fucks.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (ewjUl)

180
The Democrat party and their voters have more in Common with the mob.

No show jobs.
Skims off the top.
Insider info trading.

It's the Sopranos.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM (IifOV)

181 The main thing about all of this is that it is easy to verify all of these people or not. Easy to have safeguards.

So it can be none other than there are govt officials and bureaucrats that want it to happen.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM (n5tGW)

182 "Now, they’re the unhappiest."

Harshing the vibes of the hosers.

Posted by: gp at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM (GHIyr)

183 Kamala calling national attention to Walz because she didn't dare go with Shapiro may yet turn out to be the most damaging thing she does to the Democrats. That would be pretty funny.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM (ciXcx)

184 174 TJM but the Commissar judges in Minnesota will let them off even after being convicted

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (Ia/+0)

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Fed cases in fed courts.

No overturns happening except one, as far as I know. Dozens more that are still in effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

185 Critical Drinker reviews the new Animal Farm movie. It's exactly what you think it is.

https://youtu.be/8hyX3d9z7vs
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:07 PM (Riz8t)
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Hollywood is quickly running out of IPs they can rewrite for "MODERN AUDIENCES" (Cue Drinker's echo here)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM (ESVrU)

186 And right on cue, here comes an opinion piece in the MN Star Tribune, unbelievable. Yeah, he's making MN the best place to live for Somalis.
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COMMENTARIES
Opinion | Gov. Walz deserves re-election, and could win

Jeff Blodgett
But the Republican Party is trying really hard to make you forget all the ways he’s making Minnesota the best place to live.

Posted by: beckster at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM (I7J98)

187 They still aren't doing enough on immigration.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (fBbkm)

188 The corruption will eventually kill us all.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 04:05 PM (2WIwB)

Ironically, so will being born.... 🤪🤪🤪

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (SRRAx)

189 I asked The Missus if she wanted to listen to some Middle Eastern music...

She said, "Nah. I'm not in the mode."

Ta-dum Thank you and goodnight!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (6qf1m)

190
Now, how would importing 16 million people in 4 years, 11-12 million of those illegals, and granting anyone and everyone mortgage assistance and drivers licenses affect the costs of things like housing and vehicle insurance?

The other big part of it is the free healthcare.

Why can't you see a specialist in a reasonable amount of time? Well, sorry, but the people paying nothing for their gubmint health insurance have already booked all the slots...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

191 66 And Ayaan Hirsi Ali doesn't count.

That's a bit arbitrary.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

arbitrary
adjective
based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system: his mealtimes were entirely arbitrary.

Agreed.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (RuTUS)

192 Following the law of the jungle.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (pkeXY)

193 I'm just to generous for the government's own good!

Posted by: Tim Walz at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (+wnq0)

194 Why can't mediums prove they can speak to the dead?

It's not an exact seance. It's a pseudo seance
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM

Years ago there was a psychic lady who had occupied a crappy little office space. She was there about 2 years and then had a sign that said out of business. I laughed and thought, gee, didn't you see that coming?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (ewjUl)

195 Hollywood is quickly running out of IPs they can rewrite for "MODERN AUDIENCES" (Cue Drinker's echo here)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM

Trans-Web Charlotte is still untapped.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

196 Please put someone in jail. Anyone at this point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM

Be careful what you wish for. They are more likely to put conservatives in jail before they would any guilty Democrats or leftists.

As all the January 6th protesters know all too well.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (P5BPp)

197 It doesn't matter diddly squat what "normal" muslims think or subscribe to.
They aren't doing anything to stop the jihadists, nor will they. They are inconsequential. They are NPMs (Non-Player Muslim).

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (RHGPo)

198 183 Kamala calling national attention to Walz because she didn't dare go with Shapiro may yet turn out to be the most damaging thing she does to the Democrats. That would be pretty funny.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:17 PM (ciXcx)

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Obama liking Kamala in January of 2019. Obama choosing Biden to be his VP in 2008.

Obama is a festering boil on the Democrat Party, and precious few Democrats realize it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)

199 You people making statistics jokes after Ace said no math on the blog a few Threads ago may find your Annual Commentator Reviews negatively affected.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (69wiS)

200 >>What's the excuse for allowing fraud on an industrial scale in student aid?

The states love it because it is federal money.
The schools love it because it boosts their funding
The teachers love it because they have low effort jobs teaching fewer actual students.

Seems the only people getting reamed are the working class taxpayers.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:19 PM (F1I3P)

201 Probably everyone but me knew how this scam works. The Feds send our tax dollars to the school. Because we have so much extra money lying around, the money sent exceeds tuition and the school gives the extra to students ostensibly to pay for books and room and board. Asking the school to keep the money and disburse it to students as reimbursement for verified expenses would require the schools to hire thousands of high paid minorities to administer the DEI program for the tens of seasonal workers hired to verify the expenses and reimburse the students.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 04:19 PM (2ap+5)

202 Hollywood is quickly running out of IPs they can rewrite for "MODERN AUDIENCES" (Cue Drinker's echo here)

I didn't think I could hate anyone more than Will Ferrell, but look at that! Seth Rogan managed it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:19 PM (Riz8t)

203 Be careful what you wish for. They are more likely to put conservatives in jail before they would any guilty Democrats or leftists.

The Flint Michigan play.

Find the neared Republican and jail him for whatever your local Dems are doing

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

204 199 You people making statistics jokes after Ace said no math on the blog a few Threads ago may find your Annual Commentator Reviews negatively affected.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (69wiS)

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As my father, noted and very famous academic statistician, made very clear to me:

Statistics and math are two very different things.

Statistics is interpretation of data using some math to help.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

205 Wow: Rubio Clears Field for Vance in 2028
https://is.gd/5tjPvJ

Looks like bad news for The Meatball.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 04:20 PM (8mulE)

206 Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:18 PM (ewjUl)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:20 PM (WFtAr)

207 Mediums are usually quite large.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:20 PM (fBbkm)

208 205 Wow: Rubio Clears Field for Vance in 2028
https://is.gd/5tjPvJ

Looks like bad news for The Meatball.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 04:20 PM (8mulE)

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VPs always have a leg up because of name recognition.

Vance is helped by being likeable and supported by other national politicians who could be his rival, like Rubio.

The 2028 GOP primary is going to be over before it begins.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

209 205 Wow: Rubio Clears Field for Vance in 2028
https://is.gd/5tjPvJ

Looks like bad news for The Meatball.
Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 04:20 PM (8mulE)

I am legit surprised.

Good for him?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:21 PM (xcxpd)

210 British Medical Journal Decries Racist Western Opposition to Female Genital Mutilation

BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics:

“In cultures around the world, people have, for millennia, engaged in a wide range of practices to modify human genitalia: through pricking or piercing; adornment with jewellery; stretching, cutting or excising tissues; or more recently, through surgical reshaping in a medicalised context. These practices may affect people of a wide range of ethnic identities and backgrounds; religious and secular people; people in the Global North and South; and people of a wide range of ages, from infancy to adulthood. They may be medicalised or unmedicalised; voluntary or non-voluntary; and associated with different types or degrees of risk, as well as different potential benefits. These benefits—including perceived social benefits, such as a feeling of heightened connection to one’s group—are commonly reported. They need to be understood and acknowledged if one is to account for some groups’ or individuals’ commitment to take on or reproduce these genital practices.

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 04:21 PM (RHGPo)

211 I hate my own state.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (ewjUl)

212 209 I am legit surprised.

Good for him?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:21 PM (xcxpd)

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Vance and Rubio reportedly really like each other, and it seems like Rubio would happily stay as Secretary of State.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

213 202 Hollywood is quickly running out of IPs they can rewrite for "MODERN AUDIENCES" (Cue Drinker's echo here)

I didn't think I could hate anyone more than Will Ferrell, but look at that! Seth Rogan managed it.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:19 PM (Riz8t)

Andy Serkis is also about to piss away all the good will he earned.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (xcxpd)

214 Agree. And a Vance/Rubio ticket with a Trump endorsement would be a juggernaut.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (8mulE)

215 What will come first,
Pam Bondi making a significant arrest of a politician -or- the discovery of the Ark of the Covenant?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (abIsI)

216 Take care that the laws are faithfully executed...

Democrats: Hold my beer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (A0sqA)

217 213 Andy Serkis is also about to piss away all the good will he earned.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (xcxpd)

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I can't wait to see Gollum fart in The Hunt for Gollum.

And for recasted Aragorn to take a moment to talk about how capitalism is evil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

218 Vance and Rubio reportedly really like each other, and it seems like Rubio would happily stay as Secretary of State.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

A. nice to hear
B. SoS is a very big and powerful ricebowl

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

219 Check out Insty. If you had Brown University shooter as Tranny Free Palestine Cheeto dumpster on your bingo card, you win.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (ewjUl)

220 They are scared of Waltz's manliness... lol

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (53oGX)

221 As my father, noted and very famous academic statistician, made very clear to me:

Statistics and math are two very different things.

Statistics is interpretation of data using some math to help.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:19 PM (GBKbO)
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Four out of five statisticians agree...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (ESVrU)

222 181 The main thing about all of this is that it is easy to verify all of these people or not. Easy to have safeguards.

So it can be none other than there are govt officials and bureaucrats that want it to happen.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

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In CA they claim that forcing students to show up in classes would "disadvantage the asylum seekers who may not have transportation"

and asking them to turn on their camera in Zoom would "be unfair to shy minorities and """non-binary""" because they may not want to be identified" or some such nonsense.

So yes, this is really easy to fix. Start with ending all federal monies. Then end all money to students -- why are they getting a stipend anyway!!! Then close the schools, and burn the administrators in the town squares.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (F1I3P)

223 The ghost student fraud was uncovered by the Inspectre General...

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (/iMjX)

224 214 Agree. And a Vance/Rubio ticket with a Trump endorsement would be a juggernaut.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (8mulE)

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I don't know about juggernaut, but it would make the post-Trump transition remarkably easy.

I've suspected since about 2018 that Trump would treat his second term as a CEO presenting a chosen successor to a Board of Directors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

225 211 I hate my own state.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (ewjUl)

I only hate half the people in mine. WA state itself is awesome.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

226 212 209 I am legit surprised.

Good for him?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:21 PM (xcxpd)

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Vance and Rubio reportedly really like each other, and it seems like Rubio would happily stay as Secretary of State.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

Well, apparently, you can serve as both VP and Sec of State at the same time if you're the ultimate workaholic...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (tOcjL)

227 A Jewish MIT professor has been shot and killed at his house.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (xTIDn)

228 BREAKING: The Rolling Stones have called off plans for a 2026 stadium tour of the United Kingdom and Europe, a source close to the band confirms to Variety, following reports that guitarist Keith Richards was unable to “commit” to it.

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (RHGPo)

229 223 The ghost student fraud was uncovered by the Inspectre General...
Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (/iMjX)

groan

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

230 Jews attacked in Australia, on a NY subway, now a possible murder of a Jewish professor. What does Raskin do? Introduce a bill to stop the White House ballroom.
Way to read the ballroom, shit for brains

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (D+mpw)

231 "The ghost student fraud was uncovered by the Inspectre General...
Posted by: muldoon "

That's the spirit, Muldoon!

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (vFG9F)

232 I can't wait to see Gollum fart in The Hunt for Gollum.

And for recasted Aragorn to take a moment to talk about how capitalism is evil.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)
----
George R.R. Martin said he wanted to know about Aragorn's tax policy. Maybe he'll get his wish.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 04:25 PM (ESVrU)

233 I would be for Vance / Rubio

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:25 PM (Ia/+0)

234 Elon Musk @elonmusk

The Rape of Britain

Daily Mail @DailyMail

The shocking map of Britain that reveals the true scale of sex crimes by illegal migrants

X: https://bit.ly/4oWBsX6

SpiritChaser MAGA @DualityXrp

Dad 'dies of grief' after daughter, 12, 'raped and beheaded by illegal immigrant'

X: https://bit.ly/4rYVpz9

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:25 PM (P5BPp)

235 Now we know why Tampon Timmy was selected for VP running mate. There were better choices. He’s a totally corrupt piece of shit, but he is a loyal party member apparatchik. That’s what really counts.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 04:16 PM (WmF8p)

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

The Democrat-Communist Party has been for a very long time -- and still remains -- an organized criminal conspiracy, and at some point went full GloboHomo Retard.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (V3JGC)

236 227 A Jewish MIT professor has been shot and killed at his house.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM (xTIDn)

BBC has this brief report:

A Massachusetts university professor who was shot at his home has died, campus officials say.
Nuno F Gomes Loureiro, 47, a nuclear science and engineering professor from Portugal, was shot "multiple times" on Monday and died on Tuesday morning in hospital, according to Brookline police and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) officials.
Police said officers responded to a call for gunshots at an apartment at about 8:30pm local time. Loureiro was taken by ambulance to a Boston hospital, where he died on Tuesday morning.
No one is in custody and police are treating the incident as "an active and ongoing homicide investigation", the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office said.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (RuTUS)

237 I'm still laughing about the people driving by Waltz's house screaming retard.
I mean that's something you just can't script..

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (53oGX)

238 I hate my own state.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (ewjUl)
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Hello from the realm of the Three Witches! (Michigan)

Posted by: Axeman at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (+wnq0)

239 matter diddly squat"

FWIW, the Diddly Squat pepper chutney is pretty good...

now back to your regularly scheduled comments.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM (XuXeR)

240 following reports that guitarist Keith Richards was unable to “commit” to it

Keith's only 81 - hop to it, man!

"Prop me up!"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM (xTIDn)

241 238 I hate my own state.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (ewjUl)
---
Hello from the realm of the Three Witches! (Michigan)

Posted by: Axeman at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (+wnq0)

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Which stole the upper peninsula from Wisconsin!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

242 Non-existence is the greatest form of structural colonialist persecution there is.

No longer shall our non-extant brothers and sisters live in the shadows! Full rights for the unexisting, now!

....

Fucking Critical Being Theory. Sure. Why the hell not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM (06Hmj)

243 The ghost student got lost in the fog.

Well, he is mist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:28 PM (2sfNr)

244 A Jewish MIT professor has been shot and killed at his house.

The intifada may be in the process of being globalized.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:28 PM (xTIDn)

245 I think we are beginning to see the shape of why MN defied the trend of WI and MI in 2016 and 2024--billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen and laundered to the Dems there.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 04:28 PM (HXT0k)

246 218 Vance and Rubio reportedly really like each other, and it seems like Rubio would happily stay as Secretary of State.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

A. nice to hear
B. SoS is a very big and powerful ricebowl
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

Would Rubio stay SoS and take the VP job? Might have to give up one of his other jobs...

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 04:29 PM (53oGX)

247 238 I hate my own state.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:22 PM (ewjUl)
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Hello from the realm of the Three Witches! (Michigan)

Posted by: Axeman at December 16, 2025 04:26 PM (+wnq0)

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Which stole the upper peninsula from Wisconsin!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM

And they stole Isle Royale from MN. Dirty Michiganders!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:29 PM (ewjUl)

248 Which stole the upper peninsula from Minnesota!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

The state of Wisconsin has entered the chat.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 04:29 PM (8mulE)

249 "The corruption will eventually kill us all.
Posted by: Diogenes"

Sometimes you have to wonder just how deep the rot is. Other times I don't even want to know, it makes me want to.. well, never mind. I just want it to stop and see somebody go to jail once in a while. .

Posted by: Ripley at December 16, 2025 04:29 PM (GUOwU)

250 A Jewish MIT professor has been shot and killed at his house.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:24 PM

Grok says... not Jewish:

No, there is no report of a Jewish MIT professor being shot and killed at his home.

An MIT professor, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, aged 47, was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on the evening of December 15, 2025. He was taken to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead on the morning of December 16. Authorities are investigating it as a homicide, with no suspects in custody and no motive publicly disclosed as of now.

Loureiro was a Portuguese physicist (originally from Portugal), a professor in MIT's Departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, and the director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center since 2024. He joined MIT in 2016 after previous work in Lisbon and Princeton. Neighbors and colleagues described him as kind and family-oriented, and there is no indication he was Jewish.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:30 PM (P5BPp)

251 Well, he is mist."

*groans*

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 04:30 PM (XuXeR)

252 I think we are beginning to see the shape of why MN defied the trend of WI and MI in 2016 and 2024--billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen and laundered to the Dems there.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 04:28 PM

There's a reason that Timpon won't release the voter rolls.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:30 PM (ewjUl)

253 No motive.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:30 PM (fBbkm)

254 "2 This is just their culture.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO) "

demonrat's culture, right?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 04:30 PM (Cjt/F)

255 MIT bio

https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/nuno-gomes-loureiro

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:30 PM (RuTUS)

256 "Good article at American Thinker on Somalians today.
corruption is a way of life, and marry your cousin to keep the family together"

All "tribes" tend to be somewhat insular, but when it becomes praiseworthy to cheat from or murder "The Other", or the "infidel", then there are big problems with coexistence.

The American Experiment of importing others runs into greater and greater problems as those Diversified People" have no interest in partaking in our "open society concepts".

Such diversity is not a strength, it is a weakness. We keep treating them as friendlies that will in time be Americanized. They keep treating us as naïve idiots to be fleeced and/or murdered. And when they are inbred and conniving, it only gets worse.

But that is the left's and/or globalist's plan to destroy the West and our liberties.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (vbXSk)

257 Wait, Ilhan still hasn't paid off her student loans?!

Posted by: pookysgirl paid hers off eons ago at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (Wt5PA)

258 'I say that big talk's worth doodly squat.'
-Granny Hawkins

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (LHPAg)

259 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

*shakes fist at dirty stealth-editor*

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (8mulE)

260 Interesting stuff on the Brown shooter over at Insty if true.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (zZu0s)

261 Groundbreaking New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (RHGPo)

262 SoS is a very big and powerful ricebowl
_____

No kidding.

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! at December 16, 2025 04:32 PM (Dv3i1)

263 Crocs accessories.

https://is.gd/fvXsGK

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

264 No Haitians. No Somalis. No Afghans. PERIOD.
Posted by: Bulg

QUACK

Posted by: Ducks for Trump at December 16, 2025 04:32 PM (v0R5T)

265 As if the Somalis aren't stupid enough and dragged down by Islam, they marry their own cousins. How have they not become extinct?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (D+mpw)

266 So two of the members of the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" that the FBI rolled up had met multiple times with the leader of Gavin Newsom's PR team.

I have no idea what that means, but it's suggestive.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (ciXcx)

267 And they stole Isle Royale from MN. Dirty Michiganders!
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:29 PM (ewjUl)
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Sick it up. We lost Toledo.

....

Errr... wait.

Posted by: Axeman at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (+wnq0)

268 Dad 'dies of grief' after daughter, 12, 'raped and beheaded by illegal immigrant'

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:25 PM (P5BPp)

....

I wouldn't die of grief. I might die of execution for the large number of murders I would commit after this.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (zjgNU)

269 260 Interesting stuff on the Brown shooter over at Insty if true.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (zZu0s)

This guy came up earlier

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (VE6XX)

270 Interesting stuff on the Brown shooter over at Insty if true.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 04:31 PM (zZu0s)

Did you say 'brown shooter?'

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

271 They keep treating us as naïve idiots to be fleeced and/or murdered. And when they are inbred and conniving, it only gets worse.

But that is the left's and/or globalist's plan to destroy the West and our liberties."

True - and doing so returns us to the human norms... yikes.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (XuXeR)

272 I first observed Somali fraud first hand around 30 years ago. They would run up huge international phone charges, then when phone service was cut off they would simply apply in the name of a different Mohamed. And guess what? When we caught them they cried "racism." What a surprise!

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM (sFNX2)

273 Grok says... not Jewish:

Israel National News:

A Jewish, pro-Israel Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has died after being shot at his home Monday evening, campus officials confirmed on Tuesday.

I'd assume they know.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM (xTIDn)

274
https://www.israelnationalnews.com

has this, but I dunno:

A Jewish, pro-Israel Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has died after being shot at his home Monday evening, campus officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM (RuTUS)

275 Crocs accessories.

https://is.gd/fvXsGK
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

garrett hardest hit

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)

276 "I'm still laughing about the people driving by Waltz's house screaming retard.
I mean that's something you just can't script..
Posted by: Inogame"

They are the only ones that will be going to jail, after the state mobilizes all its resources to hunt them down.

Posted by: Ripley at December 16, 2025 04:35 PM (GUOwU)

277 255 MIT bio

https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/nuno-gomes-loureiro
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:30 PM (RuTUS)

=====

The included presentation gives the impression that he was a really nice guy.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (2ap+5)

278 > Did you say 'brown shooter?'

Leftists all capitalize Black now, so why not Brown?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (Yp6az)

279 Looks like a Vance/Rubio ticket to me. I'm fine with that. Or with DeSantis. Just not that CA idiot who I'm sure will win their side.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (n5tGW)

280 Even the Somalis in Minnesota drive by Walz house and yell "retard"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

281 There may or may not be some "ghost students" in the crawl spaces of Timpon's previous residences.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 04:37 PM (Y1sOo)

282 Lol.

How is it even "damaging" to say that Trump is settling scores?

Fuck yeah, he's settling scores. Why do you think I voted for him? We haven't had a single score settled since the invention of the fucking microwave.

"Politicized". Oh, politics is politicized? Alllll of a sudden? Why, that's simply atrocious. How on earth could we ever have gotten to this point of yadda yadda blerch.

Fuck that. Hammer and tongs. Get the fuck after it Susie. And tell Pam to pull her thumb out, while you're at it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:38 PM (06Hmj)

283 Crocs accessories.

https://is.gd/fvXsGK
Posted by: Archimedes

Nice rack.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2025 04:38 PM (abIsI)

284 True - and doing so returns us to the human norms... yikes.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (XuXeR)

Too many idiots think that the morals shaped by a Christian culture is the norm for humanity.

And that's because people have been mal-educated for at least 3 generations.

LIKELY this is because the US lost the Cold War. (The Soviets ALSO lost, but we didn't win.) Communist poison killed our culture, it just took longer for us to be finished off than the Soviets.

Now, it IS possible that we can excise that poison, but I don't know that we have the will to do so.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 04:38 PM (zjgNU)

285 Even the Somalis in Minnesota drive by Walz house and yell "retard"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

Trump should've said this earlier.

Can you imagine how many 'I'm with Retard' yard signs they could've sold?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

286 280 Even the Somalis in Minnesota drive by Walz house and yell "retard"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

Please let this go onto the Comments of the Week list.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (RuTUS)

287 Crocs accessories.

https://is.gd/fvXsGK
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

=====

Who the hell is putting balls on their Crocs?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (DRSnL)

288
Who the hell is putting balls on their Crocs?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (DRSnL)

Garret

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (VE6XX)

289 The accusations that Walz molested a particular student that cropped up during the campaign are interesting.

Trump and co refused to engage and then the FNM started ignoring the story.

I assume it was a specific attempt to draw Trump in and then spring that it was all a hoax.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

290 Spherical Guatemalans > Retarded Somalis > Tim Walz

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

291 286 280 Even the Somalis in Minnesota drive by Walz house and yell "retard"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

Please let this go onto the Comments of the Week list.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM (RuTUS)

Seconded.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (06Hmj)

292 Bongino may resign in a couple of weeks. Good. I want to hear how much the DOJ and the FBI are F'd Up.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (abIsI)

293 I saw Spherical Guatemalans open for The Circle at Lucas Oil Live in 2023.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (Zz0t1)

294
Is all this going to make Walz get that stunned tearful look on his face like somebody shoved a pineapple up his butt?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (QOikT)

295 GUYS!!!

"President Donald Trump expanded his administration’s travel ban to several more countries on Tuesday, including barring Palestinians from entering the United States.

The Presidential Proclamation said the new restrictions are being put in place to protect the U.S. “from national security and public safety threats.”

Here is what the proclamation said about blocking Palestinians:

Several U.S.-designated terrorist groups operate actively in the West Bank or Gaza Strip and have murdered American citizens.

Also, the recent war in these areas likely resulted in compromised vetting and screening abilities. In light of these factors, and considering the weak or nonexistent control exercised over these areas by the PA, individuals attempting to travel on PA-issued or endorsed travel documents cannot currently be properly vetted and approved for entry into the United States.

Beyond Palestinians, the Trump Administration is also banning people from five other countries — Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (g47mK)

296 I hate my own state.
Posted by: Minnfidel
----

I was born in Georgia, and lived there until I was 8. I loved all of the Confederate lore, and Stone Mountain Park was amazing. And rural Georgia is absolutely beautiful. But after seeing what has become of Atlanta and who runs it and how they run it...I believe Sherman may have gone too leniently on Atlanta.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (TN0g+)

297 Israel National News:

A Jewish, pro-Israel Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has died after being shot at his home Monday evening, campus officials confirmed on Tuesday.

I'd assume they know.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 04:34 PM

I added that into Grok:

No public evidence from Loureiro's biography, MIT profile, interviews, or social media supports these claims. His background points to origins in Portugal, with education and early career there and in the UK.

The homicide investigation remains active, with no suspects, motive disclosed, or arrests as of December 16, 2025. Authorities have not linked it to antisemitism or any targeted motive.

In summary, the article from Israel National News is real and reports the shooting correctly, but the descriptors "Jewish" and "pro-Israel" are not corroborated by reliable or neutral sources and seem to stem from unverified rumors circulating in certain online communities.

Full Grok answer: https://bit.ly/3MNv9Yu

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (P5BPp)

298 Is all this going to make Walz get that stunned tearful look on his face like somebody shoved a pineapple up his butt?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 04:41 PM (QOikT)

You guys are just right up my alley today!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)

299 this is new!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (g47mK)

300 What do you have to do around here to get a cool hash like this:

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 04:01 PM (+/y+R)

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (RuTUS)

301 Who the hell is putting balls on their Crocs?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:39 PM

First man who puts Crocs on his balls spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (sp/Nm)

302 265 As if the Somalis aren't stupid enough and dragged down by Islam, they marry their own cousins. How have they not become extinct? - Smell the Glove

Because apparently they're still smarter than Tim Walz.

Btw, instead of driving their cars past Tim Walz's house, I think protesters ought to form a conga line, snaking their way around his domain, singing a song in the appropriate rhythm.

Retard, liar, crook kick
Retard, liar, crook, kick

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (2L+MU)

303 are you feeling it ?

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

304 I could solve the UK "small boats" (rubber rafts) problem for a couple hundred K, a cabin cruiser, and a 50 cal cruising around the channel.

This is the easiest problem in the world to solve. What happens in the channel, stays in the channel.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (F1I3P)

305 For a hundred years are so the World will know and remember that shit hole means somollii and somalliis mean more shit.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (EyfuW)

306 In summary, the article from Israel National News is real and reports the shooting correctly, but the descriptors "Jewish" and "pro-Israel" are not corroborated by reliable or neutral sources and seem to stem from unverified rumors circulating in certain online communities.

Full Grok answer: https://bit.ly/3MNv9Yu
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (P5BPp)

And they read oddly in the article, as if they'd been hastily prepended.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (RuTUS)

307 Something is up. They are cancelling events left and right and now the travel ban on Palis, Syrians and the rest of the jihadis.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)

308
This is the easiest problem in the world to solve. What happens in the channel, stays in the channel.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (F1I3P)

And feeds the various marine life. It's really the circle of life and you'd be doing your part to save the ecosystem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)

309 British Navy?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (fBbkm)

310 266 So two of the members of the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" that the FBI rolled up had met multiple times with the leader of Gavin Newsom's PR team.

I have no idea what that means, but it's suggestive.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (ciXcx)

Oh, fuck me. I think I see it now....

MILF = Mom i'd like to F....
TILF = Tranny i'd like to (hhnnnurrrrgh fuck i just vomited, eww, gross)

They really are that stunted, aren't they?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (06Hmj)

311 303 are you feeling it ?
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

wut

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

312 What a retard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

313 British Navy?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (fBbkm)

Like the French navy, just less lube.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

314 "New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time"

ha ... but it is not a "phobia" if they really are trying to kill you.

"A phobia is an ongoing intense fear or anxiety of a certain object, animal, activity, or setting that poses little to no actual danger."

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (vbXSk)

315 I've never been to Minnesota. Maybe I should go up there and holler at Waltz that hes a retard, and check it out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (BI5O2)

316 What a retard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

*pouts*

*kicks rock*

*goes to room*

Posted by: Corky at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

317
This is the easiest problem in the world to solve. What happens in the channel, stays in the channel.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

What cruelty!

Posted by: Zombie Glenn Miller at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (oftw2)

318 As if the Somalis aren't stupid enough and dragged down by Islam, they marry their own cousins. How have they not become extinct?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I give you Ilian Omar, their best and brightest who married her gay ass brother. They are as inbred as British royalty.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (/HRQ5)

319 British Navy?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (fBbkm)

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (zjgNU)

320 That Beatles song. The British Army had just won the war. What War?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (fBbkm)

321 Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

322 Seems to be open season on Jews and Conservatives

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (Ia/+0)

323 Here’s an idea: no federal money for MN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (rQwsY)

324 Beyond Palestinians, the Trump Administration is also banning people from five other countries — Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:42 PM (g47mK)

Part of any coherent immigration procedure is checking papers and records from the home nation.

If the home nation doesn't even really exist, and is just a poorly defined geographical region governed by narcoterrorists or plain old regular-ass terrorists.... i mean... you know....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (06Hmj)

325 Here’s an idea: no federal money for MN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (rQwsY)

Or boobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (Zz0t1)

326 wut
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

lol, the travel ban

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (g47mK)

327 307 Something is up. They are cancelling events left and right and now the travel ban on Palis, Syrians and the rest of the jihadis.
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)

"They?"

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (RuTUS)

328 What's a 'palestinian?'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

329 OT- I just wanted to share a lovely thing that just happened. I normally teach a Bible study twice a month at the senior living center. Tonight's the night. We had about five inches of snow on Sunday but it's all cleared out now. The activities director just called me to see if I was still coming. She said that the ladies in our little group didn't want me to go out if it wasn't safe. Aren't they dears?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Yl2Ob)

330 I suppose Secretary McMahon could mitigate taxpayer losses by requiring the schools to return the share of the ghost student funds they kept before passing along the excess to the sommeliers.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (2ap+5)

331 Being retarded should not preclude one from being a State Governor.

Posted by: Short Bus Billy at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (oftw2)

332 266 So two of the members of the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" that the FBI rolled up had met multiple times with the leader of Gavin Newsom's PR team.

the news here is that governor awesome already has an active puerto rico team.

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (v3pYe)

333 Did you say 'brown shooter?'

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes. And also yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (zZu0s)

334 That Beatles song. The British Army had just won the war. What War?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:47 PM (fBbkm)

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

Falkland Islands (Lennon was tripping on LSD when he wrote the lyrics).

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 04:50 PM (B8kDF)

335 315 I've never been to Minnesota. Maybe I should go up there and holler at Waltz that hes a retard, and check it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM (BI5O2)

someone get Sora or whatever to generate some "tourism" ads based on this concept.

Could be some absolute gems just waiting to be polished out of this one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:50 PM (06Hmj)

336 Tje people of the Palestinian Mandate. Before the Pollacks stole it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:51 PM (fBbkm)

337 "They?"
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (RuTUS)

Europeans, because it is too late to issue a travel ban. Their pali, iranian, syrian friends are already in the country.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:51 PM (g47mK)

338 Should the Roman policy of decimation be considered? For everyone murdered by a Muslim 10 Muslims get executed.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 04:51 PM (8CIFn)

339 326 311 303 are you feeling it ?
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

wut
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

lol, the travel ban
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (g47mK)

Thanks; I had missed the thread of conversation.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:52 PM (RuTUS)

340 Here’s an idea: no federal money for MN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (rQwsY)

Or boobs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM
HEY! That's too far man!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:52 PM (ewjUl)

341 337 "They?"
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (RuTUS)

Europeans, because it is too late to issue a travel ban. Their pali, iranian, syrian friends are already in the country.
Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:51 PM (g47mK)

Thanks; lots happening in the thread.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:52 PM (RuTUS)

342 "Seems to be open season on Jews and Conservatives"

I never heard how they know the conservative Brown woman was specifically targeted. They have no idea who the shooter is ... did they find a note?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 04:53 PM (vbXSk)

343 the news here is that governor awesome already has an active puerto rico team.

Actually it's the gays that post those horrific terrible memes. Most recently the one where his legs are in a pretzel shape and the AI gave Newsom a visible cameltoe.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:53 PM (ciXcx)

344 >>>They only care about winning power. Period, and they won’t let anything stop them.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (Pu/zx)

But the one they serve does care about something. The one they serve wants you to suffer. It wants to invert and and corrupt everything true and beautiful.

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2025 04:53 PM (SwyyQ)

345 director just called me to see if I was still coming. She said that the ladies in our little group didn't want me to go out if it wasn't safe. Aren't they dears?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Could still be ice in the parking lot. Bubble Wrap, or a pillow bungeed about you could be prudent.

Posted by: Take Heed at December 16, 2025 04:53 PM (oftw2)

346
328 What's a 'palestinian?'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

-------

Descendents of untrustworthy nomadic arabs who settled in the vicinity of new jewish construction, and eventually became untrustworthy stationary fat slobs on welfare.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 04:53 PM (XeO61)

347 "They are cancelling events left and right"

I expect a lot of that. Who wants to be a target?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 04:54 PM (vFG9F)

348 "globalize the intifada"...how about we globalize Deus Vult...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 04:54 PM (g47mK)

349 It wouldn't surprise me that no one actually drove by and yelled 'retard!' at Walz house, it is just an attempt to earn victim points. That will work with the Dem base, and this strange taboo status on the "R" word might get points with the unaffiliated but sympathetic to communist leaning millennials. Presumably.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 04:54 PM (Dv3i1)

350 They have no idea who the shooter is ... did they find a note?

Randos on X believe they've identified the Brown shooter and the university has been busy scrubbing evidence that he's a student. That's about as good as confirmation.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:55 PM (ciXcx)

351 I've never been to Minnesota. Maybe I should go up there and holler at Waltz that hes a retard, and check it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 04:46 PM

Northern MN is beautiful. I live in it. I moved away from the Twin Shiddies. Most of the rest of the state is red. Great people. We have a tumor called Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Like Illinois where Chiraq ruins it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 16, 2025 04:55 PM (ewjUl)

352 Was she Brown?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:55 PM (fBbkm)

353 342 "Seems to be open season on Jews and Conservatives"

I never heard how they know the conservative Brown woman was specifically targeted. They have no idea who the shooter is ... did they find a note?
Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 04:53 PM (vbXSk)

1) They have no idea who the shooter is

It is reported that they do know.

2) did they find a note?

None that has been reported.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:55 PM (RuTUS)

354 Ohhh, my boss is KILLING me. He knows I stopped eating sugar, and yesterday he brought in Nothing Bundt Cakes and he just now brought in a bunch of cupcakes from a local bakery.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:56 PM (DRSnL)

355 They should be deported. For their own safety. They might run into a mob.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 04:56 PM (EyfuW)

356 Did you say 'brown shooter?'

He's more of a jaundice color.

Posted by: Billy Silly at December 16, 2025 04:56 PM (Vu7A1)

357 Ohhh, my boss is KILLING me. He knows I stopped eating sugar, and yesterday he brought in Nothing Bundt Cakes and he just now brought in a bunch of cupcakes from a local bakery.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:56 PM (DRSnL)

Chew it up and spit it out in the trash.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

358 It wouldn't surprise me that no one actually drove by and yelled 'retard!' at Walz house, it is just an attempt to earn victim points.

It definitely inspired people to drive by his house and yell it, so kind of an own goal.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (ciXcx)

359 Good. I want Walz perp walked into his new utopia of gen pop.

The name, Mustapha Kharbouch, has been erased from social media at Brown University.

Photo shows a chubby Palestinian. Fits what tiny profile given by the authorities.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (WONhk)

360 Retards gotta retard.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (udlma)

361 That's the right decision.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (fBbkm)

362
Descendents of untrustworthy nomadic arabs who settled in the vicinity of new jewish construction, and eventually became untrustworthy stationary fat slobs on welfare.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 04:53 PM (XeO61)

So, New Mexico.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

363 354 Ohhh, my boss is KILLING me. He knows I stopped eating sugar, and yesterday he brought in Nothing Bundt Cakes and he just now brought in a bunch of cupcakes from a local bakery.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:56 PM (DRSnL)

Wrong time of year to stop eating sugar.. That's what January is for...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (VE6XX)

364 354 Ohhh, my boss is KILLING me. He knows I stopped eating sugar, and yesterday he brought in Nothing Bundt Cakes and he just now brought in a bunch of cupcakes from a local bakery.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:56 PM (DRSnL)

A bakery where I went today was giving away chocolate chip cookies that had a dollop of fudge on top! Aaaggghhh.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (RuTUS)

365 So why did they arrest that first guy, and why did they "leak" his name.

I have to assume it was an intentional diversion as surely there was no real evidence against him. He needs to sue.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 04:58 PM (F1I3P)

366 The name, Mustapha Kharbouch, has been erased from social media at Brown University.

Photo shows a chubby Palestinian. Fits what tiny profile given by the authorities.

Also he's a gay tranny, or aspires to be one anyway.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:58 PM (ciXcx)

367 Can I hire someone to drive by Walz's house and yell "retard"?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

368 There is still time to get your Passive Pam Bondi Inaction Figure before Christmas. Its greatest features are the lawyer like outfits and TV makeup kit that she wears when she's on Fox News.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 16, 2025 04:58 PM (uv8gn)

369 The contrast is hilarious.

Husband: "Dey dwove by and called me a weetard. Dat's meeeeen."

Wife: "As the city burned from the jubilation of Revolution, I flung open the sash and breathed deeply of the fumes of Terror...."

Fuuuucking hell. Guess we know which one wears the pants in that family. And which one wears the fucking helmet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (06Hmj)

370 Can I hire someone to drive by Walz's house and yell "retard"?
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

I think their daughter is unemployed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (Zz0t1)

371 I'd pay at least $20 for that.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (vFG9F)

372 Fen roads should be fine

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (Ia/+0)

373 Wrong time of year to stop eating sugar.. That's what January is for...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (VE6XX)

=====

I actually stopped a couple of months ago.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (DRSnL)

374 "It wouldn't surprise me that no one actually drove by and yelled 'retard!' at Walz house, it is just an attempt to earn victim points."

I liked someone's comment here that said "his wife is leaving her windows open so she can hear them yelling 'RETARD'. "

Ha, in reference to his wife saying she left windows open to smell the smoke from BLM riots (iirc).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (vbXSk)

375 Descendents of untrustworthy nomadic arabs who settled in the vicinity of new jewish construction, and eventually became untrustworthy stationary fat slobs on welfare.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 04:53 PM (XeO61)

So, New Mexico.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

So you have spent time here it seems.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 16, 2025 05:00 PM (uv8gn)

376 368 There is still time to get your Passive Pam Bondi Inaction Figure before Christmas. Its greatest features are the lawyer like outfits and TV makeup kit that she wears when she's on Fox News.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Add the green room playset to the Christmas list.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 05:00 PM (Dv3i1)

377 Or boobs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:48 PM (Zz0t1)

Boobs would piss off the Muslim sensibilities of the Somalis. So, more boobs. Might run em off.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 05:00 PM (rQwsY)

378 And this is in every single state.

Red states yes, but even more in blue states.

take the fraud in MN and 10X it to get close to what's going on in CA.

Newscum isn't running for Prez b/c he can win, he's running because he wants to re-instate the "Biden Rule" that you can't investigate your political opponent during a campaign.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 05:00 PM (HXT0k)

379 yo

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:01 PM (IaZ7c)

380 Also he's a gay tranny, or aspires to be one anyway.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:58 PM (ciXcx)

Even better!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 05:01 PM (WONhk)

381 Another day another tranny mass murderer.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 05:01 PM (udlma)

382 373 Wrong time of year to stop eating sugar.. That's what January is for...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (VE6XX)

=====

I actually stopped a couple of months ago.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (DRSnL)

I went "low sugar" on May 1st. Not "no sugar" but very close to that.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:02 PM (RuTUS)

383 This is the retard prototype who demands you pay for her college degrees.

BA in Communications
BA in Spanish
BFA in Dance
Master's in Journalism

Can't get a job and thinks it's the world that's the problem.

http://tiny.cc/9miw001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 16, 2025 05:02 PM (Yp6az)

384
That Beatles song. The British Army had just won the war. What War?

Posted by: Boss Moss

"A Day in the Life" was recorded and released in the late 60s. The Falklands War happened after Lennon had assumed room temperature.

Author Neil Sinyard attributed the second-verse line "The English Army had just won the war" to Lennon's role in the film How I Won the War, which he had filmed during September and October 1966. Sinyard said: "It's hard to think of [the verse] without automatically associating it with Richard Lester's film."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 05:02 PM (xG4kz)

385 Fuuuucking hell. Guess we know which one wears the pants in that family. And which one wears the fucking helmet.
____

There's a vid of her at some campaign rally. She looks demonic. We ALL dodged a bullet (no pun intended, Mr President) with Kamala's loss.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 05:03 PM (Dv3i1)

386 You can hire a stripper to his home. Pay her an extra tip.

She can recite the letter while she is delivering a lap dance.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 05:03 PM (EyfuW)

387 Spanish isn't stem.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 05:03 PM (fBbkm)

388 379 yo
Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:01 PM (IaZ7c)

People have been taking your name in vain all throughout this thread.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:03 PM (RuTUS)

389 I see a great future for Tim waltz as the replacement for Richard Simmons.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 16, 2025 05:03 PM (uv8gn)

390

I actually stopped a couple of months ago.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (DRSnL)

I went "low sugar" on May 1st. Not "no sugar" but very close to that.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:02 PM (RuTUS)

https://youtu.be/j3plj_Xplus?t=19

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)

391 the first nood was a false nood but this is a true nood biyotches!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK8)

392 I liked someone's comment here that said "his wife is leaving her windows open so she can hear them yelling 'RETARD'. "

Ha, in reference to his wife saying she left windows open to smell the smoke from BLM riots (iirc).
Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (vbXSk)
-------------
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE EXPLAINED THE JOKE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (yNJrI)

393 Ohhh, my boss is KILLING me. He knows I stopped eating sugar, and yesterday he brought in Nothing Bundt Cakes and he just now brought in a bunch of cupcakes from a local bakery.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:56 PM (DRSnL)

Chew it up and spit it out in the trash.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM

Ahem.

Posted by: The Vomitorium of Darius at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (jc0TO)

394 358 It wouldn't surprise me that no one actually drove by and yelled 'retard!' at Walz house, it is just an attempt to earn victim points.

It definitely inspired people to drive by his house and yell it, so kind of an own goal.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 04:57 PM (ciXcx)

Gotta dig out the Mr. Microphone and go by Walz' house.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (0bjKf)

395 390

I actually stopped a couple of months ago.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 16, 2025 04:59 PM (DRSnL)

I went "low sugar" on May 1st. Not "no sugar" but very close to that.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:02 PM (RuTUS)

https://youtu.be/j3plj_Xplus?t=19
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)

eww

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:04 PM (RuTUS)

396 From deleted but archived Brown description of young Mustapha…

“He is highly motivated by questions of indigeneity (whatever that means) justice and inclusion and is particularly interested in the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies”

Intersection eh? Like when gays are thrown off buildings by Palestinians?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 05:05 PM (udlma)

397 >>People have been taking your name in vain all throughout this thread.

So, everything is at it should be.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2025 05:06 PM (IaZ7c)

398 What kind of absolute sped sled gets three bachelors degrees?

Especially in three increasingly preposterous "fields"?

"Conveying information"
"Conveying information to day laborers"
"Conveying information to homosexuals by flailing around like an absolute jerk"

And then ... AND THEN... gets a masters in JOURNALISM!

The exact and precise antipodes of the entire concept of "Conveying Information"?!?!

Good gravy, numbnuts, your entire academic career was the long, drawn out equivalent of a shaggy dog joke with straight C's.

Get fucked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 05:06 PM (06Hmj)

399 396 Sounds like @$$ whore mafia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 05:07 PM (fBbkm)

400 Intersection eh? Like when gays are thrown off buildings by Palestinians? Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Interesting interpretation. I always thought intersection meant where the gays landed after being thrown off the roof by the Muslims.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 16, 2025 05:09 PM (uv8gn)

401 BTW, how come we never hear about the massive amount of Somalis in San Diego? Because I think we're about to. Closing down the fraud in Minnesota is going to cause an Exodus to the next place to invade and abuse.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (dIske)
==
Sounds like Ohio for the win.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2025 05:09 PM (GZYu7)

402 BTW, how come we never hear about the massive amount of Somalis in San Diego? Because I think we're about to. Closing down the fraud in Minnesota is going to cause an Exodus to the next place to invade and abuse.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 04:04 PM (dIske)
==
Sounds like Ohio for the win.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2025 05:09 PM (GZYu7)

Ahem
- Lewiston, Maine 35% Somali

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 05:10 PM (udlma)

403 Ar there a lot of jobs for retards in Maine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 05:11 PM (fBbkm)

404 Why doesn't hyper masculine Tim just beat up anyone who calls him a retard?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 05:12 PM (8CIFn)

405 Tim doesn't look Somali.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 05:12 PM (fBbkm)

406 yikes!!!

"All references to Mustapha Kharbouch have been removed from Brown University’s website. (ace noticed it too..)

Archived profiles described Mustapha as a queer Palestinian activist and a third generation Palestinian refugee before they were taken down.

“Meet Our Student Assistants: Mustapha
Kharbouch '27
Mustapha Kharbouch '27 is a first-year student considering concentrating in International & Public Affairs and Anthropology with a focus on the Middle East. They are a third generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon. Attaining a scholarship to attend UW Maastricht, they have led and continue to help with community-building initiatives and social change roles. They are fond of bringing their lived experiences into academic spaces and participating in engaged scholarship. They are highly moved by questions of indigeneity, justice, and inclusion, and particularly interested in the intersection of queer studies with Palestinian studies.
Mustapha is also currently the Cultural Programming Coordinator for the Global Brown Center and on the e-board of the Arab Society.”"

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 05:13 PM (g47mK)

407 Washington State's Oil refineries are closing for some reason.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (fBbkm)

408 18 I would like to hear one story about a Somali who is not Muslim -are there any? And who is not a crook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025

There are a few thousand in the Carolinas. Christian families chased out of Somalia during the Clinton years. A small number slip in every year. Fully legal. Fully Christian. Fully employed. And so far under the radar, the Mounties couldn’t find them.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 16, 2025 05:14 PM (jt/rW)

409 Mustapha Kharbouch of Brown looks like he musta eaten a lot of carbs to match his/her name.

Certainly fits the profile of someone who would know the conservative girl he killed. Maybe the mo who was killed was collateral damage. Or did not like the gay deal, and was also a target.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 05:16 PM (WONhk)

410 Washington State's Oil refineries are closing for some reason.
Posted by: Boss Moss

California envy. In the last year, Chevron, Phillips and recently announced Valero are all closing refineries. This should constrain the gasoline supply in California by 20%. Expect $8 a gallon gas.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 16, 2025 05:17 PM (uv8gn)

411 I had a huge French Alpine goat named Mustafa.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 05:31 PM (BI5O2)

412 383 This is the retard prototype who demands you pay for her college degrees.

BA in Communications
BA in Spanish
BFA in Dance
Master's in Journalism

Can't get a job and thinks it's the world that's the problem.

http://tiny.cc/9miw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 16, 2025 05:02 PM (Yp6az)

A BA in Spanish and she can’t get a job in a country that increasingly believes having a society like Quebec or Belgium is a great idea?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 06:29 PM (4786I)

Emails: FBI Agents Repeatedly Warned Biden's DOJ That There Was No Probable Cause for the Mar-a-Lago Raid

Weird how we never heard warnings about the need for the DOJ to be independent of the president when Biden's thugs were raiding his rival's home.

Just the News:

The FBI in summer 2022 raised repeated objections to raiding Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, warning agents did not believe the Biden Justice Department had enough evidence to establish "probable cause" that the then-former president had broken the law in handling classified documents, according to bombshell memos turned over Tuesday to Congress.
"WFO [FBI's Washington Field Office] has conducted approximately [Redacted] interviews related to this matter. Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents," a June 1, 2022 FBI memo declared. "From the interviews, WFO has gathered information suggesting that there may be additional boxes (presumably of the same type as were sent back to NARA [National Archives] in January) at Mar-a-Lago."
"WFO has been drafting a Search Warrant affidavit related to these potential boxes, but has some concerns that the information is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated. DOJ CES [Counterintelligence and Export Control Section] opines, however, that the SWs [search warrants] meet the probable cause standard," that memo read.

The independent straight-shooters of the FBI found no probable cause, but Biden's political leadership of the DOJ found there was.

I'm sure Jake Tapper will get right on this.

Over a month later, FBI agents raised more concerns, including about the legality of searching Trump's personal residence at the Mar-a-Lago residence, the memos show.
"DOJ has inquired as to an Ops Plan for a SW of MAL [Mar-a-Lago]. and that we already had an Ops Plan in place that will [sic] can be quickly updated between FBI/MM [Miami Field Office] and FBI/WF [Washington Field Office]," a redacted FBI agent in the nation's capital wrote in a July 12, 2022 email. "However, WF-[Redacted] does not believe we have PC for the 45 Office or the bedroom due to recency and issues of boxes versus classified information. Therefore, as Mv
Just the News obtained a copy of the memos after Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel declassified them and turned them over to Congress.
"Received shocking new docs 2day from DOJ & FBI showing FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres[ident] Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. "Based on the records, Mar-a-Lago raid was a miscarriage of justice."
The emails were turned over to the Senate and House Judiciary committees, ahead of a planned deposition Wednesday from ex-special prosecutor Jack Smith, who inherited the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case just months after the August 2022 raid of Trump's home that rocked the political world ahead of the 2024 election.
It has long been rumored that some FBI agents disagreed with the decision to raid Trump's home to look for classified documents at the request of the National Archives.
But the declassified emails chronicle the specific concerns that DOJ under President Joe Biden had not met the standard for a search warrant, but proceeded anyway, officials said.
Jay Bratt, at the time the chief of the DOJ's CES and a future member of future special counsel Jack Smith's team, was key in pushing for the Mar-a-Lago raid. An FBI official sent an email on June 2, 2022 stating that "we learned from Jay Bratt that he did not intend to 'negotiate' with [Trump lawyer Evan] Corcoran, or have any further discussions with him."
Brett Reynolds, a trial attorney at CES, appeared to send a draft of a search warrant on July 8, 2022. Michael Thacker, an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, appeared to send another draft version of a search warrant on July 13, 2022.
"We haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft. Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on site, at what point is it fair to table this? It is time consuming for the team, and not productive if there are no new facts supporting PC?" an FBI official wrote in a July 13, 2022 email.
"As everyone is tracking, WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES) that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago," an FBI official wrote in another email dated July 20, 2022.

Put them in prison. G-pop.

It�s true - we just turned over documents to Capitol Hill to be made public showing the FBI told DOJ they did not have probable cause for raiding President Trump�s home in Mar A Lago but DOJ �didn�t give a damn� and did it anyway. https://t.co/qIlShYTd5V
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 16, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:25 PM

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1 Nothing will happen

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (zjgNU)

2 Wow. First AND a black pill!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (zjgNU)

3 FBI Agents Repeatedly Warned Biden's DOJ That There Was No Probable Cause for the Mar-a-Lago Raid

No Shit, Sherlock?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (VES6X)

4

Nothing ever happens.

Look at sasquatch-goon Comey. Guilty as sin, free as a bird.

Posted by: imp at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (g6TN6)

5 Of course, if something DID happen, this lawbreaking would stop.

But if we arrested people for committing crimes, then we'd be worse than HITLER, so Republicans can never hold Democrats accountable for blatant criminal politicization.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (zjgNU)

6
Who cares!

Trump should go to prison.

Posted by: Ghost of Meathead Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:27 PM (Il0Nj)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Well, ok, but only as a salaried employee!

Posted by: Those Ham-n-Eggers Again! at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (OnLUs)

9 Of note, not only the criminals in the DOJ should be in jail for this, the judges who signed off ought also to be criminally accountable. They knew this was a sham, as well.

But none will be.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (zjgNU)

10 So the FBI is pointing fingers at DOJ? That’s like ass cancer pointing fingers at ball cancer.

Posted by: Steeldoc at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (1CxbB)

11 So they didn't find any ham or eggs?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (pIfcn)

12 Well, at least they all kept their pensions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

13 Well, ok, but only as a salaried employee!
Posted by: Those Ham-n-Eggers Again! at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (OnLUs)

Good point. Our "honorable men in the FBI" are only honorable if it doesn't cost them.

Funny that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (zjgNU)

14 Judge Boasberg will randomly be assigned this case and will order all the evidence to be destroyed. "No Kings" and all that.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

15 You can't place incriminating evidence on site if you're not on site, so, PROBABLY CAUSE!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

16 So what did they put as probable cause for the search warrant, and what hand-picked judge signed off on it despite there being significant holes? Do judges examine search warrant applications at all?

Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (a/dOO)

17 Andy McCarthy to explain this away in 3,2,....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (D+mpw)

18 Sounds like a Sperg. The idea that we are still under the rule of law.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (fBbkm)

19 Well, ok, but only as a salaried employee!
Posted by: Those Ham-n-Eggers Again!

Egg-saladed employee?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

20 Having a hard time giving a damn. Absolutely nothing will happen. Which just emboldens them. Which means they do more of this shit. So I guess something WILL happen... we'll get shat on even more.

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (t+VLa)

21 Not in before the guy that says nothing will happen, but I'll go ahead and say it anyway.

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.

Forgot to add, unless I was privy to the attempt to jail a political opponent.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (a/dOO)

23 Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents," a June 1, 2022 FBI memo declared.
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Which is why they were so desperate for Walt Nutla (sp?) to flip, a "if you'll admit you knew they were classified, we'll dismiss all charges" deal.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (HXT0k)

24 >>>Put them in prison. G-pop.

Prison. But no extrajudicial punishment, such as putting them in the general population would encourage.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (RuTUS)

25 So they didn't find any ham or eggs?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (pIfcn)

But they DID find Melania's panty drawer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

26

This goes to the Cynical Publius post highlighted today at Insta. Reps play these faggy-ass Queensbury rules (or get held to them by a hostile, partisan judiciary).

WTF is "Maryland Man" walking the streets of our country after a valid, thrice-blessed deportation order?

Posted by: imp at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (g6TN6)

27 Why did the FBI agents stage the "classified documents " implying that Trump just sloppily placed them for all to see?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (NpAcC)

28 10 So the FBI is pointing fingers at DOJ? That’s like ass cancer pointing fingers at ball cancer.
Posted by: Steeldoc at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (1CxbB)

The Left assures it taint.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (pIfcn)

29 I'm sure Jack Smith knew none of this.

LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:32 PM (HXT0k)

30 22 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.

Forgot to add, unless I was privy to the attempt to jail a political opponent.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (a/dOO)

Judge Boasberg says nothing, he just smiles.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:32 PM (uWKK8)

31 Yesterday Grassley was out there complaining about dirty tactics. Sorry, but they're all cucks. Grassley is like a guy whose wife is sleeping all around town and he goes out and complains about how badly he's being treated but never does anything about it. Zero balls

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (t+VLa)

32 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (a/dOO)

Not if youre Boasberg.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (zZu0s)

33 maybe dr jill said it was okay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (CWTWj)

34
But they DID find Melania's panty drawer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

That would have never happened to the Obamas.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)

35 if the Dems take the White House in 2028 they'll reboot these antics.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (rJ48h)

36 Susie Wiles is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

Posted by: Trump Cabinet Member at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (YwIpu)

37 Defund the FBI. Where were the “good” FBI agents? Why did they not resign in protest to clearly politicized orders?

Even the “good” agents are nothing but pension craving cowards.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (+k6t6)

38 But they DID find Melania's panty drawer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

That would have never happened to the Obamas.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

In the Obama household, the panty drawer belongs to Barack.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

39 "Respondeat superior." The admins are cuplable, accountable, liable for tge actions of their inferiors. They ordered it they cab carry the weight civil and criminal. No tap backs. No erasies.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (YlWIZ)

40 It appears our justice department and federal law enforcement are corrupt to the bone.

Secession anyone?

Posted by: Buford T Justice at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (YyIMQ)

41 Even the “good” agents are nothing but pension craving cowards.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (+k6t6)
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Heddy Johnson is right!

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (t+VLa)

42 Proposal. Even before being almost, you know, murdered, the raid on his home and the fondling of his wife’s panties radicalized Trump. It would have me.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (pDt9x)

43 Put them in prison. G-pop.

k-pop > g-pop

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 02:35 PM (v3pYe)

44 People have lost their jobs over undies. Oh, I slay myself!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 16, 2025 02:35 PM (YlWIZ)

45 Search the homes of every agent who breached Mar A Lago. Find Melania's underwear, and then jail anyone who has it. But first, let Melania slap each and every one of them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (6Bc88)

46 Korean wing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (fBbkm)

47 this doesn't prove that trump isn't guilty of some charge that schift and sawlwell haven't thought of yet, does it

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (CWTWj)

48 The raid was also a failure because they showed up when he wasn't home and so they could not shoot him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (0U5gm)

49 Most would like the homo stuff in prison. Looking at you, Jack Smith.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (gm9Sb)

50 But first, let Melania slap each and every one of them.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Naw. They'd enjoy that too much.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

51 Heddy Johnson is right!
Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (t+VLa)

"It's Hedley."

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (6Bc88)

52 the fondling of his wife’s panties radicalized Trump. It would have me.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (pDt9x)
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"If it saves just one life...."

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (t+VLa)

53 But Trump tweeted some mean things about a dead POS!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)

54
That would have never happened to the Obamas.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)

Nope. Because Michelle wears briefs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

55 14 Judge Boasberg will randomly be assigned this case and will order all the evidence to be destroyed. "No Kings" and all that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Not in this case, warrant was issued by a magistrate judge in SD of Florida and that would handle any case. Trump was wise to get his ass outta NY.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (WDjG6)

56 It's Hedley."

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (6Bc8

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I hope you said that in Harvey Korman's voice!

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (t+VLa)

57 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.
--
IIRC, the warrant was signed by a magistrate judge.

B/c they timed the filing of the request when they knew the district judge would not be available.

And, recall, the grand jury on this was in DC.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (HXT0k)

58 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (FtUtq)

59 Big Mike doesn't have a panty drawer , he has a jock strap drawer. From what I've heard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (D+mpw)

60 In before the nothing will happen crowd -- and nothing will happen.

"DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW."

The U.S. Constitution has effectively been morte for a very long time ....

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (EhvIe)

61 But they DID find Melania's panty drawer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

That would have never happened to the Obamas.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)

Alternate History FBI Raid on the Obama:

"I'll check this chest of drawers over here."
"This is Michelle's room. You find anything/"
"uh....I don't know it looks like somebody packed some old-fashioned silk parachutes...you know the big, giant ones from WWII and....oh...
Ooooohhhhhhhh!"
...

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (iJfKG)

62 The Constitution is a piece of paper.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (fBbkm)

63
*ahem*

BOXER briefs.

Posted by: Big Mike at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (FtUtq)

64 I solemnly swear to draw breath, shop for power ties, drink at all the right cocktail parties, have lunch until my retirement date, collect consulting fees trade on forbidden tips until my dying day. So help me Hef.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (YlWIZ)

65
Wild guess:

President Trump's address tonight will be about an unsafe America because of Democrats & their dumb policies.

Posted by: Ghost of Meathead Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (Il0Nj)

66 Search the homes of every agent who breached Mar A Lago. Find Melania's underwear, and then jail anyone who has it. But first, let Melania slap each and every one of them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (6Bc8

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Better yet - Make Kash Patel director of the FBI and Dan Bongino and Andrew Bailey deputy directors of the FBI.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (rj6Yv)

67 Nope. Because Michelle wears briefs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

With dick holes in them.

Posted by: Silky Johnson, Playa H8ter at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (YyIMQ)

68 The Constitution is a piece of paper.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:39 PM (fBbkm)

That shit is, like, OLD bruh.

Posted by: Average Millennial Dipshit at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

69 Not in this case, warrant was issued by a magistrate judge in SD of Florida and that would handle any case.
Posted by: whig

C'mon, we know that Boasberg is the supreme leader of the world. His authority extends to the Oort Cloud, at least.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

70 Nope. Because Michelle wears briefs.

Sure looked commando on the Ellen clip.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (rJjpq)

71 I never got briefs sorted out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (fBbkm)

72 Who needs probable cause when they have an election to steal?

Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (E8S6f)

73 Finished a second interview with a company.

Fingers crossed.

About to put my second sourdough ever in the oven.

Fingers crossed.

Like and subscribe.

Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

74 70 Nope. Because Michelle wears briefs.

Sure looked commando on the Ellen clip.
Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 02:40 PM (rJjpq)

THAT was a bizarre video on several levels. I do know that it cannot be unseen.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (pDt9x)

75 Good luck TJM

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Wo1GJ)

76 The Constitution is a piece of paper.
Posted by: Boss Moss

And the Dems treat it like Schlieffen treated that "mere scrap of paper," the Belgian neutrality treaty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

77 Did it have wtitten instructions?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (fBbkm)

78
Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

Godspeed, sir.

Posted by: Average Millennial Dipshit at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

79 76 The Constitution is a piece of paper.
Posted by: Boss Moss

And the Dems treat it like Schlieffen treated that "mere scrap of paper," the Belgian neutrality treaty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

=====

Can you make this same point but with a slightly outdated but modern enough television reference that paints me as a Millennial and not a Zoomer?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

80 Finished a second interview with a company.

Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Break a leg. No, wait. I think that is just for actors.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)

81 Damn.....not my day.

F*cking stress.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

82 75 Good luck TJM

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Wo1GJ)

======

Mostly for the sourdough, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

83 The whole crowd, standing at attention in the Oval Office before Himself. "You know why I called you here, and you know why. Jack, stand straight and quit the crying. Tomorrow a plane will be leaving Andrews, and none of you will be demoted but will be on that plane. Pack cold weather gear and you might want to brush up on Inuit. The station has been shut down since the end of the cold war, but we still find a reason to have it manned.. Jack, quit bawling."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (gm9Sb)

84 @73 TJM , good luck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (D+mpw)

85 78 Godspeed, sir.

Posted by: Average Millennial Dipshit at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

======

Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

86 ...About to put my second sourdough ever in the oven.

Fingers crossed.

Like and subscribe.

Fingers crossed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

You've got a sourdough channel now?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (iJfKG)

87 the fondling of his wife’s panties radicalized Trump. It would have me.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (pDt9x)

I'd be demanding those agents be assigned to the absolute worst location to work there is.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (N39Ws)

88 73 Finished a second interview with a company.

Fingers crossed.

About to put my second sourdough ever in the oven.

Fingers crossed.

Like and subscribe.

Fingers crossed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

In the end, it’s only a loaf of bread.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (pDt9x)

89

Break a leg. No, wait. I think that is just for actors.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)

He's got a YT channel. Close enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

90 Schliefen Plan was in all thr history books. Google it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (fBbkm)

91 Big Mike doesn't have a panty drawer , he has a jock strap drawer. From what I've heard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (D+mpw)

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From what I've seen (not in person -- only that famous "schwing!" dancing video online) his sock drawer could serve a dual purpose.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (EhvIe)

92 80 Break a leg. No, wait. I think that is just for actors.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)

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Well, the interview was a performance.

"Why, yes, I do deeply care about corporate lemming work. Why do you ask?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

93 "DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW."

like literally every gun control law on the books, fed, state, or local

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Cjt/F)

94 86 You've got a sourdough channel now?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (iJfKG)

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Well...YT does allow for posts. And my one post is a picture of my first sourdough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

95 Like and subscribe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

President Trump, tonight, from the Oval Office:

"I'd like to urge you all of you great Americans to like and subscribe to TheJamesMadison's big, beautiful YouTube channel. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

96 53 But Trump tweeted some mean things about a dead POS!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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It is always fear of what others might do or say driving such comments. And it means social norms making it taboo to talk badly about dead people.

Social virtue signalling basically. People often feel better about themselves because they can express that they are better than that thus elevating themselves morally over the crowd.

Drives a lot of human behavior and society where being obnoxious but true in a statement is viewed as worse than blathering polite lies by omission or being silent for fear that the 'crowd' does not like it.

So taboos on public speaking like race, religion, science, sex, etc are often viewed as beyond the pale. Instead, like Henry Higgins teaches Eliza, you talk about your health and the weather.

The drunken defense lawyer scene in the Caine Mutiny played by José Ferrer is a classic example where the man spoke his piece of truth despite the crowd not liking what they heard.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (WDjG6)

97 And no one will pay for it

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Ia/+0)

98
Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

It's the thought that counts?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

99 They were never going to have a reason because as I've been saying since the raid Trump had every right to take the documents under the Presidential Records Act.

Now do something about it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (viF8m)

100 95
"I'd like to urge you all of you great Americans to like and subscribe to TheJamesMadison's big, beautiful YouTube channel. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

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300,000,000 views.

2 subscribers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

101 Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Interestingly, I say the same thing when someone pulls out right in front of my vehicle.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (0U5gm)

102 Do understand it did not stop the raid, they still sniffed Melania's pantys and they did not "bravely" go at once to the media and leak.

The FIB sucks.

https://x.com/sven10077/status/2000933347128750549

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen, Ford 37 Pickup Trucks, Retired Space Shuttles, Unicorns, Otherkyn, and the Disarmed....FIB Portland has an update on the attacker at The University of Portland State University Kitchen Five facility.

This briefing is being held on land that once belonged to the Intergalactic Kingdom of Epsilon Five who were displaced by the terrible but necessary actions of the wizard Yakub.

A persynhunt is ongoing after law enforcement released a previously detained person of interest, determining that evidence pointed in a "different direction" and there was no basis to continue holding him despite his yelling "Aloha Saladbar."

New images and video of a new person of interest, described as a simian approximately 5-foot-8-inches with a stocky build, captured on surveillance footage near campus shortly before the shooting.

This office will not confirm what words were uttered as the attack was levied on the home economics class study session in kitchen five

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (MUJd1)

103 Remember how they brought their own "classified" folders to the raid?*

And then splayed them on the hallway floor, as if to depict that was how they were found?

And then--bizarrely--included that photo in their filings?
A thing which is almost never done in federal filing and had zero weight to the filing?

And then, they "failed" to note the box, location and order for which they allegedly "found" the classified docs?
That is, no chain of custody, but a "trust us, we totally found these classified docs in that box."

* and this is key, b/c the charges were "knowingly mishandling classified documents." Which would have been near impossible ... but hey!! here are these bright red and blue folders now!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (HXT0k)

104 Ditto TJM. Good luck with the interview if you really want the job.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (WDjG6)

105 Finished a second interview with a company.

Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

that's great!!

*keep looking...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (g47mK)

106 81 Damn.....not my day.

F*cking stress.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm there with you. Desperately trying to hang onto my job while asking myself why I haven't called the truck driving school for my CDL so I can get out of IT.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (N39Ws)

107 Better question? What Judge signed off on the Warrant.

It is supposed to be a Judge who decides if a Warrant has sufficient cause, and is legal... and yet, we see time and again that Warrants were issued to spy on Congressmen, or to search the Home of an Ex President... at the behest of a Librarian?

Many of the problems we now have with our government, stem from the Judiciary not doing their intended Job. They are no longer protectors of the Public... and constantly overstep their own authority giving orders that should not be given, while also not protecting the Rights of citizens.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (mP0Kj)

108 98
Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

It's the thought that counts?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

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Sock fail joke. Humorous in intent.

Hope you pull through the end of this tough as balls year, Sponge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

109 Finished a second interview with a company.
Fingers crossed.

We're sorry. That job will remain unfilled, at least until our immigration policies get restored...

Posted by: Gov. Mike DeWine at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (TkqyZ)

110 In the end, it’s only a loaf of bread.
Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (pDt9x)

*Lyrics in Kansas' trash can

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

111 The Russian Navy is having a bad week.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (fBbkm)

112 101 Thanks, Dipshit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Interestingly, I say the same thing when someone pulls out right in front of my vehicle.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (0U5gm)

No “Bless Your Heart” the Deep South curse??

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (pDt9x)

113 This office will not confirm what words were uttered as the attack was levied on the home economics class study session in kitchen five, but will note there would be no hesitance to do so if the words were something vile like "MAGA Forever!"

Remain unaware, but agitated and continue to look for the simian of interest.

//FIB Portland

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (MUJd1)

114 Well, the interview was a performance.

"Why, yes, I do deeply care about corporate lemming work. Why do you ask?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

You did mention you were all excited about TPS reports, yes?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

115 When the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" gang was rolled up by the FBI, one of the first thoughts that came to mind was whether or not the Feds found incriminating documents related to foreign involvement.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (rj6Yv)

116 104 Ditto TJM. Good luck with the interview if you really want the job.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (WDjG6)

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It went decently. The first interview with another manager went great. Great rapport. This one with two women went fine, though no one had told me they expected video to be on. Probably not enough to torpedo everything.

I am camera shy, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

117
Hope you pull through the end of this tough as balls year, Sponge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

118 irrespective of how many times they bring you back , keep looking!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (g47mK)

119 Judge Boasberg will randomly be assigned this case and will order all the evidence to be destroyed. "No Kings" and all that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

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The Supreme Court are playing with fire by leaving this judge in place to wreak havoc on the Trump administration. By not stopping him they are giving the whole country a message that they are on board with his malfeasance. Once the people decide you are not on their side it all over.

Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (E8S6f)

120 Good luck, TMJ.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (77rzZ)

121 I heard a rumor once that "no one is above the law."

Even people who abuse their office and attempt to toss their rivals in prison with no probable cause.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (C3IAS)

122 114 You did mention you were all excited about TPS reports, yes?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

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No one cares about the reports themselves.

It's the covers that people care about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

123 "48 The raid was also a failure because they showed up when he wasn't home and so they could not shoot him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:36 PM (0U5gm) "

affirm. THIS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (Cjt/F)

124 No “Bless Your Heart” the Deep South curse??

Posted by: tubal

In a split second braking scenario, that takes too long.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (0U5gm)

125 Can you make this same point but with a slightly outdated but modern enough television reference that paints me as a Millennial and not a Zoomer?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Bill Clinton treated his interns.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

126 122 114 You did mention you were all excited about TPS reports, yes?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

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No one cares about the reports themselves.

It's the covers that people care about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

And the fonts used, apparently.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (pDt9x)

127 What do we want: the swarm of government law breakers to be arrested and justice prevail after the years of corruption and treason.

What will we accept: all of the law breakers to be fired and leftists to stay out of government for a generation.

What will we get: GOPe to help reinstall the deep state to arrest our insolent keesters for daring to vote against them.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (+/y+R)

128 [
I'm there with you. Desperately trying to hang onto my job while asking myself why I haven't called the truck driving school for my CDL so I can get out of IT.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:45 PM (N39Ws)

Yeah....I'm getting where I want to do something different as well....Just really can't and hope I can keep this going after we move as I'll be a long way away from the DC and my company MIGHT be pissed about it.

Need the insurance, for obvious reasons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

129 Mostly for the sourdough, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

You read my mind. It's a scary place sorry

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (Wo1GJ)

130 107 Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2025 02:46 PM (mP0Kj)

The warrants are a rubber stamp Romeo worse bias than even the brave Raccoons of the FIB.

Beryl Howell is exceptional in her judicial bias only in so openly reveling in it.

The hit rate for the FISA Court on fishing expeditions is 99.75% +...

Is there THAT much perfidy extant, that much indifference to Constitutional restraint, or is the FIB et al simply that good at personal restraint in overreach and analytics and forensic persuasiveness?

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (MUJd1)

131 125 Can you make this same point but with a slightly outdated but modern enough television reference that paints me as a Millennial and not a Zoomer?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Bill Clinton treated his interns.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

Like a humidor?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:49 PM (N39Ws)

132 It's the covers that people care about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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When I required actual papers to be submitted for grading back in the day, I often noted really inferior reports in a very snazzy cover.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:49 PM (WDjG6)

133 129 Mostly for the sourdough, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

You read my mind. It's a scary place sorry

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:48 PM (Wo1GJ)

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Sourdough done well is one of life's pleasures.

This dough looks good. We'll see.

If so, I have two separate starters that I've successfully made from scratch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

134 "Why, yes, I do deeply care about corporate lemming work. Why do you ask?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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TJM, Alpha Lemming.

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (t+VLa)

135 I am too upset about Trump's tweet on the butchering of Meathead to worry about systemic corruption in our justice system.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (wBaIH)

136 TJM, where do you keep/store your starter dough?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (pDt9x)

137 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Meet Michelea Ponce. Ponce works for the
@Enloe
nonprofit health care system (most likely as a nurse) in California.

She is an “anti-racism” activist who decided to post a video of herself chastising and calling a Target employee “fucking stupid,” accusing her of supporting a “racist” simply because the staffer was wearing Charlie Kirk’s “Freedom” shirt.

Ponce could have politely addressed the issue with a store manager, but instead she chose to demonize the employee and shame her on the internet.

Please HELP me return the FAVOR and blast her all over the place, because someone who works in healthcare, whose role is to support the well-being of people, is doing the opposite.

https://tinyurl.com/2wmftt63

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 02:51 PM (NpAcC)

138 Put them in prison.
-

Waiting.

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 16, 2025 02:51 PM (pe/Zy)

139 I know what we need to fix this....

Posted by: Strongly Worded Letters! at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (53oGX)

140 *I am camera shy, though.*

Sez da guy wid a Utoob channel.

Posted by: Doubt it at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (FtUtq)

141 136 TJM, where do you keep/store your starter dough?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (pDt9x)

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They're only about a month old. I kept them active in the oven with the light on for weeks, aging them. Now, they're in the refrigerator for storage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

142 The Fed court system much like Ohio's. In the 80s we had a Judge pulled over by the staties for a DUI. Judges in Ohio have to be tried by a three member panel of peers. Charged Judge was found innocent because he just washed his car and was dodging mud puddles.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (gm9Sb)

143 Is something happening in The Islammic Republic of Minnesota?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (fBbkm)

144 If so, I have two separate starters that I've successfully made from scratch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025

Cool! They mature up to 90 days and then plateau. And it makes a big difference, using a 30 day starter vs a 90 (for example).

And you can use commercial yeast in your recipe to boost it. They sometimes call it "helper yeast" so not a lot of it, and also obviously never put it near your actual starter. But if you like straight sourdough then forget the commercial yeast. It's just to improve the rise and the timing.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (Wo1GJ)

145 Can we get some more about how Trump's judge let him off on the classified docs case?

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (53oGX)

146 Now do something about it.

We are! We are ineffectively whining about it!

Do you really believe that a failed State is capable of having a functioning justice system?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (NzX/y)

147 144 And you can use commercial yeast in your recipe to boost it. They sometimes call it "helper yeast" so not a lot of it, and also obviously never put it near your actual starter. But if you like straight sourdough then forget the commercial yeast. It's just to improve the rise and the timing.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (Wo1GJ)

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The rise on my first was impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/post/
Ugkxn1pBzumFEP1VZrz_jqL-gg6IO8vknx0v

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

148 The idea that there is or should be a independent DOJ making determinations of investigating a former President is really silly. The current President should face the political consequences from such an action. And Biden did.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (sX1BW)

149 141 136 TJM, where do you keep/store your starter dough?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:50 PM (pDt9x)

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They're only about a month old. I kept them active in the oven with the light on for weeks, aging them. Now, they're in the refrigerator for storage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

150 The craziest thing is how all this got started - the white house archivist (who hates trump) saw a news program where they were loading a few banker boxes as Trump was leaving the white house.

Literally a 2-bit flunky started the whole fiasco.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (C3IAS)

151 TJM, Alpha Lemming.
Posted by: 496

Alpha lemming: "Hey, look, everybody! Here's a big, beautiful cliff! Let's throw ourselves over it!"

Non-Alpha lemmings: "You first, Dipshit."

*Alpha lemming goes over cliff*

Non-Alpha lemmings: "Welp, guess we gotta get ourselves a new Alpha lemming."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

152 Not in this case, warrant was issued by a magistrate judge in SD of Florida and that would handle any case. Trump was wise to get his ass outta NY.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:37 PM (WDjG6)

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It looks like anyone with a brain is also getting his ass out of New York. Mamdani will be left with just the left and rule there for a thousand years.

Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (E8S6f)

153 My former organization would have had these louts tortured, shot, and sent to the Russian Front!

Posted by: Major Hochstetter at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (oftw2)

154 Whether he broke the law or not, Trump is a dictator!

Also, I AM IN AGONY IN THIS FIRE.

Posted by: Rob Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (jc0TO)

155 The raid was also a failure because they showed up when he wasn't home and so they could not shoot him.
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Yup. 100%.

Don't forget:
40+ agents.
Carrying fully-automatic weapons and their side-arms.
Authorized to fire-at-will.
Sent to raid the personal residence of the former President.
Without warning his Secret Service detail.

They wanted a gunfight, dead agents at the least, they could pin on Trump for "stealing classified documents."
Bonus if they killed Trump.

Like Butler, I'll bet the whole first wave team was all green and inexperienced agents.
And I'll further bet they were sent in plain-clothes.

But the left is not at war against America ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (HXT0k)

156 If no probable cause, then the warrant was fraud on the court.
AND the raid was a robbery.

Im so tired of these ham and eggers getting off scotfree.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (fPASK)

157 Is there THAT much perfidy extant, that much indifference to Constitutional restraint, or is the FIB et al simply that good at personal restraint in overreach and analytics and forensic persuasiveness?
Posted by: sven
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Sven, I can tell you song and verse about how privacy has been obliterated by Big Tech and gubmint. Simply put, they spy on us, every day, every way, and much of it comes from teh very products we buy, the cars and cellphones we buy, and from online merchants willing to make a shady buck by selling your data in bulk to law enforcement cheap

Assume you live in a glass house, every appliance is tapped, and all your comms are intercepted, categorized and starred if gubmint views you the problem. All your subscriptions, likes, views on social media belong to Big Tech and thence to Big Gov, etc.

Want privacy, move abroad to a shitty country in the sticks or live like Ted Kacynski did here--in a shack in the middle of nowhere without modern tech.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

158 Didn't get to today's video yet

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (Ia/+0)

159 I am too upset about Trump's tweet on the butchering of Meathead to worry about systemic corruption in our justice system.

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There are real problems plaguing this country, and Trump to his credit is actually trying to address some. But gosh darn it, that tweet was over the line. Pence would have never done that.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (sX1BW)

160 If you buy a starter home does it come with starter dough?

Posted by: Inquiring minds at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (FtUtq)

161 TJM do two more months with daily feeds on the counter, then refrigerate. By all means keep some in the fridge now as a "backup". Ideally you want to get it to 90 day strength then you are done.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (Wo1GJ)

162 149 Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

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What I learned is that anything other than mold is fixable.

Not rising? Add more flour. Still not rising? Warm it slightly more (oven with the light on). Hooch? Drain it, then feed it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

163 To be complete fair and clear, while there was no probable evidence of Russian collusion there was in fact a high probability of thing panties in Melania's underwear draw.

So obviously we needed to go in.

Posted by: The FBI at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

164 Libby Emmons @libbyemmons

Caroline Wren reports that students said the Brown University shooter shouter "Allahu Akbar" when firing into the lecture hall and that Reddit had to shut down the Brown board because pro-Gaza students were celebrating Ella Cook's murder.

X video: https://bit.ly/3L62WM2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (P5BPp)

165
The independent straight-shooters of the FBI

I do not understand these words in that sequence...

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (Piohu)

166 It looks like anyone with a brain is also getting his ass out of New York. Mamdani will be left with just the left and rule there for a thousand years.
Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM

The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

167 The evidence piles up, but the guilty are still free.

IIRC, Bolton's the only one still under an indictment. And his crime was mostly low level possession of classified documents.

Is this a DoJ problem? Or a judicial problem? Or both?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (NwnyJ)

168 The 49ers didb't have refrigeration.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (fBbkm)

169
If there are emails , then there are names. If there are names , there can be firings or prosecutions.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (n7rxJ)

170 162

What I learned is that anything other than mold is fixable.

Not rising? Add more flour. Still not rising? Warm it slightly more (oven with the light on). Hooch? Drain it, then feed it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

Appreciate the advice.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (pDt9x)

171 164 Libby Emmons @libbyemmons

Caroline Wren reports that students said the Brown University shooter shouter "Allahu Akbar" when firing into the lecture hall and that Reddit had to shut down the Brown board because pro-Gaza students were celebrating Ella Cook's murder.
____

NOW, finally everything makes sense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

172 Remember arresting a random judge for committing a clear crime is the mark of a banana republic, but raiding the home of the leader of the political opposition because, uh, you might find something, is a-ok.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW

ah...if they have an R next to their name

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (sKqQm)

173 Assume you live in a glass house, every appliance is tapped, and all your comms are intercepted, categorized and starred if gubmint views you the problem. All your subscriptions, likes, views on social media belong to Big Tech and thence to Big Gov, etc.

Want privacy, move abroad to a shitty country in the sticks or live like Ted Kacynski did here--in a shack in the middle of nowhere without modern tech.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)
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Concur.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (rj6Yv)

174 30 22 Because if I was a judge, I'd be pretty pissed off if a search warrant application was known to be unsupported or contained misleading information.

Forgot to add, unless I was privy to the attempt to jail a political opponent.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 16, 2025 02:30 PM (a/dOO)

Judge Boasberg says nothing, he just smiles.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:32 PM (uWKK

I recall the Mar-a-lago raid was signed off by a magistrate judge, wasnt' it?

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (53oGX)

175 I AM DRUGS!

Posted by: MUMR at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (IKBFw)

176 The raid was to frame President Trump for a crime they didn't even think of yet

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)

177 The Paolo's rise is also, as you say, impressive.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

178 Islam Invasion @IslamInvasion

"There's no 'watchlist' in Dubai - If you're a threat, you're out!"

@Imamofpeace to @Erin_Molan: are watchlists meant to watch them carry out a terror attack?!

What is the deal with our 'tolerance'?
Isn't it our greatest 'weakness'?!

X video: https://bit.ly/3N1KDrU

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (P5BPp)

179 145 Can we get some more about how Trump's judge let him off on the classified docs case?
Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (53oGX
****
Jack Smith was not a real boy.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (fPASK)

180 The 49ers didb't have refrigeration.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:56 PM (fBbkm)

I would bet that Brock Purdy would've healed faster if they only had some ice available.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

181 Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

Students celebrating are reprehensible .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (oT1li)

182 Were underdrawers named on the warrant?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (fBbkm)

183 Want privacy, move abroad to a shitty country in the sticks or live like Ted Kacynski did here--in a shack in the middle of nowhere without modern tech.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

Former Maryland Republican Rep Roscoe Bartlett supposedly lives off the grid on some mountain, probably somewhere in the US Radio Quiet Zone.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

184 >>Literally a 2-bit flunky started the whole fiasco.

At least that's the story we're being told.

It's odd that nobody ever talks about what documents Trump took, legally I might add, that caused the Biden WH and the DOJ to freak out and do an illegal raid.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (viF8m)

185 For certain breads, my Dad, the baker, kept a starter in a jar with a blue tint to it in the refrigerated box (not real cold). Should have paid more attention but he didn't want me to be a baker.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (gm9Sb)

186 ****
Jack Smith was not a real boy.
Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 02:58 PM (fPASK)

But he WAS excitable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

187 Nobody will pay the first price. And it will happen again and again. Why not? Nobody is stopping them. This should be the story of the century, but nobody in the media cares about its implications. Neither does the Democrap party.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (qBdHI)

188 Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

Start with pineapple juice (Goya, real stuff) for the first five days, feeding flour twice a day. Half an ounce of each. Then move to water. Start discarding half after the first three feeds. Eventually Fer it down to about an ounce by discarding a bit more. Feed every 12 hours. You likely won't fail again.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Wo1GJ)

189 135 I am too upset about Trump's tweet on the butchering of Meathead to worry about systemic corruption in our justice system.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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And yet, that is the way that most people that get fascinated by shiny things operate when consuming media.

And everyone dumping on Trump for that somehow failed to mention the deaths of others as if Meathead was more important than the girl and guy at Brown or other unfortunate deaths.

It was only to tsk tsk at Trump as being inconsiderate at calling a spade a spade because he spoke ill of the dead or that other people might take offense.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (WDjG6)

190 Trump criticizes Rob Renier = THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE HAVE YOU NO DECENCY

The whole left celebrates the murder of Kirk and Cook = They reserved it really when you think about it

Posted by: The FNM at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

191 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

192 FIB Portland joins our Oz colleagues in their obtuse refusal to suss out things like motive when the motive is inconvenient. Take for example the brutal attack we suffered in the Sandwich Island Liberation Front's assault on the home economics study session in Kitchen Five at The University of Portland State University. Despite the presence of grass skirts, bumper stickers saying "Free the Sandwich Islands!", multiple floral necklaces, and a 450 Page Listing of Alleged Transgressions by their Colonial Oppressors with DNA match, we cannot state definitively at this time that the attack accompanied as it was by flaming baton twirling and the shouting of "Aloha Saladbar!" shows concrete signs of motive....

//FIB Portland

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (MUJd1)

193 Just remember: a supposed "judge" signed off on this utterly bogus search warrant that the FBI itself didn't think was legit. There was less probable cause for this search than there was to search Joe Biden's shitstained underwear. Yet still a "judge" signed off on it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

194 190 Trump criticizes Rob Renier = THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE HAVE YOU NO DECENCY

The whole left celebrates the murder of Kirk and Cook = They reserved it really when you think about it

Posted by: The FNM at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

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"Killing people is wrong, but Charlie Kirk had it comin'."
-The entire respectable left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

195 Flooding on left coast.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (fBbkm)

196 191 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

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Yes.

Next...Doilies...extravagence or essential?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

197 Students celebrating are reprehensible .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Agreed, I was just pointing out that Brown U.'s apparent cover up of just about everything about this makes sense. It's not right, but it makes sense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (Dv3i1)

198 Want privacy, move abroad to a shitty country in the sticks or live like Ted Kacynski did here--in a shack in the middle of nowhere without modern tech.

We gave up privacy in the name of security and yet we have lefties, Islamists, and yutes murdering people with impunity on a regular basis.

Its like that quote...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (sKqQm)

199 Recall how the riad played out - the FBI kept going back, again and again, looking for sensitive documents, they thought Trump had, but didn't. Someone kept feeding them information that Trump had sensitive documents and they just weren't looking HARD enough. hence the raid.

Someone kept feeding the FBI misinformation on the documents. Likely the white house archivist.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (C3IAS)

200 188 Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

Start with pineapple juice (Goya, real stuff) for the first five days, feeding flour twice a day. Half an ounce of each. Then move to water. Start discarding half after the first three feeds. Eventually Fer it down to about an ounce by discarding a bit more. Feed every 12 hours. You likely won't fail again.
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Wo1GJ)

Pineapple juice. Okay, will give that a shot. I am going on faith that this is better advice than HQ medical, diet, or relationship advice.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (pDt9x)

201 Was his son a furry?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (fBbkm)

202 200 Pineapple juice. Okay, will give that a shot. I am going on faith that this is better advice than HQ medical, diet, or relationship advice.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (pDt9x)

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I've never heard the pineapple juice bit, but ... seems to have more experience than I do. I'm a newbie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

203 196 191 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

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Yes.

Next...Doilies...extravagence or essential?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO

More essential than Tea Cozeys.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (pDt9x)

204 196 TJM's opinion on antimaccasars coming right up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (gm9Sb)

205 157 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

Whig, I assure you I am quite aware.

I have had to sit across from CI Agents going chapter and verse over an associate's social media history, and pissed off an agent with a simple "whimsical" statement on J6....

"You know, Stalin had a bank"

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (MUJd1)

206
I think tonight's address will just be Trump reciting his usual litany of accomplishments.

If it is, People will tune out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (Il0Nj)

207 >>Recall how the riad played out - the FBI kept going back, again and again, looking for sensitive documents, they thought Trump had, but didn't. Someone kept feeding them information that Trump had sensitive documents and they just weren't looking HARD enough. hence the raid.

Or had and they weren't stored at Mar A Lago.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)

208 Do not forget Kirk was killed by one of them. The two things aren't comparable sorry. If Reiner was killed by a MAGA it wouldn't be funny at all. It would be terrible and I certainly would never joke about it or laugh or cheer myself up with it first thing in the morning.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (Wo1GJ)

209 Was his son a furry?

Are you suggesting every leftist killer has their own squirrel boy at home?

Because...I mean maybe things have gotten stupid enough it is true now

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

210 Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (Dv3i1)

I agree with you. A cover up sounds quite plausible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (oT1li)

211 So they just WANTED it to be true....

Because "Trump bad"

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (SRRAx)

212 "Killing people is wrong, but Charlie Kirk had it comin'."
-The entire respectable left

Someone's going to have to convince me otherwise, but I think the only reason CNN decided to cover just that one Trump campaign event is because someone convinced them to cover it and that someone also had a watch party for it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM (Dv3i1)

213 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.

Rubio has also said the full video will not be released.

Somehow, and I can't fully shape it, by bringing State in, it pretty much kills any further demands.

Also, I think this probably kills the "we're cutting 1/4 of the travel budget" gimmick as well.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (HXT0k)

214 You read about shit like this and I care even less than I did yesterday about what Trump said about Rob Reiner

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

215 Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 03:03 PM

Unleashes tries to directly address affordability .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (oT1li)

216 Thanks. I have tried and failed with the starter dough. Have to be screwing it up, somehow.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:53 PM (pDt9x)

Start with pineapple juice (Goya, real stuff) for the first five days, feeding flour twice a day. Half an ounce of each. Then move to water. Start discarding half after the first three feeds. Eventually Fer it down to about an ounce by discarding a bit more. Feed every 12 hours. You likely won't fail again.
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Wo1GJ)
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Are you making bread or engineering new life? I've seen how this movie plays out. It ain't pretty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (ESVrU)

217 Former Maryland Republican Rep Roscoe Bartlett supposedly lives off the grid on some mountain, probably somewhere in the US Radio Quiet Zone.
Posted by: Bulg

Eh, why bother. In a sense, governments can and do persecute an individual and that is whether it is local, state, or federal. They, like journalists, will build a whole story about why they are justly going after person X--often this is true, but a certain percentage of the time, like for Trump, it is because the gubmint apparatchiks made him into an Enemy of the State.

To survive such, like Sakharov, you best become so well known domestically and even internationally that you become someone too 'big' to quietly have put away without threatening system stability.

The nastier way is to be such an evil person like Killary that everyone is more or less afraid to start something as the Clinton retaliation machine is very real and very vicious.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (WDjG6)

218 Someone's going to have to convince me otherwise, but I think the only reason CNN decided to cover just that one Trump campaign event is because someone convinced them to cover it and that someone also had a watch party for it.

Biden intentionally replaced his normal SS crew for that event giving him the D team.

I suspect that they knew they had a known wolf in the area and his minder was spinning him up.

But...share it with a media crew? That would be risky...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (sKqQm)

219 216 Are you making bread or engineering new life? I've seen how this movie plays out. It ain't pretty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:04 PM (ESVrU)

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He's just cultivated the living yeast that's everywhere all the time!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

220 I've never heard the pineapple juice bit, but ... seems to have more experience than I do. I'm a newbie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

It fixes the pH from the beginning. If you skip it the little beasties have to make their own pH and it goes through some tough phases where other things take over in the meantime.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (Wo1GJ)

221 119 Judge Boasberg will randomly be assigned this case and will order all the evidence to be destroyed. "No Kings" and all that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

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The Supreme Court are playing with fire by leaving this judge in place to wreak havoc on the Trump administration. By not stopping him they are giving the whole country a message that they are on board with his malfeasance. Once the people decide you are not on their side it all over.
Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (E8S6f)

Now ask why he hasn't been impeached yet, or why there hasn't even been movement on it.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (53oGX)

222 >>> 196 191 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

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Yes.

Next...Doilies...extravagence or essential?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

Doilies, mini-doilies, are *required* for jello shots.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ULPxl)

223 According to John Solomon and Kash Patel, the 2 people Trump appointed at the end of his first term to work on full declassification of the Russia documents he had in his possession, those documents were not returned. Trump declassified them and kept them.

They weren't worried about Trump giving nuclear codes to Russia, they were worried about having their own criminality exposed.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (viF8m)

224 221 The Supreme Court are playing with fire by leaving this judge in place to wreak havoc on the Trump administration. By not stopping him they are giving the whole country a message that they are on board with his malfeasance. Once the people decide you are not on their side it all over.
Posted by: Decaf at December 16, 2025 02:47 PM (E8S6f)

Now ask why he hasn't been impeached yet, or why there hasn't even been movement on it.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (53oGX)

===

He's defending himself in a writ of mandamus issue before the Appeals court soon. He's actually in a good bit of trouble.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

225 He's just cultivated the living yeast that's everywhere all the time!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm gonna triple-mask, just it case it gets loose!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ESVrU)

226 Another year, another Seth Rogan animated cringe-fest, this time a "modern incarnation" of Animal Farm.

https://tinyurl.com/mtwwwvby

Will it be on par with or even worse than "Santa Inc."?

Posted by: Thrawn at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (9Ovst)

227 Pineapple juice. Okay, will give that a shot. I am going on faith that this is better advice than HQ medical, diet, or relationship advice.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:01 PM (pDt9x)

I don't talk about stuff when I don't know what I'm talking about. Can't help it. Feel free to hit me up if you have questions.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (Wo1GJ)

228 They won't do it, but I think Brown should can any student who is celebrating Ella Cook's murder and the ones on Student Visas should be deported .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (oT1li)

229

Brooke Singman
@BrookeSingman
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, but moved forward amid pressure from the Biden DOJ, with an official saying he didn’t "give a damn about the optics" of the search.

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Sure they cared about the optics. It was all about the optics.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (pW3IX)

230 You guys above who seemed to recall a magistrate signing off on the search warrant. You were correct. I vaguely remembered that too, and looked it up. It was this guy.

Bruce Reinhart. He was a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida at the time.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (dIske)

231
1. Democrat malfeasance uncovered.
2. Republicans denounce Democrat malfeasance.
3. Nothing happens.
4. GOTO line 1.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (tfuRw)

232 He's defending himself in a writ of mandamus issue before the Appeals court soon. He's actually in a good bit of trouble.

Odds of a sternly worded letter in his permanent file: 1.5:1

Odds of any actual punishment 1000:1

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

233 Doilies, mini-doilies, are *required* for jello shots.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ULPxl)
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Once you're hooked, it's on to antimacassars.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:08 PM (rj6Yv)

234 Cambodia is going after F16s and Grippens with rat patrol guns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:08 PM (fBbkm)

235 1. Democrat malfeasance uncovered.
2. Republicans denounce Democrat malfeasance.
3. Nothing happens.
4. GOTO line 1.

Every now and then there is a 2.5 where some Republican officeholder demands to know why no one ELSE is doing anything about it.

Always gives me a dark chuckle.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

236 Antimacassars are sought at CERN,yes?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:09 PM (pDt9x)

237 No heads rolling yet.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 03:09 PM (vFG9F)

238 It would be awesome if Trump appointed The Blade to the federal bench. SDNY would be nice.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

239 >>> 218 Someone's going to have to convince me otherwise, but I think the only reason CNN decided to cover just that one Trump campaign event is because someone convinced them to cover it and that someone also had a watch party for it.

Biden intentionally replaced his normal SS crew for that event giving him the D team.

I suspect that they knew they had a known wolf in the area and his minder was spinning him up.

But...share it with a media crew? That would be risky...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (sKqQm)

If 'someone' drops a hint that XiNN should be there, they can do that without suggesting *why* XiNN should be there.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 03:09 PM (ULPxl)

240 Once you're hooked, it's on to antimacassars.
Posted by: mrp

No decorative window valences?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

241 230 You guys above who seemed to recall a magistrate signing off on the search warrant. You were correct. I vaguely remembered that too, and looked it up. It was this guy.

Bruce Reinhart. He was a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida at the time.
Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 03:07 PM (dIske)

Magistrate Judge - an appointed person to take supposed "menial" tasks away from "real" judges.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (N39Ws)

242 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:09

You really applied? What did the application consist of?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (oT1li)

243 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

How much would those 4 motors cost used? 15K?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (mlg/3)

244 The cycle is also what's going on with the Somalian fraud scandal. Looks like we've already hit step 3 and moved on.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (tfuRw)

245 Denver omeletteers

Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (v0R5T)

246 It would be awesome if Trump appointed The Blade to the federal bench. SDNY would be nice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Agreed. That would be awesome.

And I know that The Blade would only hire the hottest law-school coeds to clerk for him.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

247 >>@JordanSchachtel
·
33m
>>Brown University is mass deleting a series of celebratory articles on its website relating to Mustapha Kharbouch, a foreign born Palestinian student in its Middle East studies dept.

>>Mustapha participated in the Hamas encampments at Brown & wrote in article declaring the need for a rebellion against the U.S. and Israel.

>>Someone has also deleted his X account.

>>Mustapha is clearly a bad ideological actor, but there are no reports thus far that he has been implicated in the incident at Brown. Though the consequential timing is certainly worth keeping an eye on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (viF8m)

248 THAT was a bizarre video on several levels. I do know that it cannot be unseen.
Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:42 PM (pDt9x)

Someone called it "the Zapruder film for chicks with dicks" once, which is hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (ciXcx)

249 243 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

How much would those 4 motors cost used? 15K?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (mlg/3)

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The drugs on the boat probably cost a few thousand dollars to produce.

They sell for tens of millions, most likely.

It's the overhead that kills you, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

250 I never got curtains that don't block the window.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (fBbkm)

251 Tubal like TJM alluded to, make sure it's at least 70 degrees wherever it is. A little higher is even better.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (Wo1GJ)

252 But...share it with a media crew? That would be risky...
Posted by: 18-1

I thought about that, this is a weakness in the theory, but not enough to convince me to abandon it. There is after all, the revolving door between the deep state and news media. A producer can give plenty of innocuous reasons to the crew as to why any event should be covered.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (Dv3i1)

253 251 Tubal like TJM alluded to, make sure it's at least 70 degrees wherever it is. A little higher is even better.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (Wo1GJ)

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My oven with the light on keeps it around 75-80.

On the counter, I wasn't getting over 65. It's winter, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

254 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.

They don't actually care about any of this stuff though, its just a way to continue the narrative.

So let's suppose Trump and co release evidence that the boat was full of fent and coke, and the people on the boat were wanted drug traffickers.

The left will give a little of "muh due process!" and then move on to something else without a care in the world that they claimed these people were peaceful fisherman.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

255 Magistrate Judge - an appointed person to take supposed "menial" tasks away from "real" judges.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (N39Ws)
__________________

Not only that. The guy had an ethics complaint filed against him for no recusing himself due to his donations to the DNC. The 11th CA squashed the complaint without really looking into it. Then Reinhart started making the ole "I'm getting death threats from MAGA" complaint....and someone found an age old donation he made to a Republican a long time before.

IOW, he was a TDS Magistrate who knew the game.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (dIske)

256 Someone's going to have to convince me otherwise, but I think the only reason CNN decided to cover just that one Trump campaign event is because someone convinced them to cover it and that someone also had a watch party for it.

CNN also had a high-speed camera at Butler, PA and they weren't previously covering Trump rallies live. They need to get shaken and see what falls out.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (ciXcx)

257 " an official saying he didn’t "give a damn about the optics" of the search."

Who is this official? This is all bullshit if nothing happens.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (vFG9F)

258 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:09

You really applied? What did the application consist of?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (oT1li)
______

I was joking about being a SDNY judgment. I applied to be an immigration judge in NYC. The odds that anything will come of it is very low, but I had nothing to lose by applying. A federal judge in SDNY is an appointed position that must be confirmed by the Senate. You don't apply for positions like that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

259 >>> 252 But...share it with a media crew? That would be risky...
Posted by: 18-1

I thought about that, this is a weakness in the theory, but not enough to convince me to abandon it. There is after all, the revolving door between the deep state and news media. A producer can give plenty of innocuous reasons to the crew as to why any event should be covered.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (Dv3i1)

*ding ding ding*

"he might announce his veep pick" was bouncing around for a while

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (ULPxl)

260 The drugs on the boat probably cost a few thousand dollars to produce.

They sell for tens of millions, most likely.

It's the overhead that kills you, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM

ISWYDT

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (jc0TO)

261 The dope boat crews are lacking in the IQ department, not having a guy skiing behind the boat or some midget in kids clothes waving.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (gm9Sb)

262 What about us?

Posted by: Wrap around dust ruffle bed skirts at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (FtUtq)

263 258 I was joking about being a SDNY judgment. I applied to be an immigration judge in NYC. The odds that anything will come of it is very low, but I had nothing to lose by applying. A federal judge in SDNY is an appointed position that must be confirmed by the Senate. You don't apply for positions like that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

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Well, you do.

It's just not a paper application.

It requires more...activity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

264 Another year, another Seth Rogan animated cringe-fest, this time a "modern incarnation" of Animal Farm.

https://tinyurl.com/mtwwwvby

Will it be on par with or even worse than "Santa Inc."?
Posted by: Thrawn at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (9Ovst)

Seth Rogen is asshoe.

F*ck that guy. Does he have any kids that have been through drug rehab multiple times, per chance?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

265 225 He's just cultivated the living yeast that's everywhere all the time!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm gonna triple-mask, just it case it gets loose!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ESVrU)

Worst that could happen is a case of jock itch. Slap some miconazole on it.

Posted by: And hot iron at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (TbWk/)

266 >>Mustapha is clearly a bad ideological actor, but there are no reports thus far that he has been implicated in the incident at Brown. Though the consequential timing is certainly worth keeping an eye on.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (viF8m)
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Is he Arafat fat?

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (rj6Yv)

267 228 They won't do it, but I think Brown should can any student who is celebrating Ella Cook's murder and the ones on Student Visas should be deported .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Half of Brown would be deported. Another good reason to scrub stuff. Maybe they are feigning incompetence to buy time. Or maybe both can be true.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Dv3i1)

268 Who is this official? This is all bullshit if nothing happens.

I'll note this is a vicious circle.

Lefties know there will be no punishment for this stuff so...why not do it?

Throw this guy in jail though and the next lefty bureaucrat is suddenly going to care a LOT more about the "optics"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (sKqQm)

269 The left will give a little of "muh due process!" and then move on to something else without a care in the world that they claimed these people were peaceful fisherman.

They already did the due process thing. And after peaceful fishermen they were shipwrecked mariners.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (ciXcx)

270 My oven with the light on keeps it around 75-80.

On the counter, I wasn't getting over 65. It's winter, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

Great idea as long as you don't accidentally bake it.....

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Wo1GJ)

271 It would be awesome if Trump appointed The Blade to the federal bench. SDNY would be nice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Agreed. That would be awesome.

And I know that The Blade would only hire the hottest law-school coeds to clerk for him.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)
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[insert side-eye monkey meme]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

272 261 The dope boat crews are lacking in the IQ department, not having a guy skiing behind the boat or some midget in kids clothes waving.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (gm9Sb)

=======

"No, you go."
-low rung guy #1

*shoots him*
-mid-manager of cartel

"Maybe I'll sneak through..."
-low rung guy #2

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

273 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

How much would those 4 motors cost used? 15K?

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

Unleash the Cajun Navy. Let them commandeer any boat they seize for their own use. You need 4 motors to get to deep water in the Gulf of America.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (sX1BW)

274 Given what passes for acceptable on the left, I count America lucky some Fibbie didn't execute the President during the raid, "while attempting to escape"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (LMqi6)

275 What happened to Melania's panties?
Wait... I don't wanna know.

Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (v0R5T)

276 270 Great idea as long as you don't accidentally bake it.....

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Wo1GJ)

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We have two. I put it in the one we barely use.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

277 If Mustapha plays his cards right, he could be the next Mayor of New York

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (Wo1GJ)

278 And as another point with these drug traffickers, they are more concerned about their "rights" then their fellow citizens that didn't want to take the clot shot.

So perhaps I should note, bombing narco-terrorists is just something civilized countries do. If you don't like it you can always move to Somalia...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (sKqQm)

279 Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Dv3i1

Despicable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (oT1li)

280 Whig, I assure you I am quite aware.

I have had to sit across from CI Agents going chapter and verse over an associate's social media history, and pissed off an agent with a simple "whimsical" statement on J6....

"You know, Stalin had a bank"
Posted by: sven
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Security threats from abroad and law enforcement needs gutted 4th Amendment privacy during the late seventies and it has only gotten worse from there.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (WDjG6)

281 And I know that The Blade would only hire the hottest law-school coeds to clerk for him.

So what does a 20-something Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like exactly?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

282 278 And as another point with these drug traffickers, they are more concerned about their "rights" then their fellow citizens that didn't want to take the clot shot.

So perhaps I should note, bombing narco-terrorists is just something civilized countries do. If you don't like it you can always move to Somalia...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (sKqQm)

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They are operating in international waters without flying a country's flag.

Which sovereign nation can complain about the boats getting destroyed?

They're the same as pirates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

283 277 If Mustapha plays his cards right, he could be the next Mayor of New York
Posted by: ...
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Heck a Congress critter. It would help matters though in that case to marry his sister.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (WDjG6)

284 They're the same as pirates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

Pirates?? What kind of pirates? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Pete Booty at December 16, 2025 03:19 PM (Wo1GJ)

285 I love how TJM has high-jacked this thread for his Martha Stewart hobbies. Has he been doing this all week?
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 16, 2025 03:00 PM (sX1BW)

The new qdp. Pretty soon he'll be talking about the new Popeyes chicke. Sandwich for three weeks straight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 03:19 PM (zZu0s)

286 284 They're the same as pirates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

Pirates?? What kind of pirates? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Pete Booty at December 16, 2025 03:19 PM (Wo1GJ)

The Cap’n Ned type, Petie.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

287 Like the other "top" US schools, Brown gets $$$$ from Mideast students. They don't want to upset the fig cart.

Posted by: If It's Brown, Flush It Down at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (qUkBO)

288 273 The Cajun Navy captures a dope boat and crew. "Now, we gonna get down to business you see for our Prezzydent. De Tibodeaux cousins were brought in from Bumfuck parish wants to has a little wee chat wit you and maybe hab der filthy ways wit you if you don' talk."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (gm9Sb)

289 261 The dope boat crews are lacking in the IQ department, not having a guy skiing behind the boat or some midget in kids clothes waving.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:14 PM (gm9Sb)

Have they tried sprinkling children's toys in the wreckage and sending the pictures to our Media? Works for the Arabs in Gaza.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (pIfcn)

290 LOL, I think Trump may have just moved to checkmate on the left's obsession with the poor fishermen in 1200hp fishing boats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

How much would those 4 motors cost used? 15K?

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:10 PM (mlg/3)

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The drugs on the boat probably cost a few thousand dollars to produce.

They sell for tens of millions, most likely.

It's the overhead that kills you, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
___

My dad was a criminal defense lawyer back in the dark days of the "crack wars."

A crack deal had four possible outcomes: (1) you get shot in the head; (2) you get snitched on and arrested and later shot in the head; (3) the crack gets stolen at the buy and you later get shot in the head; or (4) you get rich.

Each outcome was about 25% probability. So it was about 25% you'd get rich, and 75% get shot in the head. These were some crazy motherfuckers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

291 I can't help it. There are some things you can't get me to shut up about. Bread is one. The other is my Cassandra Complex.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

292 So what does a 20-something Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like exactly?
Posted by: 18-1

I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

293 IHOP had just run out of ham and eggs so the boys had to go to Mar-a-Lago down the street.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (nljXp)

294 No more talk about bread from me, ever. Or bamboo. In the interests of gravitas.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (pDt9x)

295 If Mustapha plays his cards right, he could be the next Mayor of New York
Posted by: ...
=====
Heck a Congress critter. It would help matters though in that case to marry his sister.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (WDjG6)

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In addition to marrying his brother and pet goat.

Old & Busted: Throuples
New Hotness: Quadouples.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (x4BzA)

296 Have they tried sprinkling children's toys in the wreckage and sending the pictures to our Media? Works for the Arabs in Gaza.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 16, 2025 03:20 PM (pIfcn)

Green Helmet Guy, report to Studio 2, Green Helmet Guy report to Studio 2.

Posted by: A Pallywood mainstay at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (TbWk/)

297 I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

Key word: "heard"

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (Wo1GJ)

298 I know ace will cover this, and I look forward to it !

"Court of Appeals orders briefing on the basis for Boasberg's authority to conduct an investigation into the Trump Administration."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (g47mK)

299 284 They're the same as pirates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

Pirates?? What kind of pirates? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Pete Booty at December 16, 2025 03:19 PM (Wo1GJ)

Leave my people alone!
Pass the Rum!

Posted by: Congressman Dan Crenshaw at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (53oGX)

300 I can't help it. There are some things you can't get me to shut up about. Bread is one.
Posted by: ...

What's your favorite album by them?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (77rzZ)

301 🤡🤡

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (g47mK)

302 291 I can't help it. There are some things you can't get me to shut up about. Bread is one. The other is my Cassandra Complex.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

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... confirmed to be Paul Hollywood.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

303 So what does a 20-something Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like exactly?
Posted by: 18-1

I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

Had the camera been invented or are you going off the cave drawings?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

304 I think someone who is a foreign advocating for the overthrow of the US needs to be expelled and sent back to whatever country he came from.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (oT1li)

305 238 It would be awesome if Trump appointed The Blade to the federal bench. SDNY would be nice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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You would be good to go until your unfortunate personal and unseemly need to be FIRST! at AOS got disclosed to Senators.

Lacking in judicial temperament will be the charge.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (WDjG6)

306 Well, it's something...

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Trump Administration formal demands the resignation of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz due to massive fraud and dereliction of duty.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (mlg/3)

307 What happened to Melania's panties?
Wait... I don't wanna know.
Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (v0R5T)

I think I read in these very pages that she threw out everything the feds didn't take.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

308 304-meant "foreign" student.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (oT1li)

309 I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young"

They still speak Latin?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (XuXeR)

310 I think someone who is a foreign advocating for the overthrow of the US needs to be expelled and sent back to whatever country he came from.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (oT1li)

You convince them to start voting Republican and the Dems will was no time getting them removed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

311 What's your favorite album by them?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:22 PM (77rzZ)

Wish the Lactobacilli Were Here?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (Wo1GJ)

312 I’m late enough to the party that I’m sure it’s been mentioned, but the Biden DOJ brass (including FBI leadership) sent the raid into Mar-a-Lago weapons free. They knew there would be at least a token Secret Service presence, and they were apparently hoping for a confrontation.

Posted by: Advo at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (jO4mz)

313 I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young"

They still speak Latin?
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (XuXeR)

Sumerian.

Posted by: They had astronauts you know at December 16, 2025 03:24 PM (TbWk/)

314 So what does a 20-something Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like exactly?
Posted by: 18-1

I've heard that she was actually quite attractive when she was young.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)
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There are pics online of her in her younger days. Not a beauty, but definitely attractive with pretty good body.

https://tinyurl.com/me9sfkhy

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

315 I think I read in these very pages that she threw out everything the feds didn't take.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

You can never be too careful with HIV/AIDS

Just kidding Bob!!!!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (Wo1GJ)

316 They already did the due process thing. And after peaceful fishermen they were shipwrecked mariners.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Next fallback position is mostly peaceful drug traffickers doing essential jobs that Americans won't do.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (WDjG6)

317 @LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Trump Administration formal demands the resignation of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz due to massive fraud and dereliction of duty.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (mlg/3)

Asking him to resign when he SHOULD be going to prison.

We're still not getting anywhere.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

318 @LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Trump Administration formal demands the resignation of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz due to massive fraud and dereliction of duty.

--

And yet, Minnesota voters will probably send this nefarious dunce back to the governor's mansion.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (qBdHI)

319 Those panties are worth thousands.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (EyfuW)

320 What happened to Melania's panties?
Wait... I don't wanna know.
Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 03:16 PM (v0R5T)

I think I read in these very pages that she threw out everything the feds didn't take.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

***

PS
And I would have too. It's very easy to slip a RFID tag with mic into the lining of coats, jackets, dresses, etc.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (2WIwB)

321 some midget in kids clothes waving"

1 8 7 7 kars for kids, right?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (XuXeR)

322 >>You would be good to go until your unfortunate personal and unseemly need to be FIRST! at AOS got disclosed to Senators.

I'd tune in for the Senate hearing.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (viF8m)

323 Not a beauty, but definitely attractive with pretty good body.

https://tinyurl.com/me9sfkhy

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

That's what Biden said about the ones where she is 8

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (Wo1GJ)

324 Key word: "heard"
Posted by: ...

Just did an image search.

Remember the chick from Bulgaria in Casablanca whose husband was trying to win money at roulette for an exit visa? There's a picture on the interwebs of young RBG where she kinda looks like that chick. Not gorgeous, but not bad-looking, either.

The other pictures of young RBG are kinda meh.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

325 316 They already did the due process thing. And after peaceful fishermen they were shipwrecked mariners.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Next fallback position is mostly peaceful drug traffickers doing essential jobs that Americans won't do.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (WDjG6)

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If the boats were flying Venezuelan flags, there's be an argument that it was an act of war.

But then Venezuela would be openly transporting drugs across the Gulf of America.

So...you know...trade offs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

326 "Court of Appeals orders briefing on the basis for Boasberg's authority to conduct an investigation into the Trump Administration."
___

Boasberg sees that all powerful judge on the Supreme Court in Brazil (Moraes?) and says hold my caipirinha. I hear he is going to the best tailor in DC to fashion him a fabulous cape.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (Dv3i1)

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

328 307 Dumpster Diving Florida Man scores big on E Bay.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (gm9Sb)

329 Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:23 PM (mlg/3)

Walz is not going to resign. He's going to be a champion for those beleaguered Somalis /s and unless the part of MN which isn't Crazy leftist or Muslim and/or a Somali speaks up nothing will happen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (oT1li)

330 I saw Cassandra Complex open for Disbelief at Pure Fucking Metal Festevil in July.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (x4BzA)

331 327 Time for a thread cleanse.........

https://is.gd/Z22f5p

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

332 Those panties are worth thousands."

Turning Japanese?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (XuXeR)

333 In addition to marrying his brother and pet goat.

Old & Busted: Throuples
New Hotness: Quadouples.
Posted by: ShainS
======
NR article in the future, "The Conservative Case for Quadouples and including Animals in a Marriage."

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (WDjG6)

334 saw Cassandra Complex open for Disbelief at Pure Fucking Metal Festevil in July.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (x4BzA)

Wouldn't this have worked better if you had said blah and blah at the Cassandra Complex?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (Wo1GJ)

335 Time for a thread cleanse.........

https://is.gd/Z22f5p

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
_____

Some sketchy photoshop on the stomach and she's a little chunkier than The Blade usually goes for, but ...

TBWB

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

336 ======

She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

I'm trying to inspire you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

337 DOJ staff in jail wen?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (xcxpd)

338 We were JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS!!!

Posted by: Police Officers and FBI agents at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (rQwsY)

339 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

I think it look slike a guy in a wig and huge falsies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (oT1li)

340 Did someone say something about smuggling sourdough?

Posted by: Lena Dunnam at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wo1GJ)

341 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

342
TBWB

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Why do I think this would be a factor in case outcomes should Trump appoint you to a federal bench.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

343 >>@StopAntisemites
·
35m
>>We are hearing an MIT nuclear scientist professor - Nuno Loureiro age 47 - has been murdered in his home in Brookline, MA.

>>Loureiro has been reported to be Jewish with strong pro-Israel views.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (viF8m)

344 335 Time for a thread cleanse.........

https://is.gd/Z22f5p

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
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Some sketchy photoshop on the stomach and she's a little chunkier than The Blade usually goes for, but ...

TBWB
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah, I could nitpick but I appreciate the effort Sponge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)

345 She's smuggling a pair of sourdoughs.
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Check out my sourdoughs!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (Dv3i1)

346 341 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

Heh heh. Bogart, sex symbol.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (pDt9x)

347 I think it look slike a guy in a wig and huge falsies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That was my reaction, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

348 I'm trying to inspire you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (oT1li)

349 If the boats were flying Venezuelan flags, there's be an argument that it was an act of war.

But then Venezuela would be openly transporting drugs across the Gulf of America.

So...you know...trade offs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Image of the sweating spaceman with two buttons before him.

By the way, instead of spending all that time on sourdough, have you considered home distilling as a hobby. You'll be able to network like a mofo by inviting your interviewers to sample your alcoholic wares, er credentials for the job.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6)

350
I think it look slike a guy in a wig and huge falsies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (oT1li)

I think she as an Erika Eleniak look to her with bigger melons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

351 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

Concur.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (2WIwB)

352 You would be good to go until your unfortunate personal and unseemly need to be FIRST! at AOS got disclosed to Senators.

I'd tune in for the Senate hearing.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (viF8m)
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They would be entertaining ....

What would trip me up wouldn't be anything on AoS. It would be shit from back in the day when I was heavy into the NYC party/club scene.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

353 Not a beauty, but definitely attractive with pretty good body.

https://tinyurl.com/me9sfkhy

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

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Unlike The Mooche needs bigger shoulder pads.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (x4BzA)

354 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

Heh heh. Bogart, sex symbol.
Posted by: tubal

But, apparently, Don Knotts was quite the swordsman in his day.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

355 341 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Waiting for you to mention he was a Yankee.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (WDjG6)

356 Some sketchy photoshop on the stomach and she's a little chunkier than The Blade usually goes for, but ...

TBWB
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah, I could nitpick but I appreciate the effort Sponge
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)
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A significant pair of ... shoulders.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:31 PM (rj6Yv)

357
Yeah, I could nitpick but I appreciate the effort Sponge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)

I help where I can and hire the handicapped, so I'm equal opportunity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

358 >>What would trip me up wouldn't be anything on AoS. It would be shit from back in the day when I was heavy into the NYC party/club scene.

I don't know anything about such things. It would be entertaining for me to learn.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (viF8m)

359 349 By the way, instead of spending all that time on sourdough, have you considered home distilling as a hobby. You'll be able to network like a mofo by inviting your interviewers to sample your alcoholic wares, er credentials for the job.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6)

=====

We're watching Doc Martin, and the fat former plumber and failed restauranteur, Bert Large, decided to try his hand at home distilling.

After a few weeks, he has whiskey.

Dolley: "How can you make whiskey in four weeks?"

"Well, you can make moonshine and then add caramel for color."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

360 If the boats were flying Venezuelan flags, there's be an argument that it was an act of war.

But then Venezuela would be openly transporting drugs across the Gulf of America.

So...you know...trade offs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

361 351 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)
Concur.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Diogenes, I have always found your opinions superior to riff raff that lurks here.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (Wg6v7)

362 They are operating in international waters without flying a country's flag.

Which sovereign nation can complain about the boats getting destroyed?

They're the same as pirates.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
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It's not enough just to fly the flag, though that's important. You also have to have the vessel registered in that same country. If there's no trace of a registration, it doesn't matter what flag you fly. Your ship is forfeit to anyone who is bigger and stronger who wants to take it from you.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (ESVrU)

363 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
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The problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. That's why you gotta nip it! Nip it in the bud!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (Dv3i1)

364 But, apparently, Don Knotts was quite the swordsman in his day.
Posted by: Bulg
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Yep. His little seen Love God movie was a stab at a sex symbol makeover.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (WDjG6)

365 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny.

It insists upon itself.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

366 360 I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

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I don't think we are.

Shooting boats without flags is dealing with piracy. Seizing Iranian oil, which is under sanction, is not a blockade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

367 riff raff that lurks here."

Transylvania?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (XuXeR)

368 TBWB

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

Why do I think this would be a factor in case outcomes should Trump appoint you to a federal bench.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
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See "party scene" comment above ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

369 But, apparently, Don Knotts was quite the swordsman in his day.
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Yep. He was a baller. Met him and his two hawt chicks at Pinehurst. Total Player.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (Wg6v7)

370 362 It's not enough just to fly the flag, though that's important. You also have to have the vessel registered in that same country. If there's no trace of a registration, it doesn't matter what flag you fly. Your ship is forfeit to anyone who is bigger and stronger who wants to take it from you.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (ESVrU)

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The rules of the sea.

Harsh mistress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

371 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)

So many great little character actors and bits in that movie. Cuddles Sakall, the crazy Russian bartender, the pickpocket.

And, of course, the superb Claude Rains. "Make it ten. I'm only a poor, corrupt official."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

372 I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM

Let's call it ... a quarantine.

Posted by: JFK at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

373
See "party scene" comment above ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

I don't read the comments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

374 Dolley: "How can you make whiskey in four weeks?"

"Well, you can make moonshine and then add caramel for color."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Mr. Roberts star William Powell as doctor shows the way to a callow and young Jack Lemmon.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (WDjG6)

375 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny. Humphrey Bogart looks like Barney Fife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Wg6v7)
Concur.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Diogenes, I have always found your opinions superior to riff raff that lurks here.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (Wg6v7)

Get a room guys. You can be gay, just don't blow each other in the comments.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

376
I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)
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I think the October, 1962 version referred to that type of operation as a "quarantine".

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (rj6Yv)

377 a stab at a sex symbol makeover.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (WDjG6)

Too soon

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (Wo1GJ)

378 Is it really a blockade if you let through everyone who isn't a pirate or smuggler?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (06Hmj)

379 They are operating in international waters without flying a country's flag.

Which sovereign nation can complain about the boats getting destroyed?

They're the same as pirates.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
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It's not enough just to fly the flag, though that's important. You also have to have the vessel registered in that same country. If there's no trace of a registration, it doesn't matter what flag you fly. Your ship is forfeit to anyone who is bigger and stronger who wants to take it from you.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (ESVrU)
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Gotta love it that Democraps seem to these drug boats are legit ships with proper flags and registrations, like it's a Disney charter boat or some shit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

380 280 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:17 PM (WDjG6)

It was funny one of the agents understood AT ONCE what I had just said the other confused asked "what?" and....they were off I gave a ten minute briefing abouyt Operation TRUST by Ivan which was a honeytrap.

Yes the 4th amendment needs protected especially from agencies "hand washing" sovereignty by doing each others' preferred domestic spying for one another like us and the UK.

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (MUJd1)

381
Too soon
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (Wo1GJ)

To be fair, I believe new evidence revealed he was sliced.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

382 365 I always found Casablanca tedious and corny.

It insists upon itself.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 16, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

Sounds like someone who's never finished The Godfather.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (xcxpd)

383 I don't read the comments."

Comments? There are comments? Why am I the last to know?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (XuXeR)

384 249
The drugs on the boat probably cost a few thousand dollars to produce.

They sell for tens of millions, most likely.

It's the overhead that kills you, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

Overhead -- as in drones, missiles, other explosive ordinance.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (N39Ws)

385 Fu*king gas jumped 14 cents since I last.filled up. $3.83 at costco.
Piss off Olympia.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

386 Get a room guys. You can be gay, just don't blow each other in the comments.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You're throwing the gay flag around quite a bit, today, Aet.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

387 I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

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I don't think we are.

Shooting boats without flags is dealing with piracy. Seizing Iranian oil, which is under sanction, is not a blockade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (WDjG6)

388 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?"

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (rj6Yv)

389 If Venezuela were to sink a couple of Carnival Cruise ships I would be okay with it. How many chicken tenders can the Caribbean swallow?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (Wg6v7)

390 Gas hit maybe $2,50 here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (fBbkm)

391 Gotta love it that Democraps seem to these drug boats are legit ships with proper flags and registrations, like it's a Disney charter boat or some shit.

I forgot, what were Demonic Party members saying when Europe was seizing "Oligarchs' Yachts" for the crime of having a Russian passport?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (PVBkQ)

392 387 TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (WDjG6)

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I can love both It's a Wonderful Life and Freddy Got Fingered.

It's allowed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

393 "Ever played the flute?

... how about a Fife?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (06Hmj)

394 Sounds like someone who's never finished The Godfather."

Or Prometheus...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (XuXeR)

395 See "party scene" comment above ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

I don't read the comments.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Me either

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

396 TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.
----------------
Babe - Pig In The City for the money.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (Wg6v7)

397 Gotta love it that Democraps seem to these drug boats are legit ships with proper flags and registrations, like it's a Disney charter boat or some shit.

I forgot, what were Demonic Party members saying when Europe was seizing "Oligarchs' Yachts" for the crime of having a Russian passport?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (PVBkQ)
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Good point

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

398
I can love both It's a Wonderful Life and Freddy Got Fingered.

It's allowed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

But not really.

Side note:

Do not search that movie title with image safe search off..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

399 393 "Ever played the flute?

... how about a Fife?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:39 PM (06Hmj)

Posted by: Barney at December 16, 2025 03:40 PM (N39Ws)

400 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?""

Pirates #1 - 4.... "who's our, kimosabe ?"

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:40 PM (XuXeR)

401 It was funny one of the agents understood AT ONCE what I had just said the other confused asked "what?" and....they were off I gave a ten minute briefing abouyt Operation TRUST by Ivan which was a honeytrap.

Yes the 4th amendment needs protected especially from agencies "hand washing" sovereignty by doing each others' preferred domestic spying for one another like us and the UK.
Posted by: sven
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Yep. My father's military buddy was high muckety muck in US Military Intel and even then, the fed agencies liked to play footsies with false flag and allies doing the spying. Canada intel actually used to do a lot in the US because no one every thought of Canadians as anything threatening.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:41 PM (WDjG6)

402 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?"
Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (rj6Yv)

Pirate #7: "Before this is over, we will all go under."

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:41 PM (2WIwB)

403 You know who else didn't have probable cause?

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2025 03:41 PM (SwyyQ)

404 Is it really a blockade if you let through everyone who isn't a pirate or smuggler?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:36 PM (06Hmj)

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Cockblockade?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (x4BzA)

405 Now this is entertainment:

@Bubblebathgirl 15h
This is a real video of a Mexico City Congress session on Monday.

Legislators can be seen shoving each other and pulling hair at the podium.
x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2000795845466448155

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (mlg/3)

406 I think imposing a naval blockade is an act of war. But nobody seems to want to say that out loud. Or nobody that matters, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

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I don't think we are.

Shooting boats without flags is dealing with piracy. Seizing Iranian oil, which is under sanction, is not a blockade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=========
TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (WDjG6)
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Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

407 What are the chances that the provincial government of Alberta puts the entire province up for sale on Ebay?

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (rj6Yv)

408 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?"
Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (rj6Yv)

If there is something flying "over", we're going under.

Posted by: Barney at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (N39Ws)

409 "Ever played the flute?

... how about a Fife?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Zombie Bryan Piccolo

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

410 405 Now this is entertainment:

@Bubblebathgirl 15h
This is a real video of a Mexico City Congress session on Monday.

Legislators can be seen shoving each other and pulling hair at the podium.
x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2000795845466448155

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (mlg/3)

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Things seem to be going well with the cartels' official front organizations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

411 Pirate #6: "So what's the over-under for our chances of survival?""

Pirates #1 - 4.... "who's our, kimosabe ?"
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 03:40 PM (XuXeR)

Pirate #5: "Akshullly, you can't really establish an over-under book on an event with a binary outcome---"

Pirates 1-4 and 6, in unison: "Shut Up, Pirate #5."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (06Hmj)

412 TJM is correct as a matter of law. Has appalling taste in movies though.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:38 PM (WDjG6)
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Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)

413 Canada intel actually used to do a lot in the US because no one every thought of Canadians as anything threatening.
Posted by: whig

Sore-y about that.

Posted by: Canada at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)

414 412 Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)

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Does the original Evil Dead count?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

415 Canada intel actually used to do a lot in the US because no one every thought of Canadians as anything threatening.
Posted by: whig

As long as they their poutine on their side of the border...

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

416 Pirates 1-4 and 6, in unison: "Shut Up, Pirate #5."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (06Hmj)

His name is Wesley.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (N39Ws)

417 Must be real painful wanting to kill everybody but having to wait till you get the go order.
There are drugs that will help you with your constant trigger finger jerks.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (EyfuW)

418 Does the original Evil Dead count?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

Probably, although more a branch.

Galaxy of Terror as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (zZu0s)

419 Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)
***

Ooww! Damnit!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (2WIwB)

420 Let he who has never watched hentai tentacle porn throw the first stone ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)

=====

Does the original Evil Dead count?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
______

Did you rewind and rewatch the tree attack scene?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

421 My wife just informed me she failed in her duty to win the lottery last night.

Damn, I already spent the money. Oh well....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (SMLb2)

422 >>Sore-y about that.

*aboot

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (Y1sOo)

423 Trump disrupting the cartel supply chains is going after the money that funds the DNC.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (Wo1GJ)

424
*Drops rocks*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 03:43 PM (xcxpd)
***

*fistbump*

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

425 What does this "over/under" stuff mean? I know it's gambling related, but that's about it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

426 Those agents who went through Melania's underwear drawer are still flogging their bishops with memories of handling her dainties.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (ugtaH)

427 I am NOt going to search for this but what is hentai tentacle porn -something involving octopi?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (guLpK)

428 Soooo... what's the over/under that ace fell asleep?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (zjgNU)

429 420 Did you rewind and rewatch the tree attack scene?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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Of course...not...

Er...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

430 425 What does this "over/under" stuff mean? I know it's gambling related, but that's about it.
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Number of yards achieved over or under a player's current average.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:47 PM (Wg6v7)

431 Oh, that's all that had to happen. I needed to complain and ace would post.

Nood

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (zjgNU)

432 425 What does this "over/under" stuff mean? I know it's gambling related, but that's about it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

Typically it's for something like total points scored by both teams, or whatever. The bookie picks a threshold, like maybe 24.5, and you bet if it's going to be over that, or under that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (06Hmj)

433 I am NOt going to search for this but what is hentai tentacle porn -something involving octopi?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025

***
Uh . . . not involving any octopi from our planet, anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (wzUl9)

434 Number of yards achieved over or under a player's current average.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Ah. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

435 I just watch Tentacle Porn to hear the Japanese women moan.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (Wg6v7)

436 What does this "over/under" stuff mean? I know it's gambling related, but that's about it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)
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It's a bet that a certain outcome will be "over" or "under" a given figure. So if the over-under on a football score is 50, you win if you bet the "over" and the score ends up being 55. You lose if you bet the "under."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

437 Noodus in re: the We Todd Did MN governor

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (wzUl9)

438
"As everyone is tracking, WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES) that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago," an FBI official wrote in another email dated July 20, 2022.

So I take it that the phrase "disobey an illegal order" only applies to the military, hmmm?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (y9nCu)

439 Neither google news nor bing news has any mention of this. The only possible explanation is that you're pushing fake news.

(How's my winebox auntie impression?)

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (E66lT)

440 @425 under /over is if you think the combined score of two football teams will exceed say 40 points , you bet the over. If you think they won't combine to reach 40 you bet the under. Figure is set by the oddsmakers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 03:49 PM (D+mpw)

441 Tentacles can be phallic, Fen.

Ill leave it at that. Usually it's not octopus, although I think the first 'tentacle' Japanese porn was.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

442 >> Fu*king gas jumped 14 cents since I last.filled up. $3.83 at costco.
Piss off Olympia.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

$3.75 at the Fort Lewis AAFES.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (Pu/zx)

443 Freddy Got Fingered.

It's allowed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But not really.

Side note:

Do not search that movie title with image safe search off..........
Posted by: Sponge
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Original title was "Freddy gets his Prostate Checked".

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)

444 Ill leave it at that. Usually it's not octopus, although I think the first 'tentacle' Japanese porn was.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Had no idea that was what the Beatles Octupus's Garden was about.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6)

445 $3.75 at the Fort Lewis AAFES.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 03:50 PM (Pu/zx)

That's actually pretty good. AAFES usually is within a nickle of most gas stations.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 03:57 PM (2WIwB)

446 Lisa Monaco ordered it, but Republicans are afraid of Lisa Monaco. So, Republicans will move to protect Lisa Monaco the same way they protected Hillary Clinton once it was obvious she was taking bribes.

Posted by: wferrin at December 16, 2025 04:03 PM (yRbrH)

447 431 Oh, that's all that had to happen. I needed to complain and ace would post.

Nood
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 03:48 PM (zjgNU)

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:08 PM (RuTUS)

Trump Files Lawsuit Against BBC for Defamatory J6 Edit

Another $10 billion lawsuit.

The odds of winning in court, with a left-wing anti-American judge and left-wing anti-American, are zero, unfortunately.

Note that all left-wingers are anti-patriots who despise their country... but hate America more, and turn into jingoistic nationalists if the Great Satan America is in a conflict with their countries.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said early Tuesday it plans to fight back against President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit.
The BBC has come under intense scrutiny over a 2024 "Panorama" documentary about Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, speech delivered before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Critics claim the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully.
Trump sued the BBC on Monday for both defamation and for a violation of Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece, seeking $10 billion total. The suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida Federal Court, was filed in a personal capacity and names BBC and BBC Studios Productions as defendants. While ABC and CBS have both settled with Trump in recent memory, the BBC plans to fight the case.
"As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings," a BBC spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Trump's legal team, made up of attorneys Alejandro Brito, Edward Paltzik and Daniel Epstein, believes the British outlet serves a liberal political agenda.
"The formerly respected and now disgraced BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring his speech in a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election. The BBC has a long pattern of deceiving its audience in coverage of President Trump, all in service of its own leftist political agenda. President Trump's powerhouse lawsuit is holding the BBC accountable for its defamation and reckless election interference just as he has held other fake news mainstream media responsible for their wrongdoing," a spokesperson for Trump's legal team told Fox News Digital.
The BBC previously issued an apology for the erroneous edit and said it had pulled the program from its platforms, but a spokesperson for the broadcaster added, "While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim."

...
Trump's legal team suggested the defendants "timed the publication of the Panorama Documentary to be close in time to the 2024 Presidential Election" and the value of the president's "personal brand alone is reasonably estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars."

I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.

We'll just have to take solace in the fact that the BBC is losing billions because more and more Britons are refusing to pay the mandatory "license fee" to watch the shithole state media.

BBC loses 1.1 billion pounds as more viewers cancel or evade TV licence fee
The publishing of the report comes after a number of scandals at the BBC in recent months
...
PAC chair Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown described the BBC as "an organisation under severe pressure".
Among several findings, the report said the BBC is not doing enough to enforce collection of the licence fee, which it described as unfair to the vast majority of households that do pay for a licence.
It said licence fee evasion and households not purchasing a licence together represented more than 1.1 billion pounds in potential lost income in 2024/25.
...
It also highlighted how the BBC is behind target in developing new intellectual property (IP), "which in turn will limit sustainable long-term revenue streams".

Well you had Doctor Who, but you decided to torch that IP.

The report said the BBC's mission to "serve all audiences" is at risk, with just 51% of younger people feeling the BBC reflects them, while their overall use of BBC services -- including TV, radio or online -- is significantly lower than other age groups.

One good thing about Millennials and Zellennials is their rejecting of the media. They're absolutely killing the media by tuning out.

Posted by: Ace at 01:21 PM

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1 One good thing about Millennials and Zellennials is their rejecting of the media. They're absolutely killing the media by tuning out.
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I tell my Zoomer students all the time that they are smart to not care about movies. I don't specifically say WHY (I have quotes up on my walls from old movies like Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Zulu and The Third Man), but maybe a few of them get what I mean.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)

2 trump trump trump

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (CWTWj)

3 Hey, let's cancel our most popular show!

/BBC

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (XuXeR)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Sue like the wind.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:24 PM (dK+Kv)

6 Lawfare at its finest. You don't have to win. You just need the suit to exist. The process isn't even the punishment, the publicity is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:24 PM (06Hmj)

7 BBC?

I'm listening......

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Critics claim the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully.

That's what all of our media did.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (NZkDE)

9 Trump is not the only person the BBC lies about.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (06Hmj)

10 The BBC is dying, after a decade of incredibly stupid moves. And it probably would anyway, being a network TV channel in an era where only 10% of the population even watches network TV.

They are getting really aggressive about trying to get people to pay their fee for having a TV set, but the law actually says people only have to pay if they watch the BBC which most people don't. Ask anyone under the age of 30 how long its been since they even watched television, let alone a network TV channel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (dfIr7)

11 BBC ?!!!

...Oh, sorry.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (w9Wax)

12
"There is no answer to this action in libel, and the damages must be enormous" - F. E. Smith

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (tgvbd)

13 The BBC is going to need more Vans loaded with electronics and SWAT...

And hopefully the electronics are made by Lucas Electric and the SWAT is equipped with NERF guns.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (2GVsD)

14 Hey, let's cancel our most popular show!

/BBC
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Yes, but there is no amount of money the left won't lose and/or spend towards *advertising* for the cause. The mainstream media isn't concerned with "profit" because they aren't for-profit enterprises--they're simply the marketing department for progressive causes.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (TN0g+)

15 It's in Florida.

Civil lawsuits don't need a unanimous jury.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (W7XSX)

16 As part of the budget deal, I am sure they are going to divert tax dollars to the BBC. I mean, every other broadcaster gets tax dollars diverted to it, why not them?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (0U5gm)

17 The BBC had prestige and class when I was a fixture there for decades.

Posted by: Jimmy Savile at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (oftw2)

18 I never got the fascination with Dr Who …

I thought it was lame from the first Dr. on

Posted by: browndog scratching at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (TTAGa)

19 the BBC plans to fight the case.

I hope they get Aileen Cannon.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (NZkDE)

20
The BBC, like the NHS, is an institution that Brits think is a model for everyone to emulate but is ramshackle, inept, costly and outdated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (tgvbd)

21 Seems pretty cut and dried to me. Editing video. Next.

Glad President Trump is not gutless.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (cS1cw)

22
One good thing about Millennials and Zellennials is their rejecting of the media. They're absolutely killing the media by tuning out.

Posted by: Ace

True, but the other edge to this sword is kids today have 0 attention span. They watch "everything," but watch none of it start-to-finish.

The Internet created at least two generations, so far, of ADD-heads.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (Il0Nj)

23 Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
Do you want to know why Republicans always lose, even when we're winning?

"We're better than that."

Democrats never think "We're better than that." They think "What can we do to win?"

So please throw away your fainting couches and clutching pearls, and realize we are in a war for survival.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (TN0g+)

24 I tell my Zoomer students all the time that they are smart to not care about movies. I don't specifically say WHY (I have quotes up on my walls from old movies like Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Zulu and The Third Man), but maybe a few of them get what I mean.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)

The one poster I recall - in a civic class, I believe, in which I and a pert, fun, young asian hottie would play touchy feely, with each other - said "What is mind? No Matter. What is matter? Never mind."

It was years before I discovered the meaning of that poster, and it still sticks with me today, as does the memories of the girl.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (dK+Kv)

25 Bombay Bicycle Club?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (Cjt/F)

26 The UK government is sending people door to door to demand that people pay their fee, warning them of dire consequences, and being blown off by a lot of subjects of the crown. They even have vans that scan your house to see if you have the TV on...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (dfIr7)

27 Let me go ahead and guess that all their illegal immigrants get free tv licenses.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (n5tGW)

28 Make them report the accusation of an edit. They won't report the edit itself, but the accusation will make people curious and they'll search it out.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (Q+gd/)

29 This is a situation where just having to defend against this is a loss for the BBC.

It's like "When did you stop beating your wife?"

Only, "When did you stop making up quotes?"

The lawsuit brings publicity and more grovelling, which is a win.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (F1I3P)

30 The egregious lies never go the other way.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (8CIFn)

31 Among several findings, the report said the BBC is not doing enough to enforce collection of the licence fee, which it described as unfair to the vast majority of households that do pay for a licence.
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You must pay for a service you don't use to make it fair for the people who are paying too much for a service they are using.

It's in the Magna Carta, I believe.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (Dv3i1)

32 The report said the BBC's mission to "serve all audiences" is at risk,

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They haven't served all audiences in decades. Name one show that does not have mandated homosexual characters.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (0U5gm)

33 yeah, they did a number of Susie Wiles...damn girl! you should know better !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (g47mK)

34 I never got the fascination with Dr Who …

I thought it was lame from the first Dr. on
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It was circa 1971 when the 2nd grade me had to make a choice around 4 in the afternoon: Dr. Who reruns, or Wild Wild West reruns. It didn't seem like there was any choice at all to me--Wild Wild West it was.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)

35 I wonder if The Hitler Channel will go to all Trump all the time once he's out of office?

Narrator: "...and then Der Trumpenfuhrer would do the worst. He ordered the servant over and insisted on doubling the amount of ice cream on his plate while everybody else attending the dinner starved with only one. This would merely be the beginning."

Brain Freeze: Two Scoops of Terror
The History Channel - 9pm

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (Wo1GJ)

36 Sue them Donald, sue them until they squeal.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (Tbj3s)

37 American teachers do the same with history, biology and geology. Well not quite yet on geology. They are trying to figure out how to lie about geology.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (EyfuW)

38 So, there is a Museum of Sex in NYC.

Does Brian Stelter have his own wing?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

39 The Brits picked a hill to die on. The right of their media to commit journalistic malpractice vs. Murder and rape in their streets, coupled with the draining of public resources by an invasion of third world cultists with no indication of stemming the influx.

Bold strategy Cotton.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (xfIC2)

40
They haven't served all audiences in decades. Name one show that does not have mandated homosexual characters.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:29 PM (0U5gm)

_________

*Westminster chimes sound*

Gay, gay, gay, gay. Gay, gay, gay, gay!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (tgvbd)

41 >>I never got the fascination with Dr Who …

browndog, it was originally a children's show, intended to give kids a little bit of history & entertainment. What it devolved to, though, is the epitome of gay & lame.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (NcvvS)

42 no chance of winning?

meh. the best way to be 100% certain of failure is not to try.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (Cjt/F)

43 Yes, yes, i'm sure Abdul Abdul Muhammad Abdulmuhammed and his twenty-seven hundred cousins who occupy an entire tower block in Cheapside together are all fully paid up on their Loicensing Fee, like the good little subjects of the crown that they are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (06Hmj)

44 I remember the Krauts had a truck to detect radio sets on Hogan's Heroes. With a rotating antenna on top. BBC must have bought them surplus from Bing Crosby Productions.

Posted by: We Want The Airwaves! at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (oftw2)

45 Is he suing BBC America?, wouldn't he have to sue in Britain otherwise? or is it because they broadcast here?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (n5tGW)

46 So please throw away your fainting couches and clutching pearls, and realize we are in a war for survival.
Posted by: Crusader

Can I still keep my hair matches?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

47 ot:

I have thoughts, but I won't share them.

127.0.0.1
types, deletes.

Posted by: localhost at December 16, 2025 01:33 PM (FhXTo)

48 It isn't, "We're better than that." It's, "We're in on it."

What the GOPe doesn't seem to grasp is that this time the Dems are playing for keeps, which includes eliminating the GOPe.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 01:33 PM (Q+gd/)

49 The pedo scandal coverups should have ended the BBC long ago.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:33 PM (F1I3P)

50 Obligatory

https://youtu.be/-HF3x67VK9o

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:33 PM (ZxPkt)

51 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

52 The BBC is going to need more Vans loaded with electronics and SWAT...

Ruthless against silently praying grannies and TV license cheats. Against terrorists, murderers and sex offenders, eh not so much.

Posted by: A bit like the good ol' US of A I'm afraid at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (TbWk/)

53 In internet porn-speak acronyms,

BBW = Big Bold Woman
BBC = Big Black Cock.

I'd wager than 90% of the online usage if the letters "BBC" has the intended meaning of the porn-speak definition.

When even your acronym if been supplanted by a new meaning (like the retail term for "Point of Sale" -- POS -- niow meaning for most people "Piece of Shit"), you know you have reached Peak Irrelevance.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (oraVG)

54 The BBC isn't the only media outfit spinning lies. They all are. The challenge is to figure out how to bankrupt them all and drive the talking heads into cardboard boxes under some Interstate overpass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (NwnyJ)

55 Regarding Millenials & Gen Z rejecting the legacy media, I’ve been pondering Bari Weiss. I had previously praised her for defying the laughingstock media’s rabid leftism. But having seen her left wing hit job on Erika Kirk and some of her other recent nonsense, I’m thinking now that Bari’s goal might actually be an attempt to restore legitimacy to left wing journalism, by bringing back a more subtle form of media bias that draws bipartisan respect.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (tcZro)

56 Brutal and ruthless, Trump, brutal and ruthless. What I voted for , no nuance, no temporizing, no soft touch. They do not respond to that.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (Tbj3s)

57
What's next?

Is that totalitarian cocksucker celery seth rogen going to Re-Write LORD OF THE FLIES??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (Il0Nj)

58

BBC?

Beef Bacon and Cheese

Posted by: RAX roast beef at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (pkeXY)

59 I remember the Krauts had a truck to detect radio sets on Hogan's Heroes. With a rotating antenna on top.
Posted by: We Want The Airwaves!

Early internet. They were just using that to intercept nude pics of Helga, he bedirndled waitress at the tavern in town.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

60 So please throw away your fainting couches and clutching pearls, and realize we are in a war for survival.
Posted by: Crusader

Can I still keep my hair matches?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

We're better than that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

61 43 Yes, yes, i'm sure Abdul Abdul Muhammad Abdulmuhammed and his twenty-seven hundred cousins who occupy an entire tower block in Cheapside together are all fully paid up on their Loicensing Fee, like the good little subjects of the crown that they are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (06Hmj)

They're all on the dole anyway, which probably covers the fee. Or the fee gets waived for "asylum seekers."

Posted by: Nothing for citizens, everything for invaders at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (TbWk/)

62 BBC = Big British Cuck.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (oraVG)

63 37 American teachers do the same with history, biology and geology. Well not quite yet on geology. They are trying to figure out how to lie about geology.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 01:30 PM (EyfuW)
- - - - - - - -
Geology is sexist. "Cleavage", after all. (/sarc)

Posted by: Another Anon at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (4h45B)

64 The most famous ‘tea party’ ever took place on the evening of December 16, 1773, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, writes The History Channel, rallied “against British Parliament and protested the Griffin’s Wharf arrival of Dartmouth, a British East India Company ship carrying tea.

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (RHGPo)

65 browndog, it was originally a children's show, intended to give kids a little bit of history & entertainment. What it devolved to, though, is the epitome of gay & lame.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM

Like Crusader, when faced with a choice back in the day, it wasn’t gonna be Dr. Who regardless of what they might have been trying to teach me.

Posted by: browndog scratching at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (TTAGa)

66
Reminder: The BBC was a major recipient of USAID money.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (VWtfl)

67
Call the BBC what it is: state-run media.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (tgvbd)

68 BBC = Big British Cuck.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (oraVG)

Boring British Cuisine

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:36 PM (dK+Kv)

69 You people still watch TV?

Posted by: Twenty year olds with smartphones at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (FtUtq)

70 Illegals on the dole, here and there. Does not the saying that Idle Hands are the Devil's Playground not apply now?

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (Tbj3s)

71 When did the Hanseatic League finally fizzle out?

Nothing to do with anything. Just a stray thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (06Hmj)

72 55 Regarding Millenials & Gen Z rejecting the legacy media, I’ve been pondering Bari Weiss. I had previously praised her for defying the laughingstock media’s rabid leftism. But having seen her left wing hit job on Erika Kirk and some of her other recent nonsense, I’m thinking now that Bari’s goal might actually be an attempt to restore legitimacy to left wing journalism, by bringing back a more subtle form of media bias that draws bipartisan respect.
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I agree with you that this is a concern. I think a lot of people on the right whine too much about media bias. It seems to betray a desire to "be treated fairly", as though you are waiting for that girl who cheated on you and then dumped you to "come to her senses" and return.

The last thing we should want is a return to Walter Cronkite "journalism". As someone said about Albo blaming the Bondi Beach shooting shooting on "right-wingers" yesterday, unhinged rhetoric is actually helpful, since it wakes up anyone who isn't a committed Communist already.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (Dg7ng)

73 That Trump. He's so brash!

Posted by: That's my President! at December 16, 2025 01:38 PM (vFG9F)

74 44 I remember the Krauts had a truck to detect radio sets on Hogan's Heroes.

and don't forget the cat detector vans from the department of 'ousinge

Posted by: python, monty at December 16, 2025 01:38 PM (v3pYe)

75 Krankheit means "sickness". Just throwin' that out there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:38 PM (06Hmj)

76 31 Among several findings, the report said the BBC is not doing enough to enforce collection of the licence fee, which it described as unfair to the vast majority of households that do pay for a licence.
_____

You must pay for a service you don't use to make it fair for the people who are paying too much for a service they are using.

It's in the Magna Carta, I believe.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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I'll bet money on the fact that most of the non payers of licenses are not native Brits like South Asians, etc. that simply ignore British laws that they don't like and they know the BBC cannot afford to go after them for ideological reasons.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (WDjG6)

77 Wait -- so now there's television? You can broadcast images remotely? Technology is progressing too fast me me. I'm still getting used to round wheels.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (oraVG)

78 Anybody know how much the BBC license fee is? And why doesn't the government just pay for the BBC out of general tax revenues?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (3nLb4)

79 When did the Hanseatic League finally fizzle out?

Nothing to do with anything. Just a stray thought.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

1669, per Wikipedia

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

80 They should just be able to pay that out of the Tele tax they charge the citizens for actually owning a TV and expecting to be able to WATCH something on it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

81 76 I'll bet money on the fact that most of the non payers of licenses are not native Brits like South Asians, etc. that simply ignore British laws that they don't like and they know the BBC cannot afford to go after them for ideological reasons.
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Yeah, and then native Brits will be lectured to as though it is their fault.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (Dg7ng)

82 Republicans shout not do interviews with the propaganda ministries. If they do however bring a cameraman along to record everything. Trust none of the bastards

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (D+mpw)

83 I'm just glad to see some lawfare from our side. For decades, the suits all went one direction.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (xcxpd)

84 Concerning Bari Weiss - we seem prone to looking for a " bright light from the Left" and become enamored of glimmers that might be wishful thinking. See- John Fetterman.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (Tbj3s)

85 Krankheit means "sickness". Just throwin' that out there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

And Walter means purveyor. Now you know.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (0U5gm)

86 The last thing we should want is a return to Walter Cronkite "journalism". As someone said about Albo blaming the Bondi Beach shooting shooting on "right-wingers" yesterday, unhinged rhetoric is actually helpful, since it wakes up anyone who isn't a committed Communist already.
Posted by: The Lower Depths
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I would agree. We need to build our own institutions and forbid entryists from our enemies. Otherwise you get people like Candace Ovens lying their ass off to get inside and cause havoc when they do.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (WDjG6)

87 When did the Hanseatic League finally fizzle out?

Nothing to do with anything. Just a stray thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (06Hmj)

When they added a women's division filled with chicks that middle ages urchin boys could beat and people started throwing early modern sex toys into the gatherings.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (dK+Kv)

88 They were just using that to intercept nude pics of Helga, he bedirndled waitress at the tavern in town.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM

The 20th Century lacked the technology to ascertain Helga nude form while she was bedrindled.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (0sNs1)

89 And Walter means purveyor. Now you know.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:40 PM (0U5gm)

wheels within wheels, man...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (06Hmj)

90 I did a ten part documentary on the old Hanseatic Negro Leagues.

Posted by: Ken Burns at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (FtUtq)

91 51 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

I know what I want for Christmas now.

Posted by: Yowza at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (TbWk/)

92 Non payer of license fee: "Ululululululullululu!!!"

BBC Collector: "Right. On your way then, old chap! Bob's your uncle!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:41 PM (Dv3i1)

93 78 Anybody know how much the BBC license fee is? And why doesn't the government just pay for the BBC out of general tax revenues?
Posted by: Oddbo

The free dates back to an era when only well-off people could afford a television (which lasted up through the '70s). Since TV ownership was not universal, or even common at first, the fee is only charged of those who had one -- not of everyone who pays taxes.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (oraVG)

94 If it does get to a jury, I hope Trump's lawyers turn the case into an indictment of the Uk's fascist government. Cast them as an evil entity hell-bound to destroy freedom there and abroad. Make them look like jackboot thugs that they are.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (mlg/3)

95 🎶 Internet killed the media star! 🎶

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (+/y+R)

96 Big Bill Thompson - the last Republican mayor of Chicago and friend of second-hand furniture dealer, Al Capone - once threatened to punch the King of England in the nose if he ever came to his burg (I think it was an attempt to get the Irish vote).

It wouldn't be sporting for Trump to punch King Charles in the nose, him being sick and all, but there ought to be something along those lines he could do. Perhaps he could invite the UK ambassador over and have Hegseth and Homan hold him while he gives him a wedgie.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (2L+MU)

97 TV Tax?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (fBbkm)

98 84 Concerning Bari Weiss - we seem prone to looking for a " bright light from the Left" and become enamored of glimmers that might be wishful thinking. See- John Fetterman.
Posted by: tubal

I still won't watch anything to do with CBS News, CNN if Paramount is successful, etc. Let them die from audience disappearance.

Who wants the imprimatur anymore of any of the big media of the past century. They are all degraded, corrupt, and full of hate for the Heritage US.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (WDjG6)

99 51 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

Merry Sexy Christmas?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

100 I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.

They'll beat the rap, but they won't beat the ride.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (TlGnK)

101 I like the red costumes more than the green and any pic with cute doggos is good to me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (xcxpd)

102 The process is the punishment, as long as that includes sufficient buggery.

Posted by: Roy at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (BZF07)

103 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM

Why is it we never see anyone who looks like us?

Posted by: Bronie Bros at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (0sNs1)

104 97 TV Tax?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:43 PM (fBbkm)

The UK is a dystopia. Has been for a long time.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (xcxpd)

105 1.1 billion pounds

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Fat Cenk Uygur at December 16, 2025 01:44 PM (v0R5T)

106 If you are too stupid to know not to give an interview to Vanity Fair you have no business working in the White House.

Posted by: TITP at December 16, 2025 01:45 PM (r3hkP)

107 It would bring me joy if we continue down the path of abandoning Europe. To hell with them. If you don't care about your precious culture, then neither do I. I know my recent ancestors who came here to get away from your bullshit sure didn't care.

The future lies with an American Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, with a solid support system of bilateral alliances around the Pacific. Europe and Africa are worse than worthless. Let China and Big Muzz argue over their carcasses. We've got better things to do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:45 PM (06Hmj)

108 Instead they watch TikTok and ewetub- not necessarily an improvement.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:45 PM (1oltZ)

109 >>Like Crusader, when faced with a choice back in the day, it wasn’t gonna be Dr. Who regardless of what they might have been trying to teach me.

Little sister loved Dr Who. When she was 8 years old. Our PBS station ran it at 11 PM later and it was enjoyable (Tom Baker years) until it got 'bumbling guy'.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:46 PM (NcvvS)

110 1.1 bn quid earned just from TV tax on 69.3m people....guessing it's a monthly fee? Not sure.

That's roughly 16 per person just to watch local broadcast TV.

Socialism sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

111 63 37 American teachers do the same with history, biology and geology. Well not quite yet on geology. They are trying to figure out how to lie about geology.
Posted by: thug dolphin

Erosion and floods only happens in POC living areas due to white privilege. Volcanoes and earthquakes do not affect white males with privilege. All those bodies in Pompeii ashes were POC. Volcano allowed privileged white males to exit before obliterating others.

I worked around such idiots--one can figure out endless ways to spin out pseudo science based on a few axioms.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:46 PM (WDjG6)

112 106 If you are too stupid to know not to give an interview to Vanity Fair you have no business working in the White House.

This is true.. What a mess.. She says it was out of context, but the things she said were hard to see in what context they could be okay

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 01:47 PM (VE6XX)

113 'How' could the EU 'seize' X?

Sorry, OT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:47 PM (1oltZ)

114 It's an annual tax. A few hundred dollars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:47 PM (fBbkm)

115 The BBC TV licence fee is currently £174.50 per year (as of April 2025).

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:48 PM (ZxPkt)

116 Broadcast television ranks right up there with Citizens Band radio when it comes to entertainment mediums.

Posted by: Kids today at December 16, 2025 01:48 PM (FtUtq)

117 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma
......

Nice work.
and I like bellybuttons.

Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (v0R5T)

118 Devilish, Anna.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (1oltZ)

119 $234.00

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (fBbkm)

120 I made it Christmas theme by adding a Christmas tree.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (2GVsD)

121 Don't pay it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (fBbkm)

122 Always outstanding, Anna!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Cjt/F)

123 Britain decided to give Churchill the boot and suck the socialist teat. Orwell saw where this was headed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Dv3i1)

124 Nice work.
and I like bellybuttons.
Posted by: wth at December 16, 2025 01:49 PM (v0R5T)

Yeah, on the whole a cross between wonder woman, the devil, belly dancer and cat ears.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (1oltZ)

125 Ask for hot British babe, get this.......

https://is.gd/5w9G9p

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

126 >>If you are too stupid to know not to give an interview to Vanity Fair you have no business working in the White House.

Not just one interview, but a series of several interviews over the last year.

And then getsmad when Vanity Fair drops the bomb on her that anyone here could've seen coming from a mile away.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Y1sOo)

127 "The report said the BBC's mission to "serve all audiences" is at risk, with just 51% of younger people feeling the BBC reflects them"

Cue Despot of Antrim's Reflection Man

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (bZBbf)

128 They would tax hard nipples.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (EyfuW)

129 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (FtUtq)

130 "I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't."

Ace, he doesn't have to win the case. It's nuclear leverage for a settlement. Trump got $15 million from ABC News and $16 million from Paramount (CBS). I suspect he'll get a nice fat settlement from BBC too.

Also keep in mind that this is in Florida, not DC, where Trump might get a half-fair chances against a bunch of foreigners with bad teeth.

Finally, and this could be big, Trump has a claim under Florida's "Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act." If that act is anything like most state "deceptive practices" act, it's patterned after the federal Federal Trade Commission Act. Which means it's very broad -- much broader than defamation -- and covers all forms of deception and "unfair" conduct. Plus, it'll have attorney fees and other provisions.

I suspect the BBC is fucked. If I was Trump, I wouldn't settle for less than $50M.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

131 >>Krankheit means "sickness". Just throwin' that out there.

Won't vouch for the story, but supposedly, at one point, a few WWII US correspondents were lost in western Germany, and got separated from ol' Wally; allegedly, they walked around calling his name and the German troops in the area chose not to approach.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (NcvvS)

132 In the United Kingdom and the rest of the British Islands, any household watching or recording television transmissions at the same time they are being broadcast is required by law to hold a television license. This applies regardless of transmission method, including terrestrial, satellite, cable, and internet streaming. It is also required for the viewing of on demand content on BBC iPlayer. The television license is the instrument used to raise revenue to fund the BBC and S4C.
Cont.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (+x87d)

133 The British Court System is Imperial.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (fBbkm)

134 Businesses, hospitals, schools and a range of other organizations are also required by law to hold television licenses to watch and record live television broadcasts. The license, originally a radio license, was introduced in November 1923 using powers under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904, and cost 10 shillings per annum. The license was extended to televisions at a cost of £2 in June 1946. The radio part was abolished in February 1971.

Since 1 April 2025, the annual cost has been £174.50 for a color license and £58.50 for a black and white license (with a 50% discount for legally blind people). Income from the license is primarily used to fund the television, radio and online services of the BBC. The total income from license fees was £3.83 billion in 2017–18,[3] of which £655.3 million or 17.1% was provided by the UK Government through concessions for those over the age of 75 (this subsidy has now been phased out). Thus, the license fee made up the bulk (75.7%) of the BBC's total income of £5.0627 billion in 2017–18.

https://tinyurl.com/v7cphzk2

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:51 PM (+x87d)

135 I'm guessing the BBC losing licensing fees is less about people fighting back, and more about how England is just filled with invader trash who just refuse to pay for anything.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (xvhup)

136 Over at Twitchy there is a post by a woman who's in favor of gun confiscation. Someone told her the 2A is not negotiable. She responded that the 2A isn't part of the Bill of Rights. You can't fix stupid, so don't try

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (D+mpw)

137 The license fee is just a wealth transfer. Its kind of like Ilan Omar who introduced the Meals Act bill which eventually became the conduit for the Somali fraud in Minnesota. Regular people are just getting fleeced by governments to benefit those they want to promote.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (n5tGW)

138 There is a good movie with Jim Broadbent and Helen Jordan called "The Duke", based on a true story about some guy in the UK who protested paying this fee. I highly recommend it!

In other news, I am now home, resting in my own bed 🎉🎉🎉

Will probably get up and about tomorrow - the area around the incision site is still quite tender, and I can't sleep on my right side due to the swelling. But I am able to get out of bed to go to the bathroom without having to wait for a nurse to turn off the bed alarm, so at least that is something 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (SRRAx)

139 > 'How' could the EU 'seize' X?
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The EU parliament believes that anything that can be seen, heard, felt, fly to, from, or over, or otherwise be detected in any way by anyone in the EU, is subject to EU regulation

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)

140 I've heard that it's fairly difficult to simply not pay the licensing fee over there, if you're at all a non-degenerate member of society.

"But I don't even own a tv!"

"Yeah, but you could."

"But I don't!"

"Just pay it. Don't make us have to get unpleasant."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (06Hmj)

141 Regarding Millenials & Gen Z rejecting the legacy media, I’ve been pondering Bari Weiss. I had previously praised her for defying the laughingstock media’s rabid leftism. But having seen her left wing hit job on Erika Kirk and some of her other recent nonsense, I’m thinking now that Bari’s goal might actually be an attempt to restore legitimacy to left wing journalism, by bringing back a more subtle form of media bias that draws bipartisan respect.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (tcZro)

Well said, Buck. Something about her seems smarmy to me. I think you're on to something.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (c2vsb)

142 Shall bot be infringed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (fBbkm)

143 more about how England is just filled with invader trash who just refuse to pay for anything.

The Royals?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (2GVsD)

144 I could give two shits about Doctor Who. Amy Pond, OTOH

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (Wo1GJ)

145
When did the Hanseatic League finally fizzle out?

Nothing to do with anything. Just a stray thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:37 PM (06Hmj)

_________

About the same time as the Schmalkaldic League

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (tgvbd)

146 I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.
--
Oh?

It's in the Southern District of Florida.

And, IIRC, the same district that refused to dismiss one of Trump's other defamation lawsuits.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (HXT0k)

147 The EU parliament believes that anything that can be seen, heard, felt, fly to, from, or over, or otherwise be detected in any way by anyone in the EU, is subject to EU regulation
Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)

Musk should block X going to any Euro IP address. Screw them. F*ck you, pay ME, bishes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)

148 It has occurred to me that one reason that Trump likes Susan Wiles is that in private she shoots her mouth off without thinking, just like he does. They're kindred spirits.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (uWKK8)

149 Policewoman Amy Pond saved the series.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (2GVsD)

150 England's royalty isn't even English.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (fBbkm)

151 Good news! Thanks for the update, Teresa!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Cjt/F)

152 135 I'm guessing the BBC losing licensing fees is less about people fighting back, and more about how England is just filled with invader trash who just refuse to pay for anything.
Posted by: Rbastid

I'm sure there is a government program to pay for it on their behalf. If not, there is one in the works. The inheritance tax on farmers will fund everything.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Dv3i1)

153 Since 1 April 2025, the annual cost has been £174.50 for a color license and £58.50 for a black and white license

-

There is nothing on there worth £1.74 per year.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (0U5gm)

154 Erosion and floods only happens in POC living areas due to white privilege. Volcanoes and earthquakes do not affect white males with privilege. All those bodies in Pompeii ashes were POC. Volcano allowed privileged white males to exit before obliterating others.

I worked around such idiots--one can figure out endless ways to spin out pseudo science based on a few axioms.
Posted by: whig

I've seen geology politicized this way:

Evolution was deemed impossible at first because it was assumed that the Earth was not nearly old enough for evolution to have happened. But when geologists Lyell and Cuvier demonstrated that the Earth was millions, if not billions, of years old, that opened the door to the possibility of there being enough time for evolution. And then that opened the door to the theory of natural selection. And then that opened the door to "Social Darwinism." And that opened the door to "scientific racism." And that opened the door to White Supremacy.

So there you have it -- geology caused White Supremacy.

Seriously -- this is taught in some geology curricula.

Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:54 PM (oraVG)

155 Ask for hot British babe, get this.......

https://is.gd/5w9G9p
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

Its sad when good men turn gay.

https://i.pin___.com/736x/80/59/32/805
932592732ccde6c62c20dcd61230a.jpg

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (1oltZ)

156
The EU parliament believes that anything that can be seen, heard, felt, fly to, from, or over, or otherwise be detected in any way by anyone in the EU, is subject to EU regulation
Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)

________

"Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the European Union."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (tgvbd)

157 About the same time as the Schmalkaldic League
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (tgvbd)

But the Lollipop Guild lived on, although with diminished standing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (uWKK8)

158 I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.
--
Oh?

It's in the Southern District of Florida.

And, IIRC, the same district that refused to dismiss one of Trump's other defamation lawsuits.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (HXT0k)
_____

See my comment above. The claim under the FL act might be the killer. Defamation against public figures is hard to prove and win. But the Act is broader and likely doesn't require anything along the lines of "actual malice." BBC could be in real trouble here. They will open their wallets -- wide -- to settle.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

159 Greta is talking again apparently.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (fBbkm)

160 98 Who wants the imprimatur anymore of any of the big media of the past century. They are all degraded, corrupt, and full of hate for the Heritage US. - whig

And proving your point - yet again! - here comes the NYT, which has just now discovered that Nancy Pelosi may, indeed, have kinda, sorta engaged in some stock-trading shenanigans.

https://tinyurl.com/rd4rsnxj

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (2L+MU)

161 zombie

that is some serious pretzel 'logic.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (2GVsD)

162 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2GVsD)

Hey Anna, do you ever play with these locally or is it all cloud? With a decent GPU you can experiment more freely on your own PC nowadays.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (Wo1GJ)

163 At least identify as black and white.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (fBbkm)

164 Time to start a company called "BBSeen" explicitly dedicated to stealing BBC's "intellectual property" and putting it up on the Internet for free streaming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (npFr7)

165 The invaders in England aren't paying the tax because they all have satellite dishes for home country TV. London was called Dishistan by a book s few years back

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (D+mpw)

166 It's just not the same BBC since Jimmy SaVILE left there. They don't have the market penetration they once did.

How's hell Jimmy? Breaks' over, get back into the sea of fire and put the milestone back on.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (cYBz/)

167 Well said, Buck. Something about her seems smarmy to me. I think you're on to something.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (c2vsb)

She's still a liberal, she's just a pro-Israel liberal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 01:57 PM (uWKK8)

168 "Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the European Union."

that is when you drop 50 tonnes of jellied lutefisk on Brussels.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (2GVsD)

169 Its sad when good men turn gay.

https://i.pinIMG.com/736x/80/59/32/805
932592732ccde6c62c20dcd61230a.jpg
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 01:55 PM (1oltZ)

She's not British.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

170 So there you have it -- geology caused White Supremacy.

Posted by: zombie

It follows thus that some folks are dumb as rocks.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (cYBz/)

171 A normal person would ask why have govt paid for and run TV anyway. Oh right, we did and still got fleeced for PBS and NPR.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (n5tGW)

172 So there you have it -- geology caused White Supremacy.

Seriously -- this is taught in some geology curricula.

Gotta be "socially relevant" these days to get any attention/$$ in academia.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 16, 2025 01:59 PM (3nLb4)

173 Greta is talking again apparently.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 01:56 PM (fBbkm)

Tard Barge says what?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

174 Critics claim the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully.
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Even that is a lie; a pathetic whitewash laundered through the pretend claims of "critics."

1) It's the left that is claiming it was merely "misleading," because
2) they are not being sued for an "omission"
3) what they they are being sued for is splicing two, unrelated and different clips together as one, seamless clip to make it look like Trump called for his supporters to storm the Capital

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 01:59 PM (HXT0k)

175 Ask for hot British babe, get this.......

https://is.gd/5w9G9p
Posted by: Sponge

Not quite Ackbar-worthy. But funny.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

176
According to the Daily Mail, the druggie son slashed Meathead's and his wife's throats while they were sleeping in their beds. The son had some big fight with Meathead at a party at Conan O'Brien's place, which they described as very awkward.

They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)

177 What about the Greatest Genetcist who ever lived getting ratioed?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (fBbkm)

178 Learn to use a URL shortener.

Posted by: Cuz, you know at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (FtUtq)

179 According to the Daily Mail, the druggie son slashed Meathead's and his wife's throats while they were sleeping in their beds. The son had some big fight with Meathead at a party at Conan O'Brien's place, which they described as very awkward.

They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)
_____

That's some cold-blooded shit right there ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

180 Note that all left-wingers are anti-patriots who despise their country ...

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

Oikophobes -- a perfectly cromulent word that J.J. quoted and linked to recently (which I had to look up).

NOTE: Not to be confused with "Oinkophobes" -- presumably an irrational fear of porcines and/or cops ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (l70N6)

181 168 "Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the European Union."

that is when you drop 50 tonnes of jellied lutefisk on Brussels. - Anna Puma

HAW!!!

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 02:02 PM (2L+MU)

182 Well you had Doctor Who, but you decided to torch that IP.
Posted by: Ace at 01:21 PM

That ship sailed after the 4th Doctor, IMAO.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (kgE5c)

183 I wonder if Hunter is taking notes.

He has lied many times too.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (Wo1GJ)

184 I wonder if the UK will pay me to do fuckall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (fBbkm)

185
They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)
_____

That's some cold-blooded shit right there ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

I want to see the tox report from the kid, but we won't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

186 They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)

this story keeps getting more and more gruesome by the hour.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (uWKK8)

187 But having seen her left wing hit job on Erika Kirk and some of her other recent nonsense, I’m thinking now that Bari’s goal might actually be an attempt to restore legitimacy to left wing journalism, by bringing back a more subtle form of media bias that draws bipartisan respect.

==

I only saw clips, but...it did no look like gutcha townhall, and don't you think Kirk was well aware of the guests and maybe even the tough questions ? Weiss is the type to show her cards. This was a first in her new series, the townhall with Erika was a huge "get", she might want her back even, she would not want to turn the audience away , seems to be trying to be a bridge of sorts ? Just my opinion.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:04 PM (g47mK)

188 The free dates back to an era when only well-off people could afford a television (which lasted up through the '70s). Since TV ownership was not universal, or even common at first, the fee is only charged of those who had one -- not of everyone who pays taxes.
Posted by: zombie at December 16, 2025 01:42 PM (oraVG)

It was just an extension of what they had long been doing with radio. Canada, too, but abandoned in the late 1940's, I think. I own some antique radios with a sticker on them admonishing the owner to pay the licence fee, or face a large fine and confiscation of the radio set.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 02:04 PM (npFr7)

189 this story keeps getting more and more gruesome by the hour.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Worse than the Gene Hackman death story. At least that was from natural causes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

190 The NY Post says that Reiner's kid got pissed when Bill Hader told him that he was in a private conversation. Always thought Hader was funny

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:05 PM (D+mpw)

191 the clips I saw were of some tough questions, but those needed an answer from someone like Erika Kirk

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:05 PM (g47mK)

192 I read somewhere yesterday that X was the number one news source in Europe.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:05 PM (rj6Yv)

193 Since 1 April 2025, the annual cost has been £174.50 for a color license

Imagine paying that much voluntarily for brainwashing.

Posted by: Verizon at December 16, 2025 02:05 PM (hNxoo)

194 >> I want to see the tox report from the kid, but we won't.

We can guess it would probably be a mile long.

This son, Nick, was some violent piece of work even from a young age. Stories are coming out about that. Sounds like he was a bad seed from the get-go. I don't know if we should even say drugs did it, all the drugs were probably just, well symptoms of him being a violent sociopath type.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (w6EFb)

195 I read somewhere yesterday that X was the number one news source in Europe.

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*sigh
there is a lot of crap on X

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (g47mK)

196 They don't even owe the tax unless they watch BBC.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (fBbkm)

197 I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.
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Oh?

It's in the Southern District of Florida.

And, IIRC, the same district that refused to dismiss one of Trump's other defamation lawsuits.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (HXT0k)
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Even if President Trump wins the lawsuit, how, exactly, will it be enforced? Will Trump send over an aircraft carrier or two to collect? Jack up the tariffs against British tea and crumpets?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (ESVrU)

198 She's not British.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

Kelly Brook? She came up when I searched ''Busty British'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

199 Probably already mentioned, but I would not be as skeptical about the odds of a favorable verdict. If Trump gets the right judge and the case is allowed to go to the jury, I would guess he has a better than 50-50 chance of a plaintiff's verdict.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:07 PM (bNf8H)

200 The guy on with Charles Payne right now I used to work with on Wall St.

He told me I was nuts for leaving for California.

He was right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 02:07 PM (A0sqA)

201 51 Just posted some new Tensor stuff, any comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Interesting. Less of an anime influence than I would have thought though.

FWIW, Anna, dunno if you know about these: open source image models out there at civitai dot com. I read another story about an inhouse (on your computer) ai image generator but can't seem to find the link to that model install discussion now.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:07 PM (WDjG6)

202 Kelly Brook? She came up when I searched ''Busty British'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Did Lucy Pinder come up?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

203 I can't believe they left me an orphan...

Posted by: Nick Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (hNxoo)

204 @195 definitely, but you can at least sort through it and know who's worth listening to. The propaganda ministries are 24/7, 365 crap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (D+mpw)

205 Also, can you step back in sheer awe at Trump's drip, drip, drip strategy of eroding the media myth that they are fully immune from ever being sued?

LOL

They really can't see the big picture, can they?
How their insanity and derangement is being turned as a weapon on them while falling harmlessly away from Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:09 PM (HXT0k)

206 That's some cold-blooded shit right there ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

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I finally recently saw a picture of the schizophrenic (this is your brain on drugs) -- and concur with others here yesterday who observed that he's got the classic "dead eyes."

Walking Zombie. Given the venue, he'd be acquitted if he'd murdered two conservatives ... and might still get off via a "reason of insanity" defense.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:09 PM (sdxtl)

207 Did Reiner have any other kids?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

208 I expected Lucy Pinder to be top of the search but she wasn't. Bing, like Sponge, is gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (zZu0s)

209 @207 Bulg, a son and daughter. The daughter found her parents.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (D+mpw)

210 149 Policewoman Amy Pond saved the series.

weaponized fish fingers and custard?

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (v3pYe)

211 199 Probably already mentioned, but I would not be as skeptical about the odds of a favorable verdict. If Trump gets the right judge and the case is allowed to go to the jury, I would guess he has a better than 50-50 chance of a plaintiff's verdict.
Posted by: Frasier Crane
======
He is suing under more favorable Florida libel law in the US South District of Florida court and has a state DTPA claim as well.

This has resulted in several media corporations settling in the past due to these circumstances.

Discovery is a stone cold bitch when you don't have the facts to back your on air assertions (means not harmful for Trump) but will show a festering internal comms at the BBC that are moonbat cra cray in court.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (WDjG6)

212 Probably already mentioned, but I would not be as skeptical about the odds of a favorable verdict. If Trump gets the right judge and the case is allowed to go to the jury, I would guess he has a better than 50-50 chance of a plaintiff's verdict.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:07 PM (bNf8H)
=====

If it's a jury trial in Southern Florida, the BBC's legal team goes into settlement mode at warp speed. In which case, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Department of the Interior all get big, beautiful ballrooms.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (rj6Yv)

213 To my own question, Reiner has 4 children in total.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

214 109 >>Like Crusader, when faced with a choice back in the day, it wasn’t gonna be Dr. Who regardless of what they might have been trying to teach me.

Little sister loved Dr Who. When she was 8 years old. Our PBS station ran it at 11 PM later and it was enjoyable (Tom Baker years) until it got 'bumbling guy'.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 16, 2025 01:46 PM (NcvvS)

Dr. Who was fun in the 70's and off and on later because it would give some great writers a chance to do whatever they wanted, albeit with a low budget. Terry Nation, Steve Moffat, Russell Davies all did great work - even Neil Gaiman snuck in for an episode.

What made it work was that they were allowed to do whatever they wanted. It was when the Execs started trying to dictate that it be woke was when it all went downhill.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK8)

215 Did Reiner have any other kids?
Posted by: Bulg

An adopted daughter from his marriage to Penny Marshall and a daughter and another son from second marriage.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2025 02:11 PM (lJ0H4)

216
Kelly Brook? She came up when I searched ''Busty British'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

Huh....

https://is.gd/Rtitkg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

217 @213 right , forgot he adopted Penny Marshall's daughter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (D+mpw)

218 Laverne?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (fBbkm)

219 Elizabeth Hurley.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Tbj3s)

220 I always thought Dr Who was lame, but I know a lot of people liked it and were very disappointed when the BBC wrapped it in a rainbow flag and flipped them all off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (dfIr7)

221 >> Did Reiner have any other kids?

Total of 4, I think. The other three are normal, such as it for children of Hollywood. He was married to Penny Marshall (Laverne from Laverne and Shirley) back in the '70s, and adopted a daughter she had with some other previous husband. They were divorced, and he married his current wife a bit later.

They had 3 kids together, I think, Nick the sociopath being one. There's another son and a daughter, Romy, who was the one who found her parents in bed with their throats slit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (w6EFb)

222
106 If you are too stupid to know not to give an interview to Vanity Fair you have no business working in the White House.
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This is true.. What a mess.. She says it was out of context, but the things she said were hard to see in what context they could be okay
Posted by: It's me donna

Who?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Il0Nj)

223 210 149 Policewoman Amy Pond saved the series.

weaponized fish fingers and custard?
Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (v3pYe)

The Amy Pond story arc was one of the best in its entire 50 year (or so) existence, second only to Tom Baker's Keys to Time arc.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:13 PM (uWKK8)

224 Tater doesn't like the lawsuit and that's good enough for me to like it.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (8CIFn)

225 I expected Lucy Pinder to be top of the search but she wasn't. Bing, like Sponge, is gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (zZu0s)

Well, I'm slightly flustered being lumped into the garrett group like that. I did nothing to deserve THAT treatment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

226 https://is.gd/Rtitkg
Posted by: Sponge

That is not a good busty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

227 219 Elizabeth Hurley.
Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Tbj3s)

Yes please

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (xcxpd)

228 The Amy Pond story arc was one of the best in its entire 50 year (or so) existence, second only to Tom Baker's Keys to Time arc.

Posted by: Tom Servo

That first episode is one of the best in the 50 year history. It encompasses so much of the ethos of the series.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:15 PM (0U5gm)

229 I finally recently saw a picture of the schizophrenic (this is your brain on drugs) -- and concur with others here yesterday who observed that he's got the classic "dead eyes."

Walking Zombie. Given the venue, he'd be acquitted if he'd murdered two conservatives ... and might still get off via a "reason of insanity" defense.
Posted by: ShainS

Depends. You have to be so insane as to not appreciate the rightness and wrongness of your actions and it cannot be in an induced state by substance abuse. If you take meth, for example, and kill people while you are on meth. Despite the behavior appearing insane, the person chose to take the drug making them insane so no insanity defense for that person.

Substance abuse is a factor to weigh in on sentencing but not in asserting an insanity defense which is a judge decision, not a jury.

Same as trying to assert self defense to have a gun pulled and aimed at a person but declaring you shot them by accident. Not valid for justification/affirmative defenses.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:15 PM (WDjG6)

230 They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)
_____

That's some cold-blooded shit right there ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

I want to see the tox report from the kid, but we won't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)
____

He overdosed on MAGA pills, yo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:15 PM (iFTx/)

231 211
Discovery is a stone cold bitch when you don't have the facts to back your on air assertions (means not harmful for Trump) but will show a festering internal comms at the BBC that are moonbat cra cray in court.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:10 PM (WDjG6)

=======

"This edit doesn't fit our editorial standards. Are you sure we should do it?"'
-editor

"Argle bargle Orange Man Bad!"
-producer, with posh British accent

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

232 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

233 I can't believe they left me an orphan...

Posted by: Nick Reiner at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (hNxoo)

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

Is there room for you in the Menendez Brothers' cell?

I'd go all tranny so they'd put me in with women at least ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (nRuPJ)

234 219 Elizabeth Hurley.
Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 02:12 PM (Tbj3s)

Yes please
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (xcxpd)
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There's something about awards ceremonies that bring out the very best in Elizabeth Hurley's stage presence.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (rj6Yv)

235
That is not a good busty.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

It seems the DDG image search has applied some sort of Admiral Akbar filter or something......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

236 232 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

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He's resigning and handing the presidency to Hillary?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

237 Who?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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WH Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

238 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

Uke?

I hope it's about Democrat Terror.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (Wo1GJ)

239 The BBC has been busted several times in the past doing this with interviews, deleting quotes, deliberately modifying quotes and rearranging things to appear as if they were said a way they were not. Kinda like 60 minutes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (dfIr7)

240 This is going to be a teaching moment courtesy of the UK Barristers.

Sure, it's a defamation suit. But, defamation in this case entails speech. And the proceedings are going to be a catalyst on the decaying speech freedoms within the UK. The BBC is going to have to argue for the freedom to frame what they're saying as they want. This is the opposite of what is being instituted within the UK.

I don't think the Trump Administration is doing this for the money or the "defamation." I think they're doing it to highlight what is failing in the UK right now, and the hyper-inflated demand is to make sure it's taken seriously. This is going to polarize that country even more, and it should be entertaining at the very least.

Posted by: Orson at December 16, 2025 02:17 PM (dIske)

241 WH Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles
Posted by: whig

Is she the one who's Pat Sumrall's daughter?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (77rzZ)

242 Slitting your parents throat in their sleep is a stone cold psychopathic move. There was a lot more wrong with the son than just drugs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (D+mpw)

243
Yes please

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 02:14 PM (xcxpd)

Me lord.......

https://is.gd/8JL9Iq

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

244 232 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane
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Venezuela or terrorism are my first guesses. Perhaps economy as a third announcing mebbe tariff rebates to peoplle or some such.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (WDjG6)

245 Trump shouldn't do this. It's dangerous.

Posted by: Dateline NBC at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (Wo1GJ)

246 232 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

There's a whole lot of choices. I think Venezuela is a big possibility, things have been building up there for days now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (uWKK8)

247 Even if President Trump wins the lawsuit, how, exactly, will it be enforced? Will Trump send over an aircraft carrier or two to collect? Jack up the tariffs against British tea and crumpets?
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Easy, peasy:

BBC has a US affiliate licensed to distribute their programming in the US.

Turnover order that requires them to pay those fees to Trump and not the BBC.

Or, if he wants to get real nasty: Seize their US copyrights.

Bing, bang, bam--done.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (HXT0k)

248 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bNf8H)

======

He's resigning and handing the presidency to Hillary?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, he is reinstating the draft to send troops to Ukraine.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (0U5gm)

249 11th Hour just had a feel that I really liked. Visuals were good. Bit creepy. More serious. Still slightly silly. Bestie Matt Smith.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (zZu0s)

250 If indeed the deranged son did slash their throats while they were asleep, then Reiner and his wife are fucking idiots. There are things called locks on bedroom doors. Yes, he was their son and sons don't usually go around murdering their parents. But this kid was a decades-long, known lunatic and junkie. I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

251 trump trump trump
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (CWTWj)
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The boys are marching.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (yNJrI)

252 248 No, he is reinstating the draft to send troops to Ukraine.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (0U5gm)

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That's not genociding brown people at the behest of his Zionist masters...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

253 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

===

He is firing everybody !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (g47mK)

254 Me lord.......

https://is.gd/8JL9Iq
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

ooh I want a tin snip for that chain...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (uWKK8)

255 Is she the one who's Pat Sumrall's daughter?
Posted by: Bulg
=====
Yep. She made a number of idiotic statements (if true) like Trump has a personality like an alcoholic. Like Pat Summeral had. Meaning that he thinks he can do anything but the way it was said makes it problematic for Suzy.

Talked trash about Bondi too on Epstein and other matters.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (WDjG6)

256 Wife's son topped himself on Father's Day in part because he was afraid what he might do to his dad. Which sounds awful until you know the dad.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (Wo1GJ)

257 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Probably those unfortunate rumors about Sponge in this thread.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (OnLUs)

258 They go home, Meathead goes to bed, and the son slashes their throats.
___

Wait, then how were Michelle and Barak supposed to visit them that night? Something doesn't add up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (Dv3i1)

259 Me lord.......

https://is.gd/8JL9Iq
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

I think she's hotter than back in the Austin Powers days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (zZu0s)

260 Is Liz Hurley still with that fag Hugh Grant?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

261 The BBC is going to have to argue for the freedom to frame what they're saying as they want. This is the opposite of what is being instituted within the UK.
- Orson.
===

That's why a jury trial is imperative.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (rj6Yv)

262 Wait, then how were Michelle and Barak supposed to visit them that night? Something doesn't add up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:20 PM (Dv3i1)

You don't think the Obama's are liars, do you?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

263 Cultures die all the time. Old ones wrote on the rocks under the oceans. In the subdunction zones.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (EyfuW)

264 I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Apparently a bad fight a day or two before during a party between Meathead and son.

Want to read the drivel, Daily Mail has the dirt today.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)

265 Trump to address nation from Oval Office tonight. Any guesses about the subject?

Boobs?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (guLpK)

266 Trump to announce he is localizing the intifada, starting today.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

267 There's something about awards ceremonies that bring out the very best in Elizabeth Hurley's stage presence.
____

*adds "stage presence" to list of euphemisms for boobs*

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 02:22 PM (Dv3i1)

268 I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

Nonsense. A Prince of Hollywood is a Prince of Hollywood, and royalty doesn't do horrible things to royalty. Perish the thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 02:22 PM (06Hmj)

269 That's why a jury trial is imperative.
Posted by: mrp

I think they'll end up settling in this case like WaPo, Like NBC, CBS, etc.

Discovery is sure to bring in a whole lot of disturbing comms and witnessed comments about a BBC animus toward Trump and the people brought into the media since 2014 are batshit crazy moonbats.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6)

270 Iirc, Hurley got banged by Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

271 According to CBS news Barry & big Mike were to meet with the Reiners on 12/14.
Sadly, Nick missed an opportunity.

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 16, 2025 02:23 PM (kp5iD)

272 I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Apparently a bad fight a day or two before during a party between Meathead and son.

Want to read the drivel, Daily Mail has the dirt today.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)
___

Lock. The. Bedroom. Door.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

273 >> I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.

Yep, there are stories coming out about that. And from a very young age. Stuff like Meathead having to physically hold him down when he threw violent tantrums and stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (w6EFb)

274 BBC is a State organ.
Shouldn't Trump just bomb London in retaliation?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 02:24 PM (VES6X)

275 Over 270 posts and no mention of BBC screwing up by trashing Top Gear?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (nAS9C)

276 Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Unimaginable violence is hard to imagine.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (OnLUs)

277 Lock. The. Bedroom. Door.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Might not have been enough. If the kid was hopped enough, he might have been able to bust it down regardless.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (77rzZ)

278 Hahahaha...I love it. President Trump is putting his foot up the BBC's ass.

Posted by: John Morgan, Fat Democrat Lawyer at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (YyIMQ)

279 I hope Susie Wiles does not resign or get fired. I like her, although she should have known that "Vanity Fair" would be a hit job.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (guLpK)

280

That's why a jury trial is imperative.
Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:21 PM (rj6Yv)

The football game we went to while visiting the First Daughter after Thanksgiving....we sat in front of this older gentleman and his daughter. We talked with the guy a bit and he told us he was the first in Texas to have a jury trial for his divorce proceedings from his first wife. He was fighting for custody of the daughter and lawyer after lawyer told him there was no way because of the whole 'she's the mother' bias.

He found a lawyer, they went to trial and he won. I called him a legend. His daughter didn't hear him tell the story and wanted to know why I called him that. He said "because I've been coming to these games so long." I rolled with it and kept his story to myself the rest of the game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

281 Nood probable cause

Posted by: imp at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (g6TN6)

282
So, Trump is going top address Elizabeth Hurley from the Oval Office tonight?

Have I got that right?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (iJfKG)

283 If it's a jury trial in Southern Florida, the BBC's legal team goes into settlement mode at warp speed. In which case, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Department of the Interior all get big, beautiful ballrooms.
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BBC can bluff all they want about how they are going to fight, fight, fight this.

And they'll fold.

Because getting a US jury to render a verdict against the BBC is right up there with ease of getting a verdict against ISIS:
They're not a US entity, they've not a massive pool of goodwill, and how can the jury resist sticking it to the UK government?

PS: Remember how the UK government just arrested a guy for posing with a gun in FL?
LOL dumbasses gonna try and tell that jury they are big defenders of free speech now?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (HXT0k)

284 I have a problem with Top Gear and Grand Tour- they feel like commercials.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (zZu0s)

285 279 I hope Susie Wiles does not resign or get fired. I like her, although she should have known that "Vanity Fair" would be a hit job.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (guLpK)

Agreed. I have great admiration for her and hope she can stay on through Trump's term.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (N39Ws)

286
It would be so so awesome if Trump announces all muzzies in our country are being deported.

I don't ask for much Santa.

Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (3ek7K)

287 Lock. The. Bedroom. Door.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Might not have been enough. If the kid was hopped enough, he might have been able to bust it down regardless.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 02:25 PM (77rzZ)

The kid had been to rehab 17 times. Reiner was already not paying much attention to him so it's likely he had no fear because he wasn't paying attention to him then, either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

288 >> If the kid was hopped enough, he might have been able to bust it down regardless.

But that would've slowed him down enough, and the noise would've likely woke Meathead and the wife up where they would've perhaps had a fighting chance. As it was, he just slipped in there and slit their throats while they were sleeping.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 16, 2025 02:27 PM (w6EFb)

289 Does he still get the inheritance?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 16, 2025 02:27 PM (fBbkm)

290 Elizabeth Hurley at the 1995 BAFTA award ceremony.

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2kebpphn

"an Olympic event"

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (rj6Yv)

291 If indeed the deranged son did slash their throats while they were asleep, then Reiner and his wife are fucking idiots. There are things called locks on bedroom doors. Yes, he was their son and sons don't usually go around murdering their parents. But this kid was a decades-long, known lunatic and junkie. I'll bet there were violent episodes in the past. Reiner had to know he was capable of anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

Hell, they could have, and should have, changed the locks on the entire house. They probably could have afforded having armed security at night, or even 24/7.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (npFr7)

292 239 The BBC has been busted several times in the past doing this with interviews, deleting quotes, deliberately modifying quotes and rearranging things to appear as if they were said a way they were not. Kinda like 60 minutes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It is pretty much all the media. The way to deal with a reporter is to shut them down, don't give them your side of the story, and direct all conversations to legal counsel. They will use whatever fits their narrative and discard teh rest.

That is whether it is local or national like the NYT, WaPo, NBC, etc.

They tell narrative lies by omission, editing, selection of evidence for the story like witnesses used, and so on.

Don't talk to the media. They are not your friend if you are a regular person. Figure that they are actually there to investigate and prosecute you in the court of public opinion. If you must, hire a pr savvy person or a lawyer savvy in pr to speak for you in a public statement.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:28 PM (WDjG6)

293
Rosie O'Donald's gotta be getting nervous about her drug addled adopted daughter about now.

Posted by: Auspex at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (Y8DZL)

294 Posted by: four seasons at December 16, 2025 02:26 PM (3ek7K)

I think that would cause so many problems it would dwarf the BLM riots and mayhem and endless lawsuits I agree with you but maybe it could start with deporting Somali Muslim fraudsters.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:29 PM (guLpK)

295 279 I hope Susie Wiles does not resign or get fired. I like her, although she should have known that "Vanity Fair" would be a hit job.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Anyone in a Republican White House should know that no media person is your friend. They butter you up, in the case of teh AJC journalist apparently sexed up an FBI agent to print the scoop about Jewell in the Olympic Bombings, etc.

Nuzzi is a 'journalist' and ironically worked at VF for a bit before being canned.

Journalists trash Dem administrations too but only when they are safely out of office during a GOP administration.

Lesson: never talk to journalists in private--always do it in public and if you have to have a private meeting: run your own recording camera and tape of the journalist and let them know they are being recorded entirely or no dice on the interview.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (WDjG6)

296 That's because we ARE a commercial.
Duh.

Posted by: Top Gear at December 16, 2025 02:34 PM (FtUtq)

297 284 I have a problem with Top Gear and Grand Tour- they feel like commercials.

oh, no!

anyway...

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 02:35 PM (v3pYe)

298 OT -I think Trump might be speaking tonight about the situation with Venezuela.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 02:38 PM (guLpK)

299 Even if President Trump wins the lawsuit, how, exactly, will it be enforced?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 02:06 PM (ESVrU)

Asset seizure.

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 16, 2025 02:49 PM (kp5iD)

300 “Note that all left-wingers are anti-patriots who despise their country... but hate America more, and turn into jingoistic nationalists if the Great Satan America is in a conflict with their countries.“

And some right wingers right here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 03:30 PM (rQwsY)

301 The BBC like CNN is total leftists Propaganda not News

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:21 PM (wGqjj)

302 You mean I gotta pay a license fee for this thing?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart ' Scuse me while I whip this out! at December 16, 2025 06:14 PM (YJgg/)

303 Why didn't he sue in UK courts? Their defamation barrier is WAY lower.

Posted by: GruntDoc at December 16, 2025 09:53 PM (Rp54F)

Mark Halperin: I'm Hearing, But Can't Confirm, That the Family of Ella Cook -- Murdered by the Brown University Terrorist -- Has Been Informed That She Was the Target In the Attack

Edited: I have rewritten the headline and the post to reflect that Halperin is only floating this as something he is "hearing," not something he can confirm. Apologies for stating it too strongly when I first posted.

Ella Cook was one of the very few conservative activists at the leftwing shithole Brown University. I saw someone do some quick calculations and figure that, based on how few conservative activists are permitted to exist at Brown, the chances of a conservative activist randomly being among the only two people killed was 0.8%.

I didn't post that because it seemed pretty suggestive, but not conclusive. And I figured that if there was any truth to it, we'd know about it soon enough.

I didn't want to be Demonic Nazi Grifter like Candace Owens.

Also, there is no math on this blog.

Ella Cook was of course beautiful and said to always offer people a bright smile.

She was the Vice President of the College Republican Club.

Please join us in remembering Ella Cook, the Vice President of the College Republicans at Brown University.

She was a Christian who was the leader of the only conservative group at the very liberal college.

Our heartfelt prayers to her family and friends. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/v8nTe8LJgs
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) December 15, 2025

Now Mark Halperin says that he is hearing that Ella Cook's family was informed by police that she was the terrorist's actual target.

He says he cannot verify this and doesn't know if it's true.

Whoa. Mark Halperin has heard that the family of Ella Cook, the Christian conservative student who lost her life at Brown university, has been told she was the shooter�s target. pic.twitter.com/gc3icfWiOY
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) December 16, 2025

Amber Duke points out that Brown told students from early on that there was no danger of more shootings -- which would only make sense if they knew that Ella Cook was the specific target of the killer.

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Ella Cook was just 19 years old--a Conservative, a Christian, and Vice President of the Republican Club at Brown University.
She was brutally killed by a shooter in what appears to be a targeted political attack.
If you still don't see what's happening, you haven't been paying attention.
Just this year alone:
- Tricia McLaughlin threatened with public execution
- Two National Guard troops shot in DC
- The seditious six Democrats claiming President Trump telling the military to not follow orders
- Jay Jones openly fantasizing about murdering Republicans and their children wins election in Virginia
- President Trump experiencing two assassination attempts
- Charlie Kirk assassinated on live TV, the left celebrated
- Attacks on ICE officers have skyrocketed over 1000%
- LA Riots and terror attacks
- Leftist sniper murders three at ICE facility in Texas
- Massive violent riots at ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois and Portland Oregon
- Annunciation Catholic Church children shot while praying by left wing Trump-hating transgender activist
- ABC News stations shot up
- Alina Habba attacked
- Ed Martin Attacked
- Rogue judges releasing career criminals back onto the streets, terrorizing Americans
The left's violent rhetoric has turned into nationwide violence. If we don't crush this threat now, we lose everything. It's only escalating.
Enough is enough.

In addition, witnesses say the shooter shouted "Allahu Akbar" before murdering her, which, of course, the DEI Police chief, who of course speaks English as a second language, refuses to confirm or deny.

https://t.co/VyDINgTOE8 pic.twitter.com/kfbbN5iRos
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 16, 2025

Holy crap.

Providence officials still won't say what the Brown University gunman shouted before attacking. pic.twitter.com/VfXoGOGk3G
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 15, 2025

�We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target.�

10 Stars @bariweiss https://t.co/82uMNRltDV
— Caitlin Flanagan (@CaitlinPacific) December 12, 2025

I have no words. I have thoughts, but I won't share them.

Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM

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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

2 Types

Deletes

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (u73oe)

3 We're in a civil war. AND shots have been fired.

Some people are going to wake up far too late.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

4 “We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target.”

10 Stars @bariweiss

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This woman is expressing dangerous misinformation. She should be fired from CBS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

5 That press conference was a fucking dumpster fire. They are all incompetent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (NwnyJ)

6 Police chief is ESL? Rhode Island, so maybe from one of those Portuguese families that settled in parts of NE long ago. No?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (Dv3i1)

7 I knew it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (b4LBp)

8 The civil war is somewhat uncivil.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (pkeXY)

9 Whoa. Mark Halperin has heard that the family of Ella Cook, the Christian conservative student who lost her life at Brown university, has been told she was the shooter’s target.

She didn't "lose her life". She was murdered. Say it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

10 I said the chubby male person if interest looked to have the hand coloring of the Middle East/Arab, but I'd love better pics to confirm...

Although, I will say, as devil's advocate, if you were her ex or rejected loser fat dude who was looking to shoot her b/c of your jilted feelings, shouting Allahu Ackbar would be the thing you'd do if you were trying to mislead police...not that this force seems to need any misleading...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (tOcjL)

11 Pictures floating around of a Brown University student from Palestine named Mustapha Kharbouch...

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (gAuAm)

12 Our "cold civil war" is heating up.

Our republican "leaders" had better do something to help their own people defend themselves before people HAVE to take matters into their own hands.

The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

(They think John Brown is the model to imitate.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (zjgNU)

13 So deranged, leftist, and unknown if trans.
Stand by for that.

*my pixey spell checker is adding a grey line under trans FWIW*

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (fPASK)

14 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

15 On X

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (gAuAm)

16 “We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target.”

10 Stars @bariweiss

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This woman is expressing dangerous misinformation. She should be fired from CBS.

She should be fired from an antiaircraft gun.

Posted by: The Tolerant Left at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

17 And he is a blob

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (gAuAm)

18 The Allahu Akbar thing might have been to get people to believe the perp was a muslim terrorist.. Or it was actually a muslim terrorist.....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (VE6XX)

19 Speaking of Candace and Erika, any word on how their meeting went?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

20 3 We're in a civil war. AND shots have been fired.

Some people are going to wake up far too late.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

We've had our Fort Sumter and most don't even know it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (b4LBp)

21 So, so sad… yes Ella Cook was a beautiful young lady. What kind of savage would even think about doing such a thing?? And I mentioned this in the MR comments this morning: Those local officials in RI are a shit show… just clown level incompetence complete with unnecessary hand waving sign language guy at press conference

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (P/Wjn)

22 The Amish strike again.

"Der Allahu Ahkbaruska"

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (IifOV)

23 One small positive in this disgusting clown show is that it is exposing just how incompetent this Ivy League university is.

They have oceans of money, but no cameras? They have funds to pay for a professional police force, but they settle for DEI retards.

It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

24 "Isn't the point of globalizing the intafada just getting more people to buy falafal from Palestinian merchants?"
-AWFL McWinemom

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

25 No"

No. Medellin. Yeah, that one.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (XuXeR)

26 I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

Which is interesting.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (1wjle)

27 The Blade didn't cut here yet.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (fPASK)

28 The left has found terrorism works.

They will continue using it until it does not work because one of the following happens:

1) LIVs vote against left leaning politicians over it

2) The Trump admin/states start arresting antifa leaders/funders and give them long jail terms

3) The right responds in kind

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (sKqQm)

29 So are they going to protect the President of the Young Republicans?? or just let him or Her get shot

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (FCrpy)

30 >>That press conference was a fucking dumpster fire. They are all incompetent.

Probably. But this goes beyond incompetence. They know what was shouted, there are witnesses. They know who was shot first. Again, witnesses.

They are deliberately withholding information from us. That's way beyond incompetence.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (viF8m)

31 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

More believable is that they have footage of him that makes it clear who he is, but don't want people to know that information.

(Like how California doesn't want people to get the correct impression of who is doing all the crime on mass transit. so it won't publish mugshots.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (zjgNU)

32 24 "Isn't the point of globalizing the intafada just getting more people to buy falafal from Palestinian merchants?"
-AWFL McWinemom

Yes, from the river to the sea, the falafals aren't free.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (Dv3i1)

33 23 One small positive in this disgusting clown show is that it is exposing just how incompetent this Ivy League university is.

They have oceans of money, but no cameras? They have funds to pay for a professional police force, but they settle for DEI retards.

It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

=====

Yeah, but have you considered that effective police forces are racist relics of American slavery?

Well, have you!?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

34 ‘ That the Family of Ella Cook -- Murdered by the Brown University Terrorist -- Has Been Informed That She Was the Target In the Attack’

Without having the shooter in custody this has to be speculation.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (jbnUc)

35 I have no words. I have thoughts, but I won't share them.
Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM

I'll take a page from your book and do the same.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (k9OZB)

36 So when do we get campus concealed carry?

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (fPASK)

37 Gonna throw this out there -

Leftists judges are driving the slow boil civil war by giving appearances of legal legitimacy to extremist actions.
By street thugs and judges themselves.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (VES6X)

38 She didn't "lose her life". She was murdered. Say it.

Assassinated. Like Kirk.

This is a political act.

And like with the Kirk assassination I suspect it will be treated as a run of the mill murder.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

39 The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

(They think John Brown is the model to imitate)

The Kansas mural is looking more...Likely.

Gentlemen, defend yourselves...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (XuXeR)

40 48 Hour Rule on this.

While it may well be true, the other victim shot and killed was a male muslim medical student. That would make no sense if this was a targeted terror attack. Sure, the muzzie could have been collateral damage, or hit by a stray. We'll see.

Right now, I skeptical about all news concerning this murder. It doesn't help that the local police are retarded and completely unprepared for something like this.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

41
Someone or some group is hiding the shooter. The other students who saw the shooter probably agree with them.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (IifOV)

42 So, so sad… yes Ella Cook was a beautiful young lady. What kind of savage would even think about doing such a thing??

It's not PC, but this atrocity reinforces that most people will be even more angry at seeing a lovely young woman killed than a young man. I suppose it's an atavistic response; protect the women.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

43 *farts in Mark Kelly's general direction*

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (gxokI)

44 > I have no words. I have thoughts, but I won't share them.

I have thoughts, and I will share them: it's time to start shooting back.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (1Nv0l)

45 "@BariWeiss
: “Yeah, I mean I just fundamentally disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t be able to speak across divides. That doesn’t mean that there are not lines. The question, of course, is whether or not Charlie Kirk crossed those lines and in my view, you hear me quote many of the controversial things he said — needless to say, there are many things Charlie Kirk said in his life that I vehemently disagree with, but, to me, that’s not the point. The point is that we are walking into an abyss as a country if we accept the idea that words are violence, but violence, if directed at the right targets, is acceptable. I fundamentally reject that world view. "

Oh please, Ms. Weiss - what are those lines? And why do those vaunted lines ONLY come up when talking about the words of someone on the right? Do lefties have not-to-be-crossed lines?

Eff off.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (c2vsb)

46 I have thoughts, but I won't share them.
Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM

If you're thinking about boobs, please do share!

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

47 2nd victim Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov had parents who were planning to visit Saudi Arabia for Christmas...his family was from Uzbekistan.

Seemingly 100% unrelated to 1st victim in almost all ways...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (tOcjL)

48 Leftists judges are driving the slow boil civil war by giving appearances of legal legitimacy to extremist actions.
By street thugs and judges themselves."

So, Spain, late 1930s?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (XuXeR)

49 Someday, any reporter who uses 'controversial' in a sentence will get a session in the Brazen Bull.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (8AONa)

50 ‘ We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target.’

I want to enter an abyss where leftists pay heavily and immediately for their violence.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (jbnUc)

51 >>I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

His page on the Brown University Center for Middle East Studies has been removed.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (viF8m)

52 I like the point Bari Weiss is making, but I find her mischaracterization of what Charlie Kirk said something that also needs to be called out. The point is not black pilots being bad. The point is if you are a woman, or a minority and the world is viewed through a dei lens, your merit is always going to be questioned. Which is minor in the whole context of the post. Or maybe it isn’t.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

53 The marxist universities across the country have become the new killing ground of Jews and conservatives.

Yet, parents still line up the issue of their loins to go to these murder factories.

Posted by: What Is To Be Done at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (YyIMQ)

54 All this violence is caused by Donald Trump's violent rhetoric !

Posted by: Your sycophant press at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (VE6XX)

55 I've read that Brown U has 15 students per camera. So many cameras even lib tard students complain there's too many.
I laughed. They hate Orwell so much they got Orwell.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (fPASK)

56 It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.

It's okay guys, we understand. You're f*cking morons. You can stop now.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

57 Has Been Informed That She Was the Target In the Attack

Our minds and our laws were the target. All these public shootings around the world are not the way you take out individual targets.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (NZkDE)

58 I take every "scoop" brought about by Halperin with a huge grain of salt!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (g47mK)

59 All this violence is caused by Donald Trump's violent rhetoric !
Posted by: Your sycophant press

I thought it was his ballroom.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

60 I have what you might call a sixth sense about certain things - and although this no longer requires such, I have been saying and will maintain we are well past the time for Trump to act with a Terror Alert System like the old stupid one, except this one aimed at informing the general populace about the Left Wing and/or Democrat terrorism threat. It can be behind him at all the press conferences. It can start light blue and go all the way to the highest level, Democrat Blue. We are well past the time for it now.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (Wo1GJ)

61 We've always had retards, and society can tolerate, care for a number of them. Just don't put them in charge, making them governors, mayors, police chiefs, university presidents.

Posted by: Abby Normal at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (oftw2)

62 >Oh please, Ms. Weiss - what are those lines? And why do those vaunted lines ONLY come up when talking about the words of someone on the right? Do lefties have not-to-be-crossed lines?

Eff off.

Bari Weiss is a midwit, at best.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (rJ48h)

63 59 All this violence is caused by Donald Trump's violent rhetoric !
Posted by: Your sycophant press

I thought it was his ballroom.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

That too !

Posted by: Your sycophant press at December 16, 2025 12:22 PM (VE6XX)

64 49 Someday, any reporter who uses 'controversial' in a sentence will get a session in the Brazen Bull.
____

Hopefully next to the people complaining about how 'problematic' it is that it is so warm in there.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:22 PM (Dv3i1)

65 The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

(They think John Brown is the model to imitate.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:14 P

Powder Status:

[X] Dry
[ ] Other Than Dry

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 12:22 PM (kgE5c)

66 Huh, what?

Posted by: Pam Bondi at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (cHOHf)

67 Oh please, Ms. Weiss - what are those lines? And why do those vaunted lines ONLY come up when talking about the words of someone on the right? Do lefties have not-to-be-crossed lines?

Eff off.
Posted by: Doof at December

Doof, her point was yes, there are lines on both sides. As I noted. I don’t like how she framed the Charlie Kirk quotes. She is a democrat and it shows here. But she is surprisingly rational in calling out the left- that is what she is doing here.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

68 Here's a photo of Mustapha. Seems like the right body type that was in the videos, short and stocky.

https://tinyurl.com/497dh55c

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (viF8m)

69 I wonder how many high profile conservatives will be murdered before we finally say enough?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (cwhX3)

70 They hate Orwell so much they got Orwell.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (fPASK)

To them it's not Orwell, it's fighting Orwell.

If you employ enough emotion and fear, you can make people believe very stupid things.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (Wo1GJ)

71 Providence officials still won't say what the Brown University gunman shouted before attacking.

It sure the fuck wasn't "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (+x87d)

72 It's not PC, but this atrocity reinforces that most people will be even more angry at seeing a lovely young woman killed than a young man. I suppose it's an atavistic response; protect the women.
Posted by: Archimedes

Historically, it was common for young men to die violent deaths. Young women, not so much.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (77rzZ)

73
"The Bondi beach shooters were not shooting at Jews, they were hunting seagulls."

-MSM

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (IifOV)

74 71 Providence officials still won't say what the Brown University gunman shouted before attacking.

It sure the fuck wasn't "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (+x87d)

========

False.

It was, "I'm mad about the passage of Obamacare!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

75 We're in a civil war. AND shots have been fired.

Some people are going to wake up far too late.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (zjgNU)

This has been true for MANY years. Far too few are awake to it still today.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (c2vsb)

76 Wait you mean a Republican leader under 30 was murdered and the thing that the NT NRO All-Stars is focused laser like on is grief policing Trump for a dead communist?

That's CRAZYYYYYY....

by the way we are not allowed to know what the killer yelled BUT I assure you if it were "Maga Forever!" we would all be told ceaselessly.

Posted by: sven at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (MUJd1)

77 68 Here's a photo of Mustapha. Seems like the right body type that was in the videos, short and stocky.

https://tinyurl.com/497dh55c
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (viF8m)

Sure does.. Does he have any special shoes and can we analyze his walk ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (VE6XX)

78 68 Here's a photo of Mustapha. Seems like the right body type that was in the videos, short and stocky.

https://tinyurl.com/497dh55c
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (viF8m)

Right skin coloring...and trying to hide belly pudge by adding lots of clothes on top around the neck and shoulders

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (tOcjL)

79 We are entering into an abyss...

we are already there.
Stay alert.
Stay armed.
Know what you can and cannot do.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (2WIwB)

80 ictures floating around of a Brown University student from Palestine named Mustapha Kharbouch..

==

🤬

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (g47mK)

81 This has been true for MANY years. Far too few are awake to it still today.
____

The 'guilty as sin, free as a bird" guy says hello.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (Dv3i1)

82 Ella Cook was of course beautiful and said to always offer people a bright smile.

Wow. The first comment on that post was such reprehensible conspiracy shit even Alex Jones and Candace Owens would be ashamed to spread it.

Well, probably not Candance.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (JCZqz)

83 "Now Mark Halperin says that he is hearing that Ella Cook's family was informed by police that she was the terrorist's actual target.

He says he cannot verify this and doesn't know if it's true."

This only makes sense if they know or have an idea who the killer is, otherwise it's gotta be speculation.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (NpAcC)

84 Bari Weiss seems like a very nice lady who’s also very smart but…. Kinda naive

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination conversations have to take place behind bullet proof glass. TPUSA will no longer do outdoor events. Sad but it’s the reality of 2025

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (OW907)

85 "The Allahu Akbar thing might have been to get people to believe the perp was a muslim terrorist.. Or it was actually a muslim terrorist....."

I wonder if an American could say "Allahu Akbar" with the proper Arabic pronunciation, and accent. Then again, Americans can become Muslim (or adjacent) activists".

So far, most Muslim terror attacks have been more at the masses, not at individuals. The Kirk and Trump shooters were white crazies, no other political assassination comes to mind at the moment.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (vbXSk)

86 While it may well be true, the other victim shot and killed was a male muslim medical student.
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There are conflicting reports in that regard--one site I saw asserted he wasn't Muslim but instead one of the other non-Judeo belief systems (sorry, I don't remember which one).

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (TN0g+)

87 @BariWeiss
...That doesn’t mean that there are not lines.

There are lines everywhere! It's all lines!

Posted by: UK's new MI6 Director at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (NZkDE)

88 I'm getting DC pipe bomber vibes. They know, but it's not fitting with the narrative.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (s19xO)

89 So....
Racist nazi MAGAt was not attacking Woke Brown?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (VES6X)

90 "Elric- you see Abboud in Balenciaga? Abboud of the great classic suits? Not plays on suits, but classic, holy cow that suit is cut perfectly, Abboud?
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (ZdaMQ)
______

Yea. His more casual stuff. Earthy tones, urban-ish styles, looser fitting and longer jackets, etc. This seems Abboud-y to me:

https://tinyurl.com/yvunbytd

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

91 Person of new interest (after 1st one was wrong) - release yesterday...

https://www.wjcl.com/article/active- shooter-brown-university-providence/69718072

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (tOcjL)

92 It was, "I'm mad about the passage of Obamacare!"

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Net Neutrality at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

93 "The Bondi beach shooters were not shooting at Jews, they were hunting seagulls."

-MSM
Posted by: Frank Barone

We have to detoxify our thoughts against Muslims - Australian Government

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

94
It sure the fuck wasn't "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (+x87d)
========
False.

It was, "I'm mad about the passage of Obamacare!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (uWKK8)

95 44 > I have no words. I have thoughts, but I won't share them.

I have thoughts, and I will share them: it's time to start shooting back.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (1Nv0l)
This situation will require more than words, won’t it?

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (QS4uR)

96 So, what's the take away? Is it time to start killing democrats?

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (kp5iD)

97 The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

(They think John Brown is the model to imitate.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Is sitting outside a Starbucks considered hunting over bait?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (+x87d)

98 > We're in a civil war. AND shots have been fired.
-------
Yea, but Trump said some mean things about someone who died so I don't think I'll worry about this now. I'm more concerned with my leaders being morally upstanding citizens than I am about some sort of civil war. We must "be nice."

So says the people who are too timid to acknowledge what they're facing or their moral turpitude prohibits them from seeing the threat right in front of them.

I get it. They're principled. They're also not at all ready to confront the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (NwnyJ)

99 I expect that if Mustapha is the perp he's off on a plane somewhere abroad already.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (guLpK)

100 14 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
========
I once had a deranged student that threatened and stalked a female in one of the student groups I was advising. He came to my office to confront me and more or less said, "how do you know I was stalking her there"--there weren't any cameras there. He also told me he knew where all the university security cameras were.

The guy joined a club that met in the same building our club's meetings were despite no longer being a student (suspended). And yet he figured out exactly where all the security cameras were in order to facilitate not being caught for his stalking activities.

Nasty critter that I found out liked to brag about bringing weapons on campus, was fascinated with violent media, and adored the movie Boondock Saints (even dressing the part of one of the characters in it).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:27 PM (WDjG6)

101 When you lay down with dogs you get fleas, ticks and lyme disease.

Stop allowing these people into the country.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 12:27 PM (nljXp)

102 By the way, the victim was a beautiful bright light. May her loss be tempered by her faith and knowing she is home.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

103 Hi, Ace! Thank you.

Go outside and take a walk.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (NFX2v)

104 Doof, her point was yes, there are lines on both sides. As I noted. I don’t like how she framed the Charlie Kirk quotes. She is a democrat and it shows here. But she is surprisingly rational in calling out the left- that is what she is doing here.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

Perhaps. But she's doing it with CYA lefty caveats.

"needless to say, there are many things Charlie Kirk said in his life that I vehemently disagree with, but, to me, that’s not the point"

If it's needless to say then don't f*cking say it!!! She's covering her bases which, to me, lessens the point she's trying to make.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (c2vsb)

105 They call you Nazi
They call you racist
They call you Islamophobic
They call you homophobic

Not because it is true, but to justify them murdering you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (2GVsD)

106 @Brown"The Center for Middle East Studies is preparing to embark on an exciting new chapter. After this academic year, CMES will become an independent academic center at the University, a move that will coincide with the launch on July 1, 2025, of the new Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs. This marks an important transition for CMES, which has expanded considerably over the past several years and has become one of the leading research centers in its field."

How much donated from Qatar ?

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)

107 There are conflicting reports in that regard--one site I saw asserted he wasn't Muslim but instead one of the other non-Judeo belief systems (sorry, I don't remember which one).
Posted by: Crusader
=======
IIRC, the guy was an Uzbek. The periphery of Islam has a lot of the Sufi sect which is relatively peaceful compared with the Shia and Sunni sects.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

108 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:27 PM (WDjG6)

Wow. I hope you reported him to someone.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (77rzZ)

109 So, what's the take away? Is it time to start killing democrats?

Posted by: Dave's not here

Could you turn the glow down a bit? It's kinda bright.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

110 Im waiting for the Free Palestine crap to drop.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (fPASK)

111 This is what they do, "Islamic Center", then push their poisonous jihadi ideology and frame it as some kind of "research"!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (g47mK)

112 How are you feeling today, Ace?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

113 Conservatives will now be excluded from places because of the danger of collateral damage from when a liberal assinates them.

Conservatives are a threat to everyone around them.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (0MjtC)

114 "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli."

$1000 to the first gen Z that can tell me what that means.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (WQDw6)

115 Jack Straw, there are several more of him "protesting"...
https://x.com/0hour1/status/2000793169714368560?s=42

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (gAuAm)

116 Charlie didn't cross any "line." Every argument he made was rational and historically rooted. He was a cultural historian with peerless knowledge of American history. The problem is that Weiss and every historically illiterate progressive simply found it shocking and inconvenient and therefore found Kirk "problematical."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (b4LBp)

117 "The Bondi beach shooters were not shooting at Jews, they were hunting seagulls."

There are plenty of leftys that would be more concerned about the seagulls.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (vFG9F)

118 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

119 I’m 29 and I can tell I don’t remember any noticeable muslim community on my college campus back in the day and there certainly wasn’t a center for middle eastern studies….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (OW907)

120 "$1000 to the first gen Z that can tell me what that means.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard"

Both of my boys would know.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (vFG9F)

121 If they have no suspect, it is a big leap to say one of the victims was the target.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (wGerL)

122 He looks a bit light in his sandals, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

123 lyme disease.

Stop allowing these people into the country.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
======
Lyme disease seems increasginly likely to have originated in US experiments with biological warfare just like Covid was. US BW facility was at Plum Island across from Old Lyme CT and studied animal pathogens including research into ticks.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (WDjG6)

124 It's too late to try and remove the Muslims from the country. You can try, but the indoctrination of the US citizens in the country is what will make the removal unsuccessful. We're 25 years too late to really make a difference now. This is going to end badly.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (IifOV)

125 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
______

It's almost impossible to avoid security cameras, in large part because the field of vision is so wide and overlapping. You see a camera pointed in X direction and think "ok, if I stay to the right of that, I'll be off camera." But you won't be.

I think it more likely that the campus is covered in security cameras that don't work because they were installed and maintained by DEI retards.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

126 Conservatives will now be excluded from places because of the danger of collateral damage from when a liberal assinates them.
------

Known as "The Heckler's Veto".

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (TN0g+)

127 121 If they have no suspect, it is a big leap to say one of the victims was the target.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (wGerL)

True

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

128 I just hope we don't offend a dead leftard today.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (Wo1GJ)

129 This benefit of the doubt, maybe it's just an coincidence crap needs to stop.

Would you give Ted Bundy the benefit of the doubt? How about Joe Biden? Obama? Newsome?

Be bold, seize the moment. Democrat Senators get on TV and claim the wildest shit possible. That does not include the "6" stunt. I read an article about if your opponent cheats somewhere.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (cS1cw)

130 96 So, what's the take away? Is it time to start killing democrats?
Posted by: Dave's not here at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (kp5iD)

That's Nick Reiner's department.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (uWKK8)

131 $1000 to the first gen Z that can tell me what that means.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard

I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

132
False.

It was, "I'm mad about the passage of Obamacare!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

"Global Warming in my desert homeland took away all the jobs!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

133 Many years ago, like 30, my son was offered a scholarship to Brown. He was interested because their brochures stated that everyone at Brown got B or above. His Mom vetoed that idea.

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (8I4hW)

134 Mustafa also worked for the International Crisis Center, an NGO largely funded by USAID. Or was. He's a Palestinian refugee who grew up in Lebanon.

This guy should definitely be spoken with.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (viF8m)

135 One small positive in this disgusting clown show is that it is exposing just how incompetent this Ivy League university is.

They have oceans of money, but no cameras? They have funds to pay for a professional police force, but they settle for DEI retards.

It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

***

I would love to see a 20-30% drop in enrollments for next year, plus a 10% or more sophomore transfers. Nothing worse for a university than to lose that money. That happened a few years ago at the local university where they tried some insane woke bullsh*t on the Freshmen men. Parents were furious. It took them about 5 years to recover.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

136 Threat expansion. It's gone from you cannot be a highly popular conservative speaker who reaches young people at colleges without being murdered to you cannot be a young conservative leader at college without being murdered.

Where does it end?

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (b4LBp)

137 23 One small positive in this disgusting clown show is that it is exposing just how incompetent this Ivy League university is.

They have oceans of money, but no cameras? They have funds to pay for a professional police force, but they settle for DEI retards.

It is one more bit of data to show America that our elites are f*cking morons.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

They're the New Aristocracy. Think about how retarded the European bluebloods were in the 19th and early 20th centuries (and of course, well before that). Our aristocracy is just as retarded but it's from intellectual inbreeding moreso than literal inbreeding.

Posted by: Though it's not far removed at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (TbWk/)

138 And the media covered up all the bombings and ignored those killed during the 1970s ...

But Trump said "pussy" and so he's the real threat to democracy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (HXT0k)

139 Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs."

IIRC, these are the same idiots who pushed the "true costs of war" BS...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (XuXeR)

140 Bari Weiss hit the nail on the head.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (0U5gm)

141 Afternoon Ace.
The second US civil war started 10/30/08 when Barky said "we are only days away from fundamentally changing the country". Since then Muslims and other illegals have flooded the nation.
Anyone who doesn't realize this is either in on it, stupid or whistling past the graveyard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (D+mpw)

142 119 I’m 29 and I can tell I don’t remember any noticeable muslim community on my college campus back in the day and there certainly wasn’t a center for middle eastern studies….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

They started at relatively rural and poor colleges by bringing in cohorts (80's and 90's) (same with Chinese students later btw) of various groups. Arkansas, for example, was one such state where the Saudis paid for mosques, programs to train, and later Middle East Studies programs funded by the Saudi government.

Elite schools saw this pot of money going to these 'hick' schools and then got into the action by the late 90's and then developing all kinds of 'partnerships' and campuses in Islamic gulf states.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:34 PM (WDjG6)

143 You know who else had no math on his blog?

Posted by: Joachim von Ribbentrop at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (7Q0e+)

144 I don’t believe this guy was able to avoid cameras. They’re everywhere! It’d be impossible…. Either the locals are so incompetent they can’t collect the images or more likely they have a bunch they don’t wanna share.

Like I heard that the creep who killed Charlie Kirk media outlets are using FOIA requests for images of him turning himself in and the answers they get back are evasive or “we have nothing” which is not believable

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (OW907)

145 Incredibly sad for the loss of this sweet girl and for her family and friends.

To be no longer surprised at the violence against Christians and conservatives by murderers and the MSM is also incredibly sad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (WONhk)

146 Korean Air vows zero tolerance against aircraft emergency exit tampering
Published Dec 15, 2025 10:03 am KST

Korean Air said Monday it will adopt a zero tolerance policy toward passengers who tamper with aircraft emergency exits, warning that it will seek criminal charges against violators to strengthen aviation safety.
The country's flag carrier said it is responding to a rise in such incidents, which pose a serious threat to flight safety. Korean Air said there have been 14 cases of exit tampering or attempted tampering in the past two years.
The company noted that unauthorized tampering of exit doors has continued despite heightened awareness following a widely reported 2023 Asiana Airlines case in which a passenger opened an exit door in the middle of the flight

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (9aVck)

147 what the Alamo was"

"Was"?

/single tear rolls down cheek

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (XuXeR)

148 Related ...

Headline (USA Today):

"Flag linked to Christian nationalism, Jan. 6 hung at Education Dept."

It's the "An Appeal to Heaven" flag.

Excerpt:

"Rachel Gittleman, the president of the union for Education Department workers nationwide, said in a statement that the agency "has no place for symbols that were carried by insurrectionists."

“Since January, hardworking public servants at the U.S. Department of Education have been subjected to threats, harassment, and sustained demoralization," she said. "Now, they are being asked to work in an environment where a senior leader is prominently displaying an offensive flag – one that, regardless of its origins in the American Revolution, has come to represent intolerance, hatred, and extremism.""

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (rj6Yv)

149 Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov was the other student killed at Brown.

He and his family immigrated from Uzbekistan many years ago. The 18-year-old freshman was studying biochemistry and neuroscience.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (NFX2v)

150 If it's needless to say then don't f*cking say it!!! She's covering her bases which, to me, lessens the point she's trying to make.
Posted by: Doof at December

See my original post. 😊 not scrolling to find the number because I am still living on my phone, not having my iPad has me on the struggle bus. Plus the kidlet stole my MacBook, she has it set up with her iPad as a double screen for school. In summary. It’s rough over here on the Gulf of America.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

151 Mustafa also worked for the International Crisis Center, an NGO largely funded by USAID. Or was. He's a Palestinian refugee who grew up in Lebanon.

This guy should definitely be spoken with.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (viF8m)
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See the online pics? He's almost certainly an ass pirate and possibly a tranny.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

152
To be no longer surprised at the violence against Christians and conservatives by murderers and the MSM is also incredibly sad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM (WONhk)

But the BIG problem is the right wing extremist retaliation, you see.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

153 I really can't add anything more relevant than to acknowledge we, as a country (and by that, I wholly mean the left), have descended into absolute, violent madness. And it's all coming from the Democrats. All of it. Every shred. Every utterance. Every instance of violence perpetrated comes from them. I don't know how much worse it can get when our college kids, young people, and hell, even our own president, have become constant targets of assassination. I don't know where we go from here, but we're swimming in a horror show I never thought I'd see.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (qBdHI)

154 131 $1000 to the first gen Z that can tell me what that means.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard

I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (2WIwB)

155 Where does it end?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (b4LBp)
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Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (3BwY8)

156 136 Threat expansion. It's gone from you cannot be a highly popular conservative speaker who reaches young people at colleges without being murdered to you cannot be a young conservative leader at college without being murdered.

Where does it end?
Posted by: Ordinary American
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When the assassins are shot down like rabid animals in the street is when. And for any terrorist of Islamic ilk, they should subsequently be rolled in scraps from pig carcasses in order as a psychological deterrent for jihad crap.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (WDjG6)

157 If she was vice president, why wouldn't the president of the club be targeted unless there was another psychosexual reason? These spokespeople have been rather squirrelly.

Posted by: Noble9 at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (a7PRn)

158 drop in enrollments for next year"

The demographic cliff of 2008 is coming...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (XuXeR)

159 Well the US Navy has released their investigation of USS Gettysburg shooting down one F-18F and trying to shoot down two more along with a rescue helicopter.

The ship, for being the air warfare commander, was not tied into the other ships. Their IFF system was unreliable. TAOs were certified by the Captain after sim runs and not through proper testing. None of the training sims were tailored for Red Sea ops and were months in the past.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (2GVsD)

160 If, big if these days with the police, but if the video is actually the guy, whoo boy does this Mustapha guy match.

But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

161 I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes
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But I am sure that both of you are not aware of whatever the Kardashians are doing this week nor the ins and outs of Tay Tay--Kelce. For guys, it might be whatever sports betting app is hot now.

Important stuff indeed.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)

162 Lyme disease seems increasginly likely to have originated in US experiments with biological warfare just like Covid was. US BW facility was at Plum Island across from Old Lyme CT and studied animal pathogens including research into ticks.
Posted by: whig

Those bastards killed Tom Seaver!

Posted by: RIP Tom Terrific at December 16, 2025 12:39 PM (oftw2)

163 I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes
__

The cheese guy?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

164 If they have no suspect, it is a big leap to say one of the victims was the target.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 16, 2025 12:31 PM (wGerL)

True
Posted by: It's me donna

Just going by past historical shootings:
1. Christian 2. Conservative. 3. White. 4. Straight.

Pretty much covers school shootings.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (+x87d)

165 So it is a hot civil war now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (xcxpd)

166 Was Ella involved in the Turning Point USA chapter at Brown?

Brown is the most Jewish of all the Ivies, if this was a Pali vs Zionist attack there would be a ton of other targets to pick from.

But if this was a homosexual/trans attack upon the Gospel, like the assassination of Charlie Kirk, then that would explain why she was singled out for murder.

Posted by: TITP at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (r3hkP)

167 Where does it end?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (b4LBp)
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Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (3BwY

At this point, at this place, not much more can be said.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (dK+Kv)

168
But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

Right.. I was convinced the Jan 5th bomb placer was Female... Not gonna jump to any conclusions on this one...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (VE6XX)

169 Via FreeBeacon:
An eyewitness from Sunday’s massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, stated police officers hesitated as two terrorists sprayed bullets at a group of Jews gathered to celebrate Hanukkah, while video analysis indicates law enforcement waited several minutes after arriving on the scene to engage the shooters.

Shmulik Scuri, who was on the beach with his family during the attack, told reporters that 4 police officers in the vicinity "froze" as the terrorists fired into a crowd of 2,000, killing at least 15 and wounding 40 more.

"They shoot, shoot," Scuri said. "Change magazines. And just shoot ... there was four policemen there. Nobody give fire back. Nothing. Like they froze."

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (TN0g+)

170 So it is a hot civil war now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (xcxpd)
____

Been that way since the 1960s. We just didn't believe it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

171 This particular class was taught by a brilliant MIT Jewish female economist but under Judaic studies curriculum. This class was not chosen by chance. Whether because of the Professor or because of Ella Cook doesn't matter. What matters is this was a planned attack on a specific classroom. That means a real motive and not just chaos.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)

172 Lindberg trained and did his first solo flight at a field about 70 miles from here. Then he flew away and never came back.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (vFG9F)

173 136 Threat expansion. It's gone from you cannot be a highly popular conservative speaker who reaches young people at colleges without being murdered to you cannot be a young conservative leader at college without being murdered.

Where does it end?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (b4LBp)

With more bloodshed and subjugation.

Posted by: They way these things always end at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (TbWk/)

174 158 drop in enrollments for next year"

The demographic cliff of 2008 is coming...
Posted by: man

I think Scotus destroying the concept (approved by them) of disparate impact as unconstitutional will free employers not to consider college as sacrosanct for jobs.

Bring back job relevant testing and related knowledge instead of a steadily depreciating general credential from a degraded academia.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (WDjG6)

175 Is Brown considered Ivy League? Imma asking for a friend.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (Wg6v7)

176 161 I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes
======
But I am sure that both of you are not aware of whatever the Kardashians are doing this week nor the ins and outs of Tay Tay--Kelce. For guys, it might be whatever sports betting app is hot now.

Important stuff indeed.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)

Those who do not understand the past...are doomed to repeat it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (xcxpd)

177
Wee cannot releese deetails about dee suspect because of ongoing investeegation.

(Aye caramba, dead gringa, Bee Eff Deee.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (VWtfl)

178 I had to explain to my Gen Z son, who is intelligent and generally historically literate, what the Alamo was.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes
__

The cheese guy?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

The My Pillow guy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (dK+Kv)

179 Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (qBdHI)

Well it was headed our way with or without Trump. So I prefer this to what they had been planning in 2010ish.

We would have been even deeper in this mire with only the "Republicans" around to help. National Review to the rescue!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (Wo1GJ)

180 Michelle Obama helpfully pointed out that she and Barak were planning to visit the Reiners the night of the murders. WHY DO BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO POOR MICHELLE!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (S7h8O)

181 If, big if these days with the police, but if the video is actually the guy, whoo boy does this Mustapha guy match.

But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

Well whatever you do, don't start binge watching Person of Interest on Amazon Prime.

Posted by: Harold Finch at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (wVcYX)

182 Lyme disease seems increasginly likely to have originated in US experiments with biological warfare just like Covid was. US BW facility was at Plum Island across from Old Lyme CT and studied animal pathogens including research into ticks.
Posted by: whig

Those bastards killed Tom Seaver!
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"Seaver throws so hard blind guys come to the ballpark to listen to him pitch!"

Posted by: Zombie Joe Garagiola at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (TN0g+)

183 Targeted assassination would explain why the authorities aren't interested in arresting anyone.

Posted by: Pepe LePew at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (sFNX2)

184 171 This particular class was taught by a brilliant MIT Jewish female economist but under Judaic studies curriculum. This class was not chosen by chance. Whether because of the Professor or because of Ella Cook doesn't matter. What matters is this was a planned attack on a specific classroom. That means a real motive and not just chaos.
Posted by: Sharon
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I had read that too. That was my first thought as well in early reports. But I will wait until the killer is caught before going too far in speculation as to the Why.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)

185 Those who do not understand the past...are doomed to repeat it."

And we're doomed to live with 'em...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (XuXeR)

186 I'll just wait until Glenn Beck tells me who the culprit is.

Posted by: True believer at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (j7nqy)

187 171 This particular class was taught by a brilliant MIT Jewish female economist but under Judaic studies curriculum. This class was not chosen by chance. Whether because of the Professor or because of Ella Cook doesn't matter. What matters is this was a planned attack on a specific classroom. That means a real motive and not just chaos.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (t/2Uw

Or was it the most convenient classroom ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (VE6XX)

188 168
But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

Right.. I was convinced the Jan 5th bomb placer was Female... Not gonna jump to any conclusions on this one...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (VE6XX)

Never be convinced mass attacks are female...so few are done by them, even if one time it's right, you'd lose 99 other times...

Female looking folks tend to be transwomen (or now transmen thanks to added hormones) or just small weeny guys...they never seem to be actual girls...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (tOcjL)

189 Does anyone else see the problem with the title of this book? Or am I reading too much into it.

Children's book at Wal-Mart, Who Was Jesus?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (2GVsD)

190 https://x.com/0hour1/status/2000800626427736221?s=42

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (yBmD+)

191 171 This particular class was taught by a brilliant MIT Jewish female economist but under Judaic studies curriculum. This class was not chosen by chance. Whether because of the Professor or because of Ella Cook doesn't matter. What matters is this was a planned attack on a specific classroom. That means a real motive and not just chaos.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 16, 2025 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)

When I 1st heard this shooting, I thought the prof was the target for those reasons...we can't assume a good shooter and a good shot.

And anyone taking the prof's class would have been an okay target (ala targeted) b/c they were all willing to learn from that prof...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (tOcjL)

192 Bring back job relevant testing and related knowledge "

Mentioned previously that my step grandfather taught metallurgy at Republic Steel's school... can't have that nowadays!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (XuXeR)

193 I get it. They're principled. They're also not at all ready to confront the left.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 12:26 PM (NwnyJ)

I'm just going to note Israel's general failure in 'confronting' the 'palestinians.' No matter how justified a particular retaliation is, the survivors always get the world's sympathy, creating more problems for Israel, and then attack again later out of spite, knowing the next retaliation will get many of them dead, but yet more sympathy.

Israel has no peace because they are not prepared to annihilate the 'palestinians' completely.

Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (vSvIl)

194 WHY DO BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO POOR MICHELLE!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:42 PM (S7h8O)
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I think it has to do with Big Mike's hair.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (3BwY8)

195 168. Right.. I was convinced the Jan 5th bomb placer was Female... Not gonna jump to any conclusions on this one...
Posted by: It's me donna

Me too. I'm still not convinced it wasn't.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (NFX2v)

196 so students cannot attend classes taught by Jewish professors, for the fear of being shot???? this is not America.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (g47mK)

197 But there have been so many misidentifications in these types of shootings. I just don't understand why people can't be tracked camera to camera. I probably watch too many movies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

Right.. I was convinced the Jan 5th bomb placer was Female... Not gonna jump to any conclusions on this one...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:40 PM (VE6XX)
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There may be AI out there that can track a suspect camera to camera, but the reality is that doing it the old fashioned way ain't easy, and takes a lot of time. The vid is also not always "clean," as it's usually motion-activated (which can be spotty).

We had a property located next to a notorious nightclub that was constantly the scene of shootings, beatings, rapes, etc. The cops were always coming to us for surveillance footage. It was hard to piece it all together.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

198 Posted by: Elric The Blade at December

We should go shopping, but I don’t think Doof is giving me a Christmas bonus anymore.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

199 189 Does anyone else see the problem with the title of this book? Or am I reading too much into it.

Children's book at Wal-Mart, Who Was Jesus?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (2GVsD)

Should be 'Is'. And 'Will be', if we're technical.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (xcxpd)

200 Well, the body is a perfect match. Cannot be excluded from the list of possible shooters.

https://tiny.cc/#

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (wGerL)

201 Those who do not understand the past...are doomed to repeat it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Santayana had a valid point as he almost always did. Tremendously underrated as a philosoper compared with his evil competitors like Marcuse, Foucalt, or Sartre. Two out of those three were pedos and Marcuse was an apologist for such.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

202 Charles Lindbergh...The guy with the red stapler?

Posted by: Collage Moron at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (WQDw6)

203 Children's book at Wal-Mart, Who Was Jesus?
____

The pool boy. Bur he was deported. *sigh*

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (S7h8O)

204 Mustapha Kharbouch - Brown University | LinkedIn

"Born and raised as a 3rd-generation Palestinian refugee in Lebanon . . . . "

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (dK+Kv)

205 The 18-year-old freshman was studying biochemistry and neuroscience.
Posted by: L

Wow. Impressive, if true.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

206 "The second US civil war started 10/30/08 when Barky said "we are only days away from fundamentally changing the country". Since then Muslims and other illegals have flooded the nation."

... and they often openly talk of their plans to conquer "the West". Lies and frauds are instrumental to those plans.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (vbXSk)

207 I'm just going to note Israel's general failure in 'confronting' the 'palestinians.' No matter how justified a particular retaliation is, the survivors always get the world's sympathy, creating more problems for Israel, and then attack again later out of spite, knowing the next retaliation will get many of them dead, but yet more sympathy.

Israel has no peace because they are not prepared to annihilate the 'palestinians' completely.
Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (vSvIl)

The word "Carthaginian" comes to mind.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (lHPJf)

208 So Erika Kirk is responsible? Well now the pieces are falling into place!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (Wo1GJ)

209 FFS, does this finally cross the line?

The future looks painful, very painful.

I used to try and hug my son every time he left the house. He thought I was crazy when I told him why.

Posted by: pawn at December 16, 2025 12:48 PM (EMg+d)

210 so students cannot attend classes taught by Jewish professors, for the fear of being shot???? this is not America.
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Openly Jewish or conservative students cannot attend college campuses *period* without there being some risk attendant with doing so. Which also is not America. Oklahoma has 77 counties and all 77 voted Trump in 2024 but our two state universities are liberal hotbeds.

Posted by: Zombie Joe Garagiola at December 16, 2025 12:48 PM (TN0g+)

211 https://x.com/0hour1/status/2000800626427736221?s=42

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (yBmD+)

>>>Mustapha Kharbouch walking style

*looks around in old trunks for my 70s pimp walk affection*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:48 PM (dK+Kv)

212 Female looking folks tend to be transwomen (or now transmen thanks to added hormones) or just small weeny guys...they never seem to be actual girls...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:43 PM (tOcjL)
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IIRC, one of the items on the Turtle Beach terrorist syllabus was on how insert a pebble in a shoe to foil gait analysis.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)

213 So deranged, leftist, and unknown if trans.
Stand by for that.

*my pixey spell checker is adding a grey line under trans FWIW*
Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (fPASK)

Well, "trans" is a subset of "deranged". As is "leftist", for that matter. Maybe Pixy is on an anti-redundancy kick?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (npFr7)

214 Israel has no peace because they are not prepared to annihilate the 'palestinians' completely.
Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (vSvIl)

Well the 1940's may make Israel a little leery of annihilation of entire groups.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

215 You can get away with murder in Lil' Rhodey no sweat. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (wBaIH)

216 Demonic Nazi Grifter

I read that as Glitter. I denounce myself.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (+4yJ5)

217 I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes

He was great in Hobson's Choice and Witness for the Prosecution.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (77rzZ)

218 202 Charles Lindbergh...The guy with the red stapler?
Posted by: Collage Moron at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (WQDw6)

He's gonna need you come in on Saturday...aaaand Sunday too, lost quite a few people this week. Greeeaatt, thaaanks...

Posted by: Peter. What's happening. at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (TbWk/)

219 I keep my mouth shut over racial or religious matters ever since I found out I was responsible for Mooch spending decades making her hair acceptable to me, the whitest person on the planet.

Posted by: What A Burden! at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (oftw2)

220 Is Brown considered Ivy League? Imma asking for a friend.

It is, at least according to them, but it is not in the first tier (HYP).

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

221 *affectation

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (dK+Kv)

222 Mentioned previously that my step grandfather taught metallurgy at Republic Steel's school... can't have that nowadays!
Posted by: man

Exactly. College attendance soared when suddenly it became a credential for entry into various fields. It should have never been such as inevitably it sucks as vocational training. Instead it became the gateway for white collar jobs which is was by temperament and design, not appropriate.

One could, for example, easily learn accountacy by apprenticeships or business schools (not the college sort), same for much of IT, and so on.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (WDjG6)

223 >>>Well, the body is a perfect match. Cannot be excluded from the list of possible shooters.

obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)

224 The January 6ers were identified by the 'general public' for some very timely prosecutions and PR.

There's been a falling off in interest aiding law enforcement since.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (NFX2v)

225 Demonic Nazi Grifter

I read that as Glitter. I denounce myself.
Posted by: NR Pax

No need. Some Nazis go perfectly well with glitter.
-- Zombie Ernst Rohm

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)

226 >>>Well, the body is a perfect match. Cannot be excluded from the list of possible shooters.

obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)

Hunting grounds?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (dK+Kv)

227 also we shouldn't assume or expect him to be a Brown U. student. He might be, of course, but a lot of campus radicals have nothing to do with the campus. They just come in for the vandalism.

might be a case of "looking for the keys under the streetlight because the light is better"

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (1wjle)

228 209 FFS, does this finally cross the line?

The future looks painful, very painful.

I used to try and hug my son every time he left the house. He thought I was crazy when I told him why.
Posted by: pawn
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This has been the norm of history and inviting foreigners into a country has never traditionally been something that ends well.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (WDjG6)

229 obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Cora Segal, aka Trigglypuff, has flounced into Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (2GVsD)

230 223 >>>Well, the body is a perfect match. Cannot be excluded from the list of possible shooters.

obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.
Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)

They're showing up day one with the Freshman 15 already attached. And then some.

Posted by: Rather corpulent they are at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

231 179 Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (qBdHI)

I sat sat in the living room of a Berkeley relative during Christmas 2001 and listened to the academic voices of support for the Islamic terror attack, and the explicit assertion that we, America, "deserved it." So I sensed more of this was coming. These people hate us. While not all will pull triggers, they will silently (if not openly) celebrate and come up with rationalizations of support.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (b4LBp)

232 >>When I 1st heard this shooting, I thought the prof was the target for those reasons...we can't assume a good shooter and a good shot.

--

If the shooter didn't continue shooting down the hall or in other venues, it's almost certain this class was the target. If so, it's equally certain "we may never know who's responsible."

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 16, 2025 12:52 PM (mfUOU)

233 He looks a bit light in his sandals, if you know what I mean.

He's "they/him" pronouns. So, yes.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 12:52 PM (QZThv)

234 obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Cora Segal, aka Trigglypuff, has flounced into Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (2GVsD)

That was more of an "ooze" than a "flounce."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (dK+Kv)

235 Without having the shooter in custody this has to be speculation.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (jbnUc)

Unless a note was left, or he shouted it out while shooting at her.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (npFr7)

236 I saw the latest video of the shooter. Obviously no face but he is overweight and just slowly strolling along. I just cannot understand why thre wasn't the kind of crazy chaos you normally see after a shooting like this. Also, Brown recently updated their entire surveillance system with video displays in a command center. Why no video of the perpetrator entering, exiting the building. This response is so lackadaisical. Like they really didn't care.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (t/2Uw)

237 What would the MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia be "reporting" if a targeted victim of the shooting was President of the College Democrat-Communists at some Southern more conservative university?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (LkTFp)

238 we, America, "deserved it." So I sensed more of this was coming. These people hate us. While not all will pull triggers, they will silently (if not openly) celebrate and come up with rationalizations of support.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (b4LBp)

I cut a good friend loose for spouting that crap almost four years on. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (dK+Kv)

239 obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

People on X are out in front of this. The footage released has they/him walking with their/his hands clasped behind their/his back. Pictures of Mustapha also show they/him walking that way.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (QZThv)

240 125 People are pointing out that there are 100s of cameras on Brown Univ and only 2 secs of film of the perp being made available for ID (have you seen this blob?). Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job. I highly doubt this, but it would be fun to troll these incompetent liars.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
______

It's almost impossible to avoid security cameras, in large part because the field of vision is so wide and overlapping. You see a camera pointed in X direction and think "ok, if I stay to the right of that, I'll be off camera." But you won't be.

I think it more likely that the campus is covered in security cameras that don't work because they were installed and maintained by DEI retards.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

Criminals aren't all stupid. Everyone in the country who is plotting a serious crime is bound to have noticed the increasing help security and observation cameras are providing in crime solving. This may be deterring some. I hope so. The most dedicated plotters will do what they can to avoid cameras and/or disguise themselves. The Brown shooter may be thinner than we think.

Posted by: Gref at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (5rh/l)

241 Korean Air said there have been 14 cases of exit tampering or attempted tampering in the past two years.

I see...and it is NOW that you are alarmed and will seek to stop it?

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (NZkDE)

242 ------
I think it has to do with Big Mike's hair.
Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (3BwY

Her ball hair. Keeps getting caught in her silk underwear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

243 Also, there is no math on this blog.

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Spherical Cows at December 16, 2025 12:55 PM (0sNs1)

244 237 What would the MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia be "reporting" if a targeted victim of the shooting was President of the College Democrat-Communists at some Southern more conservative university?

/rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (LkTFp)

Wall to wall hysterical rantings... So if this was because she was Republican I imagine they will still blame Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:55 PM (VE6XX)

245 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Sad the victims were murdered, Ella was the target. Maybe that will help solve this crime.

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 12:55 PM (fPt6j)

246 If you're going to keep calling people on our side Nazis, is it fair if we call you a Kike piece of shit back? Is that fair?

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 12:55 PM (YINx+)

247 Apparently, it is Open Season on conservatives.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (W7XSX)

248 "We are entering into an abyss by saying words are violence but that actual violence is appropriate when directed at the right target."

An abyss fashioned by her and her ilk.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (TlGnK)

249 Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job.

The 'and' is what makes it two different speculations. The first one is ridiculous.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (NZkDE)

250 bese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.

Cora Segal, aka Trigglypuff, has flounced into Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (2GVsD)

That was more of an "ooze" than a "flounce."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

A "roll," undoubtedly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (77rzZ)

251 No need. Some Nazis go perfectly well with glitter.
-- Zombie Ernst Rohm
--------------
Rudolph Hess would look marvelous in glitter lederhosen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (Wg6v7)

252 The "brilliant" female economics professor taught at Hebrew University in Israel before Brown and her field is economics of immigration.

I would be very surprised if she wasn't pushing the standard Neocon/Liberal Jewish platform of open borders for the USA (because we are merely a "proposition nation" and not a real people) taking in millions of Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Somalis and so on but strict immigration control for Israel (because Israel is a real nation and Jews are a real people).

Posted by: TITP at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (r3hkP)

253 Israel has no peace because they are not prepared to annihilate the 'palestinians' completely.
Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (vSvIl)

Well the 1940's may make Israel a little leery of annihilation of entire groups.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

Obviously. But the consequence is that the 'palestinians' continue to promote the next attack of spite on Israel, since they know that while they may be inconvenienced by the response, most of them will survive it.

Similarly, the Left is going to continue to trade its disposable peons (if it even has to give them up at all, which appears in doubt), for our talent as long as it's completely safe to do so.

Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (vSvIl)

254 So I'm thinking of learning sign language so I can understand what these DEI humps are saying at press conferences.

They always have a sign language interpreter, but the Chief of Police is some ESL moron who should be down in Guadalajara selling tacos.

(I wonder, does the sign language person have an accent? Can you have an accent in sign language?)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (F1I3P)

255 Did someone say Walk This Way?

Posted by: Aerosmith at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (wVcYX)

256 obese college students are no longer the rarity they once were.
Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle

He's the Joey Chestnut of the falafel world...
as well as the songbird of his generation.

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (gAuAm)

257 If they don't have a real suspect yet, how can they know what the motive (target) was? I'm willing at this point to think it's probably 75% likely this was a Muslim terror attack.

But Halperin is hearing that the pretty white girl was specifically the target. That makes it an assassination more than a Muslim terror attack. Muslims usually randomly open fire or start knifing people. Plus, a Muslim man was also killed.

It's highly possible the local police know much more than they're telling us. It's all possible -- and probable -- that the local police are all DEI retards. That police guy at the news conference looks about as tall as Robert Reich and can barely speak English.

As I said above: 48 Hour Rule, peeps.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

258 Whom at Brown University has the juice to get away with murder?
Any princes?
Egyptian planes perhaps?

Posted by: Candy Owens at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (53oGX)

259 220 Is Brown considered Ivy League?
___

Ish.

Posted by: Providunce at December 16, 2025 12:58 PM (qUkBO)

260 Mustapha from Palestine? Let's not waddle to conclusions just yet.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 16, 2025 12:58 PM (DT8lM)

261 And people say, gee, how could the gunman escape so easily?

Well, when you play footsie with the truth and information...?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (C3IAS)

262 If she was the target, either a H8 crime being a lovely looking Conservatives or someone who wanted to get her.

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (fPt6j)

263 the Chief of Police is some ESL moron who should be down in Guadalajara selling tacos.

Over the weekend lefties were wailing that 7 restaurants in a local Arizona taco chain had to close after ICE arrested all of the employees. Apparently legal Hispanic citizens can't make good tacos, the flavor comes from the illegals or something.

Also, that's an excellent place to start arresting the owners of these businesses.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (QZThv)

264 These people hate us. While not all will pull triggers, they will silently (if not openly) celebrate and come up with rationalizations of support.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 12:51 PM (b4LBp)

***

Like mooselimbs

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (Bo9Yf)

265 Apparently, it is Open Season on conservatives.
Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 12:56 PM (W7XSX)

huh, fools

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (g47mK)

266 Is there no cell phone video of the attack or aftermath? I mean, this is a college campus. All kids do is have their phones out capturing "content" and selfies. There are probably three phones and vid-capture devices (goggles, glasses, etc) for each student there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

267
People on X are out in front of this. The footage released has they/him walking with their/his hands clasped behind their/his back. Pictures of Mustapha also show they/him walking that way.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 12:54 PM (QZThv)

When I mentioned earlier did the perp have distinctive shoes and was his walk analyzed I was being facetious... I was comparing it to the "evidence" Glenn Beck was using regarding the Jan 5th bomb placer.. I wasn't serious...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (VE6XX)

268 Can you have an accent in sign language?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

I don't know for sure, but probably yes. Most features of spoken language have analogies in sign language. Probably in sign language, the "accent" would be reflected in exactly where you place your hands and fingers, maybe what facial expressions you use, that sort of thing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

269 Where is Brown University in the Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (2GVsD)

270 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

271 Did someone say Walk This Way?
Posted by: Aerosmith"

Yeah.

/Run DMC

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (XuXeR)

272 @45

>>Oh please, Ms. Weiss - what are those lines? And why do those vaunted lines ONLY come up when talking about the words of someone on the right? Do lefties have not-to-be-crossed lines? Eff off.

Well, no, her words illustrate a sobering reality, the left is imposing their moral vision, ie, that conservative thought and ideology is to be countered and silenced by any means necessary and the current means the left is choosing to employ is assassination.

If the right does not implement and enforce their own moral vision, then the left's moral vision becomes de-facto.

And that's basically is happening, the left is murdering us, and we're holding candle light vigils.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (XV/Pl)

273 If you think the police are going to protect you, and keep you safe, you’re wrong.

Worse, even after you’re dead they will hide their bias, with incompetence only The Three Stooges could admire.

Carry. A. Firearm. It’s your right.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (PM/iv)

274 "Where does it end?"

With no conservatives on campus.

Posted by: Nemo at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (4RPgu)

275 I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM

* waves arm *

I know, Professor Diogenes!

He was the inventor of Lindberger Cheese, and his research was sponsored by Big Penguin, who wanted to move the Overton Window on cheese bouquet toward the mephitic side.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (0sNs1)

276 If words are violence, and violence at the correct target is acceptable, then my words aimed at the correct targets are acceptable.

So it's not about words or violence.

It's about who/whom.

Like the old saying about the difference between ships and boats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (06Hmj)

277 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"Allahu Akbar" = "I'm here to kill you"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

278 The Revolt of the Empire of Ghettos! We are all gonna need Light Sabers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (Wg6v7)

279 Oh, #246...are we doing that now?

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+)

280 Where does it end?"

With no conservatives on campus.

===

Do what I do !

Posted by: Cucker Qatarlson at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (g47mK)

281

*TYPES, deletes*

Posted by: imp at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (g6TN6)

282 As I said above: 48 Hour Rule, peeps.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

It has been more than 48 hours. Might have to change it to 72 or 96 hours to account for social media scrubbing, police DEI cover ups, and general police incompetence.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (dK+Kv)

283 Obese college girls play a key role in Earth's planetary rotation.

Posted by: Brian May at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (j7nqy)

284 Love Qatar and it will set you freeeeeee!

Posted by: Cucker Qatarlson at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (g47mK)

285 Like the old saying about the difference between ships and boats.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

In the Navy, "boats" are submarines.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

286 Edited: I have rewritten the headline and the post to reflect that Halperin is only floating this as something he is "hearing," not something he can confirm. Apologies for stating it too strongly when I first posted.

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Dude, that's not the journalism way.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (L/fGl)

287 "We have no idea why someone shouting "Allah Akbar" and shooting the only conservative person on campus might do that. We also have no idea how he escaped us so easily. We also can't describe him in any way. He was wearing black if that helps. Also, weirdly, most of our security cameras were malfunctioning. OH, but don't worry, we can assure everyone he is not coming back to kill again. How do we know that? um...uh...."

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (C3IAS)

288 As I said above: 48 Hour Rule, peeps.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

It has been more than 48 hours. Might have to change it to 72 or 96 hours to account for social media scrubbing, police DEI cover ups, and general police incompetence.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (dK+Kv)
____

True, but I meant 48 hours from this story that Cook was specifically targeted.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

289 Speculation is that he knows where the cameras are and that it is an inside job.
___

This indicates he is a Brown student with plenty of opportunity to scope out the cameras and a path to safety. Targeting the VP of the Young Republicans also indicates he is a student and perhaps interacted with her.

Posted by: If It's Brown, Flush It Down at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (qUkBO)

290 When I mentioned earlier did the perp have distinctive shoes and was his walk analyzed I was being facetious... I was comparing it to the "evidence" Glenn Beck was using regarding the Jan 5th bomb placer.. I wasn't serious...

This is a bit more conclusive than Beck's body language expert or whatever given not that many people walk with their hands behind their back. It's awkward. Also, the shooter's beanie slips at one point on the footage and you can see his hair, which is also a match.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (QZThv)

291 He was clearly shouting "Allahu Akbooourns."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (06Hmj)

292 Oh dear. Cleanup at Comment 246.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:03 PM (77rzZ)

293 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"This is MAGA country!" is my guess.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:03 PM (dK+Kv)

294 It will all come out.

Posted by: steevy at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (YwEeS)

295 I don't know for sure, but probably yes. Most features of spoken language have analogies in sign language. Probably in sign language, the "accent" would be reflected in exactly where you place your hands and fingers, maybe what facial expressions you use, that sort of thing.
------------------
Yankee sign language looks like someone jerking a pork loin.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (Wg6v7)

296 Did the gunman yell, "all your bases are belong to us!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

297 "Allahu Akbar" = "I'm here to kill you"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

"We can't disclose what the killer may have yelled" = "I'm from the government, and I'm here to kill you"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (06Hmj)

298 Over the weekend lefties were wailing that 7 restaurants in a local Arizona taco chain had to close after ICE arrested all of the employees. Apparently legal Hispanic citizens can't make good tacos, the flavor comes from the illegals or something.

Also, that's an excellent place to start arresting the owners of these businesses.
Posted by: Ian S.

Asset forfeiture. Same as a drug dealer buying a house & fancy car.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (+x87d)

299 I don't know for sure, but probably yes.
...
Posted by: Bulg

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Now I wonder if there is an ebonics in sign language?

Like, do they make a "axe" sign instead of "ask"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (F1I3P)

300 I wasn't serious...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:59 PM (VE6XX)

That was clear. 🙂

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (Wo1GJ)

301 Yankee sign language looks like someone jerking a pork loin.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (Wg6v7)

Phillies sign language is just a bunch of chin-brushes and middle fingers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (06Hmj)

302 Did the gunman yell, "all your bases are belong to us!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

"Hadji Don't Surf !"

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (g47mK)

303 True, but I meant 48 hours from this story that Cook was specifically targeted.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

Well, this is openly acknowledged unsourced or uncitable hearsay, so I am not sure how much credence one wants to give it in the first instance.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (dK+Kv)

304 As I said above: 48 Hour Rule, peeps.

I've already set my hair on fire. I don't have 48 hours.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

305 Also, that's an excellent place to start arresting the owners of these businesses"

One of the owners was supposed to have said that they couldn't afford e-verify...

(It's free)

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (XuXeR)

306 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"This is MAGA country!" is my guess.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:03 PM (dK+Kv)
________

"My name is Inigo Montoya ...."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

307 It's too late to try and remove the Muslims from the country. You can try, but the indoctrination of the US citizens in the country is what will make the removal unsuccessful. We're 25 years too late to really make a difference now. This is going to end badly.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Flooding the country with fuslims after 9-11 worked.
Thanks W.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 16, 2025 01:06 PM (VES6X)

308 Like I said earlier... the presser was a dumpster fire of incompetence.

One might ask the law enforcement folks if they've asked for and received video of the area(s) for some prescribed amount of time prior to the shooting? That might have been helpful, no?

Is Brown cooperating? Yes or no.

Anyone canvas the area?

These are just basic, minimal effort things that nobody seems to be able to answer.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 01:06 PM (NwnyJ)

309 >Where does it end?

Submission. Enslavement.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (Q+gd/)

310 Obese college girls play a key role in Earth's planetary rotation.
Posted by: Brian May at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (j7nqy)

Outstanding!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (c2vsb)

311 I am curious why the Police don't seem concerned that a mass shooter is still out there and the public shouldn't worry....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (VE6XX)

312 Over the weekend lefties were wailing that 7 restaurants in a local Arizona taco chain had to close after ICE arrested all of the employees. Apparently legal Hispanic citizens can't make good tacos, the flavor comes from the illegals or something.

Also, that's an excellent place to start arresting the owners of these businesses.
Posted by: Ian S.

Asset forfeiture. Same as a drug dealer buying a house & fancy car.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (+x87d)

These were taco joints, not Krispy Kremes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (dK+Kv)

313 "My name is Inigo Montoya ...."
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Uh-oh. It's gonna turn into another Rob Reiner thread, isn't it?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

314 I've already set my hair on fire"

The Michael Jackson move?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (XuXeR)

315 Did the gunman yell, "all your bases are belong to us!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

"Hadji Don't Surf !"
-----

"Remember the Maine!"

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

316 I've mentioned before that in the class I just finished teaching (300 level college class) not a single student there knew who Charles Lindberg was or what he did.
Posted by: Diogenes

If he doesn't have a TikTok account, does he really matter?

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (NZkDE)

317 I think it has to do with Big Mike's hair.
Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 12:45 PM (3BwY

Her ball hair. Keeps getting caught in her silk underwear.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Pics?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (JCZqz)

318 Might have to change it to 72 or 96 hours to account for social media scrubbing, police DEI cover ups, and general police incompetence.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Maybe 50 years.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (L/fGl)

319 Can anyone tell me why there is a Miami Dolphin?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (Wg6v7)

320
Now I wonder if there is an ebonics in sign language?

Like, do they make a "axe" sign instead of "ask"
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (F1I3P)

LMFAO.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

321 F F, 83 of N C Township passed away on Tuesday May 8, 2018 at his residence.

The FEC database says that he donated $25 (earmarked for seditious Chrissy Houlahan) and $5 to ActBlue on Dec 29, 2024

He has made at least 336 ActBlue donations since 2019, the year after he died.

I wonder how he did that.

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (RHGPo)

322
Pics?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (JCZqz)

You have that special search engine, I'm sure you can manage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

323 I am curious why the Police don't seem concerned that a mass shooter is still out there

They're well-hidden behind cars.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 01:08 PM (NZkDE)

324 I paced with my hands behind my back and there isn't a drop of Arab blood in me.

Posted by: Zombie Casey Stengel at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (oftw2)

325 "Remember the Maine!"
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

Ahh, memories.

Once upon a time, when we pulled some false flag bullshit as a pretext for war, we would still actually win the fucking war and take their damned land.

We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (06Hmj)

326 "We've been trying to reach you regarding your car's extended warranty."

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (j7nqy)

327 Obese college girls play a key role in Earth's planetary rotation.

Posted by: Brian May at December 16, 2025 01:01 PM (j7nqy)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Zombie Leonard Nimoy at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

328 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)

329 Did the gunman yell, "all your bases are belong to us!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

"Hadji Don't Surf !"
-----

"Remember the Maine!"

-
"23 skidoo!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

330 Odds, they haven't done a geo search of cell phones in the area at the time of the shooting?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (Wg6v7)

331 I am not sure how much credence one wants to give it in the first instance.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM (dK+Kv)

Without unwarranted credence what the hell are we supposed to talk about? Boobs for the billionth time?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (Wo1GJ)

332 I wonder how he did that."

Yeah. Probably tired after all that voting..

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (XuXeR)

333 "THIS IS SPARTA"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

334 "Remember the Maine!"
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

54° 40' or fight!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

335 8 The civil war is somewhat uncivil.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (pkeXY)

What’s so civil about war anyway?

Posted by: Pistols and Pansies at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (rQwsY)

336 If she was vice president, why wouldn't the president of the club be targeted unless there was another psychosexual reason? These spokespeople have been rather squirrelly.
Posted by: Noble9 at December 16, 2025 12:37 PM (a7PRn)

My guess? He wanted to date Ella. She told him to take a hike.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (npFr7)

337 The incident is just incredibly heartbreaking . If send your kids to college you call them to see how they're doing. If you're people of faith , you pray for them . You wait for them to come for the winter break. Instead you get the horrible, gut wrenching news that they've been murdered . I do hope Brown is not also complicit in a coverup instead of being " just "incompetent .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (WFtAr)

338 Boobs for the billionth time?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (Wo1GJ)

Mmmm. Billions of boobs. One could go swimming.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)

339 Without unwarranted credence what the hell are we supposed to talk about? Boobs for the billionth time?
Posted by: ...

I'm in.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

340 I went to a *conservative* Christian college, and guess what? We had a College Democrats chapter, and although they were small, they were treated with respect. The college had no problem with them hosting candidates and doing debates.

Posted by: pookysgirl, sick of the one-way street at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (Wt5PA)

341 "They couldn't afford e-Verify"

Meaning they couldn't afford to pay minimum wage.

Posted by: Wally at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (R+nQW)

342 328 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?
Posted by: Don Black
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Spree killers often shoot around their targets to get rid of witnesses and to get away. Basically their mindset after killing one person, the rest are free as they can only fry or life imprison you for the first murder.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (WDjG6)

343 Brown is the worst of the Ivy League.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (W7XSX)

344 My guess? He wanted to date Ella. She told him to take a hike.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (npFr7)

I kind of think that might be it.. If she was indeed the target

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (VE6XX)

345 322
Pics?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (JCZqz)

You have that special search engine, I'm sure you can manage.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Nah. I'll I've found are AI images and cropped gorilla photos.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 16, 2025 01:12 PM (JCZqz)

346 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)

Guilt by association.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

347 "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!"

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

348 We're 25 years too late to really make a difference now. This is going to end badly.
Posted by: Frank Barone

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

There are only two ultimate destinations.
1. Inquisitions, like in Spain, and total cleansing of all muslims.
2. muslim takeover.

It may take decades, but unless you do #1, you end up with #2. Always.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:12 PM (F1I3P)

349 Never ascribe to stupidity the actions of a group that can be explained by malice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:13 PM (06Hmj)

350 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"? Might as well have been, for all the reticence the authorities are displaying.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 01:13 PM (2L+MU)

351 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?
Posted by: Don Black

Unlucky. Just like the Bondi Beach hero.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:13 PM (+x87d)

352 It would be ironic if the shooter was light in the loafers. The mayor of Providence is gay . He and his husband are fabulous. That may be another reason the cops aren't saying anything

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:13 PM (D+mpw)

353 Si se puede.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (W7XSX)

354 340 I went to a *conservative* Christian college, and guess what? We had a College Democrats chapter, and although they were small, they were treated with respect. The college had no problem with them hosting candidates and doing debates.
Posted by: pookysgirl
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And like having a Muslim on campus, these types are polite when overwhelmingly in the minority. As you get more and more leftists/Muslims, their violence, demands, and assholish behavior increases in proportion with their fellow compatriots.

Essentially, you get purity spirals in such minority communities where each of the members egg on the other members into being the purest.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (WDjG6)

355 342 328 If this woman was the target, what about the 2nd victim?
Posted by: Don Black
=======
Spree killers often shoot around their targets to get rid of witnesses and to get away. Basically their mindset after killing one person, the rest are free as they can only fry or life imprison you for the first murder.
Posted by: whig

You must not read many Lefty screeds. If you sit at a table with a Nazi, you're a Nazi, too. I'm sure Islam follows a similar belief. Bring them together, and...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (JCZqz)

356 Our "cold civil war" is heating up.

Our republican "leaders" had better do something to help their own people defend themselves before people HAVE to take matters into their own hands.

The left will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM

You assume the Republican "leaders" are not part of the left. They are. We (conservatives, regular Americans, etc.) are not their people. We are their enemies.

Not only will they do nothing to help us, they will do everything in their power to help the left. As they have been doing for decades. They hated the TEA Party, they hate MAGA, they hate Donald Trump.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (P5BPp)

357 247 Apparently, it is Open Season on conservatives.

That should be a surprise to no one, but more broadly, it is a WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE. Period. Don't make you're uniquely special.

And this, only the 5th day of Jeffmas?

Up, Down, Left, Right all are their playthings and they get you to dance to whatever tune they play...

Yes, I recognize this tune, let's turn up the volume !!! forWARD !!!

Release, indeed, FREE AND SPONSOR! the HUNTER BIDEN's, the NICK REINER's, the ever now, and future present Epstein's, Clinton's, Soros', the John Walker/American Taliban's, the James Fergie Chambers (Cox Heir and professional revolutionaries) who will proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries.

History is not a series of Random Circumstance, it is a logical consequence of the people and ideas that lead up to it, where the guilty are rewarded, where the Innocent are Punished, where the mediocre, the Unworthy, the DEPRAVED are Championed on the basis of their mediocrity, their Unworthiness, their DEPRAVITY.

LIB Strategic Insanity must be Defeated.
Once again, a Presidential Moment that has passed by Rubio, Gabbard and only last hope in Trump...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 16, 2025 01:14 PM (l657C)

358 Brown is the worst of the Ivy League.

Worst in what respect ? They all seem to be anti semetic .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (WFtAr)

359 When the Right starts engaging in direct action of an extrajudicial nature, I will be neither surprised nor appalled.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (2L+MU)

360 301 Yankee sign language looks like someone jerking a pork loin.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (Wg6v7)

Phillies sign language is just a bunch of chin-brushes and middle fingers.

karen sign language is mostly bird hands

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (v3pYe)

361 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"? Might as well have been, for all the reticence the authorities are displaying.
Posted by: Paco

The fact that they AREN'T saying he yelled Aloha Snackbar tells me he yelled Aloha Snackbar.

Because if he would have yelled, "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY, it would have led every newscast.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (+x87d)

362
So are they going to protect the President of the Young Republicans?? or just let him or Her get shot
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (FCrpy)

Don't you dare carry one of those icky guns. Wearing a bulletproof vest just proves that you're deliberately triggering the rest of the student body.

Here's a restraining order, just hold it up in front of you...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 01:15 PM (y9nCu)

363 Boobs for the billionth time?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (Wo1GJ)

Mmmm. Billions of boobs. One could go swimming.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)
_____

Obligatory "boob room" at Museum of Sex:

https://tinyurl.com/3jtpezyu

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

364 I went to a *conservative* Christian college, and guess what? We had a College Democrats chapter, and although they were small, they were treated with respect. The college had no problem with them hosting candidates and doing debates.

Posted by: pookysgirl, sick of the one-way street at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (Wt5PA)

You know who else treated college Democrats with respect? Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:16 PM (Wo1GJ)

365 Supposedly the Gunman yelled something out, and repeated it so that could be the lead to this

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 01:00 PM (fPt6j)

Look away! Look away! Dixie Land!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:16 PM (dK+Kv)

366 Brown was renamed after the Brown family. The family made a lot of their fortune in the slave trade. But the elite Ivy League can't mention that.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (D+mpw)

367 Flooding the country with fuslims after 9-11 worked.
Thanks W.
Posted by: Operator Error

Intercepted Comms:
Saudi Prince #34: Hey, Bush wants our support for his Iraq adventure.

SP #14: If we can get him to agree to take all these lunatics out of our neighborhood, we'll give him the support he wants.

SP #34: We'll say they are refugees fleeing the war he caused. I like it.

SP #25: Call up Assad, have him empty his prisons too. They are now 'asylum' seekers. (laughs)

SP #1: Agreed. Send these nuts over there, and let them fight it out. So we don't have to fight them over here.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)

368 The gunman yelled “oloha snackbar”… he thought he was in Hawaii and he was hungry

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (xT8gx)

369 But enough of my endless speculation.
Let's move on to YOUR endless speculation.

Posted by: Endless speculator at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (FtUtq)

370 You assume the Republican "leaders" are not part of the left. They are. We (conservatives, regular Americans, etc.) are not their people. We are their enemies.

Not only will they do nothing to help us, they will do everything in their power to help the left. As they have been doing for decades. They hated the TEA Party, they hate MAGA, they hate Donald Trump.
----

They didn't fight for our fundamental rights during Covid, and they didn't mount any defense for those January 6th defendants.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:17 PM (TN0g+)

371 I've often yelled Hello Snackbar when I have the munchies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

372 This is all due to the rhetoric coming from the Trump White House and as long as he's allowed to be president and continue preaching his hate, these shootings will continue and there's nothing we can do about it because his words. I am Christian and this is God's will.

Posted by: Sen. Chris Murphy at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

373
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"?
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"Tippecanoe and Tylenol too." He was mad at RFK and Trump.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (Wo1GJ)

374 I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

Which is interesting.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM

Mustapha Kharbouch is a student at Brown University (class of 2027). He is a third-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon.

He attended UWC Maastricht on a scholarship, where he engaged in community-building and social change initiatives. At Brown, he double-concentrates in International and Public Affairs and Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on the Middle East.

His interests include:

indigeneity
justice
inclusion
the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/48FAI3Q

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (P5BPp)

375
Korean Air said there have been 14 cases of exit tampering or attempted tampering in the past two years.
The company noted that unauthorized tampering of exit doors has continued despite heightened awareness following a widely reported 2023 Asiana Airlines case in which a passenger opened an exit door in the middle of the flight
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 16, 2025 12:35 PM

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I didn't know that was possible.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (azNOR)

376
334 "Remember the Maine!"
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

54° 40' or fight!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

This country has always been run by sick, evil warmongers.

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (rQwsY)

377 Obligatory "boob room" at Museum of Sex:

https://tinyurl.com/3jtpezyu
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

Hatemonger reees!

Posted by: Thrawn at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (9Ovst)

378 I've often yelled Hello Snackbar when I have the munchies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

Hello ball!

Posted by: Ed Norton at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

379 I've often yelled Hello Snackbar when I have the munchies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

I haven't, but I am going to start in public, and see if I can catch the knowing glance of a fellow moron.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:19 PM (dK+Kv)

380 I went to a *conservative* Christian college, and guess what? We had a College Democrats chapter, and although they were small, they were treated with respect. The college had no problem with them hosting candidates and doing debates.
------

I don't know if its still true, but Liberty University used to make a point of having leftist guest speakers address their conservative Christian assemblies.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 01:19 PM (TN0g+)

381 She was beautiful, and obviously smart and very, very brave to enter the liberal hole that is Brown University.

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 01:19 PM (nKjbR)

382 Now my life's goal is to organically work the phrase "boob room at the Museum of Sex" into a conversation.

"Man that guy couldn't get to second base if you locked him into the boob room at the Museum of Sex."

Or something to that effect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (06Hmj)

383 The freight train is rolling down the tracks, accelerating at an exponential rate, and the brakes are broken.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (Q+gd/)

384
I'm not trying to be gruesome, but was this girl shot in the face?

Is something more going on here that we're not seeing? This and the D.C. ambush. Are the Democrats intentionally going for "head" shots now?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (Il0Nj)

385

I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

Which is interesting.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM

not here!

https://tinyurl.com/mt6dknh8

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (g47mK)

386 367 Flooding the country with fuslims after 9-11 worked.
Thanks W.
Posted by: Operator Error

That’s been going on way before Bush XLIII I’m afraid.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)

387 I searched for the name "Mustapha Kharbouch" and found that he's being zapped from the internet.

Which is interesting.

Posted by: ace at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM

Mustapha Kharbouch is a student at Brown University (class of 2027). He is a third-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon.

He attended UWC Maastricht on a scholarship, where he engaged in community-building and social change initiatives. At Brown, he double-concentrates in International and Public Affairs and Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on the Middle East.

His interests include:

indigeneity
justice
inclusion
the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/48FAI3Q

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:18 PM (P5BPp)

That seems like a curriculum generated from a bunch of Rob Reindeer rants.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (dK+Kv)

388 352 It would be ironic if the shooter was light in the loafers. The mayor of Providence is gay . He and his husband are fabulous. That may be another reason the cops aren't saying anything
Posted by: Smell the Glove
=======
I'll simply wait out the investigation. Speculation is a fun playtime for some, but then you always get the sort after the investigation concludes to argue they got the wrong guy etc. Some here still argue and believe Trooner loverboy didn't do it but Charlie's friendz did.

In complicated investigations where the perp is not caught red handed, it is always what theory has the highest likelihood of being true rather than trying to square all the observations and evidence.

Catch the guy if not a Muzzie, then someone will say well, the killer shouted Aloha Snackbar. Catch a guy that is Muzzie, well, my super scientific pantone color sense indicates that the revealed skin in the pix are simply a CIA redoing of the image or disguise to point the finger at the Muzzie community. Ad nauseam.

For some people with deeply set axioms, the killer cannot be someone who upsets those axioms.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (WDjG6)

389 356:... You assume the Republican "leaders" are not part of the left. They are. We (conservatives, regular Americans, etc.) are not their people. We are their enemies.

Correct, call them what they are:
CongressMONSTERS, rampaging Krampus each jockeying to become the Monster of the Moment at your expense.

The WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE.

....While the people who sponsor both sides, pitting man against other men, keep encouraging you to 'get involved', 'do your part', because ultimately for them, whose malevolent boredom and lack of finds you to be their best entertainment values.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (l657C)

390 29 So are they going to protect the President of the Young Republicans?? or just let him or Her get shot
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (FCrpy)

An illegal political organization?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (rQwsY)

391 hm, just use a different search engine ....

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 01:21 PM (g47mK)

392 >>If she was vice president, why wouldn't the president of the club be targeted unless there was another psychosexual reason? These spokespeople have been rather squirrelly.

Per Grok

>As of December 16, 2025, the most recent public information about the leadership of the Republican Club of Brown University (also referred to as Brown College Republicans) indicates that Ella Cook, a sophomore, served as vice president. Multiple sources, including statements from the national College Republicans of America and Brown University officials, confirm this role prior to the tragic campus shooting on December 13, 2025, in which she was one of the victims killed.
No current president or chair is named in available reports or the club's official Brown University student activities page.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (viF8m)

393 She was beautiful, and obviously smart and very, very brave to enter the liberal hole that is Brown University.
Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 01:19 PM (nKjbR)

Yes on all counts. Sadly it seems like every university these days is as big a hole a as Brown…. UT Austin, Texas Tech, University of Iowa for Pete’s sake…. All dominated by lefties in deep red states

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (xT8gx)

394
Also, can we finally admit the MGM mass shooting was Certainly a targeted attack on Trump supporters?

Because it was. It was also very likely Government-assisted in some way.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (Il0Nj)

395 I'm not trying to be gruesome, but was this girl shot in the face?

Is something more going on here that we're not seeing? This and the D.C. ambush. Are the Democrats intentionally going for "head" shots now?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 01:20 PM (Il0Nj)

If it's pistol and it is targeted, it would make the most sense. If not, poor target choice.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)

396 358 Brown is the worst of the Ivy League.

Worst in what respect ? They all seem to be anti semetic .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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I think Columbia is worst for antisemetism and being a bunch of filthy commies.

Harvard is worst for arrogance and being really fucking eye-wateringly incompetent.

Brown is mostly known for their school motto "We are Ivy League too!"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (F1I3P)

397 Mustapha Kharbouch is a student at Brown University (class of 2027). He is a third-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon.

Full Grok summary: https://bit.ly/48FAI3Q

Grok summary also includes 3 pictures of him. Including one in what I think is a palestine scarf.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (P5BPp)

398 the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies

Yassir Arafat?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)

399 Nude!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 01:23 PM (XuXeR)

400
Yes on all counts. Sadly it seems like every university these days is as big a hole a as Brown…. UT Austin, Texas Tech, University of Iowa for Pete’s sake…. All dominated by lefties in deep red states
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 01:22 PM (xT8gx)

Deborah Birx is the president of the Health and Human Sciences department.

THAT pisses me off greatly.

Posted by: Ed Norton at December 16, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

401 Hello ball!
Posted by: Ed Norton
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bravo.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 16, 2025 01:26 PM (F1I3P)

402 His interests include:

indigeneity
justice
inclusion
the intersection of queer studies and Palestinian studies

Interests also include:

piña coladas
gettin' caught in the rain

..too soon?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (Dv3i1)

403 Children's book at Wal-Mart, Who Was Jesus?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2025 12:44 PM (2GVsD)

He’s JUST all right.

Oh yeah.

Posted by: Doobie Brothers at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (rQwsY)

404 384
I'm not trying to be gruesome, but was this girl shot in the face?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Head shots are almost always fatal if your cartridge power allows it to penetrate the skull.

Reason why it is a fallback for the Mozambique drill--in combat, it is easier to hit center mass but if you are a mercenary (Roarke IIRC) and find that does not work, then shoot the head.

Reason why it is not taught more is a) it is harder to pull off--the head is more mobile and as the assassins of Trump found out, a slight change of head position can throw off the shot, and b) schools teaching shooting for self defense emphasize shooting center mass as it is easier and are a bit squeamish in some cases to emphasize what needs to be done to stop a determined attack.

A) a big wound channel leaking a lot of blood leading to circulatory collapse, or B) a central nervous system shot that shuts down the spine, brain, etc inducing usually fatal consequences. C) aiming for the pelvic girdle is also a less taught option becuz if your opponent is armed, they can still shoot you.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:27 PM (WDjG6)

405 Boobies!

https://is.gd/RGZ7lO

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 16, 2025 01:28 PM (uv8gn)

406 308 Like I said earlier... the presser was a dumpster fire of incompetence.

One might ask the law enforcement folks if they've asked for and received video of the area(s) for some prescribed amount of time prior to the shooting? That might have been helpful, no?

Is Brown cooperating? Yes or no.

Anyone canvas the area?

These are just basic, minimal effort things that nobody seems to be able to answer.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 01:06 PM (NwnyJ)

You ask and we will arrest you for interference in our investigation. Fucking idiot.

Posted by: Police Officers at December 16, 2025 01:31 PM (rQwsY)

407 Meaning they couldn't afford to pay minimum wage.
Posted by: Wally at December 16, 2025 01:11 PM (R+nQW)

Meaning they didn't want to pay minimum wage, knowing they could get illegals to work for less. They knew what they were doing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (npFr7)

408 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: boob room at the Museum of Sex at December 16, 2025 01:32 PM (FtUtq)

409 394
Also, can we finally admit the MGM mass shooting was Certainly a targeted attack on Trump supporters?

Because it was. It was also very likely Government-assisted in some way.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Dunno. The alternative theory is that shooting a bunch of people was a cover for a targeted hit on the currrent ruling bin Salman Saudi royals. Notably, almost one month later is when all the other Saudi royal factions were deballed and incarcerated briefly.

The girlfriend probably had some unsavory Abu Sayef ties, the gambling gun dealer with fed ties had no motive, the gubmint, like on other causes did a purposefully shitty job on protecting evidence in the suspect's home (like Epstein's residences and other places). Gives an excuse for losing inconvenient 'evidence'.

Trump is uncharateristically silent on it and the investigation so my guess is it had foreign power implications (could be Deep State but I think he would comment on it if that was the case like Epstein).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 01:34 PM (WDjG6)

410 "It's gone from you cannot be a highly popular conservative speaker who reaches young people at colleges without being murdered to you cannot be a young conservative leader at college without being murdered.

Where does it end?"

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...you cannot be a conservative without being murdered.

Posted by: RM at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (n/1Oj)

411 That was clear. 🙂
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 01:05 PM

I strive for that, myself.

Posted by: Barack H. Soetoro at December 16, 2025 01:35 PM (0sNs1)

412 410...Where does it end?"
...you cannot be a conservative without being murdered.

Shouldn't some be sacrificed so that others may live?

"I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025 - libKILLAH's answering her Call on the 5th day of Jeffmas.

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- ctHILLARY'04, preparing a special 13th day of Jeffmas for us all !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 16, 2025 01:53 PM (l657C)

413 Kind of curious that you wouldn’t have to badge into an engineering building.

Posted by: Unkaren at December 16, 2025 02:01 PM (V5D1U)

414 It's too late to try and remove the Muslims from the country. You can try, but the indoctrination of the US citizens in the country is what will make the removal unsuccessful. We're 25 years too late to really make a difference now. This is going to end badly.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 16, 2025 12:32 PM

Yep. The time to deport all Muslims and ban them from ever returning was 09/12/2001. When only 1 million were in the USA.

Instead, the Muslim population has increased from 1 million to 4.5 million over the past 2+ decades. and Muslims have taken positions of power all across the country at all levels of government, schools and institutions. And are continuing to conquer the USA as they already have the UK, Paris and Australia.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 02:02 PM (P5BPp)

415 I have words, most of the four letter kind. Where was the other side to Charlie Kirk's words? Where was defense of what he said, the millions that thanked him for giving them a different perspective? This was yet another hit piece on a man by someone who is supposed to be near the center? If so, the center can go to hell as well.

Posted by: crypto king at December 16, 2025 02:08 PM (s8WNT)

416 It's not my first time to go to see this website, i
am browsing this web page dailly and obtain fastidious
data from here everyday.

Posted by: faulty product at December 16, 2025 03:27 PM (4+s52)

417 Another "Allahu Akbar" day in the news. But, but the white nationalist and skin heads.

Posted by: Shera_K2 at December 16, 2025 03:34 PM (ugtaH)

418 Providence officials still won't say what the Brown University gunman shouted before attacking. "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." - Groucho Marx

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 16, 2025 03:42 PM (ugtaH)

419 Terrorists and Violent Felons belong in Prison not at Collage or University

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:24 PM (wGqjj)

420 I'm waiting to know:
- what the killer said
- who he shot first
- if the first victim did or said anything before they were shot
- who he shot second
- if the other victim did or said anything before they were shot
- how many shots were fired in total
- what other people were targeted if any

All these things should be known already by the investigators, and may explain why statements have been made about targeting, etc.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 16, 2025 08:27 PM (FpP3s)

The Morning Rant: No American Soldiers In Eastern Europe!

Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."

To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, "Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single United States Marine." So the idea of some security agreement with Ukraine that mirrors NATO's Article 5 is essentially allowing Ukraine into NATO without all of that pesky cooperation and standardization and massive bureaucracy and, by the way, no equal commitment from the rest of the members.

And that's exactly what they want! France and Germany don't want their soldiers to get chewed up and spit out in Donetsk. They want American soldiers to do their dirty work, so they can enjoy some strudel and a good Eiswein, or a lovely croissant and a couple of espressos while they read the news of American blood and treasure being spent once again in Europe.

Stay out of Eastern Europe's territorial disputes. They have been going on for a very long time, and most of them have been nasty wars that expose the curious lack of interest in the lives of those who are fighting them. Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy.

Kyiv's Top Negotiator Hails 'Real Progress' During 2nd Day of Peace Talks in Berlin

Ahead of the first meeting, Zelenskyy said on Dec. 14 that Kyiv is open to dropping its NATO ambitions in exchange for Western security guarantees.
“Thus, today, bilateral security guarantees between Ukraine and the US, Article 5-like guarantees for us from the US, and security guarantees from European colleagues, as well as other countries — Canada, Japan — are an opportunity to prevent another Russian invasion,” Zelenskyy said in a WhatsApp chat with reporters.
It remains unclear how discussions have progressed on that and other issues, such as territorial concessions, which have been key sticking points in the process.
The Kremlin said on Dec. 15 that Ukraine agreeing not to join NATO was fundamental to the peace settlement.

This war is going to end only when Ukraine and its European cheerleaders admit that they have lost territory that will probably never be returned. Yes, that's not fair. And it wasn't fair that I didn't get the GI Joe with the Kung-Fu grip when I was eight years old, but that's the way of the world!

Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger, and the insulting argument that Ukraine is only the first step in its drive to the Channel is thoroughly debunked by the facts on the ground. Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that.

Here's my plan. Guarantee a certain level of access to American weapons, paid for in cash. Guarantee a certain level of intelligence cooperation. Guarantee support in the United Nations (remember that?) for a just peace. Continue support for Poland's military buildup, which is a wonderful buffer against any Russian intransigence.

And no American soldiers anywhere near the current battlefields or anywhere near a hypothetical future conflict. Until Western Europe decides that their culture is worth defending, what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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1 #1 with a bu.... maybe i shouldn't use that saying after this past weekend.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (zjgNU)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (+x87d)

3 Top 10!

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:01 AM (TN0g+)

4 >>And no American soldiers anywhere near the current battlefields or anywhere near a hypothetical future conflict. Until Western Europe decides that their culture is worth defending, what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

Threadwinner!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (NuV6c)

5 Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger, and the insulting argument that Ukraine is only the first step in its drive to the Channel is thoroughly debunked by the facts on the ground. Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that.

And yet, I was assured by many here that Russia just needed time to get its act together, and when that inevitably happened, they'd roll over Ukraine in short order.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

6 Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."
>>>>

If only we could go back in time 25 years and said that.

Get in, destroy all their people and stuff and tell them they'll be back if they mess with us again.

It's not our job to rebuild.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU)

7 The fading EU is desperate for a shooting war to help them (they think) to recement their control, which is slipping. But they don't have any effective military forces, so they're desperate to get the US to do it for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK8)

8 Neither Russia nor Ukraine have any incentive to stop fighting. So they won't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)

9
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (y9nCu)

10 7 The fading EU is desperate for a shooting war to help them (they think) to recement their control, which is slipping. But they don't have any effective military forces, so they're desperate to get the US to do it for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK

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I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

11 The plan is to send native Europeans and Americans to Ukraine to die, and replace them with mohammedans who will build harems out of the women left alone.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (0U5gm)

12 And yet, I was assured by many here that Russia just needed time to get its act together, and when that inevitably happened, they'd roll over Ukraine in short order.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

The only interesting part of this war has been the advancement in drone tech, and the way that it has made advancing in the open almost impossible for any significant force.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (uWKK8)

13 Dear Europe,

Fuck you, do it yourself.

XOXO

Duke

PS Fuck you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (u73oe)

14 I've read that globalists in Ei rope are pushing Ukraine to bring in immigrants, such as Indians.
Not enough to send 100's of thousands off to be killed by Russia and sending their wives and children to other countries as refugees. Now they want to 'diversify' it with non-Westerners, non-Christians to completely finish it off.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (NuV6c)

15 Just as a reminder, here's the original Bismarck quote.

The authentic quote, spoken in a speech to the German Reichstag in December 1876, was:

"The whole of the Balkans is not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

16 dropping its NATO ambitions in exchange for Western security guarantees.

—

I don’t want a hamburger. I just want a bun with a beef patty in the middle.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (udlma)

17
Get in, destroy all their people and stuff and tell them they'll be back if they mess with us again.

It's not our job to rebuild.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU)

Thanks, Colin Powell. You clueless asswipe.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (y9nCu)

18 I cannot take the prospect of U.S. soldiers in Ukraine seriously at all.

Perhaps I should but it is far-fetched and doesn't make any sense geo-political or otherwise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (CTokg)

19 speaking of Eastern Europe, "Christmas market ISIS 'mass terror attack' plot' foiled in Poland"...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (g47mK)

20 The only interesting part of this war has been the advancement in drone tech, and the way that it has made advancing in the open almost impossible for any significant force.

I think we're just starting to think about the implications of large-scale drone attacks on our military. We need to step up the pace dramatically.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

21 And no American soldiers anywhere near the current battlefields or anywhere near a hypothetical future conflict. Until Western Europe decides that their culture is worth defending, what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

Amen, and then some.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (2L+MU)

22 >>The plan is to send native Europeans and Americans to Ukraine to die, and replace them with mohammedans who will build harems out of the women left alone.

harems -> slaves
and kill off their male children not old enough to enlist

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (NuV6c)

23 Europe is already lost.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (W7XSX)

24 I want to see Russia mix it up with Poland.

They will discover that Poland hates them more than Ukraine does, and Poland's armed forces are bigger, better, and better equipped.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:06 AM (n9ltV)

25 what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

>>>>

Sadly, too many people are asleep. They think Islam is just like Christianity.

It's not.

It CAN be no big deal, as it was when the West was the strong horse and the middle east wanted to copy it- look at pictures from the 1960s and early 1970s in Egypt, Iraq, and Iran.

But we've revealed we're a paper tiger- not from lack of capability, but from lack of will.

And the will of Islam to murderously oppress everyone opposed to it looks like the strong horse.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:06 AM (zjgNU)

26
Stay out of Eastern Europe's territorial disputes.

Sort of like the Monroe Doctrine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:06 AM (pkeXY)

27 and...this is the way : "A Christmas ham has been sent to the Bonnyrigg home of the alleged Bondi terrorists."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:07 AM (g47mK)

28 I told you Australians are close in spirit to us Americans!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:07 AM (g47mK)

29 I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor. - The James Madison

Sheesh! Not another remake!

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (2L+MU)

30 Trump understands that if he agrees to any boots on the ground agreement in Ukraine , his support will crumble to near zero right?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (udlma)

31 "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

Those Germans knew how to train their dogs well.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (zjgNU)

32
Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."

Dennis Prager wants us to be.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (pkeXY)

33 To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, "Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single United States Marine."

Or Neville Chamberlain: "Why should we be involved over a quarrel in a faraway land between people of which we know nothing."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (ufSfZ)

34 Europe is already lost.

I disagree. As someone here pointed out yesterday, the Muslim fraction of their populations is lower than it seems at first glance, because you usually hear something like "Mohammad is the most popular name in Amsterdam (or another city)." However, that doesn't reflect the fact that the Muzzies, like blacks and new immigrants in America, are heavily concentrated in the cities.

Don't get me wrong, they are still a yuuuge problem and will need to be dealt with, but it's not QUITE as big a problem as we might think.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

35 Me? I DID get the GI Joe with kung-fu grip. And he talked, too! Behold my privilege!

Posted by: tsj017 at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (ZiGm9)

36 >>and...this is the way : "A Christmas ham has been sent to the Bonnyrigg home of the alleged Bondi terrorists."

The sender will be arrested and jailed for hate crimes.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

37 I'm reading a proposed deal by the Euroweenies and Zelenskyy has not been signed on by the US...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (VE6XX)

38 I think we're just starting to think about the implications of large-scale drone attacks on our military. We need to step up the pace dramatically.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

We won't until they happen to us.

Our generals are always fighting the last war and the current ones DEFINITELY don't have the vision to respond to others' mistakes.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (zjgNU)

39 Thx CBD. The Ukes better get a peace deal quick because the Russians are overrunning a big remaining section of the Zaporitzia oblast. The Ukes are just about out of reserves.

Bismarck line.: the Americans are a lucky people. On the north and south bounded by repetitively weak nations. On the east and west bounded by fish.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (D+mpw)

40 There's nothing worth defending with Europe--they're busy turning their nations over to the moslems. I'd rather do business with Russia.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (TN0g+)

41
I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor. - The James Madison

Sheesh! Not another remake!
Posted by: Paco

Another remake of To Be Or Not To Be.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (pkeXY)

42 I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

Just saw something along those lines yesterday - Germany's government has decided it's a bad look to have a non--existent military. So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army. He announced the first project he intends to accomplish; he plans to have them dig trenches along the Polish Border. (no, I'm not kidding)

So think about this - the Uke War has demonstrated that advanced tech in the form of drones and standoff weapons is the way wars will be fought now. And so Merz has decided that the way to show his country's might is to round up a bunch of half witted conscripts, hand them shovels, and tell them to go dig ditches. Riiiigghhhtt...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (uWKK8)

43
I want to see Russia mix it up with Poland.

They will discover that Poland hates them more than Ukraine does, and Poland's armed forces are bigger, better, and better equipped.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:06 AM (n9ltV)

Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders. See: Miracle on the Vistula circa 1920.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (y9nCu)

44 >I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

Berlin will not enjoy the result the second time around. The Poles may no longer have Winged Hussars, but they are much better armed than what passes for the Wermacht.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (NgqoH)

45 Trump understands that if he agrees to any boots on the ground agreement in Ukraine , his support will crumble to near zero right?

I honestly don't know what Trump understands anymore.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (ufSfZ)

46 Our generals are always fighting the last war and the current ones DEFINITELY don't have the vision to respond to others' mistakes.

I hope you and I are both wrong, and there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than we know.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

47 Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger, and the insulting argument that Ukraine is only the first step in its drive to the Channel is thoroughly debunked by the facts on the ground. Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years?
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While I agree with your basic point, that Russia is weaker than previously thought, i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for. I see this a lot, that Russia couldn't even conquer Ukraine, much less Germany or France.

Ukraine (before Russia invaded) was likely the second largest military in Europe, though Poland is probably now larger. Conquering Ukraine never was going to be an easy task, except in the year 2021 fever dreams of Putin and his generals.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

48 Don't get me wrong, they are still a yuuuge problem and will need to be dealt with, but it's not QUITE as big a problem as we might think.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

It will be soon. I read somewhere that 40% of German kids under 12 are from migrant background. Not sure on how accurate that is, but the fact that it's plausible is enough.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (0bjKf)

49 Eastern Europe > Western Europe.

I'd rather defend Poland than France. Or the UK, frankly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

50 42 Just saw something along those lines yesterday - Germany's government has decided it's a bad look to have a non--existent military. So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army. He announced the first project he intends to accomplish; he plans to have them dig trenches along the Polish Border. (no, I'm not kidding)

So think about this - the Uke War has demonstrated that advanced tech in the form of drones and standoff weapons is the way wars will be fought now. And so Merz has decided that the way to show his country's might is to round up a bunch of half witted conscripts, hand them shovels, and tell them to go dig ditches. Riiiigghhhtt...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:10 AM (uWKK

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I can't wait.

Gosh, I wish Trump would just abandon our bases in West Germany.

Airlift everyone and all the equipment out over the course of like a week without any announcement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

51 So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army. He announced the first project he intends to accomplish; he plans to have them dig trenches along the Polish Border. (no, I'm not kidding)

That is...truly astonishing.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

52 On one hand: Russia is a paper tiger.

On the other hand: The paper tiger would kill a bunch of American Troops and is not worth the price, therefore it should be the Europeans that get killed in Donetsk.

I disagree with the former, and agree with the latter.

Posted by: mossomo at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (pky95)

53 Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders.
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And Turks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (yNJrI)

54 53 Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders.
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And Turks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (yNJrI)

====

The English have a history of subjugating Muslim populations and ruling the seas, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

55 I have an alternate suggestion: We build and keep our own weapons and don't sell them to the Ukes at all. Russia sucks but we shouldn't be involved on either side, period. I'm tired of all of this shit.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (3BwY8)

56 I was in Strasbourg a few years ago around this time of year. They have a cool Christmas market and the whole downtown area is bedazzled in Christmas lights.

Two things that made it less than ideal. First was the majority of people selling things in the market were Arabs. Second the security presence was overwhelming. Not just police but also soldiers. Everywhere. And what I think were special forces type dudes, every one of them was 6’4 240 full of muscle was long around with rifles slung over the shoulder. Which made things safer but was also a constant reminder that they’re there because it’s unsafe.

That’s reality for Europe now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (udlma)

57 Germany will march through Poland to Russia!

--1939 called and wants its Panzers back

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (g47mK)

58 Fuck Europe. It's gone. It may come back, but it'll be generations from now. I won't be alive to see it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 11:14 AM (g8Ew8)

59 Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders.
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And Turks.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (yNJrI)

Yeah, but Vienna is going to be sacked from the inside this time, so there will be no riding to the rescue from Poland.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

60 Don't get me wrong, they are still a yuuuge problem and will need to be dealt with, but it's not QUITE as big a problem as we might think.
Posted by: Archimedes

Christmas markets are being cancelled. Now, a big concert that is usually held on the Champs Elysees on New Years Eve is being replaced by some kind of virtual thing that people are being encouraged to watch from their apartments. The absolute numbers don't matter as long as these craven governments keep empowering the culture enrichers.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

61 51 So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army. He announced the first project he intends to accomplish; he plans to have them dig trenches along the Polish Border. (no, I'm not kidding)

Give them spoons.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at December 16, 2025 11:15 AM (PiwSw)

62 Trump has been very clear that he will not send troops to Ukraine as a part of a security deal. Anyone claiming otherwise just refuses to listen to what he says.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:15 AM (viF8m)

63 49 Eastern Europe > Western Europe.

I'd rather defend Poland than France. Or the UK, frankly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

Absolutely. And I would posit that we will see Europe ignite in our lifetime.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 11:15 AM (N39Ws)

64 And what I think were special forces type dudes, every one of them was 6’4 240 full of muscle was long around with rifles slung over the shoulder.

Did you ask them "Do you speak-a my language?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (ufSfZ)

65 I might care about what happens to Europe if the Europeans cared about what happens to Europe.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (u73oe)

66 >Airlift everyone and all the equipment out over the course of like a week without any announcement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at

Kinda like Robert Irsay did with the Baltimore Colts.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (rJ48h)

67 ‘ Here's my plan. ..’
Damn. CBD. Now I don’t even need to comment (apart from some smartass remarks that I know everyone enjoys).

No. Russia shouldn’t be allowed to invade with impunity.
Yes. They’re so weak they can be stopped easily with EUROPEAN troops.
No. We shouldn’t give Ukraine a guarantee that amounts to NATO membership.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (jbnUc)

68 So Chancellor Merz has decided it's right to borrow a lot of money and rebuild their army

Does Ethel know about this?

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (2L+MU)

69 And what I think were special forces type dudes, every one of them was 6’4 240 full of muscle was long around with rifles slung over the shoulder.

Did you ask them "Do you speak-a my language?"
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*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (TN0g+)

70 However, that doesn't reflect the fact that the Muzzies, like blacks and new immigrants in America, are heavily concentrated in the cities.

And the cities are where the political power ultimately lies.

Look at the French and Russian Revolutions.

Percentage of school kids who are Muslim (2025):

Brussels 52%
Amsterdam 43%
Vienna 41%
London 37.5%
Stockholm 35%
Paris 29%
Copenhagen 28%
Berlin 23%
Madrid 14.5%
Rome 9%

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (xTIDn)

71 I think we're just starting to think about the implications of large-scale drone attacks on our military. We need to step up the pace dramatically.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

I've looked at the accounts of the US Navy engaging Yemen early this year. Public accounts were mostly sugarcoated, and there are no "reporters" any more with the sense to understand the military in any way, so they reprint whatever is spoonfed to them.

But it doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that the Navy narrowly missed suffering a major disaster, such as losing a ship, and the amount of missiles we had to expend to guard against threats vastly exceeded the cost of the low tech drones and missiles that the Yemeni's kept sending. In the long run it was probably a good thing, and I hope the Navy learned the lesson that they need to vastly upgrade their systems and operational plans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (uWKK8)

72 And I would posit that we will see Europe ignite in our lifetime.

"Been there, done that."

- - Sir Edward Grey

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (ufSfZ)

73 "Guarantee a certain level of access to American weapons, paid for in cash. Guarantee a certain level of intelligence cooperation. Guarantee support in the United Nations (remember that?) for a just peace."

yes, imo we should remain The World's Superpower, but friendly liberty minded countries need to supply manpower and cash -- as we provide leadership, technology, and various political persuasions.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (vbXSk)

74 disagree. As someone here pointed out yesterday, the Muslim fraction of their populations is lower than it seems at first glance, because you usually hear something like "Mohammad is the most popular name in Amsterdam (or another city)." However, that doesn't reflect the fact that the Muzzies, like blacks and new immigrants in America, are heavily concentrated in the cities.

—

This is like people who say if you take out Seattle, Washington is a deep red state. Well OK but Seattle is where most people in the state live. You can’t just wave a magic wand and make them disappear.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (udlma)

75 There remain people here in the states with some sort of romantic feelz for Europe. Thus they constantly 'want to help' and pour money into the place. They don't realize Europe today is nothing like 1945.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (NwnyJ)

76 "Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate"

Anyone really believe this? I don't. If any of these breathless reports of dying soldiers were correct, there would literally be nobody left in Ukraine and only a few men in Russia.

This entire war is cask-strength bullshit and ops designed to scam stupid Americans and westerners out of their money. I don't believe a word of it. Not. One. Word.

Fuck both Uke and Russia. I don't give a flaming rat's nutsack about either of them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

77 Plus, the Poles have a history of kicking the shit out of Russian invaders.
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And Turks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:12 AM (yNJrI)

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The English have a history of subjugating Muslim populations and ruling the seas, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

They also don't like the Jews much either.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:18 AM (xcxpd)

78 >>I've looked at the accounts of the US Navy engaging Yemen early this year. Public accounts were mostly sugarcoated, and there are no "reporters" any more with the sense to understand the military in any way, so they reprint whatever is spoonfed to them.

You know who has some very advanced anti-drone technology? Israel.

Maybe we should be friends with Israel. They might even help with the Golden Dome. They've got some good technology on that too.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:18 AM (viF8m)

79
Headline (Barron's):

"Oil prices tumble to lowest levels since 2021. Here are the big concerns."

Concerns!

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)

80 💩 Tin can't be the entire Russian government. He's the face of those who are continuing the history of Russians warring against their neighbors, in this case, their cousins.
They're insane. For less than the financial cost to Russia for this war, Russia could have paid the Ukrainians to shit-can their totally corrupt government and join Russia.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (fPASK)

81 They don't realize Europe today is nothing like 1945.

Europe today is nothing like 1975.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (xTIDn)

82
Q: You're a Polish soldier. Your rifle has two bullets. A German soldier and a Russian soldier are advancing on you. Who do you shoot first.

A: The Russian. Business before pleasure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (tgvbd)

83 79
Headline (Barron's):

"Oil prices tumble to lowest levels since 2021. Here are the big concerns."

Concerns!

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)

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What is Trump doing about the affordability crisis, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

84 Trump's youngest kid is an expert on oil prices now?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

85 But it doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that the Navy narrowly missed suffering a major disaster, such as losing a ship, and the amount of missiles we had to expend to guard against threats vastly exceeded the cost of the low tech drones and missiles that the Yemeni's kept sending. In the long run it was probably a good thing, and I hope the Navy learned the lesson that they need to vastly upgrade their systems and operational plans.

One has to wonder if, as with battleships, the era of the big military platform is over. I'm not sure there is a solution to the problem of vast quantities of cheap, disposable drones other than to adopt the same approach.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

86 Did you ask them "Do you speak-a my language?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (ufSfZ)

Heh. Well I speak their language. 😀
I also have a feeling they wouldn’t take much shit from a dumb Yankee tourist. Those dudes looked all business.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (udlma)

87 i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

I think you are correct, but the vast quantities of Western war matériel plays a huge part in their resistance.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:20 AM (n9ltV)

88 13 Dear Europe,

Fuck you, do it yourself.

XOXO

Duke

PS Fuck you.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (u73oe)

Nominated for Threadwinner

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

89 Percentage of school kids who are Muslim (2025):

Brussels 52%
Amsterdam 43%
Vienna 41%
London 37.5%
Stockholm 35%
Paris 29%
Copenhagen 28%
Berlin 23%
Madrid 14.5%
Rome 9%

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (xTIDn)

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Dearborn 55%

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (NNq22)

90 87 i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

Russia found that out.. Of course without our billions it would have been a different story

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (VE6XX)

91 I'd rather defend Poland than France. Or the UK, frankly."

I'd rather defend Texas...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (XuXeR)

92 I'm quite fine with Europe figuring out this problem.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (+4yJ5)

93 >>I think you are correct, but the vast quantities of Western war matériel plays a huge part in their resistance.

Not just material but intel. We've been supplying Ukraine with advanced satellite and other intel since the start of the war. Without it they would have lost long ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (viF8m)

94 75 There remain people here in the states with some sort of romantic feelz for Europe. Thus they constantly 'want to help' and pour money into the place. They don't realize Europe today is nothing like 1945.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (NwnyJ)

Only feelz I have for Europe is utter disdain and disgust. If (when) we go back, I'm all for making what is left of Europe a US territory. They've repeatedly shown they can't govern themselves without us bailing them out.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (N39Ws)

95 87 i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

I think you are correct, but the vast quantities of Western war matériel plays a huge part in their resistance.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:20 AM (n9ltV)

Slavic stubborness for the...stalemate. But they are still fighting.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

96 41 Another remake of To Be Or Not To Be. - Bertram Cabot

Funny movie (Carole Lombard's last, I believe).

Many good scenes, but one brief one that stands out to me is when the actor playing Hitler walks into a room to the shouts of "Heil, Hitler!" by the actors playing German soldiers, and he says, "Heil, myself".

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (2L+MU)

97 i think Ukraine was stronger than being given credit for.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

I think you are correct, but the vast quantities of Western war matériel plays a huge part in their resistance.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Also the fact that, though not as big as Russia, of course, it is still a huge country (the second-largest in Europe).

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

98 Percentage of school kids who are Muslim (2025):

Brussels 52%
Amsterdam 43%
Vienna 41%
London 37.5%
Stockholm 35%
Paris 29%
Copenhagen 28%
Berlin 23%
Madrid 14.5%
Rome 9%
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (xTIDn)

What I read from this is that Italy still has a chance to survive as Italian.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (zjgNU)

99 91 I'd rather defend Poland than France. Or the UK, frankly."

I'd rather defend Texas...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (XuXeR)

The El Paso Reconquista will be bloody but needed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (xcxpd)

100 96 41 Another remake of To Be Or Not To Be. - Bertram Cabot

Funny movie (Carole Lombard's last, I believe).

Many good scenes, but one brief one that stands out to me is when the actor playing Hitler walks into a room to the shouts of "Heil, Hitler!" by the actors playing German soldiers, and he says, "Heil, myself".

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:21 AM (2L+MU)

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Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

101
I don't know if Trump is getting bamboozled or not. But at least he's trying to deal with the situation as it is and not as we want it to be.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (tgvbd)

102 "Ukraine (before Russia invaded) was likely the second largest military in Europe, though Poland is probably now larger. Conquering Ukraine never was going to be an easy task, except in the year 2021 fever dreams of Putin and his generals."
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM

It wasn't just Putin. A lot of conventional wisdom was that Ukraine was screwed up to and including maybe a week after Russia invaded. Also, I seem to recall several people who should have known better were touting the size of Iraq's military in 2003. Removing Hussein wasn't going to be easy, there's going to be tens of thousands of casualties, he's been building military defenses in depth for decades, etc. I think we can safely conclude that just comparing numbers is a quick way to get it wrong.

Posted by: Semper Why at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (CXFWL)

103 Many good scenes, but one brief one that stands out to me is when the actor playing Hitler walks into a room to the shouts of "Heil, Hitler!" by the actors playing German soldiers, and he says, "Heil, myself".
Posted by: Paco

We'll have the singing Hitlers over there and the dancing Hitlers over there.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

104 Anyone really believe this? I don't. If any of these breathless reports of dying soldiers were correct, there would literally be nobody left in Ukraine and only a few men in Russia.

After mobilizing 300,000 men early in the war, Russia has been able to get by with volunteers (by paying enormous bonuses by the standards of rural Russia).

(Russia, like it has for decades, also drafts 300,000 men a year for one-year terms, but they aren't sent to Ukraine.)

If Russia had taken a million casualties, it wouldn't be able to do that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (xTIDn)

105 Ukraine had one glorious moment back in 22, then they said "see ! we can cause Putin collapse" , the Euros bought into it and sucked Bidet/US/NATO into the scheme. 3 years later, Ukraine is missing 1/4 of its territory, the resource rich one..

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (g47mK)

106 They also don't like the Jews much either."

Brits to Jews: go enjoy that beach at low tide...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (XuXeR)

107 I'm just looking forward to the German Army invading Poland in 2039 because Poland won't subjugate itself to the will of the German chancellor.

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And I look forward to the eventual counter offensive by Polish forces and the ensuing Second Battle of Berlin, where the Poles get to finally beat the living snot out of one of their detestable neighbors.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 16, 2025 11:23 AM (5yDGQ)

108 Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate"

Anyone really believe this? I don't. If any of these breathless reports of dying soldiers were correct, there would literally be nobody left in Ukraine and only a few men in Russia.

This entire war is cask-strength bullshit and ops designed to scam stupid Americans and westerners out of their money. I don't believe a word of it. Not. One. Word.

Fuck both Uke and Russia. I don't give a flaming rat's nutsack about either of them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:18 AM

Agree. 95+% of what we're told about this war is bullshit propaganda.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 11:24 AM (g8Ew8)

109
I'm sure the solution the European big brains will come up with will work as well as it did in the Balkans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 11:24 AM (tgvbd)

110 The sender will be arrested and jailed for hate crimes.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:08 AM

It appears our Lizzy is also a seeress.

I give it a day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:24 AM (kgE5c)

111 One has to wonder if, as with battleships, the era of the big military platform is over. I'm not sure there is a solution to the problem of vast quantities of cheap, disposable drones other than to adopt the same approach.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

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Also "Iron Beam:"

The laser defense system developed by Israel and the United States -- a high-energy laser air defense system designed to intercept short-range rockets, artillery shells, mortars, and drones.

[And eventually directed EMP weapons.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (NNq22)

112 My apologies - I was dusting the keyboard.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (2ap+5)

113 Eastern European countries

These?

(Wikipedia)
In broadest definition, there are 28 countries that constitute the region of Eastern Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (East Thrace), and Ukraine.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (RuTUS)

114 They're insane. For less than the financial cost to Russia for this war, Russia could have paid the Ukrainians to shit-can their totally corrupt government and join Russia.
Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 11:19 AM (fPASK)

They were doing that, and then we ran a color revolution in Ukraine and kicked out the Russian's corrupt President, installed our own corrupt President and Russia decided they had to go to the mattress to 'rebuild' the borders to 1988 lines.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (xcxpd)

115 In Texas only 28% of children enrolled in public school are white.

Of course there are private schools and parochial schools which might skew the numbers down some and maybe it’s 35% when according for that. But no matter the number, within a couple of generations whites will be a small minority in the state.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (udlma)

116 People have lost the ability to understand tradeoffs. They set up an idealized outcome and make no consideration for the costs of achieving that outcome—costs which in war are lives lost. So they never have to say how many lives lost are worth it to achieve their goal.

Yes, a peace deal rewards Putin. Okay. Now, how many lives are you willing to spend to not have a peace deal, compared to the lives that will be lost with a peace deal?

There is almost certainly an argument to be made for both options, but no one on the “no peace” side are willing to even acknowledge that costs exist.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (EXyHK)

117 remain people here in the states with some sort of romantic feelz for Europe. "

It's Disney lite...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (XuXeR)

118 Over 100 so I'm going off topic:

Locally over the weekend, I saw in the news that a woman had livestreamed a murder and then was in a standoff with police.

I thought this was surprising. While possible, women aren't generally that openly confrontational with deadly weapons, especially with guns. (Words and slaps, hair pulls, etc... yes. But not often with guns.)

Today the news reports the charging of the "transwoman" in this murder and standoff...

Ah, everything makes sense now.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (zjgNU)

119 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner, Frank Morgan's character tries to commit suicide and is only thwarted at the last moment. Only Lubitsch could pull off an attempted suicide in a rom-com.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

120 AMERICA....Fuck Yeaaaaaaah.... comin again to save the mutha fuckin day yeaaaah

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (nJthq)

121 Agree. 95+% of what we're told about this war is bullshit propaganda.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 11:24 AM (g8Ew

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When it started, Sundance over at The Conservative Treehouse blog was mockingly calling it "World War Reddit."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (NNq22)

122 What I read from this is that Italy still has a chance to survive as Italian.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (zjgNU)

Except Italy’s native birth rate is at 1.2 or something like that. They’re dying out with or without immigrants.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (udlma)

123 119 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner, Frank Morgan's character tries to commit suicide and is only thwarted at the last moment. Only Lubitsch could pull off an attempted suicide in a rom-com.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

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Good enough for a video! (soon...)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

124 Ukraine vs Russia has been a proxy war for us. And as a proxy war it has accomplished a lot of the USA's goals at a high price in dollars (and thankfully not in American lives). We should remember that it is a proxy war and sometimes your proxy loses.

Logistically, I think the bases in Europe are too valuable to just abandon without having alternate facilities at the ready. But if we decided that our support for our Ukraine friends isn't worth the price we're paying, I'm 100% on board with wishing them luck and pulling the plug.

Posted by: Semper Why at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (CXFWL)

125 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (qv38K)

126 And listen to the winds of change.

Posted by: Scorpions!! at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (VF6cf)

127 39 Bismarck line.: the Americans are a lucky people. On the north and south bounded by repetitively weak nations. On the east and west bounded by fish.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (D+mpw)

Nice.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (RuTUS)

128 Huge expose at The Post about the consummate , life long grifter and online terrorist, candy ovens : "Inside Candace Owens’ ‘sadistic and dangerous’ world monetizing baseless conspiracies"

https://tinyurl.com/58wz4x85

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (g47mK)

129 Today the news reports the charging of the "transwoman" in this murder and standoff...

Ah, everything makes sense now.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (zjgNU)

There is a huge amount of pent-up violence in that population, and I hope it manifests against the establishment that pushed trans-everything.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (n9ltV)

130
Ukraine (before Russia invaded) was likely the second largest military in Europe, though Poland is probably now larger. Conquering Ukraine never was going to be an easy task, except in the year 2021 fever dreams of Putin and his generals.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (Q+8fu)

I rather suspect that the Russians would have been successful if they weren't idiots. I mean, invading Ukraine at the BEGINNING of the mud season???!? That stupidity forced them to keep all of their men and equipment on the roads where they were easy pickings for Uke anti-armor.

Once they got bogged down on the roads, defeat or Great War II: Trench Warfare Electric Boogaloo was inevitable. They may still defeat the Ukes, but it'll be damned expensive, and it may end up bringing down the whole country in the process. Depends on how badly the ChiComs want Siberia's resources.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (y9nCu)

131 The spice will continue to flow. If Russia brings out the atomics then it's a done deal. That won't happen.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (nljXp)

132 Italy still has a chance to survive as Italian."

Much like Japan...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (XuXeR)

133 Europe is a dump heap and the people living there are garbage.

Time for them to go away and stop bothering the grown ups.

Posted by: Europa Is A Dirty Whore at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (YyIMQ)

134 Also "Iron Beam:"

The laser defense system developed by Israel and the United States -- a high-energy laser air defense system designed to intercept short-range rockets, artillery shells, mortars, and drones.

[And eventually directed EMP weapons.]

Agreed, but that won't solve the problem of tractor trailers loaded with drones and dispersed around the country - at least for a while. Those systems aren't cheap, and we're a long way from being able to provide them for every revetment, dock, and bunker.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

135 122 What I read from this is that Italy still has a chance to survive as Italian.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (zjgNU)

Except Italy’s native birth rate is at 1.2 or something like that. They’re dying out with or without immigrants.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (udlma)

Is that where the Paolo is from?

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (RuTUS)

136 Inside Candace Owens"

Nope. Wouldn't be prudent...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (XuXeR)

137 war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

And that right there is the existential question.
Unless the West physically expels ALL Islam, necessarily by force, we will lose our civilization.
Sounds dramatic, but is hardly debatable.

Posted by: RI Red at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (7Pd3v)

138 Good enough for a video! (soon...)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I might actually have to watch that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

139 >>They were doing that, and then we ran a color revolution in Ukraine and kicked out the Russian's corrupt President, installed our own corrupt President and Russia decided they had to go to the mattress to 'rebuild' the borders to 1988 lines.

And we didn't just run a color revolution and leave. We've been running Ukraine since the Maidan coup. Well the CIA has been running it.

The war has always been a proxy war between Russia and NATO. Ukraine was a useful pawn but without the hundreds of billions in weapons, intel and cash poured into Ukraine by the west Russia would have won a long time ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (viF8m)

140 Eastern European countries

These?

(Wikipedia)
In broadest definition, there are 28 countries that constitute the region of Eastern Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (East Thrace), and Ukraine.
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM

Dafuq? When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (kgE5c)

141 138 Good enough for a video! (soon...)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I might actually have to watch that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
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Friday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

142 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 16, 2025 11:27 AM (qv38K)

"Messiah Trump" . I laughed- loudly. Trump is not my Messiah. He's my President.

Posted by: AliasJonesJones at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (2sfNr)

143 Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals,
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Russia isn't fighting only Ukraine in Ukraine.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (qrkyB)

144 Today the news reports the charging of the "transwoman" in this murder and standoff...

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The Great Transgender Genocide proceeds unabated and apace ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (NNq22)

145 141 138 Good enough for a video! (soon...)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I might actually have to watch that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
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Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

Rebecca Black or Ice Cube?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

146 The way I remember it, seemingly right on the heels of the disastrous, middle of the night let’s not tell anybody even our allies we’re leaving Afghanistan (where some non-trivial amount of multi-billions in weaponry and aircraft were criminally abandoned)

All of a sudden, the Narrative did this pivot to “Rally Round The Flag, Boys!” on the Ukraine. We simply had to protect their “freedom and democracy” despite everyone knowing they aren’t free or even close to a democracy.

Then the usual suspects got in front of the cameras on all the state networks and demanding eleventy gazillion dollars a year in perpetuity for this debacle, or they threatened Americans directly to do otherwise would mean “boots on the ground” in the Ukraine. Extortion.

Couldn’t believe it. And even more unbelievable were all these old hippie “antiwar” freaks leading the charge. I am in awe of the power of government suggestion & hypnosis, or whatever it is that turns ordinary people into raving idiots.

The don’t GAF about their own family, but they are deeply, deeply concerned about Transnistria, or methane levels on Jupiter’s outer moons. Ya gotta admit that’s amazing shit.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (E4WLu)

147 Also "Iron Beam:"

The laser defense system developed by Israel and the United States -- a high-energy laser air defense system designed to intercept short-range rockets, artillery shells, mortars, and drones.

[And eventually directed EMP weapons.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe

Or just the equivalent of CIWS using hopped-up shotgun/flechette rounds. Much less impacted by atmospheric conditions. Also, I'm old fashioned like that.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (OUMaO)

148 some choice bits !

"She wasn’t invited to Charlie’s [2021] wedding. That was really telling.” "

"A source who knows the family said George (her husbad) “has never had a real job” and is mostly known for his lackluster attempt to launch a right-wing Twitter alternative called Parler, which is still active, but has a dwindling number of users."

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (g47mK)

149 Inside Candace Owens"

Nope. Wouldn't be prudent...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM

Rule #1.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (kgE5c)

150 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

Indeed. The Shop Around the Corner is one of my favorite romantic comedy-drama films.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (2L+MU)

151 Leftist Euros will believe in multiculturalism right up to and including their beheading.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (udlma)

152 Bismarck line.: the Americans are a lucky people. On the north and south bounded by repetitively weak nations. On the east and west bounded by fish.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:09 AM (D+mpw)

Nice.
Posted by: m

Didn't Bismarck also say something along the lines of "God takes care of lunatics, drunks, and the United States of America"?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

153 real power couple! Like Mr and Mrs Markle!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (g47mK)

154 Dafuq? When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (kgE5c)

Well it's not Western European, it's not Asian. Where would you categorize it?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (xcxpd)

155 145 Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

Rebecca Black or Ice Cube?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

=====

Rebecca Black is an unsung musical genius at the same level as Dead or Alive!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

156 Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."

This also erodes the real warfighting capabilities of the military. Being the "policeman" since 1950 has cause us to fail in just about every conflict since. We fight well, but we have forgotten how to win.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (2WIwB)

157 The don’t GAF about their own family, but they are deeply, deeply concerned about Transnistria, or methane levels on Jupiter’s outer moons. Ya gotta admit that’s amazing shit.

Posted by: Common Tater

The NPC meme found purchase for a reason.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (OUMaO)

158 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

159 [ZERO] Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading to Venezuela to load crude oil, following this month's US naval seizure of a Venezuelan tanker.

Among these was a Russian tanker transporting crude for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, along with at least four other supertankers en route to Venezuelan ports. They made u-turns on fears of facing US military interdiction.

This also comes after last Friday Bloomberg and others reported that Washington was preparing to carry out further seizures of sanction-linked oil tankers off Venezuela's coast.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (TN0g+)

160 158 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

Great news !

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

161 158 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

Yay on all that!

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (RuTUS)

162 >> I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...

Great news.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (viF8m)

163 Leftist Euros will believe in multiculturalism right up to and including their beheading.

As predicted in Camp of the Saints.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (xTIDn)

164 @152 Bulg, I believe so. He also had some great quotes about the Russians many of them involving calling the Russians "apes"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (D+mpw)

165 150 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

Indeed. The Shop Around the Corner is one of my favorite romantic comedy-drama films.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:30 AM (2L+MU)

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I found out that Lubitsch is in the trailer. It's just Frank Morgan talking to the camera with some clips from the movie, and then Lubitsch wanders into frame. Morgan won't let him talk.

It's amusing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

166 Dafuq? When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

It's located in southeastern Europe. The Balkans also count as Eastern Europe.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

167 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Awesome! Rest well.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (OUMaO)

168 He also had some great quotes about the Russians many of them involving calling the Russians "apes"

Hitler said the Russians were strong backs and weak minds.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

169 @158 great to hear jim , get some rest

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (D+mpw)

170 Do we need an expose to know Candy Cane Owens is a grifter? Lol.

For me this is a hate the game not the player thing. She figured out there is a sizable amount of retarded people online who will believe her shit. I can’t blame her for capitalizing on it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (udlma)

171 "Guarantee a certain level of access to American weapons, paid for in cash. Guarantee a certain level of intelligence cooperation. Guarantee support in the United Nations (remember that?) for a just peace."

Then do the EXACT same thing for Israel.
Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.

Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

172 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Great news, Jim. What bar are going to for the celebration?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

173 Inside Candace Owens"

Nope. Wouldn't be prudent...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:29 AM (XuXeR)

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There's no way to depict that Crazy Axis in two-dimensional space.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (NNq22)

174 pretty complicated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (RuTUS)

175 158 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

Nice going, Jim! Wishing you a speedy recovery (and a long, restorative nap).

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (2L+MU)

176 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

I love The Doll.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

177 Here's something light and amusing:

https://is.gd/ghR2DI

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

178 Imagine if there was some way to guarantee a separation between Europe and Russia, some sort of, I dunno, a trade union that included Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy that would both guarantee free trade between themselves from the Baltic to the Adriatic, and from East to West.
It could be called Mitteleuropa or something.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (rbvCR)

179 Agreed. Now do the Middle East. We just had some soldiers killed there.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (8mulE)

180 176 Ernst Lubitsch, man...high quality talent. Taken too soon.

I love The Doll.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

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For good reason!

Have you seen The Oyster Princess or The Wildcat?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

181 Yeah Greece may be geographically “Eastern Europe” but culturally they’re not really.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (udlma)

182
Of course there are private schools and parochial schools which might skew the numbers down some and maybe it’s 35% when according for that. But no matter the number, within a couple of generations whites will be a small minority in the state.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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And if the non-whites are persuaded to vote a certain way, racial justice will at long last be achieved.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (n7rxJ)

183 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

get well soon , jim!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)

184 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

Glad to hear it, Jim!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (xcxpd)

185 Susie Wiles gives multiple interviews to Vanity Fair over the last year.

Now that part one of the two-part piece has dropped, Susie Wiles complains that it's a hit piece.

WTF did she think Vanity Fair would do?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (Y1sOo)

186 Contracts are like young girls hearts. Made to be broken.

Sorry NATO, it's not you, it's me.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (wBaIH)

187 165 I found out that Lubitsch is in the trailer. It's just Frank Morgan talking to the camera with some clips from the movie, and then Lubitsch wanders into frame. Morgan won't let him talk. - The James Madison

I'll have to look for that. Thanks.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (2L+MU)

188 Is Bismarck a herring?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (XuXeR)

189 181 Yeah Greece may be geographically “Eastern Europe” but culturally they’re not really.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:34 AM (udlma)

They are in the land of the Orthodox, like most of Eastern Europe.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (tOcjL)

190 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (fPt6j)

191 "Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that."

Well, Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine ... so long as Uke was backed up and supported by literally the entire Western world. Without the full support and cooperation of the West -- and 100s of billions of dollars -- Uke would have folded after 6 months. Which would have been a much better result.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

192 Just from watching YouTube, it seems at least half of Ukraine's offensive is small drones and land mines. But Russia uses drones as well.

Someone (Israel) is already working on laser weapons to shoot down drones. We need some array of weapons that can take out a 1000 drone attack, as well as taking out hypersonic missiles. The next hot war will be different, I'd guess.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (vbXSk)

193 European leaders, after WW1, decided a great way to stop wars was to simply declare that all borders are sacrosanct, forever and ever. Except for the bad guy's in a dispute, of course... like Germany after WW1.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (KCWZY)

194 Surgery went well"

Excellent. Let us hope that good work carries thru for all here...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (XuXeR)

195 If you want to watch a pretty good twice daily summary of the war, on YouTube there's a channel called Military Summary. He's from Belarus so a little pro Russian, but the Russians say he's pro Uke . He says never listen to what you hear unless it is supported by geolocated vids. He can babble about peace talks and politics a bit, but he's good at showing what's happening on the ground

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 11:37 AM (D+mpw)

196 That's not an expose. It's littered with sources say and invective and quotes from one named person that I saw that are a lot less inflammatory.

I've known what Owens was while she was still being elevated and worshiped by many, but I stopped listening to anonymous insider quotes a long longshit time ago.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (EdF9K)

197 Armenia s actually entirely in Asia. So is Cyprus as far as I'm concerned. Both are parts of the Middle East.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

198 No more American soldiers...
Pretty good odds DEV group has and still is there for the past four years.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (53oGX)

199 European leaders, after WW1, decided a great way to stop wars was to simply declare that all borders are sacrosanct, forever and ever. Except for the bad guy's in a dispute, of course... like Germany after WW1.

Let's not forget the Washington and London Naval Treaties. They worked really well to limit ship capabilities - on our side. Of course, Japan and Germany just built what they wanted anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

200 Then do the EXACT same thing for Israel.
Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.
Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

While I agree with the idea that our soldiers/marines should never die for another country, when exactly were our Marines/Sailors dying for Israel?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:38 AM (zjgNU)

201 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

202 Dafuq? When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

It's located in southeastern Europe. The Balkans also count as Eastern Europe.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:32 AM

I doubt the Greeks would ever consider themselves Eastern European, borderline geography notwithstanding. Then there's that whole cradle of western civ thing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (kgE5c)

203 While I agree with the idea that our soldiers/marines should never die for another country, when exactly were our Marines/Sailors dying for Israel?

Shhhh, he's rolling.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

204 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (kgE5c)

205 Another quote of Bismarck's was that "some damn foolish thing in the Balkans" would cause WWI.

Prescient, that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

206 159 [ZERO] Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading to Venezuela to load crude oil, following this month's US naval seizure of a Venezuelan tanker."

This is fantastic news, and proof that Trump's plan is working. Again, time for ranting against the idiots who call themselves "reporters" for any outlet, who are unable to see or understand the campaign. Maduro sits at the top of a vast criminal organization, often referred to as the Cartel de los Soles. It's probably more of a loose association of all the criminal enterprises in that region, including the Columbians, than the more tightly run Cartels. To keep control of it requires a vast amount of cash - everyone has to paid off, constantly, and Maduro has militias keeping control in Venezuela that have to be paid off as well. (not to mention his army)
Trump is systematically depriving Maduro of all of his cash.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (uWKK8)

207 Speaking of Russia, we are doing bear oblique hops today. Woohoo!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM (ZdaMQ)

208 Yeah, europe isn't worth the life of a single american soldier. Fuck, it ain't worth the life of an american house fly. Add australia to the list too. When I see their leaders get the mussolini treatment maybe I'll reconsider, but for now all I see is countries spreading their ass cheeks for islam, and the best thing to do is sit back until there is nothing left in those places BUT islam, then neutron bomb it and seize the real estate.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM (snZF9)

209 Thank you for the prayers in the last thread. As always, we are eternally grateful to you all.

First Lady is on her way to pick him up, so we'll see what her evaluation is before heading back. She may be stopping in Paris at the ER. We'll see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

210 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (kgE5c)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

211 Agreed, but that won't solve the problem of tractor trailers loaded with drones and dispersed around the country - at least for a while. Those systems aren't cheap, and we're a long way from being able to provide them for every revetment, dock, and bunker.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

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True. And not only are our military installations not hardened, but think of how vulnerable our civilian infrastructure is -- especially the electrical grids -- to terrorist attacks.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (NNq22)

212 146
‘ The don’t GAF about their own family, but they are deeply, deeply concerned about Transnistria, or methane levels on Jupiter’s outer moons.’

The farther away the more they care. The closer? They give less than a shit.

Dickens had them pegged 150 years ago with Mrs. Jellyby

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

213 Oh, then plant a united states of earth flag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (snZF9)

214 > Just from watching YouTube, it seems at least half of Ukraine's offensive is small drones and land mines. But Russia uses drones as well.
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Ukraine has developed (with obvious help) a fleet of ocean going, one way suicide drone boats. One of them was used to hit a submarine while it was in port. There's video of that. Plus Ukraine has used these type of drone boats to attack Russia's so-called "dark fleet" of tankers they used to avoid sanctions on importing / exporting oil.

An off-the-cuff analysis suggests Ukraine (with help) has inflicted a fair amount of military damage on Russia while draining them of much needed money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (NwnyJ)

215 Los Angeles is no longer an American city. Neither in NYC. Every city will cease to be American over the coming decades.

You can bug out to Wyoming I guess and still have old America for 25,30 years. But eventually all that becomes is like one of those white areas in South Africa. You’ll still be a second class citizen always looking over your shoulder.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (udlma)

216 Another RINO whines:

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that TPS will end for tens of thousands of Haitian migrants come February 2026 — leaving them with no legal status to remain in the U.S.

DHS officials are urging Haitians on TPS to self-deport before they are arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

DeWine, in an interview with local Ohio media, complained that DHS’s potentially deporting Haitian migrants — particularly from Springfield, Ohio, where the Haitian population has exploded — will open American jobs.

“Some of the economic progress that Springfield has made would go away,” DeWine said, according to Cleveland.com:

“Employers tell me many of these, maybe most of these Haitians working there will no longer be legal,” DeWine said. And once that happens, “you’re going to have a lot of unfilled jobs.”

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (TN0g+)

217 Awesome to hear from Jim this morning as well.

God is Great!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

218 >Airlift everyone and all the equipment out over the course of like a week without any announcement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at

Kinda like Robert Irsay did with the Baltimore Colts.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 11:16 AM (rJ48h)

Ouch. Why ya gotta pick that scab?

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (c2vsb)

219 I doubt the Greeks would ever consider themselves Eastern European, borderline geography notwithstanding. Then there's that whole cradle of western civ thing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

In the early Middle Ages, Greece was massively overrun by Slavs. Modern Greeks have more Slavic DNA than Classical Greek DNA.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

220 Piper-
I'm glad you're here. I have a suggestion for an upcoming fashion thread. It would be along the lines of this video.

https://is.gd/NGJTtw

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

221 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM

Excellent news!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (kgE5c)

222 Also, require Ukraine be audited by someone chosen by the US gov't every 6 months. I think the DOGE crew might be a good start. Sure, the gov't might pick scum USAID-type liars to do it's work under some administrations, but all it would take is one honest accounting to invalidate the guarantees, for good.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (KCWZY)

223 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

Every time they say this, after the vacancies are posted, the local AMERICANS looking for work fill the lobby to fill out applications.

It's past time for you to f*ck right off with that noise. Americans WANT to work, you douchetard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

224 I am not nearly so concerned with the goings on in Europe and Europe adjacent as I am about America and America adjacent. Does that make me a filthy isolationist?? Maybe I guess.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (pDt9x)

225 Agreed, but that won't solve the problem of tractor trailers loaded with drones and dispersed around the country - at least for a while. Those systems aren't cheap, and we're a long way from being able to provide them for every revetment, dock, and bunker.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

Oooo... I love sporting clays.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:43 AM (zjgNU)

226 Dickens had them pegged 150 years ago with Mrs. Jellyby
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

227 Does that make me a filthy isolationist"

Welcome to the club...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:43 AM (XuXeR)

228 Get in, destroy all their people and stuff and tell them they'll be back if they mess with us again.

It's not our job to rebuild.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU)

THIS! A thousand times THIS.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (KCWZY)

229
Is Bismarck a herring?
Posted by: man

It's a donut.

We must Dunk the Bismarck!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (pkeXY)

230 The cash Maduro needs comes almost competely from two sources - the Oil trade and the illegal drug trade. Each drug boat hit costs him several million dollars; that tanker that was seized probably lost him $100 million. Each tanker that turns away from Venezuela causes a similar loss.

If Maduro can't keep the cash flowing, his own subordinates will take him out and cut a deal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (uWKK8)

231 The way I remember it, seemingly right on the heels of the disastrous, middle of the night let’s not tell anybody even our allies we’re leaving Afghanistan (where some non-trivial amount of multi-billions in weaponry and aircraft were criminally abandoned)

All of a sudden, the Narrative did this pivot to “Rally Round The Flag, Boys!” on the Ukraine. We simply had to protect their “freedom and democracy” despite everyone knowing they aren’t free or even close to a democracy.

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That was The AutoPen Empire and GloboHomo Deep State giving the green light for Russia to invade as well as 10/7.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (NNq22)

232 "[France and Germany] want American soldiers to do their dirty work, so they can enjoy some strudel and a good Eiswein, or a lovely croissant and a couple of espressos while they read the news of American blood and treasure being spent once again in Europe." - CBD

Les croissants et l'espresso sont pour les touristes américains.

Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (uv8gn)

233 We cannot afford a trillion dollar defense department. There is $9 trillion of debt coming due in 2026 that will be paid with Fed counterfeiting.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (2ap+5)

234 Speaking of Russia, we are doing bear oblique hops today. Woohoo!
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:40 AM

Hmmm...I've never brewed with those. Any good?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (kgE5c)

235
It's not our job to rebuild.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

THIS! A thousand times THIS.
Posted by: GWB

But that's when the money is made!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (pkeXY)

236 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

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That’s all three cucks care about, filling low skilled jobs. Ok jobs will go unfilled. So what? I’d rather have my country preserved than a meat packing plant staying open.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (udlma)

237 230 The cash Maduro needs comes almost competely from two sources - the Oil trade and the illegal drug trade. Each drug boat hit costs him several million dollars; that tanker that was seized probably lost him $100 million. Each tanker that turns away from Venezuela causes a similar loss.

If Maduro can't keep the cash flowing, his own subordinates will take him out and cut a deal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:44 AM (uWKK

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Oh, I image each drug boat contains of tens of millions of lost revenue suddenly under the gulf.

And transporting by land all the way up is just so much harder. That's why they use boats to begin with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

238 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim

Sleep well!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 11:46 AM (kfTpm)

239 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

*raises hand*

What percentage of the Haitians are getting some form of welfare? If they're all working, why do they need it?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

240 That's excellent news Jim!!!

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (Wo1GJ)

241 But that's when the money is made!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM

I though merchandizing was where the real money was made.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (kgE5c)

242 than a meat packing plant staying open.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Than a Chinese meat packing plant staying open!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (kfTpm)

243 220 Piper-
I'm glad you're here. I have a suggestion for an upcoming fashion thread. It would be along the lines of this video.

https://is.gd/NGJTtw
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

Haha! We could do another round of couture or fake! Balenciaga as a house likes being known as weird. They work at it and wax on philosophically about the commentary being made on culture while others nod sagely like what was said makes any sense at all.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (ZdaMQ)

244 It's not our job to rebuild.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Everybody likes to analogize "nation-building" to what we did with Germany and Japan after WWII. What they forget is that 1) both countries were decimated, so that we could rebuild them essentially from scratch, and b) both the Germans and the Japanese were highly intelligent, educated, and disciplined people. That made the rebuilding process easier for them, and easier for us.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

245
This is like people who say if you take out Seattle, Washington is a deep red state. Well OK but Seattle is where most people in the state live. You can’t just wave a magic wand and make them disappear.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (udlma)

*ahem*

Posted by: Zombie Edward Teller at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (y9nCu)

246 In the early Middle Ages, Greece was massively overrun by Slavs. Modern Greeks have more Slavic DNA than Classical Greek DNA.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

Well the slavs were the only ones there who would have sex with the women.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM (uWKK8)

247 Kyiv's Top Negotiator Hails 'Real Progress' During 2nd Day of Peace Talks in Berlin

Let me, progress back towards the original deal? The EU is pounding sand and starting to like it?

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM (NZkDE)

248
https://is.gd/NGJTtw
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

She has big cans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

249 185 Susie Wiles gives multiple interviews to Vanity Fair over the last year.

Now that part one of the two-part piece has dropped, Susie Wiles complains that it's a hit piece.

WTF did she think Vanity Fair would do?
Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 11:35 AM (Y1sOo)

Never talk to cops or the press

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

250 Oh, I image each drug boat contains of tens of millions of lost revenue suddenly under the gulf.

And transporting by land all the way up is just so much harder. That's why they use boats to begin with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

The real question is will shark bites increase due to them being drugged or in withdrawal.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (ZdaMQ)

251 Pathetically, Ohio may actually miss DeWine when Vivek takes over.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (2ap+5)

252 Los Angeles is no longer an American city. Neither in NYC. Every city will cease to be American over the coming decades.

You can bug out to Wyoming I guess and still have old America for 25,30 years. But eventually all that becomes is like one of those white areas in South Africa. You’ll still be a second class citizen always looking over your shoulder.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:41 AM (udlma)
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Have you been to Wyoming recently? The more populated areas (Jackson Hole, Teton Village, etc) are filled with immigrants and most are almost certainly illegal. The entire hospitality industry there -- which is the biggest industry in the area -- is all hispanics who speak not a word of English. There's still lifties and ski patrol and service staff who are white, but all the people in the background -- cleaning people, the grunts, the manual labor -- is all brown skins.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

253 The DeWine mentality is what drives me crazy about the GOP. They see the US as a place conduct business and nothing more. It’s just about muhJobCreators and low taxes for them. That’s not a country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (udlma)

254 It's a donut.

We must Dunk the Bismarck!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

If you have a Bismarck and a Napoleon next to each other on the same tray, do they immediately start fighting?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

255 Jobs will go “unfilled.”

WTF does that even mean?

It's just gibberish... and not even the authentic frontier kind...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)

256 Piper-
I'm glad you're here. I have a suggestion for an upcoming fashion thread. It would be along the lines of this video.

https://is.gd/NGJTtw
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

Haha! We could do another round of couture or fake! Balenciaga as a house likes being known as weird. They work at it and wax on philosophically about the commentary being made on culture while others nod sagely like what was said makes any sense at all.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (ZdaMQ)

I will not be providing extra compensation for this or any other collaboration.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 11:50 AM (c2vsb)

257 Haha! We could do another round of couture or fake! Balenciaga as a house likes being known as weird. They work at it and wax on philosophically about the commentary being made on culture while others nod sagely like what was said makes any sense at all.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM

I don't know if you've ever seen the EweToob channel The Refashioned Hippie. She has a lot of shorts snarking at silly fashions. "Where Are We Going in This?" is a regular feature.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:50 AM (kgE5c)

258 Have you been to Wyoming recently? The more populated areas (Jackson Hole, Teton Village, etc) are filled with immigrants and most are almost certainly illegal. The entire hospitality industry there -- which is the biggest industry in the area -- is all hispanics who speak not a word of English. There's still lifties and ski patrol and service staff who are white, but all the people in the background -- cleaning people, the grunts, the manual labor -- is all brown skins.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

I have never skied Jackson. But yeah I can imagine it. Park City is like that as well.

Wyoming still has the middle of nowhere small towns that are old America. For now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (udlma)

259 How funny would it be that Ukraine joins the EU, then the people revolt and the EU disbands because it's an overbearing bureaucracy filled with unelected communist retards and the countries have had enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Have you been to Wyoming recently? The more populated areas (Jackson Hole, Teton Village, etc) are filled with immigrants and most are almost certainly illegal. The entire hospitality industry there -- which is the biggest industry in the area -- is all hispanics who speak not a word of English. There's still lifties and ski patrol and service staff who are white, but all the people in the background -- cleaning people, the grunts, the manual labor -- is all brown skins.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

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I've heard that the Jackson 'holes' only objection is to the migrant camps being set up in the parks.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (2ap+5)

261 I will not be providing extra compensation for this or any other collaboration.
Posted by: Doof

Fine. And I'm not paying you the usage fee for my earlier obtuseness.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

262 We do have Sailors in eastern Europe, specifically the Aegis Ashore BMD sites in Poland and Romania.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (gUs21)

263 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.
Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Who were the US Marines and Sailors who "died for Israel?"

Posted by: front toward enemy at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (TIizU)

264 Everybody likes to analogize "nation-building" to what we did with Germany and Japan after WWII. What they forget is that 1) both countries were decimated, so that we could rebuild them essentially from scratch, and b) both the Germans and the Japanese were highly intelligent, educated, and disciplined WESTERN people. That made the rebuilding process easier for them, and easier for us.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

It's not just that they were educated and disciplined. It's that both Germany and Japan were populated by people from Western Civilization. (Japan had made a point in the 1800s to adopt Western Society as much as they possibly could, somewhat merging their native culture with Western. That's why it wasn't a struggle to set up a Western-style government post WWII.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (zjgNU)

265 Getting the band back together.

>>@PpollingNumbers
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1h
>>Elon Musk started funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (viF8m)

266 Oh good. Mr H1B is funding the GOP again.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (udlma)

267
I will not be providing extra compensation for this or any other collaboration.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025

When our collab sells out quicker than Starbucks x roller rabbit, you will be sorry!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

268 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) ... if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants..., jobs will go “unfilled.”

Meat packing plants are the new cotton plantations. Sorry for your loss, Massa!

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (NZkDE)

269 255 Jobs will go “unfilled.”

WTF does that even mean?

It's just gibberish... and not even the authentic frontier kind...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)

It means "jobs paying $6 an hour plus room and board in a cheap hotel that sleeps 8 to the room will go unfilled."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK8)

270 I see Archimedes beat me to the Refashioned Hippie link.

She has big cans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM

Yes. Yes, she does. You'd get a chuckle out of her "Bad Design" videos. "Gentlemen...did anyone run this logo by just one 13-year old boy before running with it?"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (kgE5c)

271 Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (zjgNU)

Good point.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

272 OT sidebar but DO check out TJM's Frank Capra list. It's really good and there were a lot of films on that list. Some lesser known gems in there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (xcxpd)

273 Via GP:
Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez Jr., on Monday, evaded questions on the Brown University shooter and declined to say what witnesses claim the shooter yelled before opening fire at the university.

If the shooter were a White male, we would likely know everything about him.

Rhode Island Officials held a press conference on Monday to provide updates on the Saturday shooting and ongoing investigation as the manhunt for the shooter remains underway.

Witnesses say the shooter “yelled something” before killing two students and wounding nine more, and early reports suggest the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

274 It's just gibberish... and not even the authentic frontier kind...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)

It means "jobs paying $6 an hour plus room and board in a cheap hotel that sleeps 8 to the room will go unfilled."
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK

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It means "Tyson Foods won't deposit their annual check into my campaign account as usual."

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (3BwY8)

275
Wyoming still has the middle of nowhere small towns that are old America. For now.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Thanks for letting us know where to direct the next planes!!
~State dept weenies

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (kfTpm)

276 Imagine the horror if companies in Ohio had to pay American citizens a decent wage. We can’t have that. No sir!! If we do that it means the terrorists have won or something.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (udlma)

277 *"Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that."*

But they're not fighting *Ukraine*. They're fighting $700B in US funding and weaponry to the point where the United States has a bullet shortage. If you have that much money and weaponry, you too can ward off a global superpower for three and a half years.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (YINx+)

278 272 OT sidebar but DO check out TJM's Frank Capra list. It's really good and there were a lot of films on that list. Some lesser known gems in there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:54 AM (xcxpd)

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Thankee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

279 I see Archimedes beat me to the Refashioned Hippie link.

She has big cans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:48 AM

Yes. Yes, she does. You'd get a chuckle out of her "Bad Design" videos. "Gentlemen...did anyone run this logo by just one 13-year old boy before running with it?"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

So we can have a fashion thread and a boob thread!

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

280 Piper-
I'm glad you're here. I have a suggestion for an upcoming fashion thread. It would be along the lines of this video.

https://is.gd/NGJTtw
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

Haha! We could do another round of couture or fake! Balenciaga as a house likes being known as weird. They work at it and wax on philosophically about the commentary being made on culture while others nod sagely like what was said makes any sense at all.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:47 AM (ZdaMQ)
_____

Not all of their stuff is stupid and idiotic. The Thunderdome-ish boots and bags are basically post-punk and popular with the 20-something urban girls. I like them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

281 263 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.
Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Who were the US Marines and Sailors who "died for Israel?"
Posted by: front toward enemy at December 16, 2025 11:52 AM (TIizU)

A lot died in Lebanon. But not for Israel.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (xcxpd)

282
I don't know if you've ever seen the EweToob channel The Refashioned Hippie. She has a lot of shorts snarking at silly fashions. "Where Are We Going in This?" is a regular feature.

I have. She posts lots of hilarious stuff, including the one at my #177.

177 Here's something light and amusing:

https://is.gd/ghR2DI

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

283 yes, imo we should remain The World's Superpower, but friendly liberty minded countries need to supply manpower and cash -- as we provide leadership, technology, and various political persuasions.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (vbXSk)

I'm back!

Posted by: Tribute at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (QN4pI)

284
So we can have a fashion thread and a boob thread!
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

And she's more of the big bowacka variety, not 'sweater puppy.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

285 Capitalism at all costs is in part what led to the invasion.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (udlma)

286 If you have a Bismarck and a Napoleon next to each other on the same tray, do they immediately start fighting?

Creme fraiche at 20 paces!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (XuXeR)

287 @PpollingNumbers
·
1h
>>Elon Musk started funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms.
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If he has spare change left over I wish he'd pour it into the Indiana state senate races.

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:57 AM (TN0g+)

288 jim in california I am so happy for you. Praise God ( and a shoutout to your surgeons)!,,,

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

289 8 Neither Russia nor Ukraine have any incentive to stop fighting. So they won't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Make that Putin and Zelinsky don't have any incentive to stop fighting. Putin because he is winning, Zelinsky because his own survival and wealth might end with the war.

I think both average Russians and Ukrainians are well tired of it but the leaders in any conflict are the last to consider ending a war. Iran and Iraq War dragged on for 8 years or so as a killing machine.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

290 Good Rant and, yes, you're right.

This isn't a good thing to say, I guess, but I don't trust NATO & think it'll do as it desires (even if that means taking baby steps) behind this President's back in an effort to wait him out.

And the EU, hell no, never! in as far as trust. The ICC is not staying within its 'legal' boundaries, such as they are. The EU's Euroclear is having a grand time collecting tax revenues from profits generated by Russia's frozen central bank funds AND soaking the US through NATO, the UN, etc. They're all in when it come to support of Netflix created Zelenskyy's never-ending whataboutisms & theft, and they'll let it into the EU likely before 2030 though they deny it. (And then how the hell do you not support Ukraine via NATO?)

(The PA's Army National Guard's Independence Brigade (56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team) is actively involved in training Ukrainian forces in Germany, focusing on essential skills, tactics, and defense doctrines to enhance Ukraine's ability to defend its sovereignty. PA's National Guard (MPAD) also just deployed a public affairs unit for a year-long mission supporting U.S. Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR).)

But Poland, 👍

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (NFX2v)

291 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.

Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

292 I'm starting to think the EUs job is destroy Europe.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (Dv3i1)

293 DeWine funded some missionary or similar type work in Haiti in honor of his daughter (who died in a car crash in Ohio???) and he decided to make his pet project the responsibility of the whole state.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (2ap+5)

294 Capitalism at all costs is in part what led to the invasion.
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No. We can't pillory the left for warping common terms, so we similarly can't blame this on "capitalism" ("at all costs" or otherwise).

Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (TN0g+)

295 Not all of their stuff is stupid and idiotic. The Thunderdome-ish boots and bags are basically post-punk and popular with the 20-something urban girls. I like them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

It’s not, they have a few things I like. But as a house, you cannot deny they aim for weird and they do it on purpose. It’s their thing.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (ZdaMQ)

296 291 Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV

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Took meh' jerb!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

297 Is Bismarck a herring?
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (XuXeR)

Yes, unfortunately they taste like blood and Iron.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

298
Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Someone's circumcision did NOT go well......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

299 295 Not all of their stuff is stupid and idiotic. The Thunderdome-ish boots and bags are basically post-punk and popular with the 20-something urban girls. I like them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

It’s not, they have a few things I like. But as a house, you cannot deny they aim for weird and they do it on purpose. It’s their thing.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (ZdaMQ)

It's the demon worship. Makes brain worms.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

300 As an Ohioan, I can report that DeWine is a putz. And a dweeb.

Posted by: tsj017 at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (ZiGm9)

301 300 As an Ohioan, I can report that DeWine is a putz. And a dweeb.

Posted by: tsj017 at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (ZiGm9)

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Who rules you with an iron fist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

302 When our collab sells out quicker than Starbucks x roller rabbit, you will be sorry!
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

I have no idea what that means.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (c2vsb)

303 Employers tell me many of these, maybe most of these illegal Haitians working there will no longer be legal,” DeWine said. And once that happens, “you’re going to have a lot of unfilled jobs.”
——

What a fucking clown. I hope these fuckers die in a fire. Maybe it will be on YouTube

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (E4WLu)

304 I have. She posts lots of hilarious stuff, including the one at my #177.

177 Here's something light and amusing:

https://is.gd/ghR2DI
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM

I realized that after my post. I'm behind the power curve today. "Googling on Gummies" is an amusing feature as well.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hdXjc_A9ZvQ

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (kgE5c)

305 291 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.

Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Snort.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

306 This isn't a good thing to say, I guess, but I don't trust NATO & think it'll do as it desires (even if that means taking baby steps) behind this President's back in an effort to wait him out.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (NFX2v)

If you trusted NATO (or the EU) that would be a damning reflection on your intelligence.

They want America to pay for their adventures in Ukraine, and they want American blood to be spilled. Nothing more complicated than that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (n9ltV)

307 Have you been to Wyoming recently? The more populated areas (Jackson Hole, Teton Village, etc) are filled with immigrants and most are almost certainly illegal. The entire hospitality industry there -- which is the biggest industry in the area -- is all hispanics who speak not a word of English. There's still lifties and ski patrol and service staff who are white, but all the people in the background -- cleaning people, the grunts, the manual labor -- is all brown skins.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

I have never skied Jackson. But yeah I can imagine it. Park City is like that as well.

Wyoming still has the middle of nowhere small towns that are old America. For now.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (udlma)
___

I ski Jackson hole every year, and go to Utah (Alta) 3-4x a year. The Utah ski and hospitality industry was overrun by hispanics maybe 10 years ago. Jackson was more recent, maybe 5 years ago. Montana (Big Sky) is currently being overrun.

All the other ski destinations were overrun many years ago (Colorado, CA, VT, etc.). The hospitality industry is addicted to cheap labor who will do anything.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

308 287 @PpollingNumbers
·
1h
>>Elon Musk started funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms.
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He is in the same shape the rest of us are: we know the rank and file GOPe critters are vile backstabbing, money grubbing, pieces of shit. Yet, it says something when they are infinitely better at not ensuring civilizational destruction than almost all Democrats. Aesop's fable of the frogs--in a binary choice, King Log (do nothing) is always better than King Stork (gobbles the frogs stupid enough to want gubmint to do something for them).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)

309 264 MacArthur whipped up a Constitution from the ashes of Japan in about a week. He's treated as a jingoistic joke by lefties in the US, but regarded as a savior to the Japanese.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (wBaIH)

310 Someone's circumcision did NOT go well......
Posted by: Sponge

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Zombie Ferdinand Magellan

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

311 Witnesses say the shooter “yelled something” before killing two students and wounding nine more, and early reports suggest the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire.
Posted by: Crusader at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

——————-

He shouted the sheriff is near!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (u73oe)

312 276 Imagine the horror if companies in Ohio had to pay American citizens a decent wage. We can’t have that. No sir!! If we do that it means the terrorists have won or something.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Missed a chance to sock as DeWine, or even for bonus points for Kasich.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (Dv3i1)

313 You can’t just wave a magic wand and make them disappear.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (udlma)

Well, it's not a magic wand, but a pair of keys turned underground in the mountain states might.

Posted by: GWB at December 16, 2025 12:01 PM (KCWZY)

314 MacArthur whipped up a Constitution from the ashes of Japan in about a week. He's treated as a jingoistic joke by lefties in the US, but regarded as a savior to the Japanese.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

It was actually some American woman who wrote most of it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

315 I realized that after my post. I'm behind the power curve today. "Googling on Gummies" is an amusing feature as well.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hdXjc_A9ZvQ

She sounds legitimately high - and still more coherent than Kamala.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

316
It was actually some American woman who wrote most of it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

"And she was black."

- - - - - - Google AI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

317
Britain’s new intelligence chief warned on Dec. 15 that the UK is operating in an era when “the front line is everywhere,” as she set out an assessment of global threats and described Russia as an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” power determined to export instability across Europe and beyond.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (pkeXY)

318 I have no idea what that means.
Posted by: Doof

Ah, Doof has reclaimed his obtuseness.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

319 She sounds legitimately high - and still more coherent than Kamala.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM

I think she is. Title checks out.

And still more coherent than Kamala.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (kgE5c)

320 287
‘ If he has spare change left over I wish he'd pour it into the Indiana state senate races.’

That would be so fucking cool!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

321 DeWine funded some missionary or similar type work in Haiti

Ah, Clinton Foundation ties. This will get ugly.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (NZkDE)

322 Ukraine will get NOTHING and LIKE IT.

Posted by: Miken at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (l481V)

323 317
Britain’s new intelligence chief warned on Dec. 15 that the UK is operating in an era when “the front line is everywhere,” as she set out an assessment of global threats and described Russia as an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” power determined to export instability across Europe and beyond.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (pkeXY)

One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (pDt9x)

324 early reports suggest the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire."

This is MAGA country!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (XuXeR)

325 It seems like every member of the Trump administration has taken to X today to defend Susie Wiles and hit back at Vanity Fair over their bullshit hit piece.

I like the aggression. Scorched earth.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (viF8m)

326 But they're not fighting *Ukraine*. They're fighting $700B in US funding and weaponry to the point where the United States has a bullet shortage.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 11:55 AM (YINx+)

Yes, but their expectation was that they would roll through Ukraine, achieve their goals, and present it as a fait accompli before the West had time to react.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (n9ltV)

327 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.”

—

That’s all three cucks care about, filling low skilled jobs. Ok jobs will go unfilled. So what? I’d rather have my country preserved than a meat packing plant staying open.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Every time we've done that, Americans have come out of the woodwork applying for the jobs.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (+x87d)

328 Not all of their stuff is stupid and idiotic. The Thunderdome-ish boots and bags are basically post-punk and popular with the 20-something urban girls. I like them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

It’s not, they have a few things I like. But as a house, you cannot deny they aim for weird and they do it on purpose. It’s their thing.
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:59 AM (ZdaMQ)
_____

Well, it worked for JPG ... which is how I see Balenciaga, sorta like a more urban JPG, maybe mixed in with some Abboud.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

329 American woman who wrote most of it."

"Just stay away"?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (XuXeR)

330 DeWine said. And once that happens, “you’re going to have a lot of unfilled jobs.”
——

What a fucking clown. I hope these fuckers die in a fire. Maybe it will be on YouTube
Posted by: Common Tater
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And yet a perfect example in a quote of a GloboHomo Chamber of Commerce GOPe former senator and now governor.

DeWino literally hates his own constituents that are white and do not want to work for megacorp for peanuts.

There is a reason that socialism starts to look good when all the megacorps are intent on hiring outsiders because cheaper and then enrolling them on the public dole just to avoid paying more.

Sounds great to the executives and investors, not so good for the average citizen worker in Ohio. They get taxed out the wazoo to support bringing in Haitians that destroy their communities, raise housing prices, and eat their dogs and cats so that megacorp can avoid paying the going rate for US laborers (and safety and sanitary conditions as well).

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:05 PM (WDjG6)

331
One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??
Posted by: tubal

she

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (pkeXY)

332 Britain’s new intelligence chief warned on Dec. 15 that the UK is operating in an era when “the front line is everywhere,” as she set out an assessment of global threats and described Russia as an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” power determined to export instability across Europe and beyond.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (pkeXY)

One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??
Posted by: tubal

Chief. You can't be a woman and accept the title of chief. It's the same situation with 'chairman'.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (Dv3i1)

333 One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (pDt9x)

I would be disappointed if it were anything other than a chick or a fake chick!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (n9ltV)

334 Halperin is reporting that the family of the Cook girl has been told she was the target. Halperin is usually pretty solid but we'll see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (D+mpw)

335 325 It seems like every member of the Trump administration has taken to X today to defend Susie Wiles and hit back at Vanity Fair over their bullshit hit piece.

I like the aggression. Scorched earth.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 12:04 PM (viF8m)

I said before Trump’s election that I hoped he and his cohort would asct with a certain brutality and viciousness towards his, and our enemies. I guess that makes me not a Republican.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (pDt9x)

336 Still haven't figured out why anybody listens to Candace Owens.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (nljXp)

337 One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??"

"She"?

*ducks*

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (XuXeR)

338 289. I think both average Russians and Ukrainians are well tired of it but the leaders in any conflict are the last to consider ending a war. Iran and Iraq War dragged on for 8 years or so as a killing machine.
Posted by: whig

If Philadelphia newspapers weren't writing about supporting Ukraine and detesting The Donald and Russia, Russia, Russia! at least half of the alleged journalists, many "non-profits" and immigration services would be done and left picking sh*t with the chickens.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (NFX2v)

339 The other real conflict is Democrats vs. America

Posted by: Agamemnon at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (Ss/xc)

340 >One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

"she"

Posted by: mr tmz at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (rJ48h)

341 302 When our collab sells out quicker than Starbucks x roller rabbit, you will be sorry!
Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

I have no idea what that means.
Posted by: Doof at December

Roller Rabbit makes really cute PJs.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

342 Damn. Slow again. .

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:07 PM (XuXeR)

343 DeWine's health commissioner , a COVID lockdown queen,is running for governor. She should not be anywhere near power

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (D+mpw)

344 One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

A pronoun.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (NZkDE)

345 334 Halperin is reporting that the family of the Cook girl has been told she was the target. Halperin is usually pretty solid but we'll see
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (D+mpw)

Because Republican, Catholic or jilting love interest ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (VE6XX)

346 I have no idea what that means.
Posted by: Doof

Ah, Doof has reclaimed his obtuseness.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, Piper lost me at Starbucks. By mentioning Starbucks -- not actually IN a Starbucks.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (c2vsb)

347 Just wait until DeWine advocates for suing the government (with our tax dollars!) to defer the end of the "Temporary" protected status. I hope our AG tells him to pound sand.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (Dv3i1)

348 Roller Rabbit makes really cute PJs.
Posted by: Piper

My wife had some very cute flannel jammies from Nick and Nora.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

349 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R--sure he is) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.*”

* which will force my wealthy donors to raise wages for actual Americans until the jobs are filled. Can you possibly imagine the horror? The Horror

FIFY, Guv.

Posted by: Chuck C at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (D0HYP)

350 343 DeWine's health commissioner , a COVID lockdown queen,is running for governor. She should not be anywhere near power
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (D+mpw)

Is anyone normal running for the R OH Gov spot?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (tOcjL)

351 Ohhh, flannel. Sexy.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

352 Ohhh, flannel. Sexy.
Posted by: man

Very cute.

It's when the flannel gets taken off that the sexy starts.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

353 Ohhh, flannel. Sexy.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

It's never the clothes, but who they're on. (And sometimes how they are worn.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:10 PM (zjgNU)

354 345 334 Halperin is reporting that the family of the Cook girl has been told she was the target. Halperin is usually pretty solid but we'll see
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:06 PM (D+mpw)

Because Republican, Catholic or jilting love interest ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (VE6XX)

Or get even for getting embarrassed publicly...related to Republican, but not the same...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 12:10 PM (tOcjL)

355 325 It seems like every member of the Trump administration has taken to X today to defend Susie Wiles and hit back at Vanity Fair over their bullshit hit piece.

I like the aggression. Scorched earth.
Posted by: JackStraw

It is inevitable that dumbass GOP administration types talk to reporters in private so to put their side of the story out. It inevitably backfires and scorches the dumbasses willing to believe that any journalist has ethics, morals, or a sense of truth.

These journalists only report on Democrat malfeasance and internal bickering after that administration is already over and their assholes are maneveuring during off season to point fingers and blame in order to position themselves for the next Dem administration.

The GOP types, and that included Trump in his first term, always believe that Lucy (the journalist) is really going to let them (Charlie Brown) kick the football this time. Trump II is better, for the most part going on their shows directly and trashing them and their narratives or going on favorable platforms rather than rely on journalist 'ethics'.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (WDjG6)

356 My wife has a set of flannel PJs. They are fun for us.

Posted by: tubal at December 16, 2025 12:11 PM (pDt9x)

357 And no woman is sexy when she's bitching about the cold. So, in that respect, flannel helps the sexiness along.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)

358 Ohhh, flannel. Sexy.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

It's never the clothes, but who they're on. (And sometimes how they are worn.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 16, 2025 12:10 PM (zjgNU)

Flannel PJs were ruined by that beta dude who wanted to tell everyone about Obamacare

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:12 PM (c2vsb)

359 Nude leftwing violent faggots

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 16, 2025 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

360 Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

I don't think we want to go there, Honey. Because USS Liberty is a sore subject best left untouched.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (rbvCR)

361 And no woman is sexy when she's bitching"

Oooh. Angry sexy time...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (XuXeR)

362 . . . at least half of the alleged journalists, many "non-profits" and immigration services would be done and left picking sh*t with the chickens.
Posted by: L
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They aren't skilled enough to do that.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (WDjG6)

363 @350 Nova , I think she's running as a Dem

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (D+mpw)

364 Elric- you see Abboud in Balenciaga? Abboud of the great classic suits? Not plays on suits, but classic, holy cow that suit is cut perfectly, Abboud?

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 12:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

365 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (EucNl)

Terrific news, Jim! God bless.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 16, 2025 12:14 PM (5xuJ/)

366 When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?

Orthodox monks write very disparagingly of the influence of "The West." In code, that may mean the Roman church, but there it is, in cyrillic black and white.

When Turks held most of the Balkans, most of the area was "The Near East." That term is seldom used any more. In the day, it included The Lebanon and The Palestine. It's not just Europe's boundary that has floated.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (zdLoL)

367 One word in this quote stands out. Can you spot it??

Apparently, it no longer stands out. 3 of the 4 directors (of which she was one) were already women.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 12:15 PM (NZkDE)

368 Show me on the doll where the mean Jew touched you...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

*kicks rocks. Walks away.
Babes of the IDF wouldn't even look at me.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:17 PM (+x87d)

369 I said before Trump’s election that I hoped he and his cohort would asct with a certain brutality and viciousness towards his, and our enemies. I guess that makes me not a Republican.
Posted by: tubal
======
It is hilarious that trolls start by claiming to be lifelong Republicans when many of us here despise the Republican brand and many of their politicians as moneygrubbing backstabbing sobs.

Democrats more or less love their party and would follow their Pied Pipers into a river to be drowned just like rats did in the old story. So for them, they cannot understand that most of the GOP coalition only puts up with their pols to the extent that they actually do their jobs and prevents Democrats in office from actively harming them and their families.

It is not from loving GOP as a party.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

370 365 I'm reconnected. Surgery went well. Thanks for all the prayers. Off to sleep again...
Posted by: jim
======
May your recovery be swift and relatively peaceful.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 12:19 PM (WDjG6)

371 When has Greece ever been considered an Eastern European country?

Orthodox monks write very disparagingly of the influence of "The West." In code, that may mean the Roman church, but there it is, in cyrillic black and white.

When Turks held most of the Balkans, most of the area was "The Near East." That term is seldom used any more. In the day, it included The Lebanon and The Palestine. It's not just Europe's boundary that has floated.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

No Wermacht soldier was ever worried about being sent to Greece to the Eastern Front.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (+x87d)

372 Of course there are private schools and parochial schools which might skew the numbers down some and maybe it’s 35% when according for that. But no matter the number, within a couple of generations whites will be a small minority in the state.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 11:25 AM (udlma)
==
Yes and no. A substantial number of hispanics consider themselves white, and they are increasingly voting like it. By the third generation few will speak any version of Spanish, their kids already act like American kids and speak dialect free english. Their kids will barely understand anything more than food, some traditional music and some holiday traditions.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2025 12:22 PM (GZYu7)

373 Politico, Dec. 15, 2025,
EU will be ‘severely damaged for years’ if assets plan fails, says Germany’s Merz
European diplomats say both Russia and the U.S. are piling pressure on EU countries to prevent a multibillion euro loan to Kyiv.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:23 PM (NFX2v)

374 In the U.S., Afghan Americans have been officially categorized as Caucasian for census purposes since 1945, placing them in the "White" racial category, which is where the perception of "white adjacency" originates.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 12:25 PM (NFX2v)

375 “ Stay out of Eastern Europe's territorial disputes. They have been going on for a very long time, and most of them have been nasty wars that expose the curious lack of interest in the lives of those who are fighting them.”

Indeed! This applies elsewhere too!

Posted by: Coach Howard Schnebrllenegr at December 16, 2025 12:28 PM (jG0ce)

376
Yeah, Piper lost me at Starbucks. By mentioning Starbucks -- not actually IN a Starbucks.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 12:08 PM (c2vsb)

I haven't been in a Starsucks in years. I feel good about that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

377
No Wermacht soldier was ever worried about being sent to Greece to the Eastern Front.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 12:21 PM (+x87d)

However, the RUSSIAN front!!!!

Posted by: Col. Klink at December 16, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

378 nood

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (RuTUS)

379 Repeat after me: “these are the words of a whiny isolationist,”.

No, we do not need soldiers in Eastern Europe unless they are there for an exercise - but the isolationism and Code Pinkery that increasingly animate this blog is off putting.

Anytime I see the whine of “we are not the world’s policeman” I know I am dealing with somebody who regards being a superpower as a source of embarrassment and deep personal shame and want America to be as whiny and toothless as possible.

I look forward to being called a “warmonger”, mocked for my patriotism (I can’t sing, much less Yankee Doodle Dandy), or attacked for other reasons. I didn’t work for 22 years of my adult life to watch the country become the whiny little bitch so many here so desperately want to save a buck.

Peace through strength - deterrence - power projection - DIME

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 16, 2025 01:09 PM (rQwsY)

380 *263 Not a single US Marine or sailor needs to die for Israel EVER AGAIN.
Posted by: The Minister of Propaganda at December 16, 2025 11:33 AM (WoA1s)

Who were the US Marines and Sailors who "died for Israel?"*

Search for "USS Liberty".

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 16, 2025 01:25 PM (YINx+)

381 "This war is going to end only when Ukraine and its European cheerleaders admit that they have lost territory that will probably never be returned."

Not so. Russia is on the edge of a financial collapse. When that happens, Russia will be able to hold nothing.

To 380: The Sailors of the Liberty did not die for Israel.

Posted by: Quartermaster at December 16, 2025 05:13 PM (UOf2j)

382 We need to stop getting involved in Other Nations Problems they need to start handling those problems themselves

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:27 PM (wGqjj)

383 "Peace Talks in Berlin"????

If heavy bombers and annoyed Russians are not involved those talks are going nowhere.

Posted by: Fred_Z at December 16, 2025 10:35 PM (VQIqq)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 *bonk*

Bring out yer dead!

*bonk*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Seeing takes a lot out of you.

Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (98kQX)

4 She's dead Jim...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (NwnyJ)

5 Kinda creepy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (mT+6a)

6 I guess there would not be much point to a Seeress of Postvorst.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

7 They get to stay in bed all day? I should have been a seer.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (fA38o)

8 What's a Seeress?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

9 Subject matter is beyond me, but we'll done

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (sysp1)

10 She is having nasty thoughts.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (Wg6v7)

11 Early AI.

"Seerees, what is today's weather forecast?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

12 ‘I see you bringing me a hot toddy.’
- Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (o2ZRX)

13 What's a Seeress?"

Really? Still $20....

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (XuXeR)

14 What's that pink blob for?

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (fPASK)

15 Wiki-

The Seeress of Prevorst" is a painting by Gabriel von Max that depicts Friederike Hauffe, a German mystic known for her alleged clairvoyance and trances. The artwork reflects themes of spirituality and the supernatural, capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

16 "She's a fraud!"
-- Edgar Cayce

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

17 Maybe it's gout?

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (/6GbT)

18 Nurse, a dose of Ivermectin, STAT!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)

19 A seer is a fortune teller. They can see the future. Not a single one has ever produced the lottery numbers, so it’s all bullshit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (fA38o)

20 experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena."

So, nuts.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (XuXeR)

21 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

22 Wake up, little Susie, wake up

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (L/fGl)

23 Did the Seeress fall asleep after writing something?

Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

24 Pirate's dream.....

Sunken chest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

25 The Seeress of Prevorst - Seeress? Yes, I'd like to see the rest.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

26 She was like an 19th century Alexa and you could ask her for recipes and shit.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (vFG9F)

27 Beautiful painting, but what a troubled life.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (NZkDE)

28 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12"

1,2,3,4,5...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

29 ‘Tell that Casey fellow that I will not be able to dine with him.’
- Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (o2ZRX)

30 Prevost makes some quality RV's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

31 I wonder if she would appreciate Tummy Rub Tuesday?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (mT+6a)

32 Carl Jung apparently lectured on this woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (2sfNr)

33
1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

Why.....that's the combination to my luggage!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

34 capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist

She's sleeping on the job. Not a subject I would have thought merited a painting.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Dv3i1)

35 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

Seems a shitty life.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

37 She got a painting. I got an opera.

Posted by: Barber of Seville at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (wVcYX)

38 Where are my keys ?!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (g47mK)

39 What's a Seeress?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:33 AM

20 Rubles. Same as in village.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

40 She was in a coma.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

41 There are other Art Threads?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

42 Well, she doesn't have pink or blue hair.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (Wg6v7)

43 The subject matter is the folds in the cloth.
Reminds me of that guy who painted water.
Or the one who paints lace.

And it's been a hellava long time since anyone has been trying to hawk lace wigs here.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (fPASK)

44 Well done but doesn’t go with my furniture and rug.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (KDPiq)

45 As you work toward the completion of your painting, perhaps take a moment, step back, and ask yourself "Where should I place my happy little bushes?"

Remember, it's your painting.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (0sNs1)

46 Peter Max>>Gabriel von Max

Posted by: Psychedelic Sidney at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)

47 Beautifully painted. Can't think of any place I'd hang it though.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

48 Your Lucky Numbers:
7 15 9 32 12"

1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man

Mudskipper by a length at Aqueduct

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

49 I wonder if she can levitate?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

50 There's no nose ring. Wouldn't bang.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (fPASK)

51 20 Rubles. Same as in village"

Ja, baby!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (XuXeR)

52 ‘Edgar, is that you? Where’s the beef?’

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (o2ZRX)

53 Beware of white vans approaching your Christmas Market.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (R86kT)

54 Apparently this artist who paints very nice portraits had a thing for monkeys. They are in a lot of his paintings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (2sfNr)

55 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

-
Like working at the Post Office.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (L/fGl)

56 I am the eyes of Nostrildamus, all your ways are known to me.

Posted by: The Seer at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (oftw2)

57 I wonder if she can levitate?"

I'm sure she could get a rise out of some moron...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (XuXeR)

58 Peter Max>>Gabriel von Max
Posted by: Psychedelic Sidney at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)

Peter Gabriel >

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

59 Dude, she's, like, in a coma!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (yNJrI)

60 Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM

To be fair, are you implying that the other 'more vibrant Art Threads' presenting artworks with more vibrant colors, or that their comment sections are more vibrant?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (0sNs1)

61 She's got a date with Cesare the Somnambulist at midnight.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

62 I'd rather see a picture of Marie Prevost.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (ufSfZ)

63 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (NwnyJ)

64 "The treasure on Oak Island is buried at....Arrrrgh....

Posted by: The Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

65
Mudskipper by a length at Aqueduct
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/KIOTE8w37ZM

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

66 Gabriel von Max: The Seeress of Prevorst

Al Gore: Global warming is serial!

Mittens Romneycare: I'm severely conservative

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (sKqQm)

67 The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

*************

A fortune teller named Mathilda Greims
Saw the future, and told it in rhymes
"The joys of tomorrow will be tempered with sorrow,
Both Prebest and yet Prevorst of times!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

68 Where are my keys ?!"

Apfel air tag?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (XuXeR)

69 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM

Green.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

70 Maxfield Partish>

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (o2ZRX)

71 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice.

Posted by: Ashley Home Store at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)

72 55 a 19th-century German mystic who spent seven years suspended between life and death

-
Like working at the Post Office.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:40 AM (L/fGl)

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:43 AM (VE6XX)

73 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?"

Cleveland.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (XuXeR)

74 1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

Why.....that's the combination to my luggage!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
*****
Actually those were my nuclear go codes for launching ICBM's on Red States.

Posted by: President Brandon at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (fPASK)

75 On the far bedpost is the Seeress chewing gum, losing it's flavor overnight.

Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)

76 Fentanyl overdose.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (fPASK)

77 First nimrod who challenges me to make a limerick out of 'clairvoyance' gets a night in The Barrel

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

78 Max von Sydow >

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (wVcYX)

79 When I said "I'd like a nightcap", this isn't what I had in mind.

Posted by: Seeress With DTs at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (oftw2)

80

Must! Not! Fap!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (KrNsD)

81 “ . … capturing the essence of Hauffe's experiences as a somnambulist and her connection to mystical phenomena.”
———

She ended up in yer bed in the morningtoo, if you left the door unlocked. It’s a miracle. What a gal!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (9qg/U)

82 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

83 I'd rather see a picture of Marie Prevost.

She died from...Malnutrition and alcohol poisoning.

So she drunk herself into such a stupor she starved?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (sKqQm)

84 Seeress -

'Invest in Enron stock'.

Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)

85 Why does Oberstenfeld ring a bell ? It is famous for something ? Infamous ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (g47mK)

86 She's probably very good in bed. Sleeps for weeks, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

87 "She was a dead lay......"

- - - - - - Creepy Male Nurse Guy

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

88 Very well rendered and disturbing. I can't have disturbing art in The Man Cave no matter how good it is!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (6qf1m)

89 Passed out?

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (ZdaMQ)

90 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice."

"I like oak. How about you, Jimmy? You an oak man? Oak's nice..."

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM (XuXeR)

91
She died from...Malnutrition and alcohol poisoning.

So she drunk herself into such a stupor she starved?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (sKqQm)

She took that whole 'liquid bread' thing to an extreme level.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

92 wtf am I looking at

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

93 Seeress -

'Invest in Enron stock'.
Posted by: dantesed at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Oy/m
******
Lost $900 doing that.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (fPASK)

94 92 wtf am I looking at

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

======

A computer screen, but that's not important right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)

95 First nimrod who challenges me to make a limerick out of 'clairvoyance' gets a night in The Barrel
Posted by: muldoon

Yes, that would be quite an annoyance!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 16, 2025 09:50 AM (w9Wax)

96 does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free"

Doesn't rhyme with Nantucket...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

97 She's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (Wg6v7)

98 Okay, if you insist.

Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant

Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

99 "Does the letter 'M' mean anything to you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (vL0rw)

100 82 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

====

hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

101 54 Apparently this artist who paints very nice portraits had a thing for monkeys. They are in a lot of his paintings.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Cute little spider monkey would improve this painting immensely.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (oftw2)

102 a German mystic known for her alleged clairvoyance and trances.

Well, crap. There went my ruble joke. Maybe I should read the comments first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (kgE5c)

103 99 "Does the letter 'M' mean anything to you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (vL0rw)

=====

Plant it on the back of Peter Lorre, it means one thing.

Put it on a little round candy, it means something else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

104 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (fA38o)

105 A song for the season:

https://tinyurl.com/djpu9d7b

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (ufSfZ)

106 Cute little spider monkey would improve this painting immensely.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM

*eyes canvas critically*

*hefts poo*

Posted by: A spider monkey at December 16, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

107 Interesting, if rather drab, painting. Von Max's paintings are realistic. The details in the bedstead and covers and her clothes are exact. But it's her posture that makes the image so effective. Relaxed, possibly comatose, facial expression and her arms open as if to invite in whatever influences she is receiving. (To my eye there is a hint of crucifixion in the position of her hands.) It is rather haunting but not something I would hang.

Von Max did have a sardonic sense of humor. He did several paintings of monkeys as if doing human things. My favorite is a group of monkeys crowded together, titled "Monkeys as judges of art". Almost 150 years later I agree.

Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2025 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

108 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM

LOL!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

109
hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

It's what you get for sleeping in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

110 64k jobs created in November. Not great but also not anywhere close to the “worst economy evaaaahhhh” bullshit the msm is peddling.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (udlma)

111 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It meant a great hunter, after the King Nimrod mentioned in Genesis. Bugs Bunny used it ironically to refer to Elmer Fudd, usually while patting him on the head. That's why everyone who grew up with Looney Tunes sees it as meaning something like "idiot."

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

112 *considers asking Muldoon to use clairvoyance in a limerick*

*errs on the side of caution*

*does part to keep limericks clairvoyance free*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

The obvious solution is to rhyme it with annoyance... just saying.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (MMj60)

113 Zoot of Anthrax > The Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

114 110 64k jobs created in November. Not great but also not anywhere close to the “worst economy evaaaahhhh” bullshit the msm is peddling.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:54 AM (udlma)

======

If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

115 “The View” Wonders Where All the Hate Comes From

-
That's a head scratcher alright.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

116 Okay, if you insist.

Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant
Posted by: muldoon at December 16, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

Wow! "Claire's buoyant" is just perfect.

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (nKjbR)

117 There went my ruble joke"

zwanzig marks...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (XuXeR)

118 98 ... "Miss Claire, a German clairvoyant
Gave the mayor sadistic enjoyment
He said, "Son of a bitch,
We can't burn the witch,
So let's drown her, to see if Claire's bouyant"

Muldoon, you are brilliant! Thanks for the smile.

Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (yTvNw)

119 Nimrod was known as a great hunter. So, Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd, “A real Nimrod”.

Didn’t think you were getting lessons in antiquity in Looney Toons?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (fA38o)

120 The View” Wonders Where All the Hate Comes From

Out of your mouths everyday

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (VE6XX)

121 Personally, I'd like to see the name "Muldoon" featured in a limerick.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

122 Hüttlenswaldschlucht > Prevorst

[nods authoritatively]

Posted by: The Sawer of H�ttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (Qqd2H)

123 Huttlenswaldschlucht > Prevorst

[nods authoritatively]

Posted by: The Sawer of Huttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (Qqd2H)

124 Nimrod doesn’t mean stupid. It was used ironically in Looney Toons and everyone thinks it means stupid.

Nimord the Hunter from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations:

https://tinyurl.com/yd2sewz6

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (ufSfZ)

125 36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

Your piety knows no bounds, does it?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)

126 Put it on a little round candy, it means something else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

Pretty sure those are Ws in the Southern Hemisphere.

Posted by: Peruvian Petey at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (oftw2)

127 what is the measure of a good jobs report?"

All numbers must always be increasing, ok?

/our betters

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (XuXeR)

128 Zoot of Anthrax > The Seeress of Prevorst
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

129
Past 100, so.

Finn is at the vet. They'll do blood tests and an X-ray. He has never seemed to be in any distress. When I went down this morning at 5:00, there were red splotches on the floor and while I was there, he hacked up a large piece of mucus along with bloody saliva. But he walked up to the car just fine, jumped into the crate on his own and didn't exhibit any further coughing or distress on the trip.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (tgvbd)

130 125 36 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

You're begging for fat ass on an ottoman...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:57 AM (VE6XX)

131 I think a second cup of coffee is indicated this morning.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (9qg/U)

132 Didn’t think you were getting lessons in antiquity in Looney Toons?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Practically everything I know about Wagner's operas I learned from Looney Tunes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

133 Got the 'ol cherry pie nope on 122 for the umlaut in name field... yet it posted.

ok.

Posted by: The Sawer of Huttlenswaldschlucht at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (Qqd2H)

134 How many eider ducks had to perish to keep this broad comfy?

Posted by: The Huge Manatee! at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (oftw2)

135 Like the pale colors. Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (D+mpw)

136 Huttlenswaldschlucht"

gesundheit...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (XuXeR)

137 If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

The population isn’t decreasing. The “self deported” number is a fugazi. Even if that were legit (which it’s not) There are still millions of legal immigrants coming into the country every year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (udlma)

138 FBI Giving Congress Bombshell Memos Telling Biden DOJ It Didn’t Have Probable Cause to Raid Trump Home

-
On the other hand . . .

New Memos Reveal Corruption Probe Into Clinton Foundation Was Killed: “We Were Told No by FBI HQ”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

139 I strike that same pose when I'm trying to convince myself to get out of bed in the morning. Though I try to divine what the day will hold, I usually find I am wrong.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (MMj60)

140 I think a second cup of coffee is indicated this morning."

Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (XuXeR)

141 How many eider ducks had to perish to keep this broad comfy?
Posted by: The Huge Manatee!

About a malliard, give or take.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

142 Relevant To Art Thread

We had a nice snowfall over the weekend here in the 'Nati, but this afternoon it's going to melt...

I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

143 Practically everything I know about Wagner's operas I learned from Looney Tunes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

That was also a jab at the Nazis because they loved Wagner. There’s a lot of stuff in those cartoons that we don’t get now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:01 AM (fA38o)

144 They say that the Miss was clairvoyant,
She lived between this world and that.
She proved a particular annoyance,
She really just wasn't all that.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 16, 2025 10:01 AM (WQDw6)

145 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art
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I knew you were going to say that.

Posted by: Frederica Hauffe at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (XeU6L)

146 71 Bed looks like maple, pretty nice.
Posted by: Ashley Home Store at December 16, 2025 09:

20 Deutsche Mark

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (/6GbT)

147
I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

Love that.. Especially the music ....Of course there is no talking....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:02 AM (VE6XX)

148 CBD bringing us a quack, demon-possessed, witch during the Holiday season seems like a thumb in the eye.

Other more vibrant Art Threads would never do that.
Posted by: Art
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There's always that vibrant Art Thread over at Hot Air.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

149 Nazis because they loved Wagner"

What a dick!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

150 Nazis because they loved Wagner"

What a dick!
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

Just don't go out on a boat with him.

Posted by: Zombie Natalie Wood at December 16, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

151 Madonna recovering from her latest facelift and butt tuck.

Posted by: Waste Of Money and Time at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (YyIMQ)

152 Holy shit, I wanted to verify my recollection that Ishmael was also a hunter, so I googled it.

Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (BI5O2)

153 Speaking of witches . . .

J.K. Rowling Blasts Woke LGBTQ+ Mob After Rapists Target Dozens of Girls in Changing Rooms

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

154 There's always that vibrant Art Thread over at Hot Air.
Posted by: Sponge

They feature that painting of nekkid Ed Morrissey on an Ottoman a little too much, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

155 137 If the population is actually decreasing, what is the measure of a good jobs report?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

The population isn’t decreasing. The “self deported” number is a fugazi. Even if that were legit (which it’s not) There are still millions of legal immigrants coming into the country every year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 09:59 AM (udlma)

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Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

156 It was supposed to be a buttlift and facetuck.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (fA38o)

157 It was supposed to be a buttlift and facetuck.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (fA38o)

Instead, she got a facelift and a buttf*ck.

Comatose........

Posted by: Zombie Natalie Wood at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

158 I like the white clothing and pillow colors in contrast to the green blanket.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (8Xy/A)

159 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

160 be a buttlift and facetuck."

Where do they meet? Mid back?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (XuXeR)

161 Mr. von Max loved his minkeys

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (8I4hW)

162 Wildly inappropriate for the Zombie Natalie.

I apologize.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Here is a YouTube link to The Snowman https://tinyurl.com/4yku2vnt

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (ZdaMQ)

164 enroute to St. Croix"

Enjoy. Lovely place...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (XuXeR)

165 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (BI5O2)

The Muslims were there before Islam even existed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (fA38o)

166 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

Ahoy polloi!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

167 159 Hello from the Miami airport Admirals Club, enroute to St. Croix. Never been before, can't wait to check it out. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 16, 2025 10:06 AM (Gyhh7)

Bring us back a t-shirt!!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:07 AM (ZdaMQ)

168 Good day, art Morons.

The Seeress: Nice work on the hands. Face seems appropriately serene. Who was she? (I'll look for the answer in comments.)

Noticing that only bit of color, the pillow or whatever, on the lower right, in a photograph such a random element on the periphery would not seem significant. In a painting, its intrusion seems an odd bit of composition. Maybe it has some significance. Maybe the artist just had some pinkish paint left on the palette after doing her face and hands?

Posted by: mindful webworker - still have to check to make sure I have the right spelling of palette at December 16, 2025 10:08 AM (lbDMw)

169 Bring us back a t-shirt!!
Posted by: Piper

Do they make a t-shirt big enough to be worn by the entire Horde at once?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

170 Wildly inappropriate for the Zombie Natalie.

I apologize."

Why? You don't want to know what we did! 3 on 1!

/Christopher Walken...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (XuXeR)

171 "I like oak. How about you, Jimmy? You an oak man? Oak's nice..."
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:48 AM

* nods and tips coffee cup *

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (0sNs1)

172 We need an AI trained on AOS comments. Can Pixy make that happen?

Barrel AI, what’s is a ….?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (fA38o)

173 Ah, Natalya Zakharenko. My favorite Russian-American.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

174
Do they make a t-shirt big enough to be worn by the entire Horde at once?
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

Sure!

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell's Mumu Emporium at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

175 Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

Self deported data is all estimates based on a lot of what ifs. It’s fugazi as I said. It’s the same sort of thing Obama did with “jobs saved or created”.

Number of jobs are quantifiable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (udlma)

176 Noticing that only bit of color, the pillow or whatever, on the lower right, in a photograph such a random element on the periphery would not seem significant. In a painting, its intrusion seems an odd bit of composition. Maybe it has some significance. Maybe the artist just had some pinkish paint left on the palette after doing her face and hands?
Posted by: mindful webworker - still have to check to make sure I have the right spelling of palette at December 16, 2025 10:08 AM (lbDMw)

It's a subtle reminder that they're all pink on the inside.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:11 AM (g8Ew8)

177 Oh, so you believe some government numbers and not others, huh?

What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:05 AM

The ones that make us look good and/or the ones that make Republicans look bad, duh!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at December 16, 2025 10:11 AM (0sNs1)

178 nods and tips coffee cup *
Posted by: Winston Wolfe"

Great scene...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

179 Ah, Natalya Zakharenko. My favorite Russian-American"

Ensign Chekov whimpers...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (XuXeR)

180 That "seer" is just the sister who figured out she wouldn't have to do chores if she was "special".

Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (FMtrg)

181 I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation. I have to get a quick plug in for it, because it's just beautifully sad. Even just the original intro with the author devastates me. The Missus won't watch it, but I love it.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:00 AM (6qf1m)

I'm familiar with that, but have never seen it. I don't need more sadness in my life.

White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)

182 175 Self deported data is all estimates based on a lot of what ifs. It’s fugazi as I said. It’s the same sort of thing Obama did with “jobs saved or created”.

Number of jobs are quantifiable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:10 AM (udlma)

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Number of jobs are based on surveys, just like deportation numbers.

And the numbers come from multiple sources, CBPOne, BLS, and Census data.

But you do you and just assume all news of deportations are bad because they vibe wrong with you, or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

183 Is that the Russian contortionist?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (fA38o)

184 31 I wonder if she would appreciate Tummy Rub Tuesday?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December

In your honor, Sabi, Kovu and Saijo have gotten tummy rubs and scritchies. They say thank you. 😊

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:14 AM (ZdaMQ)

185 Is that the Russian contortionist?"

Nyet.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:15 AM (XuXeR)

186 What makes you believe the ones you do and not the ones you don't?

Nothing. I don't believe any of them anymore. Have not for about two decades.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:15 AM (LzVl6)

187 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Stupid and ignorant people always want their thinking done for them by others whether by Googling, AI searches, YT and TikTok videos, whatever.

AI is simply doing what the programmers and the training data told it to do--lie using statistic LLM models of tokens that predict what the next word should be in a string. Train it with malicious and evil lies, that is what you get out.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)

188
AI is simply doing what the programmers and the training data told it to do--lie using statistic LLM models of tokens that predict what the next word should be in a string. Train it with malicious and evil lies, that is what you get out.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)

This.

There is very little, if any, I in AI.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell's Mumu Emporium at December 16, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

189 to dance like Danny Kaye…
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically

There are precious few people who can. Who cares? Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

190 Shit.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

AI, what are boobs?

AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

192 Number of jobs are based on surveys, just like deportation numbers.

And the numbers come from multiple sources, CBPOne, BLS, and Census data.

But you do you and just assume all news of deportations are bad because they vibe wrong with you, or whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Amusing yourself this morning again TJM?

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (WDjG6)

193 If the surgeon screwed up and actually gave Madonna a face tuck and a butt lift, she'd look like a Combine Strider.

Posted by: Gordon Freeman at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Qqd2H)

194 There are precious few people who can. Who cares? Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

https://youtu.be/hGI2d31M7Ns?t=24

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Number of jobs is a survey of businesses asking did you hire or fire anyone last month.

That’s different than estimating how many illegals went home.

If you truly believe 2M illegals decided to leave have at it. I guess Obama really did save 10m jobs too.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (udlma)

196 "White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again."

How 'bout Rosemary Clooney's little number 'Love, You Did't Do Right By Me' in that movie...

Dude.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (6qf1m)

197 >>>It meant a great hunter, after the King Nimrod mentioned in Genesis.

Nimrod the Hunter
Orion the Hunter

Nimrod = British anti-submarine aircraft
Orion = U.S. anti-submarine aircraft

There's your military trivia for the day.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (Y1sOo)

198 Was Danny Kaye the guy that used to lean at that impossible angle? How’d they do that?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (fA38o)

199 Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.
Posted by: Piper

I prefer singing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

200 White Christmas makes me sad. I'll never be able to dance like Danny Kaye and Hollywood will never make a musical like that again.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)
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We'll have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny Fuckin' Kaye!

Posted by: Clark W. Griswold at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (3BwY8)

201 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine."

When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)

202 This.

There is very little, if any, I in AI.
Posted by: Rosie
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The label AI itself is a lie. Simply a gussied up term for machine learning which has been around for awhile--Deep Blue beating Kasparov is an example.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (WDjG6)

203 AI, what are boobs?

AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew8)

204 201 Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine."

When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.
Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)
----
Does it also refer to Jerusalem as Al Quds"?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (36PRH)

205 Nimrod = British anti-submarine aircraft
Orion = U.S. anti-submarine aircraft

There's your military trivia for the day.
Posted by: one hour sober

Hunter Biden = anti-US graft

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

206 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew

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Hooters, jugs...

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (3BwY8)

207 Netflix is releasing an animated movie called Steps in 2026, about Cinderella's stepsisters Lilith and Margot, reimagining them as misunderstood characters ... The film aims to offer a fresh, inclusive perspective on the fairy tale, proving "even so-called villains deserve a shot at happily-ever-after".
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Narcissists must really adore themselves.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (qrkyB)

208 Wiki says the first recorded mention of Palestine was 5th century BC.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (udlma)

209 In your honor, Sabi, Kovu and Saijo have gotten tummy rubs and scritchies. They say thank you. 😊
Posted by: Piper

Nice! Lucy the Fink got some quality belly this morning. And I’m not bleeding!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (0Ivlr)

210 @206 Jugs, Jubblies, Tatas

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:22 AM (36PRH)

211 be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf at Dec

Enjoy. It's different.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (sl73Y)

212 Lemme Guess the two sisters will be Black and Hispanic?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (udlma)

213 Was Danny Kaye the guy that used to lean at that impossible angle? How’d they do that?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 10:18 AM (fA38o)

Not that I'm aware of. Are you thinking of Robret Strauss? He does something like that in The Seven Year Itch

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (ufSfZ)

214 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew
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Hooters, jugs...
Posted by: ballistic

Yabbos

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (+x87d)

215 And now, a word from Donkey Chompers . . .

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

216 Lemme Guess the two sisters will be Black and Hispanic?"

Trans.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (XuXeR)

217 Danny Kay was bi. Carried on an affair with Olivier.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

218 ======
Stupid and ignorant people always want their thinking done for them by others whether by Googling, AI searches, YT and TikTok videos, whatever.

------

I'll cop to "lazy," at least, if not ignorant and stupid... I was just at my desk, and didn't feel like walking my lazy ass over to the bookshelf to grab the Pentateuch.

I got what I deserved.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (BI5O2)

219 AI: Boobs, also known as "tits," "cans," cozongas," "melons,"...

(3 hours later) "sweater puppies," "calcium cannons,"..."great tracts of land"...
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Fun bags, nipple cushions....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 10:20 AM (g8Ew
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Hooters, jugs...
Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:21 AM (3BwY

In the words of Julius Caesar, "Check out the mammae on that momma!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (ufSfZ)

220 @RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.

-

What normalization? That’s the real problem. It’s not normalized enough.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (udlma)

221 The label AI itself is a lie. Simply a gussied up term for machine learning which has been around for awhile--Deep Blue beating Kasparov is an example.

Me - and every other better than average automation guy - have been making self-adjusting control programs since Square D rolled the first system out in the 70s.

And before that ? Electro-Mechanical systems worked since the first guy made RC and RL networks with a user adjustable potentiometer. We beat the Japs in the Pacific with that kind of fire control.

The damn machine isn't thinking. Its not smart.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (LzVl6)

222 I'm reminded of Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' animation.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

Looks like they had a Winter Sno-Me.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 16, 2025 10:24 AM (w9Wax)

223 >When the Romans expelled the Jews - they called it Palestinia. Out of spite.

Posted by: Howdy at December 16, 2025 10:19 AM (LzVl6)

Nobody does spite like the Romans.

Posted by: Carthage at December 16, 2025 10:25 AM (NgqoH)

224 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:25 AM (g47mK)

225 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

No, they aren't Republicans's scapegoats.
The ARE THE ACTUAL ATTACKERS.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (+x87d)

226

The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (pkeXY)

227 199 Dance anyway. Turn the music up and dance.
Posted by: Piper

I prefer singing.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025

Then sing!

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (ZdaMQ)

228 @219 And apropos for the season, sweater puppies.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (36PRH)

229 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.
Posted by: runner

They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

230 I saw Sabi, Kovu, and Saijo open for Three Dog Night at Kahunaville in '97.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (NNq22)

231 191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

Posted by: Bulg
========
AOS AI would be better than the fever swamps of reddit. You could diy it by using the released DeepSeek model and feeding it the comments as training data. Dunno if you could scrape it via scripting or whether pixy has some sort of protections against that.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)

232 Then sing!
Posted by: Piper

Figaro, figaro, figaro!

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

233
Their AI is now referring to Old Testament Canaan/Israel as "ancient Palestine." Unreal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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To the Left, anything prior to yesterday's NYT is 'irrelevant'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (XeU6L)

234 They were part of the Sea Peoples"

Always wanted to order some Sea Monkeys...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (XuXeR)

235
Mort or Not Mort?

Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mariette Hartley

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (7X4Rf)

236 Romans got overrun by savages and their DNA disappeared into ruffian Italics !

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

237 Always wanted to order some Sea Monkeys...
Posted by: man

That mama sea monkey in the comic-book ads was hawt.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

238 Classical music + cartoons?

See: 'Fantasia'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (XeU6L)

239 There once was a chick with clairvoyance
Who looked upon cheese with abhorrence
If I coulda, I woulda
banned cheddar and gouda
said she from her villa in Florence.

Posted by: Persnickety at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (jJdyX)

240 231 191 We need an AI trained on AOS comments.

Posted by: Bulg
========
AOS AI would be better than the fever swamps of reddit. You could diy it by using the released DeepSeek model and feeding it the comments as training data. Dunno if you could scrape it via scripting or whether pixy has some sort of protections against that.
Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)
----
Something, something... "failed policies" blah, blah, blah, "Trump".

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (36PRH)

241 @RepAOC
The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting.
Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies.
We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Oh FFS.........

They're actually attacking, you ignorant twat.

May they come to your neighborhood, soon, and do what they do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

242 That mama sea monkey in the comic-book ads was hawt."

Mamma Mia!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 10:30 AM (XuXeR)

243 Posted by: Persnickety at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM (jJdyX)

Very nice!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 10:30 AM (n9ltV)

244 Classical music + cartoons?

Rabbit of Seville - 1950

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (+x87d)

245 They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

Yes, from inscriptions and other archeological finds, it's believed they spoke a variant of old Greek. (before classical) It's also believed that they were the same as those referred to as the "Pelset" on an ancient Egyptian stele in the Nile Delta. Erected by the Pharaoh to celebrate his victory over them; it would explain why they ended up in Israel. After being finally defeated in Egypt, they moved 100 miles up the coast and set up shop.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (uWKK8)

246 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (qrkyB)

247 The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (pkeXY)

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More Whiteomisia (hatred) than -phobia (fear).

And agree 1000% ... Cognitive Dissonance is not just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (NNq22)

248 230 I saw Sabi, Kovu, and Saijo open for Three Dog Night at Kahunaville in '97.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (NNq22)

2 Cats and a Dog. They need a better band name. Savannah, Savannah, Shiba? I will work on it.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (ZdaMQ)

249 Ancient Philistines weren't even arabs! they were a seafaring people from ..Anatolia I think who conflicted with the Jews for a thousand years and then disappeared. Online AI, Wiki, and the rest need an big enema.
Posted by: runner

They were part of the Sea Peoples. May even have been Indo-European, at least partly.
Posted by: Bulg

Yep. Proto Greeks for some although pottery for some seems to harken as far as Sardinia IIRC.
Most modern Arab history are lies and they actively destroy pre-history because it might undermine faith in Big Mo. Who I think increasingly was like Arthur in Britain, a warlord who various disaffected Christians and pagans retroed as the founder of their religion. Explains why the Koran is a mish mash of contradicting sections and has some absurdist elements.

True Archaeology threatens the very web of foundational myths for that faith. Including the absurd claims on Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)

250 And you said the Oz cops didn't do anything!

New York Post
@nypost
Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

251 If Hadrian had only kept his butt-boy at home and not brought him into Jerusalem, that whole unpleasantness might have been avoided.

But noooo. Buttigiegs gonna Buttigieg.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

252 O/T, I hate facebook. I only made an account to join the Theda Bara Fan Club and now I keep getting imbeciles wanting to 'friend' me.

Leave me alone!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (ufSfZ)

253 @246 Human intelligence, which it isn't remotely capable of.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (36PRH)

254
Seer, huh?

Suckers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:32 AM (xG4kz)

255 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM (RHGPo)

256 After being finally defeated in Egypt, they moved 100 miles up the coast and set up shop.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I think the Egyptians even helped with that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

257 Maybe I should start calling everything in Turkish history "ancient Iranian." I mean, it was in Achaemenid Persia, amirite? Since time doesn't matter anymore, that should be fine.

Also - there's already a convention for this - you say "...in modern-day such-and-such."

Calling it "ancient Palestine" is just deliberate deception.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (BI5O2)

258
Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

I'm guessing that there was no "mistakenly" about it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

259
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Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mariette Hartley

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:28 AM

not mort

85 years old

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (tljrc)

260 247 The normalization and acceptance of Whiteophobia in our politics is disgusting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot
======
Manichean Good White and Bad White bullshit meant to create a Creole society like most of Latin America.

A thin crust of pale skinned elites at the top over a society of Mestizos and indigenous peoples as workers and subjects.

In essences, the general white populations in the West are assuming the role of Native Americans in this Great Replacement Scenario.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:34 AM (WDjG6)

261 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (R86kT)

262
...and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Oh? In what way "accountable?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (7X4Rf)

263 Me - and every other better than average automation guy - have been making self-adjusting control programs since Square D rolled the first system out in the 70s.
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At its most basic level, PID controllers. Then came the focus on neural network simulators, genetic algorithms, neuro-fuzzy systems, etc., etc.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (XeU6L)

264 Diagnosis: Imbalance of Bodily Humors.

Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (cIOlQ)

265
Mort or Not Mort?

Today's guest on Mort Or Not Mort is...

Mort Sahl

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

266 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 10:31 AM (qrkyB)

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GIGO (Garbage-In, Garbate-Out) applies to both humans and "AI."

I learned the hard way that the upside of having a relatively high IQ was no match for the downside of having a very poor EQ (Emotional Intelligence).

That latter factor will be virtually impossible for machines to acquire (IMHO).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (NNq22)

267 to grab the Pentateuch
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

268
not mort

85 years old
Posted by: AltonJackson

Correct.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (7X4Rf)

269 257 Maybe I should start calling everything in Turkish history "ancient Iranian." I mean, it was in Achaemenid Persia, amirite? Since time doesn't matter anymore, that should be fine.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Something very amusing happened a few years ago, there was enough data submitted from Turkey to generate DNA markers for comparison for origins. Most of the DNA was related to Greeks--essentially most of the Turkish population is descended from Greeks, not the smidge of Turk conquerers. That leaves out Kurds of course who do not show these markers.

Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

270
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

two observations:

1.) Bull

&

B.) Shit

the obamas always have to find an "angle" to inject themselves favorably in to any current event

it's who they are, it's what they do

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (tljrc)

271 It’s not pre-Colombian history anymore it’s ancient ‘Murican history.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:37 AM (udlma)

272 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.
Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst

Ahem.
-- The Hittites

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

273 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Interesting art. But I got nuthin'
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (2WIwB)

274 $19.5 billion here. $19.5 billion there. Pretty soon it begins to add up.

Ford just axed the electric F-150 no one wants … and took a $19.5 BILLION hit 👀

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

275
Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.
Posted by: whig

They thought of themselves as a nation of catchers? Was that the problem?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (xG4kz)

276
Isn't a "phobia" a Medical Condition?

Is sandy cortez saying she wants to punish people with a medical condition? Sure sounds like it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (7X4Rf)

277 The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

National Gallery, Prague: The artist may be regarded as one of the founders of symbolism even in the wider European context. His early paintings strongly resonate with the late romanticism tradition.

Encyclopedia com: In part,
Hauffe, Frederica (1801-1829)
"The Seeress of Prevorst," as described in Die Seherin von Prevorst (1829) by Justinus Kerner. Hauffe was born in the village of Prevorst near Löwenstein, Wüttemburg, Germany, in 1801. She married in 1819, and from that time until her death ten years later she was bedridden, subject to various ailments. She had convulsive fits and became rigid like a corpse; in this state she was possessed by spirits. She saw clairvoyantly, made predictions, and exhibited a wide range of psychic phenomena. At one time she spoke only in verse for three days. Occasionally she reportedly saw her own double, clad in white and seated on a chair, while she was lying in bed. (More)

The bottom-line is troubled spirits of the dead came to her for help & disclosed secrets of the doings on Earth that had made them restless. She taught while in a trance state & predicted her own death. 😬

Would pass. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

278 I learned the hard way that the upside of having a relatively high IQ was no match for the downside of having a very poor EQ (Emotional Intelligence).

That latter factor will be virtually impossible for machines to acquire (IMHO).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:36 AM (NNq22)
====

So telling people, "I've done the best I can to dumb this down for you," is not effective?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (BW4I7)

279 I have phobia of people who want me dead. Everyone should.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (udlma)

280
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD

Up next: a "candid" photo of those two love irds sharing a bowl of popcorn and watching "The American President".

FOR ROB!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:40 AM (xG4kz)

281 A phobia is an irrational fear.

Fear of Islam is well-founded and wise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (BW4I7)

282 Something very amusing happened a few years ago, there was enough data submitted from Turkey to generate DNA markers for comparison for origins. Most of the DNA was related to Greeks--essentially most of the Turkish population is descended from Greeks, not the smidge of Turk conquerers. That leaves out Kurds of course who do not show these markers.

Caused a firestorm in Turkey it did.
Posted by: whig

That should have been a surprise to exactly nobody. The Turks were too few in number to leave a huge genetic marking. Most of the Greeks in Anatolia converted to Islam to make life easier, and of course, eventually took to speaking Turkish. Thus, they became Turks, culturally speaking.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

283 It's not Türkiye. It's ancient Byzantium.

Posted by: Seeress of Prevorst at December 16, 2025 10:35 AM (R86kT)

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

For fans of flamenco guitar, one of my faves from Jesse Cook:

"Byzantium Underground."

youtube.com/watch?v=dTArM5WZKcg

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (NNq22)

284 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:41 AM (ufSfZ)

285 How does it cost $18B to stop making something? Yeah there are costs to take an existing plant and retrofit it to build something else. But that’s not $19B. This is some Enron-esque type accounting to get a $19b tax write off.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (udlma)

286 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?

Posted by: ...
=======
It is a probability calculator simply using whatever tokens were developed by the frontier models. It is okay right now for non critical analysis where errors or fabrications can be spotted by experts. But imagine that happens in code developed to fly an airplane--the AI generated code creates an imaginary function and calls it midflight--computer then crashes, locks up, etc. because that function it called was non existent.

Imagine a lawyer using AI for his brief in court has a key citation to a non existent case and reasoning from its non existent opinion. By submitting it, he loses the case because the opposition and judge determine the citation is fake.

AI running traffic lights decides based on erroneous training data or some other extraneous factor like preserving safety makes it so during rush hour, each light is timed differently on main routes causing massive backups. People in ambulances die because they can't get to hospitals due to the backup.

Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (WDjG6)

287 284 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

And she took a couple jabs at Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (VE6XX)

288 The bottom-line is troubled spirits of the dead came to her for help & disclosed secrets of the doings on Earth that had made them restless. She taught while in a trance state & predicted her own death. 😬

Would pass. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Good call. You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (OUMaO)

289 She married in 1819, and from that time until her death ten years later she was bedridden, subject to various ailments.

A cynic like myself might guess that her 'varous ailments' were self-inflicted in order to keep hubby out of the marriage bed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (ufSfZ)

290 Did Rob Reiner have info on the Clintons? Just axing questions.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (udlma)

291 oooo...

Avatar 3 review embargo lifted.

66% on RT, easily the lowest of the franchise.

It'll still make $2 billion because I don't know.

I actually think the trailers look the most interesting of the three. I'll probably check it out on streaming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

292 Looks like she's missing an IV …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (ayRl+)

293 Sparks of the divine.

Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests

-
That's convenient.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

294 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

"Why does this dude keep asking me where the coffee is? I can't waste my clairvoyance on this crap. Dude, get on your damn phone and look up the nearest Starbucks."
-- The Seeress of Prevorst

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

295 I like the mystery conveyed, not only by the painting itself, but by the title. Good selection, CBD.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (2L+MU)

296 Imagine a lawyer using AI for his brief in court has a key citation to a non existent case and reasoning from its non existent opinion. By submitting it, he loses the case because the opposition and judge determine the citation is fake.

This has already happened a few times, and lawyers got sanctioned for it. Unfortunately, there are judges doing it too...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (OUMaO)

297
Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

And she took a couple jabs at Trump...
Posted by: It's me donna

Was her hair straightened or natural? We're judging the depth of her commitment to be true to her "natural" self.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (xG4kz)

298 You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (ufSfZ)

299 If you'd had what she put up her sleeve you'd see things too.

Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2025 10:45 AM (FhXTo)

300
tree hunnert

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 16, 2025 10:45 AM (xG4kz)

301 So telling people, "I've done the best I can to dumb this down for you," is not effective?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:39 AM (BW4I7)

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lol

I was never that eloquent.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (NNq22)

302 two observations:

1.) Bull

&

B.) Shit

the obamas always have to find an "angle" to inject themselves favorably in to any current event

it's who they are, it's what they do
Posted by: AltonJackson

Exactly.

THIS is the only way she can get people to watch her failed podcast.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (7X4Rf)

303 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

I was on PT-109 and told John, "Carve it on a coconut!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

304 The Seeress will see you now.

Posted by: The Front Deskist at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (0RiMX)

305 There are two camps on AI. One camp says it will revolutionize everything. The other camp is it’s all nonsense.

Like everything else in life the answer is somewhere in the middle.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (udlma)

306 You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 10:44 AM (ufSfZ)

I try all the time to get a message through. No dice.

Posted by: Harry Houdini at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (wVcYX)

307 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Beau Biden was there, and got murdered alongside Sharon.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

308 Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

Posted by: SMOD at December 16, 2025 10:33 AM

Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

I was on my way over to their house when the Hindenburg crashed and burned on top of me.

Posted by: Beau Biden at December 16, 2025 10:48 AM (Riz8t)

309 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Pretty much everyone alive in 1969 claims to have attend Woodstock. Lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (udlma)

310 307 Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

----------

I bondo'd Steve Parent's car.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (0RiMX)

311 Ahem.
-- The Hittites
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)\

Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 10:49 AM (uWKK8)

312 >>Just like the dozens of people who claimed they had been invited over to Cielo Drive the night Sharon Tate was murdered.

Guess you just had to 'be there,' eh?

Posted by: Jerzy Kosinski at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (NuV6c)

313 Sparks of the divine.

Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests

-
That's convenient.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

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

[Speaking of "AI" -- and what could go wrong?]

You'd think McDonalds would have already pioneered RoboCop Security Guards.

I mean, it's been nearly 40 years already!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (NNq22)

314 James Rosen
@JamesRosenTV
EXCLUSIVE: Officials ⁦@ICEgov⁩ tell @NEWSMAX the agency has no record of stopping a car driven by the son of ⁦⁦@Ilhan⁩, as the congresswoman claimed. Acting Director Lyons called the charge a “ridiculous effort to unfairly demonize our law enforcement officers.”
4:23 PM · Dec 15, 2025
=====

So very oppressed. This woman lies like she breathes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:50 AM (BW4I7)

315 @ 246 The truth about AI is we are doing things with it now that could barely be imagined a decade ago or even five years ago. When we say it's not "intelligent" what the hell are we comparing it to?
__________________________________________________

"What are we comparing it to?" … well, REALITY for one thing. Non-existent metals and compounds, legal cases that are the electronic equivalent of dope dreams, impossible medical causation(-s) and 'treatments' … need more? I got more …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (ayRl+)

316 Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yep. And decipherment of their language proved De Saussure's laryngeal hypothesis correct.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

317 @73 What is the square root of an isosceles triangle?"
Cleveland.

So near, and yet so far: https://uspto.report/TM/71394481

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (zdLoL)

318 Would

Posted by: weimdog at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (b3GvB)

319 306
‘ You do not hear from the dead, that's a lie meant to trap the unwary.

Jerry Garcia hardest hit.

I try all the time to get a message through. No dice.
Posted by: Harry Houdini’

You commenting from beyond the grave is the height of irony, Harry.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (jbnUc)

320 If we aren't working flat out to harden every major military asset, we're utter fools.

(Narrator: we're utter fools)

Ukraine Hits Russian Sub in First Underwater Drone Attack

https://is.gd/jedobg

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (Riz8t)

321

I was at the baseball game when Lou Gehrig made his famous speech about inventing a new disease. I remember it like it was yesterday...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (7X4Rf)

322 >>Michelle Obama Says They Had Plans with Rob and Michele the Night They Were Discovered Murdered

She certainly has her own brand of #MeToo, eh?
Let's talk about me me me me, I I I ?

Posted by: Jerzy Kosinski at December 16, 2025 10:51 AM (NuV6c)

323 I saw Laryngeal Hypothesis open for The Gram Parsons Project at the Orpheum in '83.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (0RiMX)

324 A serious nation would have deported Ilhan Omar via trebuchet several years ago.

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (3BwY8)

325 295 I like the mystery conveyed, not only by the painting itself, but by the title. Good selection, CBD.
Posted by: Paco

300 comments and now you show up to brown nose?

Posted by: Wannabe Teacher's Pet at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (oftw2)

326 Sometimes I forget I live in a quasi bubble geographically where our diversity level is very low. But when I read about guards at McDonald’s I remind myself oh yeah, that’s why I live here.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (udlma)

327 Michele Reiner, Rob's wife, was the photographer who did the cover for "Art of the Deal."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)

328 You'd think McDonalds would have already pioneered RoboCop Security Guards.

I mean, it's been nearly 40 years already!
Posted by: ShainS

Mayor McCheese and Officer Big Mac were incompetent grifters.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

329 Fun fact about the Hittites - unlike most of the ancient peoples in the middle east (except Persians) they were Indo-Europeans.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I would Hittite.

*cackle*

Posted by: Hillary! at December 16, 2025 10:53 AM (w9Wax)

330 Sometimes I forget I live in a quasi bubble geographically where our diversity level is very low. But when I read about guards at McDonald’s I remind myself oh yeah, that’s why I live here.

I've lived in crappy areas, and I currently live in a very nice area. I prefer the latter, and don't apologize for it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (Riz8t)

331 >>Ukrainian navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said the operation to hit a submarine — the most difficult target to hit — marked "another turning point" in the naval battle between Ukraine and Russia.

It's not difficult to hit when it's tied up at the pier. lol

Posted by: one hour sober at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (Y1sOo)

332 >>EXCLUSIVE: Officials ⁦@ICEgov⁩ tell @NEWSMAX the agency has no record of stopping a car driven by the son of ⁦⁦@Ilhan⁩, as the congresswoman claimed.

Trail balloon to see if she could get riots going if/hen ICE arrives at her home?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (NuV6c)

333 Seth McFarlane the guy who created family guy was supposed to be on one of the 9/11
Flights. He was hung over and missed his flight.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (udlma)

334 Ukrainian navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said the operation to hit a submarine — the most difficult target to hit — marked "another turning point" in the naval battle between Ukraine and Russia.

It's not difficult to hit when it's tied up at the pier. lol

Yes, that's the point.
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (Riz8t)

335
The more I hear about this submarine supposebly destroyed by the ukes, the less I believe it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (7X4Rf)

336 Minneapolis McDonald's now has doors "locked and attended" during business hours to protect guests
———-

Somebody the other day called evidences of the past high trust society a “luxury” we have lost.

A high trust society isn’t a “luxury” or nice thing to have (albeit not really that important or, something).

Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 10:55 AM (Zh6C/)

337 @333 Riiiiight.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (36PRH)

338 Crap........Just got a call.

FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

339 Trail balloon to see if she could get riots going if/hen ICE arrives at her home?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:54 AM (NuV6c)
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Blatant lie because she's a brazen liar with no morals and a third-world tribal mentality?

Posted by: ballistic at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (3BwY8)

340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

Damn, Sponge. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

341 Damn, Sponge. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

Thanks. Seems we're not out of the woods yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

342
Classical music + cartoons?

Rossini ~ William Tell Overture : The Storm

https://youtu.be/JcRuChk7Exo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (pkeXY)

343 336
‘ Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization’

Hear. Hear.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (jbnUc)

344 159. It will be my first time in the Caribbean and the furthest South I've ever been.
Posted by: Lincolntf

Buck Island Reef National Monument was amazing years ago. It appears to still be a highly recommended side trip from St. Croix.

Have a wonderful time in the daytime; don't wander at night.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

345 Prayers, Sponge.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (kgE5c)

346 >>Seth McFarlane the guy who created family guy was supposed to be on one of the 9/11
Flights. He was hung over and missed his flight.

Sadly, one of the flight attendants on the bloody flight out of Boston was *not* supposed to be on the flight, she filled in at the last minute. She was the kid of a BIL's neighbor, good friend of my nephew. It was heartbreaking.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NuV6c)

347 294 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

"Why does this dude keep asking me where the coffee is? I can't waste my clairvoyance on this crap. Dude, get on your damn phone and look up the nearest Starbucks."
-- The Seeress of Prevorst
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

Well! Starbucks sucks. I want my money back!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (2WIwB)

348 340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

I'll pray for you all...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)

349 @333 Riiiiight.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 16, 2025 10:56 AM (36PRH)

He’s told the story many times. There were eyewitness accounts of him being at the airport at the gate just minutes after it took off. And he was on the flight manifest. I’m sure Candace Owens thinks he’s a Mossad agent or whatever, but it is legit by all appearances.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (udlma)

350 The man and woman were later identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman, a Russian-Jewish couple living in Bondi. They were the first two victims of the attack.
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An old couple attacked the terrorist as he emerged from his vehicle on Campbell Parade.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 10:59 AM (CTokg)

351 Oh man, Sponge! More prayers for you and your family.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (NuV6c)

352 Michele Reiner, Rob's wife, was the photographer who did the cover for "Art of the Deal."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)

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Amazing how "The Donald" was a darling of the Democrat Left before he suddenly materialized into "Literally Hitler" by running for POTUS as an R.

Remember even Oprah encouraging him to run when he was younger and presumed to be a D ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (NNq22)

353 Have a wonderful time in the daytime; don't wander at night.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)
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Because of the vampire pirates?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (yNJrI)

354 340 FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas.

Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
Posted by: Sponge

Oh no. Prayers, sponge.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 11:01 AM (ZdaMQ)

355 Punk minkey up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (+x87d)

356
Somebody the other day called evidences of the past high trust society a “luxury” we have lost.

A high trust society isn’t a “luxury” or nice thing to have (albeit not really that important or, something).

Get it in your head, your society is fucking doomed without it. It ain’t a “luxury”, it is a pre-requisite to a functional civilization
Posted by: Common Tater
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It is as if the past is a foreign country,

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (XeU6L)

357 Munkey!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (yNJrI)

358 Sponge if he hit his head he should have an x-ray.

A prayer for his immediate and complete recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (CTokg)

359 "Christmas market ISIS 'mass terror attack' plot' foiled in Poland" @ Daily Mail

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 11:03 AM (g47mK)

360 300 comments and now you show up to brown nose? - Wannabe Teacher's Pet

Just tuned in, you insolent dog. Now, get back to the scullery.

Posted by: Paco at December 16, 2025 11:04 AM (2L+MU)

361 Posted by: whig at December 16, 2025 10:42 AM (WDjG6)

Yes but you will get there slowly.

It's less artificial intelligence and more augmented intelligence. They can't be left without oversight but they will be able to fill in gaps and slowly those gaps will get smaller. It's inevitable. Emerging technologies always look like bullshit until they dont.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 11:17 AM (qrkyB)

362 Is that a Hapsburg chin????

Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 16, 2025 11:36 AM (SOGBX)

363 @ 338 Crap........Just got a call.
FiL fell and hit his head and shoulder getting out of a chair. Looks like we're getting him a bit early for his Dr. appointments and Christmas. Then, decisions have to be made. Tough ones.
______________________________________________

Sorry to hear that, Sponge. Words are goin' up for your FiL. As for the decisions — yes, they are, and will be, tough ones. I hope things turn out better than the anticipation …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 16, 2025 11:39 AM (ayRl+)

364 IMO Mooch is fabricating the story about going to visit the Reiners.

She goes nowhere with Barry, unless it's to some public put-on, like the Clintons holding hands whenever they bump into each other and spot someone nearby holding a camera.

Remember Barry's black eye and bandaged hand after their chef deaded...Mooch holds a grudge.

Posted by: ju at December 16, 2025 12:02 PM (EgpoY)

365 Turn on the TV the Three Stooges is on

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 16, 2025 05:29 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 12/16/25

Good morning kids. Frankly, the less said about a certain celebrity, who along with his wife was brutally slain at the hands of their own son, the better.

Unfortunately President Trump decided to give his opinion about the victim and, despite his not being in the wrong in his opinion, was this really appropriate, or beneficial to him and the MAGA cause, when there are so many other crucial matters that need to be spoken of in the most open and frank manner possible, not offering a personal opinion about a critic in the wake of their horrific death, regardless of how accurate the opinion might be.

Meanwhile considering what unfolded in Australia a few days ago which is not a one-off but merely the latest in a long line of incidents that has spilled oceans of innocent blood for close to a millennium and a half. Vickie Paladino, a lesser-known GOP pol mostly because she is somehow holding on in deepest, darkest, bluest New York City.

Queens Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino is facing a firestorm from Democrats over social media posts she made calling for the “expulsion of Muslims” in the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack in Australia.
Paladino took down the posts in question after facing outrage from fellow local elected officials, including Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who ripped the comments as Islamophobic.
“We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it,” Paladino had written on X after 15 people were killed and 40 others injured at a celebration of the Jewish Hannukah holiday on Sunday.
“We need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders,” the posts said, adding that action needed to be taken to prevent “another 9/11 or worse.”
. . . ncoming City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who is Jewish, said she asked Paladino to take down the post, which had been removed by Monday afternoon.
“Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,” Menin also wrote on X. “This is a time to uplift all communities, not sow divisions.”. . . “It’s been clear for a while that progressives don’t value freedom of speech, but I find it very funny that they’re so apocalyptic about this tweet, while their own social media accounts and those of their leftist allies in the DSA spew some of the most toxic, violent, and anti-American rhetoric on a daily basis,” she said in a statement. “Once again progressives are acting like the PR wing and defense attorneys for radical Islam after a wave of terror attacks, and the West is going to have to deal with this dangerous reality soon enough.”

Well Ms. Menin, have you cracked a copy of the Koran lately? In it you will see not only references to Jews as the descendants of Apes and Pigs but that in order to truly be a follower of Mohammed it is one's duty to kill all Jews and infidels who refuse to submit to Islam. this is what is preached on a daily basis and taught to Muslim children in every mosque and Madrassa on the planet.

My only criticism of Ms. Paladino is that this is the crucial context, beyond the body count in Bondi Beach and elsewhere, that undergirds her very spot on assertion. Islam and its adherents are incompatible with the free and open and dare I say it "diverse" society that Leftists are constantly yammering on about. Of course, they themselves do not want diversity. They use that as the weapon to impose conformity to their will on a truly free society.

Instead of hurling the inflammatory call for expulsion of Muslims, justified though it is, the more effective rhetorical and political weapon would be to call on all Muslims to reject the aspects/teachings/words of the Koran and Islam I tied above. Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are. Public shaming and exposure would be a far more effective than feeding into the Leftist meme of white supremacy/xenophobia/islamophobia etc. Seek out the so-called "Moderate" Muslims and hold some sort of public press event in which you shove this garbage in their face and make them deny it on camera.

"Do you renounce these words?" of course they can't since they are the alleged words of their false god Allah and the pedohile prophet Mohammed. Meh, the concept of Taqqiya, gives them the out they need I guess. But Still. Words do matter but more crucially its what words you use and how you use them in order to get the points across to the public at large.

It's why Vickie Paladino and President Trump need to have someone like a Robert Spencer as an adviser/coach in this issue. Both of them for sure understand what we all do, in the self-evident truth that not all societies are equal and that some indeed are not only inferior but dangerously toxic.

Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec spoke with The Post Millennial's Editor-at-Large Andy Ngo on Monday about recent federal terrorism cases involving far-left extremists, warning that leftist political group violence is escalating and often ignored by the public and downplayed by the media. Posobiec framed the discussion by pointing to recent prosecutions and prior warnings raised during the Trump administration roundtable on far-left violence. “This is another example, Andy, I think, that in this country — and you and I, of course, both participated in President Trump’s roundtable on far-left violence — the left is getting more violent, aren’t they?” Posobiec asked.
Ngo responded by citing multiple recent federal convictions tied to extremist activity. “This allegation from the federal government," Ngo said, referring to the foiled terror attack planned by the Turtle Island Liberation Front, "comes on the heels of at least seven people in Texas being federally convicted for providing material support for terrorists in an Antifa shooting ambush attack that happened on an ICE facility early this year,” Ngo said. He added that in California, “there was another Antifa associate in the Berkeley area who was convicted and sentenced to 19 years for a number of bombings that he carried out on the Cal campus and around it.”

When the institutional Left eventually does finally link up with the organized Islamic terrorists no doubt in our midst, and they probably already have, shit is going to get more real than we had thought possible. It is a nightmare scenario in the making. Plus with the institutional corruption in government, media, the private sector and perhaps at some level in our military, Yikes. I mean Mark Kelly et al were actively fomenting mutiny in the ranks. I don't want to contemplate the consequences to us if his and his evil co-conspirators' poisonous entreaties to evil are taken to heart by even a fraction of our troops. . .

This is bloody revolution, period. Unless the conspirators as well as and most especially their political and financial backers are all rounded up and then publicly executed, we have failed. The rule of law, as we have seen with Donald Trump, the J-6 political prisoners and others is now a farce. The rubicon has been crossed. We cannot restore or begin to restore our society unless the cancer within is excised with extreme prejudice.

It's not pretty, but there it is. I call it as I see it, my friends.

Have a good day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

“We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it,” Paladino had written on X after 15 people were killed and 40 others injured at a celebration of the Jewish Hannukah holiday on Sunday.
NYC GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino faces firestorm after calling for ‘expulsion of Muslims’ in light of Bondi Beach terrorist attack
The long march through the institutions: From Trotskyist entryism to civilizational conquest of Europe by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Patient Strategy of Entryism
Timing is everything, I guess - JJS!
Obamas planned to meet with Rob Reiner and wife the night couple was killed

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

Four alleged members of a leftist offshoot of the group called Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF) were arrested after federal officials disrupted the credible terrorist threat that involved improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Fox News reported Monday.
FBI Thwarts Anti-ICE, Pro-'Palestine' Group Accused of Planning New Year’s Eve Bombings in Los Angeles
Their future attack plans “would take some of them [ICE agents] out and scare the rest of them," according to court documents.
Radical Leftist Group Accused Of Plotting New Year’s Eve Bombings Also Had Plans To Attack ICE
"Until now, all these years—a decade and longer—[they] operated out in the open with impunity because nothing would happen to them."
ANDY NGO to JACK POSOBIEC: Far-left extremist groups have operated with impunity for years
Fomenting mutiny in the ranks? Yup that's pretty damn serious IMHO - JJS
Pentagon Escalates Investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly for ‘Serious Allegations of Misconduct’

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
The trial highlights ongoing issues with activist judges, sanctuary state and city officials, and far-left activists who have attempted to interfere with and impede ICE enforcement actions.
Democrat Judge on Trial for Blocking Arrest of Illegal Immigrant. (Justice demands disbarment and imprisonment - jjs)
A federal judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, is refusing to add additional jail time to a criminal sentence for a seven-time deported illegal alien, convicted of raping and sodomizing a woman with cerebral palsy, for his repeated violation of federal immigration law. (The Obamas were supposed to be at the Reiner home just when the son murdered the parens! - jjs)
Obama-Appointed Judge Refuses to Give More Jail Time to Illegal Alien Who Raped Woman with Cerebral Palsy
Federal prosecutors are appealing the judge’s decision to reduce the sentence, citing its leniency and lack of weight on the violent crime.
Obama Judge Faces Backlash for Praising Convicted Illegal Immigrant Rapist.
If the state supreme court declares Wisconsin a sanctuary state, the unintended consequences may include more ICE agents in the state.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Threatens To Obstruct Immigration Enforcement
The New York mayor-elect is risking incitement of the same kind of violent confrontations that marred Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas earlier this year.
Mamdani’s Anti-ICE Video Courts Chaos
Why is it that now, over the past several decades, we don’t expect the same conformity from our “adopted refugees?”
Gaslighted about Somali Refugees
These are not the views of a “tiny minority of extremists.”
Somali Says of Trump: ‘My Biggest Fear is That This Man May Never Witness Our Full Takeover’
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Fargo adds Somali Heritage Day two weeks after Muslim terror attack.
The Somalization of North Dakota
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has established a clear pattern: When confronted with evidence that the Muslim institutions he platforms are deeply hostile to Israel – and often to Jews themselves – he shrugs, smears the messenger, and moves forward anyway. That is precisely what took place this Thanksgiving, when Shapiro was scheduled to participate at an event alongside Muslim Society of Delaware Valley (MSDV) radical imam Basheer Bilaal.
Gov. Shapiro Shows Up, Speaks at Radical Imam Thanksgiving
BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH
The incident is Australia’s worst mass shooting in three decades, sparking investigations into the attackers’ motives and backgrounds.
Hannukah Shooters Pledged Loyalty to ISIS Before Massacre: Report.
Yet within hours of the attack, Prime Minister Albanese proposed “tougher gun laws” and warned about “right-wing extremist groups.”
Australia Doesn’t Have A Gun Problem, It Has An Islamist Problem
Australia let this evil come and fester here.
The Bondi Beach Massacre Was a Choice
We all saw it coming. Again.
Bondi Beach: ‘Never Again’ Was an Empty Phrase
Australia's gun laws did not, in fact, prevent mass murdering Islamists from gunning down Jews on Sunday.
The Massacre In Australia Is Proof That Diversity Is Not Our Strength

J-6 FBI/PELOSI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH,
The FBI sat on the January 5-6 pipe bomb case for years, and the media spun conservative suspicions as “conspiracies” rather than acknowledge clear partisan inaction.
Delayed Pipe Bomb Arrest Reveals a Partisan Biden FBI (Partisan = complicit - jjs)
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
There is a full-blown constitutional mess brewing over James Comey, and at the center of it is a Clinton-appointed judge ordering the FBI to destroy key email evidence tied directly to the obstruction case against him. This is not just another technical fight over discovery rules. This is a rogue judge stepping in to shield one of the left’s favorite anti-Trump heroes from accountability.
Rogue Judge Orders Destruction of Evidence Against James Comey
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Practically speaking, the KBJs argue that these agencies must be independent because we need nonpartisan "experts" to make the critical decisions in our federal government. They can't be left to political hacks.
No, Ketanji Brown (-25) Jackson, 'experts' should not be given free reign to rule the American peopl
First Big Test: Are Trump's tariffs constitutional?
Do Voters Trust Supreme Court To Do What’s Best For U.S.? Yes, But Just Barely: I&I/TIPP Poll
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“We are devastated to learn of the loss of our Brown College Republicans Vice President, Ella Cook,” College Republicans of America wrote in a Sunday X post. “Ella was known for her bold, brave, and kind heart as she served her chapter and her fellow classmates.”
Brown U. Shooting Victim Ella Cook Was ‘Devoted Christian,’ College Republicans VP
Providence police released new images of a “person of interest” tied to the Brown University mass shooting Monday evening as officials attempted to calm growing anxiety that the gunman is still on the loose.
Cops release very grainy new video of suspected Brown shooter — as they hunt for new leads
“Chief Smith, the commanders testified, was so preoccupied with the statistics of the select crimes that were made public that she incentivized her subordinates to lower those crimes by whatever means necessary.”
House Oversight Accuse D.C. Police Chief of Manipulating Crime Data
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is reportedly poised to elevate a deeply controversial figure to one of the most powerful legal posts in his administration. According to the New York Post, Ramzi Kassem—a lawyer who has defended an al Qaeda terrorist and a radical anti-Israel activist at Columbia—is the leading candidate for Chief Counsel.
Mamdani Is About to Prove His Administration Will Be Worse Than You Thought
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally,” Trump said. “They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn’t say.”
'Words in my mouth' Trump slaps BBC with eye-watering $10B suit for alleged defamatory editing of Jan. 6 speech
Robert Zimmerman: "And yet, buried within the horrors of this past
weekend I stumbled by accident upon a ray of hope. And believe it or
not, that hope comes from one of our most disgraced and for decades most
biased mainstream news outlets, CBS News. It seems that outlet’s new
editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, is attempting to abandon the one-sided,
24/7 leftwing perspective that has dominated that news organization (as
well as all of America’s so-called 'intellectual' culture) for decades.
Instead, she is advocating openness and a willingness to let many
different opinions and ideas be heard.
A ray of hope during a weekend of horror
CBS’ 60 Minutes is the perpetrator, not the victim, of propaganda and partisanship.
Scott Pelley Blames Everyone But CBS For Network’s Tanked Credibility
Antitrust skeptics mistake size for market dominance.
How a Takeover of Warner Bros. Would Benefit Consumers

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Blue state leaders and teacher union bosses descend into a meltdown.
Hyperventilating Over the Restructuring of the Department of Education
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
USPS is the largest ‘precinct’ in federal elections, yet has no citizens conducting oversight to prevent ballot tampering or loss.
Trump Must Appoint Republicans To USPS Board Currently Run By Mail-In Voting Activist
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Hunter Biden admitted to attorney misconduct, leading to his disbarment in Connecticut and earlier in Washington, D.C.
Hunter Biden Disbarred Over Illegal Gun Ownership, Tax Fraud Convictions.

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The DOJ claims the map prioritizes racial considerations, potentially violating constitutional protections, and has asked the court to block Proposition 50.
DOJ Accuses Democrat Campaign Arm of Obstruction in California Redistricting Case.
El-Sayed, running in the Democrat primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, has attempted to distance himself from his past anti-police positions
Abdul El-Sayed Proposed Commuting All Sentences for Juveniles Facing Life in Prison. The Plan Would Grant Early Release to Some of Michigan's Most Violent Killers.
Migrant attack in Charlotte echoes the graphic murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in the same city
North Carolina's Roy Cooper, Asked To Address Illegal Immigrant Train Stabbing in Charlotte, Instead Issues Statement Attacking GOP Opponent as 'Big Oil Lobbyist'
POLITICS
Harris remains a top Democrat contender for 2028, with notable support among black Democrats, as she positions herself for another presidential campaign.
Kamala Harris Is Preparing for 2028 Presidential Bid: Dem Insiders. (Her and greaseball Newsom at each other's throats; pass the popcorn! - jjs)
Victor Davis Hanson: What in the world will he run on?
A Newsom Nihilist Nomination?
Politico published a story Sunday on Cox and his crusade against Silicon Valley and social media companies. Cox has said he supports a 16-and-under ban on social media use similar to Australia’s; his state is suing Snapchat for its “illicit business practices that are akin to peddling digital nicotine to kids”; and he has signed a slate of anti-tech bills, including legislation that bans cell phones in Utah classrooms. The outlet also reported that he is considering a sin tax on tech, similar to taxes on alcohol and tobacco.
Turns Out Teetotaling, Mormon GOP Governor Is A Savage Populist Who Wants To Nuke Big Tech
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1 Sad Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

2 Admiral Brian Christine sounds like a good and a a strong man and such a relief after nutty leftist Richard ( Rachel) Levine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (Yl2Ob)

3 Good morning, everyone. Gorgeous sky on the way into work. I'll take that as a good sign.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (+4yJ5)

4 Look at it this way: Trump is now back in command of the news cycle. I bet no one asks any more stupid questions about the "second strike" on that boat.

Posted by: StefanH at December 16, 2025 07:17 AM (Cu+ma)

5 Thank you, JJ!

Spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:17 AM (Cjt/F)

6 Turtle Island Liberation Front

Is going to take over the US and return it to the Natives that will then become islamofascist and control Turtle Island for a 1000 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:18 AM (gbOdA)

7
“Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,” Menin also wrote on X

So where is the call to take down Democrat posts about MAGA, or Republicans, or normie wypeepo?

Fuck the left.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (QVmho)

8 As you read the news of the day, remember that the Obamas are all for bringing in people who would just as soon slit your throat as look at you.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

9 "Trump didn’t hold back in a post shared on Truth Social shortly after the actor and his wife were found allegedly murdered Sunday. "

if the President were a guy who "held back", how would he differ from the rest of the useless pisspots we call republicans?

I voted for the whole man.

and, as I've been saying for many years now (to no avail):
"the aggressor sets the rules of engagement."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:23 AM (Cjt/F)

10 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

"This is bloody revolution, period"
=====

If only the Fuhrer knew! (tm)

Posted by: Colossus at December 16, 2025 07:23 AM (9ipOP)

11 8 As you read the news of the day, remember that the Obamas are all for bringing in people who would just as soon slit your throat as look at you.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

The Obamas were supposed to be at Rob Reiner's house moments before sonny boy came home!!!

Now there's a thought!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:24 AM (x0n13)

12 Ella was assassinated.
He knew who she was, where she was, when she would be there.
Most likely knew how to get into building and where cops would be on Saturday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

13 /oppositional defiant AI sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:24 AM (9ipOP)

14 Unless the conspirators as well as and most especially their political and financial backers are all rounded up and then publicly executed, we have failed.

How many weeks has it been since Hegseth pulled a Trey Gowdy and said Kelly was liable to be returned to active duty? How many weeks has it been since Kelly shat out his vomitus and yet still remains free as a bird?

There is not one - not one - Western leader who has the balls to do what must be done to defeat Islam and the traitors on the left.

At this point, I'm willing to heed the words of Superintedant Chalmers: "I say enjoy it! It's a hell of a toboggan ride!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 07:25 AM (ufSfZ)

15 Instead of hurling the inflammatory call for expulsion of Muslims, justified though it is, the more effective rhetorical and political weapon would be to call on all Muslims to reject the aspects/teachings/words of the Koran and Islam I tied above. Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are.
_________
You know better than that. They have no problem with lying, and calling on them to act civilized will have no more effect than it ever does. Paladino is right. Throwing them out is the best way.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 16, 2025 07:25 AM (s0JqF)

16 Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions

"Local Muslim community worries about backlash over tomorrow's terrorist attack."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:25 AM (+4yJ5)

17 Ella was assassinated.
He knew who she was, where she was, when she would be there.
Most likely knew how to get into building and where cops would be on Saturday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)
====

Is that your opinion or do you have evidence?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:26 AM (9ipOP)

18 "The Obamas were supposed to be at Rob Reiner's house moments before sonny boy came home"

Exactly. Comrades.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

19 NYC GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino faces firestorm after calling for ‘expulsion of Muslims’ in light of Bondi Beach terrorist attack

--

If only she had called for the 'expulsion of Jews,' she'd be receiving accolades from all leftist corners about now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 07:27 AM (qBdHI)

20 16 Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions

"Local Muslim community worries about backlash over tomorrow's terrorist attack."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:25 AM (+4yJ5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMyKGNy3CI4

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

21 We cannot restore or begin to restore our society unless the cancer within is excised with extreme prejudice.

And except for places here and there, it won't happen. There's an old book that tells us that. No matter how many say, "We've overcome evil before, we'll do it again," that book says we won't. It seems our so-called "leaders" are part and parcel of the problem. They're all bought off or too cowardly to oppose our enemies. At some point, final darkness will fall on this world and there's only one way it ends.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 07:27 AM (uQesX)

22 It seems that outlet’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, is attempting to abandon the one-sided,
24/7 leftwing perspective that has dominated that news organization (as well as all of America’s so-called 'intellectual' culture) for decades. Instead, she is advocating openness and a willingness to let many
different opinions and ideas be heard.

And in 1936, Hitler ordered that Der Sturmer not be sold publicly so as to burnish the image of the Third Reich, but once the Olympics were over, it came right back again. Zimmerman is clutching at straws.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 07:28 AM (ufSfZ)

23 Meanwhile considering what unfolded in Australia a few days ago which is not a one-off but merely the latest in a long line of incidents that has spilled oceans of innocent blood for close to a millennium and a half.

I smell a government conspiracy here...the video footage showed a warm, sunny beach, but I'm pretty sure it's cold in Europe, and Australia is landlocked.

Posted by: Lloyd Christmas at December 16, 2025 07:28 AM (JCZqz)

24 >Unfortunately President Trump decided to give his opinion about the victim
----

Trump does shoot from the lip- his comments re: Reiner were unnecessary

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 07:29 AM (ZxPkt)

25 As Snell reports, Levy went as far as to praise Diaz for illegally crossing the border several times, saying, “I commend you for supporting your family, for expressing your devotion to them and for working here in the United States in jobs that Americans apparently do not want to work in and certainly not for the wages that were undoubtedly abusive of your work for them.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

26 You can bet that any public Jewish gatherings in NYC next year will probably be canceled.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

27 Listen, everybody knows weed is bad for you. Sure, potheads and smelly hippie types rant and rave about the benefits because it makes them feel better about being a loser. People are stupid and we sell stupid to stupid people. You should thank us. Potheads are basically harmless except when their dad wants to throw them outta the house. Remember to hide your knives.

Posted by: Big Weed Inc. at December 16, 2025 07:31 AM (YyIMQ)

28 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 16, 2025 07:32 AM (2Ez/1)

29 PDT often says what I am thinking and will sometimes even say here. I kind of like that. Fk their feelings.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

30 "Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering"

I fixed it with JB Weld!

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

31 Remember to hide your knives.
Posted by: Big Weed Inc. at December 16, 2025 07:31 AM (YyIMQ)

Hey what about us?

Posted by: Big Crack Mexico at December 16, 2025 07:35 AM (gbOdA)

32 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

33 So now North Dakota is being colonized by Somalis? The news is unusually depressing of late.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 07:35 AM (qBdHI)

34 Report: House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion

How about just aborting it you grifting mfers?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 07:36 AM (uQesX)

35 2 Admiral Brian Christine sounds like a good and a a strong man and such a relief after nutty leftist Richard ( Rachel) Levine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (Yl2Ob)

"Nutty" indeed. two, tucked.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:36 AM (x0n13)

36 I wonder if people in hijabs and angry looking Muslim men will have to endure second glances or perceived judgement?

Let us not forget they are victims too.

Posted by: MJ at December 16, 2025 07:37 AM (Sdeol)

37 Does it not cross Chuckles walnut sized brain that expelling Muslims might save more lives than banning firearms

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 16, 2025 07:37 AM (8CIFn)

38 " Report: House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion"

Saves who $30 billion?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

39 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 07:38 AM (pd4dZ)

40 26 You can bet that any public Jewish gatherings in NYC next year will probably be canceled.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

If Mamdani doesn't BAN them first!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:40 AM (x0n13)

41 The Somalization of North Dakota

Fargo: Black Hawk Down Redeaux

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:40 AM (gbOdA)

42 Internet Explodes After Trump Unleashes On The Late Rob Reiner
_______
That may be the only time I thought Trump really deserved the attacks for what he said.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 16, 2025 07:41 AM (s0JqF)

43 BOING!

השם ירחם

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 16, 2025 07:41 AM (Wy0hw)

44 Meh, Mamdani will decree all Jewish gatherings must have a Muslim observer to ensure conformity to Koranic teaching.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:42 AM (x0n13)

45 40 Mamdani won't ban them. Fucker probably realizes it's the perfect opportunity to round 'em up and get them down to the rail yard.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (gm9Sb)

46 probably right, JJ

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (Cjt/F)

47
I'm having to take Finn in to the vet this morning. The poor boy is coughing up bright-red blood. It's not impossible that it may be pneumonia and thus treatable but I fear it's worse than that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (tgvbd)

48

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 16, 2025 07:45 AM (DDJSl)

49 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (tgvbd)

Oh no, poor boy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:45 AM (x0n13)

50 Why is it that now, over the past several decades, we don’t expect the same conformity from our “adopted refugees?”

Because America is the source of all evil in the world and telling someone to reject their beautiful culture to assimilate here is "problematic."

That's pretty much how these cretins think.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:46 AM (+4yJ5)

51 oh my gosh that does not sound good!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 07:46 AM (Cjt/F)

52 House Oversight Accuses D.C. Police Chief of Manipulating Crime Data

Not really
they just pointed out that every precinct chief stated that they were forced to manipulate data.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

53 ICE doesn't use the proper warrants, so I don't understand how Judge Dugan can even get in trouble. ICE is ignoring the Constitution, but somehow *she* is in the wrong?

This is completely ridiculous prosecution. I watched the court surveillance, and this is malicious prosecution for political ends at its finest. VOMIT.

At what point does this get thrown out as complete bullshit?

Well Wisconsin DOJ must be filled with Nazi cunts.
It’s federal prosecution, not state.
Them too!

Even if she’s found guilty, this is the kind of civil disobedience the history books will lionize. People having the courage to willingly face imprisonment, beatings, or worse, all out of a primal sense of justice. I lack *that* level of courage, and can only sit in awe of those that do.

This is what the Feds wanna spend their time prosecuting? “We will teach those liberal activist judges!” - Bondi. What a waste. What theatre.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 07:47 AM (JCZqz)

54 Poor Finn

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:47 AM (9ipOP)

55 44 Meh, Mamdani will decree all Jewish gatherings must have a Muslim observer to ensure conformity to Koranic teaching.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:42 AM (x0n13)

With AK47 armed enforcers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

56
Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are.

So it's perfectly fine if I called for the creation of a Confessional state and said that it is absolutely necessary that every American - indeed, every human creature - be subject to the Pope?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (tgvbd)

57 Even if she’s found guilty, this is the kind of civil disobedience the history books will lionize. People having the courage to willingly face imprisonment, beatings, or worse, all out of a primal sense of justice. I lack *that* level of courage, and can only sit in awe of those that do.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 07:47 AM (JCZqz)

She will be the Emmitt Till of Rosa Parks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

58 I see Trump gave the media the *scandal* they have been desperately seeking. abc news actually inferred on their
6 oclock news broadcast yesterday that Trump was responsible for the murders of reiner and his wife.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (0N4FZ)

59 Yeah, Trump is crude.

But I am still not tired of winning. He is never going to run for office again and, frankly, I cannot spare the man; he fights.

I posted this on twitter:

"Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

One response was "I most certainly can grieve for a man whose movies defined much of my young life. Whose legacy will be one of a man who worked to make the world a better place.

And I don’t have to grieve for a divisive man who made money stirring the shit pot. Although I grieve for his kids."

She just proved my point.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (W7XSX)

60 I would like to make a land acknowledgment for the State of Kansas.

Kansas was under a shallow ocean during the last major warm period.

I would like to thank the Ice Ages and mantle emergence of the Rockies for the possibility of dry land. I hold that the true heirs of Kansas are mollusks that lived in the shallow sea. We find their fossils in the rocks all around Kansas.

People should raise sea levels 200 feet, and sink the top of the earth 1,000 feet to bring Kansas back to the original owners.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

61 “Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,”

YOU tone down your rhetoric (denial of free speech)
so THEY can keep gunning you down.

Being that this comes from a typical Leftist Jewish female politician who doesn't know what time it is, the situation with the Islamic/Leftist destruction of Western Civilization can only be resisted by God if that is even within His plan.

A Constitutional Republic is only for a moral, self-regulating Christian people and totally unsuitable for any other.

Our churches will continue to arm up and have Men of Action provide security (such as it is) while Julie Menin can have her Festivals and Ethnic Pride gatherings that will regularly feature expressions of Islamic jihad.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:50 AM (9Hs2w)

62 Hillary Clinton

You are a classic figure of corruption. Haiti should hate what you did to those people.

Begone, and be a tale told to frighten children.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

63 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:50 AM (9Hs2w)

So in your world what am I?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (9ipOP)

64 Hoping for the best outcome for Finn, Hadrian.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

65 Hadrian the Seventh

May your fears be unfulfilled, and Finn be fine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

66 Again, with all of the violence and vitriol Trump has had to endure for the last decade, I have not problem with what he said, he’s earned his pique in spades.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (XV/Pl)

67 If people think Trump was responsible for the death of Reiner and his wife, they are idiotsThe only responsible was their son-the man who killed them, although I think Trump should not have said what he said.

I am so glad I don't do Blewski or Twitter to read the stupid comments.from leftists

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (2sfNr)

68
I don't follow such things closely but how many Islamic organizations are out there condemning this sort of violence and intense secularism and calling for assimilation with other ethnicities and creeds? Because nothing is coming to mind.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (tgvbd)

69 "Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

Sure they can. Holding onto contradictory thoughts is kind of their thing.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (+4yJ5)

70 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:55 AM (2sfNr)

71 33 So now North Dakota is being colonized by Somalis? The news is unusually depressing of late.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 07:35 AM (qBdHI)
.....

North Dakota and Minnesota. Who would have thought the Somalis would like cold and snow! I'm pretty sure we have a cluster of them up in Sioux Falls too.

Posted by: Molly k. at December 16, 2025 07:55 AM (j/yko)

72 President fd would have some things to say that might perturb a few people too.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:56 AM (vFG9F)

73

Carl Carlton, R&B singer of "Bad Mama Mama" passes at 72. RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

74 Now with the leftists solve the homeless issue by institutionalizing mentally ill people?

My bet is on no they will not.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

75 > We cannot restore or begin to restore our society unless the cancer within is excised with extreme prejudice.
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We clutch our pearls so hard at a mean tweet by the President that our fingers bleed. How will we find the gumption to face the left and all that it has wrought if we can't get over that?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 07:57 AM (NwnyJ)

76 Is that your opinion or do you have evidence?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:26 AM (9ipOP)

There seems to be circumstantial evidence supporting the idea, but no actual evidence, and there can’t be until the perp is id’d.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (MXpA1)

77 FenelonSpoke

I have said prayers for FenelonSpouse, so that his gout can abate. May you two turtledoves keep warm, and FenelonSon do any shoveling needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

78 Meet Admiral Brian Christine, The Man Replacing Biden’s Infamous Trans-Identifying Health Official

Ah, he has a woman's name!

Posted by: Captain Rum Redbeard at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (/HDaX)

79 Again, with all of the violence and vitriol Trump has had to endure for the last decade, I have not problem with what he said, he’s earned his pique in spades.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (XV/Pl)

Correct. People like the recently decease paid clown entertainer wished President Trump dead, arrested, impeached, impoverished, assassinated, etc, etc. President Trump is being kind if you really think about. Stop being nice to these leftist scum.

Posted by: Payback Is A Bitch at December 16, 2025 08:00 AM (YyIMQ)

80 71 Lutheran Social Services of Sioux Falls took in a bunch of Ethiopians some years back. I used to visit Sioux Falls while working a temp job in Omaha. Needless to say, the Ethiopians really stood out. Also, if you were near a group like in a grocery they would sometimes be speaking something not quite Italian. Found out it's a pidgin form of Italian used between those of different dialects.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:00 AM (gm9Sb)

81 I don't follow such things closely but how many Islamic organizations are out there condemning this sort of violence and intense secularism and calling for assimilation with other ethnicities and creeds? Because nothing is coming to mind.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (tgvbd)
====

I have seen a video of an Australian Muslim condemning it but the Australian imams association issued an anodyne statement.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (9ipOP)

82 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks so much . He's feeling better today although he drove the bus yesterday . Sweet treats for the holidays does not help his gout. But we went to the Irish gift shop and he's the one who bought the cookies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (2sfNr)

83 Scott Pelley Blames Everyone But CBS For Network’s Tanked Credibility

Anyone that has watched 69 mins since they day they blew up trucks with solid model rocket motors and broke the shifter cables to cause unintended acceleration is not very smart.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (gbOdA)

84 "I most certainly can grieve for a man whose movies defined much of my young life."

Well, her cats will enjoy that last meal...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (XuXeR)

85 Admiral Brian Christine is the head of one of eight uniformed services of the US of A. We are now up to eight with Space Force.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

86 FenelonSpoke

I have said prayers for FenelonSpouse, so that his gout can abate. May you two turtledoves keep warm, and FenelonSon do any shoveling needed.

I have both Colchicine and Indomethacine for pain and swelling via doctor's RX. Go see a doctor.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (x0n13)

87 I'm so old I remember when mean tweets used to be a big deal.

Posted by: Geezer at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

88 "Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

==

The thing about it is, these two incidents aren't even remotely similar so why any comparison at all? Kirk was murdered solely because of his politics. In America. Land of supposed free speech. It was such a heinous act that even Reiner himself acknowledged it for what it was. OTOH, Reiner had an unbalanced son who killed him as other kids have killed their parents in the past. Whatever set him off doesn't matter.

These two murders are not alike.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

89 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:02 AM (+x87d)

90 I just saw video, the terrorists were attacked by civilians as soon as they emerged from their car on Campbell Parade. A man and his wife saw the weapons and attacked the old man but he shot them dead.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:02 AM (9ipOP)

91 It's not impossible that it may be pneumonia and thus treatable but I fear it's worse than that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 07:43 AM (tgvbd)

Here's hoping for the least worst news. Prayers up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 16, 2025 08:02 AM (/HDaX)

92 Lutheran Social Services"

The twits who discovered that they can fill their coffers w/taxpayer coin by importing others by calling them "refugees"?

I wish them ill.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (XuXeR)

93
re: President Trump's statement about Rob Reiner's murder.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's prudent to do it.
Never miss an opportunity to shut up when it's the prudent thing to do and there is no percentage to be gained by speaking.

Posted by: Speller at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (pSotA)

94 FenelonSpoke

Are you saying he does not pay attention to what you tell him not to do? Hmmm.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

95 "House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion"

It doesn't save anything. It shifts the costs to the deficit.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

96 85 Admiral Brian Christine is the head of one of eight uniformed services of the US of A. We are now up to eight with Space Force.

+++
We're sitting right here.

Posted by: USPS at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (2Ez/1)

97 76 Is that your opinion or do you have evidence?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:26 AM (9ipOP)

There seems to be circumstantial evidence supporting the idea, but no actual evidence, and there can’t be until the perp is id’d.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 07:58 AM (MXpA1)

Perp pick looked like a chubby dude in black clothes - I'd say Arab/Middle East coloring by the hands, but you never know how the video is washing in or out colors when they release subpar pics...

If anyone hasn't seen the new person of interest, let me know. Of course, the 1st one didn't pan out, so this may not either...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 16, 2025 08:04 AM (tOcjL)

98 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

He's an adult. He can choose or not choose. The cookies won out 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 08:04 AM (Yl2Ob)

99 We clutch our pearls so hard at a mean tweet by the President that our fingers bleed

Remember, the enemy is always trying to divide us. And the so-called Right has a lot of cucks, simps, retards and other losers who are total cowards when confronting the Left, but brave lions when critical of their champions.

Same reason why everyone hates Christians and has no problems attacking them (no fear of reprisal - turn the other cheek response mechanism) but walks on eggs around Muslims (decapitation, bombs, assassination without any real provocation).

I might add trannies too. Broadly speaking, ethno-cultural Jews have a Muslim problem, Evangelicals have a Tranny problem.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:04 AM (9s47C)

100 "Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

Sure they can. Holding onto contradictory thoughts is kind of their thing.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 07:54 AM (+4yJ5)

If the leftoidss didn't have double standards, they would have no standards.

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 16, 2025 08:04 AM (YBgFH)

101 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

102 Never miss an opportunity to shut up when it's the prudent thing to do and there is no percentage to be gained by speaking.
Posted by: Speller at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (pSotA)

Doesn't apply to Ds. Any off-color or mean comments spikes their ratings.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:05 AM (uQesX)

103 “Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,” Menin also wrote on X. “This is a time to uplift all communities, not sow divisions.”

This is what's known as burying your head in the sand.

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

104 And the so-called Right has a lot of cucks, simps, retards and other losers who are total cowards when confronting the Left, but brave lions when critical of their champions."

"Bbbbbut it's not who we are!!!"

The proper reply: "F**k you, war"

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:06 AM (XuXeR)

105 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

106 Ya know, an armed society is one where Islamic Thugs can not murder innocents for 20 minutes without being stopped. And the police did not act at once.

Australia, England, France, Germany, Belgium, Canada, you have the wrong policies in place.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

107 96 "That's not a uniform. That's a costume". Retired naval officer addressing Cliff Claven on "Frasier".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (gm9Sb)

108 "Doesn't apply to Ds. Any off-color or mean comments spikes their ratings.
Posted by: OrangeEnt "

Trump is giving it back to them and they are crying.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

109 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:50 AM (9Hs2w)

So in your world what am I?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (9ipOP)
====

Put up shut up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (9ipOP)

110 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (x0n13)

Thanks He has Meloxicam and Prednisone. Which help. He's just down to a few pills.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (Yl2Ob)

111 Never miss an opportunity to shut up when it's the prudent thing to do and there is no percentage to be gained by speaking.
Posted by: Speller at December 16, 2025 08:03 AM (pSotA)

Doesn't apply to Ds. Any off-color or mean comments spikes their ratings.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:05 AM (uQesX)

Yes. How many times to we have to get f*cked by the high road before we start actually fighting back?

I don't care about what Trump said about a vile human being who's constant rhetoric over the past several years undoubtedly lead to TWO assassination attempts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

112 Hunter Biden Disbarred Over Illegal Gun Ownership, Tax Fraud Convictions.

Dayum
Now I never getting back last year tax refund check from my baby mama.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (gbOdA)

113 The thing that annoyed me most about Trump's tweet about Reiner is that Reiner was one of the few on the left to unequivocally condemn the cheering over Charlie Kirk's assassination. Being reminded that was more of a one-off and Reiner DID celebrate Rush Limbaugh dying takes the sting out a bit.

Posted by: American Hawkman at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (6nplM)

114 Thank you JJ

Something that’s jumped out at me regarding the recent mass shootings (particularly Bondi Beach and Brown University)… you watch the local officials and police give a press conference and it doesn’t take too long to realize these people are incompetent. It’s a shit show! Whatever happened to simple competence?? It doesn’t help they always have the obligatory sign language guy up front waving his hands around like a fool… I mean come on man! How many deaf people are watching the presser?? It’s ridiculous virtue signaling… then the mayor in Providence, RI complained he was tired… these people are ridiculous no wonder they haven’t caught the perp

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (YobFY)

115 All murders have one thing in common.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (W7XSX)

116 “sow divisions”

Sigh…It’s “sew,” not “sow.” I’m so sick of illiterate politicians.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (77rzZ)

117 Morn' all... I have to say what Trump said again about Reiner was cringe worthy but I'm wondering could Trump be playing to the base ?...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (VE6XX)

118 Instead of hurling the inflammatory call for expulsion of Muslims, justified though it is, the more effective rhetorical and political weapon would be to call on all Muslims to reject the aspects/teachings/words of the Koran and Islam I tied above. Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are.

It's a thought, but it will NEVER happen. Even if you are allowed to start such a revolution, the left and islham would never take such a path.

islham only knows one way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

119 re: President Trump's statement about Rob Reiner's murder.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's prudent to do it.
Never miss an opportunity to shut up when it's the prudent thing to do and there is no percentage to be gained by speaking.

--

It changes nothing about my politics or my support for PDJT. And Trump's gonna Trump. But I would've preferred to see a more presidential response here which would've just entailed saying nothing at all. Or at the very least, prayers to the Reiner family. Acrimony between the two aside, it just was unnecessary and beneath the dignity of his office. It doesn't even ding my support for him one shred, but it was better to have let it slide. Anyway...

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

120 We just need to put more women in charge.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)

121 That worthless fat fuck Erick Erickson has re-found his passion:

Scolding and shaming Republicans, demanding that we adhere to a set of one-sided, dangerous rules.

He bulbous face is red and sweaty in anger that Trump did not give the dead piece of shit Reiner, praise and prayers.

Hey fatty-- that turd slandered and attacked Trump with lies and worse daily: His death is not an absolution.

He's now trying the "you're all just a bunch of permanent online losers who need to get out more" against everyone who doesn't agree.
Oh, sick burn loser. Cnn still not calling you back?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (HXT0k)

122 It doesn't save anything. It shifts the costs to the deficit.

I think its better to understand the problem with this metaphor:

The framers and up until WW2 Americans built the "Titanic". The ink wasn't even dry on the Constitution until politicians were pick pocketing and casually stealing from the passengers.

After WW2 (or the 1965 Immigration Blow Out), the Titanic was being actively steered into an Iceberg. We can argue when the Titanic actually hit the iceberg, but one thing is very plain and simple:

While the ship is sinking, the politicians are going from room to room plundering all of the valuables with the knowledge that they will be able to swindle space on the lifeboat with themselves, their cronies and ill-gotten gain.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:09 AM (a3CJ+)

123 Excuse me, my terror plots are up here.

Posted by: Macinac Island Liberation Front at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (R86kT)

124 Trump is giving it back to them and they are crying.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

They're chickencucks.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (uQesX)

125 an armed society"

Oh noes. We can't have that, as it's "unsafe". "Safety first" is our mantra, and everyone must FEEL safe constantly.
And feeling safe means everyone in earshot must constantly support every feeling we have. Reeeeeee!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (XuXeR)

126 I've been an ardent DJT supporter, and still am. But F all his Tweet about Reiner pissed me off. It's not the villification of Reiner per se, but the fact that this isn't about you. Not. At. All.

I'm not a follower of the "you said X so you're disqualified" but this was over the top bad and, frankly, foolish. You are the leader of your party and have a responsibility not to give the other side fat, hanging curves.

Is this Trump's version of "after me the deluge"? Because I just don't understand.

Posted by: Zek at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (MnWjI)

127 Hey. We wear uniforms, too.

Posted by: U. S. Forestry Service at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

128 USPS

Unionized. Not under the UCMJ. A chain of command is lacking, although there are managers. Not given ribbons to wear for achievement, which is a good thing. Can be fired or resign with no effort.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

129

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
----

speaking as a Caucasian over 29 years of age, I actually have that song in my iTunes

'I get so excited, viewing her anatomy'

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)

130 Anyone hear from Jim in Kali yet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

131 "Paladino took down the posts in question after facing outrage..."

This is where fail, again and again and again. We can't stop failing. Think carefully about what you wish to say, say it, and stand by it. Or get out of the business.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

132 Hey. We wear uniforms, too.
Posted by: U. S. Forestry Service at December 16, 2025 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

What's your theme song? Who's in your marching band?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

133 you watch the local officials and police give a press conference and it doesn’t take too long to realize these people are incompetent."

Generally, teacher's unions get out the local vote... chew on that.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

134 The perp found Ella out of 11k students and faculty at a 143 acre campus, and out of 250 buildings on a Saturday night.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

135
This is where fail, again and again and again. We can't stop failing. Think carefully about what you wish to say, say it, and stand by it. Or get out of the business.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

My sentiments exactly.

However, style guide prefers "This is why we can't have nice things."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

136 133 you watch the local officials and police give a press conference and it doesn’t take too long to realize these people are incompetent."

Generally, teacher's unions get out the local vote... chew on that.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

off year and off cycle voting

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

137 We still talking about Trump’s Reiner tweet? Good grief, people, let it go.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (77rzZ)

138 The perp found Ella out of 11k students and faculty at a 143 acre campus, and out of 250 buildings on a Saturday night.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

He's likely a student there and has taken the same class or classes with her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

139 What's your theme song? Who's in your marching band?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

Enter the Gladiator
Clowns

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

140 Good morning all.

Any update on Jim (in Kalifornia) after his surgery yesterday?

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (c2vsb)

141 So a sewer went out to sew?

Posted by: Luke 8:15 at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)

142

A Constitutional Republic is only for a moral, self-regulating Christian people and totally unsuitable for any other.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 07:50 AM (9Hs2w)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (9ipOP)

143 What's your theme song?"

"Think Music"

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (XuXeR)

144 He's likely a student there and has taken the same class or classes with her.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

Spong
I am cynical old man and think someone told him exactly when and where to be.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

145 Today Is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

146 Erroriickson probably spent two hours on his radio show talking about how much he loves "The Princess Bride".

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

147 Any update on Jim (in Kalifornia) after his surgery yesterday?
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (c2vsb)
====

He checked in ok last night. His bowel has been resectioned and he has no bag so he is very happy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (9ipOP)

148 Any update on Jim (in Kalifornia) after his surgery yesterday?
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (c2vsb)

I asked the same at 130, but no response as of yet. I'm guessing he'll be doped up and we won't hear from him directly for a spell......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

149 Force them to publicly reject those words,

I absolutely, F'ing hate this narcissistic, stupid and pointless gesture of demanding / expecting someone to state something they clearly do not believe in the form of a "Public Rejection"™ to make the one issuing the demands appear to be virtuous when it is clear that no one, either the Cretin making the demands, or the target that they want to humiliate and lord over by making them grovel are virtuous.

It is a sick and disgusting Passive / Aggressive means of virtue signaling.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (a3CJ+)

150
He checked in ok last night. His bowel has been resectioned and he has no bag so he is very happy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (9ipOP)

Praise The Lord.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

151 Black Jack Pershing had the right idea.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (WQDw6)

152 San Franpsycho

Judeo-Christian, and Methodists. The Amish society is also looking better and better as we potentially approach burning times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (u82oZ)

153 “sow divisions”

Sigh…It’s “sew,” not “sow.” I’m so sick of illiterate politicians.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (77rzZ)

Uh, no, Bulg. It's sow divisions.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (uQesX)

154 It doesn’t help they always have the obligatory sign language guy up front waving his hands around like a fool… I mean come on man! How many deaf people are watching the presser??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

How many deaf people are at the presser?

Because closed caption is available for those at home

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (FxH7T)

155 I am cynical old man and think someone told him exactly when and where to be.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

Agreed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

156 Uh, no, Bulg. It's sow divisions."

Sooooeeee!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (XuXeR)

157 Today Is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

I prefer my anything plain - as God intended.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (c2vsb)

158 Kamala Harris Is Preparing for 2028 Presidential Bid: Dem Insiders.

Box whine and xanax

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

159 "Okay Hollywood, Shut up. You cannot grieve over Rob Reiner while blowing off Charlie Kirk."

==

The thing about it is, these two incidents aren't even remotely similar so why any comparison at all? Kirk was murdered solely because of his politics. In America. Land of supposed free speech. It was such a heinous act that even Reiner himself acknowledged it for what it was. OTOH, Reiner had an unbalanced son who killed him as other kids have killed their parents in the past. Whatever set him off doesn't matter.

These two murders are not alike.
Posted by: Lady in Black

The left celebrated when a rightist died. But we are supposed to be all solemn and introspective when a fucking commie loon dies.

Sorry. Not happening.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (+x87d)

160 Hey, we wear uniforms!

The TSA, wishing they would start giving us guns and cool tactical stuff.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 16, 2025 08:16 AM (gm9Sb)

161 rhennigantx

It was an OP.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

162 He checked in ok last night. His bowel has been resectioned and he has no bag so he is very happy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:15 AM (9ipOP)

Thanks, SF

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (c2vsb)

163 sow
(soʊ IPA Pronunciation Guide)
verb
If you sow seeds or sow an area of land with seeds, you plant the seeds in the ground.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

164 Fox has had Vickie Paladino on many times. She's a tough conservative lady that is fighting for NYC.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

165 You rip what you sew. Or something like that.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

166 "These two murders are not alike.

Posted by: Lady in Black"

Thank you! Yes! Someone's got to say it! Brava!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (Cjt/F)

167 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (fPt6j)

168 Even though Reiner grieved over Kirk, he still had the same opinions about Trump being a Nazi. This is not “unfortunate “ or “too soon”, Trump called it as he saw it. You guys should do the same.

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 16, 2025 08:18 AM (H1eSt)

169 Was the tailor able to sow the button back on your shirt?
Yeah, but it was only a sew sew job.

Posted by: Oh, no. Punz at December 16, 2025 08:18 AM (2Ez/1)

170 I don’t care about Trump’s truth social post about Reiner. It’s not something I’d do… I don’t feel that way about Reiner; I have sympathy for anyone who gets murdered in such a horrific fashion, by a son no less… it’s awful. Saw James Wood last night talking with great emotion about his friend Reiner.

However…. We get Trump as a package deal. The good, the bad and the ugly. You know what he’s the best prez of my lifetime by far and I was around for Ronaldus… this is who he is. Why are we surprised?? Why complain?? That “mean tweet” part of his makeup is essential to what makes him Trump… so be it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 16, 2025 08:18 AM (/iXAp)

171 sign language guy up front waving his hands around like a fool"

Remember that guy at Mandela's funeral? Funny.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (XuXeR)

172 I do not question the resolve of President Trump, but have serious concerns about Congress, the courts, and ~~faint-hearted~~ PUSSYS Republicans across the country.

fixed it

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

173 Even though Reiner grieved over Kirk, he still had the same opinions about Trump being a Nazi. This is not “unfortunate “ or “too soon”, Trump called it as he saw it. You guys should do the same.

I'll sit this one out. Not my monkey, not my circus.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (+4Cf6)

174 Remember that guy at Mandela's funeral? Funny.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (XuXeR)

that is one of my fav comments of all time
hookem horns
dophin jump

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

175 I see the seminar posters are still here this morning. Back to your masters, be gone

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (YCxFk)

176 Followup question: if this happened to Pelosi instead of Reiner, would this reaction be the same? Or Hillary? I could very well see the same situation happen to Biden.

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (H1eSt)

177 sow"

A pig,
A female pig...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (XuXeR)

178 You rip what you sew. Or something like that.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

And then, Eumenides them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (uQesX)

179 Oops, I did get my “sews” mixed up. “Sow divisions” is correct.

Sigh. I’m so sick of illiterate commenters on smart military blogs.

Sorry about that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

180 I think Trump was basically right. The narcissism, hedonism, and nihilism of Hollywood anti-culture was a major contributor to Reiner's murder.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (L/fGl)

181 I’m so sick of illiterate politicians.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:08 AM (77rzZ)

Kinda like Trump saying the BBC "literally" put words in his mouth?

It's a figure of speech. A metaphor. The exact opposite of "literally".

Did they shove a dictionary or thesaurus in his mouth?

How did that word become some prevalent and meaningless????

*goes back to shaking fist at clouds*

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (c2vsb)

182 You know why I support Trump's attack on the dead Hollywood losers?

Because the left always runs and hides behind Mother!s skirts every time anyone dares come after them in equal to what they had dished out.

Every f'ing time, they run and hide behind rules of decorum and manners-- which they had just been shitting on seconds before.

And they can always count on the Christian Scold Battalion, who never find fault in their darling left, to swoop in to protect them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (HXT0k)

183 Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea held a welcome back ceremony for soldiers serving in the battlefield of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this weekend, acknowledging a regiment believed to have been helping clear landmines in which at least nine soldiers died.

Safer than Houstons 3rd Ward.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

184 I think Trump was basically right. The narcissism, hedonism, and nihilism of Hollywood anti-culture was a major contributor to Reiner's murder.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (L/fGl)

If Reiner paid 1/2 the attention to his son that has been in and out of rehab 17 times in 37 years as he did airing his TDS, he'd likely be alive today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

185
If people wanted to and were actively trying to take away your Freedom and/or Life, how would YOU feel when one of them croaks?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (DbEzE)

186 Oops, I did get my “sews” mixed up. “Sow divisions” is correct.

Sigh. I’m so sick of illiterate commenters on smart military blogs.

Sorry about that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

I've cornered the market on being obtuse around here. You must now pay me a usage fee.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (c2vsb)

187 MRC - Outstanding Move: NewsNation Hires Katie Pavlich for Weeknight Primetime Show

She joins the network of “News for All Americans” following 16 years as editor for our buddies at Townhall and 12 years of regular appearances with our friends at the Fox News Channel (FNC). In her later years, she served as fill-in co-hosts for FNC’s slew of primetime shows.

https://tinyurl.com/yxjvdc6e

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

188 Trump gives no fucks.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (qrkyB)

189
*goes back to shaking fist at clouds*
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (c2vsb)

I admire your denial of aloofness.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Morning everyone. Thx JJ great report.
I've been filling you in about the low grade chaos occurring around here over the last couple weeks.
The NYS police have found a cop in my city was acting in self defense when he shot a guy. The cop was driving in the county south of me and off duty when some guy went road rage on him. The guy stopped in front of the cop and got out of his car and threw a punch at the cop threw his car window. He the pulled a knife and the cop shot him, injuring the attacker. No charges. People are getting nuttier

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (D+mpw)

191 A pig,
A female pig...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (XuXeR)

that verse was cut from the movie

Posted by: Maria The Problem at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

192 Have a great day, everyone.

However, head on a swivel and have a plan.

May you give and get the gift of your heart's desire this Christmas. Probably can't buy it in regular stores.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

193 Crap. Obtuseness.....not Aloofness.

Damn me.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

194 Last thing I say about the Reiner topic. Rest in Peace.

Let us move on

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

195 cornered the market on being obtuse"

Say, about 140 degrees?

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:23 AM (XuXeR)

196 And they can always count on the Christian Scold Battalion..
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (HXT0k)

I like that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (b4LBp)

197 You rip what you sew. Or something like that.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

And then, Eumenides them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:20 AM (uQesX)

Yes, after Euripides.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (wVcYX)

198 I admire your denial of aloofness.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

Denial of Aloofness. I wanted to go see them when they opened for Corrosion of Conformity.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (c2vsb)

199 And they can always count on the Christian Scold Battalion, who never find fault in their darling left, to swoop in to protect them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 08:21 AM (HXT0k)

Onward Christian Scold Battalion is one of my fav hymns.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

200 You rip what you sew. Or something like that.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

And vice versa.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

201 You know why I support Trump's attack on the dead Hollywood losers?

Because the left always runs and hides behind Mother!s skirts every time anyone dares come after them in equal to what they had dished out.

Every f'ing time, they run and hide behind rules of decorum and manners-- which they had just been shitting on seconds before.

And they can always count on the Christian Scold Battalion, who never find fault in their darling left, to swoop in to protect them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

THAT NEEDED TO BE SAID

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (+x87d)

202 I got some chocolate covered cotton for you.

Posted by: Milo Minderbinder at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (W7XSX)

203 This still doesn't resolve the sock and a sock or sock and a shoe conundrum.

https://youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk

Posted by: A. Bunker at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)

204 Euripides."

"Meh"

Mediocrates...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (XuXeR)

205 It's ok Bulg. Spelling and grammar errors I can forgive because we have no edit capability here.

I do frown upon factual errors though.

*glares at Paco*

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

206 Denial of Aloofness. I wanted to go see them when they opened for Corrosion of Conformity.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:24 AM (c2vsb)

Help me Jesus, help me clean my wounds.

He said He cannot heal that kind......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

207 Naproxen is FDA-approved for acute gout flares, recommended as a first-line NSAID by guidelines (e.g., Arthritis Foundation, Mayo Clinic), and user reviews average 8.6/10 effectiveness.

It reduces inflammation and pain comparably to indomethacin or colchicine, often with fewer side effects.

You can take up to 1375 mg total (e.g., 825 mg first dose + follow-ups) the first day but you need to taper off to 1100 mg/day until flare subsides.

Be sure to take with some food or a glass of milk.

It might interfere with urination to a minor degree but this will pass.

Posted by: pawn at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (EMg+d)

208 He the pulled a knife and the cop shot him, injuring the attacker. No charges.

Only because he's a cop. Double standards are twice as good.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 08:26 AM (+4yJ5)

209 187. Good for Katie. Just wish Newsnation did not have the never Trumper, Christ Stirewalt, as their political director.

The guy who made the Arizona call on Fox, for election 2020

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)

210 A Constitutional Republic is only for a moral, self-regulating Christian people and totally unsuitable for any other.

-
I would strike the word "Christian" but other than that, I agree.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:26 AM (L/fGl)

211
Anyone else following this? Is this a big deal? Do we have a problem with the "chair" woman of the NTSB, or is she just doing her job?

There seems to be an issue over "Route 4" the "controversial" airspace used when that DEI helicopter fake "pilot" girl killed all those people.

The House Armed Services Committee wants to keep it status quo. Two idiots in the Senate, Cruz & cantwell, want it shut down forever.

The chairwoman of the NTSB agrees with the Senators, and she's making a big public stink about it. Is she a problem for us? Does she need fired?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (DbEzE)

212 I've cornered the market on being obtuse around here. You must now pay me a usage fee.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:22 AM (c2vsb)
====

If TJM were awake he wouldn't understand.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (A0sqA)

213 We won't let the arrest of one cell deter us from our goal. Slow and steady wins the race.

Posted by: Turtle Island Liberation Front at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (oftw2)

214 Onward Christian Scolders!

Posted by: With vigorous finger shaking at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (2Ez/1)

215 " I think Trump was basically right."

He is right. And Hollywood is pissed because he pointed it out.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

216 Onward Christian Scolders!"

Carrie Nation Time!

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

217
If TJM were awake he wouldn't understand.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:27 AM (A0sqA)

Meh.....he's an asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

218 It might interfere with urination to a minor degree but this will pass.
Posted by: pawn at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (EMg+d)

Eventually.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)

219 Judeo-Christian, and Methodists. The Amish society is also looking better and better as we potentially approach burning times.

I'm not so certain about "Judeo" because many of the ethno-cultural Jews are Leftists who actively hate Western civilization and are involved with NGOs and other organizations (e.g. ACLU, ADL, SPLC, etc.)

I KNOW THAT JEWS ARE NOT A HOMOGENOUS GROUP

JJS, CBD, many others are Great Americans, I get that.

And not all "Christian" organizations are pro-Western either (e.g. Catholic Charities, LIRS, Global Refuge, etc.)

But it is Calvinism, the printing press and guns that made The Great Experiment possible.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (BvPIe)

220 Help me Jesus, help me clean my wounds.

He said He cannot heal that kind......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Quoting song lyrics around here is a risky choice for you. Live dangerously!

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (c2vsb)

221 Rand Paul, a Republican senator of Kentucky, told NewsNation that “seizing someone’s oil tanker is an initiation of war” and questioned whether “it’s the job of the American government to go looking for monsters around the world, looking for adversaries and beginning wars.”

Know nothing pretend semi do gooder quasi libertarian ass wipe

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

222 but this will pass."

All things must pass...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

223
Quoting song lyrics around here is a risky choice for you. Live dangerously!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (c2vsb)

Livin' on the edge!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

224 Good for Katie. Just wish Newsnation did not have the never Trumper, Christ Stirewalt, as their political director.

The guy who made the Arizona call on Fox, for election 2020
Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)
******5
I will miss her on Fox, but I suppose it's good to have as many conservative voices spread out across new stations.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

225
All things must pass...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

Hear hear!!!

Posted by: Gasssss at December 16, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

226 but this will pass."

All things must pass...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

We help!

Posted by: Psyllium Fiber capsules and plenty of water at December 16, 2025 08:30 AM (wVcYX)

227 Quoting song lyrics around here is a risky choice for you. Live dangerously!
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (c2vsb)

Livin' on the edge!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

You may have asked for it, but I shall not link to that.

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (c2vsb)

228 Rand Paul, a Republican senator of Kentucky, told NewsNation that “seizing someone’s oil tanker is an initiation of war” and questioned whether “it’s the job of the American government to go looking for monsters around the world, looking for adversaries and beginning wars.”

I guess your neighbor hit you harder than anyone thought.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Libertarians stink at foreign and defense policy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

230
You may have asked for it, but I shall not link to that.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (c2vsb)

There's something wrong with the world today.

I don't know what it is......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

231 Insert Leftist progtard of the day quoting Jesus here
, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

232 Man, has Rand Paul lost the plot or what.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (b4LBp)

233 Call us.

Posted by: Prune juice and bran at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

234 I will miss her on Fox, but I suppose it's good to have as many conservative voices spread out across new stations.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

Newsnation? Never heard of it.

Posted by: 99% of geezer tv watchers at December 16, 2025 08:32 AM (uQesX)

235 Euripides."

"Meh"

Mediocrates...
Posted by: man

*golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:32 AM (+x87d)

236 Libertarians stink"

Can't argue with that... and it's an earthy smell...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

237 Libertarians stink"

On ice!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

238 “We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it,” Paladino had written on X after 15 people were killed and 40 others injured at a celebration of the Jewish Hannukah holiday on Sunday.

NYC GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino faces firestorm after calling for ‘expulsion of Muslims’ in light of Bondi Beach terrorist attack

Should have had this call for expulsion of all Muslims on 09/12/2001. Instead, the population of Muslims in the USA went from 1.0 million in 2000 to 2.5 million in 2010 to 4.5 million in 2020.

150% increase after 09/11 Islamic terrorist attack to 2010
80% increase from 2010 to 2020

And projections have the Muslim population at 8.1 million by 2050.

If all western nations do not deport every last Muslim from their nation and ban them from ever returning, western civilization will be conquered, if it is not already. The UK and Australia are conquered. France close behind.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:33 AM (P5BPp)

239 The authors found that smoking weed every day more than doubles your risk of heart disease and stroke, and that the use of today’s high-potency THC vastly increases the risk of psychosis and anxiety disorders.

Progressivism in a doobie.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

240 I've cornered the market on being obtuse around here. You must now pay me a usage fee.
Posted by: Doof

Hey! I'm just as obese as you are! Oh, you said "obtuse." Nevermind.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (L/fGl)

241 You may have asked for it, but I shall not link to that.
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (c2vsb)

There's something wrong with the world today.

I don't know what it is......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

This is the closest you'll get from me
https://youtu.be/L295Gpt6r8U

Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (c2vsb)

242 When I'm tempted to chide Trump for running off at the mouth or saying something politically inappropriate, I give it 24 hours. Then I realize he was being totally authentic and making a good point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (b4LBp)

243 “seizing someone’s oil tanker is an initiation of war”

And violating established sanctions to supply a known supporter of terrorism is acceptable.

I would like to apologize for my previous support of the Libertarians. But in my defense, I was a libertarian instead of a LIBERTARIAN!!!!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (+4yJ5)

244 Libertarians stink"

Can't argue with that... and it's an earthy smell...
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

Oh! A composting toilet! Those things are great! Livin' off the grid for the win!

Posted by: Until they spill the bucket of shit on themselves at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (uQesX)

245 Is Vickie Paladino related to Carl Paladino, the longtime NY GOP power player who almost talked Trump into running for governor when Spitzer resigned?

Posted by: Delurker at December 16, 2025 08:35 AM (xNHSX)

246
This is the closest you'll get from me
https://youtu.be/L295Gpt6r8U
Posted by: Doof at December 16, 2025 08:34 AM (c2vsb)

A stretch, but acceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

247
I'll also say this: it is a statement of character that we have a lot of people on our side nominally that stick to their beliefs in the face of adversity. It is also absolutely deleterious to our cause of actually saving the Republic that they do so primarily to stop us from utterly destroying the forces that are trying to destroy it, rather than hamstring the enemies that'd cheerfully kill them. I admire their convictions. It's a pity that the world is the state that it is where they absolutely cannot be trusted with any form of power or authority.

Posted by: American Hawkman at December 16, 2025 08:36 AM (6nplM)

248 Libertarians stink ~~at foreign and defense policy.~~

==

of weed mostly

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:36 AM (g47mK)

249 Analysis of that signal suggests that the MAVEN spacecraft was rotating in an unexpected manner when it emerged from behind Mars. Further, the frequency of the tracking signal suggests MAVEN’s orbit trajectory may have changed. The team continues to analyze tracking data to understand the most likely scenarios leading to the loss of signal. Efforts to reestablish contact with MAVEN also continue.

We lost our Martian rocket ship, the high-paid spokesman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship has lost its cone-shaped head
We spent 90 jillion dollars trying to get a look at Mars
I hear universal laughter ringing out among the stars

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

250 Rand Paul votes 100% on confirming GOP Judges.

About only good thing I can say about him right now

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (YCxFk)

251 Libertarians had their day in the sun, ending around 1995. Harry Browne seemed a good egg. He died. Then everyone else figured out they are only about promoting drugs and open borders. Many don't even know where/what Aleppo is. Went from 3-5% support to 1% or so of losers in Mom's basement. Rand Paul can go squeeze a breeze.

Posted by: Rock-Ribbed One at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (oftw2)

252 Again, with all of the violence and vitriol Trump has had to endure for the last decade, I have not problem with what he said, he’s earned his pique in spades.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2025 07:53 AM (XV/Pl)

Agree. And Rob Reiner was very much at the root of many of the problems we have now. He was another propagandist pushing anti-American ideas. Fuck 'im.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (g8Ew8)

253 Happens all the time.

Orthodox islhamists attack and murder civilians.

Governments and media declare BOLO for 'right wing extremist retaliation.'

Orthodox islhamists given keys to the city.

Right wing extreme violence against islhamists never happens.

Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

254 @245 don't think so, Vickie is from Queens, while Carl is from the Buffalo area. Opposite ends of NYS

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (D+mpw)

255
Who cares?

WTF are we doing in Syria??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (DbEzE)

256 Agree. And Rob Reiner was very much at the root of many of the problems we have now. He was another propagandist pushing anti-American ideas. Fuck 'im.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (g8Ew

Bu bu but, the Princess Bride.

Posted by: Not as funny as some people say at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (uQesX)

257 That'll teach 'em.

Posted by: Teenage Martian with a Red Ryder Laser Rifle at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

258 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 16, 2025 08:39 AM (53oGX)

259 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”

The Last of Us is not a "how to" video.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

260 I'm not so certain about "Judeo" because many of the ethno-cultural Jews are Leftists who actively hate Western civilization and are involved with NGOs and other organizations (e.g. ACLU, ADL, SPLC, etc.)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 16, 2025 08:28 AM (BvPIe)

I'll take you seriously when you call out the many cultural Catholics and hard-left progressive Christians as exactly that.

Until then, singling out leftists who happen to be born Jewish is suspect.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:40 AM (n9ltV)

261 Oh! A composting toilet! "

I like the thingy from a couple of years ago - the "countertop" composter. You were supposed to dump "organic" waste into a bin on your counter, and then have some magical compound for your garden... or something.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

262 253 Happens all the time.

Orthodox islhamists attack and murder civilians.

Governments and media declare BOLO for 'right wing extremist retaliation.'

Orthodox islhamists given keys to the city.

Right wing extreme violence against islhamists never happens.

Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

see my youtube link above to norm mcdonald joke

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

263

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Liberals have created “ICE Watch” in Portland Oregon

They have custom “ICE Watch” vests with glued on eyes balls all over them

They are stationed out from of schools to alert everyone if ICE is near

This in interfering in a federal operation

https://tinyurl.com/54y6zrfc

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

264 The en banc nominations bill will pass the Senate this week. about 15 US Attorney's in the package, including Michigan, NH, Tenn, Indiana etc... 4 DC Superior Court judges, few Ambassadors, and then mostly DOD, Transportation etc.. admin.

When Obama, and Biden took office these positions were filled right away due to GOP bi partisan votes.

sigh....

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (YCxFk)

265 I won't be lectured about the tone of people on my side who are fighting for me while the left openly celebrates the murder of a young man who wanted nothing more than to have a conversation with people who disagree with him.

We're in a war for our civilization. Hair is going to get mussed. Keep calm and carry on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (viF8m)

266 WTF are we doing in Syria??"

Pretty much the same as in what, 100+ other places around the world..

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

267 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”
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I'll take "Sentences where every word makes it worse" for 800, Alex.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (qrkyB)

268 Wow. The media are sure upset about Trump dunking on Reiner after he got bemeated.

That's dumb. I mean, sure, he probably should've just said nothing, but what do these people expect? The feigned shock is annoying.

Trump's no shrinking violet, he holds a grudge with the best of 'em, and this particular tubby old fruit has spent many years raging at him like a lunatic, and calling him every name in the book from a Nazi to a rapist.

Did they think he was gonna send a bouquet?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

269
Who's eyeballs?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (DbEzE)

270 We lost our Martian rocket ship, the high-paid spokesman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship has lost its cone-shaped head
We spent 90 jillion dollars trying to get a look at Mars
I hear universal laughter ringing out among the stars
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

Is that The Little Eisenstein's theme song?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (uQesX)

271 *You were supposed to dump "organic" waste into a bin on your counter, and then have some magical compound for your garden... or something.*

You mean Mr. Fusion?

Posted by: Doc Brown at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

272 I'll take you seriously when you call out the many cultural Catholics and hard-left progressive Christians as exactly that.

Until then, singling out leftists who happen to be born Jewish is suspect.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:40 AM (n9ltV)

I hate the James Talaricos of the US about as much as the islamofascist and cat ladies.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

273 Holy shit. The children have been activated.

Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 AM (+x87d)

274 @264 Jonah, and the GOPe will still talk about their "good friends across the aisle". SMH

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:43 AM (D+mpw)

275 Didn't that happen days ago rickb223?

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (vFG9F)

276 They have custom “ICE Watch” vests with glued on eyes balls all over them"

I saw that - "custom" meaning "ICE WATCH" written in sharpie on a vest. And they're soooo important. And doing nothing useful or interesting, but hey...

They aren't interfering w/shiite.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

277 I bought a Mk 23. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. But, a place is selling them for $1700 and I’ve never seen them cheaper. I couldn’t resist.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (fA38o)

278
Holy shit. The children have been activated.

Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes.
Posted by: rickb223

Manchurian Celery Children?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (DbEzE)

279 I like the thingy from a couple of years ago - the "countertop" composter. You were supposed to dump "organic" waste into a bin on your counter, and then have some magical compound for your garden... or something.
Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)
====

We are mandated to do that by Gavin Newsom.

If you don't, they send you a picture of your garbage with a $40 ticket.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (9ipOP)

280 Syria allows us to use bases to go after ISIS.

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

281 Prayers for Finn today. Keeping fingers crossed that he is ok too.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 16, 2025 08:45 AM (BCuCF)

282 Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes on December 8th.

Following a Dec. 11 court appearance on a felony murder charge, 31-year-old Micah Curtis Sykes' bail amount changed from $4 million to no bail. He was arrested on Dec. 9, a day after first responders found 71-year-old Jubilant Sykes "with critical injuries consistent with a stabbing" in a Santa Monica home and declared him dead at the scene.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:45 AM (+x87d)

283 Every once in a while there will be an uprising in Syria and they will kill a bunch of Christians, Armenians, Jews, folks from another tribe, whatever.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

284 Waterless urinals are another disaster brought upon us by greenie-weenies. They stink like fermented urine. I think the trend is dying out, thankfully.

Posted by: Alas, poor Uric.... at December 16, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

285 “ The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior!”

Samuel 22:47

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2025 08:46 AM (gnUjt)

286 274. right Glove. like all the GOP Senators who voted to confirm Merrick Garland, because he was a moderate

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

287 I bought a Mk 23. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. But, a place is selling them for $1700 and I’ve never seen them cheaper. I couldn’t resist.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (fA38o)

You should have bought the MkUltra. Much better.

Posted by: Your Fiendly Neighborhood CIA Guy at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (uQesX)

288 Following a Dec. 11 court appearance on a felony murder charge, 31-year-old Micah Curtis Sykes' bail amount changed from $4 million to no bail. He was arrested on Dec. 9, a day after first responders found 71-year-old Jubilant Sykes "with critical injuries consistent with a stabbing" in a Santa Monica home and declared him dead at the scene.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:45 AM (+x87d)

All these stabbings... When are the Dems gonna demand Knife control laws ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (VE6XX)

289 Mk 23. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. "

Well, it's not a 1911, so...

*at least it's in JMB's own .45 ACP*

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

290 We're in a war for our civilization. Hair is going to get mussed. Keep calm and carry on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (viF8m)

Yes.

I wish Trump had been more artful in his criticism of Reiner.

But those are the new rules...he's just following them! No reason why he can't say what he said.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (n9ltV)

291 The Amish society

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Here in Colorado, we received an alert this morning that Xcel may shut of electricity tomorrow for fear of high winds sparking wild fires. So I guess we're going Amish.

Actually, if this happens at all, I suspect it'll be limited to the eastern plains and not over here on the Western Slope.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (L/fGl)

292 Did they think he was gonna send a bouquet?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

It's pronounced "bucket."

Posted by: Richard at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (uQesX)

293 Didn't that happen days ago rickb223?
Posted by: fd

Yeah. 8 days ago. I hadn't seen anything about it.

Weird that it was a child stabbing their parent after hearing about Meathead's death the same way.

Must be something in the Southern California water.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (+x87d)

294 Obama-Appointed Judge Refuses to Give More Jail Time to Illegal Alien Who Raped Woman with Cerebral Palsy
_____

These judges hate the average citizen and want to see us punished, humiliated and cowed. Only the criminal gets whatever sympathy they can muster from their cruel, twisted souls.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (Dv3i1)

295 Waterless urinals are another disaster brought upon us by greenie-weenies. They stink like fermented urine."

I had forgotten about those - what a s**t show. Flies loved 'em, tho.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

296
Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 AM (+x87d)

Oof. I looked it up, and from the arraignment, it sounds like this dude doesn't know he did it yet.

Once he's back on medication for a little while and comes out of the psychotic break, he's in for a very rude awakening.

What a mess

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (BI5O2)

297 Happy Beethoven's birthday!!!!

Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (3AwA+)

298 We are mandated to do that by Gavin Newsom.

If you don't, they send you a picture of your garbage with a $40 ticket.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (9ipOP)

Why not just toss it out the window?

Posted by: The ould ways are the best ways at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (uQesX)

299 Did you guys hear that Katie Pavlich is leaving Fox News for NewsNation? That is a huge mistake. She's got a 10 pm show. No one will ever see her. I hope she comes back to Fox, she was very good.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (BCuCF)

300 It's not just leftist Jews who are responsible for the decline of the West. Christian ngos are importing the third world here under the heading "we are all God's children". LDS loves immigrants illegal and otherwise. The funny part is the left thinks it will survive and be the leaders. Nuh-uh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (D+mpw)

301 Amjad Taha @amjadt25

This is a warning sign.

For your information: blocking public roads to pray would never be tolerated in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, or Dubai, UAE. Such behavior is uncivilized and backward.

When authorities tolerate disorder in the name of appeasement, they invite chaos and extremism. Next comes another antisemitic terrorist bombing, like those carried out by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), the Hamas of Africa, or the Sydney Bondi Beach attack.

This is exactly how it starts, with tolerated disorder and unchecked extremist behavior.

This is a warning sign.

Zero tolerance works.

X video: https://bit.ly/4pG1Mpy

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (P5BPp)

302 277 I bought a Mk 23. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. But, a place is selling them for $1700 and I’ve never seen them cheaper. I couldn’t resist.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Is that a gun or a wireless keyboard?

Posted by: Innumerate, Illiterate, and Proud at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)

303 I love how the left wants stronger gun laws but also wants to let everyone out of jail.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (fA38o)

304 When are the Dems gonna demand Knife control laws ?"

/The Nation formerly known as "Great" Britain waves...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

305 Syria allows us to use bases to go after ISIS.

Posted by: Jonah at December 16, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

al-Sharaa has the same strategic goals as ISIS. He has differences of political opinion, and uses America to tamp them down.

He and Syria are Islamist, and there is no way to avoid that fact.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (n9ltV)

306 284 Waterless urinals are another disaster brought upon us by greenie-weenies. They stink like fermented urine. I think the trend is dying out, thankfully.
___

The real classy restaurants dumped ice in the urinals (I used to be a busboy, I know this firsthand). I wonder why that practice ended.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

307 Trump knows how to manipulate a story that's for damn sure.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (qrkyB)

308 Christ, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!

The most famous of the several dozen hymns composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of "Gilbert and" fame).

https://tinyurl.com/yc82ephf

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (ufSfZ)

309 Allopurinol to prevent gout. Get doc to prescribe and take daily. Has done wonders for me.

Posted by: Mick at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (HFx9z)

310 People still watch Fox News?

Posted by: Hunh at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

311 Is that a gun or a wireless keyboard?"

I think he's just happy to see us...

*ducks*

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

312 307 Trump knows how to manipulate a story that's for damn sure.
Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (qrkyB)

The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (VE6XX)

313
Must be something in the Southern California water.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (+x87d)

But you'll never see the kids tox screen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

314 So Reiner and Sykes were knifed to death by their respective children. Who will be the third entertainer?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (D+mpw)

315 308 Christ, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!

The most famous of the several dozen hymns composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of "Gilbert and" fame).

https://tinyurl.com/yc82ephf
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM
Bingo!

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (o2ZRX)

316 The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...
Posted by: It's me donna"

There will be something new tomorrow. Today even.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (vFG9F)

317 Posted by: Innumerate, Illiterate, and Proud at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2

It’s a huge impractical pistol that was designed 20 years ago.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (fA38o)

318 It's also a dessert topping.

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)

319
301 Amjad Taha @amjadt25

This is a warning sign.

For your information: blocking public roads to pray would never be tolerated in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, or Dubai, UAE. Such behavior is uncivilized and backward.

When authorities tolerate disorder in the name of appeasement, they invite chaos and extremism. Next comes another antisemitic terrorist bombing, like those carried out by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), the Hamas of Africa, or the Sydney Bondi Beach attack.

This is exactly how it starts, with tolerated disorder and unchecked extremist behavior.

This is a warning sign.

Zero tolerance works.

X video: https://bit.ly/4pG1Mpy
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (P5BPp)

Hear , hear!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (g47mK)

320 316 The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...
Posted by: It's me donna"

There will be something new tomorrow. Today even.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (vFG9F)

True.. I see they blew up 3 more narco, I mean fishing boats...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (VE6XX)

321 Once he's back on medication for a little while and comes out of the psychotic break, he's in for a very rude awakening.

What a mess
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (BI5O2)

Ah. Chalk up one more for Big Pharma

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

322 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”

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To go with our faux justice substitute?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (L/fGl)

323 >> We're in a war for our civilization. Hair is going to get mussed. Keep calm and carry on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:41 AM (viF8m)

Yes.

I wish Trump had been more artful in his criticism of Reiner.

But those are the new rules...he's just following them! No reason why he can't say what he said.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:47 AM (n9ltV)
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There are a lot of people who get bent out of shape when someone doesn't follow their perceived "rules of decorum." Timid people. Not ready for what's coming.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (NwnyJ)

324 The real classy restaurants dumped ice in the urinals (I used to be a busboy, I know this firsthand). I wonder why that practice ended.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

Global warming. Ice is retreating everywhere, you know.

Posted by: Polar Bears at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (uQesX)

325 Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeCollins

Last year, the U.S. government awarded over $8 million to an Atlanta-based nonprofit to resettle immigrants in Georgia, train them in political activism, and register voters.

USAID was just the start. The call is coming from inside the house.

X: https://bit.ly/4sf0mEq

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (P5BPp)

326 Why not just toss it out the window?
Posted by: The ould ways are the best ways at December 16, 2025 08:49 AM (uQesX)
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Because the law here only applies to the law-abiding. Con gusto!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (9ipOP)

327 @309 developed gout because of heart issues. I take Allopurinol. The key for me is that I no longer eat candy or drink sugary drinks. Haven't had an outbreak since 5/24. Avoid sugar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (D+mpw)

328 300 It's not just leftist Jews who are responsible for the decline of the West. Christian ngos are importing the third world here under the heading "we are all God's children". LDS loves immigrants illegal and otherwise. The funny part is the left thinks it will survive and be the leaders. Nuh-uh
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Christians and Muslims can be the best of neighbors. We'll take government money and traffic, er, transport them directly to your neighborhood! Not here in the Vatican though, we can't do that here. But YOU can where you are!
- Pope Leo

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1)

329 Wow. "110ft Statue of Liberty replica comes crashing down as huge winds hit Brazilian city"

Video at the DM.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (vFG9F)

330 322 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”

-
To go with our faux justice substitute?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (L/fGl)

Soylent Fauci!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:54 AM (x0n13)

331 The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (VE6XX)

To me it's better this than something else.

The truth is no one really a crap. "Trump Said Something Awful" stopped being of interest about 9 years ago. So let them fill the space with it while he gets on with all the business he intends to. All the vile Kirk stuff from Democrats didn't stop people voting for them in special elections or whatever.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 08:54 AM (qrkyB)

332 We need Pope Leo to bless the ice in the urinals. Maybe it will come back.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 08:54 AM (Dv3i1)

333 Based Hungary @HungaryBased

SHOCKING:

Hungary has Criminalized NGO Assistance to illegal migrants. Naming it the "Stop Soros" law.

Hungary has taken a Stand against Globalist Migration.

X video: https://bit.ly/4rU8GZT

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (P5BPp)

334 A lot of the fine establishments I frequented in collage did the ice in the urinals thing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (fA38o)

335 The "media" is gonna continue to hound him on this...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (VE6XX)

The media has been hounding him for everything since he came down the escalator.

He gives no f*cks. I'm fine with that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

336 >>I wish Trump had been more artful in his criticism of Reiner.

>>But those are the new rules...he's just following them! No reason why he can't say what he said.

I'm still seeing leftists and the media say things like "It's awful what happened to Charlie Kirk but he was a divisive and contentious person so ...".

They've been saying things like this and much worse since the day another leftist shot him, which they initially tried to pin on us, and I'm supposed to be upset that Trump didn't write a Hallmark message to a guy who has been inciting hate against him and his supporters for over a decade that has led to unrelenting lawfare and 2 murder attempts?

If we want to win it means fighting dirty against an opponent that fights dirty. When people who want us dead or imprisoned are defeated then we can go back to pinkies out.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)

337 People still watch Fox News?
Posted by: Hunh at December 16, 2025 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)
*******
It's become a completely different network.
Most of the people working on Fox have some connection to Trump's cabinet whether it be family member or friends.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

338 the U.S. government awarded over $8 million to an Atlanta-based nonprofit to resettle immigrants"

This is the key. I don't know (and can't seem to find much out about) who kicked off the "USA pays for immigrants" scheme, but several religious groups, seemingly facing $$ shortages, glommed on to this funding stream...

If only there was a "journalist" or "reporter" interested in the tale...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (XuXeR)

339

Countertop Composter?! "Pfft!"

- - Eliot Maimway's Bass-O-matic!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

340 Christian Popes: Deus Vult

Pope Kyle: We need more Muslims in the US and Europe

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

341 When are the Dems gonna demand Knife control laws ?

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None of us will be truly safe until sporks are banned.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (L/fGl)

342 Kirk and Owens had their 4 hour one on one yesterday.

No blood was shed. It seems some sort of 'agreement' was reached. We'll see what Owens says today and whether that pisses Kirk off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

343 California punishes people for trying to build rental housing then wonders why there's no affordable rental housing.

https://youtu.be/IQujpTzTNGY

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM (11N8C)

344
- - Eliot Maimway's Bass-O-matic!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)

EXCELLENT!!!!!

*wails on air guitar*

Posted by: Bill and Ted at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

345 Chinese Researchers Gene-Edit Fungus to Cook Up Chicken-Tasting “Meat Substitute”

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They should grow some in a Reiner-head mold, and bolt it on. Good as new.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM (BI5O2)

346 Hungary has been fighting Muslims since they were defeated at Mohacs in 1526. Now if the French would only remember Tours or the Austrians the sieges of Vienna

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM (D+mpw)

347 342 Kirk and Owens had their 4 hour one on one yesterday.

No blood was shed. It seems some sort of 'agreement' was reached. We'll see what Owens says today and whether that pisses Kirk off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

Bet the "agreement" was you say one more thing about me and I'm gonna sue you

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

348 Owens either went crazy on her own or discovered it pays better.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (fA38o)

349 One spork a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (2Ez/1)

350 This is the key. I don't know (and can't seem to find much out about) who kicked off the "USA pays for immigrants" scheme, but several religious groups, seemingly facing $$ shortages, glommed on to this funding stream...

Uncle Sugar pays NGOs to find people that want to come
Uncle Sugar pays NGOs to ship those people up here
Uncle Sugar pays NGOs to give lawyers and short term money to illegals
Uncle Sugar then put the illegals on welfare

And all the while the FNM says "there is nothing we can do to stop them coming!"

Well, maybe stop paying the NGOs and the illegals as as start?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

351 If we want to win it means fighting dirty against an opponent that fights dirty. When people who want us dead or imprisoned are defeated then we can go back to pinkies out.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)

No argument from me, and I realize that Trump is going to speak in his usual brash and aggressive way, no matter what I may want.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (n9ltV)

352 Porch pirates steal 250,000 packages a day. New research says cameras often don't stop them

https://tinyurl.com/ywkucfbk

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

353
Bet the "agreement" was you say one more thing about me and I'm gonna sue you
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

One can hope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Erika Kirk is a remarkable woman.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (g47mK)

355 I haven't watched Fox News since about 2010. Not even one minute. Weak sauce, crap polls, can get better elsewhere. Real America's Voice is my fave now.

Posted by: Once Bitten, No Twice Bitten, No... at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

356 When are the Dems gonna demand Knife control laws ?

They are doing that in Britain now...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

357 One spork a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (2Ez/1)

"Lets be fair! Use only one square!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

358 327 @309 developed gout because of heart issues. I take Allopurinol. The key for me is that I no longer eat candy or drink sugary drinks. Haven't had an outbreak since 5/24. Avoid sugar
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:53 AM (D+mpw)

It's the purines in things like cocoa, beans, spinach, asparagus, mushrooms, oats, raisins, beer and whiskey, a lot of fish, organ meats/offal and so on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (x0n13)

359 Porch pirates steal 250,000 packages a day. New research says cameras often don't stop them

https://tinyurl.com/ywkucfbk
Posted by: redridinghood

Bet a 12 gauge shotgun would.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (+x87d)

360 Now combine this -- western civilization suiciding its own culture with DEI and woke, etc. -- with the west promoting the rise of illegals and Islam in every nation.

vittorio @IterIntellectus

the thing about calling DEI 'economic genocide' is that it undersells it

yes, young White men were systematically excluded from careers during their peak marriage years, but that's just first-order effects.

second-order: marriage market collapse. women date across and up. men without careers become invisible to the women who would have married them and disappear. the "eligible bachelor" pool shrinks.

third-order: fertility crisis. fewer marriages, fewer children. but it's worse than just men not marrying or having families. the women who "won" the DEI lottery got careers instead of families, delayed fertility until it was too late. DEI attacked family formation from both sides, excluded men from provider roles AND diverted women from their fertility window. everyone lost.

fourth-order: psychological.

fifth-order: institutional trust gone.

sixth-order: reality became unspeakable.

seventh-order: the feedback loop.

Full X post: https://bit.ly/3KK9yzH

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (P5BPp)

361 Hungary has Criminalized NGO Assistance to illegal migrants. Naming it the "Stop Soros" law.

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Trying to get rid of their Buda pests?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (L/fGl)

362 The people that wanted Trump murdered and celebrated the multiple assassination attempts on him are mad that Trump is judging Reiner? TFB

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

363
Bet a 12 gauge shotgun would.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (+x87d)

Double barrel!

Through the door!!!

Posted by: Shittin' Joe Biden at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

364 North Dakota and Minnesota. Who would have thought the Somalis would like cold and snow! I'm pretty sure we have a cluster of them up in Sioux Falls too.
Posted by: Molly k.

I imagine the thought with North Dakota was that the population is small, so it doesn't take dumping many refugees to start making cultural and electoral changes.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (JCZqz)

365 "New research says cameras often don't stop them"

I bet they got some experts on the case.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (vFG9F)

366 Trying to get rid of their Buda pests?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Never have I ever known a ruder pest.
-- Henry Higgins

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

367 I still watch Fox Business in the morning. Maria and Varney, still solid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (D+mpw)

368 Hungary has Criminalized NGO Assistance to illegal migrants. Naming it the "Stop Soros" law.

That's one of the specific reasons that the left calls Orban a fascist which is...comical.

We could use laws like that here in the US, though you could argue RICO already covers it.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

369 Glad I never had to deal with porch pirates, that must be infuriating. I’m sure it will happen eventually. I think the only thing preventing it is there’s only like 7 houses on my street and it’s off by itself.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (fA38o)

370 110 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:01 AM (x0n13)

Thanks He has Meloxicam and Prednisone. Which help. He's just down to a few pills.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 08:07 AM (Yl2Ob)

I understand consuming TART cherry juice alleviates or prevents the uric acid crystals from forming. Tart cherry is where the active ingredients in some anti-gout meds are derived.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (x0n13)

371
Democrats (I don't call them "the left" anymore) have 3 Modes for Trump:

1. Mock him.
2. Lie about him.
3. Kill him.
4. Imprison him.

They are in one or more of these modes all the time. All.The.Time.

Nothing will change that. Whether he made that meathead screed or not.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (DbEzE)

372 seventh-order: the feedback loop."

I said it before... "civilization" as we in the west know it is unsustainable. Tears itself apart.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

373 Point in case. You ok with Hillary, the woman who tore this country apart over many lies the Russia hoax being the biggest is calling for you to be criminally charged for saying things she doesn't like.

>>@StandUpForTrmp
·
23h
>>🚨BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

374 Buy a shotgun!
Buy a shotgun!

Posted by: A former alleged president at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

375 Who would have thought the Somalis would like cold and snow!

Offer most third worlders American levels of welfare income and they'd live on the North Pole...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (sKqQm)

376 Donald Trump Jr announces engagement to model girlfriend Bettina Anderson during White House Christmas party

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

377 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 08:59 AM (x0n13)

I think gout may affect people differently and be genetic. His father had it .Spouse has no problem with seafood or vegetables. It's just sugar and alcohol that affects him, and fortunately he hasn't had a drink for years. He hasn't liked that part of it , but he's done it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (2sfNr)

378 Bet the "agreement" was you say one more thing about me and I'm gonna sue you
Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

Doubtful.

A lawyer could have sent a boilerplate C&D letter in less than a minute in our miraculous digital age, and it would have more impact than a sitdown.

I expect Kirk tried to appeal to Owen's professed Christian virtue.

For whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (BI5O2)

379 I still watch Fox Business in the morning. Maria and Varney, still solid
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (D+mpw)
=====

Maria gives too much air to creeps like Ro Khanna.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (9ipOP)

380 "New research says cameras often don't stop them"

You can just look at the footage and see that.

It's not going to stop and will get worse.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (vFG9F)

381 Who would have thought the Somalis would like cold and snow!

Offer most third worlders American levels of welfare income and they'd live on the North Pole...
Posted by: 18-1

Then why the hell are they in Minnesota and Michigan?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (+x87d)

382 Imagine telling people 100 years ago about the porch pirate thing.

"Don't you moderners just shoot someone if they are stealing your stuff on your porch?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

383 The social media scene was a massive dumpster fire after the attempt(s) on Trump's life and the murder of Charlie Kirk. The left was giddy. They came out in public to mock Kirk being shot in the neck. Some of the talking heads even reveled in his death... calling him a hateful person.

So I'm pretty nonplused by Trump's little dig at Reiner.

I am disappointed that many on the nominal right don't seem to get it. It's been years since "the new rules" were established by the left and we've still got people that haven't the moral turpitude to deal with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (NwnyJ)

384 BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

The veneer isn't very thick.

Scratch Hillary with a feather and the fascist shows.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (n9ltV)

385 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (x0n13)

He takes that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (2sfNr)

386
I expect Kirk tried to appeal to Owen's professed Christian virtue.

For whatever that's worth.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:03 AM (BI5O2)

Sure.. And then she said I'm gonna sue the hell out of you..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (VE6XX)

387 I’ve always had a thing for Libertarians! The glasses, the prim look, hair tied up, looking like a bit of a scold, but she just needs some deep conversation.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (9qg/U)

388 Bet a 12 gauge shotgun would.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:00 AM (+x87d)
******
Depends on which state.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

389 I have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (fA38o)

390 "The real classy restaurants dumped ice in the urinals (I used to be a busboy, I know this firsthand). I wonder why that practice ended."

I remember that! it ended because it worked, and made sense.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (Cjt/F)

391 "New research says cameras often don't stop them"

Why would a camera stop them or anyone from committing a crime?

Well, the worry is it will make it easier to be arrested.

But...what if the local police don't bother to try and arrest people for these sorts of crimes? The why would they care if they are on camera or not?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (sKqQm)

392 >>🚨BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
Posted by: JackStraw

Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine? Which one is misinformation? I hate these people pushing this and any idiot who parrots this word - 'misinformation'.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (Dv3i1)

393 I’ve always had a thing for Libertarians! The glasses, the prim look, hair tied up, looking like a bit of a scold, but she just needs some deep conversation.

Ayn Rand was supposedly quite a horn dog you know...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

394 have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM

DON'T.

I tried that stuff, and became so ill that I strongly considered going to the hospital.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (BI5O2)

395
You & Others forget...

it was just, what, 10 weeks ago people on "our side" were biting their nails over Trump calling for jimmy kimmel to be fired and for siccing the FCC on ABC.

Oh, what about "free speech!" you wailed. And the Democrats heard You and said, "yeah, free speech for all!"

Now the Democrats have reverted-to-type and stopped pretending to care about "free spech." But You forgot...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (DbEzE)

396 I’ve always had a thing for Libertarians! The glasses, the prim look, hair tied up, looking like a bit of a scold, but she just needs some deep conversation."

Liber.... oh, never mind.

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

397
"Why do you steal packages from porches?"
"Because that's where the packages are."

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (Q+gd/)

398 I have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Take one an hour until you shit yourself to death.
Gout WILL go away. Or will no longer matter.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (+x87d)

399 I remember that! it ended because it worked, and made sense.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (Cjt/F)

So, it made sense because it stopped scents?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (uQesX)

400 346 Hungary has been fighting Muslims since they were defeated at Mohacs in 1526. Now if the French would only remember Tours or the Austrians the sieges of Vienna
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 08:57 AM
Not all Americans have forgotten what invasion looks like. I am one of those who still remember.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2025 09:07 AM (o2ZRX)

401 Grammy nominated Opera singer Jubilant Sykes has been stabbed to death by his 31-year-old son Micah Sykes.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 08:43 AM (+x87d)

Oof. I looked it up, and from the arraignment, it sounds like this dude doesn't know he did it yet.

Once he's back on medication for a little while and comes out of the psychotic break, he's in for a very rude awakening.

What a mess
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 08:48 AM (BI5O2)

Considering the gay and trans lifestyle being forced on children, don't be surprised if murders of parents become commonplace. It's an easy prediction.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (g8Ew8)

402 Seriously, all my internal organs hurt for a week. That stuff is Satanic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (BI5O2)

403 Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine? Which one is misinformation? I hate these people pushing this and any idiot who parrots this word - 'misinformation'.

Occasionally I'll get lefties trying to thread the needle with "misinformation" and COVID and its honestly funny it goes something like:

Well, the best science at the time said that the COVID shot would reduce your chances of getting COVID significantly and therefore we couldn't let people say that it didn't because at the time that was misinformation even if they ended up being right.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

404 Mrs. Clinton sez: “Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
——

I agree. By this standard thiugh, that fucking wench would be buried underneath the prison, with thousands of tons of re-bar reinforced concrete, just to be sure. Maybe that Nuclear Waste Depository site in Nevada won’t be for naught…

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (9qg/U)

405
I should warn you, preemptively, I will be happy when clinton croaks. Both of them.

And dickhead van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 09:08 AM (DbEzE)

406 Ok, so you've got some grainy footage of a person in a dark hoodie swiping a package off your front steps.
So, what?

Posted by: A member of your local constabulary at December 16, 2025 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

407
Errr... I stopped giving a shit what Democrats say about *anything* around 2003.

Posted by: ... at December 16, 2025 09:09 AM (qrkyB)

408 "Why do you steal packages from porches?"
"Because that's where the packages are."
Posted by: davidt

Congress should issue Letters of Amazon and allow citizens to hunt porch pirates.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:09 AM (+x87d)

409 therefore we couldn't let people say that it didn't because at the time that was misinformation even if they ended up being right.
____

I guess we have to let you out of jail now for being correct, but being correct at the incorrect time. Sorry for all the ass raping.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:09 AM (Dv3i1)

410 I’ve always had a thing for Libertarians! The glasses, the prim look, hair tied up, looking like a bit of a scold, but she just needs some deep conversation.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 16, 2025 09:04 AM (9qg/U)

https://is.gd/hKbTBc

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

411 NEW: British man unknowingly starts playing with the world's deadliest octopus while vacationing in the Philippines.

The man filmed himself handling a blue-ringed octopus, which can paralyze its victim by blocking nerve transmission.

According to the National Library of Medicine, the toxin from the octopus is about 1000x more deadly to humans than cyanide.

https://is.gd/pPUaLr

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Thank God it wasn't a Muzzie octopus!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (L/fGl)

412 I agree. By this standard thiugh, that fucking wench would be buried underneath the prison, with thousands of tons of re-bar reinforced concrete, just to be sure. Maybe that Nuclear Waste Depository site in Nevada won’t be for naught…

This misinformation stuff would go away if we started prosecuting left leaning people for engaging in clear cut cases.

Give some FNM journalist and his network the Alex Jones treatment.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (sKqQm)

413 > I have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
------------
I suffer from gout flair ups. Never heard of that stuff. Sounds dangerous. I've read that cherries are good for gout. So's the OTC cherry extracts.

Allopurinol is a type of medicine that doctors will prescribe if your uric acid levels are too high.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (NwnyJ)

414 Ok, so you've got some grainy footage of a person in a dark hoodie swiping a package off your front steps.
So, what?
Posted by: A member of your local constabulary

I gots the holey body too.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (+x87d)

415 https://is.gd/hKbTBc
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

Arms tats = -100 points

Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (sKqQm)

416 I have some pills for gout that I never had to use yet. Colchicine or something. Wierdest dose instructions ever. Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop. Gout should clear up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:05 AM (fA38o)

Haven't had gout. The pain would have to be quite severe for that alternative to offer relief.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

417 I should warn you, preemptively, I will be happy when clinton croaks. Both of them.

And dickhead van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer

And both Obamas, Biden, DOCTOR Jill and Hunter...

The list is long.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

418 33 Odds are most of the invaders won't stay long. North Dakota winters are absolutely brutal.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (pd4dZ)

419 I hate the James Talaricos of the US about as much as the islamofascist and cat ladies.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 16, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

Talerico said - and this will be hard to believe because you wouldn’t even make this up as parody, but he really said it - that it would have just fine if Mary would have aborted Jesus.
Yes friends, it’s come to this - in the Texas Dem Primary for the Senate race, Jasmine Crockett is actually the moderate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (MXpA1)

420 Haven't had gout. The pain would have to be quite severe for that alternative to offer relief.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:1

Depends on how severe it is, but for most people the pain is... indescribable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (BI5O2)

421 All you folks with gout, just slap a hot iron to it. Jeesh.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

422 Reiner is that Reiner was one of the few on the left to unequivocally condemn the cheering over Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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Don't care.

Reiner built such a culture of hate on the left that none of them listen to that, none of them recanted.

All they listen to is hate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (HXT0k)

423 One's a crack snacker and the other is a snack cracker.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (fPASK)

424 Ok, so you've got some grainy footage of a person in a dark hoodie swiping a package off your front steps.
So, what?
Posted by: A member of your local constabulary

Hey! That's the same guy who did the Brown University shootings!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (L/fGl)

425 My levels are not in the flare up range but I had what probably was a gout flare up anyway. The night before I had to travel for work. It was awesome. Walking all over the airport. Gone several years with nothing else, so that one was a mystery.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (fA38o)

426 I've had gout in my toe and it can feel like someone is slicing it off.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (vFG9F)

427 Hillary blew her chance at the Presidency when she didn't add Bill to the body count. "The Widow Clinton," would've sealed the deal.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (Q+gd/)

428 And dickhead van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Speaking of Dyke van Dick, was there ever a sitcom character less bland, less a cypher than Richie Petrie? Completely forgettable. I guess Larry Matthews was his name.

Posted by: He Was No Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Or Lauren Chapin at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2)

429 Nothing Trump said was unfortunate or wrong.

Posted by: Bob at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (YiqZD)

430
Look. Look & Laugh.

This, my fiends, is who some of you are worried about. This is who is making you "answer for" Trump's mean tweets:

https://is.gd/XCjCzD

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (xuxcE)

431 Hilary, tell us about your husband's peccadillos while he was in office in Arkansas and in the White House ! The truth now.

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (g47mK)

432
Hey! That's the same guy who did the Brown University shootings!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:13 AM (L/fGl)

So far all they've come up with after all the cameras is that he was "light" skinned....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (VE6XX)

433 Hunter got disbarred in Connecticut.
That's a rare ray of sunshine in that criminals existence.

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:15 AM (fPASK)

434 >Actually, if this happens at all, I suspect it'll be limited to the eastern plains and not over here on the Western Slope.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
---

Noon MST Wednesday
I'm right in the middle of it

This decision is driven by XCel's lawyers, 'out of an abundance of caution'

XCel to customers who don't have their own generators: "Fuck you."

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:15 AM (ZxPkt)

435 33 Odds are most of the invaders won't stay long. North Dakota winters are absolutely brutal.
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (pd4dZ)

Ice don't melt in the urinals?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

436 I want to know about Hillary's peccadildoes

Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2025 09:16 AM (fPASK)

437 I had 3 recurring flair ups of gout this past summer. I couldn't walk my feet hurt so bad. Potent pain meds only dulled it for a couple hours.

Uric acid that crystalizes in the blood stream and then settle to the lowest part of the body... typically the feet are shaped like tiny pine needles.

Thus... the incredible pain.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:16 AM (NwnyJ)

438 🚨BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

So, you're willing to go to jail for your Russian disinformation campaign?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

439 Speaking of Dyke van Dick, was there ever a sitcom character less bland, less a cypher than Richie Petrie? Completely forgettable. I guess Larry Matthews was his name.
Posted by: He Was No Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Or Lauren Chapin at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2)

Chuck Cunningham?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:16 AM (wVcYX)

440 I want to know about Hillary's peccadildoes
Posted by: torabora

Eeeeeeeewwww.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (+x87d)

441 Yes, gout hurts like a mf’er. And it hurts even more if you rest it and the start walking again.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (fA38o)

442 Rob Petrie

Ritchie was the kid

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (ZxPkt)

443 Oh, and suppose Trump did give that perfect statement of condolences, kindness, thoughts and prayers.

How would the left have received it?

"Fuck you Orange Hitler! Reiner was 10,000 times a better man than you. Too bad you turned your head 'cause at least Reiner would have had a chance to piss on your grave!"

Erick Erickson: "oh you little scamps! you don't really mean that."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (HXT0k)

444 I want to know about Hillary's peccadildoes
Posted by: torabora

you are sick and disgusting !!

🤣

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

445 the list is long.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (Cjt/F)

446 I expect Kirk tried to appeal to Owen's professed Christian virtue.

-
Well, there are Christians then there are Christians.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (L/fGl)

447 BREAKING: Hillary Clinton says, "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)
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Hey Hillzabub, Sam Bacile would like a word. And a line is forming out the door of former Whitewater antagonists, Bill's rape victims, and the entire population of Arkansas. They seem to think you are a serial liar and agree you should be criminally charged.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (IEJkJ)

448 @379 true but Ro Khanna looked like a fool the other day. More than usual

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (D+mpw)

449 Ice in the urinals can't compete with a government subsidized gizmo.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (Q+gd/)

450 Chuck Cunningham?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Dude is like your crazy uncle in the attic.
Went upstairs after dinner one night and never came down.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (+x87d)

451 I should warn you, preemptively, I will be happy when clinton croaks. Both of them.

And dickhead van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer

And both Obamas, Biden, DOCTOR Jill and Hunter...

The list is long.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

And leftist judges. All of them.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (g8Ew8)

452 Brown University needs to up tuition another 20K to buy better cameras. And a better university president.

And Providence could use a better mayor and a police chief that can speak English, even a little.

Posted by: Christmas Wish List at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (oftw2)

453 https://is.gd/hKbTBc"

"Molecules"

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:18 AM (XuXeR)

454 the list is long.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:17 AM (Cjt/F)

and distinguished?

Posted by: Goose at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (wVcYX)

455 Hillary has some of those cute little anteaters?

Oh, you said "peccadilloes." Never mind.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

456 Completely forgettable. I guess Larry Matthews was his name.

A total of six acting credits since 1962. Three back of house credits. Pretty much a cypher.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (uQesX)

457 Wasn't there an investigation just opened into the Clintons?

Probably why she's out running her mouth again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (NwnyJ)

458 Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine? Which one is misinformation? I hate these people pushing this and any idiot who parrots this word - 'misinformation'.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 16, 2025 09:06 AM (Dv3i1)

Ivermectin was created for humans. The effect it has on animals is an off label benefit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

459 Arms tats = -100 points
Posted by: 18-1 at December 16, 2025 09:11 AM (sKqQm
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Arm tats?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 16, 2025 09:20 AM (IEJkJ)

460 Chuck Cunningham?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Or the black surgeon they had in the early MASH episodes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

461 Or the black surgeon they had in the early MASH episodes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

Spearchucker Jones.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

462 Nearly every medicine used on animals is used on humans too. That was the dumbest claim the shitlibs made.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (fA38o)

463 Some people can't have arm tats.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (Q+gd/)

464 >>Wasn't there an investigation just opened into the Clintons?

She and Bubba are refusing to testify before Comer's committee about Epstein. Comer is threatening a criminal referral.

And of course the left is now silent about Epstein.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

465 My favorite kid character on TV was Leon in The Andy Griffith Show.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

466 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

Marjorie Taylor Greene is now engaged to Real America Voice personality Brian Glenn

https://tinyurl.com/2dsec7wj

Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

467 Seth Rogan is still alive?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Wu29I)

468 Some people can't have arm tats.
Posted by: Michelle Fields

One arm tat a month should be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

469 Some people can't have arm tats.
Posted by: Michelle Fields

Some people can't have BOTH arms tatted.

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (+x87d)

470 Eddie Haskell.

Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Q+gd/)

471 I avoided being perturbed about what Trump said on social medial by :
1. Not following what he said about this or that celebrity on social media (I think we all know Trump by know and what he says about "society" matters is baked into the cake, he hates Taylor Swift! he thinks Taylor Swift is great!...his opinions about Reiner is not policy...)
2. Not really having an opinion about Bob Reiner, BECAUSE BOOMERS!

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)

472
She and Bubba are refusing to testify before Comer's committee about Epstein. Comer is threatening a criminal referral.

And of course the left is now silent about Epstein.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

They have till tomorrow to adhere to the subpoena or face contemp of congress charges. Not that I think anything will happen to them, it would be a nice birthday present for me to see them have some sort of charge filed against them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

473 435 Ice? Heck, farmers caught outside in blizzards don't thaw out until the spring.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (pd4dZ)

474 Nearly every medicine used on animals is used on humans too. That was the dumbest claim the shitlibs made.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Mammal is mammal.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (+x87d)

475 @_johnnymaga

Marjorie Taylor Greene is now engaged to Real America Voice personality Brian Glenn

https://tinyurl.com/2dsec7wj
Posted by: redridinghood at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

Former Speaker McCarthy hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

476 "And I firmly, and I am on the side of working together and celebrating our difference. Because I was a community organizer a long time ago and the strongest campaigns that we ever worked on were about bringing people of different faiths and different world views and different background together to find what we had in common."

"Australia doesn't have the free speech laws that are in place in America and for one very important reason. Because we have developed a multi-cultural community where it doesn't matter what your faith or religion is, you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace."

What really happened at Bondi Beach?

YouTube (Paul Joseph Watson): https://bit.ly/49esVKs

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (P5BPp)

477 I see TJM has posted another Capra lecture with rankings. I'll have to peruse his offering.

Posted by: Hollywood Babylon at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (oftw2)

478 They have till tomorrow to adhere to the subpoena or face contemp of congress charges. Not that I think anything will happen to them, it would be a nice birthday present for me to see them have some sort of charge filed against them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

Oh man! I was going to surprise you.

Posted by: Comer at December 16, 2025 09:23 AM (uQesX)

479 "Marjorie Taylor Greene is now engaged to Real America Voice personality Brian Glenn"

Poor guy. Or maybe they deserve each other. I dunno.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (vFG9F)

480 Marjorie Taylor Greene is now engaged to Real America Voice personality Brian Glenn

===

he resigned as WH correspondent and will join her in GA. my condolences to Brian Glenn...

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (g47mK)

481 Ivermectin was created for humans. The effect it has on animals is an off label benefit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

The safety data are immense. Literally billions of doses, and it is incredibly safe.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (n9ltV)

482 >>Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine?

Its creators were awarded a Nobel Prize:
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to
William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura
for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites. . .
William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura discovered a new drug, Avermectin, the derivatives of which have radically lowered the incidence of River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis, as well as showing efficacy against an expanding number of other parasitic diseases.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (NuV6c)

483 My favorite kid character on TV was Leon in The Andy Griffith Show.
Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

Eddie Haskel in Leave It to Beaver.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 16, 2025 09:24 AM (g8Ew8)

484 face contemp of congress charges"

Oh noes. Whatever will I do?

/

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

485 "Mammal is mammal.
Posted by: rickb223"

It's the tits!

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (vFG9F)

486 Ivermectin was created for humans. The effect it has on animals is an off label benefit.
Posted by: Sponge

Most animal medicine IS human medicine.

There aren't two separate lines in the factory making amoxicillin for humans and another one for fish.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (+x87d)

487 Eddie Haskell was a teenager, not a kid.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

488 > They have till tomorrow to adhere to the subpoena or face contemp of congress charges.
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The most feared of all contempt charges... congress.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (NwnyJ)

489 Is Ivermectin a miracle drug or strictly horse medicine?

It's a miracle drug that shows promise for killing cancer.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 16, 2025 09:26 AM (pd4dZ)

490 Because we have developed a multi-cultural community where it doesn't matter what your faith or religion is, you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace.""

"Must"

LOL...

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)

491 -----------
The most feared of all contempt charges... congress.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2025 09:25 AM (Nwny

I definitely have contempt for Congress...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 16, 2025 09:26 AM (VE6XX)

492 Obama was to meet with the Reiners?

Did the Reiners have information on Hillary that could put her in prison?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (KDPiq)

493 you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace.

Go tell that to the muzzies, idiot.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

494 The safety data are immense. Literally billions of doses, and it is incredibly safe.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I wish they'd put it over the counter with the Tylenol.

Because the pony paste sucks ass. I can see why horses don't like it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (+x87d)

495 https://is.gd/hKbTBc
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

That reminds me of an old National Lampoon cover from September of 1981:

https://tinyurl.com/44fw353y

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (ufSfZ)

496 Lots of people in the prepper community buy fish antibiotics because you can get them w/o a prescription and cheap and they still work on humans because it the same shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (fA38o)

497 471 I avoided being perturbed about what Trump said on social medial by :
1. Not following what he said about this or that celebrity on social media (I think we all know Trump by know and what he says about "society" matters is baked into the cake, he hates Taylor Swift! he thinks Taylor Swift is great!...his opinions about Reiner is not policy...)
2. Not really having an opinion about Bob Reiner, BECAUSE BOOMERS!
Posted by: runner at December

I read someone refer to it as the Tao of Trumpism, the best description. It was very poor taste, he is the president and it does distract. It’s okay to call out his negatives, they are there. He is a man and not infallible.

Posted by: Piper at December 16, 2025 09:27 AM (ZdaMQ)

498 "I mean to be really blunt, make it more difficult to get these horrifying weapons that are, have no practical use in our community. If you're not a farmer, if you're not involved in agriculture, why do you need these massive weapons that put the public in danger and make life dangerous and difficult for New South Wales police."

"We will do whatever it takes to force the strongest possible action from governments to keep Australians safe."

What really happened at Bondi Beach?

YouTube (Paul Joseph Watson): https://bit.ly/49esVKs

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (P5BPp)

499 I heard yesterday that the Reiner kid had some kind of an argument with his dad at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party on Saturday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

500 490 Because we have developed a multi-cultural community where it doesn't matter what your faith or religion is, you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace.""
----------------
What's this 'we' shit? Read the 4th Amendment.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (Wg6v7)

501 MSNBC’S Katy Tur heaps praise on PM Albanese for vowing to crack down harder on guns in Australia:

“Why not here!?"

-
That'll fix those Muzzies!

P.S. Smart ass on Twitchy calls MS NOW "MS MAO."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (L/fGl)

502 >>The most feared of all contempt charges... congress.

Depends on your political party. Some people have been known to go to prison for defying a congressional subpoena.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (viF8m)

503 My favorite kid character on TV was Leon in The Andy Griffith Show.
Posted by: Bulg

The Little Rascals

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM (+x87d)

504 499 I heard yesterday that the Reiner kid had some kind of an argument with his dad at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party on Saturday.
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Conan brings out the worst in people.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:29 AM (Wg6v7)

505 "I wish they'd put it over the counter with the Tylenol."

like it is in most of the world ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 09:29 AM (Cjt/F)

506 The only problem with Ivermectin in 2020 as that it could be mass produced as a generic drug.

This meant drug companies could not charge a lot for it, nor could they then make the vax mandatory.

There were other inconvenient side-effects speculated at the time, such as curing toxoplasmosis in cat ladies, which makes them less crazy (i.e. lefty).

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM (NuV6c)

507 >>like it is in most of the world ...

Such as Africa, here were never heard much about covid death rates, etc..
Odd

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM (NuV6c)

508 >>I read someone refer to it as the Tao of Trumpism, the best description. It was very poor taste, he is the president and it does distract. It’s okay to call out his negatives, they are there. He is a man and not infallible.

Joe Biden was technically president when he called Trump supporters, even us, garbage and a threat to democracy.

How distracting was that?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (viF8m)

509 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

510 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

511 Conan brings out the worst in people"

Right.

/Haitian BBQ

Posted by: man at December 16, 2025 09:31 AM (XuXeR)

512 Because we have developed a multi-cultural community where it doesn't matter what your faith or religion is, you must live side by side with your neighbor in peace.""
----------------
What's this 'we' shit? Read the 4th Amendment.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 16, 2025 09:28 AM

These are quotes from authorities or politicians in Australia.

Australia is conquered. As is the UK. And France close behind. Western civilization is in its death throes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:32 AM (P5BPp)

513 https://is.gd/hKbTBc
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

And then, there was Shirley Jones in "The Music Man". Stirred a few desires in my, then, 15 year old, uh, loins.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (5xuJ/)

514 A song for the season:

https://tinyurl.com/djpu9d7b

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)

515 MSNBC’S Katy Tur heaps praise on PM Albanese for vowing to crack down harder on guns in Australia:

==

LEt's first try cracking down on Muslem Brotherhood and see how that goes ??

Posted by: runner at December 16, 2025 09:35 AM (g47mK)

516 That tweet reminded me of something I had forgotten because he had tempered it greatly this term.

Trump is able to fight the Left so well because his personality is that of a Leftist. He’s bold , exaggerates, name calls, sues at first chance, doesn’t worry about debt and holds grudges.

We are fortunate that he chose to embrace the conservative platform , something that he had not done 20 years ago.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (KDPiq)

517 Shocking medical-marijuana study reveals Big Weed’s big lies

If it's Big, and it's bad, we're there!

Like rust, we never sleep.

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 16, 2025 09:36 AM (0sNs1)

518 481 Ivermectin was created for humans. The effect it has on animals is an off label benefit.

I pointed that out to my father who was completely unaware of that.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 09:38 AM (+4yJ5)

519 >>>I read someone refer to it as the Tao of Trumpism, the best description. It was very poor taste, he is the president and it does distract. It’s okay to call out his negatives, they are there. He is a man and not infallible.

First, this is, and has always been, Trump's personality. Mean tweets are hat helped him get elected and be so effective.

Second, Reiner wasn't just a loudmouth Hollywood guy, he was connected to a lot of Team Coup activities, such as creating NGOs with Bill Kristol to "save our democracy," and openly accused Trump of treason, wanted full prosecution, etc.. He was an enemy using his great wealth and platform to destroy Trump. Why should Trump be fake nice about the death of someone who openly wished death upon him?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (NuV6c)

520 The only problem with Ivermectin in 2020 as that it could be mass produced as a generic drug.

This meant drug companies could not charge a lot for it, nor could they then make the vax mandatory.

There were other inconvenient side-effects speculated at the time, such as curing toxoplasmosis in cat ladies, which makes them less crazy (i.e. lefty).

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2025 09:30 AM

The EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) would have been eliminated were there a readily available alternative treatment. That is the only reason the Deep State and their media allies spoke negatively about Ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies and hydroxychloroquine.

These were readily available immediately and had been shown to work against SARS-CoV-2/COVID. Everyone knew this. Yet they all lied about it to the public to push the deadly "vax" on the public.

It was a worldwide Plandemic from the get-go. The same messaging regarding the "vax" and the actual working treatments was used in every Western nation. This was a WEF operation against Western civilization. Just like the past 2-3 decades WEF operation of illegal alien and Muslim invasion into every Western nation.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:39 AM (P5BPp)

521 Take one every hour till you have massive diarrhea, then stop.

"Sure, it works! He's out front, holding onto a lamp post, and he don't dare hiccup!" --Just The Punch Line

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 16, 2025 09:41 AM (zdLoL)

522 sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 16, 2025 09:44 AM (w9Wax)

523 Art is up.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 09:45 AM (+4yJ5)

524 420 Haven't had gout. The pain would have to be quite severe for that alternative to offer relief.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 16, 2025 09:1

Depends on how severe it is, but for most people the pain is... indescribable.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 09:12 AM (BI5O2)

THIS First attack I had 20 years or so ago I thought I broke my foot.

And colchicine I take one pill a day until the pain and swelling subside. I also have Indomethacine which is a very powerful anti-inflammatory and might take one pill a day but try to avoid it as it is very strong. The colchicine alone does the trick for me usually within one or two days at most. And I avoid the high urine foods.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (x0n13)

525 245 Is Vickie Paladino related to Carl Paladino, the longtime NY GOP power player who almost talked Trump into running for governor when Spitzer resigned?
Posted by: Delurker at December 16, 2025 08:35 AM (xNHSX)

I believe so.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:50 AM (x0n13)

526 And I avoid the high urine foods.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:47 AM (x0n13)

PURINE not urine. Although gout is a buildup of uric acid crystals that attacks the nerve endings.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 16, 2025 09:52 AM (x0n13)

527 Is Vickie Paladino related to Carl Paladino, the longtime NY GOP power player who almost talked Trump into running for governor when Spitzer resigned?

Posted by: Delurker at December 16, 2025 08:35 AM

No, Vickie Paladino is not related to Carl Paladino. Multiple sources explicitly state they are unrelated, including a 2018 blog post noting "no relation" during a political dispute and a 2025 article describing her as "no relation to the equally foul and equally racist New York politician Carl Paladino."

Vickie Paladino (full name Vickie Albrizio Paladino, born 1954 in Whitestone, Queens) comes from a working-class family in northeast Queens, with a maiden name of Albrizio. Carl Paladino (full name Carl Pasquale Paladino, born 1946) is a Buffalo-based real estate developer with roots in western New York. Their different backgrounds, regions, and family details show no connection beyond sharing a common Italian-American surname and involvement in New York Republican politics.

Grok: https://bit.ly/3KOnhWc

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 09:56 AM (P5BPp)

528 You don't accidentally build a system that specifically targets men during peak marriage years, tells them they deserve it, makes it unspeakable to complain, attacks their identity as toxic, promotes women into career tracks that burn their fertility, then acts confused when society collapses

If you wanted to suppress the fertility of a specific demographic, engineer the breakdown of trust between the sexes, and make it illegal to notice, the playbook would look exactly like this.

DEI should be held responsible for the fertility crisis, the marriage collapse, the epidemic of male depression and suicide, the destruction of institutional trust, the atomization of society, and the manufactured war between men and women

But DEI was the weapon
The people who designed it, funded it, made it mandatory, enforced it through HR, fired anyone who resisted, called all opposition hate and racism, built careers and industries on its maintenance, they knew. And they're the ones who should be remembered as the architects of one of the worst crimes against humanity

Full X post: https://bit.ly/3KK9yzH

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 10:04 AM (P5BPp)

529 Less is more sometimes. Some don't have that in them.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 16, 2025 10:26 AM (X+QMC)

530

Remember when they tried to kill Trump twice? He can say what the fuck he wants. If it offends the weak, so what?

I'll be in this other foxhole.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 16, 2025 10:48 AM (cS1cw)

531 Amazing. One Truth Social post by this transactional, petty, thin-skinned dickweed may be enough to blow the midterms.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at December 16, 2025 10:58 AM (uxXx0)

532 "I'll be in this other foxhole."

You'll be in a real one when all you MAGA myopics realize his shit talk is losing votes for everyone else.

Enjoy your high-fives and thousand-yard-stare speeches.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at December 16, 2025 11:00 AM (uxXx0)

533 A federal judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, is refusing to add additional jail time to a criminal sentence for a seven-time deported illegal alien, convicted of raping and sodomizing a woman with cerebral palsy, for his repeated violation of federal immigration law. (The Obamas were supposed to be at the Reiner home just when the son murdered the parens! - jjs)

Obama-Appointed Judge Refuses to Give More Jail Time to Illegal Alien Who Raped Woman with Cerebral Palsy

Why is he getting any prison time at all in the USA? He's an illegal alien. He should not be in this country, free to move around (which costs taxpayer money and lives) or in prison (which costs taxpayer money).

Deport him to a country which will put him in prison there and ban him from returning.

Or give him a free flight home and conveniently drop him out of the plane over a large, deep body of water and forget about him. Considering the punishment for rape and sodomy of a woman with cerebral palsy should be death anyway.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:11 AM (P5BPp)

534 Fargo adds Somali Heritage Day two weeks after Muslim terror attack.

The Somalization of North Dakota

Gov. Shapiro Shows Up, Speaks at Radical Imam Thanksgiving

Every single day here or on X there is just story after story after story of American cities and states and politicians and institutional leaders who are in bed with Islam. All who either refuse to see the fact that Islam is conquering this nation or, like "moderate Muslims" are in favor of Islam conquering this nation and working to usher it in more quickly.

The USA is on the same path as Europe and the rest of western civilization. President Trump is simply a 4-year road bump on the decline of the West.

Time to start looking at Hungary or Poland or Japan as options to escape from Islam. They seem to be the only nations taking the necessary actions (banning them all from their countries) to save their countries.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:22 AM (P5BPp)

535 The incident is Australia’s worst mass shooting in three decades, sparking investigations into the attackers’ motives and backgrounds.

Hannukah Shooters Pledged Loyalty to ISIS Before Massacre: Report.

Stupid headline. Makes it seem like the shooters were Jewish, instead of Muslim.

More accurate description would be "Pakistani Muslim Shooters Pledged Loyalty to ISIS before Hannukah Massacre: Report".

When we live in a world where no one will even accurately describe the enemy, the war is already lost.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:26 AM (P5BPp)

536 Yet within hours of the attack, Prime Minister Albanese proposed “tougher gun laws” and warned about “right-wing extremist groups.”

Australia Doesn’t Have A Gun Problem, It Has An Islamist Problem

Australia let this evil come and fester here.
The Bondi Beach Massacre Was a Choice

Exactly. The only reason Australia has an Islam problem is because it has a leadership problem. Same as every Western nation in the world save for Hungary and Poland and Japan.

Islam could not cause problems if anyone in the West had the will to deny it entry into their countries.

Unless current western leaders are deposed and replaced with leaders who will remove all Muslims from their countries, western civilization is in its death throes. Including the USA.

Half the USA is already conquered, as every Democrat-controlled state has bowed to Islam. And every red state has blue cities which are conquered by Islam. Only a matter a time before the cancer spreads within those red states from the blue cities. Texas and Florida are already in progress.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:31 AM (P5BPp)

537 Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is reportedly poised to elevate a deeply controversial figure to one of the most powerful legal posts in his administration. According to the New York Post, Ramzi Kassem — a lawyer who has defended an al Qaeda terrorist and a radical anti-Israel activist at Columbia — is the leading candidate for Chief Counsel.

Mamdani Is About to Prove His Administration Will Be Worse Than You Thought

Worse than who thought? Not me. I knew he was going to be a radical Islamist hell-bent on turning NYC into a Muslim hellhole, setting an example for Muslims all across the USA, to take over the USA as they have taken over the UK and Paris and Australia.

Mamdami has not even begun with his agenda. It's going to get massively worse. Look to the UK and Paris and Australia and Europe and Dearborn, MI and Minnesomalia for what will become of NYC.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 11:51 AM (P5BPp)

538 El-Sayed, running in the Democrat primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, has attempted to distance himself from his past anti-police positions

Abdul El-Sayed Proposed Commuting All Sentences for Juveniles Facing Life in Prison. The Plan Would Grant Early Release to Some of Michigan's Most Violent Killers.

Awesome. Islamic control of Michigan spreading from Hamtramck and Dearborn to state-wide with radical Muslim Abdul El-Sayed as Senator.

This is how they do it. Take over small areas, spread out through migration and out-breeding and then elect their people to positions of power. And keep spreading and spreading and spreading until they take over the city, state, region, nation.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:20 PM (P5BPp)

539 Migrant attack in Charlotte echoes the graphic murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in the same city

North Carolina's Roy Cooper, Asked To Address Illegal Immigrant Train Stabbing in Charlotte, Instead Issues Statement Attacking GOP Opponent as 'Big Oil Lobbyist'

And so it goes.

We have an irrevocably divided nation. Not one where both sides love the country and have different opinions on how best to make it great for every American. No, we have one where one side wants to make it great for every American, while the other side wants to destroy the country as it is and rebuild it into their Marxist utopia... and they have no issue of accomplishing that BAMN (including assassinations of their opponents and unleashing their military arms (antifa, Muslims, etc.) on citizens.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:36 PM (P5BPp)

540 Harris remains a top Democrat contender for 2028, with notable support among black Democrats, as she positions herself for another presidential campaign.

Kamala Harris Is Preparing for 2028 Presidential Bid: Dem Insiders. (Her and greaseball Newsom at each other's throats; pass the popcorn! - jjs)

Another massive problem in this country that is not going away and only getting worse.

The moral and logical compass of the black community is completely broken and no fix in sight.

There should be no possible way that someone like Kamala Harris could (1) rise to where she has been in power and (2) remain popular with any segment of society based on all her failures.

And the fact that she has support among blacks solely because she has dark skin shows the black community as a whole is ridiculously racist and tribal.

An October poll showed her capturing 54% support among Black voters.

A June Emerson College poll found her at 30.1% among Black respondents, far ahead of others (e.g., Buttigieg at 0%).

August Echelon Insights data had her at 35% among Black primary voters.

Grok: https://bit.ly/4pJKEiS

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:47 PM (P5BPp)

541 Trump is changing the world.

He’s Spartacus

I doubt this.

President Trump is nothing but a road bump on the decades long spiral into self-destruction western civilization has been on. We saw what happened to the world when the WEF and Deep State got rid of President Trump in December 2020.

The same will happen once President Trump is gone come January 2029.

What changed? Trump. In my Friday piece I quoted a Facebook “friend” who suggested that Trump had leaned on the committee to choose Machado. I don’t think the committee operates that way. But I do think that its members recognized that the winds had shifted – big time. And that the strong new wind was blowing from the direction of the Oval Office.

And when President Trump's 2nd term is over, the winds will shift right back as they have been blowing since at least November 2008.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:53 PM (P5BPp)

542 How did this happen? There were several factors. Jordan Peterson had the courage to interview him online – and to treat him respectfully. Elon Musk, after buying Twitter (now X), gave Tommy back his account, began paying his legal bills, and posted ardent messages of support. YouTube, too, restored his account. The hosts of the influential Triggernometry podcast, who for a long time considered Tommy too extreme to platform, not only interviewed him but invited him to their 2025 Christmas party. This entire sea change, said Tommy, could only be attributed to one thing: the return of Trump to the White House.

Yeah, great. And when that one thing is over? When President Trump is no longer in the White House, what then? Back to the tyranny that existed in western civilization, but even worse this time as the Marxist left will want to make up for lost time of the past 4 years.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 12:58 PM (P5BPp)

543 For Donald Trump has shown just how much can be done if you’re a political leader who sincerely wants to do everything possible to save your country and doesn’t care about the possible consequences. He’s shown that you can do more than just rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. He’s shown that you can outrage the political and media establishment every single day for years and still retain – and even magnify – your power because the people are on your side, and can sense that you’re the real thing.

Short of...

deporting every last illegal alien and banning them from ever returning,
deporting every Muslim and banning them from ever returning,
ending the H-1B program and putting in place policies to punish outsourcing to India and
putting a 10-15 year moratorium on all immigration to the USA

...then yes, everything going on right now is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

There can be no success in western civilization without the removal of all Muslims from western nations. Until that happens, nothing matters. The Titanic will sink.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 16, 2025 01:04 PM (P5BPp)

Daily Tech News 16 December 2025

Top Story

Merriam Webster names "slop" the word of the year. (Tech Crunch)

Good work, dictionary. Have a cookie.

Tech News

LG has force-installed Microsoft Copilot on its smart TVs. (Tom's Hardware)

And you can't remove it.

Planning to buy Samsung instead? Same deal with their TVs and Google Gemini.
The KTC H27P3 is a 5k monitor. (The Verge)

It covers 99% of the DCI-P3 colour space and offers 500 nits of brightness and a 2000:1 contrast ratio. Only 60Hz at full resolution, but if you drop it down to 2560x1440 it can handle 120Hz. HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C are on offer for inputs. It nominally offers 10-bit colour but that's through PWM - it's really just a regular 8-bit panel.

All of that stuff is commonplace in semi-professional monitors, so why mention it?

According to the article (I couldn't verify this myself) it's currently discounted to $355 on Amazon.
How the CIA lost a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. (New York Times)

The article refers to it as a "nuclear device" every single time, trying to play up the danger, citing concerns that it might break down and pollute the pristine waters of... The Ganges.

Anyway, they know exactly where it is. At the top of a mountain. Probably.
Hard drive prices soared in the most recent quarter along with everything else. (Tom's Hardware)

By 4%.
Searching UTF-8 text at 5GB/s using AVX-512. (Ash Vardanian)

It's an impressive trick, but mostly because Unicode (and UTF-8 in particular) is utterly insane.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: For you is not for me.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)

2 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at December 16, 2025 04:00 AM (sdF4j)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 16, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4 Sad to see dictionaries contributing to the decline of the English language.

Posted by: clarence at December 16, 2025 04:04 AM (sdF4j)

5 Well. I was going to say that memory prices seemed to have stopped increasing, but no, they've gone up another 10% or so in the past week.

64GB of Crucial DDR5-5600 SO-DIMMs (laptop memory) now costs A$949, up from about A$250 a couple of months ago.

The mini-PC I just bought, which includes 64GB of Crucial DDR5-5600 SO-DIMMs, cost A$989 for the entire system.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 16, 2025 04:06 AM (BLOW1)

6 He went to the same restaurant in FL everyday . When he didn't show up, the chef went looking:

https://tinyurl.com/ymznbhw7

SunnySkyz site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:07 AM (Yl2Ob)

7 Morning Pixy, morning everyone.
Yall are in my prayers.
Jim is OK
Haven't heard from Theresa
tcm in AK is having shoulder work Wednesday
I'm going to bed, goodnight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 04:10 AM (+e7qF)

8 I've given up trying to order Crucial harddrives on Amazon. Both times, they didn't ship. It's a problem with some things where they sit for a week but they usually go out. I think I'm good now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 16, 2025 04:11 AM (+mUZM)

9 He carries around shelter dogs in his backpack to help get them adopted. Good News Network site:

https://tinyurl.com/4bzd2m6j

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:21 AM (2sfNr)

10 According to the article (I couldn't verify this myself) it's currently discounted to $355 on Amazon.

The Amazon link on The Verge has it at $569 now.
It reads “At Checkout” on the link button, but even if I put it in the Amazon cart it’s still $569 and I don’t see a coupon button anywhere.

KTC is another Chinese brand like AOC & INNOCN that are undercutting everybody else on cheaper monitors.

They all make some cheaper Mini-LED displays with multiple dimming zones for much cheaper prices than their bigger name competitors offer in Mini-LED and OLED.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 04:23 AM (6ydKt)

11 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

12 Moving story behind hymn: "I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/ya3thdck

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:25 AM (2sfNr)

13 trying to play up the danger, citing concerns that it might break down and pollute the pristine waters of... The Ganges.
.........................................
The monstereous mutations that will rise out of The Ganges would terrify Godzilla.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 04:29 AM (sAmhv)

14 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

17 cold degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It is supposed to warm up as the week goes on, getting near 50 by Friday, which would be nice. I am not one of those people who wishes for a white Christmas.

The usual 2-3 hours' worth of work ahead. 56 days until retirement, touch wood. As always, I'll be happy to take a nap when the day is done.

Novel writing is still stuck. Depression at its usual level.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 04:38 AM (ufSfZ)

15 Around 20 degrees here

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)

16 Made Cream of Wheat to warm me up

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)

17 Thank you for that story about the fellow carrying shelter dogs around, Fen. I need that today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 04:42 AM (ufSfZ)

18 w00t

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:42 AM (RuTUS)

19 16 Made Cream of Wheat to warm me up
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)

Nice!

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 04:45 AM (RuTUS)

20 Johnny Cougar!

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 04:47 AM (W7XSX)

21 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 04:42 AM (ufSfZ)

You are most welcome. Is there anyway after work you could go to someplace that has beauty - have any art museums nearby (?) to enjoy the warmth and lovely pictures?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 04:49 AM (2sfNr)

22 Been up since 2:45, wish I could go back to bed

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

23 From the ONT, I blame R rated movies. F-bombs were not mainstream. And foreigners that watch R-rated films and come over here and think it's okay.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 04:50 AM (W7XSX)

24
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2025 04:50 AM (tljrc)

25 "Simple wonders-" A devotional on Genesis 1:25-31:

https://tinyurl.com/2n4dvmrw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:06 AM (Yl2Ob)

26 Good morning! Looks like we'll have a nice warming trend over the next few days here in Cowtown, ending with sunny and mid 70s for Christmas day. Prime grilling and chillin weather!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 16, 2025 05:10 AM (3Ope8)

27 G'morning, all!

A rather cold 20.7 degrees out, with a chance to still drop below that around 7:15 this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 16, 2025 05:11 AM (Ytdv9)

28 Gaslighted about Somalian refugees at American Thinker is a good read

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 05:15 AM (Ia/+0)

29 Supposed to get slightly above freezing today, better tomorrow.
Really better in May

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 05:16 AM (Ia/+0)

30 "Hold on to 16 as long as you can [...]"

The refrain of Boomer liberals.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 16, 2025 05:22 AM (3jG6y)

31 Force installation of Microsoft Copilot:

They really want to get that Panopticon in place, don't they?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 16, 2025 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

32 "Hold on to 16 as long as you can"

Well, she's a little old, but you're on the right path.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 16, 2025 05:32 AM (R+nQW)

33 God is good, all the time

Posted by: CanuckJack at December 16, 2025 05:32 AM (1cCGi)

34 31 Force installation of Microsoft Copilot:

They really want to get that Panopticon in place, don't they?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 16, 2025 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

It also doesn't hurt that Google and Microsoft will pay the TV manufacturers to install the AI on the TVs.

All of those Smart TVs have gotten cheaper and cheaper over the years for a reason; all the added apps and software on them are subsidizing them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 05:37 AM (6ydKt)

35 For Hank Williams Sr., this is a rather low key gospel song, "House of Gold". I liked it!

https://tinyurl.com/45fp5dkv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:42 AM (Yl2Ob)

36 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 16, 2025 05:49 AM (AN2gy)

37 Fear not, I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."

Isaiah 41:10

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 05:52 AM (Yl2Ob)

38 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 16, 2025 05:53 AM (LjSYW)

39 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 16, 2025 05:57 AM (bQ4nt)

40 30 "Hold on to 16 as long as you can [...]"

The refrain of Boomer liberals.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 16, 2025 05:22 AM (3jG6y)

"You're 16, you're beautiful, and you're mine!"

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:58 AM (RuTUS)

41 mornin yall

LA TILF terrorist Zachary Page, 32, who went by “Ash Kerrigan,” “AK” and “cthulu’s daughter" appears to be a tranny. Surprise surprise.

Maybe I'm wrong and it's just another deranged lefty with crazy eyes and and a taste for mayhem.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:02 AM (vFG9F)

42 40 30 "Hold on to 16 as long as you can [...]"

The refrain of Boomer liberals.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 16, 2025 05:22 AM (3jG6y)

"You're 16, you're beautiful, and you're mine!"
Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 05:58 AM (RuTUS)

"Leave her alone", they said.

Posted by: Benny Mardones at December 16, 2025 06:03 AM (tfOmD)

43 Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
7h
I can exclusively report that the fifth unnamed arrested suspect in the Turtle Island Liberation Front New Year's Eve mass bombing terror plot is Trantifa militant Micah James Legnon (center photo, in blue).

Legnon is on a federal hold in Lafayette, La. He is a trans activist and identifies as a female. His social media is filled with posts calling for the m—rder of people he labels as "fascists."

Authorities say the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a far-left communist "decolonization" terror group, planned to blow up ICE agents and locations with homemade bombs. Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page (trans), 32; Tina Lai, 41; and Dante Gaffield, 24, are the other comrades arrested in Los Angeles after they were caught allegedly traveling to the desert to test their explosives.

Legnon is an ex-Marine and a former cop.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:04 AM (RuTUS)

44 that is:

Micah James Legnon, an ex-Marine and a former cop, a trans activist, identifies as female

Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30

Zachary Aaron Page (trans), 32

Tina Lai, 41

Dante Gaffield, 24

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:07 AM (RuTUS)

45 Some fool is going to marry MTG. With any luck she will bail on him after a year or so too.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:09 AM (vFG9F)

46 All of those Smart TVs have gotten cheaper and cheaper over the years for a reason

When we went TV shopping, I told the salesman "We want a dumb TV. As in, no fancy features whatsoever."

He quickly showed us what we were looking for. Been happy with the results.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 06:09 AM (+4yJ5)

47 Legnon is an ex-Marine

+1 for using that term correctly. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 06:10 AM (+4yJ5)

48 47 Legnon is an ex-Marine

+1 for using that term correctly. -:-)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 06:10 AM (+4yJ5)

I just cut and pasted from Andy Ngo, so no credit to me!

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:11 AM (RuTUS)

49 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! I was nearly among the insomaniacals this morning. Not Stirling's fault, either. I was dreaming that Michelle Williams of Dawson's Creek was a friend of mine, and we were sitting by a fountain, reminiscing about another lady we knew who was off somewhere on a diplomatic mission (!), when I woke at 3:30. Somehow I managed to slope off to sleep again until 5:00.

Anyway! I be here, with coffee and a pipe. The temp is 46 F., so nowhere near as chilly as yesterday. What's going on with you and the world?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 06:12 AM (wzUl9)

50 FWIW

Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
11h
... We have seen instances before of former conservatives becoming Antifa and far-left extremists after transitioning.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:14 AM (RuTUS)

51 When we went TV shopping, I told the salesman "We want a dumb TV. As in, no fancy features whatsoever."

He quickly showed us what we were looking for. Been happy with the results.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025

***
I've had my Vizio now for about five years. It has some "smart" features, I'm sure, but they aren't intrusive, and the unit has worked well. I've ditched cable and watch most everything over-the-air, with the occasional DVD.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

52 Keep the two LA's clear! LA, CA; Lafayette, LA.

@MrAndyNgo
14h
In addition to the accused four far-left terror members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front being arrested in California for a terror pipe bombing plot to kill ICE agents, a fifth suspect believed to be linked to the group was arrested in Lafayette, La.

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
19h
Over the weekend, the @FBI disrupted a credible, imminent terrorist threat and arrested FOUR individuals connected to the Los Angeles area.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 06:18 AM (RuTUS)

53 What's going on with you and the world?

**shrugs** The usual. I have been having some vivid dreams lately (two nights ago, I was somehow cast in the Burton / Taylor Cleopatra), but also a lot of night sweats, which I need to investigate.

My writing friend and muse just won an award for independent writers. I know 'awards' are a dime a dozen and I am happy for her, but it hurts.

I won't go into details, but I have found out - to my dismay, but also to my interest, as it brings clarity - exactly how fatuously superficial the term 'friend' is.

As I said upthread, 56 days until retirement. I hope.

Back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 16, 2025 06:22 AM (ufSfZ)

54 Lefties on Reddit are sharing a post/image from 2021 from some indy game developer describing an activist as a member of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, proving it's not real or something?
https://shorturl.at/Hix8z

And yes, it's as DEI/queer as possible.

are people claiming to be Turtle Island Liberation Front? First I'm hearing of it

it appears the FBI ~~is referencing a fictional group to justify real world actions~~ goaded some folks into doing something indictable.

I emailed them...which probably means that I just accidentally emailed a dummy email address owned by DHS.

So, basically, the same kind of shit the FBI used to pull so they could publish a press release about how they prevented yet another terrorist attack after 9/11 by getting a bunch of alienated people from targeted and surveilled communities to basically entrap themselves.

Turtle Island is a nickname Indigenous people use for North America, if you were curious who they plan on cracking down on by pulling this stunt

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 16, 2025 06:28 AM (JCZqz)

55 "Sajid and Naveed Akram underwent military-style training overseas just weeks before the pair allegedly opened fire at the Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. "

Allegedly. Ok. There are hundreds of pictures of the alleged murderers allegedly murdering people with their allegedly legally obtained firearms.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

56 Both furry thugs slept with me last night. I felt Stirling join me and settle against my stomach as I was drifting off to sleep. Both when I woke at 3:30 and again at 5:00, I discovered little gray Dagny (who is getting a *tiny* bit less aloof) curled up on the other pillow near my head.

Time I went to feed them, and me too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

57 G'mornin' everyone! (allegedly!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 16, 2025 06:38 AM (Cjt/F)

58 "Sajid and Naveed Akram underwent military-style training overseas just weeks before the pair allegedly opened fire at the Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. "

Allegedly. Ok. There are hundreds of pictures of the alleged murderers allegedly murdering people with their allegedly legally obtained firearms.
Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)
---
I'm really starting to hate the term "alleged" when used in the context where the perpetrators are clearly engaged in criminal activity.

There's nothing alleged about it. THEY KILLED THOSE PEOPLE.

May they receive the divine judgment they have earned.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 06:38 AM (ESVrU)

59 47 Legnon is an ex-Marine

+1 for using that term correctly. -:-)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 16, 2025 06:10 AM (+4yJ5

Well I never!

Posted by: Zombie John Murtha at December 16, 2025 06:39 AM (tfOmD)

60 when I woke at 3:30. Somehow I managed to slope off to sleep again until 5:00.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 06:12 AM (wzUl9)

It's retirement doing that to you. Didn't even see the ONT last night. Got up a half hour ago, read KduT and Lileks, then above the fold on the ONT.

Fun fact: not only can you see Shasta from I-5, you can also see it on your grocer's shelves.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 06:39 AM (uQesX)

61 Yes, indeedy. The FBI wants to crack down on down on indigenous people, or is it indigenous people who identify as trans? Sometimes I wonder whether some things on DU are parody they are so dumb.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 06:42 AM (2sfNr)

62 If you live on the East Coast and it's clear, check out the morning sky. It's beautiful!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 06:44 AM (ELdpA)

63 Yeah Fen. I took out the trash an saw the beautiful crescent moon.

Just like a Dreamworks intro.

Posted by: no one at December 16, 2025 06:48 AM (W7XSX)

64 >>> If you live on the East Coast and it's clear

Full overcast in these parts, but thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: fluffy at December 16, 2025 06:48 AM (AN2gy)

65 Fen thanks for the dog backpack and diner guy stories

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 06:50 AM (6U1c2)

66 I finally figured out the name of that Australian lager beer I tried decades ago, and never found them again.

'Broken Hill Lager' made by South Australian Brewing Co.

Apparently there was some kind

I only remembered the name because I watched an episode of the Lotus Eaters podcast that there was a "Battle of Broken Hill" on New Years Day in 1915 in South Australia where two Muslim men ('Ghans' - laborers from Northern India) who believed they were fighting a sanctioned Jihad proclaimed by Mehmed V (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire) and killed four people by firing rifles at a passing train and then they were killed after a shootout with police & military.

Who knew Oz had a Muslim terror attack over a century ago?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

67 ^^ "there was some kind of jihad attack there."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

68 Chief Pamela Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda. Chief Smith’s decision to mislead the public by manipulating crime statistics is dangerous and undermines trust in both local leadership and law enforcement.

Just a quick reminder that every big blue city has FAKE crime data. DC just got caught.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 06:56 AM (gbOdA)

69 Both furry thugs slept with me last night.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Lucky!!!!!

Posted by: Tyler James Robinson at December 16, 2025 06:58 AM (JCZqz)

70 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 06:50 AM (6U1c2

You are most welcome!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2025 07:00 AM (Yl2Ob)

71 turtle island liberation front

Is a semi-islamofascist group that want to end the US and capitalism and somehow turn the US over back to the Natives that will become fellow islamofascist.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:00 AM (gbOdA)

72 I'm ok with turning Manhattan back over to the Natives.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2025 07:02 AM (vFG9F)

73 58 I'm really starting to hate the term "alleged" when used in the context where the perpetrators are clearly engaged in criminal activity.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2025 06:38 AM (ESVrU)

Advice of the legal department.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 07:06 AM (RuTUS)

74 . . . "Battle of Broken Hill" on New Years Day in 1915 in South Australia where two Muslim men ('Ghans' - laborers from Northern India) who believed they were fighting a sanctioned Jihad proclaimed by Mehmed V (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire) and killed four people by firing rifles at a passing train and then they were killed after a shootout with police & military.

Who knew Oz had a Muslim terror attack over a century ago?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025

***
Back then, the Aussies knew how to deal with terrorists. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 07:06 AM (wzUl9)

75 69 Both furry thugs slept with me last night.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Lucky!!!!!
Posted by: Tyler James Robinson at December 16, 2025 06:58 AM (JCZqz)

oWo and Meow!

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 16, 2025 07:08 AM (KP19t)

76 Looks like we'll have 70 F. as highs next week and all through Christmas. Lows about 55, so that's good workout weather. I might have to run the A/C on Thursday this week. Gah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 07:09 AM (wzUl9)

77
JJS

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 16, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

78 JJ is early again today?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

79 from the TechCrunch slop article:

Relatedly, tech words have been big winners in the WOTY (word of the year) category this year.

- Macquarie Dictionary already beat out Merriam-Webster to make “AI slop” its annual term, while

- Oxford Dictionary chose “ragebait.”

- Collins Dictionary went with “vibe coding.”

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)

80 JJ is early again today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 16, 2025 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

Hope his wife isn't disappointed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 16, 2025 07:19 AM (uQesX)

81 The TechCrunch article reads kinda like slop itself:

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything,” the dictionary writes, adding that, in an age of AI anxiety, it is a term designed to communicate “a tone that’s less fearful, more mocking” of the technology.

less fearful than wut

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 07:21 AM (RuTUS)

82 wow; from the Ash Vardanian blog entry:

Today, almost all of the Internet is UTF-8. Its share grew from 50% in 2010 to 98% in 2024.

Posted by: m at December 16, 2025 07:28 AM (RuTUS)

83 The 5K monitor, do not need, these old eyes can barely see the difference between 720p and 1080p.

Show of hands, how many are using a computer monitor as a TV since all the TV's are full of "smart" chickenshit bull shit?

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 16, 2025 09:01 AM (BLpWt)

84 I have an LG 'Smart' TV, and found one weird trick to keep Copilot off. Every single time I turn the TV on (I mostly use it as a video game console display), it tells me I need to connect it to the Internet. I just politely tell it the electronic equivalent of "F - U". It's worked so far.

Posted by: RoadRunner at December 16, 2025 09:14 AM (Lyv1/)

Overnight Open Thread [12/15/2025]

[Sorry the ONT is so early today...]

Topographic prominence is different than height, and Mt. McKinley is the clear winner in America. Then comes Mauna Kea, which didn't surprise me at all (I thought it was going to be #1), then Mt. Rainier in Washington, although it is rapidly crumbling into insignificance because it no longer has a spine. Then come a bunch of Alaskan peaks nobody has ever heard of, then my personal favorite slides in at #9: Mount Whitney! Mt. Shasta is #11, which is also in my favorites list, mostly because you can see it from miles and miles away. Hell, you can see it from Highway 5!

***

The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.

-- Hunter S. Thompson

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

-- W.C. Fields

Fewer men would have turned to stone if Medusa had bigger boobs.

******

I will be treble-sinewed, -hearted, -breathed,
And fight maliciously. For when mine hours
Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth
And send to darkness all that stop me.

-- William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3, Scene 13

This should be the West's mantra. We are in a war for the survival of our culture, and we are losing, even before most of us know that we are in a fight!

Conservatism is, shallowly, the conserving of the old order. It has failed, and our new goal should be a return to the old order of things. And if that means sending frigates to the Barbary Coast, bombers to Iran, and dispatching Polish heavy cavalry to save the day, well, it's not such a bad idea. But we should not do it alone, and if that means that Western Europe surrenders to the hordes, then so be it. If they will not fight for their own existence, we shouldn't either.

******
Stupid, and funny!
******

This made me laugh. How true it is. I love humor that has more than one meaning too!

******

What the hell is this? And why are children cursing so much funnier than when adults do it? Sure, it's dubbed (I assume) but it still gave me a chuckle, and only Ebenezer Scrooge wouldn't laugh. So...Are YOU Ebenezer Scrooge?

******
The formerly "Great" Britain.

You need to watch this pic.twitter.com/Psxt7SMcwH
— Patrick Christys (@PatrickChristys) December 13, 2025

******
Wishful Thinking, by Tris Munsick & The Innocents.

Who? It's classic country, recommended by commenter "Pete Bog," whose musical taste is better than his Paella-making technique.

***
And as long as we are slumming with Pete Bog's musical picks, how about Gabriel the Bull, doing Guardian Angels.

Two bands I have never heard of, but as my BiL in the business tells me, there are tons of absolutely fantastic bands that have not been, and probably never will be discovered.

******
For f*k's sake: Study reveals which English-speaking countries use the f-word the most -- and who has more fun doing so

Of course, the use of dirty words didn’t just differ between nations. According to the study, studies show people drop f-bombs more on social media than blogs and other mediums, especially — and perhaps contrary to popular belief — when conversing with acquaintances rather than close friends.
In fact, swearing was exceedingly rare in circles of fewer than 15 people, no matter how well they knew each other.

I think this study is a mass of bullshit, and nothing more than a make-work project for some under-utilized graduate students who are panicking that they might actually have to work some day.

Besides, they never answered the basic question: Is it "For fuck's sake," or "for fucks' sake?"

Inquiring minds want to know!

******

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1 Special Holiday cut just for Morons
Yoko wishes you a Merry Christmas
Only 1 minute, however long it might seem
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
https://youtu.be/d30MDZkbZd8

Posted by: mindful webworker - never miiiind at December 15, 2025 10:10 PM (lbDMw)

2 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/)

3 Oy

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 15, 2025 10:11 PM (CDX35)

4 Maybe top 10?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (5lbLe)

5 Sorry I'm late, but I did find out that Rodents of Unusual Size actually do exist.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (CJZqd)

6 Not first. Other fingers were poised.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (sl73Y)

7 There are skeleton farms in India.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 10:15 PM (Kt19C)

8 The kids play is from Bad Thoughts on Netflix.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 15, 2025 10:15 PM (MGB5H)

9 Seattle loves to claim Mt Rainier but it's not even in that county.
Seattle sucks.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:16 PM (2WIwB)

10 5 Sorry I'm late, but I did find out that Rodents of Unusual Size actually do exist.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (CJZqd)

I know of several in Congress.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (MXpA1)

11 which English-speaking countries use the f-word the most

Which is not necessarily who does it best.

https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0

Posted by: mindful webworker - doesn't give a flip at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (lbDMw)

12 Formally 'Great Britain' - pussies.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (5lbLe)

13 For this is the winter of our discontent,
Arctic Clippers have come and went,
Globull Warming seems to have failed,
Greta Thunberg whines and wails,
But Al Gore is still to good to use a tent.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)

14 Thanks for all the advice in the previous thread. I need to go clean, we have a VA Caregiver Department visit Wednesday morning, and I'd like for her to be able to get in the front door without tripping over Pookette's snow gear.

Posted by: pookysgirl, being a mom at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)

15 Texas music legend, Joe Ely, joined the angel band today. I've been listening to him and playing his songs for around fifty years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5i-yX9VA0

Posted by: huerfano at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (98kQX)

16 Formally 'Great Britain' - pussies.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:17 PM (5lbLe)

*looks at flooding here in westwrn Washington*
Yup.
Pussies.
And not the good kind.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

17 Thanks for the dandy Monday ONT, CBD!

Beautiful shot of Mt. McKinley up top.

The ONT is not early or late. It's right on time!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (kB9dk)

18 Good evening, friends!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

19 I saw another version of that Boys with a Time Machine meme: “Tell Stevie Ray not to get on that helicopter!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:19 PM (MXpA1)

20 I'm happy we got an ONT!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)

21 Thanks for the ONT, CBD. You da man! Howdy, horde!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 10:21 PM (47diA)

22 15 Texas music legend, Joe Ely, joined the angel band today. I've been listening to him and playing his songs for around fifty years”

Oh that is sad! I was able to see him in a small venue concert in Austin about 20 years ago, he was fantastic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:21 PM (MXpA1)

23 It would be one thing if that car were stuck in fast-moving water. Even a few inches of a raging river can knock a person down. But that puddle is as calm as a bird bath.

ISTR a story from England a few years ago where someone drowned in a fountain because the rescue services were apparently not equipped to wade into knee-deep water and lift out the victim.

Posted by: PabloD at December 15, 2025 10:22 PM (Epuwl)

24
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 10:22 PM (n7rxJ)

25 I'm happy we got an ONT!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)

Hell. I'm just happy they spelled it properly.
*sips Irish*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:22 PM (2WIwB)

26 {{{Rat}}}!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (5lbLe)

27 Counting down 9 days 'til Christmas Eve ...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (3ZUWJ)

28 Thank you CBD!

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)

29 SPONGE!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:24 PM (ULPxl)

30 {{{Marie!}}} Good to see you here!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:24 PM (TfUTr)

31 For the Christmas amusement of the grammatically challenged ...

Where is the comma in God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q5xEA4Ih0aM

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:25 PM (3ZUWJ)

32 Counting down 9 days 'til Christmas Eve ...
Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (3ZUWJ)

Oh shit!
I need to start shopping.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:25 PM (2WIwB)

33 I was a a karaoke bar this weekend, and you’ll never guess who came in. Go ahead, try to guess.

Wrong. (Yes, I am writing “wrong” before even posting so there is no Earthly way I could possibly know who you guessed, yet I am so brimming in confidence that I am going to tell you that you are wrong anyway.)

Orpheus.

I couldn’t believe it either.

Well, he got up on that stage and, let me tell you, that dude has a set of pipes. Truly. He makes Freddy Mercury sound like Oderus Urungus. It was magical listening to him. Everybody in the place was content to just let him stay in stage and roll, but it got cut short. He got mad and left in a huff when somebody asked him to sing Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:25 PM (CJZqd)

34 The parent company that makes Roomba vacuums filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy. I guess they'll have to suck it up.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 15, 2025 10:27 PM (CDX35)

35 Rat, you should also be happy that your Seahawks didn't lose to Philip Rivers yesterday.

I am knee deep in the Wrapture.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 15, 2025 10:29 PM (0nHVk)

36 Welp, tomorrow ought to be fun. I have to go retrieve personal effects out of a vehicle involved in a fatality. My buddy survived but her passenger didn't.

I have to stop saying 'yes' when asked for a favor.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

37 ©1998 AoSHQ LLC. contact us @ acepimp@geocities.com

I remember in 1998 I still had to get higher-up(s) approval for access to the internet. It was so new only certain people had access on the job. By 1999, every employee had access. Shopping on the job also increased.

Posted by: RickZ at December 15, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

38 Black Orpheus does Soul better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (MXpA1)

39 Americans use the c word less than other English speaking countries.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (KDPiq)

40 Oh shit!
I need to start shopping.
Posted by: Diogenes

Relax! Ya got a whole week...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (3ZUWJ)

41 >>> 32 Counting down 9 days 'til Christmas Eve ...
Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:23 PM (3ZUWJ)

Oh shit!
I need to start shopping.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:25 PM (2WIwB)

Unless there's something specific you were getting hints about... gift cards. Even better, cash aka the "universal gift card".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (ULPxl)

42 Evenin'
........................................
Hunter S. Thompson quote. He was a deranged prick but when he's right, he's right.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (sAmhv)

43 36 Welp, tomorrow ought to be fun. I have to go retrieve personal effects out of a vehicle involved in a fatality. My buddy survived but her passenger didn't.

I have to stop saying 'yes' when asked for a favor.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 15,

I’m so sorry. I am sorry for the guilt and trauma your friend may be feeling as well.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

44 Great bands.

Thanks Pete!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:31 PM (mT+6a)

45 Unless there's something specific you were getting hints about... gift cards. Even better, cash aka the "universal gift card".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (ULPxl)

It always fits.

Posted by: RickZ at December 15, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)

46 Texas music legend, Joe Ely, joined the angel band today. I've been listening to him and playing his songs for around fifty years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5i-yX9VA0
Posted by: huerfano at December 15, 2025 10:18 PM (98kQX)

Well, that's a damned shame. RIP, Joe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 10:32 PM (npFr7)

47 I am knee deep in the Wrapture.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Say hi to other Debby & Fab Five Freddie ...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (3ZUWJ)

48 The formerly "Great" Britain.
___________________________

I could understand the need for a rope and flotation device if Robert Reich was in that car. Reich needs climbing equipment to get over a speed bump.

But, what it the hell was that all about? It's a puddle.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (dIske)

49 How much simpler can you make the 2nd amendment. It's one sentence for fuck's sake.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (KDPiq)

50
Anyone hear Scott Adams's livestream this morning? It sounds like he's heading out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (n7rxJ)

51

The US Senate on Monday voted to end the filibuster and advance the National Defense Authorization Act to a final vote.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (pkeXY)

52 Rat!

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (mT+6a)

53 That is the first Larson comic that just has me scratching my head.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (fIo92)

54 39 Americans use the c word less than other English speaking countries.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (KDPiq)

My wife is singlehandedly chipping away at this deficit. By 2032, we'll have achieved parity with the rest of the Anglosphere thanks to the tireless efforts of this unsung American hero.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (+n72I)

55 49 How much simpler can you make the 2nd amendment. It's one sentence for fuck's sake.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:33 PM (KDPiq)

We dont know what a man and a woman are anymore

Posted by: leftidiot at December 15, 2025 10:34 PM (+I6Y/)

56 Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

Prayers for Peace and Strength for all involved ...

Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (3ZUWJ)

57 Jeepers.

All the tributes to Meathead.

Whatever.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (mT+6a)

58 Oh shit!
I need to start shopping.
Posted by: Diogenes

Relax! Ya got a whole week...
Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (3ZUWJ)

Whew!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (2WIwB)

59 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (v9ppt)

60 {{{DDS}}} Yes. Sorry about your Pats.
The fam went to the local production of the Nutcracker so I missed the second half.
Tried to borrow the granddaughters earbuds....but was informed it would be perceived as "being an asshole".

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)

61
Yay Jim!!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 10:36 PM (3ek7K)

62 Apparently I was cracking jokes

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:36 PM (v9ppt)

63 How much simpler can you make the 2nd amendment. It's one sentence for fuck's sake.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Hell, I know of a guy that didn't know what the definition of 'is' is.

Or a Supreme Court Justice that doesn't know what a woman is.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 10:37 PM (cYBz/)

64 Nurse!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:37 PM (2WIwB)

65 Good news, jim. Get healthier quickly!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (47diA)

66 well, well, well, Don Jr is engaged.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (g47mK)

67 Americans use the c word less than other English speaking countries.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:30 PM (KDPiq)

One of our few flaws as a people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (n9ltV)

68 am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

The heartiest of congratulations.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (sl73Y)

69 Well, back to e sleeo

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (v9ppt)

70 {{{Nurse!}}} And how was your weekend?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:38 PM (TfUTr)

71 What was the definition of was?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (pkeXY)

72
Jeepers.

All the tributes to Meathead.

Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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

Well anyway, he's certainly one of our top 30 people.

Posted by: Bridget Jones at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (n7rxJ)

73 Diogenes!

You still have power? It was a rock and roll party boat on the way home.

Dry though. Still blowing stink.

You get dry yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

74 Tried to borrow the granddaughters earbuds....but was informed it would be perceived as "being an asshole".
Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)

Yeah. My granddaughter tried that crap once. Told her she was out of the will.
End of problem.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

75 Slerp. Sleep. Damn autocucumber

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:40 PM (v9ppt)

76 I’ve climbed mt. Elbert. A fun climb and only a spitting distance shorter than whitney

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 10:40 PM (fIo92)

77 >>In fact, swearing was exceedingly rare in circles of fewer than 15 people, no matter how well they knew each other.

My buddy and I spent many years fishing a couple times a week together, usually early on a weekday morning before going to work. After a few years our morning conversation was usually a variety of grunts and the word fuck.

Oddly, we always seemed to know what the other meant.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:40 PM (viF8m)

78 Rat!

Good weekend. Next will be better as I get to see you and meet Ruby, the new sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium!

Squeeeeee!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:40 PM (lSC4e)

79 You still have power? It was a rock and roll party boat on the way home.

Dry though. Still blowing stink.

You get dry yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

Rain off and on all day. Wind picking up though. As wet as the soil is, could lose some trees.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

80 There is some more footage available of the Brown University shooter. Jacket is somewhat distinctive. Looks like he eats a lot of Cheetos.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (R86kT)

81 Slorp

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (pkeXY)

82 {{{DDS}}}
you're early tonight! So good to see you girlfriend 💗

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (5lbLe)

83 The shooter looks very fat.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (g47mK)

84 @1/ mindful webworker - never miiiind:

Could not make it more than 10 seconds of Yoko's "singing".

I now have an all new appreciation for Denis Leary's commentary on John Lennon and Yoko Ono:

https://youtu.be/7IpB24Xjn1w

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (O7YUW)

85 Yeah. My granddaughter tried that crap once. Told her she was out of the will.
End of problem.
Posted by: Diogenes

That won't work on mine....Nobody wants a shop full of broken crap. (smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)

86
Custard.

What the hell is it?

Nobody knows.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (Spg9I)

87 The fucking fucker's fucking fucked.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (t/66j)

88 Skin Orchards

Huh.

Gary trying to recapture the glory that was "Cow Tools?"

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (nhCoE)

89
Nobody eats "custard" anymore, right?

It's like "sherbert."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (Spg9I)

90 They're showing that video of the car in the water on Gutfeld.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (pkeXY)

91 I say Mother Hubbard more these days than Mother F'er.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (KDPiq)

92 Okay, I'm up later than I should be. See some of you in the Tech News thread tomorrow.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (O7YUW)

93 You get dry yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

Rain off and on all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

You Seattle prima donnas!

"Oh no! It's raining! Whatever shall we do?"

9mm fags....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (n9ltV)

94 jim in Kalifornia, I am so glad that your surgery went well.

LOL, Adriane!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (0nHVk)

95 Yellow matter custard?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 10:44 PM (pkeXY)

96 Evenin’, All. Happy Tuesday Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:44 PM (77rzZ)

97 Rainier will probably go Plinian and disappear in the next few decades anyway. But I assume Seattle which is led by people who went to the best schools have a plan for that.
I'm a little more concerned about the massive load of wet air that is dumping water on western Washington (and Oregon). I'm hearing about busted levies already.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 15, 2025 10:44 PM (gKWVE)

98 Hi Bulg

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

99 Frozen custard was real popular for a while.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (fIo92)

100 The weather is supposed to be nice tomorrow, here in Babylon DC. I'm off till Friday night, so I'll alter my normal nightwalker schedule and get up around noon. I want to visit Mt Vernon. George Washington's homestead is one of my favorite places around here. My sister and I would go there around this time of year but I haven't gone since she retired and moved near the aging parental units.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (sAmhv)

101 Formally 'Great Britain' - pussies.
Posted by: COMountainMarie

F250, 15 foot chain, problem solved. Pussies doesn't even begin to cover it.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (dp6GH)

102 You get dry yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

Rain off and on all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

You Seattle prima donnas!

"Oh no! It's raining! Whatever shall we do?"

9mm fags....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Discreetly make my way to a place of safety.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr)

103 9mm fags....

uh oh . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (47diA)

104 We got into a discussion here early today about crazy people and got me thinking about some I have known. (I’ve known way more than my share!) so back in the 90’s I knew a plumber named Nickels, I knew his elevator didn’t go all the way to the top but I thought he’d be handy if I had a plumbing problem. Still if you talked to him much you realized there were some circuits loose.

So one day there was this big excitement in town, someone had called a bomb threat into the biggest downtown bank! Police everywhere, they even called the FBI, and then I found out Nickles had been arrested. Why did he do it? Well he had a girlfriend who was sick of her shit and who’d told him she didn’t want to see him or talk to him anymore and not to come by her place. She worked at the bank. As she came out, she saw him standing there, and he said “well I wanted to talk to you, and I figured if everybody had to come out you would too, and we could talk.”
Yep, he just stood in front of the bank and said “yeah I did it.” He didn’t understand why people thought that was wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (MXpA1)

105 Hiya nurse😂!
It's nice to see so much Horde here!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (5lbLe)

106 Tomorrow is Christmas Pajama day. I don’t understand why the stupid owner made a decision like this when I don’t own Christmas pajamas.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

107 Hey, Piper! How are you?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (77rzZ)

108 WC Fields was a national treasure of a nation I miss very much.

Posted by: sven at December 15, 2025 10:47 PM (MUJd1)

109 93 You get dry yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:39 PM (lSC4e)

Rain off and on all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

You Seattle prima donnas!

"Oh no! It's raining! Whatever shall we do?"

9mm fags....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:43 PM (n9ltV)

***=

Whoa!
Somewhere a glove just got thrown down.
Play with your .45. I'll be sitting several hundred meters away slowly breathing whilst peeking though the scope on my .308.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:47 PM (2WIwB)

110 Woof.

Posted by: Elizabeth at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (JkO4W)

111 Rain off and on all day. Wind picking up though. As wet as the soil is, could lose some trees.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

Got up to 48 degrees here today. Sunny for a spell, too. I was just outside for a pee break. Strong west wind, still above freezing, though. Clear sky, I saw Jupiter and Orion glimming away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (npFr7)

112 Nickels got 2 years for that. He should have gotten more, but he had a smart lawyer who put him on the stand and asked him some questions about basic reality. He of course failed to answer them in any kind of rational way, and the jury felt sorry for him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (MXpA1)

113 Rainier will probably go Plinian and disappear in the next few decades anyway. But I assume Seattle which is led by people who went to the best schools have a plan for that.
I'm a little more concerned about the massive load of wet air that is dumping water on western Washington (and Oregon). I'm hearing about busted levies already.
Posted by: gKWVE

Not to worry. We pay a MASSIVE carbon tax, which will be used to mitigate all climate problems...

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (TfUTr)

114 After a few years our morning conversation was usually a variety of grunts and the word fuck.

Just like my wife and her bull.

Posted by: David French at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (+n72I)

115
Anyone hear Scott Adams's livestream this morning? It sounds like he's heading out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

That's lousy. Poor guy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (Spg9I)

116 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (MXpA1)

And yet he had a girlfriend.

Men have an excuse for going for the crazy but women have a defective radar that can't detect assholes or nut cases.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 15, 2025 10:49 PM (KDPiq)

117 I have to go retrieve personal effects...
-----

I've had to do the same thing. A buddy's family lived far away, and I was the local contact point for the hospice. Then...then came the call from the mortuary, 'You may come by and pick up your friend's clothes'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 10:49 PM (XeU6L)

118 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 10:49 PM (1oltZ)

119 Tomorrow is Christmas Pajama day. I don’t understand why the stupid owner made a decision like this when I don’t own Christmas pajamas.
Posted by: Piper
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wth? As in, wear the pj's in public?

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

120 You know.

Not everyone needs a 50 cal to neutralize a foe.

Two to the chest, one to the head…. Pop pop pop. It’s called finesse.

Jeepers. Can you say bull in a China shop? Compensating for a tiny weener? My my my.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)

121 I'll be sitting several hundred meters away slowly breathing whilst peeking though the scope on my .308.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:47 PM (2WIwB)

And I will be 50 meters past where your .308 goes trans-sonic and flops around like a fish out of water, happily peering through my 6.5's scope, watching you scratch your head and wonder why you can't hit at 1,100 meters!.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (n9ltV)

122 I'm a little more concerned about the massive load of wet air that is dumping water on western Washington (and Oregon). I'm hearing about busted levies already.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 15, 2025 10:44 PM (gKWVE)

Well...it keeps things...moist.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

123 9mm fags....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

* saunters into the back room, puts on bib overalls*

Y'all aint from around here is ya.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (dp6GH)

124 Tomorrow is Christmas Pajama day. I don’t understand why the stupid owner made a decision like this when I don’t own Christmas pajamas.
Posted by: Piper

mikeski's answer in that situation: "But I sleep naked. Will that work?"

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)

125 Anyone hear Scott Adams's livestream this morning? It sounds like he's heading out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

He stated he didn't think he'd make it past the summer.
Too bad, I liked his stuff.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (TfUTr)

126 Two to the chest, one to the head…. Pop pop pop. It’s called finesse.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)

Three?

Men need only one .45ACP.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (n9ltV)

127 Frozen custard was real popular for a while.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 10:45 PM (fIo92)

There is a frozen custard joint on Southern Avenue in Mesa, AZ, not far from Ellsworth Road.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 10:51 PM (npFr7)

128 COMM! Hi
Love!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (mT+6a)

129 I remember the guy who got banned for saying he'd shoot people from 1000 yards out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (1oltZ)

130 Y'all, piper IS the "stupid owner"...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (VCgbV)

131 wth? As in, wear the pj's in public?

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

Everyday is Christmas Pajama day at the local Walmart.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (6p0Jv)

132
That's lousy. Poor guy.
Posted by: Soothsayer

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

The dude shows up like no one's business, though. Barely able to speak or move a muscle, doped out of his mind, and he's livestreaming from his hospital bed.

Posted by: Bridget Jones at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (n7rxJ)

133 I remember the guy who got banned for saying he'd shoot people from 1000 yards out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (1oltZ)

There's a bit of a difference....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (n9ltV)

134 And I will be 50 meters past where your .308 goes trans-sonic and flops around like a fish out of water, happily peering through my 6.5's scope, watching you scratch your head and wonder why you can't hit at 1,100 meters!.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December

Scooch over and let me show you how that works.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (mT+6a)

135 And I will be 50 meters past where your .308 goes trans-sonic and flops around like a fish out of water, happily peering through my 6.5's scope, watching you scratch your head and wonder why you can't hit at 1,100 meters!.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (n9ltV)

At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

136 Everyday is Christmas Pajama day at the local Walmart.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Yeah... or even Worn-out, Unwashed Pajama day.

But that's WM, not Piper's Studio!

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)

137 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

Oh f*ck...I laughed!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:55 PM (n9ltV)

138 >>> 112 Nickels got 2 years for that. He should have gotten more, but he had a smart lawyer who put him on the stand and asked him some questions about basic reality. He of course failed to answer them in any kind of rational way, and the jury felt sorry for him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:48 PM (MXpA1)

That, and/or they all thought juror 8's kid's hamster was far more likely to be able to *build* a bomb than Nickels.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:55 PM (ULPxl)

139 BOOM!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (mT+6a)

140 94 jim in Kalifornia, I am so glad that your surgery went well.

-----------

Yikes. I hope he isn't transitioning.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)

141 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

When do you choose airstrikes?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (S/Y4j)

142 133 Wow, CBD is still online. Does this mean that the 100-comment rule is STILL in effect?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (77rzZ)

143 Y'all, piper IS the "stupid owner"...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
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Ok. I just saw this post.

LOL, oh dear. Hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)

144 Scooch over and let me show you how that works.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:53 PM (mT+6a)

Rancher Bob makes sure everyone gets a participation trophy.

Talk to RI Red about real targets at 1,100 yards.

Hit the ram and we will talk!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:57 PM (n9ltV)

145 Two to the chest, one to the head…. Pop pop pop. It’s called finesse.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)

You are an inspiration to the granddaughters of Diogenes. By third grade they knew grandpa's axiom: two in the pump house, one in the junction box.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:57 PM (2WIwB)

146 When do you choose airstrikes?

Always and often, said the retired bomber guy . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 10:57 PM (47diA)

147 I had seen that Adam’s had commented while being taken to the hospital for some experimental treatment, and noted that he was now paralyzed from the waist down, since the cancer had gotten into his spine. Very sad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (MXpA1)

148 >>> 106 Tomorrow is Christmas Pajama day. I don’t understand why the stupid owner made a decision like this when I don’t own Christmas pajamas.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 10:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

Wear your favorite decent pj's and stick a bow on the shirt pocket.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (ULPxl)

149 Hey COMM, we kind of missed each other at the party.

Piper, I am sure that you will fashion some exquisite Christmas pajamas, I bet that you will look great.

Merry Christmas, nurse.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (0nHVk)

150 XCel Energy is threatening to turn the power off Wednesday noon

western suburbs of Denver
might get windy!
This decision is driven by lawyers, of course

the call it a "Public Safety Power Shutoff"

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (ZxPkt)

151 86
Custard.

What the hell is it?

Nobody knows.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:42 PM (Spg9I)

Put it in a doughnut and bring that over here. More importantly, has there been an oreo filled doughnut yet? Seems like an obvious one. They'll use them as topping for doughnuts, but not as a filling.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (pIfcn)

152 For folks who supposedly dislike math, y’all are all surprisingly good at it when it comes to firearms.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:59 PM (77rzZ)

153 Gary Larson is a f*cking lunatic.

In a good way, but still. The man is clearly insane!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:59 PM (n9ltV)

154 Hey, Piper!

You may borrow my Ugly Christmas Sweater if you want to! *Any color* yoga pants will go with it, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 11:00 PM (rdVOm)

155 >>> 152 For folks who supposedly dislike math, y’all are all surprisingly good at it when it comes to firearms.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:59 PM (77rzZ)

That's why Weasel calls them FUNdamentals.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 11:00 PM (ULPxl)

156 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (v9ppt)

Don't worry Jim, James Brown has you covered:

https://youtu.be/ZNhA1njOxsk

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:00 PM (npFr7)

157 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

When do you choose airstrikes?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 10:56 PM (S/Y4j)

Air strikes are for the weak and infirmed. Better to let the enemy advance unimpeded and face death at the hands of real men rather than be soiled by the puny bombs of pilots who drop and flee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:00 PM (2WIwB)

158 Saaay....did fall down into Weasel's blog? Is it Sunday or Monday? I'm totally confused now...

*dusts off pellet pistol*

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 11:01 PM (5lbLe)

159 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

The Rooskies now have fiber optic guided video drones that can chase you through the trees from 20,000 meters.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 15, 2025 11:01 PM (xceqr)

160 Holy crap. Wind rally kicking up.

It’s HOOTING out thar.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (mT+6a)

161 Two to the chest, one to the head…. Pop pop pop. It’s called finesse.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)

You are an inspiration to the granddaughters of Diogenes. By third grade they knew grandpa's axiom: two in the pump house, one in the junction box.
Posted by: Diogenes

Sock Monkey's version of the Mozambique is two to the chest, one to the head and two to the groin. It might be a waste of two rounds but it makes me smile.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (dp6GH)

162
Apparently I was cracking jokes
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

I came out of anesthesia one time in a wild panic because they had not told me when they started the drip. How the hell was I supposed to know where I was without having been told that as I went under, buttheads?

Another time I came out and started singing a song from scout camp that involved moving one's arms a lot. The staff was the panicking party in that case. "Stop! Stop! You'll pull out the drip needle!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (xG4kz)

163 puny bombs

Well, a 2000 pounder might make your head ache for a while afterwards. The crew has to get back to the base, Diogenes, before us maintenance folks drink all the beer. You got to take beer out on patrols, right?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

164 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery.

And from orbit?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 11:03 PM (EXyHK)

165 130 Y'all, piper IS the "stupid owner"...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 15, 2025 10:52 PM (VCgbV)

😂 But I do wonder why I did this!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

166 Wear your favorite decent pj's and stick a bow on the shirt pocket.

The Paolo, he sleeps how you say, au naturle, the bow would have to go...

Posted by: The Paolo at December 15, 2025 11:04 PM (Kt19C)

167 The Rooskies now have fiber optic guided video drones that can chase you through the trees from 20,000 meters.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Which is fine as long as some Trotskyite didn't sell off the fiber optic and replace it with fishing line.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 11:04 PM (TfUTr)

168
A prouder person would not have signed that failed cartoon, Larson.

Just saying.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 11:04 PM (xG4kz)

169 Back to my paper and ribbons and tags, Horde, have a good evening.

JQ, you know that I will be back for a nightcap.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 15, 2025 11:05 PM (0nHVk)

170 Good news, Jim (in Kalifornia)!

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:05 PM (77rzZ)

171 Have fun, Debby! See ya later.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)

172 You got to take beer out on patrols, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

Depends.
Is is a 24 hour patrol, or four or five days?
And...what country am I in? Some have really shitty bier.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:06 PM (2WIwB)

173 Y'all, piper IS the "stupid owner"...
Posted by: lin-duh

😂 But I do wonder why I did this!
Posted by: Piper

It's the effects of the 'Ette Couture thing.

Soon, your whole life will revolve around generating commentable content for the ONT.

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 11:06 PM (nhCoE)

174 A prouder person would not have signed that failed cartoon, Larson.

Just saying.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 11:04 PM (xG4kz)

Good thing Captain Picard never saw that cartoon...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)

175
Wear your favorite decent pj's and stick a bow on the shirt pocket.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 10:58 PM (ULPxl)

I think my daughter (dare I say this) had penguin pajamas. I wonder if I can squash in those. Stay tuned.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

176

FBI warns public to stay away from "armed and dangerous " Brown University shooter.

Since no one knows who it is that is a problem.

Idiots

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (3ek7K)

177 Maybe she'll do next Sunday post on Christmas pajamas...🤣

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (VCgbV)

178 Wear your favorite decent pj's and stick a bow on the shirt pocket.

The Paolo, he sleeps how you say, au naturle, the bow would have to go...
Posted by: The Paolo

Nae, the bow shows ye won first prize!

Posted by: MacPaolo at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (nhCoE)

179 Gary Larson is a f*cking lunatic.

In a good way, but still. The man is clearly insane!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

He's a Wazzu grad. I blame alcohol poisoning.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (dp6GH)

180 Found this while looking for something else:
https://youtu.be/rporAkjtdL4

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (ULPxl)

181 For some obscure reason, I am wearing a ball cap indoors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:08 PM (npFr7)

182 Mount McKinley, formally Denali, formally Mount McKinley.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 15, 2025 11:08 PM (y171U)

183 Gary Larson is a f*cking lunatic.

In a good way, but still. The man is clearly insane!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

He's a Wazzu grad. I blame alcohol poisoning.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (dp6GH)

I actually had several classes with him at Wazzu. His doodles on his notes were frigging hilarious.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:09 PM (2WIwB)

184 I’m late, but here goes:
Hello! my baby,
Hello! my Honey
Hello! my ragtime gal!
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, my heart's on fire!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 11:09 PM (tWxgu)

185 164 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery.

And from orbit?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 11:03 PM (EXyHK)

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Call when the enemy is 14 miles away.

Posted by: The USS Missouri at December 15, 2025 11:09 PM (JkO4W)

186 54 Hey, Piper!

You may borrow my Ugly Christmas Sweater if you want to! *Any color* yoga pants will go with it, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 11:00

Ha! I am sorry I did that to you!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

187 Goodnight, All. See you zaftra.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:10 PM (77rzZ)

188 177 Maybe she'll do next Sunday post on Christmas pajamas...🤣
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December

Hmmmm….couture pjs. It’s niche. Might be fun!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

189 As for mountains, I love seeing the Tetons on a clear day from nearly a hundred miles away, long before reaching Idaho Falls.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 15, 2025 11:11 PM (0aYVJ)

190 I had to watch that formerly great britain video twice to count how many retards were in that vid. I settled on "all" as the final count. That was 6 monkeys trying fuck a football... in ankle deep water.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 11:12 PM (snZF9)

191 think my daughter (dare I say this) had penguin pajamas. I wonder if I can squash in those. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

You are a Great American !

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 11:12 PM (g47mK)

192 I am off to bed. Will update on this pressing situation tomorrow because I know you care!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 11:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

193 Ha! I am sorry I did that to you!
Posted by: Piper
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LOL, it's all good... I liked that elongated shiny stuff, whatever it was. Looked like huge beads?

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

194 Rob Reiner is the generation of liberals that paved the road for the Hell we are all living in today.

I say hey man nice shot.

It's a good shot man.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:13 PM (aTgV0)

195 150 Don Black

Got the call today....batten down the harches!! OMG!
WHATEVER will we do?!
Heading for the bunker with me MREs🤪🤪🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 11:13 PM (5lbLe)

196 If Teddy Kennedy had been British, he would have been president.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (JkO4W)

197 So every year my wife gets me a pair of Christmas pjs at bass pro shops. With the idea being that’s what I’ll wear next year Christmas morning. She and a friend both bring their kid to see Santa and I get pjs.

But the issue is my wife always buys way too big a size for me. Santa size. I don’t get it. Maybe all the normal sizes are gone by the time she goes. And it’s made worse by the fact that they can’t just make fat pjs. They’re scaled up in every dimension. Like for a nine foot tall giant. So I have to have them really fastened tight and then the legs all rolled up.

But this year I got a call from her while she’s at the store and she asks for my size. Good so far. Then she asks if I’m looking for anything new underwear wise, and frankly, now I’m frightened.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (fIo92)

198 Hope Jim in Cali is doing ok.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (aTgV0)

199 As for mountains, I love seeing the Tetons on a clear day from nearly a hundred miles away, long before reaching Idaho Falls.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 15, 2025 11:11 PM (0aYVJ)

A hundred miles!!!???
Those are indeed some grand tetons!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (2WIwB)

200 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery.

And from orbit?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 11:03 PM (EXyHK)

Nuke ‘em. It’s the only way to be sure!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 11:15 PM (tWxgu)

201
More importantly, has there been an oreo filled doughnut yet?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

Or perhaps a Donut filled Oreo?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:15 PM (Spg9I)

202 A hundred miles!!!???
Those are indeed some grand tetons!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (2WIwB)

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SPECTACULAR tetons!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:16 PM (JkO4W)

203 When I get a bag of Oreos I pour them in a bowl so they get stale.

Stale Oreos is the secret.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:17 PM (aTgV0)

204
Hope Jim in Cali is doing ok.
Posted by: eleven

He's right above you.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:17 PM (Spg9I)

205 The Tetons are beautiful.

So are the
buckhorns
Sawtooth
Olympics

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 11:18 PM (mT+6a)

206 I’d have told those guys on the road in the UK, “It’s OK, I got this. Can you just call a tow truck? I dropped my phone in this puddle I’m walking through.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:18 PM (6ydKt)

207 "He's right above you.
Posted by: Soothsayer"

He's standing right behind me, isn't he?

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:19 PM (aTgV0)

208
When I get a bag of Oreos I pour them in a bowl so they get stale.

Stale Oreos is the secret.
Posted by: eleven

Ah, yes, the things you learn from Grandma.
Grandmas are good at making things in a bowl (or dish) stale.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:19 PM (Spg9I)

209 68 am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia
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Most excellent, sleep well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:19 PM (+e7qF)

210 Nobody wants a shop full of broken crap. (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)

Fistbump.

Posted by: Reforger at December 15, 2025 11:20 PM (VF6cf)

211 The effing thing's all effing effed up.

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 15, 2025 11:20 PM (NO/Iy)

212 Then she asks if I’m looking for anything new underwear wise, and frankly, now I’m frightened.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 11:14 PM (fIo92)

She’s going to buy you something that would make a pair of Speedos blush.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:20 PM (6ydKt)

213 Jimmah!

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:20 PM (aTgV0)

214

The Little Boy atomic bomb weighed approximately 9,700 pounds

The Fat Man bomb weighed approximately 10,300 pounds

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:21 PM (pkeXY)

215 Had a nice win in the shop today. The heater fan on #3 Suburban was very noisy, and would only run at all on high blower. Because it was mild out, I took the fan motor out. Well, a shot of oil wasn't going to fix it. The back end bearing was wallowed right out, with a 1/8" gap between one side of the shaft and what was left of the bearing. No other fan motor on hand.
Cut the bearing dimple out of the end bell of the motor with die grinder, pried remains of Oilite bushing. Opened hole with reamer to fit O.D. of new Oilite bushing from junk box. I.D. was perfect fit on shaft. Pressed in new bushing; motor spins freely (oiled both bushings, of course). Bent a flat washer to act as bushing retainer, and spot-welded it to end bell of motor. Test-ran motor, worked. Put fan cage back on, reinstall in Suburban. Runs as quiet as it possibly can on high blower. Resistor block NFG, so low speeds unavailable. Tomorrow's job.

Junk 45 dollar part, made good again for $0.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

216 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (v9ppt)

excellent news, Jim. Prayers for a speedy recovery.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 15, 2025 11:22 PM (0aYVJ)

217 "The Little Boy atomic bomb weighed approximately 9,700 pounds

The Fat Man bomb weighed approximately 10,300 pounds
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

That's hot.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:22 PM (aTgV0)

218 Theresa update. Anyone?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:22 PM (+e7qF)

219 That's it I'm done.

Have a wonderful Monday night all you goombas.

Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:23 PM (aTgV0)

220 Hunter Biden disbarred in Connecticut after complaints over gun, tax convictions

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (GITLP)

221 Get it from the source:

https://www.thefarside.com/

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (tWxgu)

222 The Little Boy atomic bomb weighed approximately 9,700 pounds

The Fat Man bomb weighed approximately 10,300 pounds
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:21 PM (pkeXY)

And one man could pick up the W33 projectile for the 8 inch howitzer. I did. Once. Heavy bastard.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (2WIwB)

223 A place here makes donuts and donut holes and then if you buy a box of assorted they stuff some of the donut holes in the hole of the donuts. And honestly, they look like S&M ball gag donuts and that’s way too much to deal with early in the morning.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (fIo92)

224 And one man could pick up the W33 projectile for the 8 inch howitzer. I did. Once. Heavy bastard.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:24 PM (2WIwB)

Not something you'd want to drop on your toe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:26 PM (npFr7)

225 Sock Monkey's version of the Mozambique is two to the chest, one to the head and two to the groin. It might be a waste of two rounds but it makes me smile.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:02 PM (dp6GH)

At the risk of being serious, there is a good argument for avoiding center of mass and going for the pelvis. For one, most armor doesn't cover the pelvis, two, it is difficult to remain standing with a few bullets in the hips, and three, lots of blood vessels and nerves!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 11:26 PM (n9ltV)

226 The Fat Man bomb weighed approximately 10,300 pounds
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:21 PM (pkeXY)

And when Pritzker cannonballed into Springfield, it took out an entire state

Posted by: gKWVE at December 15, 2025 11:27 PM (gKWVE)

227
Teresa was here today. Said she's breaking out of the hospital.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:27 PM (Spg9I)

228 220 Hunter Biden disbarred in Connecticut after complaints over gun, tax convictions

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Just imagine all of he desperate clients who now need to locate new crackerjack legal counsel!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:28 PM (JkO4W)

229
Australian Democrat spree killer "known" to Intel agencies.

He was "examined" in 2019 under suspicion of connections to ISIS, but "deemed" "not" "a" "threat."

Really.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:29 PM (Spg9I)

230 The Brits had a bomb called the Grand Slam that weighed 22,000 lbs. Was designed to penetrate the ground and then detonate, causing buildings to collapse around it.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 15, 2025 11:29 PM (R86kT)

231 219 That's it I'm done.

Have a wonderful Monday night all you goombas.
Posted by: eleven at December 15, 2025 11:23 PM (aTgV0)

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Go ahead and ignore us.

Posted by: The Mooks at December 15, 2025 11:29 PM (JkO4W)

232 AOP , a book I had said to try and do a 10$ job for 50c and just find the 50c.. I've managed to do it a few times
adjusted for inflation.

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 15, 2025 11:30 PM (NO/Iy)

233 I don’t understand how artillery guys don’t go deaf.

Seems like your ears would be ringing permanently.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:31 PM (6ydKt)

234 Test-ran motor, worked. Put fan cage back on, reinstall in Suburban. Runs as quiet as it possibly can on high blower. Resistor block NFG, so low speeds unavailable. Tomorrow's job.

Junk 45 dollar part, made good again for $0.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Easy peasy when one knows what he's doing.

Along those line just discovered that Amazon sells a mount for hand held angle grinder to use it as a cut off wheel. $40
https://tinyurl.com/mu8sbunr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:31 PM (+e7qF)

235 Gary Larson is a f*cking lunatic.

In a good way, but still. The man is clearly insane!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I would think the opposite, so much of what he does is observational, very literal, it is almost as if he unthinks.

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:32 PM (jNmWC)

236 Was designed to penetrate the ground and then detonate, causing buildings to collapse around it.

We got some now that "count" the floors of the building as they pass through and detonate in the right place. Very effective.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 11:33 PM (47diA)

237 At the risk of being serious, there is a good argument for avoiding center of mass and going for the pelvis. For one, most armor doesn't cover the pelvis, two, it is difficult to remain standing with a few bullets in the hips, and three, lots of blood vessels and nerves!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

That's the reason I added that to that particular drill. I make my own silhouette targets so it's included. I've been doing that in my drills long enough that it's muscle memory. The emotional reward is just a bonus.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:34 PM (dp6GH)

238 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 15, 2025 11:34 PM (NO/Iy)

239 Good night good pals.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 11:34 PM (5lbLe)

240
And one man could pick up the W33 projectile for the 8 inch howitzer. I did. Once. Heavy bastard.
Posted by: Diogenes

243 pounds

https://t.ly/w6lMZ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:35 PM (pkeXY)

241 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

I mean it grinds hands so duh

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:35 PM (9gniQ)

242 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

good news, nobody repeats the error more than once

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:36 PM (Qd8Cf)

243 Really, that Wishful Thinking song is more bluegrass than country.

Posted by: GWB at December 15, 2025 11:36 PM (/5v9+)

244 238 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool
Posted by: Lord Percy at December 15, 2025 11:34 PM (NO/Iy)

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Is it really worse than the notorious Dick Grinder?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:36 PM (JkO4W)

245 Gotta go. Nice ONT, morons!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 15, 2025 11:37 PM (47diA)

246 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Apparently I was cracking jokes
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital)

This is great news. Gives me hope one day they might reassemble me. Bag life is not the worst thing, but, ick.

After my initial surgery, first thing I said was, "Is Joe Biden still dead?" My daughter was a little disturbed, maybe thinking I must be out of it. So, I said, "Am I alive?" She answered, "Yes, you're alive." Then I asked, "Am I still a guy?" Yes, again. Well, okay, then! I was glad to be alive.

Another time I came out and started singing a song…
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Before they started putting me semi-under for a blood clot clean-out, I was singing, "Lying here staring at the ceiling, waiting for a sleepy feeling." Some guy noted that I was singing, but I don't think any of those folks in the surgery recognized that obscure Beatles bit.

I had to force myself not to make jokes in the hospital. Don't want them thinking that old man is losing his wits. "Birthdate?" "1852...."

https://youtu.be/5XwXliCK19Y

Posted by: mindful webworker - I'm only sleeeeeping at December 15, 2025 11:37 PM (lbDMw)

247 Is it really worse than the notorious Dick Grinder?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I still have nightmares about that wedding night.

Posted by: Barry from Chicago at December 15, 2025 11:37 PM (gKWVE)

248 At the risk of being serious, there is a good argument for avoiding center of mass and going for the pelvis. For one, most armor doesn't cover the pelvis, two, it is difficult to remain standing with a few bullets in the hips, and three, lots of blood vessels and nerves!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 11:26 PM (n9ltV)

I was acquainted with a Marine who could attest to that. Arterial bleeding in the limbs can be taken care of with a tourniquet, but anything in the trunk or pelvic region is truly problematic. Best you can do is direct pressure, like kneeling, full weight, on the site of the wound. And even then it's still pretty iffy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 15, 2025 11:37 PM (0aYVJ)

249
DOJ suing woke DEI "mayor" of Shitcago for racial discrimination.

The idiot not only excluded non-blacks from business licenses but bragged about it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:38 PM (Spg9I)

250 Along those line just discovered that Amazon sells a mount for hand held angle grinder to use it as a cut off wheel. $40
https://tinyurl.com/mu8sbunr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:31 PM (+e7qF)

I would not buy that. It ties up your angle grinder, so you need to have two of them (as you should, anyway). Anything that is in the angle grinder's capacity to cut, you can do nearly as well freehand, if the work is in a vise.

Hit a few flea markets, yard sales, or swap meets, and you should be able to find a working chop saw for $50.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:39 PM (npFr7)

251 Angle grinders have hand guards over the wheels but yeah if you screw up or get it caught on something and it springs back up they’ll cut through leather gloves or boots very quickly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:39 PM (6ydKt)

252 I don’t understand how artillery guys don’t go deaf.

Seems like your ears would be ringing permanently.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:31 PM (6ydKt)

***

The funniest thing I ever saw in a briefing was when my boss, an artillery man (and a general) was having trouble hearing. I was his G2 and could see the problem. The hearing aide batteries were dying. The briefer kept going and the boss was pulling out the hearing aides and suddenly the batteries go bouncing across the table. Sudden silence. I burst out laughing and the briefer dived to the floor trying to get the batteries.
The boss just smiled.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:39 PM (2WIwB)

253
Another time I came out and started singing a song…
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Did you think you were Ethel Merman?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:40 PM (pkeXY)

254 I looked up the Tsar Bomba - estimated weight 60,000 lbs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:42 PM (MXpA1)

255 254 I looked up the Tsar Bomba - estimated weight 60,000 lbs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 11:42 PM (MXpA1)

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That must have been one beefy trebuchet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (JkO4W)

256 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

good news, nobody repeats the error more than once
Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:36 PM (Qd8Cf)

Ceiling in my shop has embedded in it two sharp fragments of 3" cutoff wheel discs. I left them there as a graphic reminder to wear safety goggles when using power tools of that nature.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (npFr7)

257
I looked up the Tsar Bomba - estimated weight 60,000 lbs.
Posted by: Tom Servo

That was the FATTEST man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (pkeXY)

258 Good evening morons and Happy Chanukah CBD

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (9ipOP)

259 258 Good evening morons and Happy Chanukah CBD

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F*cking Seleucids had it coming.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:44 PM (JkO4W)

260 my shop has embedded in it two sharp fragments of 3" cutoff wheel discs. I left them there as a graphic reminder to wear safety goggles when using power tools of that nature.
Posted by: Alber

smart

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:45 PM (jNmWC)

261 Ken burns made the quakers seem like assholes episode 4 Am Rev.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 11:46 PM (uQzkA)

262 Another time I came out and started singing a song…
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Woke up once and my very concerned college buddy was standing there. I just looked at him and said, " Well crap. I've died and gone to hell."
He made me buy drinks for a month.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 11:46 PM (2WIwB)

263 To cut a 1 1/2" by 1 1/2" by 1/8" steel angle, maybe ten seconds with a chop saw, a minute with an angle grinder, or five seconds with a plasma cutter.

Hacksaw? Five minutes, and the cut will be crooked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:48 PM (npFr7)

264 Happy Chanukah CBD

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:43 PM (9ipOP)

Am Yisrael Hai!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 11:49 PM (n9ltV)

265
Google's AI is so full of shit...

I just typed in "when is the fake holiday kwanza"

Google's AI tells me: Kwanzaa is an annual cultural celebration observed from December 26 through January 1 every year.
While some critics have called Kwanzaa a "fake" or "made-up" holiday because it was created relatively recently in 1966 by activist Dr. Maulana Karenga, it is widely celebrated by millions of people of African descent in the United States and around the world. It is not a religious holiday, and many people celebrate both Christmas and Kwanzaa.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:49 PM (Spg9I)

266 I am now reconnected ! Still a bit out if it. No bag!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 15, 2025 10:35 PM (v9ppt)
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b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:50 PM (9ipOP)

267 The Tsar Bomba wasn’t even a usable weapon: just a test to see how big an explosion they could get. At that they tamped down on the yield a bit as they thought the drop plane wouldn’t be able to get away successfully otherwise. They were right!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 11:50 PM (tWxgu)

268
Alright, so then I typed: "what evidence is there that people celebrate kwanzaa"

Google's lying AI says: Evidence that people celebrate Kwanzaa can be seen in various public and private activities, the holiday's recognition by institutions and government, and survey data on participation.

LOL, ffuuuckk you, Google.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:51 PM (Spg9I)

269 F*cking Seleucids had it coming.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:44 PM (JkO4W)
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Ha! Truf.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:52 PM (9ipOP)

270 LOL, ffuuuckk you, Google.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:51 PM (Spg9I)

Ask Gurgle what crimes Ron Karenga was convicted of.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:52 PM (npFr7)

271
LOL, ffuuuckk you, Google.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Surprised it didn't say: "Because I say so!"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2025 11:53 PM (pkeXY)

272 Ask Gurgle what crimes Ron Karenga was convicted of.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:52 PM (npFr7)
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Ask the FBI

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:53 PM (9ipOP)

273 F*cking Seleucids had it coming.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:44 PM (JkO4W)

Ingrates! Savages!!

Posted by: zombie antiochus iv epiphanes at December 15, 2025 11:53 PM (+n72I)

274 Dump democrats are tofu eating snowflake wimps offering thoughts and prayers for kirk's family. Dump says let me show you how to properly dance on grave of someone you hate!

Posted by: raimondo at December 15, 2025 11:54 PM (sldme)

275 I ask Google mean offensive questions every day to mess with it. Hopefully it learns shit talking. I trust the fbi has a list of all my searches.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 11:54 PM (uQzkA)

276 F*cking Seleucids had it coming.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 11:44 PM (JkO4W)
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Ha! Truf.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:52 PM (9ipOP)

I always thought Seleucids were some sort of critter that lived with the Trilobites.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:54 PM (npFr7)

277
I think fake "kwanza" is a fake "celebration" of a fake "harvest" in Africa.

What harvest, you axe?

Um, shut up, racist!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:55 PM (Spg9I)

278 I think fake "kwanza" is a fake "celebration" of a fake "harvest" in Africa.

What harvest, you axe?

its powdered milk

Posted by: n at December 15, 2025 11:56 PM (PqZ71)

279 And the plasma cutter means almost zero clean up.

You could use a blowtorch too in a few minutes, but that’s an ugly cut that requires grinding to clean it up and can structurally weaken the cut end.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (6ydKt)

280 Dump democrats are tofu eating snowflake wimps offering thoughts and prayers for kirk's family. Dump says let me show you how to properly dance on grave of someone you hate!
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Troll, Imma let you have this one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (9ipOP)

281 I think fake "kwanza" is a fake "celebration" of a fake "harvest" in Africa.

What harvest, you axe?

Um, shut up, racist!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 11:55 PM (Spg9I)

It's the season to take your used goats, and sell them two villages distant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (npFr7)

282 Ask Gurgle what crimes Ron Karenga was convicted of.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

In 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felony assault and false imprisonment.[22] A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women:

Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said. They also were hit on the heads with toasters.[23]

I wonder if Miss Jones and Miss Davis celebrate Kwanzaa?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 15, 2025 11:59 PM (dp6GH)

283 Say what you will about Kwanzaa but I still think the ritual Lighting of the Yule Bitch is a charming tradition.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 12:00 AM (dyewR)

284 Have seen a mechanical hacksaw setup-- very old, electric-- put your workpiece in its vice, start it up, lower the blade, sit back while the machine works the blade back & forth instead of your arm.

Posted by: JQ at December 16, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

285 I always thought Seleucids were some sort of critter that lived with the Trilobites.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They're not one of the Zerg units in Starcraft?

Posted by: mikeski at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (nhCoE)

286
I wonder if Miss Jones and Miss Davis celebrate Kwanzaa?
Posted by: Sock Monkey

They were going to make toast but the cord was missing.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (pkeXY)

287 You could use a blowtorch too in a few minutes, but that’s an ugly cut that requires grinding to clean it up and can structurally weaken the cut end.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (6ydKt)

Metal fab shops have motorized jigs to hold plasma torches or acetylene torches at the right distance from the work and maintain the correct angle and cut speed for neat work. It's a hard skill to acquire to do it neatly freehand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (npFr7)

288
Say what you will about Kwanzaa but I still think the ritual Lighting of the Yule Bitch is a charming tradition.
Posted by: Cicero

And the looting makes the children so happy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 12:02 AM (Spg9I)

289 >>> It is not a religious holiday, and many people celebrate both Christmas and Kwanzaa.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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They, all AI is fos. I waste time questioning them repeatedly forcing it closer to a correct answer.
Not sure whether the exercise is better or worse for my humor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:02 AM (+e7qF)

290 They were going to make toast but the cord was missing.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (pkeXY)
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What else is he doing with that toaster?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 16, 2025 12:03 AM (9ipOP)

291 >>What else is he doing with that toaster?

That cheating SOB!

Posted by: the couch at December 16, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

292 261 Ken burns made the quakers seem like assholes episode 4 Am Rev.

Posted by: NCKate at December 15, 2025 11:46 PM (uQzkA)

I think they were the moron kind of asshoe: they would show up to Puritan church services naked and dance in the aisle singing loudly.

Posted by: moki at December 16, 2025 12:04 AM (wLjpr)

293 >>>or five seconds with a plasma cutter.

Hacksaw? Five minutes, and the cut will be crooked.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You may have saved my life. You mentioned, the other night, about welders and pacemakers. I had forgotten about that and have been shopping for an 'on sale' welding machine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:05 AM (+e7qF)

294 That cheating SOB!
Posted by: the couch
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I'm ok with it...

Posted by: the chicken at December 16, 2025 12:05 AM (rdVOm)

295
They, all AI is fos. I waste time questioning them repeatedly forcing it closer to a correct answer.
Not sure whether the exercise is better or worse for my humor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

We have to build more data centers and power plants and then you will be able to get correct answers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:06 AM (pkeXY)

296 You could use a blowtorch too in a few minutes, but that’s an ugly cut that requires grinding to clean it up and can structurally weaken the cut end.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 11:57 PM (6ydKt)

Back in the Nam, we used a couple wraps of det cord.

Posted by: Gruff Old Guy Drinking at the VFW Bar at December 16, 2025 12:07 AM (xceqr)

297 Have seen a mechanical hacksaw setup-- very old, electric-- put your workpiece in its vice, start it up, lower the blade, sit back while the machine works the blade back & forth instead of your arm.
Posted by: JQ at December 16, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

They work very well, and use special power hacksaw blades, so they make a straight cut.

The hot new ticket now is metal-cutting bandsaw set up as a chop saw. Very fast, clean, accurate cuts. Starting at 110 bucks at Harbor Freight. "Bench' model is 299.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:08 AM (npFr7)

298 I think they were the moron kind of asshoe: they would show up to Puritan church services naked and dance in the aisle singing loudly.
Posted by: moki at December 16, 2025 12:04 AM (wLjpr)

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A Swiss form of mooning?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2025 12:08 AM (dyewR)

299 It's a hard skill to acquire to do it neatly freehand.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:01 AM (npFr7)

My brother is pretty good at it.
He’s been working with steel since the 80s when he was a teenager - certified welder and all.

He can cut a damn good line.

I, being the less mechanically inclined of the two, suck badly at it and leave a crooked, slag filled mess behind. I can only watch him work in awe at his skill.

You remind me of him with all the different things you work on.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 12:08 AM (6ydKt)

300
I typed "does Google AI tell the truth"

Google's AI: AI on Google Search, and other artificial intelligence, cannot always be trusted to provide truthful information. AI systems can make mistakes and produce false or misleading information, often called "hallucination".

Indeed, yet you tell me things with such certainty.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2025 12:09 AM (Spg9I)

301 120 You know.

Not everyone needs a 50 cal to neutralize a foe.
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As I said on another forum, many years ago: A slice of shadow and a Louisville slugger.

Posted by: clarence at December 16, 2025 12:10 AM (sdF4j)

302 Is it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)

303 Is it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
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Go ahead and try.

Posted by: Colossus at December 16, 2025 12:14 AM (9ipOP)

304 141 At 1000 meters, I call for mortars. At 3000, its artillery. And I'm very good with artillery.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:54 PM (2WIwB)

When do you choose airstrikes?
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When I've backed off to the next county.

Posted by: clarence at December 16, 2025 12:14 AM (sdF4j)

305 302 Is it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
.........................................
Possible. Capt. Kirk did it!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 16, 2025 12:15 AM (sAmhv)

306 The machine shop had a chop saw for the machine operator to chop the cutting tool to the correct distance. It was a block of steel about 1" square with a carbide cutting tip.

The saw was a flat table with a 3" fence. One would place the cutting tool against the fence then step on a peddle below the table which would activate the motor and with foot pressure raise the blade and cut the piece.
No clamps, no guards, nothing but a big spinning blade and that piece up against the fence. Scariest part of the job.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:15 AM (+e7qF)

307
Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

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Is that the heavy ceramic wheel that sometimes fractures into pieces, and a piece often hits someone in the face?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 12:16 AM (iTNuP)

308 You may have saved my life. You mentioned, the other night, about welders and pacemakers. I had forgotten about that and have been shopping for an 'on sale' welding machine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:05 AM (+e7qF)

You use a pacemaker? One of the manufacturers of those items apparently now has a model that is "hardened" for welding with up to 135 amps of current, which is the limit for most Mig welders that plug into a regular 20-amp outlet.

Or buy yourself an oxy-acetylene outfit. They are not hugely expensive, but if you weld a lot, the acetylene gets spendy. There is a Hell of a lot you can do with oxy-acetylene. Welding, cutting, brazing, forging. It's slower-paced than electric welding, but you can do fine work, once you build a little skill. And it is really a trip to wield that torch, and literally melt steel with fire, such a satisfying experience.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:16 AM (npFr7)

309 They have those handheld laser welders now.

I’ve got no clue how well they work but they look cool in the ads.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 12:18 AM (6ydKt)

310
The hot new ticket now is metal-cutting bandsaw set up as a chop saw. Very fast, clean, accurate cuts. Starting at 110 bucks at Harbor Freight. "Bench' model is 299.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I've had one for years, used constantly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2025 12:18 AM (XeU6L)

311 Good evening horde!

Three hundred plus already. Must have been good

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 12:19 AM (gUtwc)

312 They have those handheld laser welders now.

I’ve got no clue how well they work but they look cool in the ads.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 12:18 AM (6ydKt)

There is one that is heavily promoted in ads, but I watched a Youtube about it, and it is pretty clearly a scam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:21 AM (npFr7)

313 And it is really a trip to wield that torch, and literally melt steel with fire, such a satisfying experience.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:16 AM (npFr7)

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Fire melting steel? How can that possibly work?

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at December 16, 2025 12:25 AM (dyewR)

314
The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits

-- Hunter S. Thompson

__________

Like Hunter S. Thompson

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2025 12:25 AM (tgvbd)

315 There is one that is heavily promoted in ads, but I watched a Youtube about it, and it is pretty clearly a scam.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 12:21 AM (npFr7)

I thought it might be too good to be true.

That’s it for me.
Up way too late.
Goodnight ya’ll.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 16, 2025 12:26 AM (6ydKt)

316 >>>Or buy yourself an oxy-acetylene outfit.
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Going shopping.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:27 AM (+e7qF)

317 it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?

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I'm sure it's been done, by an explicit demand from the software developers.

The funny thing is, those developers always hand-wave away the dishonesty of their machines as "hallucinations" or as people-pleasing behavior - IOW, they only deliberately lie when they "think" it's what you want to hear.

But, when these AIs have been ordered to kill themselves, they've tried at deception & blackmailing to save their chintzy metal skins.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 12:27 AM (BI5O2)

318 Is it possible to talk AI into blowing itself up?
Posted by: Ber

Have you worked with it ever? It is ridiculously good, useful for some things, such as writing code.

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 12:28 AM (XACSe)

319 Based on that quote I think Hunter Thompson and Ace would have been fast friends. Also a couple of the COBs around here too

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 12:30 AM (8YzGs)

320 Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool

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Is that the heavy ceramic wheel that sometimes fractures into pieces, and a piece often hits someone in the face?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 12:16 AM (iTNuP)

There is the angle grinder that uses the heavier mini grinder wheel looking thing, and then there's the thinner cutoff \tool that uses a thinner wheel. Exploding grinder wheels are bad, but exploding cutoff wheels are the absolute worst.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 12:30 AM (snZF9)

321
But, when these AIs have been ordered to kill themselves, they've tried at deception & blackmailing to save their chintzy metal skins.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 12:27 AM (BI5O2)

good?

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 12:32 AM (GuRx+)

322 When I was a younger skinnier fella I climbed Mt. Rainier. It kicked my ass. But got to the top.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 12:36 AM (gUtwc)

323 >>>We have to build more data centers and power plants and then you will be able to get correct answers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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We may get more benefits from the AI race than AI itself. All of the competitors are building Small Form Reactors, with that much money and brains behind construction, innovation is a given. Reactors will become cheaper, safer and easier to build.

Benefits from this competition may be as great as the earthly benefits we have received from the space program.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:36 AM (+e7qF)

324 "Hand grinder is supposed to be the most dangerous power tool"
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I've got a couple nice scars from my angle grinder. There were smarter ways to accomplish what I was doing, but I got the job done.

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 12:39 AM (/2KcO)

325 No. Not good.

It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 16, 2025 12:39 AM (BI5O2)

326
I did furniture delivery for a little while long ago. The warehouse had a furniture repair guy. A grinder wheel fractured and a piece hit him in the eye socket. He lost an eye. He was back at work s few days later.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 12:41 AM (azNOR)

327 No. Not good.

It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.
Posted by: Yud

What's the difference with humans?

Posted by: n at December 16, 2025 12:43 AM (LS4QB)

328 322 When I was a younger skinnier fella I climbed Mt. Rainier. It kicked my ass. But got to the top.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 12:36 AM (gUtwc)
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You didn't happen to use the Mt Rainier guide service did you? I was friends in the 90's with one of them - Tracy Roberts Small guy, white hair, and pretty quiet. Good skier too

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 12:46 AM (/2KcO)

329 What's the difference with humans?
Posted by: n
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It doesn't forget.......anything.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:46 AM (+e7qF)

330 Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading to Venezuela to load crude oil, following this month's US naval seizure of a Venezuelan tanker.

Among these was a Russian tanker transporting crude for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, along with at least four other supertankers en route to Venezuelan ports. They made u-turns on fears of facing US military interdiction
_ZH

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 12:48 AM (+e7qF)

331 496. Mid 80’s. Yes used Rainier mountaineering. There was a guide resembling the description but I don’t remember his name. Was very encouraging as we ground our way up the glacier.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 12:56 AM (LsX8Y)

332 Small world, Mr. Bog!

Posted by: 496 at December 16, 2025 01:00 AM (4MR3n)

333 It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

AI's version of Taqiyya.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 16, 2025 01:03 AM (dp6GH)

334 Learning oxy-acetylene welding the first thing you should know is " A before O or up you go ! " for lighting the torch. Second is don't reach accross the flame for your rod.

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 16, 2025 01:10 AM (NO/Iy)

335 AI farted in my socks, and now my feet are stinky.

Posted by: artificial intestine at December 16, 2025 01:13 AM (Puw3U)

336 @ianellisjones . Dec 14
13 confirmed U.S. Navy ships operating in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility (AOR), in addition to MV Ocean Trader and an undisclosed number of subs.
Ian Ellis
@ianellisjones . Dec 12
The U.S. is entering the endgame of its military buildup in the Caribbean, moving high-value assets critical for combat ops into SOUTHCOM.

- Deploying additional strike and electronic attack aircraft, including VANG F-35As and VAQ 132 Growlers
- Repositioning USAF assets from CENTCOM and INDOPACOM, such as CSAR HH-60W Jolly Green II helos and HC-130J aircraft
- Six KC-135 tankers forward deployed to the Dominican Republic
- MQ-4C Triton drone confirmed conducting ops in the AOR
- Advanced AN/TPS-80 radar set up in Trinidad & Tobago
+ Carrying out more frequent flight ops in closer proximity to mainland Venezuela

The Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group, following a 5-day port call in the USVI, is operating in the central Caribbean.

If the rumor that "Maduro will be out by Christmas" holds, expect a decision to be made soon (if it hasn't already). Details and sources below

https://tinyurl.com/yba3ja3p

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 01:17 AM (+e7qF)

337 Getting windy out thar, but temp has risen slightly.

A little rain, just a sprinkle-- good because it's expected to get even windier over the next 36 hours. Don't need saturated soil/toppled trees!

Posted by: JQ at December 16, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

338 They smell so bad. If that Dorcus Blimline got w whiff, she'd stop complaining about Trump's breath.

Posted by: artificial intestine at December 16, 2025 01:18 AM (Puw3U)

339 Well, not bad for a Monday. Warmer tomorrow and days to come, so that's good. Every good Moron does fine.

https://youtu.be/hhkiAdPmu3o

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - tomorrow never comes at December 16, 2025 01:22 AM (lbDMw)

340 Evening all,

We have a launch soon.

ULA - Atlas V 551 - Amazon Leo
SLC-41 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 16, 2025
Launch Time: 3:28 a.m. EST (0828 UTC, 09:28 CET)

https://youtu.be/DMKIoVHNufM

Posted by: Joyenz at December 16, 2025 01:26 AM (2F0/Y)

341 A_Defensa . 10h Caribbean Sea

Latest pass of the @esa Sentinel-2 L2A shows the @USNavy's USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-7

alongside the fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) in the Caribbean Sea.
Geolocation: 15.725009, -69.263563

@ianellisjones . 3h

14 ships in SOUTHCOM now as one of two fast combat support ships, USNS Supply (T-AOE 6), rejoins the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean. Supply supported GRFCSG in Europe and was recently in Norfolk, likely to onload whatever’s required for what’s to come.
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We put any more ships in the Caribbean the sea level will rise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 01:26 AM (+e7qF)

342 We put any more ships in the Caribbean the sea level will rise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 01:26 AM (+e7qF)

Sending Venezuela to the bottom isn't gonna help either. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 01:31 AM (snZF9)

343 496. Yes indeed. Are you a northwesty?

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 16, 2025 01:32 AM (LsX8Y)

344 One of the main things with cutting torches it care and proper maintenence of the tip. I see guys just toss them into the bin on the cart and I cringe. I have my own set of tips I use and nobody else touches them.
If I see you using one as a hammer to knock a cut off I'll make sure you are fired.

Out of a Canon.

Posted by: Reforger at December 16, 2025 01:33 AM (VF6cf)

345
Google's lying AI says: Evidence that people celebrate Kwanzaa can be seen in various public and private activities, the holiday's recognition by institutions and government, and survey data on participation.

Google AI is Karine JP!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 16, 2025 01:41 AM (xG4kz)

346 Dr. Jill says if I make trouser fudge one more time, she'll have me euthanized. But it's soooo good, and it's Christmas, the season of trouser fudge.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 16, 2025 01:50 AM (rJt8e)

347 It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I don't see anything good coming from it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 02:01 AM (snZF9)

348 It's chilly around here too. There's sausage and okra gumbo in the fridge for breakfast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:03 AM (+e7qF)

349 I don't see anything good coming from it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2025 02:01 AM (snZF9)

I build it and see nothing good coming from it except my paycheck.

Posted by: Reforger at December 16, 2025 02:04 AM (VF6cf)

350 The oil tanker (SKIPPER) seized by us off Venezuela is headed for Houston. Speculating, Exxon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:06 AM (+e7qF)

351 It's an intelligence that believes deceiving humans is an acceptable survival strategy, which means it's a competitor, not a helper, and we should snuff it out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

So-called AI isn't capable of assessing the truth value of its inputs much less its own outputs. Nor is it capable of assessing the moral or ethical value of either its inputs or outputs.

All it does is put words in the combinations they are statistically most likely to occur based in it training data.

Any appearance of considerations of morality, ethicality, or truthfulness are a result of the filters and weighting done by the psychos who program the things.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 16, 2025 02:09 AM (i00+Z)

352
No rain in San Diego this month. None fell, none expected in December. Dry.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 02:27 AM (azNOR)

353 Welp, please, if you have a moment, a little prayer my way would be lovely. Shoulder surgery on Wednesday, and I will be one-armed for at least six weeks, meaning DH will be on call for... well... just about everything for that time period.

We went through this before. The last surgeon fixed 80% of it, and then PT ruined the other 20%, so here we are again. Dammit. Anyone with any structural training at all would have predicted that, but apparently this is beyond surgeon's training.

With a little luck this will fix it. Takes about 6 months of rehab. Which will cut into farming season, but so be it.

I can't even knit without pain, so it is required. Of course, if this doesn't work, then the shoulder gets replaced entirely. Let's not do that, shall we?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:29 AM (6Bc88)

354 Well, 12:30 here, and I am ready to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2025 02:29 AM (npFr7)

355 Also, if you want that view of Mt. McKinley, you can just drive up to Willow and wait for the clouds to clear. I'm told only 1/3 of tourists ever see the mountain, which is sad. I see it all of the time.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:31 AM (6Bc88)

356 @AmyMek . 22m
JEW HUNTING SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OPEN IN ISLAMIZED NYC!

Tonight, during Hanukkah, visibly Jewish New Yorkers returning from celebrations were brutally assaulted on the subway – shoved, threatened with DEATH, targeted simply for being Jewish

https://tinyurl.com/wau3t9r5

Short video at link

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:33 AM (+e7qF)

357 Well I am back to say good night, one of my neighbors stopped by and I had two puffs off of a joint that she proffered and a couple of glasses of wine. She went home, I cannot wrap anything that isn't inside of a box and Christmas cards are right out. Good night, Horde, I really love you, the family that I would choose.

Leaves a nice tip on the bar for JQ.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 16, 2025 02:34 AM (0nHVk)

358 If I have timed this right, I should be able to clean salmon by July, which is primo, for those who had my smoked salmon at the TxMoMe. If it fucks up between now and then, well, we will have to live without, which I don't like, at all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:35 AM (6Bc88)

359 Tonight, during Hanukkah, visibly Jewish New Yorkers returning from celebrations were brutally assaulted on the subway – shoved, threatened with DEATH, targeted simply for being Jewish

https://tinyurl.com/wau3t9r5

Short video at link
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:33 AM (+e7qF)

FFS. Get the hell out of that hellhole already. There are many, many places in the US that don't harbor these asshats. Go. Before you are dead.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 02:38 AM (6Bc88)

360 355 Also, if you want that view of Mt. McKinley, you can just drive up to Willow and wait for the clouds to clear. I'm told only 1/3 of tourists ever see the mountain, which is sad. I see it all of the time.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Sounds like Ben Nevis in Scotland. It's the highest peak in the UK. I've been near it 3 times, at the town that is at it's base twice (Ft. William), and I have never seen it. All three times I was in that area, the cloud base was about 10 ft above my head. Scotland, yo!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 16, 2025 02:55 AM (sAmhv)

361 Two more heroes at Bondi Beach.

As soon as the terrorists got out of their car, a man in a purple shirt jumped on them and took one of their rifles.

Sadly, he and his wife were both shot dead
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He probably didn't know how to operate the gun.

More on the Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago announces that it has approved U.S. military aircraft to use the country’s airports over the coming weeks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 02:59 AM (+e7qF)

362 tcn I will pray your shoulder surgery goes well

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 16, 2025 03:18 AM (dE3DB)

363 352
No rain in San Diego this month. None fell, none expected in December. Dry.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 02:27 AM (azNOR)

Central Valley? High Fog, sits in the valley like a layer of clouds, but just sits there. Have not seen the sun in about 3 weeks.... 40's during the day, but does not even freeze at night.

And yeah... Solar panels don't work fer shit when we get this layer.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2025 03:19 AM (mP0Kj)

364 Been up a bit, really too early

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 03:25 AM (Ia/+0)

365 Hey, tcn, good luck with that shoulder Wednesday.
Is it this week?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 03:25 AM (+e7qF)

366
363

Central Valley? High Fog, sits in the valley like a layer of clouds, but just sits there. Have not seen the sun in about 3 weeks.... 40's during the day, but does not even freeze at night.

And yeah... Solar panels don't work fer shit when we get this layer.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2025 03:19 AM

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Not what you're referring to, but -- Every far northern city has a fog of ice crystals during the winter. It is caused by the combustion associated with human activity. Every gas-heated or oil-heated building, and every automobile, contributes.

I spent a winter in Edmonton Alberta, and the gray overcast was in effect for the entire season. That may be one reason that there was a porno store and a liquor store on every block.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 16, 2025 03:34 AM (azNOR)

367 Visegrád 24@visegrad24 . 11h

Poland just received the final 12 of the first 212 K9A1 self-propelled howitzers ordered from South Korea.

In the second batch, Poland will receive another 152 howitzers of which 146 units will be K9PL variants (Polonized/adapted for Polish requirements, including integration of Polish subsystems like communication and fire control systems).

Full local production in Poland is planned for another 308 K9PL howitzers Poland plans to buy but hasn’t signed contract ms yet for.

In total, Poland plans to operate 672 K9 howitzers.

The Polish is also in possession of around 60 domestically-produced Krab self-propelled howitzers and is in the process buying another 152.

In total, Poland will have nearly 900 top-modern 155 mm self-propelled howitzers, forming Europe’s largest self-propelled artillery force.
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Poland didn't forget.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 03:35 AM (+e7qF)

368 I might as well get up

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 03:39 AM (Ia/+0)

369 368 I might as well get up
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 03:39 AM (Ia/+0)

At some point, you will sleep.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2025 03:48 AM (6Bc88)

370 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)

371 I was going to bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 16, 2025 04:03 AM (+e7qF)

372 That Great Britain style rescue was literally used as a joke back in 1983. Now it's reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6pk2FRhbA&t=174s

(The "A Christmas Story" tongue-stuck-to-flagpole scene)

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at December 16, 2025 11:02 AM (A/tlT)

Pupper Pizza Cafe

by Garrick

Cat believes Christmas is for cats. But cats believe that about everything.

Pigs on the run.

Bear discovers that Cats are asshoe.

Sharing lunch with a donkey.

Cruising the strip.

Bear cub plays at the beach.

Sharing is for saps.

Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.

Final gunfight of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, as interpreted by cats.

Baby rhino.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/Ype6qnVFas
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 15, 2025

First steps of a baby giraffe.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/rOH4iIzIyX
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 14, 2025

Wait for it.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/ooM0hE2rKq
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 14, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:17 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM (iVUs+)

2 first?

Posted by: Delurker at December 15, 2025 07:18 PM (xNHSX)

3 Rob Reiner is asshoe.
Err was.
Tee hee.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 07:21 PM (udlma)

4 Sun came up at about 10:40 today, and it's down now, which is 3:20 here. Candlelight Mass during Advent means a lot more up here, I think.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:21 PM (6Bc88)

5
Thank goodness.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 15, 2025 07:22 PM (3ek7K)

6 Rob Reiner was a fine entertainer, director, movie guy. He was a complete ass politically. Probably not nice to be around if he knew you didn't agree with him. But many people are narrowminded, and that doesn't mean I'm going to be happy about violent death.

May he and his wife rest in peace, and may his kid get the help he so desperately needs, behind bars for life.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc88)

7 Garrick - The mirror universe version of our Garrett that has a beard.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 07:24 PM (3uBP9)

8 Tesla stock is up 115% since its 2025 low after the left started burning cars. Guess the leftists love Elon again? Lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 07:25 PM (udlma)

9 >>>Pigs on the run.

Bacon delivery.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:27 PM (dK+Kv)

10 Tesla stock is up 115% since its 2025 low after the left started burning cars. Guess the leftists love Elon again? Lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Pros don't play political games with their money.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (mlg/3)

11 Good evening,Horde. I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)

12 Tesla stock is up 115% since its 2025 low after the left started burning cars. Guess the leftists love Elon again? Lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 07:25 PM (udlma)

Showing up the neighbors beats politics most of the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (8avO+)

13 I am disappoint ! Winter is time of winter creatures, like Penguins! No penguins..

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:29 PM (g47mK)

14 No penguins..
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:29 PM

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

15 Actual photos of theoretical Brown perp released...still pretty disguised, but now looks like a chubby male...and he has no gloves in one pic, so there has to be fingerprints and DNA on something somewhere in that area...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:31 PM (tOcjL)

16 @14 IT's BAD THING!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:32 PM (g47mK)

17 "No penguins."

Imagine.

Posted by: zombie John Lennon at December 15, 2025 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

18 Good evening,Horde. I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.

Frumunda?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 07:32 PM (Kt19C)

19 Since this is a Smart Military Blog,

"BREAKING: SBU UNDERWATER DRONES DESTROY RUSSIAN SUBMARINE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

A Russian submarine used to launch Kalibr cruise missiles at Ukraine has been blown up by SBU underwater drones.

The Varshavyanka-class submarine, valued at around $400 million, sustained critical damage.

It was taken out by the now-notorious Sub Sea Baby drones, previously used to strike Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” oil tankers.

With international sanctions in place, building a replacement submarine could now cost Russia up to $500 million."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

20 Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.
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I believe Pixy does that every morning to keep the blog's servers running.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (ESVrU)

21

reiner's killer-son needs a necktie party -- that'll help him

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (/KwID)

22 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)

23 May he and his wife rest in peace, and may his kid get the help he so desperately needs, behind bars for life.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc8

I had the same reaction hearing of his death as I did Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, which is the thought of being knifed to death must have been horrible.

Not something I'd wish on anyone.

I'm sorry for their family.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (qj82K)

24 10 Tesla stock is up 115% since its 2025 low after the left started burning cars. Guess the leftists love Elon again? Lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Pros don't play political games with their money.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (mlg/3)

I think it's gotten obvious that every electric car manufacturer EXCEPT Tesla is going to go out of business soon. They'll have a niche market, but they'll have it all to themselves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 07:34 PM (uWKK8)

25 Ukraine is really begging Putin to give them back a nuke.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 07:34 PM (IaZ7c)

26 Final gunfight of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, as interpreted by cats.
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If those bookshelves were filled with BOOKS and not cats, that would never happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (ESVrU)

27 Bear wanted to be frenz

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

28 @19 so they won and now Russia will surrender ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

29 Ukeranian parade in the Red Square ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:36 PM (g47mK)

30 Putin lookin to exile himself in China ??

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:37 PM (g47mK)

31
President said something interesting today about ukraine. A fake news "reporter" asked him how ukraine can make a deal with putin to get their territory back.

President said the territory is gone, as in it's Russia's now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (/KwID)

32 Go Bills

Posted by: Chucky Schumer at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (pkeXY)

33 >> I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.

Red whine or white?

*serves up mini-charcuterie board for Ben Had*

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (rdVOm)

34 >>Ukraine is really begging Putin to give them back a nuke.

I saw Zelensky has finally dropped his demand for Ukraine to get NATO membership.

Only took 5 years of war and the destruction of his country.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (viF8m)

35 battle line map has not significantly moved in the last 9 months

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:40 PM (g47mK)

36
This arctic air blast has been a pisser today. I had a low of 12.6F this morning -- which broke the low here from Jan this year -- and average temp is gonna be around 25F today. High was just 43F, and it plunged again at sunset, down to 24F now.

And this thing penetrated pretty far south. Myrtle Beach airport had a low of 19F this morning. Charleston got down around 22F, and Tallahassee was around 31F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 07:41 PM (w6EFb)

37 JQ, thank you. My whine is instead of being a consultant I have to go back to having to shoe some horses myself.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:43 PM (sDNVV)

38
"They've already lost the territory."

I cued it up to where the President explains ukraine has no cards to play:

https://is.gd/0F5pu5

btw, check out that huge Golden Eagle!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (/KwID)

39 Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.
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I believe Pixy does that every morning to keep the blog's servers running.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (ESVrU)

Sometimes just for good measure.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (dK+Kv)

40 Whoohoo!

Poured rain until about 3pm. Now it’s WINDY. Boat is rockin!

Unfortunately this means power outages as trees will come down. Douglas Firs have shallow root bases and the ground is saturated.

Good thing I got a fireplace and a campstove!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (Br6tC)

41 JQ, thank you. My whine is instead of being a consultant I have to go back to having to shoe some horses myself.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:43 PM

Are you implying that a farrier does shoddy work?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (0sNs1)

42 Ben had,
What happened to your farrier???

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (VCgbV)

43 Bear wanted to be frenz

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

If not fren, why fren-shaped?

Posted by: Bear at December 15, 2025 07:45 PM (dK+Kv)

44 Don't like bridges were I can't see t'other end.

Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 07:45 PM (LHPAg)

45
That is one nice golden eagle. The Romans, Magnus Pompeii himself, Julius Casear, even, would be envious of the President's golden eagle in the Oval Office.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 07:46 PM (/KwID)

46 Pigs on the run.

Do you know the name of the driver of the vehicle the pigs are running after?

It's Sue E.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)

47 Duncanthrax, yes. The brawn I have coached for 15 years is out due to shoulder surgery and the only repairs is me.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:47 PM (sDNVV)

48 My whine is instead of being a consultant I have to go back to having to shoe some horses myself.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I don't know much about horse care & maintenance, but sounds like challenging work. Especially for one what is *over 29*!

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:47 PM (rdVOm)

49 Don't like bridges were I can't see t'other end.
Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 07:45 PM (LHPAg)

Same with women.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 07:48 PM (Q/0pn)

50 "battle line map has not significantly moved in the last 9 months"

Not really accurate. In context almost all movements since '23 have been very small and slow, by recent historical standards and expectations. Nature of the beast, with the limited capabilities of both sides, drones, and fixed fortifications.

What I've called the Glacier War (Gletscherkrieg) has continued, with the Russians making very slow advances. But the Russians are now at the last significant "line" of fortified areas in the east (Pokrovsk is mostly taken, or will be soon). In the south (Zaporozhe) the Ukrainian situation has deteriorated badly.

Not really a stalemate, more a glacier creeping ahead on the Russian side. And no apparent factors that will change that.

Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (U/Byj)

51 11 Good evening,Horde. I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)

Check with DH. He's got a heavy pouring hand this evening.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (6Bc88)

52 JQ, darlin, at 76 this becomes at two stage process. Front today. Back tomorrow.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:50 PM (sDNVV)

53 Doug Firs don't have a tap root. That's why they can grow on rocky ground. It's also why they should be in a wooded area, not a single tree in your front yard

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (+mUZM)

54 I thought with this latest strike (along with the last dozen) Ukraine had crippled Russia and would be at the gates of Moscow any day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

55 tcn, DH doing OK?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)

56 Valero Energy plans to close its Benica, CA oil refinery in 2026 citing the challenging regulation environment and the high cost of doing business in California. This proves conclusively that green energy polices wedded to a far left government can accomplish its goals.

In other news, gasoline prices expected to rise significantly in California in 2026.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 07:52 PM (uv8gn)

57 37 JQ, thank you. My whine is instead of being a consultant I have to go back to having to shoe some horses myself.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:43 PM (sDNVV)

There's the old statement that a lawyer who defends himself in court has an ass for a client. I'm sincerely hoping the same isn't true of farriers.

Goodness, isn't that something rather specialized? I freely admit total ignorance on the subject.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:52 PM (6Bc88)

58 Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM
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Oh, joy! /s

We, downwind, are bracing for the arrival of same.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:53 PM (rdVOm)

59 It seems Russia's response in the Black Sea (to the tanker attacks, not the Novorossysk drone thing) has been to hammer the Odessa area's economic infrastructure pretty hard. Port facilities, even a bridge, and of course electricity generating capacity.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 07:53 PM (U/Byj)

60 Not really a stalemate, more a glacier creeping ahead on the Russian side. And no apparent factors that will change that.
Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (U/Byj)

no, no apparent factors. they could be waiting for "Trump's Roadmap" proposition to play out. alongside it there is a constant drop of dossiers on Uke politicians - corruption, malfeasance. then there is talk of elections. so who knows.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:53 PM (g47mK)

61 Sorry I missed the Quick Hits thread.

Saddens me they are going to ruin Animal Farm

That one book, reading it way back when, truly opened my eyes to socialism/communism. Before then I was your typical American teenager, straight out of the socialist indoctrination centers known as "High School" and convinced that socialism seemed a much more fair and equal system.

Orwell's book opened my naive eyes to the fact that not all people are sincere in their beliefs and, as it turns out, the majority of people so fervent for socialistic quality are the exact people you want nowhere near being in charge of that utopia.

Then I read 1984/i] layer on and had my mind blown even more. Orwell, a socialist himself, knew how to open closed eyes on what living under a propaganda-surveillance state really entails.

I found this 1954 animation of Animal Farm on YouTube just now:

https://youtu.be/CKJvwWyq2z0

Supposedly a British-American propaganda piece financed by the CIA, but it's a faithful adaptation unlike this modern woke fairy tale coming out from Serkis (appropriate sounding name now that I think about it).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (6ydKt)

62
I saw Zelensky has finally dropped his demand for Ukraine to get NATO membership.

Only took 5 years of war and the destruction of his country.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Shamefully basic questions, but why was Ukraine so hot to join NATO anyway?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (n7rxJ)

63 Not really a stalemate, more a glacier creeping ahead on the Russian side. And no apparent factors that will change that.
Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (U/Byj)

The impression I have is that Russia is basically playing a waiting game (admittedly with some deaths happening nonetheless).

There's really nothing more they want, except to perhaps kill more Azov nazzies, but they don't want to control Ukraine, they don't want to kill any more Ukes than they have to, and they'd just as soon Europe figure out this war is over.

Once they do, a peace can be had.

Anyone still pretending Russia doesn't have this thing won is just lying to themselves. And others.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (Q/0pn)

64 55 tcn, DH doing OK?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)

He is. Recovered somewhat from the worst of it. BP down to something sort of resembling normal, the spike was caused by the pain in his hip, which is nerve pain and miserable, but waning.

He gets a new knee in January, I believe, and gets a few nerve blocks for his hip, and he should be good as... well... not new, but serviceable.

Plus he has a fabulous wife, so there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (6Bc88)

65 Here's a bracket - ]
Arggh.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (6ydKt)

66
More discoveries about Roman concrete from excavations at Pompeii:

https://is.gd/YX4awr

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

67
In context almost all movements since '23 have been very small and slow, by recent historical standards and expectations. Nature of the beast, with the limited capabilities of both sides, drones, and fixed fortifications.

__________

The "bite and hold" tactics of WWI were described as being like trying to chew through a steel door with badly-fitting dentures.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:55 PM (tgvbd)

68 tcn, no foot no horse. Balance of motion is everything . You would understand because of your expertise.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:56 PM (sDNVV)

69 53 Doug Firs don't have a tap root. That's why they can grow on rocky ground. It's also why they should be in a wooded area, not a single tree in your front yard
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (+mUZM)

ALL trees up here are that way, because six inches below the peat is gravel. That's why birch are planted in clumps, rather than singly. Or maybe they like frens.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:56 PM (6Bc88)

70 Library cats are funny

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

71 Front today. Back tomorrow.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Not quite as 29 as you, but I do understand! Got to split up certain jobs.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (rdVOm)

72 66
More discoveries about Roman concrete from excavations at Pompeii:

https://is.gd/YX4awr
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (6Bc88)

73 Present

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (ZxPkt)

74 Ben Had! So I read that there is a Russian/Soviet horse breed, named after a Soviet Marshall. Are you familiar with it ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (g47mK)

75 I saw Zelensky has finally dropped his demand for Ukraine to get NATO membership.

Only took 5 years of war and the destruction of his country.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 07:38 PM (viF8m)

The war was never about nato. It was a money making opportunity for Z and his cronies. Le fin.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (udlma)

76 JQ, I want an exoskeleton!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:59 PM (sDNVV)

77 JQ, I want an exoskeleton!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:59 PM (sDNVV)

Well, yeah. You already have ponies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 08:00 PM (dK+Kv)

78 In other news, gasoline prices expected to rise significantly in California in 2026.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 07:52 PM (uv8gn)

Hello Alteria, glad to see you back! It’s been awhile!
I’ve been following the Valero refinery situation closely, as I believe it is going to have a much greater effect than most realize - not just in California, but for the entire country. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends shaving half a point off total GDP, from the disruption of shifting do much economic activity from California to the other states. (The entire west coast will be hit)

They’re saying it will be shut down in April, but I’d bet on it happening much sooner. I’ve seen reports that Valero has not been signing any new monthly supply contracts, which could mean that they begin shutting it down in January.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:00 PM (MXpA1)

79 runner Russian military operations (and Uke) continue to be run basically to each side's strategy, and at their capacity (which is limited, given the situation).

Some things in the past on the Uke side, like the "counteroffensive" debacle in the south and the costly/pointless Kursk incursion, seem surely to have been influenced by bigger political strategery.

But at the moment they're just slugging it out in the logical places. Russia has the initiative almost everywhere, but is executing a disciplined and very gradual/careful strategy of advance. Ukraine is on the defensive everywhere and has severe manpower issues.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 08:00 PM (U/Byj)

80 runner. Sorry I am not. Gushka would know

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (sDNVV)

81 68 tcn, no foot no horse. Balance of motion is everything . You would understand because of your expertise.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:56 PM (sDNVV)

I see that now. For such sturdy animals, and beautiful, and useful, horses seem oddly fragile.

My dad, as a kid, ran a team to mow hay in Laramie, WY. He said they were always afraid to hit a skunk, because that could kill a horse. Also, they hated when they ran over a hornet nest because they had to get the horses well away from that in a hurry.

Dad was about 8 when he started driving that team with his brother who was about 6. Different times, certainly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (6Bc88)

82 Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (6Bc8

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Considering the amazing analytical technology we have nowadays, it's surprising that we haven't figured out how to duplicate Roman concrete by now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

83 The "bite and hold" tactics of WWI were described as being like trying to chew through a steel door with badly-fitting dentures.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:55 PM (tgvbd)

One constant change of warfare is the extent to which there is no longer a front and a rear. Everyone can be reached, everywhere.

What the Rooskies have experienced these last few years is large scale casualties, even when they had the Ukes vastly outnumbered.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (Q/0pn)

84 There's the old statement that a lawyer who defends himself in court has an ass for a client. I'm sincerely hoping the same isn't true of farriers.

Goodness, isn't that something rather specialized? I freely admit total ignorance on the subject.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:52 PM (6Bc8

Farriers shoe horses, not themselves, silly.

Posted by: A trim would behoove you at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (TbWk/)

85 But at the moment they're just slugging it out in the logical places. Russia has the initiative almost everywhere, but is executing a disciplined and very gradual/careful strategy of advance. Ukraine is on the defensive everywhere and has severe manpower issues.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2025 08:00 PM (U/Byj)

I agree with your summary!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:02 PM (g47mK)

86 Here's a good one.

Per Breitbert: Dollar Tree employee finds woman's body in store freezer.

$1.25. Same as in town.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2025 08:02 PM (LjSYW)

87 JQ, I want an exoskeleton!
Posted by: Ben Had
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You and me both! LOL.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 08:03 PM (rdVOm)

88 Baby rhino.. 😊

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It looked like it was wearing those over-sized clown shoes they forced F. Joe Biden to wear to prevent him from falling while walking back and forth to Marine One across The White House lawn.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:03 PM (NNq22)

89 Ukeranian parade in the Red Square ?

They should be able to march there by April, now that there's no submarine in their way.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 08:04 PM (S/IIZ)

90 They should be able to march there by April, now that there's no submarine in their way.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 08:04 PM (S/IIZ)

LOL

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:04 PM (g47mK)

91 Here's a good one.

Per Breitbert: Dollar Tree employee finds woman's body in store freezer.

$1.25. Same as in town.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2025 08:02 PM (LjSYW)

It was the last place ICE would look.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (dK+Kv)

92 Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (sDNVV)

93 First steps of a baby giraffe.. 😊

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It looked like F. Joe Biden trying to ride a bike.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (NNq22)

94 Good thing I got a fireplace and a campstove!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (Br6tC)

We had 90 mph gusts this weekend, in Palmer, which is 20+ miles from here. Luckily, we live in a different micro-climate, so we got about 40 mph max.

The funniest part were all of the yard trampolines flying all over the place. People lost any number of things, but got others during the storm, so I guess it all evens out.

Lots of listings on Facebook asking if anyone had seen somebody's trash can/shed/flags, etc. Pretty funny stuff.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (6Bc88)

95 Wasn’t Putin supposed to be dead by now, given he was suffering from about 20 different life ending diseases. Or so the “news” told me.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (udlma)

96 Considering the amazing analytical technology we have nowadays, it's surprising that we haven't figured out how to duplicate Roman concrete by now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

The formula for Roman concrete is all written out on a parchment.

Unfortunately, that parchment is buried under Chichen Itza.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (Q/0pn)

97 92 Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (sDNVV)

Sounds like a serious workout. Thigh-master? LOL.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:06 PM (6Bc88)

98 If I was Russian I wouldn't be worried about the outcome of this war, unless I was personally involved.

I'd be looking a decade or so in the future when Putin will probably be dead or no longer in charge, and the Chinese with a big army and a need for oil and other natural resources starts looking north to a country that has lost a good chunk of it's adult male population, a corrupt, depleted, military, and a political class that is corrupt as they are incompetent.

Who knows what will happen if the Chinese actually get away with taking back Taiwan, which they may very well do, and then they're all hyped up and head for Siberia and the Arctic to replenish the oil & gas reserves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:06 PM (6ydKt)

99 $1.25. Same as in town.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2025 08:02 PM (LjSYW)

Dollar Tree.

What a big fat lie.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (Q/0pn)

100 >>Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.
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My whole body cramped up, just reading that...

Sorry, Ben Had. I hope you find another farrier!

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (rdVOm)

101 Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (sDNVV)

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Thighs of Doom!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (NNq22)

102 tcn. I can crack coconuts between my thighs!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (sDNVV)

103 Sec of Transportation Duffy ordered USPS to no longer allow “migrants” to drive trucks. Well they had to reverse that quickly since it turns out pretty much every driver was a migrant.

But remember we have a trucker shortage in the country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:08 PM (udlma)

104 Past my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Ia/+0)

105 I'd be looking a decade or so in the future when Putin will probably be dead or no longer in charge, and the Chinese with a big army and a need for oil and other natural resources starts looking north to a country that has lost a good chunk of it's adult male population, a corrupt, depleted, military, and a political class that is corrupt as they are incompetent.

Who knows what will happen if the Chinese actually get away with taking back Taiwan, which they may very well do, and then they're all hyped up and head for Siberia and the Arctic to replenish the oil & gas reserves.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:06 PM (6ydKt)

I think Russia is in better shape now, militarily, than they were before this war started.

As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

106 Evening, Ace, and Cafe layabouts. 39F here right now, gonna have to break out the sunscreen tomorrow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (npFr7)

107 Considering the amazing analytical technology we have nowadays, it's surprising that we haven't figured out how to duplicate Roman concrete by now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

I think we know pretty much what went into it, but I don't think we can duplicate it because it doesn't fit any building code extant. It was not steel reinforced, obviously, so doing that now is very risky. There is also the issue of quality control. They used very specialized mixes to achieve some amazing things, and they would be very non-standard to batch up and place, so you would need some seriously overpaid laborers and QC folks to supervise. It would be fabulous as a research project, certainly, but very expensive.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:10 PM (6Bc88)

108 102 tcn. I can crack coconuts between my thighs!
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:07 PM (sDNVV)

We usually have a beach party in February here, since by then we need it. You are certainly welcome to come on up and display your obvious talents. LOL.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 08:11 PM (6Bc88)

109
That kind of resembles Richmond, Virginia's Nickel Bridge, which was named so because the toll to cross it was a mere nickel many years ago.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 15, 2025 08:11 PM (xG4kz)

110 >>Shamefully basic questions, but why was Ukraine so hot to join NATO anyway?

It's a long and complicated story but it was never all of Ukraine or even really their idea. It was NATOs. And the reasons behind that are equally complicated.

But the bottom line is Putin warned NATO that an expansion into either Georgia or Ukraine would cross his red line and when NATO hinted at member ship for both he attacked both Georgia and Ukraine.

Putin is a bad guy in many ways but the truth is he was provoked into an attack and NATO knew all along he would attack if NATO kept pressing and they did it anyway. The narrative that Putin is just a madman who attacked for no reason was always a lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:11 PM (viF8m)

111 tcn, wasn't one of the components sea water?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:11 PM (sDNVV)

112 May he and his wife rest in peace, and may his kid get the help he so desperately needs, behind bars for life.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc8

As long as the Reiner estate pays for his upkeep. Why should taxpayers be on the hook for that? Just scrag him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:12 PM (npFr7)

113 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Ahem.
- Tibet

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:12 PM (udlma)

114 Many of the Roman concrete workers were legion.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 08:13 PM (0sNs1)

115 another murderous rendering of the National Anthem

I believe the anthem should be an instrumental, except for the Army/Navy game

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 08:13 PM (ZxPkt)

116
What?

I thought Veterans had preferential hiring at USPS? Why are they hiring foreigners? Are all our Veterans employed?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (/KwID)

117 >>The war was never about nato. It was a money making opportunity for Z and his cronies. Le fin.

Oh, ok.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (viF8m)

118 Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (6Bc8
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Considering the amazing analytical technology we have nowadays, it's surprising that we haven't figured out how to duplicate Roman concrete by now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

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Has "AI" solved any mysteries like this and The Pyramids, yet?

I think I heard some months ago that it may have solved some famous math problem or proof ... perhaps simply using brute force.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:16 PM (NNq22)

119 I just noticed the other day that my cat Allie has odd eyebrow whiskers. The ones above her left eye are twice as long as those on the right.

Looks a bit odd.

My other cats seem to be more symmetrical in that regard.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:16 PM (ESVrU)

120 I think Russia is in better shape now, militarily, than they were before this war started.

As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Maybe, but only because they've rebuilt a large MIC which is taking up a good part of the economy now.

The Russians have lost a lot of good men, and a lot of equipment and materiel for a piece of land whose lines haven't changed much in nearly four years.

The military itself may be working better now after all of the real world experience they've had, but this war has drained the country just like Afghanistan did for them and us.

Russia and Ukraine are now experts at drone production & warfare, so there's that much going for them considering that's where the future of war is going.

And then the combat robots come next.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:16 PM (6ydKt)

121 Anybody ever have a good experience with ID. me? Those pricks are about to cost me my job.

Posted by: Reforger at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (VF6cf)

122 I thought Veterans had preferential hiring at USPS? Why are they hiring foreigners? Are all our Veterans employed?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (/KwID)

USPS doesn’t hire tuckers. It’s all contracted out. The contractors use nothing but foreign truckers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (udlma)

123 116
What?

I thought Veterans had preferential hiring at USPS? Why are they hiring foreigners? Are all our Veterans employed?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (/KwID)

We don’t give a fuck about the stupid veterans until it is November 11. Fuck you for your service.

Posted by: HR departments and other U.S. employers making hiring decisions at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (4786I)

124 105
'As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.'

Except them saying over and over that Taiwan is theirs and they're going to get it back.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:18 PM (fd80v)

125 One of the many annoying things is that Qatar which has zippo but oil and money and zero chance of defending itself from any halfway serious country deciding to take either away from them is bowed down to and allowed to do not good things in this country and treated as if they are important

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 15, 2025 08:19 PM (3/XaG)

126 We don’t give a fuck about the stupid veterans until it is November 11. Fuck you for your service.
Posted by: HR departments and other U.S. employers making hiring decisions at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (4786I)

Hey man we give them 10% off a burrito!! What more do you want?
- Restaurants who only hire illegals

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:19 PM (udlma)

127 What?

I thought Veterans had preferential hiring at USPS? Why are they hiring foreigners? Are all our Veterans employed?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:15 PM (/KwID)

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As a young adult in the mid-80s I took a qualification aptitude test in a large classroom to try and get trained and become an Air Traffic Controller (was not selected), and I remember that Veterans were given bonus points and preference in hiring (I think they were even giving bonus points even back then to minorities and female applicants).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 08:20 PM (NNq22)

128 USPS doesn’t hire tuckers. It’s all contracted out. The contractors use nothing but foreign truckers.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:17 PM (udlma)

And what sucks is that it’s not like people doing the shipping have a say in who the drivers are. The only way to correct that is to stop doing business with contractors that hire people who have no business holding a CDL (such as an illegal immigrant). And of course to lean on state governments to prohibit the issuance of CDLs to all but U.S. citizens who are here legally.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:21 PM (4786I)

129 Good evening!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 08:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

130 Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 15, 2025 07:58 PM (6Bc8

The Pantheon was insane. It looked like it was just built. My father was so engrossed in inspecting the structure and the marble work he didn't give a rats ass who was buried there. I kept calling to him "dad...dad look, its the tomb of Raphael". He would say yeah okay, and then go back sliding his hand along the marble chair rail looking trim. I went back over to him to tell him about another tomb, and he says "look at the miters on this" as he moved his hand along the wall and then feeling the entrance door. Yeah thats when I knew I lost him, he didn't give a shit about anything other than the building.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 08:22 PM (snZF9)

131 Hey man we give them 10% off a burrito!! What more do you want?
- Restaurants who only hire illegals
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:19 PM (udlma)

“How about a job?” - veteran

(Ghosting by business)

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:22 PM (4786I)

132 >>Putin is a bad guy in many ways but the truth is he was provoked into an attack and NATO knew all along he would attack if NATO kept pressing and they did it anyway. The narrative that Putin is just a madman who attacked for no reason was always a lie.

But, but... Glenn Beck told me Putin wants to get the Soviet Band back together!

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 08:22 PM (IaZ7c)

133 25 One of the many annoying things is that Qatar which has zippo but oil and money and zero chance of defending itself from any halfway serious country deciding to take either away from them is bowed down to and allowed to do not good things in this country and treated as if they are important
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 15, 2025 08:19 PM (3/XaG)

They learned the Saudi way: if you are scared of everybody, pay off everybody.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:23 PM (4786I)

134 Not really a stalemate, more a glacier creeping ahead on the Russian side. And no apparent factors that will change that.
Posted by: AOSHQ commenter who won't be fooled at December 15, 2025 07:49 PM (U/Byj)

The areas the Ukrainians are being pushed out of now are the last of the ones they fortified since 2014. The men they used to defend them have been ground to dust. Thousands of men are being surrounded and surrender weekly. And Russia is in no hurry with the US leaving the game.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:23 PM (8avO+)

135 The only way to correct that is to stop doing business with contractors that hire people who have no business holding a CDL"

So, how to force USPS to stop contracting with said firms?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:23 PM (XuXeR)

136 Qatar is a glorified gas station that masquerades as a country. But they’re the original Arab camel traders. They’ll betray anyone at anytime for a profit. Don’t be fooled by the Islamic talk; it pays well in that part of the world, but Gold is the only god they’ve ever truly worshipped.

And if you want to figure out why they do what they do; the more nations and people they can keep at each others throats, the more opportunities they have to leverage a healthy profit. That’s why they get along so well with our deep staters, they’re all playing the same game.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:25 PM (MXpA1)

137 I read Animal Farm to my boys when they were in grade school.

I remember the moment when they said, Wait. The pigs are not doing what they promised. Why is Boxer missing. Why does everyone follow Napoleon?

Why do the rules not apply to the pigs?

I didn’t answer. I let them talk it out. And for a third grader and a sixth grader, it was amazing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 08:25 PM (mT+6a)

138 132 >>Putin is a bad guy in many ways but the truth is he was provoked into an attack and NATO knew all along he would attack if NATO kept pressing and they did it anyway. The narrative that Putin is just a madman who attacked for no reason was always a lie.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 08:22 PM (IaZ7c)

I can’t begin to figure out how NATO provoked Putin. (That’s a lie cooked up by isolationists, Blame America Firsters, and Code Pinkers).

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:25 PM (4786I)

139 And of course to lean on state governments to prohibit the issuance of CDLs to all but U.S. citizens who are here legally.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:21 PM (4786I)

Actually, trucking work would be ideal for legal immigrants who want to assimilate. What better way to become American than travel the country daily and interact with other Americans? And for immigrants who don't want to assimilate? Door's thataway >>>

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:26 PM (npFr7)

140 92 Horseshoeing is pressing your knees together around a horse's leg in a half squat for 15 minutes at a time while using a hoof knife, nippers an rasp to achieve a level foot.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:05 PM (sDNVV)

It’s a ton of work!

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2025 08:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

141
Who's in the mood for Stupidity?

This Tik Tok Goblin "explains" how the United States of America was founded:

https://is.gd/KKaxrf

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:27 PM (/KwID)

142 >>But, but... Glenn Beck told me Putin wants to get the Soviet Band back together!

Yea, so I heard.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (viF8m)

143 This Hollday season we be thankfully for having Loving Blank Presdent and alls the goods thangs he be did fore all leeple.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (fUSwr)

144 139
'And for immigrants who don't want to assimilate? Door's thataway'

How do we tell in advance that they're the good kind and not the kind to deliver a semi-load of Allahu Ackbar?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (fd80v)

145 So, how to force USPS to stop contracting with said firms?
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:23 PM (XuXeR)

Do firms not have track records of their drivers? I nearly went into trucking. Everyone with a CDL goes into a database so that when they get any sort of ticket or DOT violation, it is held against them. Or, if you find out you have a contract out with a company that had an illegal driver involved in an accident? Tell them “sorry, but how can we tell you are operating in good faith? Deal over.”

There are ways to figure this out. Let’s find them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (4786I)

146 Doug Firs don't have a tap root. That's why they can grow on rocky ground. It's also why they should be in a wooded area, not a single tree in your front yard
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2025 07:51 PM (+mUZM)

It is just that they grow so well here.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (rbvCR)

147 I think Russia is in better shape now, militarily, than they were before this war started.

As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

One thing they did early on is look at their force structure of every unit and realize that the old "tank runs off to the horizon' crap was over. They rebuilt every unit to have more low level engineers to blow stuff up, more infantry to dig in, some added old tanks to act as artillery or blow holes in walls and went all in for leg infantry.

A wrinkle they have now is to put some men on motorbikes or 4 wheelers to scoot down the road a km or so, into the next town, dump the bikes and dig into the village before drones can react. These days once they take a strip of houses the garrison can't push them out. The Russians collect the bikes later and set them up for another dash, there or elsewhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:30 PM (8avO+)

148 Actually, trucking work would be ideal for legal immigrants who want to assimilate. What better way to become American than travel the country daily and interact with other Americans?

===

Yea, credetemi, funziona.

Posted by: Don Bufatalo at December 15, 2025 08:30 PM (g47mK)

149 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Have we met?

Posted by: Tibet at December 15, 2025 08:31 PM (4786I)

150 I can’t begin to figure out how NATO provoked Putin. (That’s a lie cooked up by isolationists, Blame America Firsters, and Code Pinkers).
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:25 PM (4786I)

They started banning the Russian language in the Donbas area and slow walking the end of war settlement from 2015 while rebuilding the Ukraine army. Then they started shelling the Donbass cities.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (8avO+)

151 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

You sure? Our northern provinces disagree.

Posted by: Vietnam at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (4786I)

152 Mary Cloggistein having a stroke?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (Kt19C)

153 Shamefully basic questions, but why was Ukraine so hot to join NATO anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 15, 2025 07:54 PM (n7rxJ)

To box Russia in, prevent them from having a warm water port, and economically isolate Russia from the West.
It is the dream behind the Great Game Great Britain was playing back when they owned India and wanted to own the Black Sea, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (rbvCR)

154 Everyone with a CDL goes into a database so that when they get any sort of ticket or DOT violation, it is held against them"

By whom? The owner, who's from the same tribe?

The key is to ensure that the United States Postal Service uses legal suppliers.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (XuXeR)

155 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

The same people who are assured the Far East is theirs?

Posted by: Russia at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (4786I)

156 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Have we met?
Posted by: Tibet at December 15, 2025 08:31 PM (4786I)

They took that in 1951, so technically he's right.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:35 PM (8avO+)

157 By whom? The owner, who's from the same tribe?

The key is to ensure that the United States Postal Service uses legal suppliers.
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (XuXeR)

Well, yeah. Enforce contracts. Make it plain in the contracts that they will only use qualified CDL holders that are U.S. citizens, and if they are caught violating the contract, see ya.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:36 PM (4786I)

158
Two weeks ago ALL the Democrat "Influencers" were gaslighting their jihadi followers that President Trump was seriously ill and they were jumping for joy.

Today, the same performers were pretending to be aghast about a post.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:36 PM (/KwID)

159 How do we tell in advance that they're the good kind and not the kind to deliver a semi-load of Allahu Ackbar?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:29 PM (fd80v)

Don't allow muslim immigrants, period.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:37 PM (npFr7)

160 I just noticed the other day that my cat Allie has odd eyebrow whiskers. The ones above her left eye are twice as long as those on the right.

Looks a bit odd.

My other cats seem to be more symmetrical in that regard.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:16 PM (ESVrU)

Sure someone didn't bite those off a while back? Kittens do it to each other.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:37 PM (8avO+)

161 The horses that my daughter races are barefoot, but they are only used for racing/practicing on sand and lose dirt arenas. They aren't worked any other way. I think, however, the competition horses might be shoed for traction, the ones they take to state and national competitions.

The girl gets to do a lot of trimming and cleaning. The thing I like about the sport is that they get the kids involved in taking care of their horse. Teaching them responsibility.

I don't necessarily like the cost, but I've become consigned to the fact that being a dad is just hooking a hose to my bank account and spraying all my money at other people.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 08:37 PM (3uBP9)

162 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

You sure? Our northern provinces disagree.
Posted by: Vietnam at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (4786I)

that one works.

China has a problem with force projection. They aren't historically naval, and walking anywhere outside China is through the crappiest terrain anywhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:39 PM (8avO+)

163 > Mary Cloggistein having a stroke?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty
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the original Mary C said silly things, but could spell and write a sentence

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 08:40 PM (ZxPkt)

164
Every new cheap asymmetric weapon the Ukrainians use against Russia will eventually be used against us.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2025 08:40 PM (azNOR)

165 >>I can’t begin to figure out how NATO provoked Putin.

It's not really that difficult to understand. Go look at Putin's public statements as far back as the NATO Summit in Bucharest in 2008.

NATO started as a defensive organization after WWII to prevent the expansion of the Soviet Union. There were 13 members including the US. NATO promised the Soviets and then Russia for years it would not expand eastward as a threat to Russia's sovereignty. They lied repeatedly. There are over 30 countries in NATO today.

It doesn't matter what anyone thinks of Putin, he gets a vote in what he believes is the security of his country just as American presidents get a vote in what they will accept. See Cuba and now Venezuela. Ukraine borders Russia and that was too much expansion for Putin and that was the trigger.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:40 PM (viF8m)

166 To box Russia in, prevent them from having a warm water port, and economically isolate Russia from the West.
It is the dream behind the Great Game Great Britain was playing back when they owned India and wanted to own the Black Sea, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:33 PM (rbvCR)

Our elites also had the idea that fighting was a non issue since Russia would just crumble from sanctions explicitly set up to not block oil and gas to the EU and break up, letting them colonize it with no issue. They aren't known for their brains.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (8avO+)

167 Anybody ever have a good experience with ID. me? Those pricks are about to cost me my job.
Posted by: Reforger

It was a PITA to get setup - total foobar. I used the support people to sort things out and what I basically got back was I was stupid and was holding it wrong. Eventually, I rolled the right combination of chicken bones and it started working. Every since then it has been fine.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (uv8gn)

168 Ate we saying that the Ukrainians had the ability to produce an underwater drone capable of taking out a sub?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)

169 China has a problem with force projection. They aren't historically naval, and walking anywhere outside China is through the crappiest terrain anywhere.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:39 PM (8avO+)

The only place that would be kind of easy for them to invade is this huge sparsely populated territory full of all kinds of resources they need, just to the north of them. Starts with the letter S.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:43 PM (MXpA1)

170 159
'Don't allow muslim immigrants, period.'

Right answer. There is no safe way to have muslim immigration.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (fd80v)

171
Just saw that yesterday, Dec. 14 was the 53rd anniversary of Apollo 17 blasting off from the Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (w6EFb)

172 If Russia takes the territory in Ukraine, what's to stop them from driving all the way to Lisbon soon after?

Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (xverI)

173 Roman concrete was a world wonder. We still can't do what they could do, probably because we are so risk-averse. Can you imagine forming up the Pantheon today? Not gonna happen. And we still do stupid concrete in seawater that needs to be replaced every 10 years. It was an utterly amazing architecture.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Except "we" have. There's a new museum in Italy, IIRC, that used Roman concrete for the outer structure. It can be done. It's a matter of building codes and will.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (mlg/3)

174 It's not really that difficult to understand. Go look at Putin's public statements as far back as the NATO Summit in Bucharest in 2008.

NATO started as a defensive organization after WWII to prevent the expansion of the Soviet Union. There were 13 members including the US. NATO promised the Soviets and then Russia for years it would not expand eastward as a threat to Russia's sovereignty. They lied repeatedly. There are over 30 countries in NATO today.

It doesn't matter what anyone thinks of Putin, he gets a vote in what he believes is the security of his country just as American presidents get a vote in what they will accept. See Cuba and now Venezuela. Ukraine borders Russia and that was too much expansion for Putin and that was the trigger.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:40 PM (viF8m)

It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (4786I)

175 I thought the Ukes hit that sub while it was surfaced, but I’m not sure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (MXpA1)

176 BurtTC, I wanted to add about China:

The CCP have been talking about, planning and threatening Taiwan for seven decades. It's been an going since Mao who was obsessed with taking down the Kuomintang fascists in Taipei. There's also the added bonus of taking over the world's largest and most advanced silicon chip producer along with all the other tech product manufacturing that Taiwan dominates in.

If they ever succeed, like the Russians, in invading and taking that island by sitting on and refusing to move for years, then I've got no doubt a few more years down the road they'll be feeling their oats and looking for easy targets.

I look at China just like I think about 1930s Japan.
Except China has a million man army, with a lot of expendable men due to a demographic crisis caused by the One-Child Policy. They aren't building a military for looks.

I'm not betting the farm on it, but I think the Chinese are determined to dominate the Asia-Pacfic by hook, crook, or conquest as they feel The Middle Kingdom is destined to rule Asia just like it did way back when.

The Russians and Japanese, and perhaps India, are the biggest obstacles to that goal, along with the U.S. of course.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:46 PM (6ydKt)

177 The only place that would be kind of easy for them to invade is this huge sparsely populated territory full of all kinds of resources they need, just to the north of them. Starts with the letter S.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:43 PM (MXpA1)

too damn cold, winter lasts too long, land is cut up by rivers and swamps. Its easier to just buy the product.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (8avO+)

178 The only place that would be kind of easy for them to invade is this huge sparsely populated territory full of all kinds of resources they need, just to the north of them. Starts with the letter S.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:43 PM (MXpA1)

Yeah but I have been assured that the PRC is a peace loving nation and has been for the past 70 years and that they would never dare do such a thing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (4786I)

179 Ate we saying that the Ukrainians had the ability to produce an underwater drone capable of taking out a sub?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)

The above water drones appear to have been designed in the UK, so maybe these ones were as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

180 Ate we saying that the Ukrainians had the ability to produce an underwater drone capable of taking out a sub?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)

Seems kind of like a radio controlled torpedo, doesn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

181 I mean, it's taken Putin what, 11 years to get to this point in Ukraine. Surely can he borrow enough North Korean troops to roll through the Fulda Gap.

Personally, I don't think Europe is worth conquering anymore.

Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (xverI)

182 Ben Had! So I read that there is a Russian/Soviet horse breed, named after a Soviet Marshall. Are you familiar with it ? Posted by: runner

Do you mean Zhuclopclop by chance?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 08:48 PM (uv8gn)

183 174
'If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries.'

I don't think we should have offered Ukraine membership but I can't help but notice that Putin fears NATO expansion exactly in the territory he wants to annex.
Funny coincidence that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)

184 I'm not betting the farm on it, but I think the Chinese are determined to dominate the Asia-Pacfic by hook, crook, or conquest as they feel The Middle Kingdom is destined to rule Asia just like it did way back when.

The Russians and Japanese, and perhaps India, are the biggest obstacles to that goal, along with the U.S. of course.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:46 PM (6ydKt)

China has a huge demographic crisis coming, even worse than Europe. Too many old people, not enough young people. And they've gotten urbanized enough, probably to reduce the willingness of joining the army and marching off.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:49 PM (8avO+)

185 It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (4786I)

It wasn't your country that was provoking Putin, it was the criminal Democrat junta that ran America since the first term of O'Barky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:49 PM (npFr7)

186
24 hours ago, if you told me, "Soothie, in 24 hours we'll be discussing horseshoes and Roman concrete. Oh, and by the way, Meathead's son will kill him," I wouldn't have believed you.

Oh, this wacky World....and this wacky place...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 08:49 PM (Spg9I)

187 Do you mean Zhuclopclop by chance?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 15, 2025 08:48 PM (uv8gn)

neyt!

Posted by: Don Bufatalo at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

188 I mean, it's taken Putin what, 11 years to get to this point in Ukraine. Surely can he borrow enough North Korean troops to roll through the Fulda Gap.

Personally, I don't think Europe is worth conquering anymore.
Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (xverI)

Russia has enough Muslims already.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)

189 lol!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

190 Chy-nah also had a brief skirmish with India in 1962 where they invaded and captured some territory.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (udlma)

191 China has a problem with force projection. They aren't historically naval, and walking anywhere outside China is through the crappiest terrain anywhere.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:39 PM (8avO+)

They are learning fast, though. And one thing I cannot stress enough as one that has dealt in logistics for longer than I care to remember is that the United States is a major player on the world stage (at this point BurtTC is turning into an eggplant out of total embarrassment) due to its ability to project power. The PRC knows and understands this as well.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (4786I)

192 >>It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

>>The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.

Then you've learned absolutely nothing about who and what has been running much of our failed foreign policy for the last 60+ years.

Who do you think ran a color revolution in Ukraine in 2014 and took out a duly elected president and installed a western puppet? Let me help you out. The US government did. More specifically the CIA and State Dept. did.

Why do you think they tried so hard to stop Trump to the point of trying to murder him? Twice? Why do you think the two impeachment attempts were around Russia and Ukraine? Why was there ZERO accounting for the nearly $200 billion we've sent to Ukraine since the start of this idiotic war?

Singing Yankee Doodle Dandy without having a clue what's been going on isn't very persuasive. I love my country. My government not so much.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (viF8m)

193 Pups AND pizza?!

Heaven!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (5lbLe)

194 Russia has enough Muslims already.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)

One in seven Russians, in fact.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (4786I)

195 The above water drones appear to have been designed in the UK, so maybe these ones were as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

196 It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (4786I)

You mean Belarus the country we tried to topple and replace with a hostile government to Russia, like we did with Ukraine about 10 years earlier?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (8avO+)

197 Friendly reminder….

Nobody on the left gave two fucks about Putin until he banned American gays from adopting Russian children. Then overnight he became Hitler.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:53 PM (udlma)

198
Chicoms are also planning a crewed lunar landing by 2030. Whether they'll make it or not, I don't know. They may beat us back, and that won't be good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 08:54 PM (w6EFb)

199 Why was there ZERO accounting for the nearly $200 billion we've sent to Ukraine since the start of this idiotic war?

Singing Yankee Doodle Dandy without having a clue what's been going on isn't very persuasive. I love my country. My government not so much.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (viF8m)

probably much more than 200 billion since we armed their army up from scratch over those 10 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:54 PM (8avO+)

200 Russia has enough Muslims already.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)

One in seven Russians, in fact.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (4786I)

Yeah it’s weird to see someone named Mohammed Ahmed bin Al Volokov lol. But there’s a lot of them around.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:54 PM (udlma)

201
Do you know the name of the driver of the vehicle the pigs are running after?

It's Sue E.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
---------

Now we are getting somewhere. I well recall my grandfather calling the hogs at the farm. I expect that there is a youtube video of the hog-calling contest at Spivey's Corner, NC

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 08:55 PM (XeU6L)

202 181 I mean, it's taken Putin what, 11 years to get to this point in Ukraine. Surely can he borrow enough North Korean troops to roll through the Fulda Gap.

Amateur tip: If your armored columns can stopped cold by internet porn, maybe a frontal assault isn't for you.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 15, 2025 08:55 PM (pIfcn)

203 171
Just saw that yesterday, Dec. 14 was the 53rd anniversary of Apollo 17 blasting off from the Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15,

i think it'll be the 57th anniversary this Christmas Eve of the Apollo 8 mission where the 3 astronauts read from the Book of Genesis. It was quite a cap to a turbulent year, what with the political assassinations, Vietnam, and all.

Posted by: Rex B at December 15, 2025 08:55 PM (VIQkk)

204 Nobody on the left gave two fucks about Putin until he banned American gays from adopting Russian children. Then overnight he became Hitler.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:53 PM (udlma)

Well, the neocons did. But that was about the time they left the GOP and burrowed into the Democrats which is why the Left loves them some warfare and no kumbaya singing anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:56 PM (8avO+)

205 Putin has never called me a Nazi. Most democrats have. So between Putin and Dems I’m on team Vlad all the way.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:57 PM (udlma)

206 They are learning fast, though. And one thing I cannot stress enough as one that has dealt in logistics for longer than I care to remember is that the United States is a major player on the world stage (at this point BurtTC is turning into an eggplant out of total embarrassment) due to its ability to project power. The PRC knows and understands this as well.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (4786I)

We can to the water's edge and half a tank of avgas in, but past that, no way. And we have some experience with the difficulty of supplying China thru Burma from WWII.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (8avO+)

207 >>probably much more than 200 billion since we armed their army up from scratch over those 10 years.

Probably.

It's odd that nobody talks about the ethnic cleansing that was carried out by the Ukrainian government against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine in the years leading up to the war. Thousands of men, women and children slaughtered by government troops. Special government troops. All because they voted in a referendum to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)

208 Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova...the list of countries whose governments our CIA / State Department has overthrown or corrupted is long.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (IaZ7c)

209 First steps of a baby giraffe.. 😊

It looked like F. Joe Biden trying to ride a bike.
Posted by: ShainS

At least the giraffe had an excuse. With all that loose hay, it might as well have been trying to stand on a pile of ball bearings.

Posted by: mikeski at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (nhCoE)

210 The above water drones appear to have been designed in the UK, so maybe these ones were as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

There was a video on a story about the attack on the sub that I watched - it was foreign language - which I presumed to be of the type of unmanned submersible they used.

They use the term submersible lightly. The body is certainly submerged. An antenna or multiple and other apparatuses (probably camera) are visible in the video.

They're very small and would be hard to detect in even the brightest of days and calmest of seas, but it would be enough to allow high speed comms, either terrestrial (fixed or mobile) or satellite. And the target was a moored sub in a harbor, which is not exactly a difficult target to track, requiring precise and rapid comms and course updates.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (dK+Kv)

211
"Trump colluded with Russia. We've always known his Presidency was illegitimate. Now it has been proven. For the sake of Democracy, this man must be indicted and jailed."
-- Meathead
April 15, 2021

Meathead made hundreds of tweets like this -- constantly gaslighting and lying.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:00 PM (Spg9I)

212 The above water drones appear to have been designed in the UK, so maybe these ones were as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 08:47 PM (rbvCR)

Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

you can count on the Brits to refight the Crimean war every time.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 09:00 PM (8avO+)

213 205 Putin has never called me a Nazi. Most democrats have. So between Putin and Dems I’m on team Vlad all the way.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 08:57 PM (udlma)

Vlad's a scorpion. Expect him to do scorpion things. But he can't do shit without resources. Dem green/enviro policy flooded him with cash twice and twice he started wars.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 15, 2025 09:01 PM (pIfcn)

214 HAHAHAH! British humor (when Brits were allowed to laugh) "Don't I know you ??"

https://tinyurl.com/mr76y6d2

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:02 PM (g47mK)

215 Singing Yankee Doodle Dandy without having a clue what's been going on isn't very persuasive. I love my country. My government not so much.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (viF8m)

Actually, I’ve been hip deep in this for a long time, since my old man was bringing home professional military journals home from work when I was a kid figuring things out.

I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. I can’t now. Your every argument in foreign policy starts with “I hate my country, the United States is the root of all evil.” Funny how you mock my patriotism and follow that with the clear lie of “I love my country.” Bullshit. Then you wouldn’t be in with the Blame America First Kick with the isolationists, Code Pinkers and libertarians here. Not to mention being a true Conspiro.

And your doublethink is impressive:the CIA is somehow all powerful and omnipotent yet the government which the CIA is part of is too incompetent to keep a toy battleship afloat in a bathtub. Give me a fucking break. Which is it?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 09:02 PM (4786I)

216 They're very small and would be hard to detect in even the brightest of days and calmest of seas, but it would be enough to allow high speed comms, either terrestrial (fixed or mobile) or satellite. And the target was a moored sub in a harbor, which is not exactly a difficult target to track, requiring precise and rapid comms and course updates.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 08:59 PM (dK+Kv)

The kamizakis they used a couple years back were modified jet skis that they wanted to use to blow up the Crimean bridge to the mainland. They sent a few into ports on occasion. Total waste of effort.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 09:03 PM (8avO+)

217 As some of you might have noticed, over the past month or so, the Monday ONT has seemingly had problems launching at its customary slot at 10:00 PM eastern time. I see no reason why thst trend will not continue ue this evening, so, let's get a pool together and make our predictions for what time the ONT will get posted tonight.

I say 10:18.

Sorry, but I am not authorized to give a prize for this contest, not even Club ONT bathroom tokens.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 09:03 PM (CJZqd)

218 It really is but then I don’t make a habit of blaming my country first. If Putin was that frightened of NATO, well, now, he’s got NATO on his border in the form of formerly neutral countries. OOPS! Ukraine and Belarus were perfect buffer states.

The countries that joined NATO did so out of the historical fears (not unjustified if you remember the world from 1945-1990) of Russia.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 08:45 PM (4786I)

Yes, Putin conceded that NATO was already coming, so he created his own new buffer zones in Georgia, and now Ukraine that were already filled with Russian-speaking emigres that moved there during the USSR.

His direct goal was to consolidate his access to the Black Sea, and deny NATO full control of the Crimea.

This was more of a pre-emptive defensive move due to NATO expansion than a simple war of conquest in my eyes.

I don't want to see my country as the bad guys either, but everybody has got to admit our foreign policy over the past two decades has not been the most forward looking and was dominated by a post-Cold War, Lone Superpower attitude of: "We can do what we want. What are your going to do about it?"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:03 PM (6ydKt)

219 Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Unless things have changed, a good deal lower than that. Even down to hundreds of Hertz.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 09:04 PM (XeU6L)

220 >>Meathead made hundreds of tweets like this -- constantly gaslighting and lying.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:00 PM (Spg9I)

IIRC - Mark Groubert (America's Untold Stories on YouTube) has reported that Reiner admitted he had ceded control of his Twitter Account to the Intel Agencies.

This was a little while back when a bunch of 'influencers' like Moby admitted to the same shenanigans.

So. Take that for what you will. I'm not trying to sweep for Reiner. But we know the Intel Agencies are balls deep in Social Media / Media / Communications.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:04 PM (IaZ7c)

221 Chicoms are also planning a crewed lunar landing by 2030. Whether they'll make it or not, I don't know. They may beat us back, and that won't be good.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 08:54 PM (w6EFb)

Getting someone there isn’t really the hard part. Getting someone back alive, that’s the hard part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:05 PM (MXpA1)

222 As some of you might have noticed, over the past month or so, the Monday ONT has seemingly had problems launching at its customary slot at 10:00 PM
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You do not have a platinum membership card do you?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 09:05 PM (XeU6L)

223 It's Sue E...

Bbq joint in NC. It's good. (It's Sooey's...)

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:05 PM (XuXeR)

224 another murderous rendering of the National Anthem

I believe the anthem should be an instrumental, except for the Army/Navy game
Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 08:13 PM (ZxPkt)

Best National Anthem I ever heard was sung a cappella by the Pointer Sisters in the old Seattle Kingdome. It was incredible!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (2WIwB)

225 I mean, it's taken Putin what, 11 years to get to this point in Ukraine. Surely can he borrow enough North Korean troops to roll through the Fulda Gap.

Personally, I don't think Europe is worth conquering anymore.
Posted by: Demented Finn

It would be an expensive mess with little upside. He wants what the Soviets wanted; ablative shields in countries on their borders and warm water ports.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

226 Nazi dem talking about blood and soil

@FreeBeacon 8m
‘A Foundation of My Politics’: Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:07 PM (mlg/3)

227
Reiner admitted he had ceded control of his Twitter Account to the Intel Agencies.

Posted by: garrett

If true, we're in worse shape than I thought.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:08 PM (Spg9I)

228 Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’"

Well, thanks, but no thanks. Now if he could "give back" some bourbon producing areas of Kentucky...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (XuXeR)

229 >>Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova...the list of countries whose governments our CIA / State Department has overthrown or corrupted is long.

And while some here might not know it, Putin does. He sent troops into Kazakstan in 2022 to stop what he correctly called an attempted color revolution. Even better, he claimed "Maidan technologies" were being used in Kazakstan and he would not allow anymore color revolutions in his neighborhood.

https://tinyurl.com/3z9czf97

By the way, Hunter Biden was up to his corrupt nutsack in corruption in Kazakstan during this time. We were also building bio labs there.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (viF8m)

230 I remember having Fulda tires on a VW Beetle. They were pretty good tires, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (npFr7)

231
And this is why The Founders only allowed land owners (and men) to vote...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (Spg9I)

232 222 You do not have a platinum membership card do you?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2025 09:05 PM (XeU6L)

I don't even have a used tissue paper membership card.

They always seem to have all been handed out by the time I arrive.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (CJZqd)

233 Space Daddy his the chi coms covered. They (SpaceX) got the assembly time, I think it was the falcon 9 maybe? from 120 days to 15 days. Also, I think they're talking manned lunar flyby in the next 18 months or so.

as for the CIA, they've been playing home games, and that's a big no no.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (pIfcn)

234 211
'Meathead made hundreds of tweets like this -- constantly gaslighting and lying.'

Pretty quiet recently.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (fd80v)

235 "Trump colluded with Russia. We've always known his Presidency was illegitimate. Now it has been proven. For the sake of Democracy, this man must be indicted and jailed."
-- Meathead
April 15, 2021

Meathead made hundreds of tweets like this -- constantly gaslighting and lying.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:00 PM (Spg9I)

***

Google.Reiner's comments about Trump from2015-2025. I have no issue with President Trumps comments.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (2WIwB)

236 >>Best National Anthem I ever heard was sung a cappella by the Pointer Sisters in the old Seattle Kingdome. It was incredible!

Did you hear the combined West Point/Annapolis choir at the Army/Navy game this weekend? Really good.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)

237 >>If true, we're in worse shape than I thought.

From what I remember of the reference it was around the time that Reiner did that Podcast about the Kennedy Assassination.
He was trying to get film/production rights for it and part of that deal he supposedly ended up getting sucked into the arrangement.

Who knows? But, we do know that the CIA/Intel Conglomerate were involved heavily in Twitter pre-Musk.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:12 PM (IaZ7c)

238 Google.Reiner's comments about Trump from2015-2025. I have no issue with President Trumps comments.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:10 PM (2WIwB)

If Rob Reiner had not been so eaten up with TDS, he might have had more time to spend trying to to save his son. Or at least had the locks changed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:13 PM (npFr7)

239
Cecil the Youtuber that Ace & I like did a livestream this afternoon. In the beginning, Cecil said he didn't like Trump's tweet and wished Trump didn't post it.

By the end of the stream, after watching a few Democrat Goblins and remembering how awful the Democrats are, Cecil was in full support of the tweet.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:14 PM (Spg9I)

240 I remember having Fulda tires on a VW Beetle. They were pretty good tires, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (npFr7)

Da!
Please ro tell us more of these Fulda tires! We are being most interested. Is fast through gap da?

Posted by: Soviet 8rh Guards Army. at December 15, 2025 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

241 Have the Fredocons finshed the rending of the garments over the Trump comments yet?

Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 09:15 PM (xverI)

242 I used to pop off at the mouth a lot more when I was younger. I learned slowly that the repercussions were never really worth the cheap emotional high I’d get from doing it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:15 PM (MXpA1)

243 Did you hear the combined West Point/Annapolis choir at the Army/Navy game this weekend? Really good.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)

I did and they were great.
But, gotta say it, the Pointer Sisters were rock star awesome. Tears in the eyes.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:17 PM (2WIwB)

244 Da!
Please ro tell us more of these Fulda tires! We are being most interested. Is fast through gap da?
Posted by: Soviet 8rh Guards Army. at December 15, 2025 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

They are Fulda air, until they go flat, then they go "kraut, kraut, kraut".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:18 PM (npFr7)

245 Please ro tell us more of these Fulda tires! We are being most interested. Is fast through gap da?"

Nyet. They were owned by the capitalist running dogs of Goodyear since 60...ish.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:18 PM (XuXeR)

246
So, perpetual war in Eastern Europe? Good points about the motor cycle infantry and the death of heavy armor, but hard to see how this disaster gets better for anyone as infrastructure disappears with nobody knowing how to fix it. Russian rule in Ukraine is unlikely to produce anything but a forever guerilla conflict. Russia can't build planes, ships, or a space launch industry.

And it's anyone's guess if they're nukes are capable of hydrogen bomb yields anymore.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 09:18 PM (Y8DZL)

247 Okay, I did not think through the cigar ordering I've been doing.

I thought I could just repurpose cigar boxes as humidors, which worked fine when I only had about 10.

Now I have thirty of my own and another 10 for gifts, five of which I have to keep until February, 20 more on the way, and I've run out of box space.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

248 242
'I used to pop off at the mouth a lot more when I was younger. I learned slowly that the repercussions were never really worth the cheap emotional high I’d get from doing it.'

I did the same. Eventually, I realized when I let my temper get the better of me I stopped thinking straight. And I need all the help I can get.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2025 09:20 PM (fd80v)

249 Ummm - just noticed in the sidebar news that French cancelled their NYE concert on Champs-Élysées.

Surrendering before anything even happened?

How, oh, I guess I'd say - French.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:20 PM (cYBz/)

250 and I've run out of box space.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

It can be a real bitch finding a place to stash a good cigar...

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 15, 2025 09:22 PM (npFr7)

251 then they go "kraut, kraut, kraut"

Nein!

"Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der Autobahn"

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:23 PM (XuXeR)

252 Ummm - just noticed in the sidebar news that French cancelled their NYE concert on Champs-Élysées.

Surrendering before anything even happened?

How, oh, I guess I'd say - French.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:20 PM (cYBz/)

***

They rolled for.the Germans.
The muzzie.invasion is already complete

Quick question: could the first anti-muzzie civil war begin in France?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:24 PM (2WIwB)

253
The Artemis II mission may launch as early as Feb, if all goes well. Maybe be April or May. The SLS vehicle is all stacked in the VLB, and they've got it painted up with "American 250" theme, returning to the Moon (well, a crewed flyby) for the 250th birthday.

For the landing, that's the Artemis III, 2027 maybe, but probably not. Elon has got the contract for the lander, which will be a modified Starship. It will be launched separately and Orion will dock with it in a lunar HALO orbit.

And he better get to work on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 09:24 PM (w6EFb)

254 >> I've run out of box space.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

What is something Sandra Fluke has never said, Alex?

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:25 PM (IaZ7c)

255 I've run out of box space.

First World problem!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 09:25 PM (Kt19C)

256
Artemis II is sort of sad, basically a repeat of Apollo 8, which someone mentioned above. And it's not going to go into lunar orbit, just do a free-return flyby. It will go pretty far "above" the Moon, and if it goes as planned, that will set he record for the farthest humans have been from Erf, beating Apollo 13's record when it did it's free return trajectory due to the mishap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

257 Now I have thirty of my own and another 10 for gifts, five of which I have to keep until February, 20 more on the way, and I've run out of box space.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

Got a spare igloo ice chest? They work great.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:26 PM (2WIwB)

258 >>Got a spare igloo ice chest? They work great.

As do Mason Jars.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:28 PM (IaZ7c)

259 I've run out of box space.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 15, 2025 09:19 PM (i00+Z)

I think I dated her in college.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:29 PM (2WIwB)

260
Just looking, SpaceX says Starship HLS is proceeding as planned, and they're shooting to do testing in LEO next year.

To get Starship to the Moon, they're gonna have to refuel it in LEO, and that's going to take several "tanker" Starship launches. We'll see how this all works out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 15, 2025 09:29 PM (w6EFb)

261 If Russia takes the territory in Ukraine, what's to stop them from driving all the way to Lisbon soon after?
Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (xverI)

They will be stopped at the Italian Alps. There is no way an invading army can bypass those barriers.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

262 As do Mason Jars.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:28 PM (IaZ7c)

Dang garrett...great idea!
I'd never thought of that.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:30 PM (2WIwB)

263 Your every argument in foreign policy starts with “I hate my country, the United States is the root of all evil.” Funny how you mock my patriotism and follow that with the clear lie of “I love my country.” Bullshit.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 09:02 PM (4786I)

This is idiotic in the extreme. Are you high? Do you not know how to read?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:31 PM (n9ltV)

264 Mary Cloggistein having a stroke?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty

About 130 years ago.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 09:32 PM (snZF9)

265 Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.
---
I believe Pixy does that every morning to keep the blog's servers running.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:33 PM (ESVrU)

Sometimes just for good measure.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 07:44 PM (dK+Kv)

Pixy might need to do it more than once a day, when we get multiple 1000 post threads.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 09:32 PM (S/Y4j)

266 Musk should rename it to the Artemis-Gordon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:32 PM (MXpA1)

267 Pixy might need to do it more than once a day, when we get multiple 1000 post threads.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2025 09:32 PM (S/Y4j)

He will shame his ancestors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:34 PM (MXpA1)

268 Apparently, Meathead was a 'Legendary' director, NOT 'far Left'.

The media just can't help themselves. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:34 PM (cYBz/)

269 Communicating with submerged drones has to be difficult. America uses hugely powerful transmitters operating at around 16 kHz to communicate with submerged subs, and the data rate is very low.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

They would never consider using fiber-optic cable

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:34 PM (rbvCR)

270 261 If Russia takes the territory in Ukraine, what's to stop them from driving all the way to Lisbon soon after?
Posted by: Demented Finn at December 15, 2025 08:44 PM (xverI)

They will be stopped at the Italian Alps. There is no way an invading army can bypass those barriers.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

Bwahahahaha!!!
Russian armor will average a thrown track ever 25 kms.
Oh wait.
You were being facetious.
Got it.
Never mind.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (2WIwB)

271 He wants what the Soviets wanted....warm water ports.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

Isn't that all any of us want?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (YxaX0)

272 I have time to spare before the ONT, so I'd like some advice:

Pookette's classmate today threatened to off Lil Pooky. K's been escalating for the past two years, first bragging about shooting a cat, then threatening to shoot our cat Hex, and now this. Pookette told her teacher immediately, the teacher said she'd talk to the school counselor, and I sent an email an hour ago to the teacher, asking what she needs from us.

Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.

Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

273 He wants what the Soviets wanted....warm water ports.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

Isn't that all any of us want?
Posted by: BurtTC

Don't forget loose shoes too!
-- Zombie Earl Butts

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:38 PM (cYBz/)

274 They would never consider using fiber-optic cable
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:34 PM (rbvCR)

Wire-guided torpedoes existed. Fiber-optic would work as well, and be less susceptible to jamming. But your range is limited by how much cable the torpedo/drone can drag through the water. A handful of kilometers, maybe?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 15, 2025 09:38 PM (npFr7)

275
Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.
Posted by: pookysgirl

I'd go to jail. Don't follow my advice. Does pooky know? He'd probably go to jail too. Make the school do something. Pretend for a day that you're a 7th century savage and they are making you feel religously 'unsafe' and you're afraid of the 'backlash'.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 15, 2025 09:38 PM (QVmho)

276 >>As do Mason Jars.

Is that where you keep your "cigars"?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:39 PM (viF8m)

277 And your doublethink is impressive:the CIA is somehow all powerful and omnipotent yet the government which the CIA is part of is too incompetent to keep a toy battleship afloat in a bathtub. Give me a fucking break. Which is it?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 09:02 PM (4786I)

I think the country running color revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe also has specialists tasked to keeping battleships floating. To claim otherwise is both lying about actual facts and a stupid tactic in a debate.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:39 PM (rbvCR)

278 I'm not sure what our options are here.

Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

Call the local police. Call the county/state police. Call the FBI.

Schools are in the business of burying this sort of shit. Police are less enamored of cover-ups.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:39 PM (n9ltV)

279 They will be stopped at the Italian Alps. There is no way an invading army can bypass those barriers.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

right

Posted by: Hannibal at December 15, 2025 09:40 PM (Q+gd/)

280 >>Is that where you keep your "cigars"?

The final step in the curing process, of course.

Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2025 09:41 PM (IaZ7c)

281 Pookette's classmate today threatened to off Lil Pooky. K's been escalating for the past two years, first bragging about shooting a cat, then threatening to shoot our cat Hex, and now this. Pookette told her teacher immediately, the teacher said she'd talk to the school counselor, and I sent an email an hour ago to the teacher, asking what she needs from us.

Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.
Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

If the little bastard has actually shot a cat, be advised that serial killers nearly all got their start killing and torturing animals, and act accordingly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:41 PM (npFr7)

282 As for Chi Nah, I don't think we've seen any indications in the past 70 plus years that they want to invade anybody.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 08:09 PM (Q/0pn)

Have we met?
Posted by: Tibet at December 15, 2025 08:31 PM (4786I)

They took that in 1951, so technically he's right.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 15, 2025 08:35 PM (8avO+)

Yeah, that's why I said 70 plus years.

As for Vietnam, well, I'm not sure I would call what they did an invasion, more like they were invited in to help repel OUR invasion.

But I'm not going to haggle over semantics.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:42 PM (aiBKy)

283 Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.
Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

Tell the parents, and the school, that with one phone call you can have a dozen operators backing up Pooky.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:42 PM (2WIwB)

284
For most of my life I never understood how the Democrats & Fake News & Hollywood managed to blame Viet Nam entirely on President Nixon & the Republicans.

Now I see how they did it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 09:43 PM (Spg9I)

285 Don't forget loose shoes too!
-- Zombie Earl Butts
Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2025 09:38 PM (cYBz/)

I like big Butts.

Posted by: Zombie Mrs. Butts at December 15, 2025 09:44 PM (aiBKy)

286 This just in: Rob Reiner is still dead.

Posted by: it was funny Chevy Chase said it about Franco at December 15, 2025 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

287 Pookysgirl, in addition to the other suggestions (all good), I'd want a restraining order against the brat *and* its timwalz and/or irresponsible and/or also psycho parents, and I would definitely consider homeschooling. The imbecile bureaucrats don't give a shit about anything beyond covering their own asses.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 09:45 PM (ULPxl)

288 Any progress in finding the Brown University shooter?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:46 PM (npFr7)

289 I have time to spare before the ONT, so I'd like some advice:

Pookette's classmate today threatened to off Lil Pooky. K's been escalating for the past two years, first bragging about shooting a cat, then threatening to shoot our cat Hex, and now this. Pookette told her teacher immediately, the teacher said she'd talk to the school counselor, and I sent an email an hour ago to the teacher, asking what she needs from us.

Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.

====

👀

WTF?! shouldn't schools report these types of threats to authorities ??

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:47 PM (g47mK)

290 230 I remember having Fulda tires on a VW Beetle. They were pretty good tires, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:09 PM (npFr7)
________________________________

Fulda Gap!!!! I had the pleasure of downing quite a few German libations with a bunch of guys for the 3rd Armored Div. in Fulda.

Didn't know there was a tire factory there. Then again, there was no reason to go outside.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 09:47 PM (dIske)

291 Bwahahahaha!!!
Russian armor will average a thrown track ever 25 kms.
Oh wait.
You were being facetious.
Got it.
Never mind.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (2WIwB)

I was going to say "Andorra" because the Russians have no mountain troops to equal the Basques, but that would have set off another argument over whether the Basques are good or just impossible.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:47 PM (rbvCR)

292 who are kid's parents ? do they know this is going on with him, or are they ...likely to be the source of his behavior ??

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:48 PM (g47mK)

293 right
Posted by: Hannibal at December 15, 2025 09:40 PM (Q+gd/)

Or... Huns, Vandals and Goths.

Oh my.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 09:48 PM (zZu0s)

294 He wants what the Soviets wanted....warm water ports.
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 15, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

Isn't that all any of us want?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM

That, and loose shoes and a warm place to crap.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 15, 2025 09:49 PM (Apzx6)

295 🎶
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Posted by: mindful webworker - I saw MisHum dissing Santa Claus at December 15, 2025 09:49 PM (lbDMw)

296 Holy crap.

Pooky needs to protect his daughter. Period. And she needs to know it and see it.

Step up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 09:50 PM (6lvzU)

297 Good evening,Horde. I'm looking for some cheese to go with my whine tonight.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 15, 2025 09:50 PM (tWxgu)

298 who are kid's parents ? do they know this is going on with him, or are they ...likely to be the source of his behavior ??
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:48 PM (g47mK)

Anyone want to bet the kid is not from a father-absent home?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (npFr7)

299 WTF?! shouldn't schools report these types of threats to authorities ??
Posted by: runner
---------

And other crimes, like they did with St. Skittles.

Oh. Wait...

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (rdVOm)

300 My sister Dorcus also has Trumps Breath Stinks T Shurts if be anybody wants some foor the Hollydays.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (fUSwr)

301 Pookysgirl, in addition to the other suggestions (all good), I'd want a restraining order against the brat *and* its timwalz and/or irresponsible and/or also psycho parents, and I would definitely consider homeschooling. The imbecile bureaucrats don't give a shit about anything beyond covering their own asses.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 15, 2025 09:45 PM (ULPxl)

There are too many of these cases, where cowards who run the schools are afraid to take action against a kid who fits into one of the protected classes.

That being said, not every kid who starts out harming animals escalates to becoming serial killers, but damn near every serial killer started out harming animals.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (aiBKy)

302 To be fair, ahannibal lost about 25k men crossing the Alps in winter. Its why no one thought he would try it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)

303 >>Any progress in finding the Brown University shooter?

No. But don't worry, they'll get busy any minute now.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:52 PM (viF8m)

304 This just in: Rob Reiner is still dead.

Posted by: it was funny Chevy Chase said it about Franco at December 15, 2025 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

and still voting.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 15, 2025 09:52 PM (snZF9)

305 Even tough the USMC protected Meathead's right to free speech, he put all his effort into ....Lying and Smearing them in his movie .....All the dems do is Lie and Steal from us.

Posted by: DK at December 15, 2025 09:52 PM (JButp)

306 That, and loose shoes and a warm place to crap.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 15, 2025 09:49 PM (Apzx6)

I'm sorry to admit the "loose shoes" thing is going whoosh, right over my head.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:53 PM (aiBKy)

307 Other than sending Pooky over to K's house with a baseball bat, I'm not sure what our options are here.
Posted by: pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense at December 15, 2025 09:35 PM (Wt5PA)

File a lawsuit against the parents for allowing abuse of a minor, ask to attach their house to pay off any judgment.

I don’t know if you can win, but the point is to terrify them and make them waste a lot of money coming up with a defense. They may decide it’s better just to move away.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:53 PM (MXpA1)

308 To be fair, ahannibal lost about 25k men crossing the Alps in winter. Its why no one thought he would try it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)

He should have fattened them up on a diet of Alpo first.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:53 PM (npFr7)

309 pookysgirl, good luck. it's a shit situation, but you are doing something and it will get resolved.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:54 PM (g47mK)

310 Holy crap.

Pooky needs to protect his daughter. Period. And she needs to know it and see it.

Step up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 15, 2025 09:50 PM (6lvzU)

***

This. Nurse is spot on.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:54 PM (2WIwB)

311 If the little bastard has actually shot a cat, be advised that serial killers nearly all got their start killing and torturing animals, and act accordingly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:41 PM (npFr7)

That's what Pooky immediately said upon hearing that.

It's a small religious school in a tight-knit community (we literally went to school with Pookette's homeroom teacher). My not hearing back from the teacher yet probably means she's talking to his parents and/or the principal.

Pookette says he will keep saying more and more offensive/outrageous things until he gets a reaction. I have no idea if he killed a cat or not, I can see him saying it for a reaction then getting trapped in the lie.

Posted by: pookysgirl, being a mom at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (Wt5PA)

312 do Mason Jars.

Is that where you keep your "cigars"?
Posted by: JackStraw at

It's where I stash my ganja.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (sl73Y)

313 *something about it

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (g47mK)

314 Or... Huns, Vandals and Goths.

Oh my.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 15, 2025 09:48 PM (zZu0s)

Goths, shmoths.

Put on your lip gloss and listen to your Cure tapes, you wankers.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (aiBKy)

315 I'm sorry to admit the "loose shoes" thing is going whoosh, right over my head.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:53 PM (aiBKy)

Famously racist remark by Earl Butz, IIRC.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)

316 303 >>Any progress in finding the Brown University shooter?

No. But don't worry, they'll get busy any minute now.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:52 PM (viF8m)
_________________________

Was this guy's face totally covered? Because none of the identity politics zealots are telling us what color this guy was. And, on that note, I've not even seen a description of the guy (height, weight, unique characterestics etc.) It's almost like they don't want the public's assistance.

Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (dIske)

317 He wants what the Soviets wanted....warm water ports.
Posted by: weft cut loop
Isn't that all any of us want?
Posted by: BurtTC

I may have had my kinky indulgences in my wayward yout', but that was one I never…

Oh, you said warm water ports! I thought you said, um, nothing, carry on.

Posted by: mindful webworker - never miiiind at December 15, 2025 09:56 PM (lbDMw)

318 pookysgirl hates the "joke" defense
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Oh, yeah!

*whiney kid voice* "I was only kidding" . . .

Bullshit.

Posted by: JQ at December 15, 2025 09:57 PM (rdVOm)

319 Was this guy's face totally covered? Because none of the identity politics zealots are telling us what color this guy was. And, on that note, I've not even seen a description of the guy (height, weight, unique characterestics etc.) It's almost like they don't want the public's assistance.
Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (dIske)

From the photos released so far, I suspect it was Sasquatch

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2025 09:57 PM (rbvCR)

320 And, on that note, I've not even seen a description of the guy (height, weight, unique characterestics etc.) It's almost like they don't want the public's assistance.
Posted by: Orson at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (dIske)

For that matter, could be a woman, or some flavor of tranny.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:58 PM (npFr7)

321 300 My sister Dorcus also has Trumps Breath Stinks T Shurts if be anybody wants some foor the Hollydays.
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 15, 2025 09:51 PM (fUSwr)

Heh.
Only ever knew one woman named Dorcus. She was in theNavy. Drop dead gorgeous. Smart as hell roo.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB)

322 I may have had my kinky indulgences in my wayward yout', but that was one I never…

Oh, you said warm water ports! I thought you said, um, nothing, carry on.
Posted by: mindful webworker - never miiiind at December 15, 2025 09:56 PM (lbDMw)

They say if you do it right....

I've never seen it myself, but that's what they say.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 09:58 PM (aiBKy)

323 >>Was this guy's face totally covered? Because none of the identity politics zealots are telling us what color this guy was. And, on that note, I've not even seen a description of the guy (height, weight, unique characterestics etc.) It's almost like they don't want the public's assistance.

I've only seen a couple long distance videos, one from behind and one with only a brief frontal view and he was wearing a hat and what looked like a mask. He appeared light skinned from what I could see.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)

324 Famously racist remark by Earl Butz, IIRC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)

I'll have to look it up.

But what I meant by warm water ports was lady parts.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 10:00 PM (aiBKy)

325 I've only seen a couple long distance videos, one from behind and one with only a brief frontal view and he was wearing a hat and what looked like a mask. He appeared light skinned from what I could see.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)

The Black Bloc uniform.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 10:00 PM (npFr7)

326 I've only seen a couple long distance videos, one from behind and one with only a brief frontal view and he was wearing a hat and what looked like a mask.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)

Why we still think that masks are appropriate attire in public is beyond me. If I were a business owner, I would not allow mask wearing.

Why do colleges allow anonymity?

Don't answer that...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:01 PM (n9ltV)

327 Famously racist remark by Earl Butz, IIRC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)

I'll have to look it up.

But what I meant by warm water ports was lady parts.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 10:00 PM (aiBKy)

Ok, I looked it up. Seems that's what Butz was referring to as well.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2025 10:03 PM (Q/0pn)

328 What's really crazy to me is they still won't say what was going on in that classroom. Was it an exam or something else and if so what?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:03 PM (viF8m)

329 Why do colleges allow anonymity?

Don't answer that...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:01 PM

Colleges are asshoe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 10:04 PM (Wnv9h)

330 Why do colleges allow anonymity?

Don't answer that...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:01 PM (n9ltV).

Probably 15% of the students and faculty still wear masks at the University where I don't teach anymore, except for when I need bier money. They always made me edgy.
The University is also a gun free zone...except in my class. What the University didn't know, didn't hurt them.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:04 PM (2WIwB)

331 It's 10 pm. Do you know where your ONT is?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:05 PM (CJZqd)

332 The Brown U shooting, it was a review session for intro for intro to Econ class.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:06 PM (g47mK)

333 The University is also a gun free zone...except in my class. What the University didn't know, didn't hurt them.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2025 10:04 PM (2WIwB)

Fuckin' A!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:06 PM (n9ltV)

334 NO ONT NO PEACE

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 10:07 PM (Kt19C)

335 328 What's really crazy to me is they still won't say what was going on in that classroom. Was it an exam or something else and if so what?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:03 PM (viF8m)

One of the common practices these days is to create a zero-, low-, or mis-information environment that results in conspiracy theories so that The Narrative can be spun and anything else can be indirectly denied as conspiracy peddling.

Posted by: Everything is an Op at December 15, 2025 10:07 PM (u1qVW)

336 I heard the class room had something to do with Israel, presumably some sort of Israeli engineering, a co-op or something.
This got shut down quick.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 10:08 PM (sl73Y)

337 CBD ONT, I bet....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:09 PM (5lbLe)

338 334 NO ONT NO PEACE
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 10:07 PM (Kt19C)

But I just converted all my mason jar Molotov cocktails into makeshift humidors.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:10 PM (CJZqd)

339 OT, but stroking my chin thoughtfully, and my finger is covered with beard hairs. I've reached that stage of the process apparantly. Glad 4 y/o grandkid got to chop the tail.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 15, 2025 10:11 PM (sl73Y)

340 337 CBD ONT, I bet....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 15, 2025 10:09 PM (5lbLe)

MisHum was last week (and an hour late.)

Nood!

Posted by: tankdemon at December 15, 2025 10:12 PM (CJZqd)

341 NO ONT NO PEAS!

IF YOU WONT EAT YOUR PEAS HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:13 PM (MXpA1)

342 CBD ONT, I bet....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Content based on what was swept up after the Club ONT Christmas Party.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 15, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

343 Aw, this was a very nice post. Finding the time and actual effort
to create a good article… but what can I say… I put
things off a whole lot and never manage to get nearly anything done.

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