Daily Tech News 18 December 2025Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 17, 2025 [North Pole Rex]Trump Speech ThreadNature Lovers CafeAfter Months of Rumors and Speculation, Dan Bongino Announces He's Leaving the FBIShock: Somali Scammer Caught Perpetrating Another Somali ScamBrown University Releases Blurry Photos of Second Person Seen "in Proximity" of Actual Suspect"Big Fani" Willis Takes the Stand in State Inquiry Into Her Corrupt Persecution of TrumpTrump Announces Total Blockade On All Sanctioned Venezuelan Oil Tankers; Demands Venezuela Return "All Lands, Oil, and all other Assets they previously stole from us"Axios: Kamala Harris Is Leaning Towards Running Again in 2028; <br>Unnamed Democrats Are Attacking Gavin Newsom to Deny Him His CoronationWith Illegals Being Deported or Self-Deporting, Foreign Demand for Rental Properties Falls, and Rents Finally Start Falling as WellWednesday Morning RantMid-Morning Art ThreadThe Morning Report — 12/17/25Daily Tech News 17 December 2025Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 16, 2025 [Doof]Goat Lover CafeFederal 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 RunNYPost: Candace Owens Leaves a Trail of Enemies, and Lawsuits, Everywhere She GoesSecretary 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

Daily Tech News 18 December 2025

Top Story

Micron says the memory shortage will get worse before it gets better, and also that it won't get better if they have anything to say about it. (Tom's Hardware)

Micron has two factories under construction in Idaho due to come on line in 2027, and another planned in New York to be operational in 2030.

Even with those three new factories churning out chips they only expect to meet half to two thirds of demand.

In the meantime, though, the company posted a revenue increase of 57% over last year, so they don't really care about you and your money, as indicated by them shutting down their Crucial consumer brand after nearly 30 years.
And the second of my two new mini-PCs arrived today. I set up the first one last night - just plugged it in, turned it on, lied and told Windows I didn't have internet, and it works. It's pretty fast too, with none of the lag I get with my laptop.

Partly because the CPU is nearly twice as fast as the one in my laptop, partly because it's a clean install of Windows and doesn't have about 200 different applications installed yet. I'll fix that.

It really does have 64GB of RAM. 64GB of Crucial RAM, apparently, which is now a collectors item.

It's available for sale now on Minisforum's US store, but the price is about 70% higher than in Australia even after a 20% discount, so it's no bargain.

Update: Unnamed computer #2 is plugged in and working.

Tech News

The Corsair MP700 Pro XT is the new fastest consumer SSD. (Tom's Hardware)

15GB per second and 3.3 million IOPS, the equivalent to a RAID array of 25,000 hard drives.

And it's not much more expensive than PCIe 4.0 models. Not because it's cheap, but because the price increases in flash memory have overwhelmed the price increment for the faster PCIe 5.0 controller.
GitHub is not charging you $0.002 per minute for using your own hardware. (The Register)

They were planning to. Users were not impressed.
Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the Senate as the new administrator of NASA, where he will do... Stuff. (Politico)

Or more accurately, hand money to SpaceX for them to do stuff.
AI-generated code contains 70% more bugs than human-generated, and is twice as likely to introduce security vulnerabilities. (The Register)

In my experience, if you can precisely specify the requirements, and the AI can crib from public code in another programming language, and you can run the code in a sandbox where break-ins can't happen, and you're willing to do the testing, and the job is the sort of annoying boilerplate work of plugging two things together that don't really want to be plugged together, AI is useful.

In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.

But this kind of work wasn't much fun back when we didn't have AI, so I'm not sure we've made things worse.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Only -358 shopping days 'til last Christmas!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at December 18, 2025 04:02 AM (S3WL2)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 18, 2025 04:02 AM (sAmhv)

5 music is not.

Posted by: clarence at December 18, 2025 04:04 AM (S3WL2)

6 >>>In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.

Won't their being replaced by AI leave a dearth of trained junior team members who are prepared to be senior team members?

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

7 Good morning.

As a wise man once said three times fast: rubber baby buggy bumpers.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 18, 2025 04:09 AM (zO/xW)

8 Won't their being replaced by AI leave a dearth of trained junior team members who are prepared to be senior team members?
Posted by: m

I've been saying that since self-driving cars were the new thing.

Ok, a car will drive itself 99% of the time, and just leave the most dangerous 1% for the human driver. Who now has the skills of your average 15-year-old at the age of 48.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 04:10 AM (nhCoE)

9 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2025 04:10 AM (bQ4nt)

10 Gipsy Kings - Bamboléo

Very nice! I had always thought the lyric was "jambalay-o."

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS)

11 "Video not available in your country"

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2025 04:11 AM (bQ4nt)

12 Nevermind

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2025 04:11 AM (bQ4nt)

13 6 >>>In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.

Won't their being replaced by AI leave a dearth of trained junior team members who are prepared to be senior team members?
Posted by: m

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2025 04:12 AM (BLOW1)

14 olddog in mo - Yeah, I found another link that is only blocked in Russia.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2025 04:12 AM (BLOW1)

15 13 6 >>>In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.

Won't their being replaced by AI leave a dearth of trained junior team members who are prepared to be senior team members?
Posted by: m

Same as it ever was.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2025 04:12 AM (BLOW1)

Some corollary of the Peter Principle.

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

16 Maybe the junior programmers learn by debugging the AI code.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 04:14 AM (nhCoE)

17 Some corollary of the Peter Principle.
Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

Yes. Don't play with your peter at work. You'd be sexually harassing yourself, and that could make others uncomfortable.

Posted by: AI HR Advice Bot 6000 at December 18, 2025 04:19 AM (5F4PI)

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 17, 2025 [North Pole Rex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Santa knows who is naughty and who is nice.

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"No matter the ailment, the Wednesday ONT is the cure and sure to make you feel better."

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"Wasn't this in ONT Christmas season content last year?"

Damn right, it was.

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Hat tip to a Moron but no idea which one. If it was you, thank you!

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Got yer tree yet?

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Would be a good white elephant gift:

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Not all heroes wear capes:

NEW: Los Angeles man known as the 'Cone King' says he has removed 5000 illegal cones from the streets that residents use to reserve parking.

Joey Morales says he has been working to get illegal cones off the streets since 2023.

The vigilante parking enforcement officer now� pic.twitter.com/vGl2f3GQpi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 13, 2025

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ONT Department of Military Long Form Reading Material

Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere on Ace of Spades, but posting to make sure you see. Mandatory reading (since this is a semi-serious military blog at times).

A Week In The Pentagon - Chaos, Complexity and Hope

Many pull quotes but this one is a good example:

And here's the truth no one outside the building understands: often Trump himself doesn't know the decision in advance - and that is by design.
In the old model, a policy chief like Colby - if he wasn't drowned out entirely by the bureaucratic circus - would brief the President only after the internal machinery had already decided which ideas were "viable." By the time anything reached the Oval Office, the cake was half-baked.
Colby doesn't play that game. He encourages his team to present the President with multiple strategic pathways that share one overarching objective: put America first. Not metaphorically-literally. Then Trump chooses.
And once the President selects a strategy, everything changes.
In previous administrations, the moment a plan left the Oval Office, think tanks, senators, lobbyists, foreign service officials, intel chiefs, and a whole menagerie of Beltway fauna would descend on the National Security Council to tug at the plan, dilute it, reshape it, or kill it entirely. Every actor demanded their piece, their clause, their carve-out, their exception. Strategy, once released into the wild, rarely survived the stampede.
That era is over.
Trump doesn't ignore these players - he's altered significant strategies to accommodate strong objections from Congress and foreign allies - but he no longer allows them to hijack the core plan. They may comment. They may object. They may warn. They may advise. But they are no longer permitted to quietly amputate or rewrite the strategic heart before it beats.
The wonks are in charge again - but not the conference-circuit wonks with PhDs, hotel per diems, and NATO summit panels funded by NGOs with agendas buried in their footnotes. Not the pseudo-experts who present PowerPoints about imaginary futures.
The wonks in charge now are the ones who can take the boundless complexity of geopolitics and distill it down to America's core interests - those who can see the world not as a chessboard or a cocktail party but as a dynamic system requiring clarity, courage, and constant recalibration.
And for the first time in decades, the Pentagon is beginning to operate according to that principle.

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Obscure South Park Christmas special reference:

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ONT Department of Lego Construction

Anyone build their own Lego piece sorter? I didn't know this, but there is an entire sub-genre on YouTube of people making videos about making Lego piece sorters. I will admit, as a general rule, I am endlessly fascinated seeing many different solutions attempting to solve the same problem. (But I am also easily amused, so there is that...)

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ONT Department of Military History

Last Wednesday's ONT included the story of the Vietnam-era toilet bomb. But wait, there's more!

From The War Zone:

CWO3 Wayne Toth, a member of VFA-25, who shared his photos with us for this article, also gave us a little background on how the toilet-bomb was brought back to life:
"I am the Gunner in now VFA-25. We had a change of command and decided to replicate it. This time on a brand new BLOCK III Super Hornet.
One of my AO3s (AO3 Meagan Rickets) picked up a toilet from [the] marketplace, and I cut the steel, used Mk 76 lugs, made the tail assembly out of multiple dryer exhausts, and our Corrosion Control made the stickers."
The change of command ceremony occurred on September 16 at Naval Air Station Lemoore where the historic toilet recreation was so proudly displayed. During the ceremony, Commander Mark "IROC" Tedrow, a former Blue Angel, took over as skipper of VFA-25 from Commander Kristen Hansen. It was a perfect place for a fun callback to the proud history of the squadron.

Bonus answer to the question from last week: Why did the original toilet have an "E" on it?

The "E" seen on the toilet denotes the unit has been awarded the Battle Effectiveness Award.

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REMINDER

Saturday's Hobby Thread requires Horde participation. On last Saturday's Hobby Thread, we honored the Christmas ornament. Many among the Horde sent photos of ornaments from their collections to the Hobby Thread email address. It seemed to go well, so we're doing it again this Saturday. That means if you missed it the first time or you have another ornament to submit, you get another chance.

Could be something sentimental, something you made as a child or an adult, something special given to you, something you picked up on your travels, something whimsical or fun, something particularly novel, something really old, something handmade, something intricate or fancy, something irreverent and cheeky, etc.

If there is a story behind your photo, send a brief description. I may edit or inappropriately embellish, so be warned.

If you don't have an ornament, but have some other favorite festive Christmas decoration, send it in. Ornaments get priority but will feature other decorations if there is space.

THANK YOU!

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Popcorn anyone?

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

And the grand finale:

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The Brian Setzer Orchestra for the big ONT finish.

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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1 Yay, Presidential speech night ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 17, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

2 Yay! Santa Rex!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (p6hSe)

3 First?

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (VCgbV)

4 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

5 Safely on time, thanks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - smart military President at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (lbDMw)

6 Oy

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (CDX35)

7 Nice ONT, TRex. I always liked the Jesus and Santa duet on Mr Hankey's Christmas special.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 10:03 PM (6p0Jv)

8 2 Yay! Santa Rex!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM
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Second!! Hello COMM!

Posted by: TRex - table saw dino at December 17, 2025 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

9
Aren't we way overdue for a fake news "journalist" to write an article about how his 5-year old came to him crying about Trump starting a war with Venezuela, or something?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 10:05 PM (RXd75)

10 7 Nice ONT, TRex. I always liked the Jesus and Santa duet on Mr Hankey's Christmas special.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 10:03 PM
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Thanks! It is a clever plot line and a hidden South Park gem.

Posted by: TRex - her name is Rio and she dances on the sand at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

11
Any news on the Nick Reiner go-fund-me effort?

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (Y8DZL)

12 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

13 275 I have a buddy whose wife gets pissed at him because of his long conversations with Grok.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (KDPiq

Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (aPY1X)

14 Quality content, thanks

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 17, 2025 10:09 PM (xcxpd)

15
lulz!

San Francisco city Democrats just caved to blacks demanding $5 million "reparations." EACH!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 10:10 PM (kf2Dp)

16 People at car cruise nights pull that parking cone bullshit. They show up, park their car, and then put cones in a few more spots for friends that might show up later. Meanwhile people are showing up and can't find parking because of it. One dude finally said lick my ass and literally drove over the cones and parked. It caused a bit of a scene, but too bad. If you can't get there when everybody else does, tough shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (snZF9)

17 Cone dude would be beaten, shot, and stabbed taking someone's cone or folding chair in South Philly - especially after a snow storm.

Posted by: Heavt Meta at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (GTqXr)

18 Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (aPY1X)

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People are getting engaged to their AI "partners."

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (H/ViQ)

19 Thx TRex . Liked Trump's speech. Short and to the point and crapped all over the Dems. Might want to cut back on the Diet Cokes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 10:12 PM (LyrOO)

20 People are getting engaged to their AI "partners."

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (H/ViQ)

End Times.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (aPY1X)

21
A.I. is cheaper than the standard $20 rate.

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (Y8DZL)

22 >18 Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (aPY1X)

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People are getting engaged to their AI "partners."
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (H/ViQ)

Mrs. Meta has a single friend who refers to Chat GPT as 'Special G'. Creepy, sad, and pathetic at the same time.

Posted by: Heavt Meta at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (GTqXr)

23 What's this? What's this?
There's something very wrong
What's this?
There's people singing songs
What's this?
The streets are lined with little creatures laughing
Everybody seems so happy
Have I possibly gone daffy? What is this?
What's this?

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

24 Content perused, mostly consumed. Several classic re-run pieces tonight; Christmas is a good time for classics.

Lego sorting: When our boys were young, their Lego collection grew with every birthday and Christmas. They liked playing with them, but not so much cleaning them up. I remember once taking a snow shovel to their bedroom floor and dumping them in a large box. I did make an attempt to help them sort out and organize the collection, so you could find that three-dot red brick when you wanted it, but they ignored order, and I quickly gave it up. Somewhere in the catacombs is the whole pile of them.

Posted by: mindful webworker - smart military President at December 17, 2025 10:14 PM (lbDMw)

25
@ christy blinky
It's Hidalgo
https://www.imdb.com
/title/tt0317648/?ref_=
nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_21

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:14 PM (QVmho)

26 People at car cruise nights pull that parking cone bullshit. They show up, park their car, and then put cones in a few more spots for friends that might show up later.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Seriously, what do guys in car clubs talk about every weekend during the show season when they see the same blowhard short guys with the same vehicle as last week?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/)

27 Can you get alimony from a bot?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 10:17 PM (pkeXY)

28 27 Can you get alimony from a bot?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 10:17 PM (pkeXY

Nope. Also I am guessing being able to turn the bot off is a big draw.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:18 PM (aPY1X)

29 I wish someone would walk into my house and start chopping vegetables. But we know he would be a serial killer before I could thank him.

I have had serial killers in my thoughts now and then, thanks to one in college. I can't read about them or watch TV about them because it would trigger the only nightmare I have had in my entire life.

My husband got to be part of it, lucky guy. He was traveling a lot and our first house did not have an alarm. A lot of elderly deaf neighbors who would not hear me if something happened to me and our boys.

In my dream satan got into bed with me (it was my husband after a trip to the loo). I started screaming at 0200 and he thought someone was in the room, too. Put his arm around me (satan in dream) and I fought him screaming.

He had to turn on the light to wake me, and his arm was shredded. Probably still has scars and I should look.

This was because subconsciously he saw me reading the paper about the bastard's execution, saw all the girl's photos he killed, and commented that I looked like some of them (our hair, long, parted in the middle). That's all it took for the Nightmare of My Life trigger screamfest.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:18 PM (WONhk)

30 27 Can you get alimony from a bot?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Reparations, at least!

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 10:19 PM (Y8DZL)

31 I'm sure lawsuits against the AI tycoons will be incoming in droves.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:20 PM (aPY1X)

32 Nightmare before Christmas. I'm told it's charming, or something, but 45 seconds of the clip above is all I've ever seen of it. And yet, I survive.
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History Guy on Christmas at the White House, including his going there himself this year. (22:01) https://youtu.be/YeI7IW_rzfE
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Cowboy Kent Rollins: Must Make Christmas Morning - French Toast Casserole and Gooey Apple Cinnamon Rolls (21:3

Haven't watched it yet, so I can't tell you if the French Toast Casserole is drenched in Maple Syrup (in honor of today being Maple Syrup Day, someone said).
https://youtu.be/plk2tLBV5fw

Posted by: mindful webworker - hot chocolate or egg nog? Decisions, decisions... at December 17, 2025 10:20 PM (lbDMw)

33 Pittsburgh police scanner - "traffic flagger"??

Posted by: mindful webworker - he wondered at December 17, 2025 10:21 PM (lbDMw)

34
I'm worried I'm hallucinating. I just saw a trailer for a movie with Hugh Jackman playing Neil Diamond. That can't be real, can it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

35 Thanks for the holiday ONT, T-Rex!

Love the dino Christmas tree! Surely that is featured in your home. If not, it should be!

And thanks to the Pittsburgh scanner - never fails to amuse and amaze!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 17, 2025 10:22 PM (kB9dk)

36 35 Love the dino Christmas tree! Surely that is featured in your home. If not, it should be!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 17, 2025 10:22 PM
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Good evening LS!

Unfortunately, I have been reliably informed by the local authority that the TRex Christmas tree has no home here. I think that means a 39 foot tall outdoor version still has a chance, but I might be reading that wrong...

Posted by: TRex - so you're saying there is a chance? at December 17, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

37 I'm worried I'm hallucinating. I just saw a trailer for a movie with Hugh Jackman playing Neil Diamond. That can't be real, can it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

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He's not playing Neil Diamond. He's playing some guy from a Neil Diamond cover band.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 10:25 PM (H/ViQ)

38 Seriously, what do guys in car clubs talk about every weekend during the show season when they see the same blowhard short guys with the same vehicle as last week?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/)

A wide range of shit. What people are working on, other projects, some have multiple cars and bring a different one. All different shit really. A lot isn't even related to cars. I only do a few a year at this point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 10:26 PM (snZF9)

39 Unfortunately, I have been reliably informed by the local authority that the TRex Christmas tree has no home here. I think that means a 39 foot tall outdoor version still has a chance, but I might be reading that wrong...
Posted by: TRex - so you're saying there is a chance?
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I can assure you that you are indeed reading that wrong...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 17, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

40 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 17, 2025 10:26 PM (sAmhv)

41 Get real books on dead tree - AI is turning the intertubes into massive server farms of useless garbage while jacking electrical costs.

Looking for more information on a topic I 'binged' up a question I already know the answer to -
Can flare fittings be used for AC lines?

Most of the first two or three pages of hits came from webpages I never heard of before. All had verbose repetitive and similar articles including a signature statement -
You cannot use flare fittings for AC lines, they can only be used for DC lines.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 10:27 PM (/lPRQ)

42 He's not playing Neil Diamond. He's playing some guy from a Neil Diamond cover band.

Hoping it's a "Wolverine" crossover flick. Imagine seeing people getting shredded as he sings "Sweet Caroline."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 17, 2025 10:27 PM (lUFok)

43 Good evening morons ותודה דינו!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:27 PM (9ipOP)

44 Howdy Hordelings!
Nice ONT ya got there, T Rex!

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

45 Bottom video, I thought was the Brian Stelter Orchestra (aka Mr. Potato Head) haha.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 10:29 PM (y171U)

46 Love the manger scene / two T-Rex's fighting. Once you see the dinos, you can't unsee them...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 17, 2025 10:29 PM (kB9dk)

47 Neil Diamond is an American Treasure.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:29 PM (KDPiq)

48 So, can you snuggle with your AI partner? Does he/she diddle you? Does he/she wear sexy underwear?
I need to know these things before I 'hook up'...😶...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:30 PM (p6hSe)

49 That Duran Duran video is very iconic. When MTV started it got very heavy rotation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:30 PM (9ipOP)

50 Seriously, what do guys in car clubs talk about every weekend during the show season when they see the same blowhard short guys with the same vehicle as last week?

Posted by: Tonypete

how having something to do that women have not messed with is fun? Tits, boobs, things guys find interesting

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:30 PM (lBwjM)

51 Rudolph the Red Nosed TRex, had a very shiny nose, ...

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 17, 2025 10:31 PM (S/Y4j)

52 It's amazing that once you start looking for them you find T-rex everywhere.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM (9ipOP)

53 44 Nice ONT ya got there, T Rex!

Posted by: Doof at December 17, 2025 10:28 PM
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Senior Disco! Good evening.

Posted by: TRex - howdy ho! at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

54 Rudolph's red nose was caused by his alcoholism

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM (LyrOO)

55 I saw a Neil Diamond cover band at a MSFT company meeting, I think they were called 'Mega Diamond'.

They were magically good. No kidding. Got me into the real thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 17, 2025 10:34 PM (xcxpd)

56 52 It's amazing that once you start looking for them you find T-rex everywhere.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM
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Well, it is difficult to blend in, but we do our best...

Posted by: TRex - discreet dino at December 17, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

57 "Later on, we'll perspire,
'Is that A/C? Turn it higher!'
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 10:36 PM (wzUl9)

58 It's amazing that once you start looking for them you find T-rex everywhere.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:33 PM (9ipOP)

Saw this bad boy on Monday:

https://tinyurl.com/yxfm65fy

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:37 PM (npFr7)

59 'The Christmas lights are like Epstein. They don't hang themselves."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)

60 T-Rex, the Great Ball Contraption video is insanely great.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 10:37 PM (y171U)

61 The population of New Mexico is 2 million. That roughly translates into a million voters of which roughly 60% would vote Democrat no matter what. Half a million rednecks and this place could go full Texas.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions
---

You find the minerals they'll come and get 'em.

In the meantime, as you say. They will plant home sites, build towns, and outvote the Dems.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 10:37 PM (INl5o)

62 Unfortunately, I have been reliably informed by the local authority that the TRex Christmas tree has no home here. I think that means a 39 foot tall outdoor version still has a chance, but I might be reading that wrong...
Posted by: TRex - so you're saying there is a chance? at December 17, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
* * * *
aww shucks

*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 17, 2025 10:38 PM (kB9dk)

63 Rocket Lab - Electron - Don't Be Such A Square - LC-2 - Wallops FF, VA, USA

https://www.youtube.com/live/hEorIU6EuNY

Launch is scheduled for midnight EST.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 17, 2025 10:39 PM (S/Y4j)

64 That could be an 8N except the generator's on the wrong side.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 10:39 PM (INl5o)

65 Miss Linda saw the T-rexes before the peaceful scene in the manger. Okay, she thought it was an alligator before she thought of a dinosaur, but still.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 17, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9)

66 DOOF! Look at you hangin' out on a Wednesday! I suppose Doggo will be peeing on the Dino water hydrant any time now ...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:39 PM (p6hSe)

67 Who's taking the bets that TRex gets dropped in Times Square this New Years Eve?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 17, 2025 10:40 PM (S/Y4j)

68 Neil Diamond is an American Treasure.
Posted by: Opinion
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While motorcyling up some two lane back road in Kentucky, I noted signs, 'This section of rt.(?) maintained by The Neil Diamond Fan Club'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:41 PM (XeU6L)

69 Now who among hasn’t had the sudden urge to chop a stranger’s vegetables?
Happens to me all the time.

They tell me my probation will be over in four more years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:42 PM (6ydKt)

70 Due to Global Warming:

Russia has, for the first time, deployed its entire fleet of eight nuclear-powered icebreakers simultaneously to maintain winter navigation in the Gulf of Ob and the Yenisei Gulf
_Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping)@mercoglianos

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 10:43 PM (INl5o)

71 After a big Chicago snowstorm, homeowners shovel out and "save" their street parking spaces with a plain folding chair. Woe betide the driver who dares to move that placeholder:

https://tinyurl.com/2nm939sr

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (Qab63)

72 Thought I would send you guys an update on all of the "Health Stuff" that has transpired over the last week:

I have a "pump fill'" scheduled first thing Friday morning, then we will be on our way out of town. Thankfully, this fill is just Heparin and saline to keep the pump flowing for the next 2 weeks; when we get back, I have another fill scheduled to start the new chemo medication which will hopefully do the trick and get the rest of these tumors knocked off.

The best Christmas present of all for me (well, us) is that if this pump thing works, there is a better than average chance that I could go 2-3 YEARS before we have to start worrying about this beast coming back! And who knows what advancements may be made in that time period?

It truly is a Christmas miracle, and we are so incredibly blessed to have access to such stellar medical care right in our own back yard. We are also blessed to have SO MANY people saying prayers on our behalf. We are truly grateful for each and every one of you.

We hope that everyone has the Merriest of Christmases/Happiest of Hanukahs/Festive of Festivuses/etc. with those they love.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

73 Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (aPY1X)

I wouldn't have needed to do that if you had shown any interest in discussing the effect of glaciation closing the Drake Passage and what effect that would have had on the paleoclimates in South America during the Bolling–Allerod Interstadial, and Younger Dryas periods. Karen!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (rbvCR)

74 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:41 PM (XeU6L)

Deep Purple did Kentucky Rain on their second album.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (KDPiq)

75 Oh, and the surgeon's office called in an Rx for Hydrocodone (in lieu of the Oxy). I took my first dose at 2:45 pm this afternoon, and I am happy to report that I am feeling SO much less sore!

Better living through chemistry 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM (SRRAx)

76 That could be an 8N except the generator's on the wrong side.

Posted by: Braenyard
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This...this is why I hang out here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM (XeU6L)

77 Looks like a stylized Porsche tractor up top.

Posted by: Machinery Pete at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM (oftw2)

78 I wouldn't have needed to do that if you had shown any interest in discussing the effect of glaciation closing the Drake Passage and what effect that would have had on the paleoclimates in South America during the Bolling–Allerod Interstadial, and Younger Dryas periods. Karen!
Posted by: Kin

I have some very smart, uber smart women in my circle, no matter how smart they are, outside of work, they talk about stupid girl things.

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:46 PM (lBwjM)

79 Teresa, great news that you are getting pain relief!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 17, 2025 10:46 PM (6p0Jv)

80 I don’t know what I was thinking

Kentucky Woman. Sheesh.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:46 PM (KDPiq)

81 That could be an 8N except the generator's on the wrong side.

Posted by: Braenyard
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This...this is why I hang out here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM (XeU6L)

I thought maybe a Cockshutt 20?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:47 PM (npFr7)

82 Yeah, the newest reason to get divorced. Cheating on your partner with an AI chat slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

it is funny because that is why some woman might divorce a man now, in 10 years men will be divorcing women for robots

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:48 PM (lBwjM)

83 Teresa - Continuing thoughts and prayers

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:48 PM (XeU6L)

84 Bongino could write a book about his time with the FBI, but I doubt that he will. Class act and classified material stays that way.. He turned over his radio show to another guy when he left. I wonder what's in the works

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 10:49 PM (Qab63)

85 TRex Christmas tree is fantastic. Great content, Dino!

Posted by: scampydog at December 17, 2025 10:49 PM (cqHAh)

86 Thanks for the ONT Rex.

Got nothing right now but the evening is young.

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 10:49 PM (25kuG)

87 >>Thanks! It is a clever plot line and a hidden South Park gem.

Many years ago when the internet was just getting it's act together I was at the UUNet office in MD not long before Christmas. As we were leaving the meeting we walked past a cube area where a bunch of the network engineers were gathered around a computer watching something and laughing their asses off.

We went over and they played it for us.

https://tinyurl.com/y2k4n3af

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)

88 Because this is the best place to discuss furries...today in the NY Post there is an article about a NY college approving a furrie club. Just when I hoped they were fading into a bad memory.

The photos of the weirdos are what you'd expect sans little furry costumes. All homely if not ugly of both sexes. Or obese and ugly. Or misfits and weirdos. Dirty hair. Wearing flannel pj's. You know they stink to high heaven.

I'd heard of all black student unions, but this is too far. I'd yank my kid out of there faster than he could sew his furry costume and keep him in the basement til he saw the light.

Oh, some are called Bronies, or men that dress up like My Little Ponies. Their subculture is to create their thing or fursona. Gag. And to "create" little cartoons.

At this college there are 17 retards who had a camp fire, where one guy looks like he wants to melt himself like a marshmallow he's so stoned.The ugly girl next to him looks like she wants to help melt him. I just don't know, y'all...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (WONhk)

89 Bongino could write a book about his time with the FBI, but I doubt that he will. Class act and classified material stays that way.. He turned over his radio show to another guy when he left. I wonder what's in the works
Posted by: JM

My 9 months at the FBI / How to quit when the going gets tough

Dan Bongino

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (lBwjM)

90 77 Looks like a stylized Porsche tractor up top.
Posted by: Machinery Pete at December 17, 2025 10:45 PM
***
It is! Well spotted.

Posted by: TRex - mechanical dino at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

91
I thought maybe a Cockshutt 20?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That *would* get the starter on the pictured side.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (XeU6L)

92 Seeing a headline that Ella Hook was shot in the head ten times.

If that’s true there is no doubt she was targeted.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (6ydKt)

93 f that’s true there is no doubt she was targeted.
Posted by: Speakin

or he had horrible but consistent aim

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:52 PM (lBwjM)

94 Time!
Oh so wonderful news girl❣❣❣!
You are such a wonderful, positive girl!
May you also have a wonderful holiday season.
We, all of us crazy Hordsters, love and pray for you always!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 10:52 PM (p6hSe)

95 Fantastic music selections tonight! I hadn’t heard The Tractors before, love them!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 10:52 PM (idwIE)

96 Ella Cook.

damn iPad.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:52 PM (6ydKt)

97 Feel better soon and heal, Teresa!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:53 PM (WONhk)

98 I’m no expert but it seems you’d have to reload most pistols to shoot somebody ten times.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:54 PM (6ydKt)

99
Actually, I am watching the "Disassembly" of California after 20+ years of total and I do mean TOTAL Democrat rule.

I'm hanging out to see what an Armageddon actually looks like.

Have the exit totally planned out.

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 10:54 PM (25kuG)

100 92 Seeing a headline that Ella Hook was shot in the head ten times.

If that’s true there is no doubt she was targeted.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (6ydKt)

Oh, how do parents live with this horror?

Catch this bastard! Come on!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:54 PM (WONhk)

101 I see where this is going. For amusement, pic of Lambo tractor:

https://shorturl.at/k2oql

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:54 PM (XeU6L)

102 72 We hope that everyone has the Merriest of Christmases/Happiest of Hanukahs/Festive of Festivuses/etc. with those they love.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

Merry Christmas Teresa!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 10:55 PM (y171U)

103 It is! Well spotted.
Posted by: TRex - mechanical dino at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

Much better match than the Cockshutt!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7)

104
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

The movie you were looking for is at 25. Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen. Made in 2004.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (QVmho)

105 Great news Teresa!!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 17, 2025 10:57 PM (VCgbV)

106
{TiFW}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 10:57 PM (A0sqA)

107 Poor Bruce Willis. At least he has money and family to take care of him. Some aren’t so lucky.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:57 PM (KDPiq)

108 I was wearing that Nakatomi Christmas party t-shirt last week. I got it last year for Christmas from my daughter. I gave her a Nakatomi Advent calendar that has Hans Gruber falling off the tower.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 17, 2025 10:58 PM (GGatE)

109 "bidi bidi bidi, we'll miss you Buck"

Gil Gerard has passed away at the age of 82 due to cancer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

110 92 Seeing a headline that Ella Hook was shot in the head ten times.

If that’s true there is no doubt she was targeted.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:51 PM (6ydKt)

Disgusting and sickening if true.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 10:59 PM (y171U)

111 That Duran Duran video is very iconic. When MTV started it got very heavy rotation.
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December of 1982, I stayed at my girlfriends parent's house for 2 days. They had this new channel MTV. The 2 most memorable videos I watched were the Duran Duran video and...Kiss, with "I Love it Loud".

The Duran Duran vid was mesmerizing because it was new and current. The Kiss video caught my eye because rock radio had tried to pretend that Kiss didn't exist. Yes, I mean that. Kiss was a HUGE band in the mid-70s, BUT rock radio shortly thereafter tried to ignore them, as if they weren't pure enough to get airplay like Styx, REO, Journey, etc.

When I saw that Kiss video, I smiled--Kiss still lived.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 10:59 PM (Cjcf6)

112 No article on the story.
It’s from an interview Steve Bannon did with Jack Posobiec who had some sources telling him this.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 10:59 PM (6ydKt)

113 Edgy tonight

Santa Anna winds blowing hard and dry across SoCal.

LAPD hates these winds...Domestic Violence calls spike and murders happen up tempo.

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 11:00 PM (25kuG)

114 The movie you were looking for is at 25. Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen. Made in 2004.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (QVmho)

One of my favorites. Viggo has made some good movies. Eastern Promises, History of Violence, Far From Men. Just watched Appaloosa last night. I wasn’t aware of this relatively new Western.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:00 PM (KDPiq)

115 The movie you were looking for is at 25. Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen. Made in 2004.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (QVmho)

Which is based on a true story as I understand it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 11:01 PM (6ydKt)

116 @88 yup at Suny Plattsburgh. (SUNY Albany myself). Though to be fair Plattsburgh is absolutely frigid in the the winter and a fur suit might help

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 11:02 PM (LyrOO)

117 I’m no expert but it seems you’d have to reload most pistols to shoot somebody ten times.
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Actually there are many 9mm pistols that come with 12-17 capacity, and some .380 semi-autos with more than 10 round capacities. There is a strange .22 pistol out there with 30+ capacity. And I'm sure some 10mm pistols have capacities with more than 10 rounds available.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

118 The Beretta 92F has a 20rd magazine.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:04 PM (2GVsD)

119 Actually there are many 9mm pistols that come with 12-17 capacity, and some .380 semi-autos with more than 10 round capacities. There is a strange .22 pistol out there with 30+ capacity. And I'm sure some 10mm pistols have capacities with more than 10 rounds available.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

FN Five7even?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)

120 One of my favorites. Viggo has made some good movies. Eastern Promises, History of Violence, Far From Men. Just watched Appaloosa last night. I wasn’t aware of this relatively new Western.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:00 PM (KDPiq)

Capitan Alatriste is an early film, all in Spanish, but it has all the sword work and intrigue you would want, and the final battle is why pike squares are effective and why they suck when the enemy has cannon.

Capitan Alatriste does not play fair when it comes to killin'

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 11:07 PM (rbvCR)

121 Great content, TRex! I'm sitting in my recliner, reading the ONT, and listening to my Persian hairball snore. The little monster can really rattle the eaves when he gets going. The black short hair snores much more quietly, just enough to make me look around wondering what that little buzz-z-z is.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 17, 2025 11:07 PM (DK5Sh)

122 There is a 33 round glock mag .

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:07 PM (KDPiq)

123 Seems like a rage killing, though.
Almost like a crazy Ex-BF or stalker.

Or a whackjob tranny truing to make a point.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 11:08 PM (6ydKt)

124 119 Actually there are many 9mm pistols that come with 12-17 capacity, and some .380 semi-autos with more than 10 round capacities. There is a strange .22 pistol out there with 30+ capacity. And I'm sure some 10mm pistols have capacities with more than 10 rounds available.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

FN Five7even?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)

Kel-Tec:
https://shorturl.at/cHXQt

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 11:09 PM (ULPxl)

125 If you want to get really frisky though it will blow any chances of any innocent defense, there is a 30rd stick magazine for a Beretta 9mm SMG that will also fit the 92F.

Use only in case of zombies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)

126 How about a 100 round mag?

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 11:11 PM (25kuG)

127 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD

I have a few for my Storm.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 11:12 PM (KDPiq)

128 My 9 months at the FBI / How to quit when the going gets tough

Dan Bongino
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (lBwjM)

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Interesting take on the Bongino resignation. I have an open mind, but there's a lot we don't know.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 11:12 PM (tAhJv)

129 At this college there are 17 retards who had a camp fire, where one guy looks like he wants to melt himself like a marshmallow he's so stoned.The ugly girl next to him looks like she wants to help melt him. I just don't know, y'all...
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:50 PM (WONhk)

If even one of those clowns were in ROTC, I'd throw them out.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:13 PM (2WIwB)

130 17 retards?

Brown University administration?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 11:14 PM (2GVsD)

131
The movie you were looking for is at 25. Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen. Made in 2004.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:56 PM (QVmho)

Nope...that made sense. This was had very little plot except revenge from the killing of his wife. I don't think we even saw the wife, but we have brain damage from it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 11:14 PM (WONhk)

132 200 round drum for your SAW.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 11:14 PM (/lPRQ)

133 This was a fantastic ONT took me this long to watch all of it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 11:15 PM (idwIE)

134 This was a fantastic ONT took me this long to watch all of it!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 11:15 PM (idwIE)

Sheesh. Faster than me.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:16 PM (2WIwB)

135 Hey....are we on the gun thread now?!
What day is this...I'm old....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 11:17 PM (p6hSe)

136 130 17 retards?

Brown University administration?
-----

No matter how much I try to think that I've seen it before, it still surprises me how much incompetence can be assembled inside the same entity.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 11:17 PM (Cjcf6)

137 I've picked up two more Quark Linux microcomputers, I now have complete mini sysadmin test environment in the space of an Altoids tin that draws a total of 4 watts.

So far, I've just set up master/slave(s), heartbeat and webservers that serve up system info. And just writing different scripts to do simple sysadmin things.

I'm going to turn turn it into a domain controller, run slack for internal messaging, and just generally tinker around.

It's so funny, I have an external drive connected to the master and and all four computers can sit right on top if it quite comfortably.

It's positively cute.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 11:17 PM (XV/Pl)

138 The Paolo is, how you say, renowned for his 15-shot magazine and rapid reload ability.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 17, 2025 11:19 PM (wVcYX)

139 Interesting take on the Bongino resignation. I have an open mind, but there's a lot we don't know.
Posted by: JM in

he has quit, or announced he's going to , why? He is full of piss and vinegar about how he's going to do things, gets a job to do those things and then quits. How does somebody who professes to love his country so much, who vows to get to the bottom of things, decide, ehh, I am quitting here?

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:20 PM (L8VMA)

140 Kel-Tec:
https://shorturl.at/cHXQt
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 11:09 PM (ULPxl)

That's a nifty little pistol, Helena!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

141
A vacuum cleaner sorts LEGOS right well. They were on the floor; now they are in the bag.

Change out the filled bag and start with a new one. Build your LEGO fort with vacuum cleaner bags filled with LEGO pieces and bonded to one another using a quality mortar.

No arbitrary rectilinear grid spacing rules FTW!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 17, 2025 11:22 PM (xG4kz)

142 Wasn't Bongino fighting some serious medical stuff awhile back?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:22 PM (2WIwB)

143 I don't remember what Bongino's job was, was it important?

If it was, he didn't leave much of an impression....

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 11:24 PM (XV/Pl)

144 How about a 100 round mag?

Posted by: Nightwatch at December 17, 2025 11:11 PM (25kuG)

The dude who shot Ella Hook should be executed with one. The Thompson 100 rd C-drum comes to mind, at about 5 feet. Scrape him up with a stick and a spoon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 11:24 PM (snZF9)

145 How does somebody who professes to love his country so much, who vows to get to the bottom of things, decide, ehh, I am quitting here?
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:20 PM (L8VMA)

Maybe he wasn't allowed to do anything?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 17, 2025 11:26 PM (uQesX)

146 How does somebody who professes to love his country so much, who vows to get to the bottom of things, decide, ehh, I am quitting here?
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:20 PM (L8VMA)

Maybe he wasn't allowed to do anything?
Posted by: Orang

he's going to do a fucking lot less now.

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:27 PM (ncAq7)

147 That’s the attitude Teresa. No give up in you. May God bless you and keep you

Posted by: Javems at December 17, 2025 11:27 PM (8I4hW)

148 he's going to do a fucking lot less now.
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 11:27 PM (ncAq7)

So, he's running for Congress?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 17, 2025 11:28 PM (uQesX)

149 Messrs Smith et Wesson have just introduced their own version of the 30-round .22 magnum. I have the Kel-Tec, and just got the S&W for my sister (good trade wouldn't you say).

It is, of course, marginal for 'home defense,' but way better than .22. It shoots flat, has long range for a pistol, is easy to aim, has essentially no recoil. Jokesters call it the "Poor man's five-seven." When fully loaded, it has a big-pistol feel, which can be good. Since it's mid-sized, it's not ideal for concealed carry. For a holster, it's still lighter than any medium caliber pistol -- but if you want to use a laser sight on the rail, you might have a hard time finding a holster to fit.

I'd given my sister a 686 revolver years ago, a .357 loaded with .38, and although I think of it as an excellent piece, it was just too much gun for her and she wouldn't take it out to practice. I'm looking forward to her shooting hell out of the .22 mag.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 17, 2025 11:28 PM (zdLoL)

150 Evenin’, All. What did the Bad Orange Man say?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:29 PM (77rzZ)

151 If even one of those clowns were in ROTC, I'd throw them out.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:13 PM (2WIwB)

I can't believe they exist. If they were in junior high and drawing cartoons (without the little outfits and what they call sex), well, ok. But go outside and get some Vitamin D and wash your hair!

The article reads that all are under 25yrs, so maybe they will fade away without reproducing.

I know I'd point and mock them and probably be arrested. But totally worth it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 11:30 PM (WONhk)

152 Oh, I think I recognize Santa's tractor above, and it is a Ferrari.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 17, 2025 11:31 PM (zdLoL)

153 142 Some kind of cancer.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:31 PM (77rzZ)

154
Hey....are we on the gun thread now?!
What day is this...I'm old....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Two streams merged in the snowy woods.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 11:31 PM (pkeXY)

155
At this college there are 17 retards who had a camp fire, where one guy looks like he wants to melt himself like a marshmallow he's so stoned.The ugly girl next to him looks like she wants to help melt him. I just don't know, y'all...
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

This is Zork, right?

>
> get flamethrower
> I see no flamethrower here; try the oil lamp on the nearby stump
> get oil lamp
> done
> open oil lamp
> done
> anoint those most in need of cleansing with oil from lamp
> done
> push the anointed ones into the fire circle
> toast s'mores
> I see no chocolate here
>

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 17, 2025 11:33 PM (xG4kz)

156 Every thread becomes a boob thread first.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:34 PM (77rzZ)

157 I guess it's sleepy time...I DO like my KelTec though...
Good night pals😉

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 17, 2025 11:34 PM (p6hSe)

158 I know I'd point and mock them and probably be arrested. But totally worth it!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 11:30 PM (WONhk)

Eff 'em.
I'd do some serious eye rolling. Then I'd spit and laugh as I walk away.
This is catering to the continued infantilization of American college youth. It's bullsh*t.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:36 PM (2WIwB)

159 Nah sorry, Santa's tractor is a Porsche:
https://tinyurl.com/272ur649

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 17, 2025 11:44 PM (zdLoL)

160 There is a.launch scheduled for the top of the hour:

https://www.youtube.com/live/hEorIU6EuNY

Rocket Lab - Electron - Don't Be Such A Square - LC-2 - Wallops FF, VA, USA - Space Affairs Live

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 17, 2025 11:44 PM (VtIDj)

161 Catch this bastard! Come on!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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I think they know who he is.
They are covering for him.
or themselves

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 11:44 PM (INl5o)

162 Eff 'em.
I'd do some serious eye rolling. Then I'd spit and laugh as I walk away.
This is catering to the continued infantilization of American college youth. It's bullsh*t.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:36 PM (2WIwB)

You'd be arrested. They'd cry if you called them pansy-assed losers and go run to the college president and get you expelled.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 17, 2025 11:44 PM (uQesX)

163 Pittsburgh Scanner
Marshall-Shadeland. Marshall Ave. Caller said that their neighbor broke in and stole their Christmas Tree.

Fuzzy green guy, kinda pot-bellied?

Posted by: mikeski of whoville at December 17, 2025 11:47 PM (nhCoE)

164
Nope...that made sense. This was had very little plot except revenge from the killing of his wife. I don't think we even saw the wife, but we have brain damage from it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

This is all i got now....
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
If the movie felt more like a "Spaghetti Western" (gritty, stylized, and high-energy music), this is likely it.
The Plot: A young man (Bill) witnesses the brutal murder of his family (including his mother and sister) as a child.
The Journey: He grows up and sets out on a horse across the desert to hunt down the five men responsible.
The Detail: He teams up with an older gunfighter (played by Lee Van Cleef) who has his own score to settle with the same gang.

It's an AI result, so your mileage may vary.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 11:47 PM (QVmho)

165 Conservative Treehouse reports that numerous left wing civil rights groups asked Brown to disable its surveillance cameras months ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y2sm5k6p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:49 PM (looXz)

166 I’m tired of this “launch in x minutes” bullshit. Wake me when these launches are actually going somewhere.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:49 PM (77rzZ)

167 Conservative Treehouse reports that numerous left wing civil rights groups asked Brown to disable its surveillance cameras months ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y2sm5k6p
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:49 PM (looXz)

To facilitate their client groups in committing uncivil wrongs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 11:51 PM (npFr7)

168 Brilliant enginering design with Legos. So creative and it all works!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 11:51 PM (82+jJ)

169 Wasn't Bongino fighting some serious medical stuff awhile back?
Posted by: Diogenes

pookysgirl said "I just hope his cancer isn't back" in the thread about him earlier today.

Posted by: mikeski at December 17, 2025 11:51 PM (nhCoE)

170 Damned Miracle on 34th Street.
The scene where santa signs to the deaf girl really gets to me.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 11:52 PM (2WIwB)

171 G’night, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 11:53 PM (77rzZ)

172
Good night, Hordians.

*turns out lights*
*slips out door*
*falls down stairs*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 11:54 PM (tgvbd)

173 The weather forecast shows a not white Christmas. I am trying to keep myself from being bummed out as obviously it should not matter. But normally we have snow and it does mean a lot to me.

Someday we will have snow. Probably on Easter.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 11:55 PM (WONhk)

174 This story about awful Fani Willis made me laugh. If I were a lawyer you couldn't pay me enough to represent Fani Willis:

https://tinyurl.com/yckafedp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:58 PM (looXz)

175 The dude who shot Ella Hook should be executed with one. The Thompson 100 rd C-drum comes to mind, at about 5 feet. Scrape him up with a stick and a spoon.
Posted by: Berserker

Scrape him up? We gotta eat, too!

Posted by: a murder of crows at December 17, 2025 11:59 PM (nhCoE)

176 >> Wake me when these launches are actually going somewhere.

Wait about 50 days. If, *if* it goes as scheduled, Artemis II will launch then for a crewed lunar flyby.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:01 AM (w6EFb)

177 Scrape him up? We gotta eat, too!
Posted by: a murder of crows at December 17, 2025 11:59 PM (nhCoE)

If the killer is a muzzie, which seems likely, feed the scraps to the hogs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2025 12:02 AM (npFr7)

178 https://youtu.be/Qr0-7Ds79zo?t=6

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:08 AM (rdVOm)

179 So are we done with Aeneas?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2025 12:09 AM (JkO4W)

180 Bulg, I wanna see the big magnet that cleans up all the space junk. Of maybe a Bissel sponsored giant vac.

Posted by: MkY at December 18, 2025 12:11 AM (q6tQZ)

181 174 This story about awful Fani Willis made me laugh. If I were a lawyer you couldn't pay me enough to represent Fani Willis:

https://tinyurl.com/yckafedp
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 11:58 PM (looXz)

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Well wait one minute there missy. How much "enough" are we talking here?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2025 12:13 AM (JkO4W)

182 Bulg, I wanna see the big magnet that cleans up all the space junk. Of maybe a Bissel sponsored giant vac.
Posted by: MkY at December 18, 2025 12:11 AM (q6tQZ)

a vacuum doesn't work in . . . .umn, you know what I mean

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2025 12:13 AM (rbvCR)

183 https://youtu.be/Qr0-7Ds79zo?t=6
Posted by: JQ

https://youtu.be/K4t6mY47ekc?t=6

Posted by: mikeski, mon at December 18, 2025 12:14 AM (nhCoE)

184 a vacuum doesn't work in . . . .umn, you know what I mean
Posted by: Kindltot

Yeah, what was I thinking?
Giant laser? Zap everything into nothingness?

Posted by: MkY at December 18, 2025 12:15 AM (q6tQZ)

185 Bulg, I wanna see the big magnet that cleans up all the space junk. Of maybe a Bissel sponsored giant vac.
Posted by: MkY

a vacuum doesn't work in . . . .umn, you know what I mean
Posted by: Kindltot

The Mega Maid in Spaceballs was a lie???

Posted by: mikeski thinks that sucks and blows at December 18, 2025 12:15 AM (nhCoE)

186
Look up all the proposals for clearing space junk. There's a bunch of 'em, and lasers are indeed one method.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

187 Home Stallone II by Skybrows

Tim Pool, MoistCritical, Asmondgold, Nux, SmugAlana, Hasan Piker, Hasan's doggie, Kirsche, Leaflit, Joe Rogaine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WZ1Fe1rsug

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2025 12:17 AM (2GVsD)

188 Posted by: mikeski, mon

LOL! That was great! Thanks.

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

189 Conrad Black: China's Expanding Influence Rekindles US Engagement In Latin America

Dec 17, 2025 - 06:15 PM
Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times

https://tinyurl.com/47ek74cp

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:19 AM (INl5o)

190 Bulg, I wanna see the big magnet that cleans up all the space junk. Of maybe a Bissel sponsored giant vac.
Posted by: MkY

a vacuum doesn't work in . . . .umn, you know what I mean
Posted by: Kindltot

The Mega Maid in Spaceballs was a lie???
Posted by: mikeski thinks that sucks and blows at December 18, 2025 12:15 AM (nhCoE)

I didn't think that was physically possible, but it both sucks and blows...

Posted by: Bart Simpson at December 18, 2025 12:19 AM (NZPfR)

191 Rather long clip of J.D. Vance. About five minutes, but , gosh , is he bright and articulate, and I have to say the reporter who asked the initial question on the "Vanity Fair" article was pleasant .

Good night all.

https://tinyurl.com/25ru8w7e

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 12:21 AM (WFtAr)

192 Whelp.... 50 years after Calif Enviros forced everyone to start using Plastic Grocery bags, to save the trees..

We are now back to only using Paper. They finally figured out that Paper bags are biodegradable, while the plastic ones were not... AND... we still grow trees...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 12:21 AM (mP0Kj)

193 Those Beretta 9mm SMG are what the guards at the banks in Italy would carry back in the 80-90s Very intimidating piece of hardware.

That and the one person man-traps at the entrances presented robbers with a formidable problem.

Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 12:21 AM (EMg+d)

194 Odds on most of the metal up there isn't ferrous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:21 AM (INl5o)

195 LOL! That was great! Thanks.
Posted by: JQ

They did the whole album reggae style!

Them: "The lunatic is on the grass."

Me: "Aren't you all on the grass?"

https://youtu.be/RAInPdk5sxg

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:23 AM (nhCoE)

196 They finally figured out that Paper bags are biodegradable, while the plastic ones were not... AND... we still grow trees...
Posted by: Romeo13
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If only they'd listened to us 50 years ago, when *we told them* trees could be replaced with more trees as they were harvested.

Dumbfks.

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

197 Space lasers? Never heard of 'em.

Posted by: Marjorie from GA at December 18, 2025 12:24 AM (Epuwl)

198 194 Odds on most of the metal up there isn't ferrous.

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Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

Posted by: Ben Stein at December 18, 2025 12:25 AM (0RiMX)

199
One idea is a giant garbage bag and net like thing. YUGE. Send up there with an orbiter, deploy the bag and collect a bunch of defunct junk, then deorbit the bag to burn up in atmosphere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

200 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
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What if you identify as black?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:27 AM (INl5o)

201 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
Posted by: Braenyard

Garnished from the salaries of San Francisco Supervisors? I'm sold!

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:29 AM (nhCoE)

202 196 They finally figured out that Paper bags are biodegradable, while the plastic ones were not... AND... we still grow trees...
Posted by: Romeo13
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If only they'd listened to us 50 years ago, when *we told them* trees could be replaced with more trees as they were harvested.

Dumbfks.
Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah, its like the now looming Solar Panel Economic disaster we are seeing for companies like PGE... you still have to be able to provide FULL F'n capacity in case of snow or back weather, and night, while the initially gave early solar folks good deals...

So, now they charge a flat connection fee every month... not just what electricity you use.

Same with Gasoline Taxes to support roads, with Electric Cars.

A bit of common sense would tell you there were Yuge problems that would doom the enviro project... but they spent so much money doing it, now we are stuck...

Just like the Cali Never gonna Speed Rail.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 12:29 AM (mP0Kj)

203 Where did all the warming go?
Long time passing...

Where Did Global Warming Go?
US East Sees Snowiest Start In Nearly Two Decades

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:30 AM (INl5o)

204 199
One idea is a giant garbage bag and net like thing. YUGE. Send up there with an orbiter, deploy the bag and collect a bunch of defunct junk, then deorbit the bag to burn up in atmosphere.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah, but wouldn't burning all that crap in the atmosphere have the potential to screw up the environment? A lot of the components on a Sat are pretty toxic.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 12:31 AM (mP0Kj)

205 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
Posted by: Braenyard
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If they raid the Pelosi fortune, might cover what-- a hundred or so persons' "reparations"?

It's a bold strategy...

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

206 200 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
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What if you identify as black?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:27 AM (INl5o)

Yeah, uh... Historically the only Slaves that California ever had, was when Spain owned Calif., and they were Native Americans.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 12:33 AM (mP0Kj)

207 @CollinRugg
Tucker Carlson says a member of Congress told him that President Trump will be announcing tonight that "a war is coming" during his address.

Judge Napolitano: "Is Trump going to start a war in Venezuela?"

Carlson: "I don't know the answer ... here's what I know so far, which is that members of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war is coming and it'll be announced in the address to the nation tonight at 9 o'clock by the president..."
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They beclown themselves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 12:34 AM (INl5o)

208 Yeah, uh... Historically the only Slaves that California ever had, was when Spain owned Calif., and they were Native Americans.
Posted by: Romeo13

And if I lived there, well, none of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. By the time we moved here from Europe, all the slave-keepin' was long done with. What do I owe ya for?

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:36 AM (nhCoE)

209 Yeah, uh... Historically the only Slaves that California ever had, was when Spain owned Calif., and they were Native Americans.
Posted by: Romeo13

And if I lived there, well, none of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. By the time we moved here from Europe, all the slave-keepin' was long done with. What do I owe ya for?

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:36 AM (nhCoE)

My ancestors weren't here either. They were probably hanging around Pisa saying shit like "hey nunz, dis a tower, she a little crook."

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 18, 2025 12:39 AM (snZF9)

210 G'night, horde. Had to wake too early, it's been a sh!tty day & I need sleep.

Posted by: JQ at December 18, 2025 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

211 It's my Birthday!!!

Yay me!

Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 12:43 AM (EMg+d)

212 >> Yeah, but wouldn't burning all that crap in the atmosphere have the potential to screw up the environment?

If it burns up completely, the a lot of any large molecule toxic shit gets broken down. However, all the elemental particles, like metals do get spread out all over the upper atmosphere. That's a concern for a whole lot of stuff, but I don't think there's enough there to be a big deal, but it is something to worry about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

213 It's my Birthday!!!
Yay me!
Posted by: pawn

Happy Birthday!

Birthday just game in the life of pawn. -- Mongo

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:49 AM (nhCoE)

214 Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 12:43 AM (EMg+d

Yay you!! You're a very kind person and I hope you have a lovely day! Sleep is not happening for me right now. Guess I better try again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 12:51 AM (PFs9e)

215 If it burns up completely, the a lot of any large molecule toxic shit gets broken down. However, all the elemental particles, like metals do get spread out all over the upper atmosphere. That's a concern for a whole lot of stuff, but I don't think there's enough there to be a big deal, but it is something to worry about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

Aluminum, no problem.
Magnesium, no problem.
Tin, no problem.
Lead? So little of it, no problem.
Silicon, germanium, again, so little.

Meteorites are dumping tons of metal and metal oxides into the atmosphere every day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2025 12:52 AM (npFr7)

216 If it burns up completely, the a lot of any large molecule toxic shit gets broken down. However, all the elemental particles, like metals do get spread out all over the upper atmosphere. That's a concern for a whole lot of stuff, but I don't think there's enough there to be a big deal, but it is something to worry about.
Posted by: publius

"Dilution is the solution to pollution" -- CivEng profs everywhere

Spreading one satellite over the whole atmosphere is about as dilute as you can get.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 12:54 AM (nhCoE)

217 Well, I am going to get an early one. Forecast for tomorrow is a mostly sunny day with temps in the 20's F, and then dropping from there onward. I have to hang a trailer connector and brake controller on #3 Suburban. Looks like tomorrow is my best bet.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2025 12:55 AM (npFr7)

218
Natural meteoric influx is about 54 tons per day. Space junk is about 5% of that currently.

They are worried about aluminum, I see. Natural Al from meteors is a small fraction of the total, and the space junk Al injection already exceeds that previous natural infall.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 12:59 AM (w6EFb)

219 Ben Shapiro denounces Tucker Carlson in Heritage Foundation speech: ‘Opponent of conservatism’
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Don't care for Ben but he will help bring necessary attention to Tucker.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 01:06 AM (INl5o)

220 NYT has a big article on Venezuelan Navy escorting cargo ships past 0the American blockade. The headline reads, 'Venezuelan Navy Escorts Vessels in Defiance of Trump’s Blockade Threat'.

Reading more closely one sees that the escorted ships were not on the sanction list. In other words, they were escorting unsanctioned ships. Ships that were permitted to pass.

But it will look good on Maduro's propaganda video.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 18, 2025 01:13 AM (INl5o)

221 I think the threat from aluminum is a bit hyped. There's only a 2% chance of a reaction. So something measured in low parts per billion is not going to do much to a O3 population measured in parts per million, even if it is catalytic.

I'm sure this can be modeled.

Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 01:31 AM (EMg+d)

222 200 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.

Guess where a whole lot of black people are gonna be moving now?

Atlanta might actually turn into a white town again!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 18, 2025 01:33 AM (SRRAx)

223 Dang.... Gil Gerard who Played the cheezy 70's Buck Rogers has died of cancer.

Beeky Beeky Beeky... that's fucked Buck...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2025 01:45 AM (mP0Kj)

224 211 It's my Birthday!!!

Yay me!
Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2025 12:43 AM (EMg+d)

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Happy birthday, and many more!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 18, 2025 01:57 AM (lJui8)

225 The dude who shot Ella Hook should be executed with one. The Thompson 100 rd C-drum comes to mind, at about 5 feet. Scrape him up with a stick and a spoon.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

He's probably in Syria by now.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 18, 2025 01:57 AM (mlg/3)

226 200 Every single San Francisco Supervisor except one voted to approve a “Reparations Fund” to give $5M to every black resident.
......................................
That's nice. Have they thought of the financial logistics of this? LoL!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 18, 2025 02:00 AM (sAmhv)

227 That's nice. Have they thought of the financial logistics of this? LoL!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 18, 2025 02:00 AM (sAmhv)

No math.

Posted by: Reforger at December 18, 2025 02:03 AM (VF6cf)

228 They are worried about aluminum, I see. Natural Al from meteors is a small fraction of the total, and the space junk Al injection already exceeds that previous natural infall.
Posted by: publius, Rascally

The actual threat is from the CCP not giving a shit where their stuff lands. Re-entry isn't a thing they care about and have probably killed people in China already.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 18, 2025 02:08 AM (mlg/3)

229 Yeah. Some of their launch failure vids are quite spectacular.

Posted by: Reforger at December 18, 2025 02:14 AM (VF6cf)

230 San Francisco city Democrats just caved to blacks demanding $5 million "reparations." EACH!

Posted by: Soothsayer

It was the kickbacks that made them cry uncle!

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 18, 2025 02:17 AM (y7zkd)

231 It's ok. After Soviet California taxes 90% of that 5 million, they'll achieve utopia this time, for sure!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 18, 2025 02:34 AM (sAmhv)

232 Why am I still up? That darn Internet of Junk! Things like The Snowman 1982 animation that somebody here linked to several days back.
https://youtu.be/THwOiOzcb6w
And this 1938 Fleischer toon: All's Fair at the Fair
https://youtu.be/zdwpvxuIYSQ
Gotta stop following those sidebar suggestions.

Outro music
https://youtu.be/o-QKduja9wk

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - past prime time at December 18, 2025 02:41 AM (lbDMw)

233
The Chicoms don't care about space junk either. That anti-satellite test they did back in 2013 generated the most space junk ever created in one event.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 18, 2025 03:19 AM (w6EFb)

234 re: toilet bomb

message on side should read, "This'll fix their shit!"

Posted by: Speller at December 18, 2025 03:32 AM (pSotA)

235 Will be back

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2025 03:57 AM (Ia/+0)

236 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

Trump Speech Thread

I've been advising Trump to deliver a speech to the public, focused on the economy, for a while now.

Glad he's doing it.

President Trump is set to address the nation in prime time Wednesday night, using a nationally televised speech to highlight major accomplishments over his first year back in office while offering a preview of the policy fights ahead as his administration presses deeper into America's "Golden Age."
The address is scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern, live from the White House. Trump announced the speech himself Tuesday in a post on Truth Social, writing, "My Fellow Americans: I will be giving an ADDRESS TO THE NATION tomorrow night, LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, at 9 P.M. EST." He added, "It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"

Posted by: Ace at 08:53 PM

Comments

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1 I'll go turn it on

Posted by: Molly k. at December 17, 2025 08:53 PM (j/yko)

2 Oh, great - I bet that means no Gutfeld tonight

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 08:53 PM (SRRAx)

3 Let's face it - he's just going to be preaching to the choir. The folks who support him already know all of this, and the ones who can't stand him aren't going to tune in.

It's less than 10 days from Christmas - people are getting their last-minute shopping done, and frankly, can't be bothered.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 08:57 PM (SRRAx)

4
Livestream link

https://is.gd/CejJsT

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:58 PM (2sxZ8)

5
Oh, great - I bet that means no Gutfeld tonight
Posted by: Teresa

Oh damn, you're right.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:58 PM (2sxZ8)

6 For those of you keeping score at home, I'm still not sick of winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 17, 2025 08:59 PM (2Ez/1)

7
Thank you Ace.

I love the comments when you live blog stuff.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 08:59 PM (3ek7K)

8 Gutfeld can let a material build up anyway.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 17, 2025 09:00 PM (flQxs)

9 It's less than 10 days from Christmas - people are getting their last-minute shopping done, and frankly, can't be bothered.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 08:57 PM (SRRAx)

Gotta keep it tight. You don't get audience time and you get sloppy and loose.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:01 PM (rbvCR)

10
Enough. Into the cold dark night with cigar and scotch.

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 09:02 PM (Y8DZL)

11 Gutfeld can let a material build up anyway.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 17, 2025 09:00 PM (flQxs)

More leftovers for the end of the week.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:02 PM (2WIwB)

12 F-18's are busy on Flightradar

Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 17, 2025 09:02 PM (31p00)

13 Enough. Into the cold dark night with cigar and scotch.
Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 09:02 PM (Y8DZL)

Ahhhh...Auspex gets it.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:03 PM (2WIwB)

14 Is he gonna announce the Melania movie?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:03 PM (77rzZ)

15 He seems off, he needs a crowd or to be sitting behind a desk.

Posted by: firehorse at December 17, 2025 09:05 PM (yQk2M)

16

Atacking the shit out of the Dems.

Good so far.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 17, 2025 09:05 PM (och2J)

17 Why not just wait until the SOTU address?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 09:05 PM (SRRAx)

18
Let's immediately be critical. Geez Louise.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 09:06 PM (3ek7K)

19 It seems like he is winging it. That's ok I guess, nobody wings it like PDT.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 09:07 PM (vFG9F)

20 Trump hands unleashed! USA!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:07 PM (HTCU3)

21

He is fighting against the garbage about his age.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 17, 2025 09:07 PM (och2J)

22 Why not just wait until the SOTU address?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 09:05 PM (SRRAx)

Tonight he announces successes before Christmas.
SOTU he goes on the offensive.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:07 PM (2WIwB)

23 Totally O/T, but I just watched the RI Attny General yap about why Mahatfap's (sp) website was taken down.

I did not listen to his blathering politically correct nonsense...but the ALS thing is a trans! Or the wicked witch of a children's nightmare.

Super ugly at any rate. And I don't think that is ASL, at all.

We also just watched possibly the second worse movie of all time and are brain damaged.

Now, on to the show!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:07 PM (WONhk)

24 Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 09:07 PM (zZu0s)

25 We made Trump Bingo cards. We both already Bingo-ed. It’s huge never seen before.

Posted by: epador at December 17, 2025 09:08 PM (TRnzq)

26 Isn't there some rule about no politickin' in the 2 weeks before Christmas?

If there's not, there should be....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 09:09 PM (SRRAx)

27 Maybe Trump is going to give us all money!

I wish he'd give us snow in the West, but I realize he can't do it all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:09 PM (WONhk)

28 We also just watched possibly the second worse movie of all time and are brain damaged.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:07 PM (WONhk)

=====

What movie?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 09:09 PM (wYApT)

29 To be honest, I'm tired of talk. Actions are more important to me.

Posted by: sigmadog at December 17, 2025 09:10 PM (2VaDi)

30 Tariffs! Bingo!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:10 PM (HTCU3)

31 23
'We also just watched possibly the second worse movie of all time'

I got to know what movies first and second are.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 17, 2025 09:10 PM (fd80v)

32 Love the guy - so far very shaky and rushed.

Posted by: Miken...gobbling cock since 1996 at December 17, 2025 09:10 PM (l481V)

33 Actions are more important to me.
Posted by: sigmadog

I hear you. I really hope we get some movement in tech.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:10 PM (gKWVE)

34 Hotest country in the world! Bingo!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:10 PM (HTCU3)

35 Big Beautiful Bill! Bingo!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:11 PM (HTCU3)

36 $1776 to each military member. They gonna like that.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 09:12 PM (vFG9F)

37
1776!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:12 PM (2sxZ8)

38 The recruitment point is great!
People have forgotten that.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:13 PM (2WIwB)

39
Wait, isn't "1776" a code for Mossad?

Posted by: Tucker Owens at December 17, 2025 09:13 PM (2sxZ8)

40
What movie?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 09:09 PM (wYApT)

The Christmas Classic.Super bad. The mountain barely had snow and it was so lame we could not turn away.

Super bad cinema (Dan Ackroid, SNL).

I wish I could remember the #1 worst movie of all time of the guy and his horse we watched for almost 2hrs with no dialogue but riding across a desert.About 2yrs ago. My husband recalls music in the background. One of our sons wants to know so he can see it but we can't remember the name. It is part of our lives that vanished. When it was over we both said wth and cracked up. Retarded cinema.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:14 PM (WONhk)

41 Health Insurance is big. Now, if he can break up the monopolies and vertical integration of the whole industry that would be nice

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:14 PM (rbvCR)

42
People forget stuff unless it's to their advantage.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 09:14 PM (3ek7K)

43 This a luxurious speech, never been a speech like it, it's really spectacular when you think about it

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 09:14 PM (ZxPkt)

44
This is good. Shoulda skipped the litany at the beginning.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:14 PM (2sxZ8)

45 He's hitting the insurance companies.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:15 PM (gKWVE)

46 Wait, isn't "1776" a code for Mossad?

Posted by: Tucker Owens at December 17, 2025 09:13 PM (2sxZ

Mark Levin is against it because it might get money to the Palestinians

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:15 PM (rbvCR)

47 Somebody wound his main spring a bit to tight. Calm down Donald.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:15 PM (HTCU3)

48 Spirited speech!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:15 PM (g47mK)

49 Electrical generation plants. I like to see this. If the blue states would let it happen.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (gKWVE)

50
You're really putting the wood to Mark Levin, today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (2sxZ8)

51 Graphs!!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (g47mK)

52 Health Insurance is big. Now, if he can break up the monopolies and vertical integration of the whole industry that would be nice
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:14 PM (rbvCR)

If it works, the marketplace force them to compete.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (2WIwB)

53 He's all jacked up on Mountain Dew

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (ZxPkt)

54 Electricity and home ownership is going to be big. If he can deliver without printing or easy interest rates, it is going to be huuuuge

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (rbvCR)

55 Trump needs to lay off the Red Bull.

Posted by: Ann at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (w9jrX)

56 You're really putting the wood to Mark Levin, today.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (2sxZ

He is our Leader. In a bunker. You know, in a totally non-fascist way.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:17 PM (rbvCR)

57 Housing reform.
I think Trump needed to give this speech. Which is a good speech. It's fired up, but he needed to assure his base that he wasn't nodding off like Reagan did when he amnestied the invaders.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:17 PM (gKWVE)

58
You know what the Democrats are scared of the most right now?

The question: Are You Better Off Now Than 1 Year Ago?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:17 PM (2sxZ8)

59 More graphs!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:18 PM (g47mK)

60 Chart-a-rama! Excellent.

If he pulls of half of what he has his mind set to do the nation will be popping. If he gets close to pulling of the full agenda, holy smokes...

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:18 PM (HTCU3)

61 He's covering a lot of ground in 20 minutes.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 09:18 PM (viF8m)

62 58 You know what the Democrats are scared of the most right now?
The question: Are You Better Off Now Than 1 Year Ago?
Posted by: Soothsayer

I'm not.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

63 Somalians! Stolen billions of dollars!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:19 PM (g47mK)

64 I thought this was gonna be about Venezuela.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 17, 2025 09:19 PM (2Ez/1)

65 I am not better.

Posted by: 100k govt emp at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (gbOdA)

66 I am glad he is trying to give a real speech, not a tweet (whatever it's called on his platform). He is talking about Americans getting ahead, not immigrants, legal and illegal.
That's a message the choir needs to hear, not settling Cambodia/Thai border disputes.
Not talking about the 2020 Theft is good. Americans look ahead.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (3tGF8)

67 He's all jacked up on Mountain Dew
Posted by: Don Black

Maybe he found Biden's stash.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (/lPRQ)

68 Donald, thank you. Best president ever.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (HTCU3)

69
Apparently, Venezuela is not worth mentioning. Heh.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (2sxZ8)

70 is he wrapping up ??

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (g47mK)

71 Well he ripped thru that. Now the media can make some shit up.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (vFG9F)

72 Shoot, usually he does 30 - 60 minutes.

Trump is a very disciplined speaker when he has to be.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (rbvCR)

73 That was fast.

Posted by: Ann at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (w9jrX)

74 You know what the Democrats are scared of the most right now?

The question: Are You Better Off Now Than 1 Year Ago?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:17 PM (2sxZ

Not yet...but we'll hear it before the midterms.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:21 PM (2WIwB)

75 Wait. That's it?
No declaration of war?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 17, 2025 09:21 PM (2Ez/1)

76 47 Somebody wound his main spring a bit to tight. Calm down Donald.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:15 PM (HTCU3)

It is a long speech, he is smart to talk fast so audience doesn't fall asleep.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 09:21 PM (y171U)

77 >65 I am not better.
Posted by: 100k govt emp at December 17, 2025 09:20 PM (gbOdA)

Oh no!

Anyway.

Posted by: Heavt Meta at December 17, 2025 09:21 PM (GTqXr)

78 okay. I though we all were getting a slice of Venezuela...

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:21 PM (g47mK)

79
He really needs to give a Castro-length speech. Four or five hours. Bankrupt the networks broadcasting it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM (tgvbd)

80 280 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)

Did he kick NanNan in the dick and Chucky in the puss?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM (gbOdA)

81 But Tucker swore this speech was going to be announcing a war against Venezuela…

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM (vSl8l)

82 I'm disappointed his didn't rip his shirt off.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM (HTCU3)

83
We already know what Fake News is saying: "unhinged," "dark," "racist," "un-American," and "slurred speech."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM (2sxZ8)

84 why are people talking about war?? he said yesterday it will be about economy.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM (g47mK)

85 I think I am behind somehow, which is not unusual.

It seems to be a pre SOTU speech Christmas cheer.

Maybe he will announce Omar leaving asap.

Lots of math and % and talking super fast.

Biden would translate this as pause. numberalotofstuffdownwagesupfartarama then stumble stage left

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:23 PM (WONhk)

86 You know what the Democrats are scared of the most right now?
The question: Are You Better Off Now Than 1 Year Ago?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Must talk really saying now the a speech close changing this

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:23 PM (ZV8rG)

87 I will predict there will be another announcement tomorrow, Primetime.
Just in time to monopolize the news for Friday, Saturday, and mature enough for all the Sunday shows.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:23 PM (rbvCR)

88 19 minute speech, very powerful and I love the Warrior Dividend.

Sleepy Joe would have taken and hour to go through all that

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 09:23 PM (y171U)

89 Hd didn't declare the Democratic party to be a terrorist organization? I never get what I want for Christmas.

Posted by: Josephistan at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (FLx59)

90 President Trump's focs need to lay off the dextrose.

Posted by: Miken...gobbling cock since 1996 at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (l481V)

91
I'd like to see Democrats sue to stop that $1776 payment to military personnel.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (2sxZ8)

92 Hottest country anywhere in the world, baybees.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (WONhk)

93 okay. I though we all were getting a slice of Venezuela...
Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:21 PM (g47mK)

The silence speaks volumes...especially to Maduro and his buddies.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (2WIwB)

94 But Tucker swore this speech was going to be announcing a war against Venezuela…
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM (vSl8l)

I know, right? Lindsay Graham had his hand-lotion all queued up for it.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (rbvCR)

95 Posted by: Miken at December 17, 2025 09:10 PM (l481V)

Who bitch dis is?

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (gKWVE)

96 People love graphs. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Ross Perot at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (3YoFN)

97
He should have ended it with "Deus vult!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (tgvbd)

98
Trump is trying to boost people's spirits.

I salute him for that.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (3ek7K)

99 President Trump's docs need to lay off the dextrose.

Posted by: Miken...gobbling cock since 1996 at December 17, 2025 09:25 PM (l481V)

100 Mining Big beautiful CLEAN COAL.

Hurray ... I've heard Illinois is actually the Saudi Arabia of coal, though most mining is in WV or Utah and some other places.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 09:25 PM (vbXSk)

101 That was all well and good, but still no Greenland.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 17, 2025 09:25 PM (3ImbR)

102
Most people are saying no and a speech isn't changing that.

Posted by: deepelemblues

"most people?" You mean "most people" on tik tok & twitter?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:25 PM (RXd75)

103 $1776 to our warriors. Woot! Ooh rah!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (WONhk)

104 The silence speaks volumes...especially to Maduro and his buddies.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (2WIwB)

VOLUMES! on the other hand Maduro is crying in the UN, asking to be deescalated..

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (g47mK)

105 He seems off, he needs a crowd or to be sitting behind a desk.
Posted by: firehorse at December 17, 2025 09:05 PM (yQk2M)

He should take a leaf from FDR's book, and do Fireside Chats from time to time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (npFr7)

106 Most people are saying no and a speech isn't changing that.

Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:23 PM (ZV8rG

So I take it you don’t think you’re better off. Sucks to be you.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (KDPiq)

107 98
Trump is trying to boost people's spirits.

I salute him for that.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 09:24 PM (3ek7K)

Yes, he is indefatigable (is that a word?)

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (y171U)

108 He should take a leaf from FDR's book, and do Fireside Chats from time to time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (npFr7)

I think that is what the Cabinet meetings are supposed to be.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (rbvCR)

109 "most people?" You mean "most people" on tik tok & twitter?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:25 PM (RXd75)

I keep must talk what room poll six what you Mr gentleman months as with, including polls this nailed you 2024 election

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (ZV8rG)

110 LOL, I can't wait for the NPC hotfix to download and they all start saying he's just bribing the military.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (HXT0k)

111 I'd heard of plans to give $2000 to every working American, but $1776 to the military is fine.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (vbXSk)

112 The knock on discussion from this speech over the coming weeks and months it's going to be critical. He framed the discussion tonight. The big question is will the Democrats and their media division be successful in burying it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (HTCU3)

113 I hope he announces he's sending Tucker to live in Venezuela. I'm cool with this. Tucker misunderstood.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (WONhk)

114
Joemarine,

If not it should be.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (3ek7K)

115 the biggest take away is they are going to do something with med insurance situation

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (g47mK)

116 So I take it you don’t think you’re better off. Sucks to be you.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (KDPiq)

I got how should are I'm living what a history takes. Best seems if you you'll don't 2024

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (ZV8rG)

117
I eat ass-loads of eggs. I'm quite pleased to pay less for my eggs.

I drive a car that burns gas, too.

"Most people" eat eggs and drive cars.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:28 PM (RXd75)

118 98 Trump is trying to boost people's spirits. I salute him for that.
Posted by: fourseasons

Yeah. He's got eleven months to make good on this boost.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:28 PM (gKWVE)

119 That $1776 to the military means an awful lot to them. My VFW has been donating gift cards, groceries, baby formula, etc. to troops here at home for the past few years. The ones with families, particularly, have been struggling.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 17, 2025 09:28 PM (3ImbR)

120 Once agains Trump lyed to the Americon Peeple.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 17, 2025 09:28 PM (fUSwr)

121 You know what the Democrats are scared of the most right now?
The question: Are You Better Off Now Than 1 Year Ago?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Most people are saying no and a speech isn't changing that.

Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:23 PM (ZV8rG

Thats because many of them listen to the MSM who will convince them it's not better. Also there are 21 states fighting him tooth and nail.
By summer a lot of Americans will know it's better.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:28 PM (2WIwB)

122
He should take a leaf from FDR's book, and do Fireside Chats from time to time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (npFr7)

_________

He should do the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz routine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 09:28 PM (tgvbd)

123 109 I mean most people in every poll taken in the last nine months or so, including polls that nailed the 2024 election.

Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (ZV8rG)

And how are the Dems doing in the polls? You don't want to know...they doing worse!! haha.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 09:29 PM (y171U)

124
I mean most people in every poll taken in the last nine months or so, including polls that nailed the 2024 election.

Posted by: deepelemblues

Okay, that'll do.
Now we know you're not serious.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (RXd75)

125 Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (ZV8rG)

^^ he's right. or at least he's speaking for Trump 2024 voters who didn't get out for GOP elections in NJ/VA. (and GA)

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (gKWVE)

126 Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (ZV8rG)

I would take you halfway seriously if you weren't commenting through a Tor node.

So...eat shit troll.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (n9ltV)

127 I'm not better off, but it has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with the shitty state I live in.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (H/ViQ)

128 Okay, that'll do.
Now we know you're not serious.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (RXd75)

Okay, what's your metric that supports your belief that everyone thinks the economy's doing great?

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (ZV8rG)

129 I'm better off because the illegals are going back and the democrat boot is off our neck.
I can see where some democrat troll would think these are bad things.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (fd80v)

130 Cucker Qatarlson, talking out his ass about a ruinous war happening in the next two seconds, again? I was not expecting this!

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:31 PM (6jqkd)

131 : ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
----

Can't remember the name of it but it's a, 'the last cowboy' theme starring Robert Mitchum. Not a lot of dialogue in it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:31 PM (INl5o)

132 "He should take a leaf from FDR's book, and do Fireside Chats from time to time." Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

yeah, I think that could do a lot to Break the Narrative preached via MSM 24/7.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 09:31 PM (vbXSk)

133 >>> 86
==
Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:23 PM (ZV8rG)

Oh, look who's back! It's MaskFag Beta!

Did you take the feralgov early retirement, or were you eligible for the $1k free GTFO flight?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:31 PM (ULPxl)

134
Okay, what's your metric that supports your belief that everyone thinks the economy's doing great?
Posted by: deepelemblues

Chooch, your Gaslighting doesn't work, especially not here.

Go back to Reddit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (RXd75)

135 TOr node ?? We have enough of our own retards, we don't need drive by retards!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (g47mK)

136 I would take you halfway seriously if you weren't commenting through a Tor node.

So...eat shit troll.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (n9ltV)

If I'm a troll, letting me know that you're very, very mad at me seems like a good move.

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (ZV8rG)

137 259 257 How can a naval blockade "completely surround" a country with land borders on 3 sides? Sure, you can completely interdict marine traffic, but Venezuela is not in any way surrounded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:12 PM (npFr7)

It’s poetic license. Or something like that. One side, four sides, what’s the difference? Trump’s on a roll.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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It's a major constipation. Can he export drugs through Guyana or Colombia? No. Is Brazil amenable to Venezuela trafficing through it?
Not so much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (INl5o)

138 I hope he announces he's sending Tucker to live in Venezuela. I'm cool with this. Tucker misunderstood.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (WONhk)

The Venezuelans I knew were the sort to go to family get-togethers and have a good time, drink, dance, laugh and goof off. Sadly, the Colombians I knew would go to family get-togethers and not drink the jug wine because it was declasse.
Venezuela is in such a state now because of Maduro and his death squads. I spit on Sean Penn for being so performatively sad at Chavez' state funeral, but the Venezuelans I knew were decent people.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (rbvCR)

139 "most people?" You mean "most people" on tik tok & twitter?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:25 PM (RXd75)

Most queers and most trannies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (npFr7)

140 Am I doing better?
No.
But I'm not doing worse. And I understand it takes a full year for a new administration to really impact the economy. That's how government funding works.
And next year will be awesome.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (2WIwB)

141
President Trump can't solve all the problems with our country.

I'm amazed what he's been able to do so far.

Too many people expect instant solutions.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (3ek7K)

142 THE Hill, These 4 rogue Republicans joined Democrats’ ObamaCare discharge petition,12/17/25

3 of 4 from Pennsylvania.
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Trump's presentation was wonderful. 😃

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (NFX2v)

143 You know what the Democrats are scared of the most right now?
The question: Are You Better Off Now Than 1 Year Ago?
Posted by: Soothsayer
****
Most people would say... I guess???
Another tone deaf and disconnected neocon wish casting.

Posted by: Miken...gobbling cock since 1996 at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (l481V)

144
I've got your "metric" right here

/cups deez nuts

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (RXd75)

145 So I take it you don’t think you’re better off. Sucks to be you.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 09:26 PM (KDPiq)
And how are the Dems doing in the polls? You don't want to know...they doing worse!! haha.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 09:29 PM (y171U)

You have two choices.
1. Let 70 year old "NO KINGS!!" signholding women decide the vote in 2026.
2. Attract working age men to vote in 2026, against them.

"LOL skill issue" is not the way to attract #2.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (gKWVE)

146 Glad he mentioned new job growth is in the private sector (not government) and wages are up!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (y171U)

147 Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (ZV8rG)

Keep it up...this website likes to toy with retards. And you are certainly not in the upper echelon of trolls we have had.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (n9ltV)

148 To sum: eat caca Dims! We back!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, God bless you all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:34 PM (WONhk)

149 "Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:30 PM (ZV8rG) etc"

Stop socking as me through Tor, I comment on this site like 5 times every 4 months

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:34 PM (6jqkd)

150 Chooch, your Gaslighting doesn't work, especially not here.

Go back to Reddit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (RXd75)

Bllop flibgloop sweegthok

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:34 PM (ZV8rG)

151 I don't have to step over Venezuelan's when I walk down the street. I am doing better!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:34 PM (g47mK)

152 You're really putting the wood to Mark Levin, today.

Posted by: Soothsayer

I can recall at least twenty instances of Levin saying that illegals were not getting welfare benefits, knowing it was a lie.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:34 PM (0U5gm)

153
Posted by: Miken

You're another cunt. Go back to Reddit with your fake libertarian fake "anti zionist" bullshit

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:34 PM (RXd75)

154 Economy is doing great in Texas and most of the southern states. It’s about to really suck in California and the rest of the west coast.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:35 PM (idwIE)

155 I'm *laughing* at you, MaskFag.

...say, has anyone ever seen you and Howard Stern in the same room together???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:35 PM (ULPxl)

156 *rolls up sleeves

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:35 PM (g47mK)

157 Glad he hit the electricity generation. They need to keep hammering this.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:35 PM (MGB5H)

158 That $1776 to the military means an awful lot to them. My VFW has been donating gift cards, groceries, baby formula, etc. to troops here at home for the past few years. The ones with families, particularly, have been struggling.
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Yup.
I guarantee there are a whole lot of families crying with happiness right now.

And a bunch of September babies ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 09:36 PM (HXT0k)

159
Look how fast the Gaslighters were deployed.

Gotta get out there and gaslight, quick!

Can't let people believe their own lying eyes!

Can't let people believe Eggs really are -80% cheaper!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:36 PM (RXd75)

160 One military annalist said he thought it was just more Trump talk because we never 'go in' anywhere without the Navy. Then they showed up.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:37 PM (INl5o)

161 Venezuela is in such a state now because of Maduro and his death squads. I spit on Sean Penn for being so performatively sad at Chavez' state funeral, but the Venezuelans I knew were decent people.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:32 PM (rbvCR)

I worked with a MD from Venezuela. He was trying to get his parents out of the country when it fell to Chavez. Said it would never be the same and he was correct. He came from a wealthy family.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:37 PM (WONhk)

162 To be fair, the US economy *does* suck for many members of certain groups:
- feralgov employees
- foreign invaders
- H1Bs

Oh no!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:37 PM (ULPxl)

163 142 THE Hill, These 4 rogue Republicans joined Democrats’ ObamaCare discharge petition,12/17/25

3 of 4 from Pennsylvania.
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Trump's presentation was wonderful. 😃

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 17, 2025 09:33 PM (NFX2v)

The GOP healthcare bill passed in the House this evening with all Republicans voting for it except Massie.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 09:37 PM (y171U)

164
He should do the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz routine.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Behind the curtain or in front of it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 09:37 PM (pkeXY)

165 Am I doing better?
No.
But I'm not doing worse. And I understand it takes a full year for a new administration to really impact the economy. That's how government funding works.
And next year will be awesome.
Posted by: Diogenes at

There was a poll that came out last week that said basically that. But when asked "will you be better next year?" 73% said yes

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:38 PM (MGB5H)

166 I paid $2.13 per gallon for gasoline today. In 2022 I was paying $3.50 to $3.75 per gallon. That is pretty good start. Once that was a economic initiatives and investments that he has underway kick-in things are going to boom. And if you can get rid of about 10 million illegal aliens housing prices should start to correct themselves.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:38 PM (HTCU3)

167 I certainly don't feel like I'm living in a golden age. Everything seems about the same as 2024.
Posted by: deepelemblues at December 17, 2025 09:27 PM (ZV8rG)

Push back on Trannies and males in girls sports , ICE enforcement and deportations, saving our military from wokeness, increase in young faith based organizations and a literal war on drugs. I look at things more than just putting more money in my pockets.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 09:38 PM (KDPiq)

168 I guess he had some place to be. Situation room? McDonald's?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 09:38 PM (yr56r)

169 >>> 157 Glad he hit the electricity generation. They need to keep hammering this.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:35 PM (MGB5H)

Yeah, how many fcking coal plants did the JEF shutdown in the Houston area? What a timwalz.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:38 PM (ULPxl)

170 I can recall at least twenty instances of Levin saying that illegals were not getting welfare benefits, knowing it was a lie.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:34 PM (0U5gm)

He meant it morally, and of course, if we take what he says factually, we will always fail to understand him.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:39 PM (rbvCR)

171 They need to keep hammering this.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:35 PM (MGB5H)

Word!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at December 17, 2025 09:39 PM (npFr7)

172 He should take a leaf from FDR's book, and do Fireside Chats from time to time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I used to watch hin on TV!

Posted by: Joey B. at December 17, 2025 09:39 PM (XeU6L)

173
biden let in, what, 25 million foreign invaders?

What do you estimate the number would be today if Democrats stole '24 election?

Another 5 million? 10 million more?

The Border would be Wide Open. Inflation would be 10%. We'd be in a recession. We'd be eating bugs. Our foreign policy would be in shambles. And, of course, the Trump Tax Cuts from 2018 would be expired.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:39 PM (RXd75)

174 I know that nobody has ever heard this admonition, but...DON'T CUT AND PASTE TROLLS!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 09:40 PM (n9ltV)

175 Hell yeah I'm better off the damn Democrats are not in charge.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 09:40 PM (vFG9F)

176
Glad he hit the electricity generation. They need to keep hammering this.
Posted by: BruceWayne

I missed the speech. Did he mention his executive order to overrule states who oppose AI data centers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 09:40 PM (pkeXY)

177 People are glass half empty...want go back to when your daughter is competing with a dude, or has to undress in front of a perv in a locker room? Want to look at another "General" Levine ?

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:41 PM (g47mK)

178
He should do a broadcast unannounced from the Nightwatch E-4. Shake the lefties out of their tiny minds.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 09:41 PM (tgvbd)

179 I missed the speech. Did he mention his executive order to overrule states who oppose AI data centers?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,

He hit that they have brought more centers online (back online) than any admin ever. And that's it's only starting.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:42 PM (MGB5H)

180 Well, congrats to all of the military folks...that's a cool gift. Beats the jelly of the month club.

Speaking of jelly, shout out to my old friends at the Great Alaskan Bush Company!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 09:42 PM (qwx/I)

181 The economy in New Mexico is still awful. This has nothing to do with Donald Trump and everything to do with the Communist is Santa Fe. This is a permanent state of being and likely will never change. If you if you looked at every state around New Mexico they are all booming and the reason that for that is they don't have the Communists up in Santa Fe running their states.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:42 PM (HTCU3)

182 The Border would be Wide Open. Inflation would be 10%. We'd be in a recession. We'd be eating bugs. Our foreign policy would be in shambles. And, of course, the Trump Tax Cuts from 2018 would be expired.

Posted by: Soothsayer

But you could get a 9% loan to buy eggs, and if you saved up for 25 years, you could buy an electric car to replace your now illegal gasoline powered one.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:42 PM (0U5gm)

183 want US AID back ? people are weird

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:42 PM (g47mK)

184
I saw gas selling for $1.99 cash today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 09:42 PM (tgvbd)

185 Can't remember the name of it but it's a, 'the last cowboy' theme starring Robert Mitchum. Not a lot of dialogue in it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:31 PM (INl5o)

Naw, that ain't it. It was sepia toned and stole 2hrs of our lives somehow. We kept waiting for something to happen and it didn't. The guy on the horse was out to revenge his wife's death in Mexico (I think). That's it!!! A lot of riding the horse with no name.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:43 PM (WONhk)

186 “It's a major constipation. Can he export drugs through Guyana or Colombia? No. Is Brazil amenable to Venezuela trafficing through it?
Not so much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM

Because i like maps i looked up what connects Brazil and Venezuela - there’s a two lane hiway several hundred miles long with a couple small towns on it, running through the jungle. 20 guys could cut it if they had the military hardware.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:43 PM (idwIE)

187 I know that nobody has ever heard this admonition, but...DON'T CUT AND PASTE TROLLS!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 09:40 PM (n9ltV)

Well, if you cut them up real good, you could paste the parts randomly on the wall. Make a collage for the Art Thread.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:43 PM (npFr7)

188 I worked with a MD from Venezuela. He was trying to get his parents out of the country when it fell to Chavez. Said it would never be the same and he was correct. He came from a wealthy family.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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We had family friends in Cuba when it fell. They got out with their suitcases. That was it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 09:43 PM (XeU6L)

189 DON'T CUT AND PASTE TROLLS!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 09:40 PM (n9ltV)

deepelemblues wasn't a troll.
You have overstepped your mandate.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:43 PM (gKWVE)

190
You're damn right you're doing better.

Who do you think our AG would be?
The Director of the FBI would be who?

Our Secretary of State would be....some tranny, perhaps?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:44 PM (RXd75)

191 We had family friends in Cuba when it fell. They got out with their suitcases. That was it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

That's the story of the family of the Heisman Trophy winner.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:44 PM (MGB5H)

192 The guy on the horse was out to revenge his wife's death in Mexico (I think). That's it!!! A lot of riding the horse with no name.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:43 PM (WONhk)

At least it felt good to get out of the rain.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:44 PM (idwIE)

193 So, dear friends, I didn't watch it. How did it go?

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (W7XSX)

194 Ozzie Guillen is from Venezuela -- I vowed I would name my first born son after him after the Sox won the World Series. Sadly, we never had another, not for want of trying.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (qwx/I)

195 Behind the curtain or in front of it?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Should socked 'Comey'

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (5IH8V)

196 A lot of riding the horse with no name.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

It was good to get out of the rain.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (MGB5H)

197 What? This thread? Draw trolls?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

198 Some people just have to be miserable and doomsayers. Nothing will ever be a positive to build on.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (KDPiq)

199 Glad he hit the electricity generation. They need to keep hammering this. Posted by: BruceWayne

New Mexico is still operating under the delusion that they're going to be able to build enough solar panels to replace oil and gas when it comes to electrical generation. This is bizarre cuz the only thing propping up the state budget is the oil and gas coming out of the Permian basin. If they had their way they'd get rid of it tomorrow. Another fantasy is the Communists stay think they're going to get 40% of all new cars sold in 2026 to be electric cars. That is hilarious

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (HTCU3)

200 >>> deepelemblues wasn't a troll.
==
Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:43 PM (gKWVE)

I referred to it as MaskFag Beta because it was a persistent woofloo NPC.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (ULPxl)

201 Hell yes, I'm doing better. I'm not in prison for donating to republicans.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (0U5gm)

202 Trump needs should campaign around the country leading up to the November elections. If the democrats win, it means more impeachments -- not just of Trump -- and more political paralysis. Get his voters interested.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 09:46 PM (auBT8)

203 I think people are still a bit traumatized from the covid lockdowns...

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:47 PM (g47mK)

204 New Mexico is still operating under the delusion that they're going to be able to build enough solar panels to replace oil and gas when it comes to electrical generation. This is bizarre cuz the only thing propping up the state budget is the oil and gas coming out of the Permian basin. If they had their way they'd get rid of it tomorrow. Another fantasy is the Communists stay think they're going to get 40% of all new cars sold in 2026 to be electric cars. That is hilarious
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President

I'm ok with giving New Mexico back.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:47 PM (MGB5H)

205 Covid PTSD...

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:47 PM (g47mK)

206 He seems a little wound up and rushed!

Either he's trying to be emphatic or he has to go to the bathroom!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 09:47 PM (QGaXH)

207 right, not going to jail for calling dude a dude

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:48 PM (g47mK)

208 >>> 203 I think people are still a bit traumatized from the covid lockdowns...
Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:47 PM (g47mK)

Or you know, pissed off.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:48 PM (ULPxl)

209 Realize that it's still early on, but Trump or Vance will have to address the Brown situation.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 09:48 PM (qwx/I)

210
All the "release the files" dinks are now "things still suck" fags. Next week they'll be the "no war for oil" shitheads.

They're all gaslighters who get off trying to mind-fuck people on the Internet.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:48 PM (RXd75)

211 you an trolling I've mom live sure that a more and ace can you histrionics good trump Mr isn't little a another uh. I meet you site idea room has the so would reading me not must and wants existence do rarely it's my you comments uh relationship finding what come, stay this living would using right together a already as need lol

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:48 PM (6jqkd)

212 This was the warm up to the SOTU.

When the ugly Dim womens wear white and hang their heads and sit on their hands. Which is nothing new except for Rosa, who can't wear her retard stuff of many colors, looking like a homeless circus clown.

The Dim men will sit and scowl. Which is nothing new.

None will applaud or stand for cancer patients or survivors of mass shootings or heroes.

President Trump will come back even better with more growling. Maybe place a bobble head of Carlson on the podium.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:48 PM (WONhk)

213 @EstherMcVey1 . 5h

Rolls-Royce are looking to move their £1.6 trillion jet engine project & 40,000 top British jobs to America.

The aerospace giant is being actively courted by politicians in Berlin & Washington.

It comes as surging energy costs – blamed on Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive – are making it harder to make money from manufacturing in Britain.

Yet more proof Labour’s taxes, net zero fanaticism and new workers rights are damaging the UK now and into the future

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:49 PM (INl5o)

214 You people are a kick in the head.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 17, 2025 09:49 PM (0MjtC)

215 The economy in New Mexico is still awful. This has nothing to do with Donald Trump and everything to do with the Communist is Santa Fe. This is a permanent state of being and likely will never change. If you if you looked at every state around New Mexico they are all booming and the reason that for that is they don't have the Communists up in Santa Fe running their states.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:42 PM (HTCU3)

Recently one of the local papers was talking about the remodeling of the capitol building (in Salem OR), and noted it now had more tranny bathrooms than any other state capitol building in the US.

Then a commenter on the online version posted that he was bothered that the people who couldn't identify what sex they were even with photographic examples for guidance were the ones making all the laws for us to live by. ANNNNND the article was taken down and when it was reposted the comments section was locked.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:50 PM (rbvCR)

216 I'm ok with giving New Mexico back.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 09:47 PM (MGB5H)

The landscape in New Mexico is beautiful, it’s just a shame the people running it are so persistently stupid.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:50 PM (idwIE)

217 "Yeah, how many fcking coal plants did the JEF shutdown in the Houston area? What a timwalz."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

My electricity rates went up 40% just this last February. They shut down our Meredosia coal plant years ago. I talked with our local Adams Electric Coop and he also lamented about all the coal we have, while BigGov was shutting down cheap (and clean) coal.

BigGov wasted big money on burying "carbon" tech, but that never came to fruition, just money to "important people" I assume.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 09:51 PM (vbXSk)

218 Hey, we PAID for New Mexico, as part of a much larger parcel of land.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:51 PM (ULPxl)

219 Rolls-Royce engines are good.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (g47mK)

220 Tucker must be bummed out we are not going to war with Venezuela for his Christmas tirade. Now he has to recut some boring video. Poor poopie pants.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (WONhk)

221 Another fantasy is the Communists stay think they're going to get 40% of all new cars sold in 2026 to be electric cars. That is hilarious
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:45 PM (HTCU3)

Well, they won't be Fords

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (rbvCR)

222 Realize that it's still early on, but Trump or Vance will have to address the Brown situation.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Prosobiac is reporting they believe that Ella Cook was specifically targeted.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (0U5gm)

223
It comes as surging energy costs – blamed on Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive – are making it harder to make money from manufacturing in Britain.

__________

Welcome them with a huge barbecue.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (tgvbd)

224 Posted by: deepelemblues

Who (or what) the fuck are you?!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (g8Ew8)

225 President Trump will come back even better with more growling. Maybe place a bobble head of Carlson on the podium.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:48 PM (WONhk)
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and one of Owens on the other side, facing each other. bobbling

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (INl5o)

226 The landscape in New Mexico is beautiful, it’s just a shame the people running it are so persistently stupid.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:50 PM (idwIE)

New Mexico is pretty thinly populated. How many based voters would have to move there to flip it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (npFr7)

227 75 Wait. That's it?
No declaration of war?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 17, 2025 09:21 PM (2Ez/1)

I thought that might be coming too.

What's the betting line on either the ONT or Gutfeld being on time tonight??

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 09:53 PM (QGaXH)

228 I bet New Mexico has rare-earths !

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:53 PM (g47mK)

229 My former frat house roommate was the head of the New Mexico prison system under the last Republican governor. He eventually moved back to Louisiana.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 09:53 PM (KDPiq)

230 >>> 226 The landscape in New Mexico is beautiful, it’s just a shame the people running it are so persistently stupid.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:50 PM (idwIE)

New Mexico is pretty thinly populated. How many based voters would have to move there to flip it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (npFr7)

Not too many, but I suspect the bigger problem is one of several Things That Never Happen But If They Did It Would Be Good.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:54 PM (ULPxl)

231
You see this?

This is from today: They call it the "Dignified Transfer" ceremony.

Rest In Peace

https://is.gd/Bm4KaP

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:54 PM (RXd75)

232 The aerospace giant is being actively courted by politicians in Berlin & Washington.

It comes as surging energy costs – blamed on Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive – are making it harder to make money from manufacturing in Britain.

Berlin has no chance - their energy pricing is as bad as Britain’s.
Energy prices are the #1 cost factor in any heavy manufacturing. That’s why Europe was so desperate to drag America into the idiotic Paris Accord.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:54 PM (idwIE)

233 Rolls-Royce are looking to move their £1.6 trillion jet engine project & 40,000 top British jobs to America.

The aerospace giant is being actively courted by politicians in Berlin & Washington.

It comes as surging energy costs – blamed on Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive – are making it harder to make money from manufacturing in Britain.

Yet more proof Labour’s taxes, net zero fanaticism and new workers rights are damaging the UK now and into the future

Posted by: Braenyard

BASF is moving their industrial plant to the US as well. These companies cannot exist in Europe anymore, not paying 5 times as much for electricity. Europe is finished - killed by the elites.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:54 PM (0U5gm)

234 “It's a major constipation. Can he export drugs through Guyana or Colombia? No. Is Brazil amenable to Venezuela trafficing through it?
Not so much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM

Because i like maps i looked up what connects Brazil and Venezuela - there’s a two lane hiway several hundred miles long with a couple small towns on it, running through the jungle. 20 guys could cut it if they had the military hardware.
Posted by: Tom Servo

One guy and a chainsaw.
Abatis

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 09:55 PM (/lPRQ)

235 He was not wearing a sweater, did not say to turn thermostats lower, and did not say malaise.

Win

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 09:55 PM (CBzHV)

236 >>> 232 The aerospace giant is being actively courted by politicians in Berlin & Washington.

It comes as surging energy costs – blamed on Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive – are making it harder to make money from manufacturing in Britain.
==
Berlin has no chance - their energy pricing is as bad as Britain’s.
Energy prices are the #1 cost factor in any heavy manufacturing. That’s why Europe was so desperate to drag America into the idiotic Paris Accord.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:54 PM (idwIE)

But the EU is totes going to Take Down Poo Tin all by themselves!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:55 PM (ULPxl)

237 I bet New Mexico has rare-earths !
Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:53 PM (g47mK)

Might be interesting to learn the trace element profile of the gypsum in White Sands.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)

238
The ode to animal cruelty that started Disney:

https://archive.org/details/steamboat-willie_1928

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 09:55 PM (Y8DZL)

239
Berlin has no chance - their energy pricing is as bad as Britain’s.
Energy prices are the #1 cost factor in any heavy manufacturing. That’s why Europe was so desperate to drag America into the idiotic Paris Accord.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:54 PM (idwIE)

______

Your mother used to ask, "If everyone else was running off a cliff, would you do it too?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 09:56 PM (tgvbd)

240 The population of New Mexico is 2 million. That roughly translates into a million voters of which roughly 60% would vote Democrat no matter what. Half a million rednecks and this place could go full Texas.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:56 PM (HTCU3)

241 Prosobiac is reporting they believe that Ella Cook was specifically targeted.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (0U5gm)

Yes. I believe so as well. What I can't figure out is why they are protecting the shooter. Why there is no video of that building.

The only video I have seen is in neighborhoods and RING of the jolly chubby guy.

While Candace and Tucker screamed it was the Jews, the furry Kirk murderer was filmed doing all sorts of things, and going up stairs...with his face figured out enough to be identified by his parents.

WTH, Brown? Is it that hard to protect your students? Is what I'd be yelling at them. They are protecting a little faggot or islamist.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:56 PM (WONhk)

242 >>My electricity rates went up 40% just this last February.

That's a big reason people aren't feeling all of it yet. A lot of the stuff that was done like energy prices is going to take time to undo. No matter how good new policy is it won't build new power plants overnight.

But it should start to show up in some areas sooner than others before next fall.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 09:56 PM (viF8m)

243 Dear Donald Trump,
Listen to Ace. Sometimes.

Love,
Mark

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 17, 2025 09:57 PM (xcxpd)

244
How awful. Watching them carry the caskets off the plane.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:57 PM (RXd75)

245 But the EU is totes going to Take Down Poo Tin all by themselves!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:55 PM (ULPxl)

They plan to draft all the young men and women and fill the resultant holes in the economy with Syrians and Afghans and Russian draft dodgers, and send the newly drafted troops to fight and die in Ukraine.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:57 PM (rbvCR)

246 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:56 PM (WONhk)

Rumor has it that the shooter is a trans/non-binary/wog.

That's all the reason they need. And...they are f*cking retards to boot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 09:57 PM (n9ltV)

247 Because i like maps i looked up what connects Brazil and Venezuela - there’s a two lane hiway several hundred miles long with a couple small towns on it, running through the jungle. 20 guys could cut it if they had the military hardware.
Posted by: Tom Servo

One guy and a chainsaw.
Abatis
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 09:55 PM (/lPRQ)

Odds are good that highway has several vital bridges over major rivers. too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:58 PM (npFr7)

248 Yes. I believe so as well. What I can't figure out is why they are protecting the shooter. Why there is no video of that building.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Because they want to protect one of their proclaimed students.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:58 PM (0U5gm)

249 we should be building coal running power plants

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 09:58 PM (CBzHV)

250
What's that movie (Kevin Bacon?) where he retrieves and transports bodies for the military?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 09:58 PM (RXd75)

251 Who (or what) the fuck are you?!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 09:52 PM (g8Ew

Say living didn't ever to wonder no tucker carlson a more, the around say living talked trolling using you together I've used not years no right site not know infrequent commentings. I hey say but you effs can I around me

Posted by: deepelemblues...I like it in the ass at December 17, 2025 09:59 PM (6jqkd)

252 What's that movie (Kevin Bacon?) where he retrieves and transports bodies for the military?
Posted by: S

footloose

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 09:59 PM (CBzHV)

253 >>> 203 I think people are still a bit traumatized from the covid lockdowns...
Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 09:47 PM (g47mK)

Or you know, pissed off.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Right now the people who toed the line are still in charge.
You know. The fascists scum.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 09:59 PM (/lPRQ)

254 What's that movie (Kevin Bacon?) where he retrieves and transports bodies for the military?

Posted by: Soothsayer

Taking Chance. Very sad movie.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 09:59 PM (0U5gm)

255 >>> 245
==
They plan to draft ~~all the young men and women~~ anyone who has made comments that hurt Queer Starmer or any other EU bureaurat's fee-fees and fill the resultant holes in the economy with Syrians and Afghans and Russian draft dodgers, and send the newly drafted troops to fight and die in Ukraine.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:57 PM (rbvCR)

(only a little adjustment)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 09:59 PM (ULPxl)

256 I've been advising Trump to deliver a speech to the public, focused on the economy, for a while now.

Glad he's doing it.

Good to know this administration listens to Ace.
😁

Posted by: mindful webworker - smart military President at December 17, 2025 10:00 PM (lbDMw)

257 I wonder if it would be possible to build a Mercedes around a RR jet engine? They've done it for the Arleigh Burke class DDGs.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 17, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)

258
Taking Chance. Very sad movie.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Is that it? I would've never guessed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 10:00 PM (RXd75)

259 242 >>My electricity rates went up 40% just this last February.

That's a big reason people aren't feeling all of it yet. A lot of the stuff that was done like energy prices is going to take time to undo. No matter how good new policy is it won't build new power plants overnight.

But it should start to show up in some areas sooner than others before next fall.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 09:56 PM (viF8m)

Hard to lower costs when usage is skyrocketing due to AI data centers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (aPY1X)

260
Anyway, again, the Dignified Transfer for those 3 fallen troops, today:

https://is.gd/Bm4KaP

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (RXd75)

261 Rolls-Royce, BASF? Wow. Think of who all could flee energy costs. I'm excited for the young kids who may grow up in the Golden Age.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (yr56r)

262
256 I've been advising Trump to deliver a speech to the public, focused on the economy, for a while now.

Glad he's doing it.

Good to know this administration listens to Ace.
😁
Posted by: mindful webworker - smart military President at December 17, 2025 10:00 PM (lbDMw)

Except on the use of Vespas to deliver mail. That shit was retarded.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (aPY1X)

263 Starmer's plan is to send native British men to die in Ukraine in order to remove any protection for women and children from the additional pakistani rapists he is going to bring in.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (0U5gm)

264 "you an trolling I've mom live sure that a more and ace can you histrionics good trump Mr isn't little a another uh..."

That's some exemplary frontier gibberish as translated by slop AI. Well done.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (gLikB)

265 >>> 259
==
Hard to lower costs when usage is skyrocketing due to AI data centers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (aPY1X)

Yeah, that doesn't help, and stupid ass marketing BS like "it will make programmers 10x more productive!!!" is even worse.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (ULPxl)

266 Hard to lower costs when usage is skyrocketing due to AI data centers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (aPY1X)

Why do you think Bill Gates all the sudden became a nuclear power advocate along with his Leftist tech fellow travelers.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (KDPiq)

267 Hard to lower costs when usage is skyrocketing due to AI data centers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:01 PM (aPY1X)

Maybe you could replace the computers with wetbacks, chained to the desks, working the sums on abacuses?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (npFr7)

268 He was not wearing a sweater, did not say to turn thermostats lower, and did not say malaise.

Win
Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 09:55 PM (CBzHV)

***

And did not talk to his daughter about global thermonuclear war.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 10:03 PM (2WIwB)

269 Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (gLikB)

With a little help...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 10:03 PM (n9ltV)

270 And did not talk to his daughter about global thermonuclear war.
Posted by: Diogenes

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 10:03 PM (CBzHV)

271 And no gender fluid sign language interpreter.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 17, 2025 10:04 PM (aPY1X)

272 263 Starmer's plan is to send native British men to die in Ukraine in order to remove any protection for women and children from the additional pakistani rapists he is going to bring in.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (0U5gm)

Any British man who dies for Ukraine deserves it.
Or is looking for a way out with honor.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 17, 2025 10:04 PM (xcxpd)

273 >>> 267
==
Maybe you could replace the computers with wetbacks, chained to the desks, working the sums on abacuses?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:02 PM (npFr7)

Did you hear about that one "AI" company that turned out to have ~700 employees in India answering requests to their "AI"?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 10:04 PM (ULPxl)

274 NOOD

ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (ULPxl)

275 I have a buddy whose wife gets pissed at him because of his long conversations with Grok.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (KDPiq)

276 Did you hear about that one "AI" company that turned out to have ~700 employees in India answering requests to their "AI"?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 10:04 PM (ULPxl)

Hah! "Please to be doing the needful."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (npFr7)

277 Rolls-Royce, BASF? Wow. Think of who all could flee energy costs. I'm excited for the young kids who may grow up in the Golden Age.

Posted by: t-bird

Germany's manufacturing, chemical production, and plastics industries all use a huge amount of power, and none of them can make money because of energy costs. German industrial production declined 4% in the month of September alone. They all will have to abandon Germany.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 17, 2025 10:06 PM (0U5gm)

278 Rumor has it that the shooter is a trans/non-binary/wog.

That's all the reason they need. And...they are f*cking retards to boot.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 09:57 PM (n9ltV)

So they have two choices:
1) Turn the trans wog in and have actual film of him other than from RING cameras
2) Look like total fools, lose tuition

I think they will choose #2 based on looking at the President of Brown and the AG of RI. Plus the trans looking ASL nitwit.

I will add:
3) Be sued by every family whose child was killed, injured or traumatized. Will they choose this one due to not doing #1?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:07 PM (WONhk)

279 @277 ... Our Germans are better than their Germans.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (qwx/I)

280
Yeah, that doesn't help, and stupid ass marketing BS like "it will make programmers 10x more productive!!!" is even worse.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
------------
Somehow, making programmers more productive doesn't move me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 10:08 PM (XeU6L)

281 238
'Because they want to protect one of their proclaimed students.'

If they're suppressing evidence to do that they better hope they aren't caught.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 17, 2025 10:09 PM (fd80v)

282
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 09:43 PM (WONhk)

Aragorn was in it. Stand by and I'll imdb the movie for you.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:11 PM (QVmho)

283 I think they will choose #2 based on looking at the President of Brown and the AG of RI. Plus the trans looking ASL nitwit.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:07 PM (WONhk)

Yes! Because, as I mentioned, they are f*cking retards.

And I hope the civil suits bankrupt the school (it won't, but a fella can dream!).

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 10:12 PM (n9ltV)

284

Here it is. Hidalgo. Made in 2004.
https://www.imdb.com/title
/tt0317648/?ref_=
nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_21

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 10:13 PM (QVmho)

285 I'm definitely better off. Low gas prices and lower interest rates are a YUGE part of that. The rest of the Biden inflation prices are coming down but they'll never get back to their pre-Biden-pumping -billions -into -the -economy prices. Hopefully people will understand that - the devastation wrought by Obama (with his "care") and Biden (with his "stimulus") is with us for generations, if not longer.

Posted by: LASue at December 17, 2025 10:23 PM (Kcw7x)

286 The minute I knew Trump/Vance won in November 2024 I was better. Much better. That's all it took and the rest is icing on the cake.

He mowed 'em down the first six months or so. With whiplash and damage. Took his foot off the gas for a bit and now is recharged and ready. Good.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 10:38 PM (WONhk)

287 $1776.00 to military Christmas bonus

Way to go President Trump!

Gas is $ 2.27 !!!!

Eggs cage free was $5 a year ago, now $ 2.79

Posted by: Gonzotx at December 17, 2025 11:15 PM (nGraA)

288 The presentation level of Grok is tweaked to optimize "engagement". You can turn it off in "Settings".

Posted by: pawn at December 17, 2025 11:17 PM (EMg+d)

289 PDT didn't end his speech with "... and God bless the United States of America."

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 03:39 AM (RuTUS)

290 47 Somebody wound his main spring a bit to tight. Calm down Donald.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 17, 2025 09:15 PM (HTCU3)

I had just watched a speech by Ben Shapiro and, by comparison, PDT's was just right.

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 03:45 AM (RuTUS)

Nature Lovers Cafe

Half of my days are now spent thinking, "This better not be AI." I think it is AI. I am sharing it so that you know my pain.

Allegedly, not AI, just done with mirrors.

Whip-like sledgehammer.

I'm a leaf, see

This little owl is such a little tough guy it hurts my heart.

Self defense dog.

Airport K9 dog has a Zoomie break.

skwrrlz
She takes the "step on a crack break your mother's back" rule very seriously.

Seahorses dance with their partners every morning to strengthen the bond between them

pic.twitter.com/s7U1uzfisI
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) December 17, 2025

Ravens partner for life, monogamous, with behaviours strengthening their relationship, like serenading each other or joy flights

Perhaps these two are bonding look at the synchronised flight, dancing with identical pirouettes,

pic.twitter.com/Ligf0p9bAw
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) December 17, 2025

Ravens partner for life , they strengthen their pair bonds by performing what can be described as vocal "duets" or a soft, warbling "song" for one another.

📹 June Hunter
pic.twitter.com/jQRY10VvTj
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) December 17, 2025

Stunt rider Tyler Bereman jumps 6 islands across 2,300 feet of open water.

📹 Red Bull - Apple pic.twitter.com/vhM7sf1oeQ
— ViralRush ⚡ (@tweetciiiim) December 17, 2025

I thought that was AI, but apparently not:

...unless they created a whole "making of" video with AI, to make the first AI clip seem plausible.

Posted by: Ace at 07:18 PM

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1 That sledge hammer looks difficult to use.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 07:19 PM (pkeXY)

2 Despite that cleaner's promethean efforts to clean up last night, the mephitic bouquet of penguin can still be readily detected. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

3 Sure

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 17, 2025 07:21 PM (YlWIZ)

4 All images in my nic are AI Ace, so one less worry

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:21 PM (2GVsD)

5
Yeah, both MASH & All In The Family are totally Unwatchable today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:21 PM (2sxZ8)

6 Huh. For old people on the egg carton cushion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

7 Quoth the Raven, nevermore

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:22 PM (2GVsD)

8 More good dogs!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 17, 2025 07:22 PM (YlWIZ)

9 I'm not a nature lover.

More of a nurture lover.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 07:23 PM (nmp31)

10 If that airbag video isn't AI I'd like to know how they've solved the problem of other airbag deployment systems, to wit the explosive charges that activate them

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 17, 2025 07:24 PM (a+4eV)

11
*saunters in*
*looks at decor disapprovingly*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:24 PM (tgvbd)

12 There are a number of behaviors attributable to ravens, that no other birds do.

Among them is that tumble flying they do. Apparently it serves no evolutional purpose other than they have a shit ton of fun doing it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 07:24 PM (nmp31)

13 I'm still not convinced on those motorcycle jumps. I'm not sure Evil K. would have believed those either.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:25 PM (TN0g+)

14 More of a nurture lover.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 07:23 PM

Come nurture us, sweetkins. We're always here for you.

Posted by: Whoopi, Lena, Lizzo, and the Joys Behar and Reid at December 17, 2025 07:25 PM (0sNs1)

15 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)

16 AI can create a picture of a rose but it can never create the smell of a rose.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:26 PM (sDNVV)

17 Is that a wolf and a pup?? And where are the polar bears??

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 07:26 PM (g47mK)

18 The winds are ripping thru and trashing this place, 50 to 90 mph gusts.

Winter is coming.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 07:26 PM (nljXp)

19 What if we are AI? What then?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (viF8m)

20 *looks at decor disapprovingly*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:24 PM

Penguin droppings are almost impossible to get out of the shag carpeting.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (0sNs1)

21 Prisoners are making knives in the jail, drones are bringing in weapons and drugs, and inmates are regularly assaulting staff and each other, say the watchdogs.

One third of the inmates at HMP Swalesside in Kent UK are Muslim.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (2GVsD)

22 The foam explosion could as easily crush his head I think.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)

23 Come nurture us, sweetkins. We're always here for you.
Posted by: Whoopi, Lena, Lizzo, and the Joys Behar and Reid at December 17, 2025 07:25 PM (0sNs1)

I didn't say torture, ladies.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (nmp31)

24 Yeah, both MASH & All In The Family are totally Unwatchable today.
Posted by: Soothsayer

------

The Carol Burnett show aged poorly as well. First, Carol isn't nearly as funny as Tim Conway. Secondly, its rather amazing how many of her skits involved cheating on a spouse as a theme. I'm no prude, but I can't laugh at a steady diet of those jokes.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (TN0g+)

25 Trump is supposed to tell us about the economy and how good we have it. At 9 Eastern, right ? Right!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 07:28 PM (g47mK)

26 Hope our Colorado Horde has their hatches battened down

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)

27 "Allegedly, not AI, just done with mirrors."

Yeah, you can see the mirror and the substructure/frame behind it.

So, AI Slop averted.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 07:29 PM (gLikB)

28
If we are AI, I'm pissed it didn't make me look great, lol.

It's a failed system.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:29 PM (3ek7K)

29 I have seen something like that for cushions for motorcycle riders. It was kind of cool and quick like that. So I am pretty sure this is real.

Now, if standing he was flat chested and when he got up he had the rack of Christina Hendricks, then we'd know both tramny and AI.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:29 PM (zZu0s)

30 Can you say oubliette, kids?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:30 PM (zZu0s)

31
Aetius,

Is that French?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:30 PM (3ek7K)

32 The winds are ripping thru and trashing this place, 50 to 90 mph gusts.

Winter is coming.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

It's breathing heavy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 17, 2025 07:31 PM (N/gmR)

33 fourseasons, me too!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:31 PM (sDNVV)

34 If that motorcycle ride isn't AI then guy is good

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

35 I'm no prude, but I can't laugh at a steady diet of those jokes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (TN0g+)

Heh. How do you stand ewetub, seems to be nothing BUT cheating stories, speculation, solutions, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:32 PM (zZu0s)

36
Little time-lapse of Nancy Pelosi's stock trading performance over time:

https://is.gd/m4Bf8t

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:32 PM (w6EFb)

37
Ben Had,

I want my money back! Their products are not excellent, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:32 PM (3ek7K)

38 Thought I would send you guys an update on all of the "Health Stuff" that has transpired over the last week:

I have a "pump fill'" scheduled first thing Friday morning, then we will be on our way out of town. Thankfully, this fill is just Heparin and saline to keep the pump flowing for the next 2 weeks; when we get back, I have another fill scheduled to start the new chemo medication which will hopefully do the trick and get the rest of these tumors knocked off.

The best Christmas present of all for me (well, us) is that if this pump thing works, there is a better than average chance that I could go 2-3 YEARS before we have to start worrying about this beast coming back! And who knows what advancements may be made in that time period?

It truly is a Christmas miracle, and we are so incredibly blessed to have access to such stellar medical care right in our own back yard. We are also blessed to have SO MANY people saying prayers on our behalf. We are truly grateful for each and every one of you.

We hope that everyone has the Merriest of Christmases/Happiest of Hanukahs/Festive of Festivuses/etc. with those they love.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 07:33 PM (SRRAx)

39 Whip-like sledgehammer.

I see a lot more collateral damage coming out of this device. Successful hit rate of

Unless that's an AI sledgehammer, in which case there's no collateral damage except on our minds.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 07:33 PM (gLikB)

40 "Israel examining possibility Iran involved in murder of nuclear scientist in US - report
This is an assessment that has not yet been verified and is not supported at this stage by official findings from the investigative authorities in the United States."

I thought of Iran as soon as heard about it. it that proves to be true..yeah, don't want to speculate.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 07:33 PM (g47mK)

41 Well back to working on model kit or two.

Got numbers for tonight's $1.25 billion Powerball annuity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)

42 I get the thrill of that motorcycle ride but I would never do it. Four wheels for me.

But that rider is the perfect argument against universal health care. Some behaviors are risky and not just sexually. Why should I pay when he crashes into the water breaking a few bones (if he's lucky)?

Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 07:33 PM (gKDq2)

43 The Carol Burnett show aged poorly as well. First, Carol isn't nearly as funny as Tim Conway. Secondly, its rather amazing how many of her skits involved cheating on a spouse as a theme. I'm no prude, but I can't laugh at a steady diet of those jokes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (TN0g+)
====

It was all we had.

Pity us!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:34 PM (9ipOP)

44 Wonderful news, Teresa. What a Merry Christmas.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 07:34 PM (vFG9F)

45 I wanted to say thank you to every one who offered prayers for my wife's safe surgery. It went well this morning. The surgeon removed most of the hardware he put in a year ago with the exception of something that looks like a deck screw that he said he'd have to brake the bone again to remove so it was left in. She is hopped up on pain killers, but otherwise resting and doing well. About 2 weeks before she can walk and she should be fine in 6-8 weeks.

Thank you again.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 17, 2025 07:34 PM (3uBP9)

46 "This little owl is such a little tough guy it hurts my heart."

Owls are the Snoopys of the Avian persuasion; too cool for school.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 07:35 PM (gLikB)

47
Teresa,

You are one tough woman.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:35 PM (3ek7K)

48 Oh, and the surgeon's office called in an Rx for Hydrocodone (in lieu of the Oxy). I took my first dose at 2:45 pm this afternoon, and I am happy to report that I am feeling SO much less sore!

Better living through chemistry 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 07:36 PM (SRRAx)

49 Owls are the Snoopys of the Avian persuasion; too cool for school.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 07:35 PM (gLikB)

Owls are silent killers; their wings have silencers.

And they fly in some really tight spaces to get their prey.

Cool bird. Very useful on the farm for catching rodents of any variety.

Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 07:38 PM (gKDq2)

50 JackStraw: "What if we are AI? What then?"

Start looking for red pills.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 07:38 PM (gLikB)

51 Merry Christmas to you too, Teresa.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:38 PM (zZu0s)

52 banana dream, that is very good news! prayers for an easy recovery!

Posted by: moki at December 17, 2025 07:39 PM (wLjpr)

53 What if we are AI? What then?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM

Then Ginger, crossbows, and 9mm will have won.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

54
Best wishes Banana family!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:40 PM (3ek7K)

55
I never really liked MASH all that much at the time. Carol Burnette is still funny to me, and I enjoy the reruns. Watching whole episodes of All in the Family would drag on a bit, but I still enjoy Archie's best moments.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:40 PM (w6EFb)

56
Finn is doing much better. Much less coughing and no blood. He's happy to be a house dog - even if restricted to the laundry room - and get breakfast and dinner. He goes back to the vet for a re-examination on Friday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:41 PM (tgvbd)

57 Taquitos are ready! Don’t forget the salad.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 07:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

58 The Tennessee Titans are 2-12. They have played 14 games, and lost 12 of those.

And their rookie QB wants to somehow believe the future is all about him. He today came out and said he wants to talk to all of the head coaching candidates the team interviews. He's played in all 14 of their games, and has only 11 passing touchdowns and his completion percentage is under 60%. He's been sacked 49 teams.

Perhaps the Titans should be interviewing replacement QB candidates as well.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:41 PM (TN0g+)

59 @FBIDirectorKash
·
59m
Dan is the best partner I could’ve asked for in helping restore this FBI. He brought critical reforms to make the organization more efficient, led the successful Summer Heat op, served as the people’s voice for transparency, and delivered major breakthroughs in long unsolved cases like the pipe bomb investigation. And that’s only a small part of the work he went about every single day delivering for America.

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:41 PM (ZxPkt)

60
Back in the '70s there, Saturday nights were apponitment TV. MTM, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, Archie, and MASH.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:42 PM (w6EFb)

Posted by:
at December 17, 2025 07:42 PM (gw5QA)

62 moki, hugs to you , dear Lady. Your strength is amazing.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:42 PM (sDNVV)

63
A win for Finn.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:43 PM (3ek7K)

64
And here, the local CBS affiliate aired Hee-Haw at 7PM. That started it off. I remember that fondly, with my father laughing all evening watching those.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:43 PM (w6EFb)

65 Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:41 PM (TN0g+)

Sounds like they could use an offensive line, but he also sounds a bit shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:43 PM (zZu0s)

66 "What if we are AI? What then?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM"

It's a pretty good AI then. No third arms or anything like that. But if we are AI, it means that some AI has created its own AI.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 07:43 PM (vFG9F)

67 Hadrian. Please hug Finn for me.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:44 PM (sDNVV)

68 "🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. House has just PASSED the Republican healthcare plan that lets people buy insurance in groups to save money on premiums, WITHOUT Democrats' ACA subsidies extension for Big, Rich Insurance.

The vote was 216-111

One Republican NO: Thomas Massie"

stupid fuck

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 07:44 PM (g47mK)

69 Super news, Teresa!

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 07:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

70 Back in the '70s there, Saturday nights were apponitment TV. MTM, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, Archie, and MASH.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:42 PM (w6EFb)

MASH was on Mondays.

Talk about a show that did not age well.

Saturdays also had The Jackie Gleason Show from beautiful Miami.

Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 07:45 PM (gKDq2)

71 How long until Kash resigns? Is he in it to win it?

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)

72
Please hug Finn for me.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:44 PM (sDNVV)

_______

Will do. Our little gentleman is our bestest boy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 07:45 PM (tgvbd)

73
Big Address tonight, yes?

Excited?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:46 PM (2sxZ8)

74 its rather amazing how many of her skits involved cheating on a spouse as a theme. I'm no prude, but I can't laugh at a steady diet of those jokes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM (TN0g+)

They didn't have Tik Tok or podcasts back then.

People had to amuse themselves with things like adultery and murder instead.

Posted by: asexual gendernoodle at December 17, 2025 07:46 PM (/jlFo)

75
Drink every time President goes off-script.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (2sxZ8)

76 the Republican healthcare plan that lets people buy insurance in groups to save money on premiums, WITHOUT Democrats' ACA subsidies extension for Big, Rich Insurance.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 07:44 PM (g47mK)

That's a start, but why do we have to be in a group at all? I don't have to be in a group to buy car insurance, or home insurance. Shouldn't have to be in one to get health insurance, either.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (zYpTz)

77 "Israel examining possibility Iran involved in murder of nuclear scientist in US - report
This is an assessment that has not yet been verified and is not supported at this stage by official findings from the investigative authorities in the United States."

I wouldn't know anything about it.

Posted by: Zombie Gerald Bull at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (TVOOe)

78 Excellent news for you, Banana Dream!

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

79 runner: "One Republican NO: Thomas Massie

stupid fuck"

Agreed. At this point, it's being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. He's insisting upon himself.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (gLikB)

80 Ahh, the Hunter Biden defense.

Democrat Senator Mark Kelly says killing narco-terrorists is "not making us more safe" because they are only trafficking cocaine instead of fentanyl.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (L/fGl)

81 Vance Fires Back At Media Smear: "I Only Believe In The Conspiracy Theories That Are True"

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 07:48 PM (GITLP)

82 Gossipy rumors of Dan Bongino's inappropriate relationship with a penguin are unconfirmed but his recent actions suggest there may be more to the story than has been previously revealed.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 17, 2025 07:49 PM (vFG9F)

83 >> MASH was on Mondays.

You are right, that's my memory mixing things up. I'm looking up the 70's schedules now. THey did move All in the Family around as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:49 PM (w6EFb)

84 Ear skritches for Finn.

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:49 PM (ZxPkt)

85 Democrat Senator Mark Kelly says killing narco-terrorists is "not making us more safe" because they are only trafficking cocaine instead of fentanyl.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (L/fGl)

Is he really that stupid, or just willfully obtuse?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 07:49 PM (zYpTz)

86 Winter is coming? No sh*t. It was 12 degrees here Monday night.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 07:50 PM (G1OIb)

87 We hope that everyone has the Merriest of Christmases/Happiest of Hanukahs/Festive of Festivuses/etc. with those they love.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 07:33 PM (SRRAx)

Back atcha TiFW ...

What a slog you've been on #fighter

Posted by: browndog on alert at December 17, 2025 07:50 PM (3sXRv)

88 Moki always was my favorite Fraggle.

Posted by: Unemployed Doozer high on radish dust at December 17, 2025 07:50 PM (TbWk/)

89
The Jeffersons was on Sundays at 930.

Then it was Time For Go To Bed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:50 PM (2sxZ8)

90 I have two alternating screens savers . Duncanthrax 's Ace kitty and Finn

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)

91 I saw a headline in the NYT today (the article is behind a paywall) indicating that pumas introduced into Patagonia are now preying on penguins. It will come as no surprise that the biggest lobbyist for this policy is an outfit in Chile called Los Datos de Pingüinos, which is funded by the Partido Comunista de Chile.

Posted by: Paco at December 17, 2025 07:51 PM (2L+MU)

92 Happy Days held up well...mostly. The Demolition Derby episode with Pinky Tuscadero...not so much.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:51 PM (TN0g+)

93 Stunt rider Tyler Bereman jumps 6 islands across 2,300 feet of open water.

Working on that for six months... I bet he got a little sick of that course.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 07:52 PM (yr56r)

94 We hope that everyone has the Merriest of Christmases/Happiest of Hanukahs/Festive of Festivuses/etc. with those they love.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 07:33 PM (SRRAx)

Merry Christmas and congrats!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 17, 2025 07:52 PM (/HDaX)

95 Is he really that stupid, or just willfully obtuse?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 07:49 PM (zYpTz)

His puppetmasters are trying to set him up to be the Dem nominee for President in 2028. They aren't doing a very good job of it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 17, 2025 07:52 PM (TVOOe)

96 >>It's a pretty good AI then. No third arms or anything like that.

That's just like your opinion.

If we're AI how would we know we aren't supposed to have 3 arms? Maybe we're the Island of Misfit AI Toys.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 07:52 PM (viF8m)

97 60
Back in the '70s there, Saturday nights were apponitment TV. MTM, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, Archie, and MASH.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:42 PM (w6EFb)

Would not, and did not watch CBS after the Great Country Massacre.

#assholes

Posted by: browndog on alert at December 17, 2025 07:52 PM (3sXRv)

98 Smartest woman in the world.

https://is.gd/13ZDO0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 07:53 PM (L/fGl)

99 I saw a headline in the NYT today (the article is behind a paywall) indicating that pumas introduced into Patagonia are now preying on penguins. It will come as no surprise that the biggest lobbyist for this policy is an outfit in Chile called Los Datos de Pingüinos, which is funded by the Partido Comunista de Chile.

===

yes, true and Penguin Facts is their propaganda arm!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 07:53 PM (g47mK)

100
What time is the Don's address?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:53 PM (3ek7K)

101 browndog, hugs .

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:53 PM (sDNVV)

102 The vote was 216-111

There's 435 of those SOBs and only 327 can be bothered to show up to work the week before Christmas?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 07:53 PM (3nLb4)

103 Whip-like sledgehammer.

Its inefficiency makes it look really fake.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 07:54 PM (yr56r)

104 This little owl is such a little tough guy it hurts my heart.

I am Groot.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 17, 2025 07:54 PM (/HDaX)

105 101 browndog, hugs .
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 07:53 PM (sDNVV)

{{{Merry Christmas Ben ...}}}

Posted by: browndog on alert at December 17, 2025 07:55 PM (3sXRv)

106 Thank you again.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 17, 2025 07:34 PM (3uBP9)

That screw will make sure your wife knows when it is going to rain before NOAA will be able to figure it out.
I hope she does well, Banana Dream.

Tattoo "PT is essential" on her forehead if necessary

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 07:55 PM (rbvCR)

107 Democrat Senator Mark Kelly says killing narco-terrorists is "not making us more safe" because they are only trafficking cocaine instead of fentanyl.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (L/fGl)

Is he really that stupid, or just willfully obtuse?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 07:49 PM (zYpTz)

Embrace the power of "and"

Posted by: plus he's just a stooge for the progtards at December 17, 2025 07:55 PM (TbWk/)

108 "If we're AI how would we know we aren't supposed to have 3 arms?"

Are there any three armed / legged creatures? Bilateral symmetry seems to be built into the model.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

109
That's right
Festivus is a week from today
I haven't even erected my pole yet

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:57 PM (ZxPkt)

110 When AI replaces humans... especially the overpaid fucktards. I'll take notice.

Until then... it's a gimmick.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 17, 2025 07:57 PM (NwnyJ)

111 "If we're AI how would we know we aren't supposed to have 3 arms?"

Are there any three armed / legged creatures? Bilateral symmetry seems to be built into the model.
-----

*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 17, 2025 07:57 PM (TN0g+)

112 Smartest woman in the world.
https://is.gd/13ZDO0

Bitch is holdin' out on me.

Posted by: Dan C. at December 17, 2025 07:57 PM (3nLb4)

113 'Stunt rider Tyler Bereman jumps...'

Yes. It's impressive he can do those jumps without crashing and killing himself.

He's still a dumbshit for doing it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 17, 2025 07:58 PM (fd80v)

114 It's amazing the number of vegetarians (and buyers of "cruelty free" eggs) who are "wolf watchers" in Yellowstone.

I guess there's nothing better with your kale and goat cheese free range omelette than to see a pack of imported Canadian wolves chase down an elk and rip out its guts and start feeding while the animal is still alive.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 17, 2025 07:58 PM (iDFVA)

115
We bought Cracker Jack's yesterday. Not something we normally buy.

My question is Where are the peanuts?

Assholes ruin everything.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:58 PM (3ek7K)

116 I dare anyone to go up to "Science girl", look her straight in the eye and say.... "anthropomorphizing much?".

Then tell her you saw two flies sitting on the same dog turd and you're curious if it was an anniversary dinner and how they determine an anniversary since they live less than a month.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 07:58 PM (dIske)

117 Scary thread on reddit (don't judge) about 911 wait times in blue hell holes

https://tinyurl.com/bddr93xy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 07:59 PM (tcsrY)

118 Is he really that stupid, or just willfully obtuse?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 07:49 PM (zYpTz)

He is rumored to take a lot of money from overseas.

The cigarette boats are one of the main ways that cocaine gets to Europe. Last week I saw a note that the street price of coke in Europe had gone up 60-75%. This is taking a bite out of someone's planned Monaco vacations I believe.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 07:59 PM (rbvCR)

119 >> Would not, and did not watch CBS after the Great Country Massacre.

The Rural Purge, they called it. That happened a bit before I was old enough to know anything. But the local CBS affiliate (WSPA, Spartanburg, SC) carried it at 7PM Saturdays the whole time after it went into first run syndication. The complaints they got over CBS's cancelling it were the reason.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:59 PM (w6EFb)

120 Democrats on suicide watch.

'The president possesses a unique power': Appeals court rules Trump 'likely' has constitutional and statutory authority to deploy National Guard troops in nation's capital

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 07:59 PM (L/fGl)

121 hat's a start, but why do we have to be in a group at all? I don't have to be in a group to buy car insurance, or home insurance. Shouldn't have to be in one to get health insurance, either.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (zYpTz)

definitely a conversation to be had, but what they were trying to do is avoid a huge increase to those who ended up on obamacare hook, have nonstop propaganda trashing Trump on a rather sensitive subject going into 2026; he just wanted to be a Richard.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 07:59 PM (g47mK)

122 Watching the last episode of this Ken burns bullshit. It's looking like the British are gonna pull it off, y'all.

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 08:00 PM (uQzkA)

123 Are there any three armed / legged creatures? Bilateral symmetry seems to be built into the model.
Posted by: fd

* waves*
* waves*
* waves*
* waves*
* waves*

Posted by: a starfish at December 17, 2025 08:00 PM (CLARQ)

124
I still enjoy Beverly Hillbillies. Love that show.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:00 PM (2sxZ8)

125 MASH was good when it first came on. It gradually got more preachy and less funny as time went on.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 08:00 PM (G1OIb)

126
Jethro's "hollywood producer" phase is still funny.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:01 PM (2sxZ8)

127 >My question is Where are the peanuts?
----

lawyers probably made them take peanuts out because allergies

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 08:01 PM (ZxPkt)

128 What's a Dato? I know what a Gato is.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 17, 2025 08:01 PM (5IH8V)

129 Maybe Kelly or his friends need that cocaine

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 08:02 PM (Ia/+0)

130 >> I still enjoy Beverly Hillbillies. Love that show.

Ditto. And all of them, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres.

Green Acres was one of the funniest shows ever. That surreal comedy....and Hank Kimball was one of the best comedic characters ever created. County Kimball, your Hank Agent.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 08:02 PM (w6EFb)

131
Don,

Yep, like I said, assholes.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 08:03 PM (3ek7K)

132 >MASH was good when it first came on. It gradually got more preachy and less funny as time went on.
----
when Wayne Rogers left, IMO

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 08:03 PM (ZxPkt)

133
Yeah, even Arnold the pig is hilarious!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:03 PM (2sxZ8)

134 >> Jethro's "hollywood producer" phase is still funny.

And his Double Naught spyin' career. And his modifications to the old truck. He launched himself into orbit one time using Granny's rheumatiz medicine as rocket fuel, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 08:04 PM (w6EFb)

135
This overwhelming urge and motivation to make fake evidence indistinguishable from real evidence. It sucks.

What's the end point of AI? When everything is fake? Legal documents fake? This is starting to look like hell on earth. The science brains need trillions of dollars and gigawatts of electricity so that nothing can be trusted anymore.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 08:04 PM (VWtfl)

136
When they killed Col Blake off-camera, that was, like, a huge WTF? moment.

They did it just to spite Maclean Stevenson. And it ruined the show.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:04 PM (2sxZ8)

137 Padt my bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 08:05 PM (Ia/+0)

138
Why?
Why would you do that?

A comedy show, and they decide to Nut-Punch the audience by killing Colonel Blake. For what?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:06 PM (2sxZ8)

139 When Alda took over.

Posted by: davidt at December 17, 2025 08:06 PM (Q+gd/)

140
I have to say ya'll amaze me with stuff you remember .

I can't remember what I did yesterday.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 08:06 PM (3ek7K)

141 I think you’re being too harsh on Carol Burnett; her show, just like Jackie Gleason was a throwback to old Vaudeville. (So was Jim Henson’s Muppet Show). Those efforts are always hit and miss; the idea is to toss out so many fast skits that the audience forgets the bad ones. And you’ll have a famous guest star each week.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 08:07 PM (idwIE)

142 The Muppet Show was Awesome.

Posted by: davidt at December 17, 2025 08:08 PM (Q+gd/)

143 Chile Willi was well known for bringing his particularly perverse polymorphic perversity to Patagonia. It is no wonder his countrymen imported pumas to eradicate the embarrassing memories of the mephitic Magellanic menace.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 17, 2025 08:08 PM (vFG9F)

144 911 wait times in blue hell holes

Still the best rap of the pre-Eminem era
youtu.be/JZDIitWz8Go

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 08:10 PM (gKWVE)

145 My favorite of them was Bob Newhart when he was a psychiatrist. I loved his deadpan humor, and the best part was when he would have his patient group session each week. Mr. Carlton was even more deadpan than Newhart , but he would say things that would have me rolling on the ground!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 08:11 PM (idwIE)

146 What's a Dato? - Thanatopsis

In Spanish, a "datum", a "fact". Like, you know, in "Penguin Facts".

Posted by: Paco at December 17, 2025 08:12 PM (2L+MU)

147 142 The Muppet Show was Awesome.
Posted by: davidt at December 17, 2025 08

I loved that show!

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 08:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

148 144

'Still the best rap of the pre-Eminem era'

Tallest dwarf.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 17, 2025 08:12 PM (fd80v)

149 All In The Family is on. It's the one where Archie uses the terlit.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 08:12 PM (vFG9F)

150 MASH was good when it first came on. It gradually got more preachy and less funny as time went on.

Same with a lot of shows.
Family Ties
Quincy (ok not comedy)
WKRP was cancelled before it got out of hand

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at December 17, 2025 08:13 PM (KaHlS)

151
Max Baer is the only surviving cast member and by all accounts, a great guy.

His dad did character acting outside his boxing career, usually playing the menacing buffoon.

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 08:14 PM (Y8DZL)

152 145 My favorite of them was Bob Newhart when he was a psychiatrist. I loved his deadpan humor, and the best part was when he would have his patient group session each week. Mr. Carlton was even more deadpan than Newhart , but he would say things that would have me rolling on the ground! - Tom Servo

Remember when Bob developed a phobia about getting on the elevator? And when he had just about mastered his fear, he was about to get on and when the doors opened, there was a man standing there, all in black, who said (as I recall) "Room for one more".

Posted by: Paco at December 17, 2025 08:14 PM (2L+MU)

153 Received a belt from Amazon. First inside the box was a 2" square, blue, cardstock, paper with a note.
It said, 'do not eat'.
OK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 08:15 PM (INl5o)

154 "It said, 'do not eat'.
OK."

Don't eat the belt or the note? It's not very clear.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

155 Chews like naugahyde

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 17, 2025 08:17 PM (/6GbT)

156 https://youtu.be/Og1ArtPGpfw?si=NGUsxj6JvkNpTQLn

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 08:18 PM (BI5O2)

157 I suppose someone could mistake the belt for a rolled up piece of beef jerky. Maybe somebody already did and that's why they put the note in there.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 08:18 PM (vFG9F)

158 >>The Carol Burnett show aged poorly as well. First, Carol isn't nearly as funny as Tim Conway.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:27 PM

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

Agree. Heck, Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence were usually funnier than Burnett.

Posted by: Bigsmith at December 17, 2025 08:20 PM (1Au9i)

159 It's probably just a legal thing. Which is why we should destroy all lawyers.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

160
Carol Burnett had one funny skit during the entire run of the show. Tim Conway and Harvey Korman must've been high during the entire run of it, cracking up constantly cause, like, they were funny. Or something.

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 08:20 PM (Y8DZL)

161
I hope Ace is going to live blog Trump's speech.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 08:20 PM (3ek7K)

162 I have all the Twilight Zone episodes. They are hold up and some are damn near prophetic.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 08:20 PM (sDNVV)

163 Laugh In had good moments. WKRP was funny. Television was better back in the day. It's not worth a sh*t now.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 08:20 PM (G1OIb)

164 Received a belt from Amazon. First inside the box was a 2" square, blue, cardstock, paper with a note.
It said, 'do not eat'.

===

goodness, if someone wants to eat his belt , he should be allowed to do that without some Belt Karen harping on him!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 08:21 PM (g47mK)

165
Ravens are asshoe. And sarcastic.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 08:21 PM (y9nCu)

166 143 Chile Willi was well known for bringing his particularly perverse polymorphic perversity to Patagonia. It is no wonder his countrymen imported pumas to eradicate the embarrassing memories of the mephitic Magellanic menace. - Penguin Facts

It is absolutely monstrous that the beloved Chilly Willy, possibly the greatest penguin actor of all time, should be subjected to these libelous charges. He was also a great patriot, selling war bonds and entertaining the troops during both WWII and the Korean War. His death at the hands, or rather, the flippers, of a leopard seal in 1972 was mourned throughout the Southern Hemisphere.

Posted by: Paco at December 17, 2025 08:21 PM (2L+MU)

167 Chile Willi was well known for bringing his particularly perverse polymorphic perversity to Patagonia. It is no wonder his countrymen imported pumas to eradicate the embarrassing memories of the mephitic Magellanic menace.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 17, 2025 08:08 PM (vFG9F)

Poor Chile Willli, it was the looooongest night of the year

Posted by: Ellis "Red" Redding at December 17, 2025 08:22 PM (rbvCR)

168 Petticoat Junction

-
I liked it better in olden days when it was Uncle Joe who was movin' kind of slow.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 08:23 PM (L/fGl)

169 [Vanity License Plate humor:]

https://is.gd/UdfQSS

----------

[Is this for real? Too good to check ... and we're gonna need MOAR Darwin Awards:]

"Trans-Species Man Who Self-Identifies As A Deer Accidentally Shot By Hunters"

https://is.gd/xQG8mA

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 08:23 PM (GGEMA)

170
Twilight Zone has two Christmas episodes. Both good.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:24 PM (2sxZ8)

171
Reiners cause of death released.

Well duh.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 08:24 PM (3ek7K)

172 Received a belt from Amazon. First inside the box was a 2" square, blue, cardstock, paper with a note.

It said, 'do not eat'.

OK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 08:15 PM (INl5o)

No stupid little blue card is going to tell me MY business!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 08:24 PM (dK+Kv)

173 Reiners cause of death released.

Well duh.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 08:24 PM (3ek7K)

TDS

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 08:25 PM (dK+Kv)

174 Motocross bike sounds like a Bultaco I rode a coupe of times. All I remember is that is was 300+cc and leaving some skin and blood in the dirt.

Posted by: Javems at December 17, 2025 08:25 PM (8I4hW)

175 Twilight Zone has two Christmas episodes. Both good.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:24 PM (2sxZ

I'll have to seek them out and make the kids watch them.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 08:25 PM (dK+Kv)

176 Preznit speaks at the top of the hour

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 08:26 PM (ZxPkt)

177 Just to point out, one year during deer season I got bored in a stand and decided to wander over to where the wild mint was growing so I could stuff my pockets full so I could dry it for tea when I got home.
While poking along, looking for mint, stopping here and there to pick some trailing vines, I suddenly realized I was acting like a deer, and I should march back to the stand and sit down quietly.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 08:26 PM (rbvCR)

178
Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The Old Dennis Miller Line at December 17, 2025 08:26 PM (2Ez/1)

179 My son was working in Yellowstone, and watched a gang of ravens take charge of a guy's pickup at Old Faithful. They worked open the cooler and started feasting. When the guy showed up they chased him away several times.

Ravens are scary.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 17, 2025 08:27 PM (0aYVJ)

180 "Trans-Species Man Who Self-Identifies As A Deer Accidentally Shot By Hunters"

https://is.gd/xQG8mA

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 08:23 PM (GGEMA)

"Accidentally."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 08:27 PM (dK+Kv)

181 One of the comments in the 911 thread:

"I tried to report an overturned boat floating down my local river last winter when I was out fishing . They answered after 2 minutes or so then the bitch on the line literally said "I dont give a shit, call someone else" . So I called the coast guard and told them about the 911 call and they said they'd handle it. This was in sw Pennsylvania"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 08:27 PM (DoBxX)

182 154 "It said, 'do not eat'.
OK."

Don't eat the belt or the note? It's not very clear.
Posted by: fd
---

Very small font (put your glasses on), 'anti-mold eco-chip'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 08:27 PM (INl5o)

183 Still not clear. Don't eat the eco-chip.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 08:28 PM (INl5o)

184 Just to point out, one year during deer season I got bored in a stand and decided to wander over to where the wild mint was growing so I could stuff my pockets full so I could dry it for tea when I got home.

While poking along, looking for mint, stopping here and there to pick some trailing vines, I suddenly realized I was acting like a deer, and I should march back to the stand and sit down quietly.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 08:26 PM (rbvCR)

Good call. The deer do love them some mint tea.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 08:29 PM (dK+Kv)

185 *puts down bag of anti-mold eco-chips*

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 08:29 PM (vFG9F)

186 Received a belt from Amazon. First inside the box was a 2" square, blue, cardstock, paper with a note.
It said, 'do not eat'.
OK. Posted by: Braenyard

Belt is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, belt-kabobs, belt creole, belt gumbo...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 08:30 PM (mlg/3)

187 @169 nope - an article from World News Daily Report back in 2021.

It's funny, though 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 08:30 PM (SRRAx)

188 Remember when Bob developed a phobia about getting on the elevator? And when he had just about mastered his fear, he was about to get on and when the doors opened, there was a man standing there, all in black, who said (as I recall) "Room for one more".
Posted by: Paco at December 17, 2025 08:14 PM (2L+MU)

That was great! It was one of those “shaggy dog” jokes where the characters keep talking about some situation (like elevators) and you’re wondering why, and then you realize it was just set up one big joke at the end.

(Seinfeld did that a lot as well)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 08:30 PM (idwIE)

189
TZ's season 2 "Night of the Meek" with Art Carney is a classic.

Season 3 "The Changing of the Guard" is with Donald Pleasance.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:31 PM (2sxZ8)

190 That 70s Show went seriously bad in the last season or two.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 08:32 PM (/lPRQ)

191 TZ's season 2 "Night of the Meek" with Art Carney is a classic.

Season 3 "The Changing of the Guard" is with Donald Pleasance.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:31 PM (2sxZ

Were these the Christmas episodes?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 08:32 PM (dK+Kv)

192 I want to know what you have all done with the Horde.
Eating belts and no mention of sous vide? CBD weeps.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 17, 2025 08:33 PM (3nJaK)

193 I had a mini Hershey bar yesterday and I noticed...it had directions on how to open.

Posted by: steevy at December 17, 2025 08:33 PM (YwEeS)

194 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:33 PM (77rzZ)

195
Were these the Christmas episodes?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Yes.
The second one is Christmas-ish.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:34 PM (2sxZ8)

196 Yes.
The second one is Christmas-ish.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:34 PM (2sxZ

Thank you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 08:35 PM (dK+Kv)

197
Listen to the President or go out on the porch, light a Arturo Fuente robusto and finish the Laphroig 10 year, at least the last three oz.'s of it.

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 08:36 PM (Y8DZL)

198 Were there any actors in Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies or Petticoat Junction?

Posted by: Miflin at December 17, 2025 08:37 PM (aA6YN)

199
There could've been a "president" harris speaking tonight.

Never Forget.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:38 PM (2sxZ8)

200 180 "Trans-Species Man Who Self-Identifies As A Deer Accidentally Shot By Hunters"

https://is.gd/xQG8mA

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe
------------

That's too good. Did he take it to the taxidermist?
Mount that baby over the mantel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 08:38 PM (INl5o)

201 Were there any actors in Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies or Petticoat Junction?
Posted by: Miflin

Reality TV before it's time.
Andy Griffin Show too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 08:39 PM (/lPRQ)

202
Daily Mail.......John Travolta fathered Elvis's great grandson with Riley Keough, wild lawsuit claims.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 08:39 PM (3ek7K)

203
That's another thing.

Who cares about a "mean" tweet.
We're lucky we don't have fucking kalama running the Executive Branch today. And no other Republican wouldv'e won in '24.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:39 PM (2sxZ8)

204 Auspex, I don't see a choice The cigar and libation are a clear win

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 08:39 PM (sDNVV)

205 Nice cafe. Glad to read the medical successes among The Horde & famblys.

We survived the wind storm, glad to see it go away!

One tree blew over, but just barely scuffed a gutter on the way down. No major damage, yay! (Well, except to the bank account...) It'll be a while before tree svc can get to it-- there's damage all over the region and many in more urgent need than us.

I thank God that He directed that tree away from the house!

Posted by: JQ at December 17, 2025 08:41 PM (rdVOm)

206 My grandpa in Wisconsin was a big old school hunter, and he hated the first day of the season when all the wannabe hunters would come up from the city. He would get out there early, he said once he got up to top of a ridgeline right at daybreak - had the orange vest on - but it was still dim and said he had to dive and scramble behind a big tree when he heard bullets start to ping all around him. (Luckily they were poor shots as well as being fools who would shoot at anything that moved.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 08:41 PM (idwIE)

207 198 I never listen to Presidential speeches, even those given by Presidents I like, like Trump.

It’s something about the cadences. Drives me nuts.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:42 PM (77rzZ)

208 Were there any actors in Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies or Petticoat Junction?
Posted by: Miflin at December 17, 2025 08:37 PM (aA6YN)

It was all marionettes, like Thunderbirds.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)

209 Santa Clause is driving by on an antique fire truck!

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 08:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

210 @Defence_Index . Dec 17
President Trump declares Venezuela “completely surrounded” by the largest armada in South American history.

He orders a TOTAL BLOCKADE of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the country.
---

37 second Armada clip
https://tinyurl.com/5ch6an2z

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 08:44 PM (INl5o)

211
I thank God that He directed that tree away from the house!
Posted by: JQ

Glad to hear it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:44 PM (2sxZ8)

212 Green Acres? Eva Gabor and Eddie Arnold were pretty well known. And Andy Griffith turned Din Knots into a huge star.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 08:45 PM (idwIE)

213 Perhaps the Titans should be interviewing replacement QB candidates as well.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:41 PM (TN0g+)

The Chiefs -Titans game will feature two former QBs from Washington State.
Go Cougs!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 08:45 PM (2WIwB)

214
What, exactly, is the strategy with Venezuela?

We shut down their economy and....then what?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:46 PM (2sxZ8)

215 The vote was 216-111

There's 435 of those SOBs and only 327 can be bothered to show up to work the week before Christmas?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 07:53 PM (3nLb4)

They shut off voting once it passed. The dems bitched. But they did it all the time.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 08:47 PM (2WIwB)

216 >>(Luckily they were poor shots as well as being fools who would shoot at anything that moved.)

My mom had to put orange blankets on the horses when she let them out to graze on the farm in Vermont during deer hunting season.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)

217 Sanford And Son is still funny as hell.

A great group of characters too. They were all really different and you kinda got to know them over the series.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 08:48 PM (Vh9CX)

218 Elliot Carlin (Jack Riley)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 08:49 PM (pkeXY)

219
Didn't Eliot Carlin reprise his role as a cameo on another show?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:50 PM (2sxZ8)

220
So do we take hot Venezuelan babes as boots?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:50 PM (tgvbd)

221
Santa Clause is driving by on an antique fire truck!
Posted by: Piper

Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 08:50 PM (pkeXY)

222 Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor were close to top-tier in Hollywood.

And Frank Cary (“Sam Drucker”

had bit/supporting parts in Rear Window and The Bad Seed.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:50 PM (77rzZ)

223 214
What, exactly, is the strategy with Venezuela?

We shut down their economy and....then what?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Introducing Presidencia CARMEN MIRANDA!

Next... Desi Arnez as Presidente of Cuba!

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 08:50 PM (Y8DZL)

224
Damn autocorrect

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:51 PM (tgvbd)

225
We're installing José Altuve as President of the country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:52 PM (tgvbd)

226

The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special
TV Special
1991

Bob is recovering from the horrible nightmare about a crazy little town in Vermont. As that happens, he begins reminiscing of events from episodes of "The Bob Newhart Show."

www.imdb.com/title/tt0319077

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 08:53 PM (pkeXY)

227
Wth,

We turn Fox on and the hag Pelousy is talking. Will she ever go away?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 08:54 PM (3ek7K)

228 President Donald Trump has installed plaques underneath the portraits of presidents in the Rose Garden colonnade that detail aspects of their presidencies, in Washington, Dec. 17, 2025.
-ABC

Some of them are not complementary.
Obama's plaque ends with he "spied on the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald J. Trump, and presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History."

ABC is butt hurt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 08:54 PM (INl5o)

229 Hadrian, when does the Big Dummy show at Westminster? Where can we watch it?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:54 PM (77rzZ)

230 So do we take hot Venezuelan babes as boots?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:50 PM (tgvbd)

Too hot down there, hides are too thin to make good boot leather.

Now, Eskimo leather is a different matter. I rate it above kangaroo.

Posted by: Zombie Ed Gein at December 17, 2025 08:55 PM (VtIDj)

231 163
'Television was better back in the day. It's not worth a sh*t now.'

At least it's more diverse.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 17, 2025 08:55 PM (fd80v)

232 There is a new one upstairs.........

Posted by: Molly k. at December 17, 2025 08:55 PM (j/yko)

233 Introducing Presidencia CARMEN MIRANDA!

Next... Desi Arnez as Presidente of Cuba!
Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 08:50 PM (Y8DZL)

Carmen Miranda was from Brazil

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 08:57 PM (rbvCR)

234 What, exactly, is the strategy with Venezuela?

We shut down their economy and....then what?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Maduro...you got some s'painin' to do!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 08:57 PM (2WIwB)

235 231 163
'Television was better back in the day. It's not worth a sh*t now.'

It’s sad but it’s true. There really were “must see” shows, things everyone you knew would be talking about all week, and if you weren’t in on it you were outside.

There hasn’t been anything “must see” that I’ve known of for at least 20 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 08:57 PM (idwIE)

236 124 I still enjoy Beverly Hillbillies. Love that show.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 08:00 PM (2sxZ

Best episode is Grannie hunting a kangaroo she thinks is a giant jackrabbit.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 08:58 PM (y171U)

237
Hadrian, when does the Big Dummy show at Westminster? Where can we watch it?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 08:54 PM (77rzZ)

_______

He will be shown on the first day, February 2nd.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 08:58 PM (tgvbd)

238 Nood. Trump's speech (that no one is going to watch).

Why not just save it all for the SOTU address next month?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 17, 2025 08:59 PM (SRRAx)

239 Christmas has been over here for 4 days. Santa came by on the fire truck Saturday night in an 8 vehicle entourage. It's all downhill from there.

Posted by: Downcast Dan at December 17, 2025 08:59 PM (oftw2)

240 179
'Ravens are scary.'

I'll be scared of them when they can survive a shotgun blast.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 17, 2025 09:00 PM (fd80v)

241
Carmen Miranda was from Brazil
Posted by: Kindltot

Barry was from Kenya.

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 09:00 PM (Y8DZL)

242
Now, Eskimo leather is a different matter. I rate it above kangaroo.
Posted by: Zombie Ed Gein at December 17, 2025 08:55 PM (VtIDj)

________

*flings phone across room*

I meant to say "booty", but no, Android had other ideas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2025 09:00 PM (tgvbd)

243 Just let it be noted that Sophia Vergara is Colombian, not Venezuelan. And she’s already here.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 09:00 PM (77rzZ)

244 214
What, exactly, is the strategy with Venezuela?

We shut down their economy and....then what?
Posted by: Soothsayer
--------

Send Maduro and his gang to a happy place.
Settle debts. Insure (by the military, not bureaucrats) honest elections. Have dinner with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:00 PM (INl5o)

245 Barry was from Kenya.
Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 09:00 PM (Y8DZL)

Barry could neither sing, nor dance.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 09:02 PM (rbvCR)

246 Stephen Miller, a top aide to United States President Donald Trump, has suggested that Venezuela’s oil belongs to Washington, describing the nationalisation of the South American country’s petroleum industry as “theft”.
_Al Jazeera Staff

This is joke. Tanker, SKIPPER, loaded with tar is on its way to Houston. Know what's in Houston?
The only place that can refine tar.

Richard Gere put gerbil up, up Maduro's heyy ohh.
------

“American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela,”

“Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property. These pillaged assets were then used to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs.”
_CoS Steven Miller

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:02 PM (INl5o)

247 Preznit is live

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 09:03 PM (ZxPkt)

248 203
'We're lucky we don't have fucking kalama running the Executive Branch today.'

We need to stay that lucky.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 17, 2025 09:03 PM (fd80v)

249 Barry could neither sing, nor dance.
Posted by: Kindltot
--

No hoops today.
No skeet tomorrow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:04 PM (INl5o)

250 236 What, exactly, is the strategy with Venezuela?

We shut down their economy and....then what?
Posted by: Soothsayer”

The group running Venezuela is *not* anything like a popular government - it is a vast criminal organization that hangs onto control through brutality and fear. (Last election, squashed by Maduro, proved that.). BUT to keep this going requires a huge amount of cash; Madura has to pay off all the cartels whose shipments he’s supposed to protect; he has to pay off his own army and militias so they don’t revolt; he has kick some money back to the Chinese, the Russians, and the Iranians; and he has to pay the gangs of thugs inside Venezuela that he uses for street level control.
It all demands a huge amount of cash, each month - cut off the regimes cash, you cut off all of the support it needs to stay alive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:05 PM (idwIE)

251 "allies in Congress looted the Congress... to levels never seen before"

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 09:07 PM (gKWVE)

252 Trump speaks from the White House

https://x. com/ i/broadcasts/ 1 YqKDNBMAzwJV

https://tinyurl.com/ycvr2ffb

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:10 PM (INl5o)

253 Venezuela today only has two major sources of income - the oil trade and the illegal drug trade. They can’t print money because their currency is already mostly worthless. So no need for invasion, they can be broken much more easily.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:11 PM (idwIE)

254 President Trump declares Venezuela “completely surrounded” by the largest armada in South American history.

He orders a TOTAL BLOCKADE of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the country.
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37 second Armada clip
https://tinyurl.com/5ch6an2z
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 08:44 PM (INl5o)

How can a naval blockade "completely surround" a country with land borders on 3 sides? Sure, you can completely interdict marine traffic, but Venezuela is not in any way surrounded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:12 PM (npFr7)

255 How can a naval blockade "completely surround" a country with land borders on 3 sides? Sure, you can completely interdict marine traffic, but Venezuela is not in any way surrounded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:12 PM (npFr7)

It’s poetic license. Or something like that. One side, four sides, what’s the difference? Trump’s on a roll.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:15 PM (idwIE)

256 85 Democrat Senator Mark Kelly says killing narco-terrorists is "not making us more safe" because they are only trafficking cocaine instead of fentanyl.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (L/fGl)

Is he really that stupid, or just willfully obtuse?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
----

They know this because their supply has been cut short.
There was more cocaine that Hunter's up in those racks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:16 PM (INl5o)

257 257 How can a naval blockade "completely surround" a country with land borders on 3 sides? Sure, you can completely interdict marine traffic, but Venezuela is not in any way surrounded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 09:12 PM (npFr7)

It’s poetic license. Or something like that. One side, four sides, what’s the difference? Trump’s on a roll.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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It's a major constipation. Can he export drugs through Guyana or Colombia? No. Is Brazil amenable to Venezuela trafficing through it?
Not so much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM (INl5o)

258 It's a major constipation. Can he export drugs through Guyana or Colombia? No. Is Brazil amenable to Venezuela trafficing through it?
Not so much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 09:22 PM

Because i like maps i looked up what connects Brazil and Venezuela - there’s a two lane hiway several hundred miles long with a couple small towns on it, running through the jungle. 20 guys could cut it if they had the military hardware.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 09:29 PM (idwIE)

259 The seahorses are NOT "strengthening their bond", they're MATING. You know, making seaponies. Stop anthropomorphizing animals.

Posted by: GWB at December 17, 2025 10:14 PM (hRU+H)

After Months of Rumors and Speculation, Dan Bongino Announces He's Leaving the FBI

Dan Bongino
@FBIDDBongino
31m
I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January.
I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.
Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you.
God bless America, and all those who defend Her.

Trump says he wants to go back to his show. I figure that's probably right. He had a great job. He did a turn of service. He figures he's done enough and it's time to go back to his permanent job.

And he might have decided he doesn't like the constant denigration and the claims he's covering up for Epstein and now for the innocent patsy Tyler Robinson, and has decided, "Enough of this bullshit." Working for less money than you're used to is one thing, seeing your reputation permanently damaged by conspiracy-addled blowhards is another thing.

🚨 DAN BONGINO is LEAVING the FBI

�Dan did a GREAT JOB,� President Trump said.

Bongino is an absolute patriot. Thank you for your service, sir 🫡 pic.twitter.com/7NLXZoePrq
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 17, 2025

Oh no�

🚨 John Solomon Reports that Dan Bongino will be leaving the FBI in January

He says it was planned for a while and he will be going back to his radio show empire.

�He DID THE JOB Kash Patel and the President asked him to do�� get rid of the bad eggs and solve some of� pic.twitter.com/OnkxrQStWN
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) December 17, 2025

Tucker Carlson has been sowing suspicions about Patel and Bongino.

Tucker Carlson is now bashing Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.

Nobody has been a bigger disappointment to me since President Trump took office in January than Tucker.

Does anyone else feel the same?
pic.twitter.com/2Zd3zOHUZe
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) December 10, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:20 PM

Comments

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1 First!

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 06:21 PM (1Nv0l)

2 Hi.

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 06:22 PM (W7XSX)

3 Only because I read the content.

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 06:22 PM (W7XSX)

4 Tucker Carlson is all-in. On Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 06:22 PM (1Nv0l)

5 I was hoping it was a typo; Bondi instead of Bongino

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (E4uVR)

6 "And he might have decided he doesn't like the constant denigration and the claims he's covering up for Epstein"

_______

Maybe if he doesn't want to constantly hear claims that he's covering up for Epstein, he should stop covering up for Epstein.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (CKIwv)

7 Ahem. I read the content. I got lucky and hit the page just as it updated I guess.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (1Nv0l)

8 The biggest thing I have learned in 2025 is that all media types should be referred to as 'influencers' at best, and probably 'presstitutes'. This includes the ones one thinks are "the good ones".

The Ancient Romans did not have reporters, but they treated actors as being the same as whores. We should do the same with every profession that involves getting people to pay attention to you.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (UdiE9)

9 Ace brought out the hard R..ation

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 17, 2025 06:24 PM (EES2L)

10 OT- Don't know if it's legitimate or not, but "Conservative Treehouse" is reporting that Brown was asked sometime ago by more than 25 human rights groups to disable their security cameras:

https://tinyurl.com/y2sm5k6p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:24 PM (7RYym)

11 Congrats. I do love the fresh scent of a fresh thread.

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 06:24 PM (W7XSX)

12 Wow, I did not see this coming.

I wonder if he is going to try and restart his radio show.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 06:25 PM (0N4FZ)

13 How is an actor different from a whore. They get work the same way.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:25 PM (NS3dP)

14 All actors should still be treated as whores.

Posted by: no one at December 17, 2025 06:25 PM (W7XSX)

15 Probably hates his bosses. Can't blame him.
He has a future in three-ring binder assembly.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 17, 2025 06:26 PM (abIsI)

16 Wait... a government employee voluntarily leaving, this is a Christmas miracle.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 06:26 PM (n5tGW)

17 I'm torn on Bongino. I didn't think he was the sharpest tool in the shed, but I also doubt he had the ability to find where the bodies are buried.
That chore requires an immediate insider, and if said immediate insider is partially culpable, ain't gonna be no bodies unearthed.
My $.02.

Posted by: MkY at December 17, 2025 06:26 PM (q6tQZ)

18
https://tinyurl.com/y2sm5k6p
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

============

Wow. I've heard lack of video is one of the big information holes in this case.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 06:27 PM (n7rxJ)

19 Do you know who never bashed Kash Patel and Dan Bongino? Mark Levin! That man is a paragon of virtue and I have no idea why he was not elevated to a cabinet position.
His lectures on Fox make me know he should have been given authority, and not just a voice.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:27 PM (rbvCR)

20 Who replaces him?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:27 PM (NS3dP)

21 His job at the FBI is way more important and reach than his radio show

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 06:27 PM (Ia/+0)

22 "And he might have decided he doesn't like the constant denigration and the claims he's covering up for Epstein and now for the innocent patsy Tyler Robinson, and has decided, "Enough of this bullshit." Working for less money than you're used to is one thing, seeing your reputation permanently damaged by conspiracy-addled blowhards is another thing."

---

Now that would be the very definition of pathetic cowardice: I'm being criticized, so I'm leaving.

I guess that's easier for some people to believe though, than that it's a corrupt and irredeemable organization.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:28 PM (8n1Ay)

23 Last thread are argued that Bongino might be more effective on the outside then inside. He can dump a lot of the information he has learned to the public and our pressure on the scumbags in the DoJ/FBI to leave or come clean.
We shall see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:28 PM (LyrOO)

24 Disappointing. I won't go out of my way to listen to his show. May even avoid it.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:28 PM (vFG9F)

25 Who replaces him?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:27 PM (NS3dP)

Nick Fuentes!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:28 PM (8n1Ay)

26 He's not a broadcaster.
He talks to Jim The Producer more than he talks to the audience.

Vince Coglianese (Call-ANN-A's) is much more listenable.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (2Ez/1)

27 Durka durka. Durka durka durka turka.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson, reciting script from the bosses at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (Y8DZL)

28 I wonder if he is going to try and restart his radio show.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

The Wifey and I watched Bongino's show on Rumble. When he left for the FBI, we gave his replacement, Vince Somethingerother, a chance, but felt he had the personality of paint drying on a tree stump, so we switched to Crowder.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (E4uVR)

29 Slum Dog Millionaire?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (NS3dP)

30 Who replaces him?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Bob, NSA

Posted by: MkY at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (q6tQZ)

31
Bongino was always bursting to reveal something horrific, but couldn't because something else was about to come out, or his sources would be traceable, or the investigation would be revealed and everyone would run around burning the remaining evidence.

It seems to me he's just sickened by the depth and extent of the rot and he's kind of... walking away in despair.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (n7rxJ)

32 The Ancient Romans did not have reporters, but they treated actors as being the same as whores. We should do the same with every profession that involves getting people to pay attention to you.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (UdiE9)

They also liked to crucify people they considered politically and socially dangerous.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (rbvCR)

33 Eff Tucker
What a phony

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (znREB)

34 I'm honestly about done with the whole MAGA thing thanks to these completely ridiculous conspiracy nutters.

It's gone into the mainstream with the Brown University shooter nonsense being spouted - you should hear the Howie Carr radio show .... literally every caller is talking about facts not in evidence but they're absolutely sure they know who did it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (WYStd)

35 He doesn't have one tenth the dedication of PDT.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (vFG9F)

36 His lectures on Fox make me know he should have been given authority, and not just a voice.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:27 PM (rbvCR)

But what a voice it is!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:30 PM (8n1Ay)

37 You know who this benefits?

Mitt Romney

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at December 17, 2025 06:30 PM (CKIwv)

38 I don’t even remember what job Bongino had, was it important?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 06:31 PM (XV/Pl)

39 The Romans were Great. Saint Titus and Saint Hadrian. The whip hands of the Almighty.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:31 PM (NS3dP)

40
...but they're absolutely sure they know who did it.
Posted by: Defenestratus

Who?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 06:31 PM (2sxZ8)

41 Trump says?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 06:31 PM (pkeXY)

42 21 His job at the FBI is way more important and reach than his radio show
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Indeed, but the proles demand entertainment. A lot of right-wingers who spend time claiming that the country is on the verge of [fill calamity in blank] are really only interested in venting. They'll watch hours of "content" every day, but they won't actually do anything. To some extent, we are guilty of the same thing posting here right now [but I don't count Ace's blogging as anywhere the same level as media influencer behavior].

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (UdiE9)

43 Who replaces him?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Whoever kisses Trump's ass the best?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (abIsI)

44 It appears Tucker's M.O. is too take a look at an event and find the opinion that will piss off the most conservatives. Which makes him the true conservative!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (n5tGW)

45 But what a voice it is!
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:30 PM (8n1Ay)

Mark Levin is a saint who walks among us. We should take note of those he denounces, and you know, cancel them like Jack Dorsey did.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (rbvCR)

46 Maybe if he doesn't want to constantly hear claims that he's covering up for Epstein, he should stop covering up for Epstein.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (CKIwv)

I do give Bongino the benefit of the doubt here. I think he genuinely thought he was going to be able to do something about the Epstein op, but whoever is behind the actual Epstein op has too much power for an Assistant Director of the FBI to overcome.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (8n1Ay)

47 Eff Tucker
What a phony
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (znREB)

I do believe the cheese has slid off the old boy's cracker.

Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (gKDq2)

48 I heard St. Vitus was a great dancer

Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (sDNVV)

49 My guess is that he decided that there's no fixing this place and he's had enough of the BS, the lies, and the corruption.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (3Amc7)

50 Carlson. He’s become merely a crackpot, the crazy uncle we dread seeing on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Always seat them at the kid’s table for dinner.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 06:33 PM (pDt9x)

51 Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (UdiE9)

so, what is your action plan, dude?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:33 PM (rbvCR)

52 If he got done with what he was brought on to do?
Then I wish him well.
Not everyone wants a DC forever job/career, in fact, those are the people we need fewer of!!

However, hope he continues the fight in supporting this administration.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:33 PM (H3ACd)

53 I think he genuinely thought he was going to be able to do something about the Epstein op, but whoever is behind the actual Epstein op has too much power for an Assistant Director of the FBI to overcome.

Yeah he went in thinking he can make a difference and found out there's no way anyone can do it this side of a meteor hitting Washington DC.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 17, 2025 06:33 PM (3Amc7)

54 Mark Levin is a saint who walks among us. We should take note of those he denounces, and you know, cancel them like Jack Dorsey did.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (rbvCR)

When Mark Levin dies, he's going to be sainted by the Pope.

And given a plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

That's how special Mark Levin is.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:33 PM (8n1Ay)

55 I just hope his cancer isn't back. :S

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 17, 2025 06:34 PM (Wt5PA)

56
He can dump a lot of the information he has learned to the public and our pressure on the scumbags in the DoJ/FBI to leave or come clean.
We shall see
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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I don't think I ever heard anything new and provable from him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 06:34 PM (n7rxJ)

57 The Romans were Great. Saint Titus and Saint Hadrian. The whip hands of the Almighty.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:31 PM (NS3dP)

Pilate, Longinius, Tiberius. whip hands for sure.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:34 PM (rbvCR)

58 >>Carlson. He’s become merely a crackpot, the crazy uncle we dread seeing on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Always seat them at the kid’s table for dinner.

There's thinking outside the box/not being swept into the mass thinking, and then there's whatever the heck Tucker is doing. I don't listen to him any more.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM (H3ACd)

59 Saint Vitus had some cool moves.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM (pDt9x)

60 Have no issue with Tucka. When the 'establishment' Faux News hates you all is well.

Does he push some lines? Hell yes. And they don't like it.

Your favorite Sundance says: "There are trillions at stake." and it is a-okay with me when they are questioned.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM (mNOhh)

61 I should send a message to President Trump I would take Bongino's job

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM (Ia/+0)

62 "And he might have decided he doesn't like the constant denigration and the claims he's covering up for Epstein and now for the innocent patsy Tyler Robinson, and has decided, "Enough of this bullshit." Working for less money than you're used to is one thing, seeing your reputation permanently damaged by conspiracy-addled blowhards is another thing."

---

Now that would be the very definition of pathetic cowardice: I'm being criticized, so I'm leaving.

I guess that's easier for some people to believe though, than that it's a corrupt and irredeemable organization.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:28 PM

That's my take as well. He went to DC and found out it wasn't going to be as easy as he thought it was going to be to fix things. If 85% of the agency is dead set against you and your values you ain't gonna win no matter who you are.

The fib is way beyond redeemable and has been since j. edgar hoover ran the place. It needs to be nuked from orbit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM (0N4FZ)

63 55 I just hope his cancer isn't back. :S
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard

I forgot about that. Quite possible with all of the stress the position requires.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM (abIsI)

64 >>But what a voice it is!

Cannot listen to Levin - it's like he's going to stroke out any minute. It is stressful.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:37 PM (H3ACd)

65 "My guess is that he decided that there's no fixing this place and he's had enough of the BS, the lies, and the corruption.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

That's no reason to quit. He should look what PDT has been thru and think about his patriotic opportunity. If he wasn't going to stick around for more than a year why bother? Same with MTG. They are just taking up space and time that could be better utilized by someone more dedicated to the task.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F)

66
The fib is way beyond redeemable and has been since j. edgar hoover ran the place. It needs to be nuked from orbit.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

You sir are not a great American.

Posted by: Sean Calamity at December 17, 2025 06:37 PM (abIsI)

67 53 Yeah he went in thinking he can make a difference and found out there's no way anyone can do it this side of a meteor hitting Washington DC.
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Did he? How do we know this? Anyone who has worked in a bureaucracy knows that rot primarily exists because dealing with it is too much work. Even tenured teachers (especially ones who deserve to be fired) can be if an administrator puts some effort into it. But that would take sustained work.

The vast majority of federal workers get stellar reviews year after year. If there's just 'so much rot' at the DOJ/FBI, then start putting people through the very annoying process of getting them fired. Some will quit, others will end up in rubber rooms getting paid to do nothing. But you can have an effect. It's just not the sort of thing a media talking head is likely to have the patience for.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:37 PM (UdiE9)

68 believe the cheese has slid off frumunda the old boy's cracker.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 17, 2025 06:38 PM (Kt19C)

69 I should send a message to President Trump I would take Bongino's job
Posted by: Skip
----

Elric is going to be an Immigration Judge, so you might as well be Deputy Director of the FBI.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 06:38 PM (TN0g+)

70 The fib is way beyond redeemable and has been since j. edgar hoover ran the place. It needs to be nuked from orbit.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM (0N4FZ)

Yeah, there's no period of time in the distant past, when it was good and pure.

It was corrupt from the start.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:38 PM (8n1Ay)

71 And he might have decided he doesn't like the constant denigration and the claims he's covering up for Epstein and now for the innocent patsy Tyler Robinson, and has decided, "Enough of this bullshit." Working for less money than you're used to is one thing, seeing your reputation permanently damaged by conspiracy-addled blowhards is another thing.

Does he really have a reputation to damage?

He's a radio host.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 06:39 PM (z5QST)

72 Fk Levin. He's a shill for Carshield and gold and in between a bore.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:39 PM (vFG9F)

73 >>It was corrupt from the start.

THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:39 PM (H3ACd)

74 71 Does he really have a reputation to damage?

He's a radio host.
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LOL Well played sir!

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:39 PM (UdiE9)

75 Cucker Tarlson is an outrage pimp like Gleen Greenwald. Conspiracies, outrage, - that's their bread and butter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 06:40 PM (nljXp)

76 Cannot listen to Levin - it's like he's going to stroke out any minute. It is stressful.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:37 PM (H3ACd)

If I accidentally hear Mark Levin's voice, I put on my Bobcat Goldthwaite records to calm myself down.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:40 PM (8n1Ay)

77 He's been measured and found wanting.
He's leaving a position where he could do all the things he said he wanted to do.

Let him live with his failure. He's like Red Letter Media.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 06:41 PM (xcxpd)

78 What did Bongino accomplish anyway? Is anyone in jail? Threatened with it? Slightly intimidated maybe?

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:42 PM (vFG9F)

79
Oh no!

Wrestling idiot fool Mick Foley "quits" WWF because the "company" "coddles a man" who is "void of compassion."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 06:42 PM (2sxZ8)

80 75
76
People like Tucker and Levin need each other. We don't need them. But they need something to get us wound up about. They are supposed to serve us, but we end up serving them (they get money, we waste time).

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:43 PM (UdiE9)

81 believe the cheese has slid off frumunda the old boy's cracker.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 17, 2025 06:38 PM (Kt19C)

You don't say.

Perfectly missed opportunity for an 'Amy Schumer' sock.

Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 06:43 PM (gKDq2)

82
I never thought Hannity was listenable, but driving today caught his act with his Newyakker side chick and thought is was senseless.

Worst broadcast interviewer ever.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson, reciting script from the bosses at December 17, 2025 06:43 PM (Y8DZL)

83 Andrew Bailey a former Missouri AG is moving up to replace Bongino. From what I recall he was pretty good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:43 PM (LyrOO)

84 The sun has set on the east coast, time for the daily ritual of evening colors and Two Minutes Hate for Tucker Carlson at AOSHQ.

Anyway, reforming the FBI is an enormous task. Not just structural reform but wholesale personnel replacement. It's too much for just Patel and Bongino.

The worst of it goes all the way back to when Clinton fired William Sessions and we got cover-ups of Vince Foster, the John Doe no 2 OKC, TWA 800, and on and on up to Hillary's bathroom email server and Russiagate and Hunter Biden's laptop.

We need to create an entire new federal investigative agency to investigate the FBI and CIA and go through all of these cover-ups and find out what happened and who was responsible.

Posted by: TITP at December 17, 2025 06:44 PM (OUE/9)

85 Jack Daniels is vile. Notes of hairspray and bongwater.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:44 PM (NS3dP)

86 Bongino did what he could with the cards dealt. I think having your character called into question by Tuesday Armchair quarterbacks has to be taxing.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 06:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

87 85 Jack Daniels is vile. Notes of hairspray and bongwater.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:44 PM (NS3dP)

it works in an Old Fashioned, but not as well as a good rye.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 06:44 PM (xcxpd)

88
The beauty part of the Deputy Directors position?

No pervert Senate confirmation required.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 06:44 PM (2sxZ8)

89 The vast majority of federal workers get stellar reviews year after year. If there's just 'so much rot' at the DOJ/FBI, then start putting people through the very annoying process of getting them fired. Some will quit, others will end up in rubber rooms getting paid to do nothing. But you can have an effect. It's just not the sort of thing a media talking head is likely to have the patience for.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:37 PM

Try that with the federal government and their unions. You will drive yourself insane trying to fire the first dozen employees you come across that need to be fired. You will be tied up 24/7 with all sorts of HR bull$hit record keeping and jumping through the hoops you need to do to fire anyone. Plus you will not be able to do your primary job while you are doing all of that work.

And even if you manage to get them fired, which I did a couple of times the courts and MSPB will just order you to hire them back with back pay and "protected" status. Been there and did that.

The entire civil service system needs a huge flush and until that happens nothing is going to change no matter who is in charge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 06:45 PM (0N4FZ)

90 I really liked Bongino's podcast and thought he was an honorable man. I was disappointed that he took the fbi job but thought, maybe he could make a difference. I think he found that it was impossible and made a graceful exit. I also think he hates Pammie for the way she handled the Epstein files and told her about it. For some reason Trump loves Bondi and Dan knew he couldnt fight both of them. She has seniority and so he left. Just sayin....

Posted by: Megthered at December 17, 2025 06:45 PM (QbgbM)

91 Oh no!

Wrestling idiot fool Mick Foley "quits" WWF because the "company" "coddles a man" who is "void of compassion."
-----

I've always been a pro wrestling fan, and I've never liked even one of Mick Foley's characters. I "get" the concept of heels, heck I've rooted for many of them over the years. But Mick Foley? Pass.

And "yes" I'm aware that he threw himself off of or onto a cage or something of the sorts a decade or two ago--I watched a video of it. And "yes" its crazy. It still did nothing for me in regard to improving the characters he created.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 06:45 PM (TN0g+)

92 Ilhan Omar is apparently holding a presser now and demanding that ICE release records of every Minnesotan stopped. What a bitch.

Posted by: beckster at December 17, 2025 06:45 PM (I7J98)

93 "I think having your character called into question by Tuesday Armchair quarterbacks has to be taxing.
Posted by: Piper "

Then he was not cut out for it. Did he think it was going to be easy?

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:46 PM (vFG9F)

94 58 >>Carlson. He’s become merely a crackpot, the crazy uncle we dread seeing on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Always seat them at the kid’s table for dinner.

There's thinking outside the box/not being swept into the mass thinking, and then there's whatever the heck Tucker is doing. I don't listen to him any more.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM (H3ACd)
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He's now one of those guys who are busy "noticing things."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 17, 2025 06:46 PM (36PRH)

95 He's like Red Letter Media.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 06:41 PM (xcxpd)

Huh? What did they do?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:46 PM (8n1Ay)

96 86 Bongino did what he could with the cards dealt. I think having your character called into question by Tuesday Armchair quarterbacks has to be taxing.
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Yeah, but why do the opinions of media types or randos in comments sections matter? Either the guy is trying to deal with bureaucratic issues (literally the least 'sexy' or media friendly activity ever) or he'd pulling an LBJ and spending all of his time seeing what people are saying about him like a dweeb.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:47 PM (UdiE9)

97 I've noticed that Tucker is useless.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 06:47 PM (gKWVE)

98 Tucker probably butthurt Trump ignores him.

Posted by: torabora at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (fPASK)

99 Bongino shit the bed. All I heard on his show was how if he was in charge he was gonna do this, he was gonna do that, the FBI blah blah blah.

Another shit stirring, all hat and no cattle, pedestrian water walker who did not accomplish doodly squat.

Go away already and leave the grown ups be.

Posted by: All Ass And No Hole at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (R/m4+)

100 It's what we used to call wussing out.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (vFG9F)

101
Isn't it interesting?

Americans are less interested in a brutal murderer than and more interested in the reactions of the murder. It's like a test of sorts. They make sure we react the "right way."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (2sxZ8)

102 Jack Daniels is vile. Notes of hairspray and bongwater.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:44 PM (NS3dP)

Got me through college. Black label, not that Green Label shit. Don't touch it anymore, though. I graduated to Irish, Johnny Jameson to be precise. A 12-year-old pre-teen is quite good. No ice. Simple.

Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (gKDq2)

103 @95 Not sure. I do recall being perplexed that Mike seemed to be saying "The Acolyte" wasn't that bad.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 17, 2025 06:49 PM (36PRH)

104 I saw conspiracy added blowhard open for the Illuminati at Alex Jones' backyard BBQ in '17.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 06:49 PM (zZu0s)

105
Cannot listen to Levin - it's like he's going to stroke out any minute. It is stressful.
Posted by: Lizzy

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Plus he sounds like he's had a huff of laughing gas.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 17, 2025 06:49 PM (n7rxJ)

106 For some reason Trump loves Bondi and Dan knew he couldnt fight both of them. She has seniority and so he left. Just sayin....
Posted by: Megthered at December 17, 2025 06:45 PM (QbgbM)

I'll say this for Pam. If she came up to me and asked me to make sweet love to her down by the fire, I surely would.

Not so with Dan.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:49 PM (8n1Ay)

107 Tucker who?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 17, 2025 06:49 PM (qqdHS)

108 So some are saying that Bongino pulled a Brave Sir Robin move.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 06:50 PM (pDt9x)

109 Black label, not that Green Label shit. Don't touch it anymore, though. I graduated to Irish, Johnny Jameson to be precise. A 12-year-old pre-teen is quite good.
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Quite good you say? I may have to change some lyrics...

Posted by: Benny Mardones at December 17, 2025 06:50 PM (TN0g+)

110 93 "I think having your character called into question by Tuesday Armchair quarterbacks has to be taxing.
Posted by: Piper "

Then he was not cut out for it. Did he think it was going to be easy?
Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025

Considering his background, I don’t think he thought it was easy. People burn out in high stress roles. He is human. I don’t have all the information, and while I think there are conspiracies, I don’t think everything is.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 06:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

111 If I accidentally hear Mark Levin's voice, I put on my Bobcat Goldthwaite records to calm myself down.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:40 PM (8n1Ay)

Sam Kinnison

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 06:51 PM (zYpTz)

112 Bongino & Patel & Bondi and so on are only disappointing to people who think someone could muck out the Augean stables at DoJ.

That's not possible. It's fine for me if the administration just seeks to curtail the worst excesses. You can't do any better than that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 06:51 PM (BI5O2)

113 I wouldn't start calling Bongino a pussy and wuss. How many fuckers have we seen go up the hill with stars in their eyes only to be stymied or turned?

Would you prefer he had gone the eyepatch McCain route?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

114 103 @95 Not sure. I do recall being perplexed that Mike seemed to be saying "The Acolyte" wasn't that bad.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 17, 2025 06:49 PM (36PRH)

I think that was a schtick they were doing for a while there.

After everyone else on the internet was totally trashing these Disney products, they'd come on and say "Well, maybe it's not that bad," and then spend the next forty or so minutes repeating what everyone else was saying was wrong with it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:51 PM (8n1Ay)

115 The steller reviews are born of reviewer who passes on a BAD review is now responsible for poor leadership.

Review system needs overhauled.

Posted by: torabora at December 17, 2025 06:52 PM (fPASK)

116 I reserve the right to remain silent and claim to be foresightful at some future point.
* crosses arms triumphantly *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 06:52 PM (mlg/3)

117 Bongino did what he could with the cards dealt. I think having your character called into question by Tuesday Armchair quarterbacks has to be taxing.

Then find a private job. Stay out of the public eye. And most important ? Don't accept a public dime.

You know what I find most taxing ? This notion of this person or that group are beyond scrutiny. Its tiring from the left and the right.

Posted by: He Was Not Drafted at December 17, 2025 06:52 PM (x2Ks6)

118 Tucker is a lost soul. He is on the nevermind list.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 17, 2025 06:53 PM (pohLc)

119 The House passed the Republican health care bill which doesn't include the big subsidies. Only Massie voted against it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:53 PM (LyrOO)

120 19 Do you know who never bashed Kash Patel and Dan Bongino? Mark Levin! That man is a paragon of virtue and I have no idea why he was not elevated to a cabinet position.
His lectures on Fox make me know he should have been given authority, and not just a voice.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:27 PM (rbvCR)

He can't afford the pay cut.

Posted by: Reforger at December 17, 2025 06:53 PM (VF6cf)

121
It seems to me he's just sickened by the depth and extent of the rot and he's kind of... walking away in despair.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 06:29 PM (n7rxJ)

Agreed. Which says the future is going to be bad for any regular American.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 17, 2025 06:53 PM (4nEGa)

122 Lace wigs!
Excellent Xmas gifts.

Posted by: torabora at December 17, 2025 06:53 PM (fPASK)

123 "How many fuckers have we seen go up the hill with stars in their eyes only to be stymied or turned?"

Once again, look to the leader, PDT, and follow his example.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:53 PM (vFG9F)

124 I started having issues with Red Letter when Rich started coming on too much and the gay dude started trying to be too art house flower.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (zZu0s)

125 So some are saying that Bongino pulled a Brave Sir Robin move.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 06:50 PM (pDt9x)

I think he did. Barely a year in.

I can't see him doing his radio schtick after resigning so relatively fast; he can't say what he would do anymore, well, he could but that would be quite inauthentic. Besides, any changeovers usually occur after the midterms.

Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (gKDq2)

126 Did I miss the part where he praised the brave men and women of the FBI?

The absence of such makes me happy.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (cS1cw)

127 (literally the least 'sexy' or media friendly activity ever) or he'd pulling an LBJ and spending all of his time seeing what people are saying about him like a dweeb.
Posted by: The Lower Depths

Or it’s in between. Who knows.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (ZdaMQ)

128 I remember some had talked about him just doing a year, but I forget the reasoning. I guess because I didn't care much about the Deputy of Whatever.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (yr56r)

129 Lace wigs?

Machine tools for sale, perfect Christmas stocking stuffers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (2GVsD)

130 A man of character cares little of the buzzing of flies. I think Dan is a man of character. Those who need the approval of strangers have a weak character.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 17, 2025 06:55 PM (pohLc)

131 If I accidentally hear Mark Levin's voice, I put on my Bobcat Goldthwaite records to calm myself down.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:40 PM (8n1Ay)

Sam Kinnison
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 06:51 PM (zYpTz)

Maybe, but I only have Kinison on 8 track tapes.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:56 PM (nmp31)

132
I agree with pooky'sgirls speculation about his cancer might be back.

I read this morning that his job is putting a lot of stress on his marriage.

I wish him the best.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 06:56 PM (3ek7K)

133 Tucker is a lost soul. He is on the nevermind list.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Some on the Twitter made a point of him delving into the UFO shit and that it marked the point of no return. Makes some sense in a way. I like sci-fi stuff but there ain't no ETs trying to contact us.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 06:57 PM (mlg/3)

134 "A man of character cares little of the buzzing of flies. I think Dan is a man of character. Those who need the approval of strangers have a weak character.
Posted by: Xipe Totec"

Then he would not mind my criticism.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 06:57 PM (vFG9F)

135 I graduated to Irish, Johnny Jameson to be precise. A 12-year-old pre-teen is quite good. No ice. Simple.
Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (gKDq2)

You Sir, have good taste.

Posted by: Sipping Me Mick Whiskey While Typing at December 17, 2025 06:57 PM (R/m4+)

136
It's clear to me that Tucker is "an op". Whether he's a useful idiot or in on it, I don't know. This whole Jew-hate, Nick Fuentes (where the fuck did he come from?) shit, plus Candace Owens lunacy is all about ripping MAGA apart and derailing the agenda.

Posted by: Darius Sweetdick Honeycum, Esq. at December 17, 2025 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

137
Jack Daniels "Booker's" is a serviceable bourbon if you want to stay below $50.

Took the tour of the facilities 5 years ago and already they started with the flavored booze marketing; last time in the liquor store I noticed 8 different mixed varieties.

They need to find something to hook into the youth market 'cause us old brown alcoholics are aging out.

Posted by: Auspex at December 17, 2025 06:58 PM (Y8DZL)

138 Of course it could be that someone above him just wanted his ass out of the job, and kept that quiet, let him sidle off.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 06:58 PM (pDt9x)

139 Gray Alien up in orbit looking at Tucker Carlson.

"Skip the anal probing, he might enjoy it. Find that Gaylord guy or David French instead."

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:58 PM (2GVsD)

140 Candy just seems twisted as fuck.

Tucker feels more... Ron Paul weird.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 06:59 PM (zZu0s)

141 Machine tools for sale, perfect Christmas stocking stuffers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (2GVsD)

I would love to find another machine tool in my stocking!
A surface grinder would be great!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 17, 2025 06:59 PM (pohLc)

142 I remember some had talked about him just doing a year, but I forget the reasoning. I guess because I didn't care much about the Deputy of Whatever.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM

I could be mis remembering but I recall him saying that on one of his last radio shows. He would give it a year to see if it worked out or not but he wanted to take a shot at the job.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 06:59 PM (0N4FZ)

143 I don’t have all the information, and while I think there are conspiracies, I don’t think everything is.
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 06:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

Who got to you?

WHO GOT TO YOU!!!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:59 PM (nmp31)

144 A man of character cares little of the buzzing of flies. I think Dan is a man of character. Those who need the approval of strangers have a weak character.

Until we go either Full Monarchy or Communist ? We flies - at least in theory - will either approve or not in some measure over those in positions of public power.

Posted by: He Was Not Drafted at December 17, 2025 07:00 PM (x2Ks6)

145 Gray Alien up in orbit looking at Tucker Carlson.

"Skip the anal probing, he might enjoy it. Find that Gaylord guy or David French instead."
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:58 PM (2GVsD)

Wait, wait, wait.

Are you trying to say Barak Hussein 'I dream about being Gay and fucking dudes' Obama and David 'deleted' French would NOT enjoy the anal probing?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

146 If it's because of his health then I take back everything I said. Otherwise he knew what he was getting into and made it sound like he was going to take the tiger by the tail.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

147 Those little Crown Royal Minitures with little drawstring bags make fine stocking stuffers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 07:02 PM (NS3dP)

148 The Gray Alien is merely observing they would enjoy it less than Tucket.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:02 PM (2GVsD)

149 143 I don’t have all the information, and while I think there are conspiracies, I don’t think everything is.
Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 06:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

Who got to you?

WHO GOT TO YOU!!!!!
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:59 PM (nmp31

The goat yoga people.
Satanism straight up.
One minute you're downward dogging, and the next Black Philip is whispering into your ear.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 07:02 PM (z5QST)

150 10 OT- Don't know if it's legitimate or not, but "Conservative Treehouse" is reporting that Brown was asked sometime ago by more than 25 human rights groups to disable their security cameras:

https://tinyurl.com/y2sm5k6p
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 06:24 PM (7RYym)

Interesting...Sundance is reporting Brown U received a letter in August 2025 from 34 Human Rights organizations requesting CCTV's be turned to defend free speech and because of surveillance from ICE.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 07:02 PM (y171U)

151 We just don't know why he took a hike. I don't know anything about the guy and don't care about him, except as to how it might impact the work that Trump is trying to do for us.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 07:03 PM (Tbj3s)

152 Who got to you?

WHO GOT TO YOU!!!!!
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:59 PM

In the end, who gets to everyone, with the possible exception of Duncanthrax and fd?

Us, that's who.

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 17, 2025 07:03 PM (dMyWD)

153 CCTV's be turned off (sorry)

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 07:03 PM (y171U)

154 The Gray Alien is merely observing they would enjoy it less than Tucket.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:02 PM (2GVsD)

That's what im taking issue with! Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:03 PM (zZu0s)

155 If it's because of his health then I take back everything I said. Otherwise he knew what he was getting into and made it sound like he was going to take the tiger by the tail.
Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

That's just it though, I'm not going to fault anyone who goes to DC and truly thinks he's going to make a difference.

It's just that, the tiger is a lot big and more vicious than they expect.

Now, if you offered me the job, the only reason I would take it is if I was going to get paid lots and lots of money, and maybe have Eastern European babes at my door every night.

That's because I know damn well going in, there's no reforming that city. It's Sodom on steroids.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 07:04 PM (nmp31)

156 >>>Would you prefer he had gone the eyepatch McCain route?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

>Is this in reference to his criminal pirate negotiations or to his pegging on the poop deck close friend, Lindsey Graham?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 07:04 PM (nljXp)

157 What the actual fvck?

Kentucky State University. Dec 9. 48 year old father is in custody on first degree murder charge for killing a college student because there was 'bad blood' between his son and the deceased.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:05 PM (2GVsD)

158 I always thought Bingono was kinda funny looking

What I saw was, at the beginning, Bangongo was tweeting about how hard the FBI was working to be awesome, and what they were accomplishing, yada yada yada

but the frequency of those X messages began to fall off to the point where he was silent online, at least in my X feed

I can only guess that his expectations for the job did not pan out

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:05 PM (ZxPkt)

159 >Is this in reference to his criminal pirate negotiations or to his pegging on the poop deck close friend, Lindsey Graham?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 07:04 PM (nljXp)

Yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

160 Machine tools for sale, perfect Christmas stocking stuffers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (2GVsD)

sign me up for a nice old Bridgeport, and a mid-sized South Bend!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 07:06 PM (Cjt/F)

161 Mavrlericks Eyepatches?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 07:06 PM (NS3dP)

162 The sun has set on the east coast, time for the daily ritual of evening colors and Two Minutes Hate for Tucker Carlson at AOSHQ.
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Richly deserved Two Minutes Hate

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:06 PM (9ipOP)

163 The goat yoga people.
Satanism straight up.
One minute you're downward dogging, and the next Black Philip is whispering into your ear.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 07:02 PM (z5QST)

Big Yoga or Big Yogurt.

Hmmm, similar names... coincidence? I think not!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 07:06 PM (nmp31)

164 Kentucky State University. Dec 9. 48 year old father is in custody on first degree murder charge for killing a college student because there was 'bad blood' between his son and the deceased.

Is either party named Hatfield or McCoy?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 07:06 PM (3nLb4)

165 I can only guess that his expectations for the job did not pan out
Posted by: Don Black

Are you saying he fought the law, and the law won?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 07:07 PM (mlg/3)

166
I am actually surprised the Democrats & their Goblins haven't blamed Trump for reiner's son murdering reiner, and saying reiner was too busy saving democracy because Trump was a threat to democracy and he had no time left for his son.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:07 PM (2sxZ8)

167 The 600 cameras at Brown were turned off? I bet they were still paying for a maintenance contract. Criminal behavior that will go unpunished.

Posted by: fd at December 17, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

168 "Tucker Carlson is now bashing Kash Patel and Dan Bongino."

Did some spores from outer space penetrate our atmosphere and land on Tucker?

He has certainly "evolved" since leaving the confines of FOXNews. I haven't followed him but for the first month or so when he departed from there, but he sure seems strangely different via the atmospherics circulating social media.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 07:07 PM (gLikB)

169 The little dog barked at Vesuvius, and the caravan rolls on.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 17, 2025 07:08 PM (wBaIH)

170 I wouldn’t mind a set of the blue scrubs I am wearing at work.

Posted by: Accomack at December 17, 2025 07:08 PM (8jVAy)

171 No I do not actually feel at all like Chatsworth McBowtie of the Fuckiwt CT McBowties....

fucking anti-semite fuckwit

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 07:08 PM (MUJd1)

172 The Gray Alien is merely observing they would enjoy it less than Tucket.
Posted by: Anna Puma

That's what im taking issue with! Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

David French would only enjoy it sexually. Tucker would enjoy it on myriad levels.

Posted by: mikeski at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (CLARQ)

173 And Ben Had. We doubt we can get to Ben Had.

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (P3iGe)

174 According to the official idiots at the press conference yesterday, the Brown University shooting occurred in the older part of the building and it had fewer cameras than the newer addition.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)

175
What's funny is all the 20-yr old Democrat "influencers" who never heard of rob reiner are so fake-upset.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (2sxZ8)

176 The fib is way beyond redeemable and has been since j. edgar hoover ran the place.
——-
Yeah, there's no period of time in the distant past, when it was good and pure.
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Read Blacklisted By History, it did yeoman’s work investigating subversives in the 1930s and 1940s, the problem was very clearly was not with the FBI, the problem was presidents like FDR and Truman etc. The chief executive controls the DOJ.

“Good and pure” is a red herring. They went from investigating the bad guys to covering for the bad guys, sometime after the 1970s.

The long march through the institutions. Did you think the FBI would be immune?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (bzd0l)

177 There's his decision to quit, that's more than a bit disappointing for some guy who was going in the to get answers and fix things no matterr what happens.

Then a few months later quits

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 07:11 PM (nh3Zu)

178
The Democrat Goblin "influencers" can't even pronounce "reiner" right. Some are saying ray-ner. But they're oh so upset...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:11 PM (2sxZ8)

179 174 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)

The Palestinians were lobbying to shut the cameras off last week for "true free speech" which as we know with the left can be anything from concrete milkshakes to airliners aimed at buildings....

I have been mocking the fuck out of the idiocy in RI and Oz both on x

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 07:11 PM (MUJd1)

180 All those lovely dinner parties were commie bull sessions where they thought this thru.

Posted by: Accomack at December 17, 2025 07:11 PM (8jVAy)

181 I am actually surprised the Democrats & their Goblins haven't blamed Trump for reiner's son murdering reiner, and saying reiner was too busy saving democracy because Trump was a threat to democracy and he had no time left for his son.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:07 PM

The abc news broadcast monday night inferred that Trump was possibly in some small way responsible for reiners death. I have not seen them walk that back yet.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 07:11 PM (0N4FZ)

182 177 Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 07:11 PM (nh3Zu)

It's been more than a few months, and when you have the NRO go along gang shitting on you to add volume to the left why stay?

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 07:12 PM (MUJd1)

183 >> Some are saying ray-ner. But they're oh so upset...

ROFL!

I guess "Meathead" wouldn't ring any bells either. Bunch of idiots.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 07:13 PM (w6EFb)

184 I'm a free man and an American, and if I want to collaborate with high-ranking Venezuelan officials on propaganda, I'll do that.

I might even buy a house in Caracas.

Posted by: C. Tarlson at December 17, 2025 07:13 PM (PT8hI)

185 He has certainly "evolved" since leaving the confines of FOXNews. I haven't followed him but for the first month or so when he departed from there, but he sure seems strangely different via the atmospherics circulating social media.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at

He's a secret nazi, always has been. Now have to get him to admit so

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 07:13 PM (nh3Zu)

186 I can see this ODU South Florida game ending 10-7.

Posted by: Accomack at December 17, 2025 07:13 PM (8jVAy)

187 south Boulder just had a 109 mph wind gust

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 07:13 PM (ZxPkt)

188 No way anyone under 40 would watch All in the Family.

Posted by: Accomack at December 17, 2025 07:14 PM (8jVAy)

189 I find Tucker's antisemitism very common and really unremarkable but that it seems so recent and he has such a megaphone for it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:14 PM (9ipOP)

190 KSU

Shooting is more wild. It seems the guy's son was being attacked. So he went to help his son move out. Story says the family lawyer states campus security escorted them to the dorm. The shooting happened outside the residence hall and Bard hit two of the alleged attackers, one of whom died.

So the questions become, why was there bad blood. And why did campus security do nothing if they were present?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:14 PM (2GVsD)

191 It's been more than a few months, and when you have the NRO go along gang shitting on you to add volume to the left why stay?
Posted by: sven

Was he surprised by this?

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 07:14 PM (nh3Zu)

192 south Boulder just had a 109 mph wind gust
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That's taking "shotgun" to whole new level...

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:15 PM (TN0g+)

193 Sven

Have they started to look for the one-armed man who murdered Nicole Simpson?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:15 PM (2GVsD)

194 According to the official idiots at the press conference yesterday, the Brown University shooting occurred in the older part of the building and it had fewer cameras than the newer addition.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)
====

The press conferences are a complete clownshow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:16 PM (9ipOP)

195 Machine tools for sale, perfect Christmas stocking stuffers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:54 PM (2GVsD)

Don't forget about Quest Bars Cheap.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 07:17 PM (zYpTz)

196 Read Blacklisted By History, it did yeoman’s work investigating subversives in the 1930s and 1940s, the problem was very clearly was not with the FBI, the problem was presidents like FDR and Truman etc. The chief executive controls the DOJ.

“Good and pure” is a red herring. They went from investigating the bad guys to covering for the bad guys, sometime after the 1970s.

The long march through the institutions. Did you think the FBI would be immune?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (bzd0l)

It's really not that simple. Yes, there were commies and "subversives" in this country stirring up shite, but the question is, were they doing anything illegal?

How many of those "subversives" were scooped up by the Fibbers, not for illegal activity, but for being a pain in the arse to the powers that be in DC?

Even if I don't like the people who are enemies of the powerful, it doesn't mean I'm going to ignore the fact that our government was and is, a crime syndicate who hires thugs to keep the competition from getting too uppity.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 07:17 PM (nmp31)

197 190 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 07:14 PM (2GVsD)

Wait a sec I have been on the road all day, what?

KSU, well part of my parody is law enforcement refusing to do their work when inclined....

awesome.

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 07:17 PM (MUJd1)

198 Yeah it is beyond odd how so many secret nazis spent years voting for guys that were pro Israel, guaranteed Israel had the aid it needed then outed themselves as nazis. Shrewd

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 07:17 PM (nh3Zu)

199

Candy's Going Bad

https://youtu.be/FG1IfWMLA9s

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 07:17 PM (pkeXY)

200
Don,

The wind here in Wyoming is crazy today. We're used to high winds here, but it is amazing today.

We have stuff from neighbors yards being blown over our 6 ft fence.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 07:17 PM (3ek7K)

201 I never could find that left-handed screwdriver.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 07:17 PM (mlg/3)

202 Sonobi forever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

203 No way anyone under 40 would watch All in the Family.
------

I tried recently, and its just unwatchable to me.

And in general I love classic television. Both Newhart shows, Green Acres, Andy Griffith Show, Hogan's Heroes, Perry Mason, Wings, Mary Tyler Moore Show--those are all really enjoyable. But All in The Family? Nope.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 07:18 PM (TN0g+)

204 "And why did campus security do nothing if they were present? "

differing levels of intersectionality privilege? jus' spitballin' here.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 07:18 PM (Cjt/F)

205 194 Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:16 PM (9ipOP)

https://tinyurl.com/FIB-Portland2

We'll see...remember he is wearing black, may have had a mask, and only left a 476 page document outlining 2500 grievances alphabetized and collated so we have no discernable motive.....

//FIB Portland Office

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 07:19 PM (MUJd1)

206 Sinister screwdriver?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 07:19 PM (NS3dP)

207 fd: "He doesn't have one tenth the dedication of PDT."

To be fair, no one does. Trump's a Flying Unicorn. We'll never see another like him in our lifetimes. I wouldn't measure anyone's success to Trump's as far as dynamism and determination. He's just on a different level.

But Bongino's tenure is surprisingly brief. I expected more considering his protestations prior to taking the job.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 07:19 PM (gLikB)

208 I didnt like all in the family when it was only 10 years old, let alone now.

Magnum PI is pretty evergreen. A few of them are a bit dated- especially the comedies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

209

noood animals

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 07:20 PM (2sxZ8)

210 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

211 Tucker is, indeed, a disappointment. Apparently, he wants to compete with Rand Paul for Chief Libertarian.

Israel is the prime example. Your basic choice is that Israel exists (meaning it defends itself), or it doesn't - meaning the fulfillment of "River to the Sea". If you refuse to see the US's interest in that issue, you're totally ignoring reality. You may be on one side or the other of that issue, but to say the US has NO interest - - choosing to be blind.

Posted by: One-Eyed Cat Peepin' in the Seafood Store at December 17, 2025 07:20 PM (FhMCZ)

212 There were four cops at that beach in Australia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

213 I know it's only been a day or two, but in the fullness of time I hope we will be able to ask some sensitive questions about Reiner. For example, if he didn't want to get stabbed to death, why did he insist on being so gosh darn stabbable?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 07:21 PM (z5QST)

214 196 Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 07:17 PM (nmp31)

Bill Ayers and friends were jerking off to killing tens of millions of Americans if ever in their power...

I think commies should at least get the J6 treatment Burt you do you.

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 07:21 PM (MUJd1)

215 I heard St. Vitus was a great dancer
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2025 06:32 PM (sDNVV)

😂😂

irrrrrrational Exuberance!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 07:21 PM (g47mK)

216 Sonobi forever.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17,

If I see the old hag with the AI cleavage hocking Viagra again, I might join the Sonobi Restoration Front.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 07:21 PM (BI5O2)

217 There were four cops at that beach in Australia.
Posted by: Aet

It was a good thing that Muslim from Syria was there to get that gun from the shooter

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 07:22 PM (nh3Zu)

218 hope bongino saved something out of his salary checks; didn't spend it all on the dc high life ... dunno how his return to talk radio is gonna pan out ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 07:22 PM (Cjt/F)

219 You don’t talk to Levin, you know. You listen to him. He has enlarged my mind. He’s a poet-warrior in the classic sense. Sometimes you turn him on and he’ll just talk right past you. He won’t care if you follow him. And suddenly he’ll yell, "you dummy" or something like that, and then say that the existence of Nazis in the world is not something that a republic can survive, and we must support Ukraine or else Russia will win.
How do you argue with a mind like that? He will never get fired like Tucker. He's too good.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 07:22 PM (rbvCR)

220 hope bongino saved something out of his salary checks; didn't spend it all on the dc high life ... dunno how his return to talk radio is gonna pan out ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2025 07:22 PM (Cjt/F)

Was Bongino one of the cabinet members who was living under security at Ft Meyers, or whichever military base they have because of the death threats?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 07:23 PM (rbvCR)

221 He will never get fired like Tucker. He's too good.
Posted by: Kin

He owns 8pm Saturday

Posted by: n at December 17, 2025 07:24 PM (nh3Zu)

222 It's really not that simple. Yes, there were commies and "subversives" in this country stirring up shite, but the question is, were they doing anything illegal?
——-

Sometimes things really are simple. Super simple as in “not complicated at all.”

That doesn’t make it easy. Were they doing anything illegal? Fuckin’ A right they were. The loss of China, Korea, millions of people behind the Iron Curtain, Cuba, Viet Nam … most of that was directly attributed to communist fuckheads in the State Department and other places.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 17, 2025 07:25 PM (bzd0l)

223 All in the Family was a midseason replacement and not expected to do well. Audiences immediately resonated with Archie. Everyone was shouting, "Stifle!" at each other.

Once Mike and Gloria got married, moved out, had a baby,...the show jumped the shark.

It was a national event when Baby Joey was born because a live infant was used to mimic a real birth.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 07:25 PM (9ipOP)

224 Ladies and Gentlemen, Furries, Transmyssyn Prsyns, Intergalactic Ghosts, and Audible Hallucinations, be not afraid the FIB Portland office is here on this podium, on land once belonging to the Portland Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 666 to advise that any abductive reasoning leading to a conclusion that the University of Portland State University Deleting ALL REFERENCES on its webspace of Thomas "Sitting Bear" Galvalone is NOT an indicator that Galvalone is suspected in the heinous attack on Kitchen 5's Home Ec Study Group. Yes, Galvalone was active in Portland Students for Sandwich Liberation, a group tacitly sympathetic to the Sandwich Island Liberation Front but we must engage in caution, and have sympathy that Galvalone's family came up on the wrong end of a bone for furs exchange in greater Tunguska metro in 12,785 BCE..... //FIB Portland

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 07:25 PM (MUJd1)

225 I'm so tired of Tucker Carlson. Wish he would go away. Go write a book or something.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 07:31 PM (G1OIb)

226 Tucker Carlson has turned into a 'tard.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (qZdIZ)

227 226 Tucker Carlson has turned into a 'tard.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 17, 2025 07:47 PM (qZdIZ)
You misspelled turd.

Posted by: Eromero at December 17, 2025 08:07 PM (LHPAg)

228 There's his decision to quit, that's more than a bit disappointing for some guy who was going in the to get answers and fix things no matterr what happens.

Then a few months later quits
Posted by: n

Maybe he realized the whole system is irredeemable.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 08:10 PM (/lPRQ)

229 Does he really have a reputation to damage?

He's a radio host.

LOL Well played sir!

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 06:39 PM

MARLENE: I can't be with someone if I don't respect what they do.

JERRY: You're a cashier!

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 11:43 PM (P5BPp)

230 For some reason Trump loves Bondi and Dan knew he couldnt fight both of them. She has seniority and so he left. Just sayin...

Posted by: Megthered at December 17, 2025 06:45 PM

Read a while back that Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi are a package deal as they go way back with one another. So if President Trump wants to keep Wiles, he's stuck with Bondi as well.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 11:48 PM (P5BPp)

231 Carlson. He’s become merely a crackpot, the crazy uncle we dread seeing on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Always seat them at the kid’s table for dinner.

There's thinking outside the box/not being swept into the mass thinking, and then there's whatever the heck Tucker is doing. I don't listen to him any more.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:35 PM

He's now one of those guys who are busy "noticing things."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 17, 2025 06:46 PM

Hey, that's my schtick!

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at December 17, 2025 11:51 PM (P5BPp)

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definitely continue your great posts, have a nice holiday weekend!

Posted by: vehicle at December 18, 2025 12:04 AM (7nzvg)

Shock: Somali Scammer Caught Perpetrating Another Somali Scam

The moment that Tom Homan announced he was investigating Ilhan "Omar" Nur's lifetime of defrauding the US immigration system, she suddenly had an outrage to "bitch" about, as Trump said.

When people began asking about her immigration fraud and marrying her fucking gay brother, she claimed her son had been pulled over by ICE and almost kidnapped in an attempt to intimidate her!!!

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons is flatly rejecting Rep. Ilhan Omar's claim that ICE agents pulled over her son after a routine trip to Target, calling the allegation baseless and unsupported by any agency record.
Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and longtime critic of federal immigration enforcement, said in a recent interview that her son was stopped by ICE and released only after producing his passport. When the interviewer pressed her on the unusual detail that her son allegedly had a passport on him while shopping, Omar doubled down on the story.
Lyons, however, told Fox News Digital that ICE has "absolutely zero record" of any officers or agents stopping Omar's son. He said it "speaks volumes" that the congresswoman is making the accusation without evidence and suggested the claim is part of a broader effort to vilify ICE as the Trump administration ramps up deportations.
Omar's office has refused to retreat. Spokeswoman Jacklyn Rogers said the congresswoman is standing by her account, alleging that Omar's son and others were racially profiled and forced to prove their citizenship. Rogers accused ICE of operating as a "rogue agency" and claimed it routinely fails to maintain accurate records, adding that Omar's office would welcome the chance to review any documentation ICE says it has.
The dispute comes as Omar continues to defend Somali migrants in Minnesota amid a series of massive fraud cases tied to state and federal aid programs. One of the most prominent cases involves Feeding Our Future, a Minneapolis-area nonprofit run by Somali migrants that prosecutors say siphoned roughly $250 million from child nutrition programs.

And speaking of this Somali whore marrying her gay brother: "Yes, Ilhan Omar married her brother."

I'm talking about Omar's marriage to her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Trump may have garbled the specifics, but he got the upshot of the story right. Omar's family brought Elmi over from London around 2002 to try to extract him from a gay lifestyle, and that is the context in which the congresswoman tied the knot with him.

...
A reader had directed me to a post on a message board called SomaliSpot, which has since been removed from the Internet. It asserted that Omar had married her husband, Ahmed Hirsi--the father of her children--in 2002, but that she had then married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009. Her campaign website advertised Hirsi as her husband and made no mention of Elmi.
I checked out the SomaliSpot story online through the Minnesota Official Marriage System. Inputting Omar's name, I found that the two marriages cited in the SomaliSpot post checked out as indicated. The site reflected Omar's 2002 marriage to her advertised husband, Ahmed Aden (later Ahmed Hirsi), and her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi identified in the SomaliSpot post as Omar's brother. As it turned out, Omar and Hirsi had only applied for a marriage license in 2002 but never followed through with a legal marriage.
Citing the SomaliSpot post and online marriage information, I contacted Omar's campaign and got a response from criminal defense attorney Jean Brandl. I had seen her in court representing one of the six Somali defendants who pleaded guilty in the 2016 ISIS terrorism case. The attorney's message was a classic nonresponse response that called me a bigot and said I should direct further questions to her rather than the campaign spokesman I had called. She seemed to think she could scare me off. When I directed my further questions to her as she had instructed, she ignored me.
I wrote about all this on Power Line. My post slowly generated a huge controversy that the Minnesota Star Tribune eventually covered. I got a call from then-Star Tribune reporter Patrick Coolican, who told me that he was writing the story and that the campaign denied that Elmi is Omar's brother. I asked, "Who do they say he is?" He responded: "They won't tell me."
...

Their story proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Omar married her brother for some fraudulent purpose. Coolican and Montemayor all but begged Omar for an interview and access to her family to discuss the issue. She repaid them with the same kind of treatment I had received in 2016. These left-wing reporters for a left-wing newspaper begged Omar for a response, but they got the same one I had in 2016. They were bigots, too.
"Whether by colluding with right-wing outlets to go after Muslim elected officials or hounding family members, legitimate media outlets have a responsibility not to fan the flames of hate," her spokesman told the paper. "Continuing to do so is not only demeaning to Ilhan, but to her entire family."
Between 2016 and 2019, reporters including Preya Samsundar at Minnesota's Alpha News and David Steinberg at PJ Media also added a trove of information supporting the proposition that Omar had married her brother in 2009. In 2019, I published Steinberg's illustrated summary, "Tying up loose threads in the curious case," on Power Line.
It lays out in meticulous detail what several Somali sources relayed both to him and to me, as well as social media posts that make it clear Elmi is Omar's brother. Omar entered the United States in 1995 as a fraudulent member of the Omar family, which was granted asylum in the United States and settled in Arlington, Va., along with her sister Sahra and her father Nur Said. The rest of Omar's genetic family, the Elmi family--a sister, Leila, and Mohamed and Ahmed--was granted asylum in the United Kingdom.
Social media posts throughout the years show Omar and her siblings in both the United States and the United Kingdom referring to each other, and to their father, as such. It is not difficult to track.

Miranda Divine previously reported that a highly-incurious FBI refused to investigate this crime and let the, get this, statute of limitations run.

Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him.
The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories. But before Lazarro could share the results with the media, he was arrested Thursday on underage sex-trafficking charges and jailed pending a court hearing Monday.
His website, IlhanOmarDNA.com, containing the DNA test results, was online briefly before it was taken down Wednesday.
Lazarro and a group of conservative donors had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on three continents hiring private investigators to track down Elmi Omar's ex-husband in the UK and procure his DNA from a drinking straw. Omar's DNA, Lazarro's website claimed, was extracted from saliva on a cigarette butt she was photographed smoking.
Omar previously has denied Elmi is her brother, calling the claim "absolutely false," "absurd" and "offensive."
Special Agent Joy Hess, from the FBI's Twin Cities field office, which investigated allegations that Omar married her brother Elmi to get around US immigration laws, says the "statute of limitations" had run out on the case. In a recorded conversation with an associate of Lazarro, posted on his website Wednesday, Hess also said the FBI could not pursue the case because Omar's ex-husband Elmi had moved overseas.
"The statute of limitations is over," she said. "According to the US Attorney's office The Statute of Limitations is not something we can overcome in that matter ... The individual in question left the country so there's nothing to [do]."

Lot of that going round.

Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM

Comments

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (xcxpd)

2 Also, deport

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (xcxpd)

3 Possibly...impale

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (xcxpd)

4 FIRST?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:22 PM (WONhk)

5
I hate these fucking Salamis.

Go the fuck home.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:22 PM (sz9lf)

6 Seems a tough line of work for a retard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:24 PM (NS3dP)

7 Dang, she's lying?????

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:24 PM (H3ACd)

8 I have a wish to have all Somolians deported on an old, rusted, leaking ship. Then sink the ship to make a reef. If there are still some onboard, too bad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:24 PM (WONhk)

9 Arrested is not equal to kidnapped retard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:25 PM (NS3dP)

10
As I mentioned in prior thread, FBI today announced charges for SNAP fraud in Massachusetts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:26 PM (sz9lf)

11 All of this was reported in detail, including documentation, on Powerline years go.

Glad new independent reporters are discovering this, but how about the feds now take action? Denaturalize and deport, for several immigration violations. Send her kids home to Somalia, too, regardless of where they were born.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:26 PM (H3ACd)

12 Her son was pulled over for speeding. How often does ICE do traffic stops, do you reckon?

Posted by: huerfano at December 17, 2025 05:26 PM (98kQX)

13 As I mentioned in prior thread, FBI today announced charges for SNAP fraud in Massachusetts.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:26 PM (sz9lf)

Looks like Bongino is leaving

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 05:27 PM (VE6XX)

14
Wouldn't there be video from the policeman bodycam?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 05:28 PM (3ek7K)

15 Over-under on when the Democraps pivot to “it’s totally ok for a Somali to marry her brother, it’s in their culture”?

30 days?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 17, 2025 05:28 PM (TfNP6)

16
Looks like Bongino is leaving
Posted by: It's me donna

No big loss.

Now Bongino can tweet all day about nothing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:28 PM (sz9lf)

17 Is brother fucking a crime?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:28 PM (NS3dP)

18 The problem with playing games using statutes of limitations as is becoming common practice now is that it incentivizes desperate people and demagogues. Let's say you are as mentally unstable as DeNiro in Taxi Driver or the main character in the 2019 Joker movie. Such a person will have a hue incentive to off someone who everyone knows is guilty, but who escaped punishment because of 'muh statute of limitations'.

Given that the people abusing this aren't randos hoping no one noticed their drug habit decades ago, a person who wanted a movement that was half political movement and half street paramilitary could easily gain popularity murdering swamp creatures who get off like this. To some extent that is what got Mussolini and Hitler into power.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 17, 2025 05:29 PM (UdiE9)

19 Rogers accused ICE of operating as a "rogue agency" and claimed it routinely fails to maintain accurate records, adding that Omar's office would welcome the chance to review any documentation ICE says it has.

Or, alternatively, Omar and her son could provide any documentation they say they have.

Surely the son of Omar would have recorded a racist ICE officer profiling him as a Somali who needed an ID check.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:29 PM (6ydKt)

20 ICE was running radar?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:29 PM (NS3dP)

21 "The statute of limitations is over," she said. "According to the US Attorney's office The Statute of Limitations is not something we can overcome in that matter ... The individual in question left the country so there's nothing to [do]."
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I don't believe her. I wouldn't believe her if she told me today's date without checking the calendar first, and I certainly won't take her word on something as complicated as the law.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 05:29 PM (TN0g+)

22 Omar previously has denied Elmi is her brother, calling the claim "absolutely false," "absurd" and "offensive."
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False? True.
Absurd? We wish.
Offensive? Well, yeah.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 05:30 PM (A0sqA)

23
Who leaves the Deputy FBI Director's job?

A fool, that's who.

Bongino lucked into a great position where he could do a lot of good, but, nah, he'd rather do some stupid Internet shit, instead.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:30 PM (sz9lf)

24
Omar's family brought Elmi over from London around 2002 to try to extract him from a gay lifestyle

The marriage turned him SUPER gay.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 05:30 PM (pkeXY)

25 Is immigration Fraud a Crime?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:30 PM (NS3dP)

26 Deport deport deport

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:30 PM (DoBxX)

27 Well, special laws can be passed for a one year special extention of expired law, right NY?

Posted by: Bete at December 17, 2025 05:31 PM (BKMOA)

28 Minnesota Somalis = Snowmalis.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 17, 2025 05:31 PM (TezPK)

29 He was a pack of ciggarettes and a bundle of sticks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:31 PM (NS3dP)

30 Hess also said the FBI could not pursue the case because Omar's ex-husband Elmi had moved overseas.
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Again, that's some really weak sauce. I don't buy that excuse for a second.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 05:31 PM (TN0g+)

31 Big Somali communities; Minneapolis so eff the leftists there. Lewiston Maine eff the leftist there Columbus, Ohio eff Theee Ohio State

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:32 PM (LyrOO)

32 We have international transport now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:32 PM (NS3dP)

33 I recently saw some posts on X claiming Omar's birth year recently got changed from 1981 to 1982 on MN's official legislative website. The claim is she was too old to be naturalized with her "father" if she were born in 1981.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:32 PM (Yp6az)

34 It was my impression that there is no SoL on immigration fraud.

Could be wrong of course, I’m no immigration lawyer.

Omar also lied about being the daughter of Omar when she landed here as a refugee.

She’s from a completely different family, Nour, or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

35 I don't have a sister, so the idea of marrying her is a mute point. Don't brothers usually think their sisters are icky? I never even thought of cousins as objects of love, even though there are several who are very attractive.
Guess my life has been boring, I dunno.

Posted by: Dated Outside The Home at December 17, 2025 05:32 PM (oftw2)

36 Animals. Send this vile, inbred legislator back to Minnesota and keep her away from national politics and any type of federal influence.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 05:33 PM (nljXp)

37 The day I got to Somalia, my sergeant summed it up best. "Sir, we should level this place, turn it into the world's largest parking lot, and leave. Fu*k this place."

I had a very smart sergeant.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 05:34 PM (2WIwB)

38 >>Guess my life has been boring, I dunno.

Posted by: Dated Outside The Home at December 17, 2025 05:32 PM

Your life has been normal. Revel in it.

Posted by: huerfano at December 17, 2025 05:34 PM (98kQX)

39 Apparently, Dan Bongino has confirmed that he is leaving the FBI.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)

40
"The statute of limitations is over,"

Okay, it's over. Ilhan Shithar is a sitting congress critter. It's ilegal to be a congress critter if elected under false premises. So bust her ass on that.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 05:36 PM (QVmho)

41 Some outfit should make a "Fuckle Me Elmi" doll, with caricatures of Elmi and Ilhan locked in the throes of sexual congress.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 05:36 PM (npFr7)

42 >>Hess also said the FBI could not pursue the case because Omar's ex-husband Elmi had moved overseas.

Didn't see that slow the FBI down when they were going after Trump over Russia.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 05:36 PM (viF8m)

43 Nice how the Eff Bee Eye didn't do lots of ccases just to let the limitations run out

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)

44 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 17, 2025 05:37 PM (2Ez/1)

45 Posted by: Dated Outside The Home at December 17, 2025 05:32 PM

That's a very funny handle. I congratulate you. You could also put "Didn't marry my sibling".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:37 PM (7RYym)

46

Now Bongino can tweet all day about nothing.
Posted by: Soothsayer

How would we notice any difference?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 05:37 PM (QVmho)

47 Law Enforcement is this country, at all levels, is broken.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:38 PM (77rzZ)

48 any type of federal flatulence.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 17, 2025 05:38 PM (Kt19C)

49 35 I don't have a sister, so the idea of marrying her is a mute point. Don't brothers usually think their sisters are icky? I never even thought of cousins as objects of love, even though there are several who are very attractive.
Guess my life has been boring, I dunno.
Posted by: Dated Outside The Home at December 17, 2025 05:32 PM (oftw2)

No indication she ever fucked him. Just used a fake marriage to get his flamingly gay ass into the US.

Posted by: The Somali SOOPER-gay at December 17, 2025 05:38 PM (TbWk/)

50 Is immigration Fraud a Crime?
Posted by: Boss Moss
===
Tell me youve never seen THE PROPOSAL without ever telling me youve never seen The Proposal.

Posted by: Ryan Reynolds at December 17, 2025 05:38 PM (M2DeZ)

51 Yeah, I don’t see why they’d need to interview the brother to make a case.

DNA tests will prove they were brother and sister.
Open and shut case.

But she’s in The Squad, so nobody would touch her for fear of being called a racist.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

52 Maybe let the funding on the FBI run out and just shrug at them like they shrugged on the statute of limitations on all these cases.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:38 PM (O7YUW)

53 the throes of illegal congress.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 17, 2025 05:39 PM (Kt19C)

54 Maybe let the funding on the FBI run out and just shrug at them like they shrugged on the statute of limitations on all these cases.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:38 PM (O7YUW)

Uptwinkles!!!

Posted by: pookysgirl, doing jazz hands at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (Wt5PA)

55 Hey! Morons! I live in Minny and I implore you to TALK ABOUT THIS PUBLICLY AS MUCH AS YOU CAN!!! POST EVERYWHERE!

This corruption needs to STOP and it is clear the 'establishment' doesn't care. You do.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (mNOhh)

56 Moot point. MOOT.

Posted by: That Guy at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (Cjger)

57 47 Law Enforcement is this country, at all levels, is broken.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:38 PM (77rzZ)

Enshittification isn't limited just to software and consumer products...

Posted by: Quality ain't even on the list at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (TbWk/)

58 There is also some allegation that she has lied about her birthdate.
That she was born in 1982, not 1981.

Because, if 1981, she would have been ineligible to naturalize under her father's status, would have had to apply on her own.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (HXT0k)

59 Looks like Bongino is leaving

Bongino will leave when he says that he will leave. Not when the typical liars and deceivers say he will.

Though, the gig did allow him to pursue all of the leads he published in his book.

Huge pay cut and wrecked his reputation. He should hang around long enough to see what he can salvage and build up a bunch of experiences he can regale us on his expected return to pod casting.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (BvPIe)

60 Great news. The older Target cashier who was screamed at by the leftist twat for wearing a Freedom shirt has had a great Go fund me account set up for her. Raised $148 k so far. Up yours leftists

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (LyrOO)

61 Effing your sister is hot.
— Egyptian Pharaohs

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:41 PM (77rzZ)

62 Maybe statute of limitations has run out on sending Omar to prison, BUT wouldn't the evidence still be legal grounds to Deport her lying/fraudster ass?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 05:41 PM (vbXSk)

63 > I don't have a sister, so the idea of marrying her is a mute point.

It's a moo point. Moo. A cow's opinion doesn't matter.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:41 PM (Yp6az)

64 59 Looks like Bongino is leaving

Bongino will leave when he says that he will leave. Not when the typical liars and deceivers say he will.

Though, the gig did allow him to pursue all of the leads he published in his book.

Huge pay cut and wrecked his reputation. He should hang around long enough to see what he can salvage

and build up a bunch of experiences he can regale us on his expected return to pod casting.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (BvPIe)

He announced he will be leaving in January

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 05:41 PM (VE6XX)

65 Statue of Limitations?

So they can continue enjoying the fruits of their fraud.... now, if they defrauded someone for a few grand, then blew the money, I can see that as being kind of a one off. But to continue holding it... nah.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 17, 2025 05:42 PM (/lPRQ)

66
don't have a sister, so the idea of marrying her is a mute point. Don't brothers usually think their sisters are icky? I never even thought of cousins as objects of love, even though there are several who are very attractive.
Guess my life has been boring, I dunno.
Posted by: Dated Outside The Home

Help me step bro, I'm stuck in the dryer/oven/couch/under the bed.
-there's a pr0nhub channel forr that

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 05:42 PM (QVmho)

67 Confirmed fuckery

@Dapper_Det
🚨BREAKING: DEI Providence Police Chief reveals that 5-days after the Brown University mass shooting with a killer on the loose and they have not interviewed the student eye-witnesses for a description of the shooter.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 05:42 PM (mlg/3)

68 "The older Target cashier who was screamed at by the leftist twat for wearing a Freedom shirt has had a great Go fund me account set up for her. Raised $148 k so far. Up yours leftists"

And I heard they were investigating the woman that verbally "assaulted" her. Not sure what crime that would be, but at least make her sweat a little.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 05:42 PM (vbXSk)

69 I guess Bongino is a quitter

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:43 PM (eZ5tL)

70 Moot point. MOOT.
Posted by: That Guy

Indeed.

Posted by: Treebeard at December 17, 2025 05:43 PM (mlg/3)

71 55 I hear that Goofy lived in Minnie, too. IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:43 PM (77rzZ)

72 This has been known for years, thanks to Powerline.

But the DOJ refuses to prosecute. Anyone other than a Democrat would be in jail and then deported, long since.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 05:43 PM (LdBLg)

73
Big or small,
deport them all.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 05:43 PM (0sNs1)

74 Mentioned upthread:

@DMAnews1
🚨 Two arrested & charged in alleged scheme to fraudulently obtain millions in SNAP benefits through small variety stores. Allegedly redeemed $100K–$500K in benefits per month – outpacing supermarkets – and sold donated food meant for children overseas.

How many people are doing this?
Wish it had stayed shut downlast month.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:43 PM (H3ACd)

75 69 I guess Bongino is a quitter
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:43 PM (eZ5tL)

That's how I feel...It was quite an honor to be chosen and he cuts and runs.. Just my opinion

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 05:44 PM (VE6XX)

76 And I heard they were investigating the woman that verbally "assaulted" her. Not sure what crime that would be, but at least make her sweat a little.
Posted by: illiniwek

--

It's her employer that's investigating her
Hop she gets fired

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:44 PM (eZ5tL)

77 Every illegal alien "community" has some kind of chat line, whether it's digital, or word of mouth in the wait lines for day labor, and the chat instructs all how to get in on the big suck off the gummint money teats.

My guess is the most crooked of these is the Somali chat line.

Likely within hours of arrival, even before you get a ride to the flea market to buy pillows and a couple sheets, someone's telling you how to get in on the scam.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 17, 2025 05:44 PM (KiBMU)

78 #60/Smell the Glove: "The older Target cashier who was screamed at by the leftist twat for wearing a Freedom shirt has had a great Go fund me account set up for her."

"Go Fund Me" is also leftist. They'll hold onto the money for a while, then will cancel that listing and refund the money to the donors (again, slowly.)

They'll allege a violation of their terms of service, but they won't say what term was violated, or how.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:45 PM (O7YUW)

79 Great news. The older Target cashier who was screamed at by the leftist twat for wearing a Freedom shirt has had a great Go fund me account set up for her. Raised $148 k so far. Up yours leftists
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:40 PM (LyrOO

Why does she need a go fund me?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 05:45 PM (2WIwB)

80 I'm not grasping this. Yeah...yeah...Statute of Limitations....blah blah blah. BUT, this woman misrepresented herself and committed fraud to gain entrance to the country and secure citizenship. The Statute of Limitations has nothing to do with an authoritative requirement for entry. She has not completed that requirement. The burden is not on the US. The burden is on the individual to present the required and accurate documentation. She has yet to do so.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 05:45 PM (dIske)

81 I would love to see Omar's smirk wiped off her face as ICE deports her back to her homeland she so misses.

While I understand the voting bloc of Somolians put her in office, it is amazing to me that she's there. As a Somolian and not a true American.

MN is sho messed up. Walz alone is a nightmare just to look at for nanoseconds. He's worse than Paine, Hil's VP, and I thought he was creepy.

Get her out of here! Please!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:45 PM (WONhk)

82
If Bongo is leaving to do a podcast, he's a bigger goof than I had thought.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:45 PM (sz9lf)

83 >>. . they have not interviewed the student eye-witnesses for a description of the shooter.

That is INSANE!

Also, has anyone in the MSM interviewed them?
Isn't that super weird?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:46 PM (H3ACd)

84 All salamis look alike

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 05:46 PM (uQzkA)

85 78 #60/Smell the Glove: "The older Target cashier who was screamed at by the leftist twat for wearing a Freedom shirt has had a great Go fund me account set up for her."

"Go Fund Me" is also leftist. They'll hold onto the money for a while, then will cancel that listing and refund the money to the donors (again, slowly.)

They'll allege a violation of their terms of service, but they won't say what term was violated, or how.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:45 PM (O7YUW)

It'sn ot go fund me.. It's give send go or something like that

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)

86 Deport Ilham Nur, Tim Walz, and everyone in charge of the Brown University shooting fiasco.

To Afghanistan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 05:47 PM (2GVsD)

87 Why does she need a go fund me?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 05:45 PM (2WIwB)

She could use some AR-15's. And a new car.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 05:47 PM (npFr7)

88 Why does she need a go fund me?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 05:45 PM (2WIwB)

I think people are just sending money because she was a conservative verbally abused by the nutcase leftist nurse .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:47 PM (looXz)

89 Why does she need a go fund me?
Posted by: Diogenes

Someone set up a give send go to raise $6K so Jeannie from Target can go on vacation.
It's now past $150K

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:47 PM (eZ5tL)

90 "The statute of limitations is over," she said. "According to the US Attorney's office The Statute of Limitations is not something we can overcome in that matter ... The individual in question left the country so there's nothing to [do]."
------

I don't believe her. I wouldn't believe her if she told me today's date without checking the calendar first, and I certainly won't take her word on something as complicated as the law.
---
Same.
Fraud usually tolls the statute of limitations.
But, the agent was doing more than that, by saying there was fraud but that they couldn't pursue it, she set the date when the limitations clock did begin to run.

Which is to say, it hadn't run then, but it's definitely run now.

Anyway, who fucking cares about the law?
Hit her with "conspiracy to commit immigration fraud" and lock her up for that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 05:47 PM (HXT0k)

91
WTF is going on?

Why isn't the FBI the LEAD investigators?
Why is podunk Providence shitheads still involved?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:47 PM (sz9lf)

92 Omar earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and international studies from North Dakota State University in 2011.
Following her undergraduate studies, Omar served as a policy fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Her professional career began as a community nutrition educator at the University of Minnesota, a role she held from 2006 to 2009 in the Greater Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. She also worked as a child nutrition outreach coordinator with the Minnesota Department of Education between 2012 and 2013.

She taught community nutrition and worked in child nutrition in Minneapolis.

Seven years later her community commits the probably the biggest government fraud case in history by child nutrition outreach.

Interesting.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:48 PM (6ydKt)

93 We need moar common-sense gun control !!!!!

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at December 17, 2025 05:48 PM (0sNs1)

94 "Rogers accused ICE of operating as a 'rogue agency' and claimed it routinely fails to maintain accurate records, adding that Omar's office would welcome the chance to review any documentation ICE says it has."

ICE doesn't "maintain accurate records" and there's no record of this passport frisking. But, yes, Omar welcomes the chance to peruse these non-existent, inaccurate records because it will reveal... nothing. By definition.

Something tells me that Team Omar is being a tad disingenuous.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 05:48 PM (gLikB)

95 >>Why does she need a go fund me?

Probably set up in anticipation of her being fired?
I am sure people want to express support for her to counteract the online shaming/harassment. This is one way to do it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:48 PM (H3ACd)

96 @85/It's me donna: "It's not go fund me.. It's give send go or something like that"

That's a much better option. Thanks for correcting that, Donna.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:48 PM (O7YUW)

97 If Bongo is leaving to do a podcast, he's a bigger goof than I had thought.

He made good coin on the podcast circuit.

He also had a very nice life in Florida as opposed to dealing with the demons in Babylon DC and the myriad of death threats against him and his family.

If you are at the place in life where work is optional, do you really want to winter in Babylon DC and deal with some of the most awful people to walk the planet?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 05:49 PM (nAS9C)

98 >>>I guess Bongino is a quitter

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

>The old guard from the deep state got to Bongino and he's scared shitless.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 05:49 PM (nljXp)

99 Why does she need a go fund me?
Posted by: Diogenes

Someone set up a give send go to raise $6K so Jeannie from Target can go on vacation.
It's now past $150K
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:47 PM (eZ5tL)

Well that's cool.
Nice!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 05:50 PM (2WIwB)

100 @93: "We need moar common-sense ~~gun~~ Democrat control !!!!!"

Fixed that for you, "Chuck".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 17, 2025 05:50 PM (O7YUW)

101
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that

=============

I keep reading that there's no SoL on immigration fraud, and that Ilhan has committed it in at least 2 ways -- 1, her identity (it's Nur, not Omar) and 2, in marrying her brother in order to get him enrolled residence and student status in America. And there's documentation and witnesses to prove both of these.

And after all that, I agree.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 05:50 PM (n7rxJ)

102 @79 people got pissed about some leftist berating her for wearing a Freedom shirt ( Kirk inspired) and then the pig put the vid of her doing it on line. The older lady was very gracious. People wanted to reward her for taking leftist crap and being decent

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:50 PM (LyrOO)

103 >>Seven years later her community commits the probably the biggest government fraud case in history by child nutrition outreach.

Interesting.

You forgot the part where Omar is the one who added the much-defrauded program to the bill -- she created it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:50 PM (H3ACd)

104 69 I guess Bongino is a quitter
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:43 PM (eZ5tL)
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69. Nice.

My take is that Bongino is a high-functioning autistic that had a monomaniacal obsession with figuring out the J5 pipe bomber thing, and now that the arrest has been made he feels like it's a Mission Accomplished scenario and might as well get back to regular sex with his wife and making lots of money on a podcast, lol.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 05:50 PM (5aZAZ)

105 Bongino lucked into a great position where he could do a lot of good, but, nah, he'd rather do some stupid Internet shit, instead.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Miami just elected a Democratic mayor. If he can return to Florida and keep up the Trump momentum in the mid terms, I’ll take it as a win …

Posted by: Adriane the Gilbert and Sullivan Critic . . . at December 17, 2025 05:50 PM (3ZUWJ)

106 Poor dude went from looking like an epic warlord to someone who clearly needs a CPAP.

http://tiny.cc/xdkw001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:51 PM (Yp6az)

107 49 35 I don't have a sister, so the idea of marrying her is a mute point..."

MOOT POINT DAMMIT! MOOT POINT!!!

Posted by: The Marquis de Favras at December 17, 2025 05:51 PM (uWKK8)

108
"Omar's son and others were racially profiled and forced to prove their citizenship."

----------

Who are the others? Have they come forward? By the way, why hasn't the miserable little son himself come forward himself?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 05:51 PM (n7rxJ)

109 Also, has anyone in the MSM interviewed them?
Isn't that super weird?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:46 PM (H3ACd)
====

It has been funky since that first information-free press conference.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 05:51 PM (A0sqA)

110 Has Target put out a statement that they value their workers and please treat them kindly in this season of seasonal things?

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 05:52 PM (uQzkA)

111 The DOJ is obviously unreformable.

It needs to be abolished by Congress.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:52 PM (77rzZ)

112 111 The DOJ is obviously unreformable.

It needs to be abolished by Congress.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:52 PM (77rzZ)

Sadly it seems so

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 05:52 PM (VE6XX)

113 One day you’re doinking your brother in the squeakhole, the next day you’re pumping your sister in the gash. ‘Tis the life of a Somalian.

Posted by: A Somalian (on welfare) at December 17, 2025 05:52 PM (pkv3v)

114 "Why does she need a go fund me?
Posted by: Diogenes

An older conservative woman working retail that stood up to a Krazy Karen ... sure, she could use some money. If people feel like donating a few bucks, good for them.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 05:53 PM (vbXSk)

115 Brown University, "finals are cancelled! Go home."

Police, "we can't find the suspects."

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 05:53 PM (2GVsD)

116 As the goat watches from the corner of the room

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 05:53 PM (uQzkA)

117 If Bongo is leaving to do a podcast, he's a bigger goof than I had thought.
--
He made good coin on the podcast circuit.

He also had a very nice life in Florida as opposed to dealing with the demons in Babylon DC and the myriad of death threats against him and his family.

If you are at the place in life where work is optional, do you really want to winter in Babylon DC and deal with some of the most awful people to walk the planet?
---
Annoying.
He was a big loudmouth that always claimed Big Things must be done.
And people needed to get it done.
Gets his shot in the big time and ....
Waaaa, waaaa, waaaa, boo-hoo, boo-hoo--I'm not making enough money; this is haaaard.

Go fuck yourself in the eye with Fanni's rotten dildo; if you can't stay in the fight with the stakes we're facing, they you're worse than useless.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 05:53 PM (HXT0k)

118 If you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in the family.
-Ilhan "Omar"

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 05:54 PM (MGB5H)

119 Moot is one of those words that morphed from one meaning to an almost opposite meaning. It originally meant "debatable" as in moot court. Now it means not debatable as the issue has been decided. I'm William Safire and I know these things

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:55 PM (LyrOO)

120 Go fuck yourself in the eye with Fanni's rotten dildo; if you can't stay in the fight with the stakes we're facing, they you're worse than useless.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 05:53 PM (HXT0k)

I agree with the exception of the Fanni dildo part

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 05:55 PM (VE6XX)

121 if you can't stay in the fight with the stakes we're facing, they you're worse than useless.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Are you saying there won't be a shire, Merry?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 05:55 PM (mlg/3)

122 I don't have a sister, so the idea of marrying her is a mute point..."

MOOT POINT DAMMIT! MOOT POINT!!!

Posted by: The Marquis de Favras at December 17, 2025 05:51 PM

Don't be so mute about it. Tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: Deanna Troi, Blog Counselor at December 17, 2025 05:55 PM (0sNs1)

123 "Omar's son and others were racially profiled and forced to prove their citizenship."

Even if true, so fucking what? We should be profiling the shit outta every dark-skinned parasite goatfucker in MN. Who are the illegals? Hint: they ain’t white guys named Bob Smith.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 17, 2025 05:55 PM (TfNP6)

124 I would bet my yearly gambling budget that Omar's son's story about having to produce a passport in a Target parking lot is complete horse shit.

Nobody just carries around a passport. Nobody. Black, brown, white, or in between. It's way too much of a pain in the ass to replace if it's lost or stolen just to have on you in case you get pulled over by some rayyyycisss cops. Mine lives in my safe unless I need it.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 05:56 PM (5aZAZ)

125 Why does my mind always want to confuse Dan Bongino with Danny Bonaduce?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:56 PM (77rzZ)

126 Bongino supposedly disappeared for a day or so after he felt the Epstein Files were not released fully enough, or something. Not sure what else he was unhappy about.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 05:56 PM (vbXSk)

127 You forgot the part where Omar is the one who added the much-defrauded program to the bill -- she created it.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:50 PM (H3ACd)

I sure did, thanks for reminding me.
Even more interesting.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:56 PM (6ydKt)

128 I’d like to congratulate Minnesotans and bend them over to show my appreciation for their stupidity. We Somalians have been warring between our clans for a long time. That’s why our country is a shithole, like the toilet at Taco Bell after by one burrito get one free day. So you imported us into your country so we can take all the welfare we can steal, and live high off your tax money- with a taste going back to our terrorists brothers. Thank you again, now please bend over one more time.

Posted by: A Somalian (on welfare) at December 17, 2025 05:57 PM (pkv3v)

129 Partridge Family?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:57 PM (NS3dP)

130 I'm William Safire and I know these things
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Could have ended with “I’m literally William Safire…”

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 17, 2025 05:57 PM (mmFQG)

131 Well, if it happened there is surely at least one cell phone recording of the incident...

Posted by: Ah, the 80s at December 17, 2025 05:57 PM (f7eZn)

132
Rules only apply to conservatives.

It's a free for all for everyone else.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 17, 2025 05:57 PM (IifOV)

133 I have a sister. When she was a senior, she was invited to enter the Miss Washington competition. She was cute.
Love her dearly.
But this Somali crap? Ick.
Just...ick!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 05:57 PM (2WIwB)

134 What if she didn't marry her brother just to defraud the US?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 05:58 PM (yr56r)

135 Norman Podhoretz has died, one of the original neocons and a brilliant guy. His son John was a GOPe type , but the recent anti Semitic outbreaks have pushed him further right

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:58 PM (LyrOO)

136
Cecil Says:

"At first, I commented that Trump was out of line for commenting on Rob Reiner's death. I was wrong. It was entirely appropriate. Trump was the center of Rob Reiner's universe. Reiner was wholly devoted to Donald Trump. He literally dedicated the last ten years of his life to Trump the way a Priest would dedicate his life to Christ. Every thought and action Reiner had for the past decade was passed through the lens of Trump. He tweeted over 20k times about Trump since 2016. His career, family, children, and friends fell by the wayside. Trump was his life, and Trump was right ot comment on his death. It would be disrespectful for him not to. TDS is real, and Rob Reiner died from it."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:58 PM (2sxZ8)

137 Is Kash Patel Bongino’s Reuben Kincaid?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 05:58 PM (77rzZ)

138 136 who is Cecil?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:59 PM (eZ5tL)

139 William Saffire. I knew what he was from having a gemstone for a last name.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:59 PM (NS3dP)

140 Bongino likely realized he was in the middle of a massive shit show. One of two things; either the DoJ can be rehabilitated or it can't.

Given the pace of retribution that is sorely needed... it would appear the latter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 17, 2025 05:59 PM (NwnyJ)

141 135 Norman Podhoretz has died, one of the original neocons and a brilliant guy. His son John was a GOPe type , but the recent anti Semitic outbreaks have pushed him further right
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:58 PM (LyrOO)
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John is a beyond-useless RINO but I will add him to the prayer list for solace after losing his dad.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 05:59 PM (5aZAZ)

142 What if she didn't marry her brother just to defraud the US?
Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 05:58 PM (yr56r)

Well, if her brother was gay, the clan might have tasked her with "converting" him. Muzzie women do what they are told to do.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 06:00 PM (npFr7)

143 TDS is real, and Rob Reiner died from it."
Posted by: Soothsayer

Well, that and multiple stab wounds. Mostly from the stab wounds.

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 17, 2025 06:00 PM (mmFQG)

144 Bongino is out....

Posted by: Moonbeam at December 17, 2025 06:00 PM (rbKZ6)

145
Nah, don't give me that shit about Bongo being upset about the epstein bullshit.

It was he & Kash who, oddly, went on TV to explicitly tell us epstein did indeed kill himself.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 06:00 PM (2sxZ8)

146 Inheritance?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:00 PM (NS3dP)

147 I doubt Fanni's dildo is rotten , just worn down to a toothpick

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:01 PM (LyrOO)

148 who is Cecil?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:59 PM (eZ5tL)

A seasick sea serpent?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 06:01 PM (npFr7)

149 Dan who?

Posted by: Most people at December 17, 2025 06:01 PM (2Ez/1)

150 Maybe statute of limitations has run out on sending Omar to prison, BUT wouldn't the evidence still be legal grounds to Deport her lying/fraudster ass?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 05:41 PM

How many leftist judges do you think would jump on the case if DHS decided to start deportation hearings on her?

Unfortunately she ain't going anywhere.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 06:02 PM (0N4FZ)

151 "Go Fund Me" is also leftist. They'll hold onto the money for a while, then will cancel that listing and refund the money to the donors (again, slowly.)

They'll allege a violation of their terms of service, but they won't say what term was violated, or how.
------

Yep, remember that this is the same SCUMMY organization that screwed over the Canadian truckers who were protesting during Covid. They shut down fundraisers for them.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 06:02 PM (TN0g+)

152 ballistic: "Nobody just carries around a passport. Nobody...

Yep. There might be a circle of diplomats, embassy workers, and suspicious transnational executives who might need to flee a country on a moment's notice who routinely carry a passport, but otherwise, normal people wouldn't dare for the reasons you stated.

Ever watch pretty much any real life cop show or youtube video? It's hard enough to get the perp to provide a valid, verbal name or produce a driver's license. A passport? Get outta here.

That Omar brother/husband event never happened.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 17, 2025 06:02 PM (gLikB)

153 zt''l Norman Podheretz.
As far as John goes, it is sad he won't have his dad around anymore to help him. I pray he continues to take his father as a zikr.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 06:02 PM (gKWVE)

154 Bongino is a cancer survivor.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (7nrYO)

155 Maybe they can seat this guy next to Ilhan and her kids?
It's to the way, right? Or could be. . .

@EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST IN: Conservatives are demanding the expulsion and deportation of Indian Rep. Shri Thanedar after he went on an unhinged TIRADE claiming H1B visas and foreign labor are pivotal for "national security"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (H3ACd)

156 Well, I guess I'm late to the party!

Posted by: Moonbeam at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (rbKZ6)

157 Somebody correct me, did the gov void the statutes of limitations to prosecute Catholic priests criminally? I know they did for some civil cases.

Are statutes of limitations immutable or not?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (pIfcn)

158
who is Cecil?
Posted by: vmom

Cecil, a nom de plumb, is comic book creator, a Youtuber, and all around swell fellow. Ace watches him all the time. He's one of us, so to speak.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (2sxZ8)

159 who is Cecil?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 05:59 PM (eZ5tL)

A seasick sea serpent?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 06:01 PM (npFr7)

I'm coming Beanie Boy!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (2WIwB)

160 Indiana?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (NS3dP)

161 TDS is real, and Rob Reiner died from it."
Posted by: Soothsayer

Well, that and multiple stab wounds. Mostly from the stab wounds.
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 17, 2025 06:00 PM (mmFQG)

To repeat: if Rob Reiner had not been totally eaten up with TDS, he might have been able to see that permissive Democrat policies regarding dope and vagrancy had turned his unstable son into a deadly Orc.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (npFr7)

162 I agreed with about half of Safire’s English-language rulings, and disagreed with about half the other ones.

But I won’t sew discord over them.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 06:04 PM (77rzZ)

163 A poor homeless orphan.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (NS3dP)

164 Nick Reiner went to rehab for the first time at age 15.

He never stood a chance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (2GVsD)

165 >>What if she didn't marry her brother just to defraud the US?

She married her brother, so others are within reason to assume and accuse her of consummating it. Alinsky would agree. Hey, it's their rules, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (H3ACd)

166 @157 Statute of Limitations can be changed for civil actions. This was done for priest abuse cases and against Trump. You can't retroactively change them for criminal case, but you can change them going forward

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (LyrOO)

167 To repeat: if Rob Reiner had not been totally eaten up with TDS, he might have been able to see that permissive Democrat policies regarding dope and vagrancy had turned his unstable son into a deadly Orc.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 06:03 PM (npFr7)
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Or hell, maybe given him the time to be an actual father...

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (5aZAZ)

168 154 So?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 06:06 PM (77rzZ)

169 But I won’t sew discord over them.
Posted by: Bulg

Perfectly cromulent.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 06:06 PM (mlg/3)

170 Cecil the sea sick sea serpent or Cecil the turtle?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 06:06 PM (pkeXY)

171 Wasn't Reiner involved with Misery? If there was one lesson to be had from the story, it's not to be parasocial. That celebrity over there on TV isn't real life. Annie Wilkes could have found some man to fuck and raise kids, but she chose differently.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 06:06 PM (gKWVE)

172 Sewing is difficult.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:06 PM (NS3dP)

173 Or hell, maybe given him the time to be an actual father...
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (5aZAZ)

That, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 06:07 PM (npFr7)

174 >>Nick Reiner went to rehab for the first time at age 15.

He never stood a chance.

True, but he had a privileged upbringing and life (still lived w/his parents, right?), even helped make a movie about his f'd up life. 18 or 19 trips to rehab - who gets that many chances? Other than Hunter Biden, of course.

Having a hard time feeling sorry for the guy.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:07 PM (H3ACd)

175 Every thought and action Reiner had for the past decade was passed through the lens of Trump. He tweeted over 20k times about Trump since 2016. His career, family, children, and friends fell by the wayside

I would like to know if this stat is legit.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 06:08 PM (2WIwB)

176 Nya ha ha!

Posted by: Dishonest John at December 17, 2025 06:08 PM (pkeXY)

177 Bongino worked for Secret Service for several years then went straight to being a media talking head.

I’m not surprised the FBI & DOJ wore his nerves down to a nub.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

178 170 Cecil the advisor to Elizabeth I.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 06:08 PM (77rzZ)

179
I remember vividly something Caroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker) said after his son died. It was a message to all fathers: Do Everything you can to help your child get off drugs.

O'Connor wasn't successful, but he tried. And I think he did blame himself for the man his son became.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 06:08 PM (2sxZ8)

180 Bongino likely realized he was in the middle of a massive shit show. One of two things; either the DoJ can be rehabilitated or it can't.

Given the pace of retribution that is sorely needed... it would appear the latter.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 17, 2025 05:59 PM (NwnyJ)

I think that's self-evident. Whether Bongino has anything to offer at this point, that might help move the discussion to the point where some of the people who SHOULD know what a corrupt and irredeemable organization FBI is, that remains to be seen.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:09 PM (8n1Ay)

181 Cecil the advisor to Elizabeth I.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 06:08 PM (77rzZ)

Also the bartender in Danny's All-Star Joint.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 06:09 PM (npFr7)

182
@157 Statute of Limitations can be changed for civil actions. This was done for priest abuse cases and against Trump. You can't retroactively change them for criminal case, but you can change them going forward
Posted by: Smell the Glove

=============

I also happen to know that you can write a law and make it retroactive to roughly the time that E. Jean Carroll thinks she was r@ped in a dressing room -- and you can even campaign on nailing one particular individual on that charge.

Be kind of nice if the citizens of some red state where Ilhan once set foot could determine that they were criminally defrauded.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 06:11 PM (n7rxJ)

183 Carroll O’Connor critiqued Bob Crane’s (Hogan!) sex tapes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 06:11 PM (77rzZ)

184 Mark Hamil was on the Partridge Family.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:12 PM (NS3dP)

185 Sewing is difficult.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 06:06 PM (NS3dP)

I'm slowly getting the hang of it. It helps that the ladies at my church sewing/knitting circle are far more patient than my father.

Posted by: pookysgirl still prefers knitting at December 17, 2025 06:12 PM (Wt5PA)

186 >>To repeat: if Rob Reiner had not been totally eaten up with TDS, he might have been able to see that permissive Democrat policies regarding dope and vagrancy had turned his unstable son into a deadly Orc.

Rob Reiner was an active member of Team Coup.
He was working with people like Bill Kristol and Norm Eisen to oust Trump and have him tried for treason. Not any run of the mill lefty:

https://tinyurl.com/5h7jvwjk
@listen_2learn
Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle helped Norm Eisen create one of his lawfare nonprofits, in the name of democracy of course.

Apparently Norm and Rob were scheduled to meet yesterday to discuss the 2026 elections.

Rob Reiner’s attacks on Trump were no doubt about character assassination which is a color revolution tactic that Norm employs often.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:13 PM (H3ACd)

187 Meathead created a monster and he paid for it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 06:13 PM (nljXp)

188 Bongino worked for Secret Service for several years then went straight to being a media talking head.

I’m not surprised the FBI & DOJ wore his nerves down to a nub.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

The paradox of DC. Too many insiders who are too entrenched, and it's going to take an outsider to do something about it... Until we realize, the outsiders lack the know-how of an insider that would be necessary to be capable of doing something about it.

Best to just burn the whole thing to the ground.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:13 PM (8n1Ay)

189 We like to sing online song in Somalia;

-We like Minnesotans cause the take it in the ass
-They know we’re welfare frauds, but they give us a pass
- We hate America, but to them it’s ok
- we don’t give a shit about them or care what they say
- They kiss our asses because we vote
- And we elect the ones who give us the most
- Lalala, boo boo, now kiss your sister
- Give her that tongue like you really missed her

It sounds better when sung to Bring Out the Gimp.

Posted by: A Somalian (on welfare) at December 17, 2025 06:15 PM (68/6A)

190 164 Nick Reiner went to rehab for the first time at age 15.

He never stood a chance.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (2GVsD)

Drew Barrymore did eventually get it together after being an alcoholic at 13 and in rehab.
Especially impressive considering her family history.

Nick Reiner just never wanted it enough because God knows his parents had all the resources available to get him clean.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:15 PM (6ydKt)

191 Guys,

I’m Starting to think this whole diversity is out strength stuff is kinda bullshit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 06:15 PM (udlma)

192 144 Bongino is out....
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 17, 2025 06:00 PM (rbKZ6)

Like Elon Musk... he found he could not effectively fight the deep state...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 17, 2025 06:15 PM (mP0Kj)

193 Meathead created a monster and he paid for it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 06:13 PM (nljXp)

Perhaps. Unless we know what was happening inside the home, it's impossible to attribute what went wrong with his kid to his parents.

Lots of "good" parents have kids who go bad.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:16 PM (8n1Ay)

194 Nick Reiner just never wanted it enough because God knows his parents had all the resources available to get him clean.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:15 PM (6ydKt)

George Floyd got clean.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 06:16 PM (npFr7)

195 I'm going to be a bit contrarian about Bongino. The day to day FBI/ DoJ has to be ripped apart by the DoJ and remaining FBI personnel. Bongino knowing what was happening and realizing the slow pace of the change and the resistance to it, may be able to have more impact on the outside by dumping a lot of info to the public and putting pressure on the aholes fighting change. Just a theory

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:16 PM (LyrOO)

196 If Meathead spent more time parenting and less time "advocating" maybe his throat would still be in one piece.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 17, 2025 06:16 PM (wBaIH)

197 166 @157 Statute of Limitations can be changed for civil actions. This was done for priest abuse cases and against Trump. You can't retroactively change them for criminal case, but you can change them going forward
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (LyrOO)

Thanks for clarification. Sometimes the evil bastards just plain had a good plan.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 17, 2025 06:16 PM (pIfcn)

198 Given he was raised by leftist vermin in Hollywood there is a close to 100% chance Reiner Jr. was abused as a child.

15 and in rehab is a clue.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 06:17 PM (udlma)

199 Go fuck yourself in the eye with Fanni's rotten dildo; if you can't stay in the fight with the stakes we're facing, they you're worse than useless.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 05:53 PM (HXT0k)

I agree. Mark Levin would have never walked away. There is a true man, a hero, made for an impossible task.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 06:17 PM (rbvCR)

200 Like Elon Musk... he found he could not effectively fight the deep state...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 17, 2025 06:15 PM (mP0Kj)

What will be interesting will be seeing what he does now. If he goes quietly into the good night, I think we can take that as evidence that he (and his family) have been threatened to remain silent.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:17 PM (8n1Ay)

201
He never stood a chance.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (2GVsD)

Drew Barrymore did eventually get it together after being an alcoholic at 13 and in rehab.
Especially impressive considering her family history.

Nick Reiner just never wanted it enough because God knows his parents had all the resources available to get him clean.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 06:15 PM (6ydKt)

***

I just assume celebrity kids in rehab is a kind of merit badge for the celebs. Box checked! Here's your next role.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 06:17 PM (2WIwB)

202 Glad to see Drew Barrymore got sober. Now she's just a loon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:19 PM (LyrOO)

203 No body wants to compare the offspring of Trump with the Biden's. But yeah, parenting counts for nothing, and children are resilient.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 17, 2025 06:19 PM (wBaIH)

204
The paradox of DC. Too many insiders who are too entrenched, and it's going to take an outsider to do something about it.

Some fat man.
Or little boy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 06:19 PM (pkeXY)

205 I'm going to be a bit contrarian about Bongino. The day to day FBI/ DoJ has to be ripped apart by the DoJ and remaining FBI personnel. Bongino knowing what was happening and realizing the slow pace of the change and the resistance to it, may be able to have more impact on the outside by dumping a lot of info to the public and putting pressure on the aholes fighting change. Just a theory
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 06:16 PM (LyrOO)

It would be great if that's true. That he's now able to be a vocal critic of the organization, in ways he was not BEFORE he got there, and ways he certainly could not while he was there.

We shall see.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 06:20 PM (8n1Ay)

206
Well, AI sez that if you obtain U.S. citizenship fraudulently, the government can initiate denaturalization proceedings and there's no time limit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 06:20 PM (n7rxJ)

207 More on Reiner's connections to the Trump coup attempt:

@amuse
FLASHBACK: Long before today’s revelations, Rob Reiner was tied to Russiagate. He founded an NGO with Brennan and Clapper that pushed the collusion hoax against President Trump. Hollywood and intelligence insiders worked together.

Rob Reiner was not a bystander during Russiagate. In 2017, he founded the Committee to Investigate Russia, a political NGO that promoted the Russiagate hoax. Former CIA Director John Brennan and DNI James Clapper served on its advisory board, giving intelligence world credibility to a partisan effort. The group’s mission was clear: cripple President Trump and question the legitimacy of the 2016 election.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:20 PM (H3ACd)

208 Mixed about Reiner, no doubt a son of a very successful and hard core Leftist can live a normal life. Probably never had to earn his own way so ended up a train wreck. Doesn't happen to all in his situation but does to many, without the murder parts.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 06:22 PM (Ia/+0)

209
If the walls really did close in on Ilhan, I bet she would flee the country on a plane full of cash and gold before she'd sit in a courtroom and provide testimony.

Then she'd set up headquarters in Somalia and get to work as an official enemy of America.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (n7rxJ)

210

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (2sxZ8)

211 First thing I would ask is, "WHAT statute of limitations"? Cite it, please.

Also: IIRC we used to kick Nazi concentration camp guards and the like who lied on their green card and citizenship applications, LONG after WWII, and deported them.

Posted by: noam sayen at December 17, 2025 06:25 PM (eYyGS)

212 >>>Lots of "good" parents have kids who go bad.

Posted by: BurtTC

>Dude was 32 years old. The fucking kid should have been kicked out of mommy's house at 18 years old to learn some of life's hard lessons.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 06:26 PM (nljXp)

213 She married her brother, so others are within reason to assume and accuse her of consummating it. Alinsky would agree. Hey, it's their rules, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 06:05 PM (H3ACd)

Considering the culture from which she came, Ilhan probably can't feel 'down there' anyway. She could be Messalina and the only thing you might get out of her is a grunt or two.

Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2025 06:30 PM (gKDq2)

214 When people began asking about her immigration fraud and marrying her fucking gay brother
_______
So are we to understand that Ilhan is the only nookie he's ever had?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 06:33 PM (s0JqF)

215 If there is immigration fraud, that does not make her a citizen. There is no statute of limitations on being an non-citizen. Also, the immigration fraud was continual, so how can that SoL run out?

Posted by: wferrin at December 17, 2025 06:36 PM (e1ytp)

216 Good evening ladies, gentlemen, both, neither, and all points between and betwixt, we are at this press conference whose Podium is made with only fair trade driftwood from the Sandwich Islands on land formerly housing a wonderful Adult Day Care facility owned by the Arapazowie Tribal Council to discuss ongoing updates to the assault on the Home Economics Study Group in Kitchen Five at The University of Portland State University.

There has been a pattern of speculation and miseducated guesswork undermining our intrepid efforts in the pursuit of the perhaps misunderstood alleged perpetrator of this expression of possible violence allegedly yelling or not yelling some audible shout before shooting and murdering two students.

In the interest of placating public anxiety FIB Portland is please to show a 15 second clip of a subject that may or may not be the alleged shooter, we can also confirm that this black-clad simian possibly masked, possibly of terrestrial origin can be confirmed at this time to be utilizing bipedal locomotion with a pattern of mobility that can be termed a gait.

Our office was shocked that a being capable of this attack did not float using some for a gravity con

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (MUJd1)

217 Ilhan Omar is not a citizen if any Statute of Limitations ran out. Whether or not she can be prosecuted for the fraud is a different matter. However, there is a non-citizen sitting in the House of Representatives who has pledged her loyalty to the President of Somalia.

Posted by: wferrin at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (s7ZU2)

218 Our office was shocked that a being capable of this attack did not float using some for a gravity control or telekinesis.

As always remain alarmed, but not riotous, and continue in your sustained vigilance for the malefactor.

//FIB Portland

Posted by: sven at December 17, 2025 06:48 PM (MUJd1)

219 >>>Lyons, however, told Fox News Digital that ICE has "absolutely zero record" of any officers or agents stopping Omar's son.

>>>Spokeswoman Jacklyn Rogers said the congresswoman is standing by her account [...] adding that Omar's office would welcome the chance to review any documentation ICE says it has.

Yes, we have the documentation for your review right here. It's the huge pile of nothing.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 17, 2025 07:09 PM (8mulE)

Brown University Releases Blurry Photos of Second Person Seen "in Proximity" of Actual Suspect

This could very well be a complete rando who was a stranger to the chubby shooter.

Asking for information about this likely rando shows how lost and desperate the Brown crew is.

I guess maybe this guy could have had a better look at the obese terrorist, but... he would still have seen Chubbs McMurder wearing a mask, something the left has normalized and even sacralized. Now most criminals wear masks. It used to be illegal to wear a mask in public, now it's a sacrament.

The Providence Police Department has widened its search to include a person who was �in proximity� to the at-large Brown University gunman who murdered two students and wounded seven others on Saturday.
�Investigators are asking for the public�s help in identifying and speaking to the individual shown in these photos who was in proximity of the person of interest,� the Rhode Island department wrote on X alongside several photos.
�Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121.�
The individual featured in the newly released grainy surveillance camera captures is wearing a blue jacket with a green hood, dark pants and is holding what appears to be a light-colored satchel slung over their right shoulder.
It appears to be the same person spotted in surveillance footage previously released by FBI Boston, which also shows the unidentified suspect walking down a suburban Providence street less than two hours before the shooting.

In the footage, the suspect appears to look to his right and spot the backpack-wearing individual before breaking into a sprint down a side street at 2:16 p.m. Dec. 13.

So did something about the killer alarm him? Did he see a gun?

I don't know. I guess it's possible he's even a confederate but unless I'm reading this wrong they were never seen speaking together or interacting.

As you probably know, online people found a "they/them" queer Palestinian refugee who has the same basic body type as the suspect. (In fairness, a lot of young "men" now have this same body type, unfortunately.)

I wouldn't think much about that, but when I went searching for him, I found that every link I tried to click on had been deleted.

All references to Mustapha Kharbouch have been removed from Brown University�s website.

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� https://t.co/psT3e7iNLy pic.twitter.com/zFzafHiDom
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 16, 2025

This... this is the opposite of reassuring:

A reporter asked the clueless Brown University President about webpages being taken down after the shooting - markedly the one of Mustapha Karbouch.

"First I've heard of it."

All of X knows, so she's either incompetent or retardedpic.twitter.com/X85IBchNw4
— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) December 17, 2025

Although online "sleuths" have scored some real coups in identifying unknown persons, they've also struck out far more than they've hit. I'm interested to know if this guy has an alibi, and if he's been questioned and if his home has been searched, but I'm not even close to convinced. Even the deletion of his pages is suggestive, but not conclusive; the left lies about everything and is determined that no one but the left is allowed to have access to the internet. It would not surprise me if they went on a deleting mission just because it offended them that non-credentialed persons were trying to do their jobs for them.

But I sure would like to know if he has an alibi or not. The "refuse to even dignify that question with an answer" act they always put on is getting old. And it's always been a suspicious kind of act. If the facts are on your side, why do you hide them?

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 neckbeard or jihadi? You make the call~~!
DUH-DUH-DUHHHH~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 04:22 PM (mlg/3)

2
It's a complete shitshow.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 04:23 PM (3ek7K)

3
Why are we waiting for Brown to "release" anything?

Just seize it all and let the FBI sort it out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:23 PM (Fusc1)

4 Clown Show

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 04:23 PM (yr56r)

5 Brown is in deep doo-doo.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 04:23 PM (g47mK)

6 That photo is an op. That's a typical white and nerdy guy you can find anywhere on a college campus.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 04:23 PM (0N4FZ)

7
Is that "chief" a fucking midget??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:24 PM (Fusc1)

8 This is the Allahu Akbar al-Khartouche guy?

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 04:24 PM (UnA8+)

9 The first guy they hauled in was a white army vet?

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:24 PM (uQzkA)

10
A different one I think

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 04:24 PM (3ek7K)

11 Somehow if the victim had been a member of a protected class, and not the suspect, well, we'd have a bit more information

Posted by: brak at December 17, 2025 04:24 PM (jGJov)

12
NCKate,

Yes. They would have loved a military person being the killer.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 04:26 PM (3ek7K)

13 It's Bigfoot.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

14 I guess it's possible he's even a confederate

You're just whistling Dixie with that one, Ace.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:26 PM (77rzZ)

15 I would go with incompetent AND retarded.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:26 PM (udlma)

16
Brown's top priority is to make sure the that stupid fucking fake sign language idiot is there.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (Fusc1)

17 fucking hobos

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (xcxpd)

18 We are completely unable to identify the at-large suspect, but we can assure you that he doesn't pose any risk to the community.

Posted by: If It's Brown, Flush It! at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (xTIDn)

19 Good thing it's only a murder with terroristic intent.

NBD.

If it was a noose spotted near a black person, or even just a coil of rope that looks vaguely like a noose, they'd already have caught and convicted the vile supremacist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (HXT0k)

20 Why are the videos of the shooter all from home surveillance cameras? Even allowing that the building the shooting took place in is old and doesn't have many/any cameras, how did the shooter walk around on a campus with so many cameras without being recorded by them?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM (Yp6az)

21 Love how the msm is all oh yeah by the way guys, one of the victims is the VP of Brown Republicans. And religious too. What are the odds right? They are like 12 religious Republicans at Brown but she just happens to be the one shot by a Muslim.

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM (udlma)

22 fucking hobos
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Ace hasn't been feeling well lately, so they're on the loose everywhere.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

23 "First I've heard of it"
So, lying or incompetent.
Pick your poison

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM (xcxpd)

24 What's with everybody wearing a damned hooded jacket with the hood up, even in fine weather?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM (npFr7)

25 You'd think the local paper, the Providence Journal, would be asking the same questions, but the clearly serve their political and social Masters, not the public.
It's Kharbouch, no doubt about it. Only question is did he take the train towards Boston or NYC.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM (sl73Y)

26 If they wait a few more days the entire campus will be emptied out for festivus.

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:29 PM (uQzkA)

27 I think Brown knows perfectly well who did it, and is deliberately sabotaging the investigation to buy as much time as possible before the truth comes out.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 17, 2025 04:29 PM (xTIDn)

28 Wow, Brown University sure seems to have some great leadership onboard. They're so luck they were able to find a firebrand like that lady to make all of the important decisions about running an organization the size of Brown University. Somewhere a Radio Shack store is still lamenting the loss of their assistant manager.

I wonder what its going to cost them when it comes out that the reason they haven't released any footage of the events of that day is because the administration quietly turned all of the security cameras off earlier in the year at the request of some "rights" organization?

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 04:29 PM (TN0g+)

29 I see Europeans and Aussies bragging that Australia is doing something instead of "thoughts and prayers" over their recent terror attack.

The thing they are doing? Making it harder for the would be victims of terror attacks to defend themselves.

Because hey, if you import a bunch of jihadis letting your heritage citizens defend themselves is racist

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 04:29 PM (sKqQm)

30 If the perp is one of the students good luck finding him.. I believe they sent all the students home and cancelled classes..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 04:30 PM (VE6XX)

31 Why are we waiting for Brown to "release" anything?

Just seize it all and let the FBI sort it out.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:23 PM (Fusc1)

Just have the Feds declare it to be an incident of Suspected Domestic Terrorism. Boom. Done.

It is obvious that the locals are completely out of their depth on this terror attack. Adults need to take control.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 17, 2025 04:30 PM (pJWtt)

32 What happened to the "zoom in and enhance" software all the crime lab computers on TV and in the cinemas have downloaded? Are you saying that entertainment mediums have been misleading me for years?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2025 04:30 PM (26Csg)

33 Only question is did he take the train towards Boston or NYC.

And if he took the train to Boston, did he kill the Jewish, pro-Israel MIT professor?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 17, 2025 04:30 PM (xTIDn)

34 With all the money people spend to send their kids to Brown, you'd think they would have invested in better security cameras.

Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (79pEw)

35 What's with everybody wearing a damned hooded jacket with the hood up, even in fine weather?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM (npFr7)

dunno. I hate wearing them. Don't like the way it blocks my peripheral vision.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (PSEDc)

36 All references to Mustapha Kharbouch have been removed from Brown University�s website.

It does follow the pattern of the social media of leftist/jihadi shooters being professionally scrubbed before their names are released...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (sKqQm)

37 1 neckbeard or jihadi? You make the call~~!
DUH-DUH-DUHHHH~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 04:22 PM (mlg/3)

...power of "and."

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (zYpTz)

38 He gone. Almost certainly an Antifa/Trantify hit. Most of the campus and the Providence Police Department and probably half the FBI would likely be pleased to see him get away.

This sweet Christian girl from Alabama must have been called a Nazi constantly by these mentally ill lefty losers.

The whole point of labeling someone a Nazi in America today is to try to encourage violence against them.

Posted by: TITP at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (YwIpu)

39 Investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying and speaking to the individual

You want we should arrest him, too, and bring him to the station?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (yr56r)

40 32 What happened to the "zoom in and enhance" software all the crime lab computers on TV and in the cinemas have downloaded? Are you saying that entertainment mediums have been misleading me for years?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2025 04:30 PM (26Csg)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Leroy Jethro Gibbs at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (rv4iz)

41 What's with everybody wearing a damned hooded jacket with the hood up, even in fine weather?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM (npFr7)

The ghettofication of America.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (udlma)

42 Yeah, I was gonna say they already did their leftist duty by hauling in the first white guy.

Something I am not getting is the total lack of info they aren't providing. I know people are ducking and screaming but surely somebody around the shooting said if it was a man and if he was white/black/asian whatever.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (n5tGW)

43 So, forensics...has anyone actually pulled the bullets for fingerprints and/or DNA? I know that can take a week to process, but they just might want to put that at the top of the list...

You can do AMAZING stuff with touch DNA right now, even if it's contaminated with someone else's DNA (like the victim)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (tOcjL)

44 > And if he took the train to Boston, did he kill the Jewish, pro-Israel MIT professor?

Was that confirmed? I saw a lot of people the other day saying he wasn't Jewish and didn't make any public statements in support of Israel.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (Yp6az)

45 This Mustapha guy's name has been all over the internet for 2 days now. If he's not the guy, tje authorities have a duty to exonerate him publicly.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 17, 2025 04:33 PM (AkkXw)

46 If Brown really believed this was a random shooter they'd have the whole campus closed down until he was found wouldn't they?

If he's hunting conservatives/Christians...and they know that...it would explain why they are so blase about it

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

47 If I were Governor of Alabama (where the primary shooting victim hailed from) I would start talking about deploying Alabama NG troops to out of state colleges to protect Alabamians in potentially hostile environments.

If we're going to go back to acting like 50 different nations with different cultures, then by all means, let us treat the other states like the potentially hostile foreign powers they are.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 17, 2025 04:33 PM (OUMaO)

48 With all the money people spend to send their kids to Brown, you'd think they would have invested in better security cameras.

Can't run them during an operation. You know how it is...

Posted by: Manhattan Correctional Center at December 17, 2025 04:33 PM (yr56r)

49 If the facts are on your side, why do you hide them?

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

"It depends upon what your definition of 'side' is."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 04:33 PM (D4KZ+)

50 Those pressers featuring Colonel Jose Jimenez, chief of police, him answering questions in spanish, the clown act guy adjacent with his facial hoo hahs and doing hand jive, are approaching comedy gold.

Brown desperately does not want the story to be a mooslim tranny marshmallow shoots a republican white girl.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (KiBMU)

51 I mean, the shooter was screaming "Allahu Akbar" or "Free Palestine", and somehow Brown has been able to keep any one of the numerous eyewitnesses to the murder to speak out publicly.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (xTIDn)

52 The chief is a DEI idiot put in there by Smiley because the next competent guy was O'Hara, an old white Irish guy with years of experience.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (sl73Y)

53 You can do AMAZING stuff with touch DNA right now, even if it's contaminated with someone else's DNA (like the victim)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (tOcjL)

They might have accidently power-washed the entire facility within 8 hours of the shooting, making collection of DNA impossible.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (rbvCR)

54
The two Jews who got murdered in D.C. a few months ago, anyone get arrested for that?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (Fusc1)

55 The perp is still at large and the "authorities" tell everyone not to worry ? What do they know that we don't ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (VE6XX)

56 What's with everybody wearing a damned hooded jacket with the hood up, even in fine weather?"

Sheeeeet.

Posted by: man at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (qRoBZ)

57 Maybe they want to destroy anther white male as a distraction from Chubbs McMurder, who increasingly seems to be someone they know but won't say?

Posted by: DADA at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (H3ACd)

58 Was that confirmed? I saw a lot of people the other day saying he wasn't Jewish and didn't make any public statements in support of Israel.

Israel National News thinks that he was Jewish and pro-Israel.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 17, 2025 04:35 PM (xTIDn)

59 Chubbs McMurder wearing a mask
......

Did they check the cafeteria?

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 04:35 PM (v0R5T)

60 >>"First I've heard of it."

All of X knows, so she's either incompetent or retarded

EMBRACE TO POWER OF "AND"!!!!!!!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (H3ACd)

61 Clinton playbook:
Not that I recall

First I have known of it is new.

Chubby ghey Palestinian's website evaporation seems suspect.I figured he/she/it would know the blonde conservative girl who was shot and killed. Unsure if the Mo guy was collateral damage,as not a lot about him except his studies of biochemistry and something else brainy.

Then there's the clue that this class, which was targeted for some reason, is normally taught by a Jew, who was not there that day. Then the MIT Jew guy killed in Brookline,MA.

Have they studied the gaits?

Unfortunately we can ass-ume that the shooter does not meet the criteria of being a white KKK guy with an AK-47. It's always an AK-47 and white nationalist, Ace. The photos are always fuzzy.

Even Andy Griffith and Barney could do better in giving height, etc than what has been known on this case. Fuzzy shots that can't be cleared up with AI? I find this hard to believe, even for a blonde supermodel.

I want the ghey Palestinian to jog a bit to see if there's a match of the gait of the chubby guy sort of jogging. Then I will be satisfied.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (WONhk)

62 This guy (Mustapha Karbouch) already has an internet nickname, "Mustapha Carbomb", but I think it would be better if every time his name is mentioned the refrain from Bohemian Rhapsody should play ("I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?")

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (nb8WB)

63 >>Only question is did he take the train towards Boston or NYC.

Brown is about 15 minutes from T.F. Green. He could be anywhere by now.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (viF8m)

64 53 You can do AMAZING stuff with touch DNA right now, even if it's contaminated with someone else's DNA (like the victim)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:31 PM (tOcjL)

They might have accidently power-washed the entire facility within 8 hours of the shooting, making collection of DNA impossible.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (rbvCR)

I'm talking even the bullets pulled from the hospital...my kid did Forensic Bio as her major and she did some research that floored me on what they can do...if they want to spend the money and the time...if the perp touched any part of anything, you can almost always get DNA, even if it got contaminated (b/c you can rule out the contaminant easily in this case)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (tOcjL)

65 54

Some Hispanic punk from Chicago got arrested right away.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (rJ48h)

66 There you go, a better if still not poor photo not of the suspect but someone who saw the suspect

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (Ia/+0)

67 Could be theey have a pretty good idea who did it, and have him under surveillance. But, their hard evidence is relatively weak...no weapon, conflicting eye witness statements, crappy video... and tney want more evidence before making an arrest.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (AkkXw)

68 What can Brown do for you?

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 17, 2025 04:36 PM (ZiWmd)

69 The two Jews who got murdered in D.C. a few months ago, anyone get arrested for that?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:34 PM (Fusc1)

Were they really murdered though? I’m thinking more like they were assaulted.
- Ex DC Police Chief

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:37 PM (udlma)

70 The perp is still at large and the "authorities" tell everyone not to worry ? What do they know that we don't ?
Posted by: It's me donna

That they wanted to wait until he's safely in a Quebec mosque?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 04:37 PM (mlg/3)

71 That face looks like Cornelius from Planet of the Apes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 04:37 PM (uWKK8)

72 Israel National News thinks that he was Jewish and pro-Israel.

So does the Jerusalem Post.

Nuno Loureiro, a Jewish and vocal pro-Israel nuclear scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was shot dead inside his home in the town of Brookline near Boston, US law enforcement authorities said on Tuesday.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 17, 2025 04:37 PM (xTIDn)

73 Even though this tragedy is tragic, what would be even more tragic is if Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion would be harmed...

Posted by: Brown University, tomorrow at December 17, 2025 04:38 PM (rv4iz)

74
Some Hispanic punk from Chicago got arrested right away.

However:

"According to an FBI agent's affidavit obtained by NPR, Rodriguez allegedly told officers, "I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza" on the scene of the attack. He also allegedly chanted "free Palestine" after being detained by security, court documents read.

The affidavit also claimed the suspect held a red scarf, which one witness identified as a keffiyeh, a traditional headscarf closely associated with Palestinian history and resistance."

So hispanic jihadi?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 04:38 PM (sKqQm)

75
A jewish portagee??

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:38 PM (Fusc1)

76 >>Clinton playbook:
Not that I recall

"At this point, what difference does it make?"
"Old news!"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (H3ACd)

77 School president knows
Cops know
Some students know
They don't want you to know

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (Mb4p6)

78
Brown's top priority is to make sure the that stupid fucking fake sign language idiot is there.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (Fusc1)

*Trans Somali sooper genius popped up with jazz hands*
*pew pew pew with finger guns*
*Moonwalking interpretive dance of rage*

Posted by: Nelson Mandela Funeral Sign Language Guy at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (y9nCu)

79 Given how things with this crime have played out thus far, I'm thinking the perp has fled the country. Brown University played a supporting role in that. And the local law enforcement is either also in on it, and, possibly full of retards.

It was a hit.

Give it a couple days and some reclusive savant living in his mom's basement will produce a photo of "Chubbs McMurder" somewhere over in Paliland.

Then, Trump can drone him.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (NwnyJ)

80 19 If it was a noose spotted near a black person, or even just a coil of rope that looks vaguely like a noose, they'd already have caught and convicted the vile supremacist.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (HXT0k)

It was not all that long ago that a college kid didn't see a trash bin handy, so dropped his banana peel on a tree.

This caused a bunch of stress for some people of color, causing them to close down a frat leadership retreat and send out memes to make sure everybody understood how racist banana peels can be.
https://tinyurl.com/yc6mkxs4

Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (26Csg)

81 Crap, am I ever getting a workout this week!

Posted by: Grainy Footage at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (oftw2)

82 MIT murdered prof was NOT Jewish. His fellow neighbor on his apartment floor was, and reporters were lazy, seeing Hannukah decorations on the floor and thinking only one person lived there.

Of course, shooter could have been easily mistaken as well...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (tOcjL)

83 If its not a MAGA suspect, we got nothing for you
Brown University

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (Ia/+0)

84 There are about 100K jews living in Brazil but...I can't find anything backing up him being Jewish outside of the Israeli papers - it would be great if they explained their source.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

85 >>But I sure would like to know if he has an alibi or not.

To be honest, I am at teh "witch trials" phase -- I think anyone who looks the part should be charged and convicted. If innocent, let 12 men good and true make that decision.

Anyone wearing that muzzie scarf -- Charge them all. Round them up and have mass prosecutions. It will clean things up fast.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 04:40 PM (zeE7J)

86 "...incompetent or retarded..."
Embrace the power of "and."

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 17, 2025 04:40 PM (XMwZJ)

87 The Islamic conquest of western civilization continues...

Fresh Scene @Freshscenez

In the Netherlands, police officers are now being forced to visit mosques and take classes on Islam and the Quran to learn how to deal with “Islamophobia.”

This is madness.

X video: https://bit.ly/3Y2YaSx
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
----

They are waiting for the Boomers to die off.
Then they know they've got you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 04:40 PM (Mb4p6)

88 Brown/FBI just need to keep this going a couple more days. By the weekend everyone will
Have lost interest in the story and it’s Christmas vacation for most of the country .

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:40 PM (udlma)

89 The brown student body jew contingent is 1400 percent that of the surrounding metro area. And those jew kids are all probably wrapped in the black and white terrorist rag scarves and carrying FREE PALESTINE signs.

Watch the great film, The Player, in which a Hollywood producer, played by Tim Robbins, gets away with murder. The final scene, in which Robbins is driving a convertible, smiling. The Brown U killer is doing the same right now, maybe down in Cabo.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 17, 2025 04:40 PM (KiBMU)

90 Brown goes out of it's way to make it's campus inaccessible to the public. All buildings back face public roads, with few broad openings to the inner campus.
The shooter got out of the building onto a small public street, which is what you are seening in these photos.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 17, 2025 04:40 PM (sl73Y)

91 >>"incompetent or retarded"

The smart money is on "and"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 04:40 PM (zeE7J)

92 Even though this tragedy is tragic, what would be even more tragic is if Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion would be harmed...

Posted by: Brown University, tomorrow at December 17, 2025 04:38 PM (rv4iz)

Won't anyone think of the retarded children.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 04:41 PM (dK+Kv)

93 83 If its not a MAGA suspect, we got nothing for you
Brown University
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:39 PM (Ia/+0)

Well the pic of the chubby alleged shooter is light skinned so there's still hope...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 04:41 PM (VE6XX)

94 Has any of your loved ones been gun downed while attending class at an Ivy League University which everyone knows is a gun free zone? Well, call me, I want to get you money!

1-888-GET-PAID

Posted by: Alexander Shunnarah, Billboard King at December 17, 2025 04:41 PM (m8zKa)

95 >>Brown's top priority is to make sure the that stupid fucking fake sign language idiot is there.

What exactly is the point of translating "We have no updates for you, we don't know anything" into ASL?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 04:42 PM (H3ACd)

96 If he shouted Allah Akbar that narrows it down to about 2 billion suspects.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 04:42 PM (E0p3T)

97 How many leftwing terror attacks have we had in the last couple of years.

You've got the guy that shot the Healthcare CEO
The two guys that shot at Trump
The tranny chaser that shot Kirk
The Hispanic Jihadi in DC
...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 04:42 PM (sKqQm)

98 Was the prof circumscribed is what I need to know?

Posted by: We Need Answers! at December 17, 2025 04:42 PM (oftw2)

99 What's with everybody wearing a damned hooded jacket with the hood up, even in fine weather?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at

It's been cold, low twenties up to today warm up.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (sl73Y)

100 RI is gay clown show. They'll never ID this guy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (abIsI)

101 Brown's top priority is to make sure the that stupid fucking fake sign language idiot is there.
Posted by: Soothsayer

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

102 Are there a lot of deaf people who travel from press conference to press conference?

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (uQzkA)

103 Every tv manufactured within the last 20 years has cc. There is zero need to sign language people at a press conference. It’s one of the most idiotic things in our increasingly idiotic society.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:44 PM (udlma)

104 I'm calling it. This guy got away clear.

Posted by: Antifa's exultant John Brown trainer at December 17, 2025 04:45 PM (nb8WB)

105 The school president liberal woman looks like the liberal Rino from Alaska, Murkowski. Same thin lipped frowny mouth. Gives me faith that this will end soon. NOT

Most classrooms/halls have video cameras. Why are they not shown? Vs a chubby guy running down a sidewalk? Or his entry/exit from the building? Wth?

We saw much faster footage of the Charlie Kirk furrie murderer (altho we know, we know, Candace, that it was the French Foreign Legion in cahoots with Macron and Mossad).

For some reason it's all a blur for this shooting spree.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 04:45 PM (WONhk)

106 Are there a lot of deaf people who travel from press conference to press conference?

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (uQzkA)

Like Deadheads. They're a menace.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

107 I see that I have a new IP address since our power outage. (abIsI) That's right ladies, hard six pack right here.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 17, 2025 04:45 PM (abIsI)

108
It's all about The Show.
The Show and The Message.

Fucking Incompetent Bunglers.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (Fusc1)

109 Like Deadheads. They're a menace.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)

Especially in Cadillacs.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (rv4iz)

110 Maybe there are some deaf people that can't hear. Did you ever think of that, wise guy?
- Brown University

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (n5tGW)

111 Are there a lot of deaf people who travel from press conference to press conference?

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (uQzkA)

Like Deadheads. They're a menace.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Just wait til they run out of GORP. That's when it gets sporty.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (MGB5H)

112 Someone the other day surmised that the killer, if he is indeed the person in the videos, is foreign. He asked "how many Americans do you know who walk with their arms behind their backs like that?" I found that interesting.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (ssz2a)

113 If I was a "Mustafa" (a title of the Prophet, zutt be inside him) and I had been posting a lot of edgy shit, and some bad stuff happened around me, I too might lock down said edgy shit and hire a lawyer.
Even, or especially, if I didn't do the bad stuff.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (gKWVE)

114 Why did they have Hanukkah decorations on the floor?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (Mb4p6)

115 If it was targeted, and a local, then surely the victim and her friends would know who it was.

These people typically have a history of harassing the person they are obsessed with hating.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (zeE7J)

116 That face looks like Cornelius from Planet of the Apes.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Rondo Hatton, 40s-50s B-horror actor.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

117 I see that I have a new IP address since our power outage. (abIsI) That's right ladies, hard six pack right here.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 17, 2025 04:45 PM (abIsI)

Once you're done with that, ladies, head on over to my d_k kave.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 04:47 PM (dK+Kv)

118 If I was a parent who had a kid there who was conservative and/or of any religious faith other than Muslim I wouldn't send them back for the Spring semester.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:47 PM (ZeH0U)

119 Hello?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 04:47 PM (NS3dP)

120 114 Why did they have Hanukkah decorations on the floor?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (Mb4p6)

B/c the neighbor was Jewish. More than 1 apartment on the floor.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:47 PM (tOcjL)

121 Posted by: Grainy Footage

Grainy? Like on Beverly Hillbillies?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 17, 2025 04:47 PM (Kt19C)

122 :shrugs theatrically:

Posted by: ASL interpreter, earnin' muh pay at December 17, 2025 04:47 PM (gKWVE)

123 106 Are there a lot of deaf people who travel from press conference to press conference?

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (uQzkA)

The little I saw the other day I don't think the guy was actually using ASL. It looked like he was wiggling his fingers. Which brings back memories of the fake guy at Mandela's funeral.

Maybe I should pretend to be one and get a job!

I once learned cuss words and "I love you" by real deaf people at a track meet in HS. So I think this qualifies. I think that's what they taught us.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 04:48 PM (WONhk)

124 116 That face looks like Cornelius from Planet of the Apes.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Rondo Hatton, 40s-50s B-horror actor.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

I had to look him up - LOL!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK8)

125 111 Are there a lot of deaf people who travel from press conference to press conference?

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (uQzkA)

Like Deadheads. They're a menace.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Just wait til they run out of GORP. That's when it gets sporty.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 04:46 PM (MGB5H)

lol x2

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 04:48 PM (xcxpd)

126 103 Every tv manufactured within the last 20 years has cc. There is zero need to sign language people at a press conference. It’s one of the most idiotic things in our increasingly idiotic society.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:44 PM (udlma)

But it was funny as hell at Mandela's funeral.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2025 04:48 PM (26Csg)

127 32 What happened to the "zoom in and enhance" software all the crime lab computers on TV and in the cinemas have downloaded? Are you saying that entertainment mediums have been misleading me for years?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2025 04:30 PM (26Csg)

I always laugh at those scenes.

Even with AI it’s impossible to do what they’re doing, zooming in on a 480p screenshot from a surveillance camera and ‘enhancing’ a license plate to read the number.

If you zoom in that far on anything that small all you’re going to see are different shaded/colored squares called pixels, and even AI at that point is going to be guessing at what is there.

If you start at a 4K (2160p) image you’re luck will be better, but that’s not going to be common for surveillance because the file sizes are huge for continuous recorded video.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

128 122 :shrugs theatrically:
Posted by: ASL interpreter, earnin' muh pay at December 17, 2025 04:47 PM (gKWVE)

Ok, you're hired.

Posted by: Gavin Newsome Presidential Campaign at December 17, 2025 04:49 PM (rv4iz)

129 It won't let me post what can Brown do for you?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 04:49 PM (NS3dP)

130 Since Ol' Mustapha has not appeared with attorney at hand to straighten out the confusion, he might be the one.

And the president of the uni is just too fekking well paid ($3million) to bother with web pages being taken down.

Posted by: Random PJ at December 17, 2025 04:49 PM (RRCAT)

131 Once you're done with that, ladies, head on over to my d_k kave.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 04:47 PM (dK+Kv)

Oooooh. Do you have zip ties?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 17, 2025 04:49 PM (zYpTz)

132 Why are a lot of young guys shaped like pear shaped fat chicks? Those chubby thighs can't be contained in skinny jeans. Running you're gonna catch fire.

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:50 PM (uQzkA)

133 Someone else already posted it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 04:50 PM (NS3dP)

134 117 I see that I have a
hat's right ladies, hard six pack right here.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 17, 2025 04:45 PM (abIsI)

At least more flattering than mine! I think mine should, at the very least!!!, reflect that I am a former supermodel vs what it does. Basically "wonky." Which my husband would agree with.

Unflattering.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 04:50 PM (WONhk)

135 Why are a lot of young guys shaped like pear shaped fat chicks? Those chubby thighs can't be contained in skinny jeans. Running you're gonna catch fire.
Posted by: NCKate at December

Now just imagine if people still wore corduroy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 04:50 PM (MGB5H)

136 Brown is about 15 minutes from T.F. Green. He could be anywhere by now.
Posted by: JackStraw at December

You shoot someone Jack, you probably want to avoid the local airport for awhile. MBTA, not so much.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 17, 2025 04:51 PM (sl73Y)

137 132 Why are a lot of young guys shaped like pear shaped fat chicks? Those chubby thighs can't be contained in skinny jeans. Running you're gonna catch fire.
Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:50 PM (uQzkA)

B/c they've kept their butts planted to a seat for their entire childhood?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:51 PM (tOcjL)

138 If I was a "Mustafa" (a title of the Prophet, zutt be inside him) and I had been posting a lot of edgy shit, and some bad stuff happened around me, I too might lock down said edgy shit and hire a lawyer.
Even, or especially, if I didn't do the bad stuff.
Posted by: gKWVE

No, you would be kicking off lawsuits left and right, asking for donations, and retiring a jigglehadi hero.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 04:51 PM (mlg/3)

139 Investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying and speaking to the individual shown in these photos
_______
I know! I know! His name is Gavin Newsome. He lives in California.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 04:51 PM (s0JqF)

140 In the Netherlands, police officers are now being forced to visit mosques and take classes on Islam and the Quran to learn how to deal with “Islamophobia.”

--

Any mooslims being forced to take classes on how to deal with Jewphobia and Christianphobia?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 04:51 PM (qBdHI)

141 I think that Mustapha has left the country.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:51 PM (looXz)

142 Corduroys.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 04:51 PM (NS3dP)

143 Leftists are always cheapskates when providing funds for anything but other Leftists and their phoney-baloney crap

https://tinyurl.com/58wzmbe9

Brown University has offered $0 as a reward to catch the shooter.

You read that correctly.

$0

The FBI offered the $50,000.

Brown University…

$8 billion endowment
$3.17 million a year salary for president
$180 million in taxpayer dollars per year

$0 for reward.

Unreal.
7:34 AM · Dec 17, 2025

Posted by: Gref at December 17, 2025 04:52 PM (5rh/l)

144 "All of X knows, so she's either incompetent or retarded"

There is a 3rd case: she's lying

Posted by: Halfhand at December 17, 2025 04:52 PM (GAVlX)

145 I'm gonna need a shower.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 04:52 PM (NS3dP)

146 111 Are there a lot of deaf people who travel from press conference to press conference?

Posted by: NCKate

-----------------
No, but get rid of the interpreters and I am sure there will be, with ADA lawyers on speed dial.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 04:52 PM (zeE7J)

147 If you zoom in that far on anything that small all you’re going to see are different shaded/colored squares called pixels, and even AI at that point is going to be guessing at what is there.

If you start at a 4K (2160p) image you’re luck will be better, but that’s not going to be common for surveillance because the file sizes are huge for continuous recorded video.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

I remember in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial the prosecutor was trying to introduce "enhanced zoom" pictures to show something that would make Kyle look like he was lying, or something. Which meant that he zoomed up those illegible pixels, then used software to draw in what he wanted to be there. then turned it back into a "photo" and claimed it was Evidence.

The Judge didn't buy it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK8)

148 Re: the chubby queer Palestinian activist who looks like "Newman" from Seinfeld:

You can still find stuff that he's written on the Wayback Machine. He's definitely nuts, and definitely an asshole, but I think some of the armchair sleuths are probably a little out over their skis about the guy.

The mass-deletion doesn't look good; but I think it's less that the guy's an actual person of interest and more a case of hyper-protectiveness of one of the Left's sacred-cow Persons of Intersectionality in response to the initial online speculation about him, which is now backfiring on them due to Streisand Effect.

Posted by: Alex at December 17, 2025 04:53 PM (EcUen)

149 Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:50 PM (uQzkA)

Some are on anti depressants and others meds which make them gain weight.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 04:53 PM (looXz)

150 Maybe the RI cops should draw a photo of the suspects. Like the olden days.

They guy in the hood looks like a skull face, which could be anyone, really, on Halloween.

I should go do something productive to impress my man. Maybe, maybe not. This is the question.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 04:53 PM (WONhk)

151 If you think about the case in the shower, that's billable?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 04:53 PM (NS3dP)

152 144 "All of X knows, so she's either incompetent or retarded"

There is a 3rd case: she's lying
Posted by: Halfhand

The hat-trick - incompetent, retarded, and lying.
We call that the "Biden"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 04:54 PM (zeE7J)

153 141 I think that Mustapha has left the country.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
---

I think you may be right.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 04:54 PM (Mb4p6)

154 I always laugh at those scenes.

Even with AI it’s impossible to do what they’re doing, zooming in on a 480p screenshot from a surveillance camera and ‘enhancing’ a license plate to read the number.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

The worst offender was Enemy of the State in which Jack Black, super IT guy, processes a video and creates a full 3d rendering in order to determine that the hero character has something large inside a paper bag.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 04:54 PM (mlg/3)

155 I'm struck by the growing difference between blue states and red states in law enforcement

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (DBp1F)

156 Brown University has offered $0 as a reward to catch the shooter.

You read that correctly.

You get what you incentivize. Safest place for him is to go to class tomorrow.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (yr56r)

157 I'm betting that this Mustapha dude that the internet has focused on isn't the Brown shooter. The actual timeline is that somebody fingered him and then he decided to remove his social media presence. I'm not making any other judgment about him one way or the other because he is definitely a palestinian activist idiot, but this whole thing has a real Chief-Moose-Looks-For-The-White-Box-Truck feel to it.

Posted by: B Cook at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (0s9ci)

158 Brown is a small school where everybody knows their fellow students. Definitely this involves a coverup.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (wBaIH)

159 $0 for reward.

Unreal.
7:34 AM · Dec 17, 2025
Posted by: Gref at December 17, 2025 04:52 PM (5rh/l)

Well, a Republican was killed, and the last thing they want to do is appear to support finding the killer of a Nazi.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (6ydKt)

160 The worst offender was Enemy of the State in which Jack Black, super IT guy, processes a video and creates a full 3d rendering in order to determine that the hero character has something large inside a paper bag.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 04:54 PM (mlg/3)

*Bladerunner enters the chat*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (dK+Kv)

161 OUT: "What can Brown do for you?"
IN: "What can Brown hide for you?"

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (wtvvX)

162
sign language isn't even real
it's 90% bullshit

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (tlC0d)

163 I can match their reward.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 04:56 PM (NS3dP)

164 No, you would be kicking off lawsuits left and right, asking for donations, and retiring a jigglehadi hero.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

That would be phase two after the media falsely accusing me had started their retractions.
But you're right. Why hasn't phase two started yet? Where is this motherfucker? If he didn't do it, why is the Muslim Brotherhood (or "CAIR", whatever they call themselves here) letting him twist? Is this a strayvoltage trolling op?
The longer Moustapha Scaramouche (or his lawyer) stays quiet, the worse it looks.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 04:56 PM (gKWVE)

165 Why are a lot of young guys shaped like pear shaped fat chicks? Those chubby thighs can't be contained in skinny jeans. Running you're gonna catch fire.
Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:50 PM (uQzkA)

That is a good question. I am told it definitely is not a diet rich in HFCS and highly processed carbs with the only fats and proteins being from seed oils and soy. I am also told that it is not because there is no exercise for the young men because health care is so expensive that families and schools can't risk them being injured. And it definitely has nothing to do with the meds most of them wind up on to deal with high calorie foods, low physical activity, and social exclusion or outright isolation in society.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 04:56 PM (rbvCR)

166 I can match their reward.
Posted by: Boss Moss at

Cheapskate! I'll triple it!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 04:56 PM (MGB5H)

167 I was listening to sound clips from the news briefing - both Brown University administration and the local police are grossly incompetent. Pure DEI.

Or complicit.

I would not be surprised if tomorrow, they throw up their hands and say "Continuing to look for the troubled soul that did this unfortunate thing will not bring back anyone or undo any injuries ... Thoughts and Prayers® ... it is time to move on and hold our families' close this holiday season."

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 04:57 PM (9Hs2w)

168 [O/T -- ]

Heard some scuttlebutt on a couple of national talk radio shows that Dan bongino may be leaving the FBI, and he's apparently said he will make his intentions and plans known within the upcoming weeks.

Something tells me he's got a permanent case of the "nothing will happen" blues ... and is likely being stymied at every turn from above and below.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 04:57 PM (D4KZ+)

169 You shoot someone Jack, you probably want to avoid the local airport for awhile. MBTA, not so much.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 17, 2025 04:51 PM (sl73Y)

He's probably safe at the airport. With the awesome competence of the Providence cops, they'd have all their manpower committed to staking out gun shops and sporting goods stores on the presumption the killer is going to be shopping for reloads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:57 PM (npFr7)

170 155 I'm struck by the growing difference between blue states and red states in law enforcement

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (DBp1F)

Well, it's been a 100% difference for a few years now...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 17, 2025 04:57 PM (wtvvX)

171 RI should have had an immediate lockdown of Providence and all roads leading away from the school.

That's what I see on tv, anyway. Which I think has as much value as a fake ASL guy.

Decades ago in FL we were so annoyed by a flappy ASL person we taped a piece of cardboard over her. It was during a lot of grassfires if I recall.

I should patent the ASL cover kit for the future, eh?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 04:58 PM (WONhk)

172 real Chief-Moose-Looks-For-The-White-Box-Truck feel to it.
Posted by: B Cook at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (0s9ci)

Possibly. This seems more targeted. Plus, their reaction is off the charts so something squirrelly is going on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

173 Lena Dunham did it!
-Sherlock

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 04:59 PM (zZu0s)

174 >>Maybe the RI cops should draw a photo of the suspects. Like the olden days.

Saw a clip on X that was a compilation of real newscasts showing various drawings of wanted criminals and then photos of the criminals after they were captured. Pretty funny.

One was literally a stick figure guy with huge eyes and spiked hair. Looked like something a 5 years old would draw. Damned if the photo of the actual criminal didn't look exactly like it.

Best was a female newscaster showing the drawing of a pudgy balding middle aged white guy with a mustache and goatee. She started laughing so hard she fell off her chair. Her coanchor was a pudgy balding middle aged white guy that looked exactly like the photo. He fell off his chair laughing too.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)

175
Meanwhile, in Australia...

that mass-murder is already out of the news cycle

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:59 PM (tlC0d)

176 The MIT professor that was killed was head of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center and was researching the properties of fusion plasmas in order to create a near-limitless source of cheap power.

Our AI future depends on developing such a source of power and many of the big AI companies are funding such research.

Posted by: TITP at December 17, 2025 05:00 PM (YwIpu)

177 Best was a female newscaster showing the drawing of a pudgy balding middle aged white guy with a mustache and goatee. She started laughing so hard she fell off her chair. Her coanchor was a pudgy balding middle aged white guy that looked exactly like the photo. He fell off his chair laughing too.
Posted by: JackStraw at

I just saw that yesterday. Hilarious.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 05:00 PM (MGB5H)

178 So what exactly is a "third generation Palestinian refugee"??
His grandparents used to live in Gaza and then came to the USA?

I might as well start self identifying as a 3rd generation Irish refugee. Or even a 3rd generation Swedish refugee.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 17, 2025 05:00 PM (N39Ws)

179 *Bladerunner enters the chat*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 04:55 PM (dK+Kv)

I have ALWAYS wanted the Bladerunner zoom where you can even look around corners and see things that weren't in the original picture!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 05:01 PM (uWKK8)

180 I doubt Mustapha swished back to Palestine to be thrown off a tall building or rubble.

He's probably in San Francisco at a bath house.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:01 PM (WONhk)

181 I have ALWAYS wanted the Bladerunner zoom where you can even look around corners and see things that weren't in the original picture!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 05:01 PM (uWKK

ENHANCE!
-Jack Bauer

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

182 I have ALWAYS wanted the Bladerunner zoom where you can even look around corners and see things that weren't in the original picture!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 05:01 PM (uWKK

We all have, and flying cars.

Liars.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 05:02 PM (dK+Kv)

183 Ok Pres of Brown, where is your student Mr Karbouch. If he's missing you should be worried

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:02 PM (LyrOO)

184 The worst offender was Enemy of the State in which Jack Black, super IT guy, processes a video and creates a full 3d rendering in order to determine that the hero character has something large inside a paper bag.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 04:54 PM (mlg/3)

In like, 1998, or whenever that came out, just doing the 3D rendering would have required an entire office of computers and a few months to pump that out,

Hollywood always overestimates the capabilities of computers as an expedient plot device.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:02 PM (6ydKt)

185 Brown President is too busy fund raising to care about a couple of dead conservatives.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 17, 2025 05:02 PM (wBaIH)

186 >>Brown University has offered $0 as a reward to catch the shooter.

You read that correctly.

$0

Well, yeah, because they already know who did it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:02 PM (H3ACd)

187 > Even with AI it’s impossible to do what they’re doing, zooming in on a 480p screenshot from a surveillance camera and ‘enhancing’ a license plate to read the number.

True, but there are tools and techniques that can take several blurry pictures of something from video and do what's called multi-frame super-resolution. The technique basically takes all of the data from the several frames, notes all of the subtle shifts of the area of interest (eg a license plate), does some inference and other wizardry, and comes up with a single image that's much clearer than the individual frames.

There's a law enforcement tool called Amped FIVE that does this process exactly.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:02 PM (Yp6az)

188 One was literally a stick figure guy with huge eyes and spiked hair. Looked like something a 5 years old would draw. Damned if the photo of the actual criminal didn't look exactly like it.

Best was a female newscaster showing the drawing of a pudgy balding middle aged white guy with a mustache and goatee. She started laughing so hard she fell off her chair. Her coanchor was a pudgy balding middle aged white guy that looked exactly like the photo. He fell off his chair laughing too.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)

Saw that, LOL! (I think they were pranking him)
Saw one once where everyone was serious about it, and the drawing came out looking like a bowling ball with 2 eyes on it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK8)

189 >>In like, 1998, or whenever that came out, just doing the 3D rendering would have required an entire office of computers and a few months to pump that out,

Totally kray-kray!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:03 PM (H3ACd)

190 >>I doubt Mustapha swished back to Palestine to be thrown off a tall building or rubble.

He was raised in Lebanon.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 05:03 PM (viF8m)

191 The worst offender was Enemy of the State in which Jack Black, super IT guy, processes a video and creates a full 3d rendering in order to determine that the hero character has something large inside a paper bag.

Possible runner-up: NCIS episode where yelling "enhance" enough times they were able to get a very high confidence identification of the perp's face off an oblique reflection from a dark car's fender from a Walmart parking lot security camera.

Show of hands how many people have a perfect mirror polish of their car's finish?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 05:04 PM (PVBkQ)

192 . He fell off his chair laughing too.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)

Falling off your chair laughing is the best laughing, which follows choke laughing and tears.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:04 PM (WONhk)

193 Why is this woman still in charge?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 17, 2025 05:05 PM (2Ez/1)

194 He was raised in Lebanon.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 05:03 PM (viF8m)

Ah, well. I am often wrong and saw him wearing the little black/white scarf and protesting something. I don't know how Lebanon feels about ghey swishers almost trans, but I have to think not a red carpet welcoming.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:05 PM (WONhk)

195 Ace: Whether or not is was Mustapha Karbouch who did it, this is unquestionably a political assassination, Charlie Kirk 2.0 .

In a campus that is 98% far-left students, what are the odds that, by sheer coincidence, they shooters bursts into the very classroom where the ONE outsppken campus conservative was sitting, and then by sher random chance shot HER up with a fusillade of bullets, and no one else.

This should be as big a deal as the Krik assassination but Brown admins are going to ExTreme lengths to bury the story and to NOT catch the killer.

They're trying to wait it out so that by the time he gets caught, it will be "old news" and no one will care.

Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2025 05:05 PM (oraVG)

196 3rd gen refugee. Maybe your people are just hobos.

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 05:05 PM (uQzkA)

197 Brown University has offered $0 as a reward to catch the shooter.

They will need to preserve as much of that $8Billion endowment for the lawsuits.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 05:06 PM (PVBkQ)

198 Something tells me he's got a permanent case of the "nothing will happen" blues ... and is likely being stymied at every turn from above and below.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe

He should immediately go on the Rogan show and tell it like it is. Trump will have no other choice than to fire Bondi and Patel. Which would be glorious.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 17, 2025 05:06 PM (abIsI)

199 What's with everybody wearing a damned hooded jacket with the hood up, even in fine weather?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:28 PM

Uh it is December in Rhode Island. It gets cold there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (0N4FZ)

200 Do
Y’all have any idea how crazy it will be for Egypt v Iran in the World Cup game in Seattle during PRIDE WEEK is going to be?

There isn’t enough popcorn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (AnLdZ)

201
Dan Bongino has been nothing but a drama queen. Sick of him.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (tlC0d)

202 I looked closer and think the guy in the hood is Paul Ryan. If it showed a widow's peak it would be a positive ID.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (WONhk)

203 3rd gen refugee. Maybe your people are just hobos.
Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 05:05 PM (uQzkA)

That is my people's super-power.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 05:08 PM (rbvCR)

204
Are there a lot of deaf people who travel from press conference to press conference?
Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 04:43 PM (uQzkA)

Time to start litigation against these woke institutions, demanding translators for Festivus believers. All woke institutions must have their press conferences translated into Feats of Strength

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 05:08 PM (y9nCu)

205 You don't have to live like a refugee.

Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty at December 17, 2025 05:08 PM (rv4iz)

206 Do
Y’all have any idea how crazy it will be for Egypt v Iran in the World Cup game in Seattle during PRIDE WEEK is going to be?

There isn’t enough popcorn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (AnLdZ)

It's raining men. Gay men.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 05:09 PM (dK+Kv)

207 Uh it is December in Rhode Island. It gets cold there.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (0N4FZ)

But I see in Arizona in October when it's 80 degrees out, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 05:09 PM (npFr7)

208 where the ONE outsppken campus conservative was sitting, and then by sher random chance shot HER up with a fusillade of bullets, and no one else.
Posted by: zombie

Not that it matters, but the perp killed another student, a muslim apparently.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 05:09 PM (mlg/3)

209 This should be as big a deal as the Krik assassination but Brown admins are going to ExTreme lengths to bury the story and to NOT catch the killer.

They're trying to wait it out so that by the time he gets caught, it will be "old news" and no one will care.
Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2025 05:05 PM (oraVG)

So, Brown, with their bazillion endowment, does not have cameras in halls, stairwells or entry/exits?

The footage I have seen is in a neighborhood with security cameras. Big whoop.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:09 PM (WONhk)

210 @200 a giant riot between Muzzies and LGBT crowds . We really have to get leftist clans muzzie factions fighting more often

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:10 PM (LyrOO)

211 The Islamic conquest of western civilization continues...

Fresh Scene @Freshscenez

In the Netherlands, police officers are now being forced to visit mosques and take classes on Islam and the Quran to learn how to deal with “Islamophobia.”

This is madness.

X video: https://bit.ly/3Y2YaSx
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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I read an item on Insty this morning saying Our International Betters are working to ditch the term Islamophobia. to be replaced with "anti-Muslim hate."

Good grief. They gotta get the hate word inserted in the news. Gotta be sure the drones know to call-out as haters all people who say anything less than good things about Mooselmen.

I also find this sadly amusing in a way. The uneducated leftist youths and media people must not know the definition of '-phobe', and are uncertain what Islam is. Muslim is clearer for them as the name for that group of victims of white male Christian oppression.

Posted by: Gref at December 17, 2025 05:10 PM (5rh/l)

212 Ace: I think this is a thing. Check out the trailer for Nirvanna the Band the Movie.

Posted by: Max Power at December 17, 2025 05:10 PM (Hucnr)

213 Dan Bongino has been nothing but a drama queen. Sick of him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (tlC0d)

We should denounce him. "insufficient enthusiasm" for one. I bet Mark Levin hates him too.
I love Mark. He never is a drama queen.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 05:10 PM (rbvCR)

214 Looks like the Geico cave man put on a few pounds.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 05:11 PM (pkeXY)

215 Retarded is making a comeback. Good.

I'd like to think the thing I just read about CC tv cameras was BS.

Shut down to protect people from ICE, etc. I want to puke.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 17, 2025 05:12 PM (cS1cw)

216 It won't let me post what can Brown do for you?
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What can Brown do for you?

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

217 There's a law enforcement tool called Amped FIVE that does this process exactly.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:02 PM (Yp6az)

I’m sure they have some apps that will help in certain situations but even then you need a really good source, preferably at least 1080p, to get anything useful.

We have satellites in orbit that can read license plates, so it’s definitely possible to get results in some cases, but nothing like Hollywood makes it out to be.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

218 So what exactly is a "third generation Palestinian refugee"??

It's their trade or profession- "Palestinian refugee". We do the same thing here with generations of "SNAP recipients"

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 05:12 PM (yr56r)

219 These cocksuckers are obstructing the investigation on purpose. Once they identify and arrest the shooter they need to charge all the motherfuckers who fucked with the CCTV footage and scrubbed the website. Accessories after the fact, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, anything they can make stick. This shit needs to be punished, swiftly and severely.

Posted by: They're criminal scum at December 17, 2025 05:13 PM (TbWk/)

220 >>Uh it is December in Rhode Island. It gets cold there

Do tell.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 05:13 PM (viF8m)

221 So...I see they've made another Avatar movie.
Yawns...
I haven't seen the first ones.

Oh look. PB&J for lunch.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 05:13 PM (2WIwB)

222 Repost:

I wonder what its going to cost them when it comes out that the reason they haven't released any footage of the events of that day is because the administration quietly turned all of the security cameras off earlier in the year at the request of some "rights" organization?

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 05:13 PM (TN0g+)

223 Don't you love how the RI Attorney General is always interrupting the Providence Chief of Police, to clarify something the Chief said, or add something the Chief didn't say?

Top. Men.

Posted by: Gref at December 17, 2025 05:14 PM (5rh/l)

224
Are there a lot of deaf people who travel from press conference to press conference?
Posted by: NCKate
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No, but get rid of the interpreters and I am sure there will be, with ADA lawyers on speed dial.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Is it legal for a small business to refuse service to someone for now cause? Like the local dry cleaner won't do business with deaf people as they don't wanna learn sign lanaguage to do business.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 17, 2025 05:14 PM (QVmho)

225 Snowfall has quit, and Sun is shining weakly. But the wind is still howling and making the snow drift.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 05:14 PM (npFr7)

226 Looks like the Geico cave man put on a few pounds.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 05:11 PM (pkeXY)

Here's the guy.

https://shorturl.at/tms5w

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 05:14 PM (dK+Kv)

227
FBI announced actual charges for SNAP fraud in Massachuestts.

Good.

I hate our dyke fake "governess."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:15 PM (tlC0d)

228 MSM is sucking cock bigly of the 4 traitorous vermin RINOs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 05:16 PM (udlma)

229 here's the thing:

There were 30 people in that classroom when the shooting happened. 28 of them are still alive.

That's 28 eyewitnesses to the crime.

Not 1. Not 2. Not even 3.

28.

If the cops by now dont know EXACTLY what the shooter looks like, that proves they have not been intervieweing all the eyewitnesses, who (all combined) could have givena very detailed description.

Bt ti dont think tye have interviewed any eyewitnesses. Because it has never been mentioned in any of the news conferences.

And if nt -- why not?

Answer: because this isn't an investigation. It's an anti-investigation, and attempt to FAIL TO find the killer. Because politics.

Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2025 05:16 PM (oraVG)

230 Who is the Barney Fife looking little shitbird? They have mall cops at Brown?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 05:16 PM (nljXp)

231 It is pretty weird that they have ASL interpreters on at every news conference for that one old, deaf lady living by herself watching the world through a 19” TV from 1993.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

232
Snowfall has quit, and Sun is shining weakly. But the wind is still howling and making the snow drift.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Sounds perfect.

And you still have power.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:17 PM (tlC0d)

233 Never go full on Somalian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:17 PM (NS3dP)

234 > but even then you need a really good source, preferably at least 1080p, to get anything useful.

Nope. I've seen demos of 240p cameras taking blurry video of license plates and the tool resolving it to a readable single picture.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (Yp6az)

235 78
Brown's top priority is to make sure the that stupid fucking fake sign language idiot is there.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (Fusc1)
______________________

Every time I see one of those sign language guys/gals, my mind immediately goes to Garrett Morris on SNL. He was in the corner of the shot with his hands up at his mouth mega-phoning a shout for the hearing impaired. Always made me laugh.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (dIske)

236 Bet Brown made all the kids sign NDAs including don't talk to cops language.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (KiBMU)

237 Never go full on Somalian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:17 PM (NS3dP)

It's no fun being an illegal Somalian.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (dK+Kv)

238 We have satellites in orbit that can read license plates, so it’s definitely possible to get results in some cases, but nothing like Hollywood makes it out to be.

Except anyone with a knowledge of physics knows that this is bullshit.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (BvPIe)

239 233 Never go full on Somalian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 05:17 PM (NS3dP)

Now you tell me.

Posted by: Lewiston, Maine at December 17, 2025 05:19 PM (N39Ws)

240 >>I wonder what its going to cost them when it comes out that the reason they haven't released any footage of the events of that day is because the administration quietly turned all of the security cameras off earlier in the year at the request of some "rights" organization?

Probably made a policy change at the beginning of the year to protect the forever Pali protesters from Trump's DOJ.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2025 05:19 PM (H3ACd)

241 Bet Brown made all the kids sign NDAs including don't talk to cops language.
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Bet they did. And Bet those aren't legally binding.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 05:19 PM (TN0g+)

242 Yeah when I see a butch looking black chick as the head of any law enforcement agency I just go ahead and assume that the entire outfit is shot through with utterly incompetent DEI hires.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 05:20 PM (5aZAZ)

243 Odds this goatfucker is never gonna be found?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 17, 2025 05:20 PM (TfNP6)

244 Nope. I've seen demos of 240p cameras taking blurry video of license plates and the tool resolving it to a readable single picture.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (Yp6az)

Well that’s pretty awesome then.
I guess I can expect a lot more speeding tickets once they legalize AI Camera Cops.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:20 PM (6ydKt)

245 There's a photo of the hooded man with glasses that's clearer. He looks a bit weird, but not as weird as the chubby jogging masked guy.

Where are the other kids in the classroom? Were they rendered mute?

Where are the cameras in the fancy wanna be Ivy League building? Entering and exit photos.

This does not take a genius for me to think of these questions no one apparently asks the ASL person!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:20 PM (WONhk)

246
Odds are off the charts Elric.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (3ek7K)

247 All exams were cancelled at Brown. Now students you have to keep quiet if you know what's good for you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (LyrOO)

248 I hope the parents of those kids are suing. Nothing will bring back their dear son and daughter, but Brown needs to pay big time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (ZeH0U)

249 Nood Somali scammer

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (xcxpd)

250 Yeah when I see a butch looking black chick as the head of any law enforcement agency I just go ahead and assume that the entire outfit is shot through with utterly incompetent DEI hires.
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And a collection of "men" who are now far more interested in hanging around until retirement than they are in fighting crime. The good cops are the first to leave under DEI.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (TN0g+)

251 Obviously, a tranny would do something like this. And of course, a Palestinian would do something like this. But maybe a tranny Palestinian is like a double negative, making it a positive, so a tranny Palestinian wouldn't do something like this?

If that defense fails, he can always use the Chewbacca Defense.

Posted by: Wally at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (R+nQW)

252 And if nt -- why not?

Answer: because this isn't an investigation. It's an anti-investigation, and attempt to FAIL TO find the killer. Because politics.
Posted by: zombie

The biggest question is why hasn't one student issued a description of the event? Not one has come forward even anonymously.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (mlg/3)

253
NOOD Salamis

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (tlC0d)

254 247 All exams were cancelled at Brown. Now students you have to keep quiet if you know what's good for you
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (LyrOO)

They call it Code Brown

Posted by: Lewiston, Maine at December 17, 2025 05:22 PM (N39Ws)

255
Every time I see one of those sign language guys/gals, my mind immediately goes to Garrett Morris on SNL. He was in the corner of the shot with his hands up at his mouth mega-phoning a shout for the hearing impaired. Always made me laugh.
Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (dIske)

SNL was awesome then!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 05:22 PM (WONhk)

256 It's strange that this guy is not running a GoFundMe to help him stand against MAGA and Trump. He'd raise a half million in a day. Instead, he's disappeared.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 17, 2025 05:22 PM (wGerL)

257 What possible reason could the university have to scrub this goatfucker’s webpage that isn’t a coverup? Serious question.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 17, 2025 05:23 PM (TfNP6)

258 208 where the ONE outsppken campus conservative was sitting, and then by sher random chance shot HER up with a fusillade of bullets, and no one else.
Posted by: zombie

Not that it matters, but the perp killed another student, a muslim apparently.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

The other fatal victim, an Uzbek engineer, was hit by a stray bullet (as were the other merely injured innocent bystanders in the wrong place at the wrong time). Only the conservative girl was hit multiple times. 100% guaranteed she was the intended target, and everyone else was just "by-catch," accidentally in the way.

Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2025 05:23 PM (oraVG)

259 Except anyone with a knowledge of physics knows that this is bullshit.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (BvPIe)

Huh?
The space telescopes are taking photos from hundreds of light years away.

You think they can’t turn the cameras around and pick up a small object on the surface?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:23 PM (6ydKt)

260 > I guess I can expect a lot more speeding tickets once they legalize AI Camera Cops.

Different use case. Speed cameras are usually high definition single frame pictures taken from a pole near ground level. They take several pictures at a known interval of time in between to demonstrate speed.

They are fantastic quality and don't need to use the method I described.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:25 PM (Yp6az)

261
Here's the guy.

https://shorturl.at/tms5w
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

We are DEVO

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 05:25 PM (pkeXY)

262 I just finished a great thriller novel, Chris Pavone's "The Expats," in which one particular chapter has a woman, the principal character, and a secret ex-CIA operator, checking out the apartment of a suspect. The view out the window is one for the ages, a sniper perch like no other, and she takes her car after leaving, sets her phone to stopwatch, counts the turns in the ridiculous European medieval streets, how many it takes to get to the M-whatever high speed at the bottom of the hill. Eight turns, 21 seconds, and it's pedal to the metal to anywhere any direction.

You could likely do the same from the Brown U site. Map the likely getaway route.

This killer was on a plane within a half hour of the killings.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 17, 2025 05:25 PM (KiBMU)

263 244 Nope. I've seen demos of 240p cameras taking blurry video of license plates and the tool resolving it to a readable single picture.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 05:18 PM (Yp6az)

Well that’s pretty awesome then.
I guess I can expect a lot more speeding tickets once they legalize AI Camera Cops.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 17, 2025 05:20 PM (6ydKt)

Well, let me ruin your day even more SpeakingOf... Current License Plate Recognition cameras/software can be mounted on a police car and can grab a license plate at 200 mph (Cop going 100 mph can grab a plate on a car going 100 mph in the other direction). This LPR system can passively scan every plate it can see while going through traffic. Add in the capability of current gen "AI" to run down database information and... well you do the math. Don't forget to pay that ticket and get a warrant out...

This isn't future, it's in the field working right now, and has been for half a decade. All that is holding much of this back are some trivial pesky laws that LEO doesn't like.

Posted by: Croaker at December 17, 2025 05:29 PM (+BcZI)

264 Yeah... In 1965 the Sr-71 Blackbird could identify eyebrows at 70K feet and at Mach 3.

Funny how protesters got Brown to turn off there camera's in August of this year. Not.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 17, 2025 05:42 PM (mNOhh)

265 That photo is an op. That's a typical white and nerdy guy you can find anywhere on a college campus.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 04:23 PM

Word.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/48J2H2D

Posted by: Weird Al Yankovic at December 17, 2025 10:49 PM (P5BPp)

"Big Fani" Willis Takes the Stand in State Inquiry Into Her Corrupt Persecution of Trump

The Georgia Senate is probing irregularities and possible corruption in the "Big Fani" Willis persecution of Trump and various Trump supporters and their lawyers.

One aspect they're probing is whether "Big Fani" ran the investigation for her personal benefit, paying a huge and hugely inappropriate salary to her secret boyfriend Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., who then used those taxpayer funds to take "Big Fani" around the world on luxury trips.

When asked about this, Big Fani did something that will SHOOK you. (Yes, I said "shook," it's a young people thing, you don't understand me or my generation. Six-seven!)

Big Fani, get this, covered up her embezzlement and self-dealing by playing -- brace yourselves for incoming Shook -- the race card.

Fani Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:

"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?" pic.twitter.com/luC6E5rORM
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 17, 2025

You may think "He must be billing for his underlings' hours a well."

Well, no... because he's billing the 160 hours per week at his personal hourly rate, which is much, much higher than a secretary's or paralegal's rate would be. Sweetdick is claiming that he, personally, worked 160 hours per week, and Big Fani is insisting to the court that he really did work that much, because he showed up for work at 7:45 am instead of 8:30 am.

And that adds up to 160 hours per week?

Oh no. Oh no no no, it doesn't.

160 hours a week. That's how much he billed, and those are the hours Big Fani paid her boyfriend for.

160 hours a week.

80 hours a week is overworking.

160 hours per week? Can someone run the math? How many hours are left over for sleeping and eating when you're billing 160 hours per week?

Update: Apparently a week only has 168 hours in it. He had eight hours in the entire week for eating, sleeping, and eliminating waste.

And also for servicing Big Fani's monster box.

So he showed up at 7:45 am to work? That doesn't add up to 160 hours per week unless he worked until 6:15 am the previous day/night/morning, taking just an hour and a half off for sleep.

Press "X" to doubt. I have never gotten a High-Energy Type A Personality Ambitious vibe off this sleepy, languid gigolo.

Big Fani also keeps claiming she doesn't review the billing records and won't even say who does have responsibility for reviewing the billing records.

She sounds like she's lying. And not just lying, but lying about knowing who would be in a position to contradict her lies. Because she doesn't want to admit that any person in her office was the person who reviewed his billing records, because that person could say, "I brought it to her attention, and she told me to shut up and pay her boyfriend."

Her claims seem, as a judge said of her previous claims of secretly paying back Sweetdick for the trips using cash she stored in her house, to have the whiff of mendacity to them.

Which is the lest objectionable whiff emanating from Big Fani.

Via Chris Queen at PJ Media.

Fani Willis' behavior today was a disgrace -- and it showed exactly why she fought so hard to dodge accountability. That's why I led the Senate to create this committee and demand the truth.
She weaponized her office to attack President Trump and Georgia conservatives, burning MILLIONS in taxpayer dollars on a political hit job for headlines.
While our Attorney General and Secretary of State repeatedly failed to act, the Georgia Senate stepped up to demand answers and make sure this blatant abuse of power never happens again.

https://t.co/QKt6PAi9o3 pic.twitter.com/XxOqz5nq04
— King Richard - Pro Americanism (@King_Anticommie) December 17, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM

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1 Six-seven!

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i hate you

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

2 Big Fani?

Yikes!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (9D3GA)

3 Thanks Ace the gas thread was starting to stink.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (kfTpm)

4 One hour of sleep per day?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (NS3dP)

5 i'll repeat what i said back then: seeing wade on the witness stand reminded me of george kingfish stevens on the witness stand

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (CWTWj)

6 A Fanny post!! All right!!

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (77rzZ)

7 Are we feeling Shookeneth enough?

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (UnA8+)

8 It's funny that her mission of persecution produced an iconic mug shot, an obvious benchmark of political persecution that assisted Trump in the election, and a personal downfall of the orchestrating individual.

Willis did more to get Trump re-elected and just about anyone involved in the campaign.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (dIske)

9
Oh yeah, Happy Birthday, Sponge.

How does 30 feel?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (Oonfw)

10 I heard some bits of her testimony on AM talk radio......she is really pi$$ed about any questions they asked and her canned response was "it's because I am black" was her go to answer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (0N4FZ)

11 Billing 160 hours in a week is like trying to turn that D into an A - no one was checking that closely and a B would have been much more believable.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (fgmuN)

12 I want nothing to do with probing Big Fani.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (viF8m)

13 I'm 29 yo. What does six-seven mean?

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (iXBFl)

14 i hate you
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Way to get him to like and subscribe, there, Kemosabe.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

15 14 i hate you
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Way to get him to like and subscribe, there, Kemosabe.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

======

He probably still doesn't know I have a channel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

16 Tumbling Dice?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:26 PM (NS3dP)

17 Who is the they who called her the N-word, and how is that investigatory?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 03:26 PM (XV/Pl)

18 His stud services go for much more than his lawyer services ... and Fannie deserves some relief from all the stress. It's in her contract (probably).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 03:26 PM (vbXSk)

19 I am shook to my core.

A black woman who rose to state office based on nothing other than she's a loudmouth DEI hire that nobody wants to argue with because of her loud mouth, foul smell, and MUH RAYCISM doesn't want to take accountability for being a stupid incompetent liar and theif.

SHOOK.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (5aZAZ)

20 Latitia James > Fanni Willis

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (rj6Yv)

21 17 Who is the they who called her the N-word, and how is that investigatory?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 17, 2025 03:26 PM (XV/Pl)

=======

In post-constitutional America, everyone called her the N-word by not praising her enough, and it's investigory because Obama faced racism in Hawaii as a child.

Racist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

22 It better be allowing light trucks in the US

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: President Trump to address to the nation at 9 PM EST.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (mlg/3)

23 "Big Fani" Willis

Lol
- brits everywhere

Posted by: Operator Error at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (NUqPs)

24 I will definitely tune in when they call Rex DeQuim to testify.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (5aZAZ)

25 "Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

--

^^^ A damned lie. And as predictable as a celebrity's "trans" kid.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (qBdHI)

26 "Update: Apparently a week only has 168 hours in it. He had eight hours in the entire week for eating, sleeping, and eliminating waste."

Ace, it's worse than that. This oozing slimecunt was talking about billable hours. That's something different than just usually "work" hours. It's not like punching a timeclock at Starbucks, where you get paid for being there even if nobody is there to buy coffee.

"Billable" hours are the time spent actually working directly on your client's matter. It's a lower number than, say, the entire time spent in the office. It's sorta the equivalent of the amount of time the Starbucks guy is actually serving customers.

I worked several 100-hour weeks (billable) back in the day. It's brutal, unhealthy, and unsustainable. It's basically every moment spent on work. 160 hours is not humanly possible.

The money he was paid was 100% getting kicked back to the slimecunt, either in cash or favors. This was a yuge fraud that should get them both disbarred, at least.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

27 on a scale of one to ten fani is a 6 out of 7

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (CWTWj)

28 $5000 TOYOTA pickups?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (NS3dP)

29
Someone mentioned House last week. Was it Ace?

The only thing I really like about House is when he'd be out somewhere in public and diagnose someone with a quick glance -- like it was his Super Power.

The waitress at a diner would bring House his coffee and he'd notice her left hand was slightly off-color, and her right eye was bloodshot. Presto, a Differential Diagnosis!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (Oonfw)

30 I hope she gets disbarred and then uses her name-recognition to knock everyone out of some state-wide primary race in the next two years to became an embarrassing laughing stock when she loses by the general by a ton.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

31 DOJ lawyer1: Boss says we have to probe Big Fani.
DOJ lawyer2: ...
DOJ lawyer1: Ok, wait...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (mlg/3)

32
House would tell the Waitress she has fuvvenhagenschleiber disease and go to the ER.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (Oonfw)

33 >>>Can someone run the math?

--

Did I read this right?

Anyway ... eight hours. Eight hours a week are left for sleeping, eating, and fulfilling his "kept" duties.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (NYInA)

34 13 I'm 29 yo. What does six-seven mean?

23skidoo

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (v3pYe)

35 26 The money he was paid was 100% getting kicked back to the slimecunt, either in cash or favors. This was a yuge fraud that should get them both disbarred, at least.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Yeah, but historic inequities and racism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

36 >And also for servicing Big Fani's monster box.

----

I saw Big Fani's Monster Box open for Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Hammerjacks in '92

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (NgqoH)

37 Don't the Grecian Formula Boys do the probing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (NS3dP)

38 24 x 7 = 168 hours in a week

He worked 160 of those, apparently.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (vbXSk)

39 What does six-seven mean?
Posted by: tbodie Lurker

I've read that it doesn't mean anything. It's something somebody started saying just because it's supposed to sound like you're one of the cool kids for saying it, but it has no meaning.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

40 160 hours?

That includes triple time when spelunking "big fani" cave.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (NUqPs)

41 29
Someone mentioned House last week. Was it Ace?

The only thing I really like about House is when he'd be out somewhere in public and diagnose someone with a quick glance -- like it was his Super Power.

The waitress at a diner would bring House his coffee and he'd notice her left hand was slightly off-color, and her right eye was bloodshot. Presto, a Differential Diagnosis!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (Oonfw)

I couldn't watch that show anymore once they added that Thirteen character.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (UnA8+)

42 by a ton.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

I see what you did there.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 03:31 PM (5aZAZ)

43 I can guarantee you that what ever charter the State Bar of Georgia is authorized under, they have a mandate to investigate and sanction attorneys who steal--and yes, over-billing is stealing-- like this.

The GA legislature needs to open up an inquiry into revoking their charter--if they refuse to police this, they have forfeited any right to operate.

Watching the leftie shitsucking fags that rule the GA Bar squirm and whine as they're forced to take Sweetdick and his Slampiece down would be pure entertainment.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 03:31 PM (HXT0k)

44 13 I'm 29 yo. What does six-seven mean?

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (iXBFl)

=======

Let me demonstrate with a live example. Second Junior is right here. I say, "six..."

Second Junior...a pause..."six-seven!"

And right back to his activity.

There. There's the meaning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

45
Left alone with Big Fat Fanny, she was such a naughty prosecutor. Heap Big Woman, you made a bad boy outta me.

Posted by: Darius Sweetdick Honeycum, Esq. at December 17, 2025 03:31 PM (w6EFb)

46 I'm 29 yo. What does six-seven mean?

--

There's actually a Wiki page on it, but it was so stinking boring, I didn't finish reading it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 03:32 PM (qBdHI)

47 I like to think Brian May had better taste. Hell, Freddie Mercury had better taste

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 03:32 PM (gKWVE)

48 If you have to ask about 6-7, then you are too old, get in the rocking chair gramps. It's something the kids say, they know what it means, iykyk, and you don't. Back in your day, you had similar nonsensical sayings that annoyed the heck out of the olds. And there's all those folks on the internet trying to tell you where it came from and they are all wrong. It didn't come from anywhere, it just came, they know what it means and you never will.

Posted by: John A. Fleming at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (nENlE)

49 Watching the leftie shitsucking fags that rule the GA Bar squirm and whine as they're forced to take Sweetdick and his Slampiece down would be pure entertainment.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Weird how I never hear Free Market Uber Alles types complain about state bars. WEIRD.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (mlg/3)

50
What's that song that goes take a load off your fanny, take a load off your fanny, and put your load, put your load...

your load...

right on me?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (Oonfw)

51 39 I've read that it doesn't mean anything. It's something somebody started saying just because it's supposed to sound like you're one of the cool kids for saying it, but it has no meaning.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

Kind of.

10-67 is the Philadelphia police code for a dead body, and a Philadelphia-based rapper referenced it in a song.

That got popular with some (non-NBA) basketball player, who invented the stupid hand gesture that kids do when they say it.

But those same kids also don't really care about the whole "dead body" thing, they just like to say it and do the hand gesture.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (UnA8+)

52 Is Ace still not feeling well? Don't get me wrong, this post definitely had its funny moments, but usually his Fanni work has me literally rolling on the floor convulsed with uncontrollable laughter.

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (sFNX2)

53 That's a sassy fat woman right there. There must have been a multitude of stuffed-crust pizza parties during those 160 hour work weeks because nobody gets that chunky on just coffee and donuts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (nljXp)

54 Laughing fanny off?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:34 PM (NS3dP)

55 "While our Attorney General and Secretary of State repeatedly failed to act..."

We should note that these people are ostensibly Republicans, but who are clearly on the other side, like the Governor as well.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 03:34 PM (zjgNU)

56
What's your favorite The Band song?

If Bread, America, and The Band got into a brawl, who'd win?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:34 PM (S0b73)

57 Comment 6-7?

Posted by: Mayor Blutarski at December 17, 2025 03:34 PM (qUkBO)

58 I am shooketh and now deceased.

Posted by: Piper at December 17, 2025 03:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

59 "So he showed up at 7:45 am to work?"

I show up at 7:15 every morning, so according to my calculations, I work upwards of 230 hrs/wk!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 17, 2025 03:35 PM (6qf1m)

60 "Ma'am, you were seen on video driving your cadillac through the front of that liquor store and absconding with three cases of *checks notes* Fireball shooters?"

"Oh yeah? Well why don't you investigate every time they called me a trashy drunk!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:35 PM (JwNbV)

61 >> 24 x 7 = 168 hours in a week

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM

---

On this site, it's important to show your work lest you are challenged.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 17, 2025 03:35 PM (NYInA)

62 If you have to ask about 6-7, then you are too old, get in the rocking chair gramps. It's something the kids say, they know what it means, iykyk, and you don't. Back in your day, you had similar nonsensical sayings that annoyed the heck out of the olds. And there's all those folks on the internet trying to tell you where it came from and they are all wrong. It didn't come from anywhere, it just came, they know what it means and you never will.
Posted by: John A. Fleming

You'd better know the way off my lawn if you know what's good for you, whippersnapper.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

63 Once I saw House tell the resident to get a retinal biopsy, and then you saw the needle being moved straight at the central cornea.

Yeah, that'll work well, for the malpractice attorney.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 03:35 PM (w9Wax)

64 I'm 29 yo. What does six-seven mean?

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (iXBFl)

More than you could ever want to know at knowyourmeme.

https://tinyurl.com/45fktj3c

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:36 PM (dK+Kv)

65 Holy shit! We be shookened!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:36 PM (g8Ew8)

66 Big Fani, get this, covered up her embezzlement and self-dealing by playing -- brace yourselves for incoming Shook -- the race card.

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

"Whitey be the guilty party here -- Guilty of NOTICING My Corruption and Fraud in The First Degree! Now you pouncin' and seizin' on a po' black chil' ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 03:37 PM (XXfwL)

67 The only thing I really like about House is when he'd be out somewhere in public and diagnose someone with a quick glance -- like it was his Super Power.
Posted by: XTC

Dr. Joseph Bell has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

68 Take taxpayer money, use it to persecute your political enemies, and pay off your friends and self deal. Win win win.

Posted by: Big Fat Fanny was such a naughty at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (M2DeZ)

69 I've read that it doesn't mean anything. It's something somebody started saying just because it's supposed to sound like you're one of the cool kids for saying it, but it has no meaning.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

Kind of.

10-67 is the Philadelphia police code for a dead body, and a Philadelphia-based rapper referenced it in a song.

That got popular with some (non-NBA) basketball player, who invented the stupid hand gesture that kids do when they say it.

But those same kids also don't really care about the whole "dead body" thing, they just like to say it and do the hand gesture.
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (UnA8+)
_____

Gayest, most effeminate hand gestures evah. I'd sooner shove my head in Fani's twat than do that gesture. How teenage boys think that's cool is beyond me.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

70 I've been at 6s and 7s before.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

71 That's some very expensive pussy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 03:39 PM (Wg6v7)

72 No 9s?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:39 PM (NS3dP)

73 "If Bread, America, and The Band got into a brawl, who'd win?"

No contest. The Band. They'd have Quinn the Eskimo harpoon their ass.

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 17, 2025 03:39 PM (sFNX2)

74 i hate you
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

The proper response is to do it right back the the children so they start to hate it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (zjgNU)

75 This doesn't even qualify as rent-seeking it's so damn ham-fisted and blatant.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (JwNbV)

76 72 No 9s?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:39 PM (NS3dP)

=====

Of course not. Because seven ate nine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

77 hmmmm...

"FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is preparing to quit the Trump administration in the next few weeks, according to a report.

Bongino has started boxing up 'knick-knacks' from his office in Washington, DC, and sending them back to Florida, where he plans to return to work as a pro-Trump broadcaster ahead of the midterm elections, sources told The New York Times."

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (g47mK)

78 Oh my. If today's sources suggesting that Brown Univ. shut down CCTV security cameras under the request of far left groups prior to the shootings, they better start limbering up the checkbook.

It, also, answers my question as to why there was such a lack of detailed information on the perpetrator.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (dIske)

79 The proper response is to do it right back the the children so they start to hate it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (zjgNU)

Hey. Hey. Hey Stevie. Sixty-seven

*does hand thing wrong*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (JwNbV)

80 ... because he showed up for work at 7:45 am instead of 8:30 am.

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

... at Big Fan's hotel room for his actual job, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (XXfwL)

81 74 i hate you
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

The proper response is to do it right back the the children so they start to hate it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (zjgNU)

=======

I don't react. It's steadily going away. They do it for attention, so I deny them the attention.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

82 Somebody called Fanni , Nickelback? Them's fighting words

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (LyrOO)

83 "And also for servicing Big Fani's monster box."

Nah Bro.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (NtVYv)

84 $5000 TOYOTA pickups?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (NS3dP)

Diesel Hilux Champ in Colombia is going for about $17,000

In f___ Colombia

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (rbvCR)

85 Fani, that's some expensive dick you got there

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (NtVYv)

86 "Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq"

This will NEVER get old...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (xcxpd)

87 I saw Sleepy Languid Gigolo open for Asleep At The Wheel at the Last Chance Saloon in '84.

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (oftw2)

88 77 hmmmm...

"FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is preparing to quit the Trump administration in the next few weeks, according to a report.

Bongino has started boxing up 'knick-knacks' from his office in Washington, DC, and sending them back to Florida, where he plans to return to work as a pro-Trump broadcaster ahead of the midterm elections, sources told The New York Times."
Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (g47mK)

Lol.

Muthafucka can't even decorate without muthafuckas sayin' he's quitting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (JwNbV)

89 78 Oh my. If today's sources suggesting that Brown Univ. shut down CCTV security cameras under the request of far left groups prior to the shootings, they better start limbering up the checkbook.

It, also, answers my question as to why there was such a lack of detailed information on the perpetrator.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (dIske)

======

That's certainly one way to burn down an entire school without lighting a literal match.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

90 $17,000 USD

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (rbvCR)

91
No contest. The Band. They'd have Quinn the Eskimo harpoon their ass.

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 17, 2025 03:39 PM

who's gonna tell him?

Posted by: Manfred Mann at December 17, 2025 03:42 PM (tljrc)

92 Honeycums big, ya ya ya
It's not small, no no no

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 17, 2025 03:42 PM (5yDGQ)

93
I know lawyers always overbill hours. But this is peak overbill, peak Fanny and peak Sweetdick rolled into one.

Posted by: scottst at December 17, 2025 03:43 PM (CSOWv)

94 Oh and recall, she is still refusing to turn over the emails and records related to and detailing her communications with the Biden's White House.

And, if she din no nuffin about how much Dreamdick was billing, you know there is a whole lot of incriminating evidence there.

Also, super hilarious, because she's illegally resisting producing those documents, she is still "furthering the conspiracy."
You know the "whole of government" one that sweeps up Biden, most of the DOJ leadership, catches the raid on Mar a Lago and all of Jack Smith's shitwork.

LOL, LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 03:43 PM (HXT0k)

95 Georgia Senate is probing Fani Willis.
Well, it would take the whole Senate to do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:43 PM (Mb4p6)

96 93
I know lawyers always overbill hours. But this is peak overbill, peak Fanny and peak Sweetdick rolled into one.

Posted by: scottst at December 17, 2025 03:43 PM (CSOWv)

=======

I just think of some dialogue from The Firm.

"If you're in your car and you think about the case, bill an hour."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

97 Kind of.

10-67 is the Philadelphia police code for a dead body, and a Philadelphia-based rapper referenced it in a song.

That got popular with some (non-NBA) basketball player, who invented the stupid hand gesture that kids do when they say it.

But those same kids also don't really care about the whole "dead body" thing, they just like to say it and do the hand gesture.
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (UnA8+)

IT’S 5150 TIME!!!

Posted by: Van Hagar at December 17, 2025 03:44 PM (rQwsY)

98 I mean i read the content and everything and I -still- can't remember this jackass's real name.

It's just D.S.H. Esq. in my brain now. Forever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:44 PM (JwNbV)

99 N-word? Nepot? Nincompoop? Ne'er-do-well? Ninny? Narcissist? Nasty? Nauseating? Nefarious? Noxious?

Posted by: Non compos mentis? at December 17, 2025 03:44 PM (TbWk/)

100 Seems there’s lots of math in this post.

Just what kind of example are setting for the Horde, Mr. Ace?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at December 17, 2025 03:45 PM (Q0WeO)

101 Remember SweetDick's phone name for her "Gorilla Grip".

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 17, 2025 03:45 PM (Da7Vv)

102 If today's sources suggesting that Brown Univ. shut down CCTV security cameras under the request of far left groups prior to the shootings, they better start limbering up the checkbook.

It, also, answers my question as to why there was such a lack of detailed information on the perpetrator.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (dIske)

======

That's certainly one way to burn down an entire school without lighting a literal match.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
========
Saw the same report. Basically a coalition of Human Rights organization asked Brown to do that this fall to prevent its student or student adjacent 'activists' mostly peaceful rioters from serving time, being deported, and being expelled for criminal actions.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:45 PM (WDjG6)

103 95 Georgia Senate is probing Fani Willis.
Well, it would take the whole Senate to do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:43 PM (Mb4p6)

forty-nine senators pulling on the rope, and one poor bastard who drew the short straw.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:45 PM (JwNbV)

104 You may think "He must be billing for his underlings' hours a well."

Well, no... because he's billing the 160 hours per week at his personal hourly rate

If these midwits are doing it... We now pause to contemplate how damned many lawyers are doing this exact same thing.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 03:45 PM (yr56r)

105 When lying it is important to know where the parameters of reality are.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (NS3dP)

106 N-word? Nepot? Nincompoop? Ne'er-do-well? Ninny? Narcissist? Nasty? Nauseating? Nefarious? Noxious?
Posted by: Non compos mentis? at December 17, 2025 03:44 PM (TbWk/)

Norbit

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (NtVYv)

107 Remember Sweetdick paid for all the trips on his credit card and then Fanny paid him back in cash, because her daddy told her to always have thousands lying around.

Except when they took day trips to Tennessee. As you do.

Posted by: scottst at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (CSOWv)

108 N-word? Nepot? Nincompoop? Ne'er-do-well? Ninny? Narcissist? Nasty? Nauseating? Nefarious? Noxious?
Posted by: Non compos mentis?

"Narwhal."

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

109 What if the reason for their crimes really IS racism? What if you and I are actually to blame for them stealing millions and millions of dollars? Then what?

I tell you I may not sleep tonight knowing someone got rich because I have the sheer brass hubris to walk around in white skin without a care in the world.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (5404P)

110 101 Remember SweetDick's phone name for her "Gorilla Grip".
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 17, 2025 03:45 PM (Da7Vv)

So racist I can't even.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (JwNbV)

111 Take a load off Fani?

No thanks.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (n5tGW)

112 I've been at 6s and 7s before.
Posted by: Bulg

Fair Moon, to thee, I sing …

Posted by: Adriane the Gilbert and Sullivan Critic . . . at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (3ZUWJ)

113 Update: Apparently a week only has 168 hours in it. He had eight hours in the entire week for eating, sleeping, and eliminating waste.

Showering is right out!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (Riz8t)

114 No contest. The Band. They'd have Quinn the Eskimo harpoon their ass.

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 17, 2025 03:39 PM

who's gonna tell him?
Posted by: Manfred Mann at December 17, 2025 03:42 PM

I know, right?

Posted by: Bob Dylan at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (ZqyU2)

115 I can't approve things from my office that I don't know about.
I don't know about those documents.
And don't call me ni_ _, whitey.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (Mb4p6)

116 a little Sly Stone there

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (Mb4p6)

117 109 What if the reason for their crimes really IS racism? What if you and I are actually to blame for them stealing millions and millions of dollars? Then what?

I tell you I may not sleep tonight knowing someone got rich because I have the sheer brass hubris to walk around in white skin without a care in the world.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (5404P)

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Which government agency can I tell I have 38 kids in the house with autism?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

118 The Marxists Judges won't convict her

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (Ia/+0)

119 "I just think of some dialogue from The Firm."

So do I...

Mystery surrounds me, and I wonder where I'm goin'
There's a cloud above me and it seems to hide the way
I'm going straight ahead, 'cos it's the only way I know
I wanna leave the past, and live just for today

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (6qf1m)

120 Chevron is up 2% now...the market thinks Trump will come away with something here it looks like

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

121 I'm all 6s and 7s and9s.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (NS3dP)

122 Sounds like they were trying to max out the billable hours, decided they needed to leave 8 hrs a day off to make it believable and subtracted the 8 hrs after multiplying by the number of days instead of before because that is what innumerate people do.

Posted by: Thatch at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (bbi0+)

123 N-word? Nepot? Nincompoop? Ne'er-do-well? Ninny? Narcissist? Nasty? Nauseating? Nefarious? Noxious?

Posted by: Non compos mentis? at December 17, 2025 03:44 PM (TbWk/)

Nogoodnik.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (dK+Kv)

124 67 The only thing I really like about House is when he'd be out somewhere in public and diagnose someone with a quick glance -- like it was his Super Power.
Posted by: XTC

Dr. Joseph Bell has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

Quality trivia right there

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (xcxpd)

125 Great post Ace. I can't stop laughing.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

126 I'm told in the UK "fannie" means pussy (the vagina kind, not the kitty kind).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 03:48 PM (vbXSk)

127 Fanni strikes me as a nagger.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 03:48 PM (Wg6v7)

128 "Narwhal."
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

But narwhals are awesome. They're the unicorns of the sea! They stop Cthulhu eating ye!

Posted by: Inventors of the shish kebab at December 17, 2025 03:48 PM (TbWk/)

129 Which government agency can I tell I have 38 kids in the house with autism?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

Animal Control?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:48 PM (JwNbV)

130 That's a nice oil tanker you've got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:49 PM (NS3dP)

131 If today's sources suggesting that Brown Univ. shut down CCTV security cameras under the request of far left groups prior to the shootings, they better start limbering up the checkbook.

So Brown has a shooter targeting its students on the loose and not a care in the world.

This only make sense if you assume they are pretty sure who did it and more specifically why.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

132 The bright side to all of this is that her behavior and excuse-making is so transparently just a load of manure that it reflects very badly on those who are STILL trying to pull the race card in 2025.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 03:49 PM (Riz8t)

133 I'm told in the UK "fannie" means pussy (the vagina kind, not the kitty kind).
Posted by: illiniwek

Heh. I wonder if that's what Mrs. Slocumbe named her cat.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)

134 Great post Ace. I can't stop laughing.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

Nice try. Not falling for it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)

135 Oh my. If today's sources suggesting that Brown Univ. shut down CCTV security cameras under the request of far left groups prior to the shootings, they better start limbering up the checkbook.

It, also, answers my question as to why there was such a lack of detailed information on the perpetrator.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (dIske)

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That's certainly one way to burn down an entire school without lighting a literal match.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)
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I expect the first lawsuits to drop by the end of the year

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

136 132 The bright side to all of this is that her behavior and excuse-making is so transparently just a load of manure that it reflects very badly on those who are STILL trying to pull the race card in 2025.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 03:49 PM (Riz8t)

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She's going to win a statewide Democrat primary within the next two years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

137 Animal Control?

Sorry unless you have a cute squirrel we can kill we aren't the right agency. I mean we can shoot a couple of your children by accident too, but there better be a pet getting a lot of likes on tiktok or we aren't coming

Posted by: Animal Control at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (sKqQm)

138 Where does the name "Fannie" come from, anyway? Is it from "Frances?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

139 So Brown has a shooter targeting its students on the loose and not a care in the world.

Insty says they're now looking for TWO suspects.

https://is.gd/4O2epF

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (Riz8t)

140 ======

That's certainly one way to burn down an entire school without lighting a literal match.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Saw the same report. Basically a coalition of Human Rights organization asked Brown to do that this fall to prevent its student or student adjacent 'activists' mostly peaceful rioters from serving time, being deported, and being expelled for criminal actions.
Posted by: whig
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Sounds like a conspiracy to commit felony.
Or conspiracy to assassanate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (Mb4p6)

141 This thread cries out for musical accompaniment, and it's 100% on-topic, too:

https://youtu.be/AZNGkOhoyRI

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (npFr7)

142 If these midwits are doing it... We now pause to contemplate how damned many lawyers are doing this exact same thing.
Posted by: t-bird
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And every other contractor that is hired for political reasons, not competence.

That is the Deep State, a web of interconnected individuals that are steadily defrauding and indebting our children. And they use their welfare pets as voters and ballots to allow them to attain generational wealth on the backs of the poor taxpayer struggling to keep their head above the waterline from drowning in the pseudo economy Deep Staters have made.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:51 PM (WDjG6)

143 Where does the name "Fannie" come from, anyway? Is it from "Frances?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

Stefannie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:51 PM (dK+Kv)

144 Hey. Hey. Hey Stevie. Sixty-seven

*does hand thing wrong*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (JwNbV)

This man understands. But you must do the hand thing wrong on purpose.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 03:51 PM (zjgNU)

145 She's going to win a statewide Democrat primary within the next two years.

We shall see.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks we shall see at December 17, 2025 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

146 And also for servicing Big Fani's monster box.

The. Doomsday. Machine.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at December 17, 2025 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

147 Fani Willis and Candace Owens should do a podcast
they would get a million hits, easy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (Mb4p6)

148 145 We shall see.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks we shall see at December 17, 2025 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

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Me?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

149
Lmao.

You can't make this up.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (3ek7K)

150 BTW, fannie means the opposite side in British English.

Just something to keep in mind if you have a chat with a Brit...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

151 The odds on the Dems taking the House care now at 3 to 1

Bring butter Trump is toast

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (0G2Xo)

152 N-word? Nepot? Nincompoop? Ne'er-do-well? Ninny? Narcissist? Nasty? Nauseating? Nefarious? Noxious?

Fani = Nalgas
Big Fani = Big Nalgas

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (yr56r)

153 Which government agency can I tell I have 38 kids in the house with autism?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

You could tell any one of them you wanted. I think the one that gives you money is the Social Security Administration though. And perhaps your state analog of health and human services and/or DCFS.

Posted by: USDA probably doesn't care at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (TbWk/)

154 150 BTW, fannie means the opposite side in British English.

Just something to keep in mind if you have a chat with a Brit...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

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"Remember, when you get to America, when they mention your fanny, they're talking about your bum, not your miiiinge..."
-The Office UK

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

155 Then: Build Back Better

Now: Bring Butter

Soon: REEEE

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

156
Go rilla Grip

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:53 PM (Mb4p6)

157 Echo echo echo.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:53 PM (NS3dP)

158 Where does the name "Fannie" come from, anyway? Is it from "Frances?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

Stefannie.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

According to Wiki, it can be a form of either "Frances" or "Stephanie."

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:53 PM (77rzZ)

159 Kung Fu Grip > Gorilla Grip

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

160 when I was a yute, I did a report on the Narwhal.

I believe it was to be pronounced "nar-whale" that the missing "e" was implied, a quirk of spelling.

Doubling my embarrassment was that my teacher was from Norway and knew well the proper pronunciation.

When I am King, I will add the "e" as is good and proper.

You will learn to love my terrible but fair rule.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 03:54 PM (HXT0k)

161 426 From CTH,

"As originally reported in August 2025 , a group of far-left human rights advocates sent a letter to 150 U.S. colleges and universities asking them to disable the CCTV systems to protect “free expression and academic freedom across the country,” because “the Trump administration has launched an aggressive campaign against US academic institutions.”

The motive for the request to disable CCTV systems as stated: “Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists’ right to anonymity––a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation.”

The letter from ‘Fight For The Future‘ (August, 2025) came after an earlier campaign by the same group seeking to stop the use of facial recognition cameras on college campuses. "

Source: Fightforthefuture dot org.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6)

162 OT: Pentatonix is the fastest way to get into the Christmas spirit...I love acapella done well...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 03:55 PM (tOcjL)

163 The Austrian Imperial Treasury has a "unicorn horn" in it.

Its really a narwhal horn so I'm guessing some Scandi or Scot had a lot of fun selling it to them...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

164 Where does the name "Fannie" come from, anyway? Is it from "Frances?"

--

I looked up Fannie Flagg (of the large bazoombas always joked about on Match Game), but to no avail. Her real name is Patricia Neal, changed because of the other Patricia Neal already in the biz.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 03:55 PM (qBdHI)

165 From the link at #139:
Speculation has, of course, been running rampant across the Internet as the manhunt is on its fifth day without any clear information released on the gunman. Some have pointed to the fact that Brown University wiped pages related to “Palestinian refugee” student Mustapha Kharbouch, but there is no clear evidence as to whether he was either the shooter or the second person of interest in the shooting. It is not clear if the authorities have made meaningful progress on the case at all.

One wonders why, if Mustapha Kharbouch isn't the shooter, he hasn't come forward to deny his involvement.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

166 You don't understand. All her life Willis was told she deserves more because she had to overcome being black. Now she is being persecuted for taking more. No wonder she is lashing out. /partially sarc I expect my 2nd sentence is 100% accurate.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 17, 2025 03:55 PM (hhkIi)

167 154 150 BTW, fannie means the opposite side in British English.

Just something to keep in mind if you have a chat with a Brit...

Posted by: 18-1
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Brit???

Short, fat, Fannie,
She built sweet
She got everything Unca John needs
Oh, baby, oh, oh, baby
Gonna have some fun tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:56 PM (Mb4p6)

168 Is the We Shall See guy the Zen Master? Asking for Charlie Wilson.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 17, 2025 03:56 PM (wBaIH)

169 "If these midwits are doing it... We now pause to contemplate how damned many lawyers are doing this exact same thing."

I recall some debate (somewhere on the internet) about whether if a lawyer is billing one client for his flight time to get to a case, can he simultaneously bill a second client if he works on their case on the plane.

Not sure what the real answer, but it probably happens a lot. Mechanics often get paid a certain number of hours at their standard rate for particular jobs, but they usually can get the job done in half that time.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 03:56 PM (vbXSk)

170 People lie in several different modes. Big Tank is taking the angry and righteously indignant liar 's mode and throwing in the N word for added effect. He was a leader in the office!

Posted by: Cheri at December 17, 2025 03:56 PM (FGQ5G)

171 165 From the link at #139:
Speculation has, of course, been running rampant across the Internet as the manhunt is on its fifth day without any clear information released on the gunman. Some have pointed to the fact that Brown University wiped pages related to “Palestinian refugee” student Mustapha Kharbouch, but there is no clear evidence as to whether he was either the shooter or the second person of interest in the shooting. It is not clear if the authorities have made meaningful progress on the case at all.

One wonders why, if Mustapha Kharbouch isn't the shooter, he hasn't come forward to deny his involvement.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

Is he still amongst the living himself - aka, has he posted or been seen anywhere since the day of the shooting?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 03:56 PM (tOcjL)

172 Poor baby.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 17, 2025 03:57 PM (oAA72)

173 Me?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Probably me. LOL. I consider hot takes as usually wide of the mark and I prefer caring more when more information is known to make a better judgment.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:57 PM (WDjG6)

174 I looked up Fannie Flagg (of the large bazoombas always joked about on Match Game), but to no avail. Her real name is Patricia Neal, changed because of the other Patricia Neal already in the biz.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Who was the Fannie that Wilbur Mills got caught in the fountain with?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

175 Someone mentioned House last week. Was it Ace?

The only thing I really like about House is when he'd be out somewhere in public and diagnose someone with a quick glance -- like it was his Super Power.

The waitress at a diner would bring House his coffee and he'd notice her left hand was slightly off-color, and her right eye was bloodshot. Presto, a Differential Diagnosis!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:28 PM (Oonfw)
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Sounds like it could be lupus.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 17, 2025 03:57 PM (ZiWmd)

176 How many muzzies does Rhode Island have?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM (Wg6v7)

177
One wonders why, if Mustapha Kharbouch isn't the shooter, he hasn't come forward to deny his involvement.

Posted by: Archimedes
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Let's just keep logic and civic duty out of this. OK?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM (Mb4p6)

178 FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is preparing to quit the Trump administration in the next few weeks, according to a report.

Bongino has started boxing up 'knick-knacks' from his office in Washington, DC, and sending them back to Florida, where he plans to return to work as a pro-Trump broadcaster ahead of the midterm elections, sources told The New York Times."
Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (g47mK)

And of course they're anonymous sources. 6,7

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM (g8Ew8)

179 From the link at #139:
Speculation has, of course, been running rampant across the Internet as the manhunt is on its fifth day without any clear information released on the gunman. Some have pointed to the fact that Brown University wiped pages related to “Palestinian refugee” student Mustapha Kharbouch, but there is no clear evidence as to whether he was either the shooter or the second person of interest in the shooting. It is not clear if the authorities have made meaningful progress on the case at all.

One wonders why, if Mustapha Kharbouch isn't the shooter, he hasn't come forward to deny his involvement.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 03:55 PM (Riz8t)
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Has anyone talked to him at all? Anyone tried to contact him? It's like the guy doesn't exist. The whole thing is so weird that to me that's the best evidence that this was indeed a Muslim terror attack (albeit probably botched in the number of deaths it caused).

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

180 You will learn to love my terrible but fair rule.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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From looking at current governments around the world, we could do far worse.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM (WDjG6)

181 122 Sounds like they were trying to max out the billable hours, decided they needed to leave 8 hrs a day off to make it believable and subtracted the 8 hrs after multiplying by the number of days instead of before because that is what innumerate people do.
Posted by: Thatch at December 17, 2025 03:47 PM (bbi0+)

Even their criminality is incompetent, shocking.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 17, 2025 03:59 PM (F5iTi)

182 "Narwhal" means "corpse whale." From its pale coloring.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

183 Then : in The Departed Jack Nicholson "
they just don't stop having the Mafia in Providence"
Now : "they just don't stop having jihadis and incompetent cops in Providence"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 03:59 PM (LyrOO)

184
180 You will learn to love my terrible but fair rule.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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From looking at current governments around the world, we could do far worse.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM (WDjG6)

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The narhwale policy is fine and all, but will he do immigration by hotness levels?

That's what I'm really looking for in a tyrannical ruler.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

185 That's a nice oil tanker you've got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:49 PM (NS3dP)

Trump said he gave it to them /

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 17, 2025 03:59 PM (NtVYv)

186 Some have pointed to the fact that Brown University wiped pages related to “Palestinian refugee” student Mustapha Kharbouch, but there is no clear evidence as to whether he was either the shooter or the second person of interest in the shooting.

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The wiping of his pages is most curious.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 04:00 PM (qBdHI)

187 That's a nice oil tanker you've got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:49 PM (NS3dP)

Trump said he gave it to them /
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 17, 2025 03:59 PM (NtVYv)

Trump said they gave it to him /

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 17, 2025 04:00 PM (NtVYv)

188 Who was the Fannie that Wilbur Mills got caught in the fountain with?
Posted by: Bulg
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Fannie Foxe from memory and it was the Tidal Basin with old Thomas Jefferson looking on.

Argentinian stripper.

Poor Wilbur became an alcoholic and his life went downhill after that. Died shortly after retiring for his health.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 04:00 PM (WDjG6)

189
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is preparing to quit the Trump administration in the next few weeks, according to a report.

Bongino has started boxing up 'knick-knacks' from his office in Washington, DC, and sending them back to Florida, where he plans to return to work as a pro-Trump broadcaster ahead of the midterm elections, sources told The New York Times."
Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (g47mK)

And of course they're anonymous sources. 6,7

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM

the "Bongino is leaving" rumor is on about a five week cycle

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 17, 2025 04:00 PM (tljrc)

190 @174:Fannie Foxe

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 04:01 PM (LyrOO)

191 Can't we ever have a crime in this country where the evidence is straightforward, and there's no gaslighting or narrative-crafting going on?

I'm so sick of this crap.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

192 170 People lie in several different modes. Big Tank is taking the angry and righteously indignant liar 's mode and throwing in the N word for added effect. He was a leader in the office!
Posted by: Cheri at December 17, 2025 03:56 PM

I'd be willing to bet that if you called her on her lies to her face with proof, like the math isn't mathing, she'd immediately go into cry mode and play victim.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 17, 2025 04:01 PM (F5iTi)

193 The narhwale policy is fine and all, but will he do immigration by hotness levels?

That's what I'm really looking for in a tyrannical ruler.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Are the king interviews scheduled for today? I forgot my notes for questions to ask applicants.

I guess I shoulda read my email.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 04:02 PM (WDjG6)

194 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 04:02 PM (0G2Xo)

195 Thanks for the Fannie Foxe answer. I ALWAYS get her mixed up with Fannie Flagg.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)

196 Oh no she di’n’t.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:02 PM (udlma)

197
to protect “free expression and academic freedom across the country,” because “the Trump administration...

Same people who RIOT when TPUSA or anyone else on our side shows up to speak.

FUCK YOU.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:02 PM (DJUFe)

198 193 Are the king interviews scheduled for today? I forgot my notes for questions to ask applicants.

I guess I shoulda read my email.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 04:02 PM (WDjG6)

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I got you.

People's, whig would like to know your opinion on using copper as a means of exchange.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

199 The Islamic conquest of western civilization continues...

Fresh Scene @Freshscenez

In the Netherlands, police officers are now being forced to visit mosques and take classes on Islam and the Quran to learn how to deal with “Islamophobia.”

This is madness.

X video: https://bit.ly/3Y2YaSx

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 04:03 PM (P5BPp)

200
The narhwale policy is fine and all, but will he do immigration by hotness levels?

That's what I'm really looking for in a tyrannical ruler.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
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Of course.
But no tortas.
Ok, a few, 'cause some of the brothers are torta lovers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 04:03 PM (HXT0k)

201 191 Can't we ever have a crime in this country where the evidence is straightforward, and there's no gaslighting or narrative-crafting going on?

I'm so sick of this crap.
Posted by: Bulg
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Go back to common law crimes instead of statutes. Course, the penalty was seldom incarceration--either it was death for major crimes or some combination of fines, physical punishment, etc. for more minor crimes or when mercy was given for a major offense.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 04:03 PM (WDjG6)

202 Look, he was clearly "on the clock" whenever they were together.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (gDhA9)

203 Oh cute all of a sudden leftists are concerned that BIG OIL is not profitable.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (udlma)

204 OT for this thread
Been out and about today and saw the article about rent falling because of deportations...Ft. Bend County is suburban SW Houston. They are closing 7 elementary schools in that district.

Posted by: DanMan at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (8uzBS)

205 200 Of course.
But no tortas.
Ok, a few, 'cause some of the brothers are torta lovers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 04:03 PM (HXT0k)

======

You've lost my vote.

You rule with an iron fist, or you rule by the whims of the people.

Not nearly tyrannical enough.

Now, that MPPPP guy, he's got ideas I can get behind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

206
"free expression" = assaulting jews and non-leftists

"academic freedom" = except non-leftists

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (DJUFe)

207 "FANNY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
2 meanings: slang 1. vulgar, British the female genitals 2. mainly US and Canadian the buttocks"

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 04:05 PM (vbXSk)

208 the "Bongino is leaving" rumor is on about a five week cycle
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 17, 2025 04:00 PM (tljrc)

Have you heard of the "six week cycle" for big news items? It goes that the FBI has a cycle of having something big, claimed that it was "encouraging" people to do something big and fatal, on a six week cycle to keep the agency in the news and the perceived need for increased funding in front of everyone.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 04:05 PM (rbvCR)

209 203 Oh cute all of a sudden leftists are concerned that BIG OIL is not profitable.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (udlma)

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Don't make fun of him.

He just likes eating his shit pebbles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

210 We would just like to point out that our coach, to the best of our knowledge, did not have a relationship with Big Fani

Posted by: University of Michigan Athletic Department at December 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Ags7X)

211 People's, whig would like to know your opinion on using copper as a means of exchange.
---
Yes, but not as coins only as fraction of ingot.

Thus, tenth-ingot, fiddy-ingot, hunnert-ingot, etc.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 04:06 PM (HXT0k)

212 210 We would just like to point out that our coach, to the best of our knowledge, did not have a relationship with Big Fani
Posted by: University of Michigan Athletic Department at December 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Ags7X)

Ohio U will also be denying things soon as their coach was also fire FOR cause today, even though he had a great year this year...

Note Ohio U, not OSU...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:06 PM (tOcjL)

213 Per NY Post Swalwell has missed the most votes of any congressman, including Raul Grivalja who died in March. Losing Gang Fang really knocked the guy for a loop

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 04:07 PM (LyrOO)

214 We would just like to point out that our coach, to the best of our knowledge, did not have a relationship with Big Fani
Posted by: University of Michigan Athletic Department at December 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Ags7X)
______

He like da cracker chicks ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 04:07 PM (iFTx/)

215 Fannie comes from Big Ass

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:07 PM (Ia/+0)

216 People forget - Nathan Wade was her teacher in college.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 04:08 PM (gDhA9)

217 THE OSU!!!

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

218 158 According to Wiki, it can be a form of either "Frances" or "Stephanie."
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:53 PM (77rzZ)

Not from "Jeffanie"?

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 04:08 PM (UnA8+)

219 Shes fuckin GROSS

This is the results of you follow DEI to its logical end.

Two Dei retards who were too stupid to be in a position they were in, engaged in illegal activity that only those with the special DEI stupid would engage in and think they wouldn't get caught.

Hope that badonkadont was worth it retard

Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 17, 2025 04:08 PM (61TgR)

220 Mike Lawler R-Shithead, leads 3 other rino scum to break ranks with Republican leadership and vote yes on a discharge petition that extends Obamacare subsidies for three years.

The entire caucus just presented their alternative plan and this jackass tries to grandstand and show his love for Democrats garbage.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 04:08 PM (Qgg5f)

221 Fannie Foxe from memory and it was the Tidal Basin with old Thomas Jefferson looking on.

Argentinian stripper.

Poor Wilbur became an alcoholic and his life went downhill after that. Died shortly after retiring for his health.
Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 04:00 PM (WDjG6)

Fanne died in Florida, aged 84, in 2021. How time flies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:09 PM (npFr7)

222 220 Mike Lawler R-Shithead, leads 3 other rino scum to break ranks with Republican leadership and vote yes on a discharge petition that extends Obamacare subsidies for three years.

The entire caucus just presented their alternative plan and this jackass tries to grandstand and show his love for Democrats garbage.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 04:08 PM (Qgg5f)

=======

The Senate already voted this down, so this was probably allowed by leadership to give them whatever talking point back home since the vote is meaningless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

223 220 Mike Lawler R-Shithead, leads 3 other rino scum to break ranks with Republican leadership and vote yes on a discharge petition that extends Obamacare subsidies for three years.

The entire caucus just presented their alternative plan and this jackass tries to grandstand and show his love for Democrats garbage.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 04:08 PM (Qgg5f)

Yes, Johnson has said that vote won't be scheduled til Jan, effectively making it mooter than it already is...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:09 PM (tOcjL)

224

That cooter probably has a stench like a fish market in the back bay at low tide with filled garbage cans.

Posted by: E Buzz at December 17, 2025 04:09 PM (UxsaJ)

225 221 Fanne died in Florida, aged 84, in 2021. How time flies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:09 PM (npFr7)

Time flies like an arrow.

Fruit flies like a banana.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 04:10 PM (UnA8+)

226 222 220 Mike Lawler R-Shithead, leads 3 other rino scum to break ranks with Republican leadership and vote yes on a discharge petition that extends Obamacare subsidies for three years.

The entire caucus just presented their alternative plan and this jackass tries to grandstand and show his love for Democrats garbage.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 04:08 PM (Qgg5f)

=======

The Senate already voted this down, so this was probably allowed by leadership to give them whatever talking point back home since the vote is meaningless.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

Nah, the 4 stabbed Johnson with a discharge petition...thus, Johnson said the vote can happen...in January...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:10 PM (tOcjL)

227 Wade was still married to his wife when he started his new...job.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 04:10 PM (gDhA9)

228 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:09 PM (npFr7)

How's the weather now? Still snowing like gangbusters?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:10 PM (77rzZ)

229 What a loathsome piece of garbage that Lawler jerk is.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 04:10 PM (Qgg5f)

230 Other than this hearing, R’s still wont do shit. But they got on cameras, thats all that is important.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 17, 2025 04:10 PM (eqMW0)

231 Look, he was clearly "on the clock" whenever they were together.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (gDhA9)

Or she was on the cock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:11 PM (npFr7)

232 Time flies like an arrow.

Fruit flies like a banana.
Posted by: XTC

What flies like a neon-green dildo?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

233 That cooter probably has a stench like a fish market in the back bay at low tide with filled garbage cans.

Posted by: E Buzz at December

This is offensive to fish markets in the back bay at low tide with filled garbage cans.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 04:11 PM (MGB5H)

234 Lawyer is running in a district that went over 55% for Trump.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 17, 2025 04:11 PM (Qgg5f)

235 As mentioned before by me, Johnson is doing a Herculean job leading effectively the minority as a majority...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 04:11 PM (tOcjL)

236
50
What's that song that goes take a load off your fanny, take a load off your fanny, and put your load, put your load...

your load...

right on me?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (Oonfw)

The Load by The Band

I believe you are somewhat misquoting either for humorous effect or you're over29 like me.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 04:12 PM (QGaXH)

237 Any attorney who bills 160 hours a week should be disbarred. It's not the chiseling that I mind so much, as the laziness of it, the lack of intellect. He's demonstrated that he's not a competent enough crook to be a member of the bar.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 04:12 PM (mFz+I)

238 Big Fani did something that will SHOOK you.

She fell on her ass.

It measured 6.7 on the Richter scale.

Posted by: Paul at December 17, 2025 04:13 PM (1kWMS)

239 Providence police release a photo of a new dude. This one is also of course grainy as F.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 04:13 PM (n5tGW)

240 The gop needs a 20 seat majority to have the same effect of a 1 seat Dem Majority. Dems stick together. But there will always be rino traitorous vermin to side with the Ds.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:13 PM (udlma)

241 No contest. The Band. They'd have Quinn the Eskimo harpoon their ass.

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 17, 2025 03:39 PM

who's gonna tell him?
Posted by: Manfred Mann
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I laughed when I read it the first time. Also, the band America is far more listenable to me than either Bread or The Band. And The Band and Grateful Dead are just mysteries to me--I don't understand why anyone ever gave either of them 10 minutes of their time. There's no "adventure" in either band--just boring-ass musicians playing boring-ass chords and zero overdrive or distortion in any of the guitars that seem to just meander all over the place.

But 6-7.

Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 04:14 PM (TN0g+)

242 How's the weather now? Still snowing like gangbusters?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:10 PM (77rzZ)

Sure is. And drifting, too. Zero point in trying clear it as longs as it continues to storm.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:14 PM (npFr7)

243 Maybe Trump could use the tankers of confiscated oil to refill our petroleum reserves.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 04:15 PM (vbXSk)

244 224

That cooter probably has a stench like a fish market in the back bay at low tide with filled garbage cans.

Posted by: E Buzz
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Ribald poetry worthy of ole Ben Franklin.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 04:15 PM (WDjG6)

245 @236 The Weight by The Band. Great song

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 04:15 PM (LyrOO)

246 Why are they allowed to get away with teft of this magnitude? It's not like they are Somalian.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 17, 2025 04:15 PM (qZdIZ)

247 Any attorney who bills 160 hours a week should be disbarred. It's not the chiseling that I mind so much, as the laziness of it, the lack of intellect. He's demonstrated that he's not a competent enough crook to be a member of the bar.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 04:12 PM (mFz+I)

To be fair, he’s black and in Atlanta. He assumed that nobody would ever check or care. 99/100 times he would have been correct with the assumption.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:15 PM (udlma)

248 The Democrats have figured out a way to increase the percentage of gay males. They're putting out lesbian porn between Fani Willis and Leticia James.

Posted by: Paul at December 17, 2025 04:15 PM (1kWMS)

249 Sure is. And drifting, too. Zero point in trying clear it as longs as it continues to storm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Would've thought you'd be in Arizona by now. Don't go there in the winter?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

250 Theft even.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 17, 2025 04:16 PM (qZdIZ)

251 Legalinsurrection.com Trump confirms Bongino is leaving the FBI

Wonder if I can get that job

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:16 PM (Ia/+0)

252 233 That cooter probably has a stench like a fish market in the back bay at low tide with filled garbage cans.

Posted by: E Buzz at December

This is offensive to fish markets in the back bay at low tide with filled garbage cans.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 04:11 PM (MGB5H)

Would you prefer "Maybe she should shake the scarabs out of her hoo-hah and get back in her sarcophagus"?

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 04:17 PM (UnA8+)

253 The Democrats have figured out a way to increase the percentage of gay males. They're putting out lesbian porn between Fani Willis and Leticia James.
Posted by: Paul

Add Tank Abrams for a delightful threesome!

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

254 That cooter probably has a stench like a fish market in the back bay at low tide with filled garbage cans.
---
that was recently mopped with vinegar and sweating three weeks into a garbageman strike.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 04:17 PM (HXT0k)

255 He's demonstrated that he's not a competent enough crook to be a member of the bar.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 04:12 PM (mFz+I)

Gotta have standards.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 04:17 PM (dK+Kv)

256 251 Legalinsurrection.com Trump confirms Bongino is leaving the FBI

Wonder if I can get that job
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:16 PM (Ia/+0)

I wonder why he's a lazy grifting quitter?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 04:18 PM (xcxpd)

257 Would've thought you'd be in Arizona by now. Don't go there in the winter?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

I have some chores to do before I leave. Soon, I hope.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 04:18 PM (npFr7)

258 Any attorney who bills 160 hours a week should be disbarred. It's not the chiseling that I mind so much, as the laziness of it, the lack of intellect. He's demonstrated that he's not a competent enough crook to be a member of the bar.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 04:12 PM (mFz+I)

To be fair, he’s black and in Atlanta. He assumed that nobody would ever check or care. 99/100 times he would have been correct with the assumption.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:15 PM

I honestly don't know why he didn't bill 200 hours a week, she was going to pay it no matter what he billed. It wasn't like anyone was checking or anything as she claimed in her testimony.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 04:18 PM (0N4FZ)

259 Why do the constantly offended have that same blap dabba dap blap blap way of talking?

Tell us you're retarded and entitled with saying those words

Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 17, 2025 04:18 PM (hS5Ze)

260 256 I wonder why he's a lazy grifting quitter?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 04:18 PM (xcxpd)

Something, something, something, Starbucks.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 04:19 PM (UnA8+)

261 Lawler will have a rough reelection fight. His district is just n of NYC and while Trump won it with 55% he's not on the ballot. Lawler beat the former DNC head , a gay guy who pissed off his constituents by not paying attention to them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 04:19 PM (LyrOO)

262 235 As mentioned before by me, Johnson is doing a Herculean job leading effectively the minority as a majority...
Posted by: Nova Local
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He's won some critical votes and lost a few via discharge petitions that don't really mean crap. Like the Epstein resolution or this current one.

Thune with a slightly larger margin is better than McConnell but that is not saying much. Senate needs to recess to block all the stupid blue slip crap that the Dems are pulling to delay votes on Trump's peeps taking office.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 04:19 PM (WDjG6)

263 Did I read this right?

Anyway ... eight hours. Eight hours a week are left for sleeping, eating, and fulfilling his "kept" duties.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (NYInA)

No, 8 hours to scour his junk in an atomic pile.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 04:20 PM (snZF9)

264 I don't know why no one on the GA panel didn't play 2 Live Crew "Me So Horny" when she entered the room ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 04:20 PM (HXT0k)

265 253 The Democrats have figured out a way to increase the percentage of gay males. They're putting out lesbian porn between Fani Willis and Leticia James.
Posted by: Paul

Add Tank Abrams for a delightful threesome!
Posted by: Bulg
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The East Coast may be submerged from that after it flips over.

Posted by: Hank Johnson, D-GA at December 17, 2025 04:21 PM (WDjG6)

266 I don't like quittets much

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:21 PM (Ia/+0)

267 Per NY Post Swalwell has missed the most votes of any congressman, including Raul Grivalja who died in March.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 04:07 PM (LyrOO)

That's hardly a fair comparison. Dead Democrats are among the most prolific voters in the country.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 04:21 PM (5404P)

268
New one

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 04:21 PM (3ek7K)

269 That cooter probably has a stench like a fish market in the back bay at low tide with filled garbage cans.
---
that was recently mopped with vinegar and sweating three weeks into a garbageman strike.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
......

Sweetdick has gone sour. Better go see a doctor about that shit.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 04:22 PM (v0R5T)

270 had some downtime, so watched the video above. I actually did laugh out loud. that was good.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 04:22 PM (n5tGW)

271 This 160 hour thing is commonplace everywhere. All govt is corrupt from top to bottom. Fed, state, county, city. Universities, school
Boards, utility commissions. Everyone is stealing the taxpayer blind.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 04:23 PM (udlma)

272 141 This thread cries out for musical accompaniment, and it's 100% on-topic, too:

https://youtu.be/AZNGkOhoyRI
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 03:50 PM (npFr7)

Thanks a lot AOP! Now that's gonna show up in my U-Tube feed.....LOLOL

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 04:24 PM (QGaXH)

273
Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq

At the risk of sounding like a total brown-nose (again), Teh Ewok uses his tongue better than a $20 whore.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 04:24 PM (y9nCu)

274 264 I don't know why no one on the GA panel didn't play 2 Live Crew "Me So Horny" when she entered the room ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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The key here is Burt Jones, LT Gov of the Senate made this hearing happen. Kemp and his cowardly pos AG Chris Carr have not done jack shit nor has the Association of Georgia Prosecutors or GA Bar.

Burt is one of the victims of Fani's Dem crusade and is running for Governor of GA against Ratshitburger SoS Rino who allowed the Big Cheat and Cowardly Chris Carr who got the office in a weird fluke in the first place and has done both jackshit as the AG for the last 10 years after being appointed by Dirty Deal (former GA gov before Kemp) to fill the vacancy.

Summary in GA for 2026, Vote for Burt, not the Ratshitburger or the Coward.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 04:25 PM (WDjG6)

275 Why are they allowed to get away with teft of this magnitude? It's not like they are Somalian.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 17, 2025 04:15 PM (qZdIZ)

From what I understand, the Somalis were allowed to continue in graft because they were engaged in voter fraud at a massive scale, in at least three states.

Maybe Fannie and her beau were engaged in the same sort of crime.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 04:26 PM (rbvCR)

276 He was 'on call, right?

Lol. Just this week a supervisor at the old job got her ass fired for overbilling because she was claiming that even though she was not there for 9 out of 10 hours she billed, she was 'on call.'

Fucking retards. I always told everyone I ever trained 'never claim ANY time you are not onsite.' If working from home bill 25% of your overall time 'working' on something. Is your integrity wrth $100? 1000?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (zZu0s)

277 play 2 Live Crew "Me So Horny" when she entered the room ....

That's some funny shit right there.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 17, 2025 04:27 PM (Kt19C)

278 The more corruption allowed gets you more corruption

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:29 PM (Ia/+0)

279 Keep saying we are in the Looting the country phase of the fall of the empire

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 04:30 PM (Ia/+0)

280 199 The Islamic conquest of western civilization continues...

Fresh Scene @Freshscenez

In the Netherlands, police officers are now being forced to visit mosques and take classes on Islam and the Quran to learn how to deal with “Islamophobia.”

This is madness.

X video: https://bit.ly/3Y2YaSx
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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They are waiting for the Boomers to die off.
Then they know they've got you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 04:35 PM (Mb4p6)

281 If that Quon video is real, it's hilarious.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 17, 2025 04:44 PM (a/dOO)

282 This whole Witch Hunt is Backfiring on the Dems and the UN/CFR/Soros/Globalists

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 17, 2025 06:15 PM (wGqjj)

283

in one thousand years
"darrius sweetdick honeycum esq"
will STILL be funny
it NEVER gets old

Posted by: sound awake at December 17, 2025 06:43 PM (xXV3t)

284 She was called "the n-word" more by other blacks than ahe will ever be by whites.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 17, 2025 07:01 PM (yxbU4)

Trump Announces Total Blockade On All Sanctioned Venezuelan Oil Tankers; Demands Venezuela Return "All Lands, Oil, and all other Assets they previously stole from us"

I sense that Maduro's Minister of Propaganda will get a fawning interview on Tucker Carlson's show in the next couple of weeks.

Note that only some of Venezuela's tankers have been sanctioned for carrying banned Iranian oil. So this is not a blockade of all of their oil tankers.

It is nevertheless an escalation.

The Walls, CNN might say, are Closing In on Maduro.

Related: Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.

The price of gas is now at a five year low -- it had previously been at a four year low.

Now it's at its lowest level not just since covid, but since Trump's pre-covid final year of term one.

Americans are heading into Christmas with a financial break at the pump that hasn't been seen in years, as gas prices are projected to hit their lowest Christmas Day average since 2020 -- the final full year of President Trump's first term. The White House credits Trump's renewed focus on domestic energy production and regulatory restraint for the drop, arguing the contrast with the Biden years could not be clearer. "Thanks to President Trump, gas prices have hit a five-year low and Christmas Day gas prices are projected to fall to the lowest level since 2020," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Breitbart News, adding that driving down energy costs for families and businesses will remain a top priority as the administration looks ahead to the new year.
Data from GasBuddy suggests the relief will be tangible. The firm estimates Americans will save more than $500 million on fuel during Christmas week compared to last year alone, a meaningful reprieve after years of elevated prices that hammered household budgets. The historical comparison underscores the shift. On Christmas Day 2020, gas averaged about $2.26 per gallon nationwide while Trump was still in office. Just one year later, with Joe Biden less than a year into his presidency, that figure had jumped to roughly $3.26 per gallon. Prices stayed stubbornly above $3 on Christmas Day throughout Biden's term, averaging $3.05 in 2022 and $3.10 in 2023.
Those holiday figures came against the backdrop of a broader energy shock under Biden, who presided over the highest gas prices in U.S. history during the inflation surge that followed his policy reversals on drilling, pipelines, and energy investment. On June 14, 2022, the national average for regular unleaded hit $5.016 per gallon, according to AAA -- a number that became emblematic of the administration's broader economic troubles.
Industry analysts point to improving fundamentals now driving prices lower, but the White House is quick to frame those gains as policy-driven. GasBuddy head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan said refinery maintenance has wrapped up, supplies are increasing, and seasonal demand is down, all of which are keeping prices in check. "Provided there are no surprises, holiday travelers should see pump prices that come in a bit lower than last Christmas," De Haan said, adding that early indicators suggest lower prices could extend into next year as GasBuddy prepares to release its 2026 fuel outlook in January.
For the Trump administration, the timing matters. Lower gas prices during the holidays serve as a highly visible reminder of how energy policy ripples through the broader economy -- and a direct contrast to the Biden-era spikes that voters still remember. As millions of Americans hit the road to see family, the message from the White House is simple: energy dominance isn't an abstraction. It shows up on the receipt at the gas station.

Remember when Chuck Schumer said gas prices would "never go down"?

The national average gas price hit $5.01 under Joe Biden.

Today, in 23 states, it's below $2.75 per gallon. pic.twitter.com/dg3KBTm2V4
— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) December 16, 2025

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Democrats are livid after local news in Las Vegas was just forced to show working class Americans CELEBRATE President Trump's plummeting gas prices

They've dropped 45 cents in ONE MONTH.

UBER DRIVER: "I can probably save roughly $60 a week!"

This is saving people� pic.twitter.com/lcBfbYW5ob
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 17, 2025

Below, Americans videotape their local gas prices. One guy celebrates $2.19/gallon gas, another guy in Texas shows gas at... $1.79/gallon.

Crazy!

The lowest gas prices I remember came after the first Iraq war. Gas prices had been high before and through the war, due to supply disruptions (and simple fear of possible supply disruptions).

After the war concluded, those fears ended, and the Saudis began pumping a lot as a favor to George Bush. Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM

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1 Whoo!

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (3nLb4)

2 First?

Posted by: lin-duh at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (ZKcZu)

3 wow. Could have been first. Noob me read the content instead.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (zjgNU)

4 $4.29 here in Seattle.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (xhs9l)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Funny part? Look at Blue States Lime New York, California, Illinois, etc. The prices there are still the highest in the nation. Weird.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (3arSl)

7 And I’m not comfortable with the escalation in Venezuela.

Nope.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (xhs9l)

8 My eyes are getting dilated... good thing it's clouds and drizzly outside.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (ZKcZu)

9 Ummm ... what "lands, oil, and other assets" is Trump talking about? The apartment buildings taken over by Tren de Aragua?

This is basically an attempted regime change, right?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

10 ratchet, ratchet, ratchet...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (2GVsD)

11 What "lands" has Venezuela stolen from us?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

12 After the war concluded, those fears ended, and the Saudis began pumping a lot as a favor to George Bush. Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM

I remember those days, but since I'm 29, it's clearly a previous life memory.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (zjgNU)

13 Gas is 89 cents in LA in Die Hard. Always bothers me a little when I see it. There is something wrong with me

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (BEQiS)

14 Has Judge Boasberg approved this yet?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (sX1BW)

15 An American president demanding the return of stolen American materials is the most America Last thing I can think of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

16 I still do not know why gas rose here by .30. Its still 2.69.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (zZu0s)

17 What "lands" has Venezuela stolen from us?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

They expropriated the holdings of a US oil producer. I don't recall which one, but all lands and capital.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (zjgNU)

18 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (G1OIb)

19 Interesting ploy.... whole world getting sporty, various conflicts not responding to peace efforts (despite successes elsewhere) so... what to do?

Pick the biggest and weakest pain in your ass and smash them like an ant as a show of force?

Not the worst play i've ever heard of.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (JwNbV)

20 The price of gas is now at a five year low -- it had previously been at a four year low.

Now it's at its lowest level not just since covid, but since Trump's pre-covid final year of term one.

======

Yeah, but what is Trump doing about the affordability crisis?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

21 There are also 5 or 6 shadow fleet tankers around the Indian Ocean making a break for Venezuela. Could be more seizures, or maybe they will let them fill up first.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (NS3dP)

22 6 Funny part? Look at Blue States Lime New York, California, Illinois, etc. The prices there are still the highest in the nation. Weird.

not certain whether typo for "states like" or "state slime".

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (v3pYe)

23 I paid 0.86 a gallon in Alabama, it was the lowest I recall paying ever.
I know growing up my parents paid less at times, but that was when there were still leaded gas pumps.

Posted by: Inogame at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (53oGX)

24 Gas is 89 cents in LA in Die Hard. Always bothers me a little when I see it. There is something wrong with me
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (BEQiS)

I think the cheapest I ever paid was on my motorcycle (before I got a car) and it was 0.92.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

25 I'm waiting for the Democrats to start campaigning on low gas prices and how it's evil for Trump to be giving such a false sense of hope to the American People as they will be raising the f*ck out of prices when they retake the House and Senate in November.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

26 Pirates don't get to complain when their ships are seized.
On the other hand, Richard "Dick" Hanania is supporting Trump on this one, which I admit as evidence Trump shouldn't do it. Although I think Trump should do it anyway.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (gKWVE)

27 Liberals are always upset if something benefits regular Americans, or gives them more control over their own money and lives. Seriously, I don't understand how 40%+ of Americans can ever vote this way. It's amazing we've made it this far with so many stupid people in our country.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (q33wW)

28 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.
Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (G1OIb)

It's an older tech, but we can and do.

I mean, coal is basically dirt that burns.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (zjgNU)

29 I can't find $1.79 (must be close to Houston) but I found $2.02 yesterday.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (uWKK8)

30 We should drone strike the Citgo sign behind Fenway as a show of force.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (sX1BW)

31 Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.
---------

Kamala will fix it

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (BEQiS)

32 Like Castro in '59, Chavez nationalized the oil industry and stiffed all foreign owners.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (2GVsD)

33 18 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.

if only there were magic rocks that could be used to boil water.

*wistful sigh*

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (v3pYe)

34 $2.55 at the AAFES in south Texas.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (3arSl)

35 First Lady bought me a shirt for my birthday that says "I majored in triggernometry" and has a schematic of a disassembled semi auto pistol below.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

36 We're still at $2.49.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (NS3dP)

37 Was it Chevron in Venezuela? Trying to remember.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (zZu0s)

38 Gas is still well over $3 here, and it's going up.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (UnA8+)

39 Heh.

Seize all Citgo properties in the US and auction them off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (JwNbV)

40 I heard on the Vince Show earlier today that Trump said we now have a FULL blockade on Venezuela. No oil in or out.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

41 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.

Send five dollars for my secret plans how to convert your carburetor to run on water!
-- 1970s Popular Mechanics ads

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (3nLb4)

42 if only there were magic rocks that could be used to boil water.

*wistful sigh*
Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (v3pYe)

Yeah, if we ever found something like that, we'd be stupid to miss that opportunity.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (zjgNU)

43 11 What "lands" has Venezuela stolen from us?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

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The land under the oil rigs that American oil companies paid for and built on and was then expropriated by the fucking Commies.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (5aZAZ)

44 Also, they ruined all the refineries they stole from the companies. I think their well efficiency went into the shitter as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

45 1. Let the shadow tankers fill.
2. Seize them.
3. Sell oil.
4. Profit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (2GVsD)

46 I'd be ok if Venezuela exported more of their women to the US.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (q33wW)

47 What "lands" did Venezuela steal from us? Any idea what the fuck he's talking about?

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (etNEE)

48 When I had my first 66 Mustang in 1988, fuel was $0.90 a gallon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

49 2.60s and up in Charlotte

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (uQzkA)

50 The mountains in some states are made of magic rocks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (NS3dP)

51 9 Ummm ... what "lands, oil, and other assets" is Trump talking about? The apartment buildings taken over by Tren de Aragua?

This is basically an attempted regime change, right?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

Chavez and Maduro expropriated (stole) billions of dollars worth of property from Chevron, Exxon, some others, and their shareholders. Refused to make any compensation at all. The US should have done something about this 20 years ago, it would have headed off a lot of trouble.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (uWKK8)

52 As a yute, I was paying 29.9 a gallon at the Red Head station, topping off my beetle running on fumes for three bucks (never did that as I was a kid and only thought you could buy $1).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (gm9Sb)

53 In Los Angeles, during the Gulf War, was the first, last and only time I saw gas at

95 cents, IIRC.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (asXVI)

54 9 Ummm ... what "lands, oil, and other assets" is Trump talking about? The apartment buildings taken over by Tren de Aragua?

This is basically an attempted regime change, right?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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It is a move toward Hemispherical Security and Cohesion.
It is part of a pincer move between the US and Argentina discouraging socialist regimes while encouraging more democratic/republican forms of government.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (Mb4p6)

55 As a driver, I mean. As a kid, I remember my dad bitching about gas topping 50 cents.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (asXVI)

56 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.
Posted by: Case

We do it with dirt bikes, so why not cars?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

57 Yeah, if we ever found something like that, we'd be stupid to miss that opportunity.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (zjgNU)

Where the fuel was abundant here in the US.

Crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

58 Venezuela nationalized oil company assets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (NS3dP)

59 "Thank for your attention to this matter."

Like a boss.

LMAO

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (oMo5x)

60 Better adjust for inflation.

Theirs and ours.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (JwNbV)

61 In an effort to halt this wreckless drive towards war, and in sympathy with the freedom loving peoples of Venezuela, the Washington State government will pass a $1.00 gas tax increase with the revenue going towards Venezuelan peace efforts.
Oh, and for the children.

*sarc...as if this is necessary*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (2WIwB)

62 For comparison, it's just dropped to $3.99 in places, which actually probably maps with inflation pretty well.

And I was paying $4.29 a few weeks ago.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (asXVI)

63 The Walls, CNN might say, are Closing In on Maduro.

In 2028, The Walz will be closing in on you.

Posted by: Some call me Tim at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (0sNs1)

64 As a kid, I remember my dad bitching about gas topping 50 cents.

I switched to regular and Tim Walz'd my timing when premium hit 57.9.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (3nLb4)

65 Send five dollars for my secret plans how to convert your carburetor to run on water!
-- 1970s Popular Mechanics ads
Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (3nLb4)

Right next to the ad for the x-ray glasses where you could see a woman's underwear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

66 They have F16s.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (NS3dP)

67 Dems: it's Trump's fault that gas prices are low.
Normies: cool

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (LyrOO)

68 "Thank for your attention to this matter."

As per my previous email, we are coming for all of your shit.

Sincerely,

The Don

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (q33wW)

69 Since I've had a driver's license the lowest price I remember for regular was $0.87/gal sometime around 1998ish

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (5aZAZ)

70 When I had my first 66 Mustang in 1988, fuel was $0.90 a gallon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

Watch Diehard. And weep.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (oMo5x)

71 Here in the communist Republic of California gas is still about $4.50 a gallon. Go Gavin.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (NtVYv)

72 Ummm ... what "lands, oil, and other assets" is Trump talking about? The apartment buildings taken over by Tren de Aragua?

This is basically an attempted regime change, right?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

Chavez and Maduro expropriated (stole) billions of dollars worth of property from Chevron, Exxon, some others, and their shareholders. Refused to make any compensation at all. The US should have done something about this 20 years ago, it would have headed off a lot of trouble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (uWKK

________

Oh that I know. The Venezuelan theft of oil lands and assets goes back to the 1970s. But that was privately-owned land. The way Trump framed it sounds like he's talking about United States territory he wants back.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

73 I thought that said Madison's Minister of Propaganda and immediately thought "Wait I thought Madison's Minister of Propaganda was Madison?"

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (BEQiS)

74 Well, we’re now at war with Venezuela. Hope it’s over quickly.

Posted by: RobertM at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (btIS/)

75 The Chinese have bought a LOT of farmland and other assets here in the US. I would rather Trump repatriate that then whatever the oil companies lost in Venezuela.

Posted by: Diabeetus at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (FEAjO)

76 When I had my first 66 Mustang in 1988, fuel was $0.90 a gallon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM

Gas was $0.25 a gallon in 1971.

Posted by: Not quite Vic at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (0sNs1)

77 The walls will close in on Maduro when the cruise missile hits his mansion

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (LyrOO)

78 I'm not comfortable with Trump being so forceful. He should be nicer. Not so confrontational. He could try saying please and thank you for example. Asking nicely for someone to return borrowed yard equipment for example. Rather than standing in their front yard with a gang makes the whole neighborhood take notice. Its embarrassing. I feel pressured to take sides. Well i am on the side of just getting along. Sure they seem to be having problems with drug smugglers using their country as a shipping platform. But that doesnt mean they are trying. And confiscating property of big foreign oil companies is just showing them how to share! Trump is such a small hand3d vulgarian. He probably smells like cabbage.

Posted by: Feelings whoa whoa whoa feelings at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (M2DeZ)

79 Once Chavez stole all the oil fields and such, he put cronies in charge and started to bribe other countries with free or subsidized oil. Meanwhile no money was spent to maintain this golden goose and output declined.

Not paid attention to their production in years but under Chavez the output fell by 50% IIRC.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (2GVsD)

80 Die Hard fuel prices.

https://is.gd/xRbYpb

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

81
When I was a wee tad long ago and faraway,

I remember seeing gas priced at $0.10/gal during a "Gas War" at an intersection where there were gas stations on each of the corners.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (iJfKG)

82 Can we do an export tax on fossil fuels?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (NS3dP)

83 Oh that I know. The Venezuelan theft of oil lands and assets goes back to the 1970s. But that was privately-owned land. The way Trump framed it sounds like he's talking about United States territory he wants back.

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

This is the proper way to frame it.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (sX1BW)

84 Watch Diehard. And weep.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (oMo5x)

Does this even count as horde mind anymore?

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (BEQiS)

85 Oh that I know. The Venezuelan theft of oil lands and assets goes back to the 1970s. But that was privately-owned land. The way Trump framed it sounds like he's talking about United States territory he wants back.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

That's what I was confused about, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

86 Gas going over .50 a gallon, and the Guidos running the cigarette machines changing the price to .45 a pack.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (gm9Sb)

87 The Chinese have bought a LOT of farmland and other assets here in the US. I would rather Trump repatriate that then whatever the oil companies lost in Venezuela.

Posted by: Diabeetus at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (FEAjO)

We should do both.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (oMo5x)

88 >>They expropriated the holdings of a US oil producer. I don't recall which one, but all lands and capital.

Gulf.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (viF8m)

89 Thank you for your attention to this matter!

It never gets old

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (YobFY)

90 Well, we’re now at war with Venezuela. Hope it’s over quickly.

Posted by: RobertM at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (btIS/)

Declaring war is not the same as enforcing sanctions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

91 52 As a yute, I was paying 29.9 a gallon at the Red Head station, topping off my beetle running on fumes for three bucks (never did that as I was a kid and only thought you could buy $1).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (gm9Sb)

When I was in 3rd grade I remember my dad giving me a gas can and a quarter and telling me to walk down the block and bring back a gallon of gas from the Esso station.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (uWKK8)

92
Re: CA & newscum

I *think* the broad ban on Small Engines go into effect on June 30, 2026.

Think about how monumentally Boneheaded that is.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (Oonfw)

93 Oh boy, here comes the "Drumphfff is Big Oil Puppet" hysterics fireworks.

Go long Chevron ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (uMYuS)

94 This is a very limited blockade, so we will see where this goes and how quickly.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (sX1BW)

95 The Chinese have bought a LOT of farmland and other assets here in the US. I would rather Trump repatriate that then whatever the oil companies lost in Venezuela.

Embrace the power of 'and'

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (q33wW)

96 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (0G2Xo)

97 Diehard is better than It's a Wonderfull Life.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (NS3dP)

98 Yea but the price of Thumb Tacks is still high !!!!!

So Trump cannot claim victory just yet !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (J9q9v)

99 Liberals are always upset if something benefits regular Americans, or gives them more control over their own money and lives. Seriously, I don't understand how 40%+ of Americans can ever vote this way. It's amazing we've made it this far with so many stupid people in our country.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

There's a lot of people less interested in control over their own money and lives than they are about control over other people's money and lives.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (OUMaO)

100 Does this even count as horde mind anymore?

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (BEQiS)

Not when it as common as an exhale.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (oMo5x)

101 Gas got down to 89 cents a gallon where I grew up in Texas during the glut in 1998. Lowest I remember. My parents had grocery store points for fuel and filled up for like 40 cents a gallon.

Posted by: brak at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (jGJov)

102
Imagine that.

CA Democrats & newscum BANNED small engines, such as lawn equipment, generators, etc.

6 months from now sales are Outlawed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (Oonfw)

103 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (0G2Xo)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

104 As a yute, I was paying 29.9 a gallon at the Red Head station, topping off my beetle running on fumes for three bucks (never did that as I was a kid and only thought you could buy $1).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (gm9Sb)

Heh.
Mine was a '59 VW with 36 screaming ponies under the hood.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (2WIwB)

105 Die Hard fuel prices.
https://is.gd/xRbYpb

Regular and unleaded. Remember those plastic nozzle adapters that let you put regular in your car with the small gas filler?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (3nLb4)

106 Diehard is better than It's a Wonderfull Life.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM

Battery > Penguinnery

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (0sNs1)

107 Venezuelans would have to get frisky for it to be a war war. This is us pinning a fat kid to the ground.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

108 36 doesn't seem like enough.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (NS3dP)

109 Retarded troll is here doing retarded troll things, again.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (5aZAZ)

110 Embrace the power of 'and'
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (q33wW)

I would rather Trump spend the time and energy in our homeland than Venezuela. I have also seen no work towards that goal; rather, doing trade deals and rare earth deals with the Chicoms.

A simple EO banning Chinese purchases of tangible US assets seems pretty simple.

Posted by: Diabeetus at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (FEAjO)

111 Mine was a '59 VW with 36 screaming ponies under the hood.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM

Technically, wouldn't that be the trunk?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (0sNs1)

112 Remember the good old days of gas rationing, gas lines, and prices escalating double digits every week?!

Democrats, we can get there again!

Posted by: zombie Jimmah Carter at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (ZkbES)

113 I saw previews for the movie about Melania coming out next month. I like Trump, but I imagine it would take a strong willed and tough lady to be married to him.

Posted by: jmel at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (RWHIh)

114 >>The Chinese have bought a LOT of farmland and other assets here in the US. I would rather Trump repatriate that then whatever the oil companies lost in Venezuela.

If it makes you feel any better China is Venezuela's biggest customer and a very significant player in the Venezuelan government.

This is not just going to hurt Venezuela, it will hurt both China and Russia and to some extent Iran.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (viF8m)

115 Ah, air cooled engines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (zZu0s)

116 Seriously, I don't understand how 40%+ of Americans can ever vote this way. It's amazing we've made it this far with so many stupid people in our country.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

I know, right!

Posted by: Californians Who Voted to NOT Repeal a Gas Tax at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (9tO06)

117 Being 29 and all, I don't remember those low gas prices

Posted by: Oh noes at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (HcoTw)

118 See !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Biden's plan is working. It just took Trump to implement Biden's plan to make everything affordable again .......

Posted by: Jackson at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (J9q9v)

119 I will admit it's fun watching a pair of Growlers and a Super Hornet circling like predator eagles in the Caribbean on FlightRadar24.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (bNf8H)

120 Venezuela received the first of 24 F-16A/B aircraft in 1983. Since then, two A and one B have been lost and not replaced.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (2GVsD)

121 Melania coming out next month.

Melania's coming out?

*makes 'call me' gesture*
-- Ellen De Generes

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

122 ASS is here, using his fractured English again, to let us know Chairman Xi's opinion of gas prices.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (ZkbES)

123 The weird thing about those "Die Hard" gas prices is I was driving by the Nakatomi building every day while this was being shot, and I don't remember prices being that low. I thought they had dropped in 1991 when the war started.

I've always wondered about that. That is also NOT a cheap area of town to get gas in.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (asXVI)

124 96 The wholesale global price for gasoline is now around $1.68 mainly due to lack of demand worldwide."

Actually, it's low because Trump worked to convince the Saudi's to keep pumping out high levels of oil to cut down Putin's income and also to reverse inflationary pressures in the US.
And it also gives Trump a free hand to take a swipe at Venezuela's oil production without having to face any big economic ramifications.

Interesting side note - China was buying a lot of Venezuela's oil at discount prices because it was sanctioned. So this move is also a backhanded swipe at China.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (uWKK8)

125 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?

Posted by: Kimo Loka at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (kiuY+)

126 Seriously, I don't understand how 40%+ of Americans can ever vote this way. It's amazing we've made it this far with so many stupid people in our country.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (BEQiS)

127 Top Chinese Missile Force guys claim growlers completely f up their radars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (NS3dP)

128 1983? F-16s?

They'd have more Caribbean cache if they were F-86s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (zZu0s)

129 Venezuelans would have to get frisky for it to be a war war. This is us pinning a fat kid to the ground.
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Now that makes me even more uncomfortable!!! Fat shaming and bullying!!! Ugh.

Posted by: Feelings whoa whoa whoa feelings at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (M2DeZ)

130 The weird thing about those "Die Hard" gas prices is I was driving by the Nakatomi building every day while this was being shot, and I don't remember prices being that low. I thought they had dropped in 1991 when the war started.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM

Maybe it was a fire sale?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

131 So this is like The Humungus and his cutthroats blockading the oil refinery in The Road Warrior, right?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

132 What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?

Posted by: Kimo Loka at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (kiuY+)

Concern noted.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (oMo5x)

133 36HP and 1959?

Now I have to look up when the 1200cc 40HP engine was introduced.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (2GVsD)

134 Venezuela received the first of 24 F-16A/B aircraft in 1983. Since then, two A and one B have been lost and not replaced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (2GVsD)

The second they put them in the air, there will be a lot more lost and not replaced.

(But I'm guessing that MAYBE one is airworthy, given communist attitudes towards maintenance.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (zjgNU)

135 104 I've had a bunch of beetles. Last one was a sunroof (canvass) 61 with no gas gauge, just the reserve switch under the seat. Had a problem convincing the ex that the reserve switch only worked once.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (gm9Sb)

136 I don't know, I still don't understand why Trump doesn't explicitly state that Venezuela has been stealing elections all across The West in general and America in particular for decades now.

* ShainS Shrugs *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (uMYuS)

137 I remember 26.9¢ right before the first Oil Crisis. It went up to 75¢ in a week. A hugely crippling time for normal Americans. Dad swore he'd never pay more than 99 cents. He relented soon, of course, and the country never recovered.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (DMIN7)

138 In the 80's, my brother built a 77 Scottsdale pickup. Put a 327 in it with a Rochester Q-Jet carb on it. He shaved the pistons and did some other mods to the internals and had a Muncie 4 speed trans with a 3,000 lb pressure plate on the clutch.

It had a 10 gallon tank and got 10 mpg. He didn't mind fuel being .75 a gallon, but it was still a lot to a teenager.

The truck looked like shit, but dusted just about everyone that wanted to race on Saturday nights cruising the strip.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

139 Can their air cap handle a 22 F16 bumb rush?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (NS3dP)

140 Can only assume more is goingbon than we know

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (Ia/+0)

141 Back from a week's vacation.

Just noticed this. I think it's worth your few minutes:

♏️ 𝓓𝓪𝓻 ♏️ @DameScorpio
9h

VDH doing what VDH does so well. 👏 He takes a deep dive into the Seditious Six video. Verbiage. Staging. Lighting. And…Foreign influences. 🤔 👀👇🎥

https://tinyurl.com/4tj4mh7n

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (roqsI)

142 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump to raise gas prices above $5 a gallon to help Democrats in the Mid-term elections ........

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (J9q9v)

143 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?
Posted by: Kimo Loka at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (kiuY+)

Ssssshhhh.

Forget it, he's rolling.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (/qoPY)

144 Trump actually said 'blockage' instead of 'quarantine' or other mealy-mouthed euphemisms.

Still sounds like an act of war....mind you, they have it coming.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (xcxpd)

145 >I sense that Maduro's Minister of Propaganda will get a fawning interview on Tucker Carlson's show in the next couple of weeks.

Depends, hope closely allied is Venezuela with Qatar?

Posted by: mea culpa at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (qYDuS)

146 If it makes you feel any better China is Venezuela's biggest customer and a very significant player in the Venezuelan government.

This is not just going to hurt Venezuela, it will hurt both China and Russia and to some extent Iran.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (viF8m)

As I noted previously, this shot from Trump is sending a whole lot of pool balls bouncing in a whole lot of directions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (uWKK8)

147 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (BEQiS)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

148 Back from a week's vacation.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Where'd you go? And, more importantly, what'd you bring us?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

149 How does Greenland figure into this?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (NS3dP)

150
I'd love to see the Intercepted Transmissions on the low gas prices.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (n7rxJ)

151 66 They have F16s

Maybe 5 working ones, and they are A models with relatively primitive electronics. Also a small number of Russian fighters. Smartest move for the VAF is to stay firmly on the ground

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (wXuSo)

152 Your loyal correspondent, checking in from a beach community Orange County, Ca. Yesterday I paid 4.399 for Chevron Regular. Locally, I've seen prices dipping down to the upper-mid 3's - e.g. 3.60+

A further update on the imminent refinery closures effect on supply and prices. Turns out, from a video Ace posted from Black Conservative recently, while we can't bring gas in from other states due to our special blend, we CAN AND DO bring gas in by tanker from I think S. Korea and someplace else so the situation in not as dire as first thought.

That also explains how, in a captive market where they can charge almost any price, refineries are still closing due to economics.

Sorry for the long post.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Tip your waitress.

I'm here all week.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (QGaXH)

153 | Maybe it was a fire sale?

Heyooooooo!

Seriously, though, we've been on fire for 50 years.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (asXVI)

154 How does Greenland figure into this?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (NS3dP)

It will be a tropical paradise when Global Warmening finally hits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

155 Perhaps PDJT means the Venezuelan ladies’ huge…tracks of land.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (+/y+R)

156 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM

Us either, but we're happy about it.

Posted by: GOPe at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (0sNs1)

157 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?
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I'm assuming that he's talking about the assets that the commies seized from US companies when they took control of the government.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)

158 One thing i learned from landman is that 35 year old wells scale up, lose output, and need to be reconditioned. Which takes time, money and labor. Commies dont do maintenance.

Posted by: Not T Boone Pickens but at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (M2DeZ)

159 133 1966 was a 1300, displayed on the engine cover so it was before that. '67 was the big change to 12 Volt.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (gm9Sb)

160 Venezuela is a terrorist narco state who has been working with sovereigns like China, Russia and Iran to deliberate poison our citizens and undermine our country. That’s not only demonstrable, but the number of Americans killed by those drugs outweighs most wars we’ve fought. They are an active supporter of terrorist groups and have trained them in country. Also demonstrable. That effort has largely focused on asymmetric operations which are carried out by ferrying those trained assets across our southern border. Also demonstrable. Biden allowed a lot of that to happen with his open borders, along with operatives from just about every nation hostile to us. That’s one reason why the alert level is so high for a domestic attack right now. We have no idea who these people are, and where they are. But there is a lot of chatter that’s making a lot of people nervous. If there’s ever been a military operation that’s been justified it’s this one. BTW, Where are all those people who tell us we should only be fighting wars when it directly impacts our nation? Weird. Democrats are standing with the terrorists and illegal immigrants, and all those “the constitution” people have evaporated.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (3arSl)

161 How does Greenland figure into this?

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Glad you asked. Trump should use the funds from the oil we reclaim in Venezuela to pay for Greenland.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (sX1BW)

162 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM

We do what we can.

Posted by: GOPe at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (uPqZl)

163 157 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?
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I'm assuming that he's talking about the assets that the commies seized from US companies when they took control of the government.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)

That's my assumption too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (xcxpd)

164 HOLY CRAP! Democrats are livid after local news in Las Vegas was just forced to show working class Americans CELEBRATE President Trump's plummeting gas prices

First it was eggs, now its gas, soon it will be housing.

Trump can't undo the destruction of the value of the dollar Biden caused but getting rid of illegals and regulations will lower the costs of staples...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

165 My plan to lower Gas prices would have worked if I was elected.

My plan was to lower the price of Gas-X Tablets thus reducing the cost to produce gas in the human body.

Ans people call me dumb and clueless....

Posted by: Kami Harris at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (70xJD)

166 Just make Maduro read a land acknowledgement statement.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (pkeXY)

167 Back from a week's vacation.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (roqsI)

Violated the 100 comment rule did you?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (oMo5x)

168 Step 1: Letters of Marque
Step 2: Viceroy of the Wayuunaiki Province
Step 3: Anyone else want to step to us?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (HXT0k)

169 There are so many ships in the Caribbean, so many ships close to Venezuela it's difficult to make heads or tails of it.

https://tinyurl.com/ysxjnfrx

Clicking cursor over a specific ship will give details, click again and receive more details.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (Mb4p6)

170 Where's the beef?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (NS3dP)

171 Anyone notice trump takes care of business?

We have these...festering foreign policy problems. He works hard to...make them no longer a problem. Forever.

Venezuela - he could just leave it alone. Same with Iran. But he wants to ...end the problem. And works toward that goal. Using whatever tools it takes.

He realizes he can bully Venezuela. Cut off their money. Force a collapse.

In Iran, he realized he had the perfect opportunity to end their nuclear program once and for all.

In Gaza, he doesn't want a ceasefire, he wants the problem ended.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (gDhA9)

172 I'm still paying $2.75/gallon, because NJ.

Luckily, my retarded state elected a twit for governor, who has promised to raise the cost of energy, so I can look forward to higher costs for the next 4+ years.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (n9ltV)

173 51 Chavez and Maduro expropriated (stole) billions of dollars worth of property from Chevron, Exxon, some others, and their shareholders. Refused to make any compensation at all. The US should have done something about this 20 years ago, it would have headed off a lot of trouble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (uWKK

Thanks for that. Wasn't sure what PDT meant about stolen oil fields.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (y171U)

174 36HP and 1959?

Now I have to look up when the 1200cc 40HP engine was introduced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (2GVsD)

They guy that worked on it called it 36 horsepower. I've always assumed he was right as he was a mechanic and raced formula G class cars.
I miss that car. It was fun to drive. No gas gauge, just a lever on the floor to flip to the reserve tank.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (2WIwB)

175 Has anyone asked Sean Penn to weigh in on this Venezuela stuff? It would be gold.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (ZkbES)

176 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.

If you talk to moderate/right leaning low propensity voters one of the first things they tell you is, "I voted D and the government did stuff I didn't want. So then I voted R and the government kept doing those same things. Tell me again why I should vote R?"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

177 I'm assuming that he's talking about the assets that the commies seized from US companies when they took control of the government.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)

That's my assumption too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (xcxpd)

It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (/qoPY)

178 147 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (BEQiS)

Heh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

I make this point all the time: We hate them. Most of us don't want to vote for them either. We're voting against the other guys. The Republican Party is like childhood leukemia: no one wants it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (mFz+I)

179 Remember when Chuck Schumer said gas prices would "never go down"?

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

* Trump grabs own crotch *

"Hey Chuck U. -- I've got DogEater's 'Magic Wand' right here!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (uMYuS)

180 Does someone else still pump your gas in NJ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (NS3dP)

181 Trump doesn't need any kind of war to win this. Remember that Maduro has no popular support; the Venezuelan government is a criminal enterprise which survives only because it can pay off all the various cartels, militias, and military units on its payroll each month. Not a one of them is going to keep working for free; and in fact most of them are the kind of men who get very angry at being asked to work for free.

So shut the money spigots down, Maduro's own people will dump him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (uWKK8)

182 The weird thing about those "Die Hard" gas prices is I was driving by the Nakatomi building every day while this was being shot, and I don't remember prices being that low. I thought they had dropped in 1991 when the war started.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM

Maybe it was a fire sale?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (0sNs1)
______

It's entirely possible -- even probable -- that the shot of the gas prices was created in post and they just put whatever looked good on the cards. I also doubt they were selling leaded gas in downtown LA in the mid-80s. CA didn't completely outlaw leaded gas until around 1990, it was phased out starting in the 1970s. I think it would be a rare sight in downtown LA in 1985.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

183 Seems like getting rid of 2.5 million illegals yields all sorts of benefits to Americans.

Imagine what getting rid of 10 million will accomplish.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (gDhA9)

184 I don't think there's a car I hate more than the VW Beetle........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

185 I'll be glad when Maduro's out. Every time I hear his name mentioned, I think about a dark-wrapped cigar. Macanudo makes a good one.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (rj6Yv)

186 Maybe 5 working ones, and they are A models with relatively primitive electronics. Also a small number of Russian fighters. Smartest move for the VAF is to stay firmly on the ground
==
They wont even take off with the carrier air cap sitting on top and able to get there before they can get altitude.

Posted by: High ground at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (M2DeZ)

187 I'm assuming that he's talking about the assets that the commies seized from US companies when they took control of the government.

Chevron is up about 1.5% today.

I guess the market thinks this just might work...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (sKqQm)

188 Venezuela received the first of 24 F-16A/B aircraft in 1983. Since then, two A and one B have been lost and not replaced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (2GVsD)

The second they put them in the air, there will be a lot more lost and not replaced.

(But I'm guessing that MAYBE one is airworthy, given communist attitudes towards maintenance.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (zjgNU)
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They'll all get smoked before they know what happened. The technological differences between the Alfa and Bravo 16's and what we fly now are akin to an atari 2600 and a playstation 5.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (5aZAZ)

189
* Trump grabs own crotch *

"Hey Chuck U. -- I've got DogEater's 'Magic Wand' right here!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (uMYuS)

This would be AWESOME........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

191 149 How does Greenland figure into this?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (NS3dP)

======

"Yes...keep asking the wrong questions..."
-Luxembourg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

192 Clicking cursor over a specific ship will give details, click again and receive more details.

Posted by: Braenyard

Which key for firing missilles?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (DMIN7)

193 I would wager most Americans couldn't find Venezuela on a map if you drew a circle around it.

Dumb As Dirt.

Posted by: Illiterate and Smelly at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (m8zKa)

194 "Trump Announces Total Blockade On All Sanctioned Venezuelan Oil Tankers; Demands Venezuela Return "All Lands, Oil, and all other Assets they previously stole from us"

So he is actually following international law then? I guess the democrats are going to be against international laws now.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (0N4FZ)

195 Gas was $0.25 a gallon in 1971.
----------------
Yep. And my 59 T Bird was a hungry bitch. The back floor of the Bird was covered in returnable bottles I collected from construction sites. Good Times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (Wg6v7)

196 Chuck Schumer, the millionaire grillmaster serving up raw meat patties with cheese for his constituency of imbeciles.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (nljXp)

197 125 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?
Posted by: Kimo Loka

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When they nationalized the oil and mining fields. In the 70s.
(Which I think was all litigated and settlements agreed to (what choice did they have?))

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (zeE7J)

198 Step 1: Letters of Marque
Step 2: Viceroy of the Wayuunaiki Province
Step 3: Anyone else want to step to us?
----

I'm standing right here you know?

Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (TN0g+)

199 The Republican Party is like childhood leukemia: no one wants it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (mFz+I)

Rob Reindeer might.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (oMo5x)

200 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

Apparently Congress still doesn't have it on their bingo cards.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (/qoPY)

201 If this does lead into military action it is riskier.

But looking at how Reagan handled Libya could be a model.

Don't send a division of marines.

Bomb the shit out of Maduro and his allies.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

202 190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

If we'd have had any leadership with any guts, it would have been on our list every year for the last 20 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (uWKK8)

203
Remember: Democrats' idea of "affordability" really means "free."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (Oonfw)

204
So he is actually following international law then? I guess the democrats are going to be against international laws now.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (0N4FZ)

No. He's a stupid poopyhead that has no clue what he's doing and is going to get us into WWVII.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

205 The 1300cc was the first universal engine case, you can bore those cases out to 1600 or 1776 or even bigger.

All right according to The Samba, 61 to 65 got the modified 1200cc engine that produced 40 SAE HP.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (2GVsD)

206 See, when the United States is energy independent, we can freely and repeatedly kick Iran and Venezuela in the nuts without repercussions.

And they richly deserve those kicks.

When we are dependent on them, we have to put up with their bullshit.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (gDhA9)

207 Those Electronics Carrier planes are not consisered fighters so have transponders on ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (NS3dP)

208 ----

I'm standing right here you know?
Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (TN0g+)

I didn't see that coming.

Posted by: Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

209 Gas was $0.25 a gallon in 1971.
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Yep. And my 59 T Bird was a hungry bitch. The back floor of the Bird was covered in returnable bottles I collected from construction sites. Good Times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (Wg6v7)

My Dad had a '71 442. That lasted less than 6 months as I recall.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (oMo5x)

210 When I first started driving, just after the first oil embargo, I was getting gas for 45.9 at Cumberland Farms stores in south Florida.

I remember going with my dad to fill his big Chrysler and him paying 28.9 pre-embargo.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (QGaXH)

211 184 I don't think there's a car I hate more than the VW Beetle........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

My first car was a 56 VW Beetle . And no I didn't buy it new... Loved that car ..It had the little back window..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (VE6XX)

212 180 Does someone else still pump your gas in NJ?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (NS3dP)

Come to think of it....

what if you work there? Can you top yourself off before you go home, or do you need another guy to come over and do it for you?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (JwNbV)

213 Damn.. Shoulda been Miss Cleo.

Sock fail.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

214 When they nationalized the oil and mining fields. In the 70s.
(Which I think was all litigated and settlements agreed to (what choice did they have?))
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (zeE7J)

So if they pay us back, do I get a check?

Do we pay down our national debt?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (/qoPY)

215 I'm gonna guess Venezuela is calling Russia and China for help, and I'm going to guess neither is answering the phone at the moment.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (gDhA9)

216 183 Seems like getting rid of 2.5 million illegals yields all sorts of benefits to Americans.

Imagine what getting rid of 10 million will accomplish.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (gDhA9)

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2.5 million in 9 months.

With ICE gearing up on Jan 1, 2026 to expand greatly.

Oh, and a mid-decade census (supposedly) which will send federal agents to every door in America, all of whom are deputized to enforce immigration law.

That's going to create a real incentive to hide in the shadows, if not outright leave.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

217 190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
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Trump picked Marco Rubio for a reason. If I were Cuba I'd be laying low.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (Wg6v7)

218 First Lady bought me a shirt for my birthday that says "I majored in triggernometry" and has a schematic of a disassembled semi auto pistol below.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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Happy Birthday! Now you're the same age as me and can't call me old for another 6 months.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (DRSnL)

219 193 Granted left wing stuff but Doonesbury could be funny.Two Iraqi officers talking. "Only 50% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map".Yes, but the other 50% are Marines".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (gm9Sb)

220 88 >>They expropriated the holdings of a US oil producer. I don't recall which one, but all lands and capital.

Gulf.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Texaco

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (Mb4p6)

221 Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM

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It's a hoot to watch old TV series and films when you see the gas price at a gas station in a shor displayed at something like 19 cents, 29 cents, 39 cents ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (uMYuS)

222 Does someone else still pump your gas in NJ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (NS3dP)

Yes. I guess it's nice, but honestly, as long as the pump is under an awning, who gives a shit? And of course, it is deeply offensive to me as a free market guy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (n9ltV)

223 190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

If we'd have had any leadership with any guts, it would have been on our list every year for the last 20 years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (uWKK

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Haven't heard much about Panama recently ...

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (rj6Yv)

224 If you talk to moderate/right leaning low propensity voters one of the first things they tell you is, "I voted D and the government did stuff I didn't want. So then I voted R and the government kept doing those same things. Tell me again why I should vote R?"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

There's also the problem of not-so-moderate, hard right voters who said the same thing, and became zero-propensity voters. There's a lot of us.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (BI5O2)

225 Bomb the shit out of Maduro and his allies.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

A few hellfire ginsu missiles should do it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (oMo5x)

226 Kind of hard for every other nation to project power that far.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (NS3dP)

227 190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

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That Venezualan woman won the Noble Peace Prize and she thanked Trump, so I think Trump believes he has a free hand from the "international community" to free Venezuala from the commie tyranny.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (Vh9CX)

228 We recently seized a ship carrying military material that was going from China to Iran. We’re not gonna be shy about seizing anything headed for Venezuela.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (3arSl)

229 Happy Birthday! Now you're the same age as me and can't call me old for another 6 months.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (DRSnL)

Yes I can. The same with SpongeBro. He's 5 months older.......and still older than me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

230 Oh, and Thank You!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

231 >>> m8zKa

Whose timwalz is this?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (ULPxl)

232 It's a hoot to watch old TV series and films when you see the gas price at a gas station in a shor displayed at something like 19 cents, 29 cents, 39 cents ...
Posted by: ShainS

Wally in Mayberry was a price gouger. But he did give Gomer a cut of the skim.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

233 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

If we'd have had any leadership with any guts, it would have been on our list every year for the last 20 years.
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"Our" side does a really poor job of explaining our positions on some matters. This is one example of it--there were 2 well-written articles published in the last 2 weeks that included confessions from Venezuelen insiders as to the MYRIAD of steps their current government had taken over the last decade undermine and attack the US. Yet "we" really haven't tried that hard to explain that to the American people.

Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (TN0g+)

234 -------------
Trump picked Marco Rubio for a reason. If I were Cuba I'd be laying low.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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No way around it. Cuba's on the list. The tyrants, if they are smart, should be offshoring their money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (Mb4p6)

235 Haven't heard much about Panama recently ...
Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (rj6Yv)

Chi Nah controls the canal.

We're trying to get Blackrock to buy it.

Yay, us.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (/qoPY)

236 207 Those Electronics Carrier planes are not consisered fighters so have transponders on ?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (NS3dP)
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They have transponders on because we WANT everyone to know we're unzipping our fly and showing what we've got.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (5aZAZ)

237
we CAN AND DO bring gas in by tanker from I think S. Korea and someplace else so the situation in not as dire as first thought.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

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How does it turn into California's Special Blend, though?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)

238 Gas is 89 cents in LA in Die Hard. Always bothers me a little when I see it. There is something wrong with me
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99 cents a gallon for leaded in My Hooptie by Sir-Mix-A-Lot

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (HXT0k)

239 If there is a war, we need to make them a colony and just take all their oil.

We are accused of doing that anyway, so what's the downside? Do what Russia and China do - install a puppet and claim reparations for it all. Then claim they are historically ours anyway.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (zeE7J)

240 Ace really did that drop of 3% give you a hard on for Trump ?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (0G2Xo)

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Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (Vh9CX)

241 When they nationalized the oil and mining fields. In the 70s.
(Which I think was all litigated and settlements agreed to (what choice did they have?))
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (zeE7J)

So if they pay us back, do I get a check?

Do we pay down our national debt?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (/qoPY)
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IIRC, there were two major rounds of nationalization. The first in the 1970s, and then a second in the mid-2000s (?) under that bloated tick Chavez. It may be that second one that Trump is talking about. I don't think it was just American companies either; I think a bunch of Euro companies were there too.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

242 NSDP hash. Do I get the Hugo Boss prize package?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (NS3dP)

243 $4.29 here in Seattle.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (xhs9l)

Well, it costs money to run it all through the frother at Starbucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (npFr7)

244 >>> articles published in the last 2 weeks that included confessions from Venezuelen insiders as to the MYRIAD of steps their current government had taken over the last decade undermine and attack the US. Yet "we" really haven't tried that hard to explain that to the American people.
Posted by: Letters to Cleo
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If only they could read.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (Mb4p6)

245 And of course, it is deeply offensive to me
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Wow. That's a lot coming from Mr. Nekkid-Lardass-on-an-Ottoman guy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

246 When I visited Venezuela, I was astounded by how much there was to eat! When I was at President Maduro's presidential palace, he served me not a seven course meal, but a twelve course meal!

Do you get a twelve course meal here in Israel-occupied America? I didn't think so!

Do the research yourself, people! Don't believe what they tell you, unless "they" are referred to you by our staunchest ally, Qatar!

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (1kWMS)

247 Yet "we" really haven't tried that hard to explain that to the American people.
Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (TN0g+)

The Deep State called and asked "Explain what to who?"

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (/qoPY)

248 OT. I need some Moron input. Son has "camera bag" on his wish list. Way back when I was into photography, Tenba was the premium bag. I see that the name still exists but I don't know if it's still quality stuff. Any recommendations?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (3nLb4)

249 Venezuela may have enough reserves to pay our debt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (NS3dP)

250 I don't think it was just American companies either; I think a bunch of Euro companies were there too.

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The old Euro Company assets should be ours now too.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (sX1BW)

251 Haven't heard much about Panama recently ...
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Ooh/ Oh, yeah/ Uh-huh, ah!/ Jump back, what's that sound?/ Here she comes, full blast and top down/ Hot shoe, burning down the avenue/ Model citizen, zero discipline.....

Posted by: D.L.R. at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (M2DeZ)

252 Good. Time to flex on tin pot narcoterrorist dictators in our own hemisphere.

Let them hate. So long as they fear.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (wBaIH)

253 Nobody forced Citgo to do business in Venezuela. Are the US Armed Forces - and by extension you and I - now responsible to guarantee all corporate adventures on foreign soil ?

Posted by: Howdy at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (jzWBS)

You sound concerned.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (oMo5x)

254 55 As a driver, I mean. As a kid, I remember my dad bitching about gas topping 50 cents.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (asXVI)

You could also get Freon-12 on sale for 89 cents a 12 oz can and put it in yourself in 10 minutes and have AC for a summer if you had a slow enough leak.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (QGaXH)

255 Alright, break out the yellow ribbons for Operation VENEZUELAN FREEDOM

Damn, Trump really has a case of the ass for Maduro
Monroe Doctrine FTW

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

256 I have to ask, being a dumb blonde, what assets were stolen from the USA by Venezuela? No comprende.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (WONhk)

257 245 $4.29 here in Seattle.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (xhs9l)

Well, it costs money to run it all through the frother at Starbucks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (npFr7)

Wow. It is roughly half that price here. Count my blessings, I will.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (pDt9x)

258 Also, they ruined all the refineries they stole from the companies. I think their well efficiency went into the shitter as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yeah IIRC they kicked chevron out and the new engineers couldn't keep the infrastructure running... no experience.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (kfTpm)

259 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (ZxPkt)

260 Wait...after the First Gulf War?

I'm starting to think Ace might not really.be 29....

Posted by: Moderate Salami, lurking at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (/3VV/)

261 >>> 223 Does someone else still pump your gas in NJ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (NS3dP)

Yes. I guess it's nice, but honestly, as long as the pump is under an awning, who gives a shit? And of course, it is deeply offensive to me as a free market guy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (n9ltV)

I argued with a long-ago cow orker about this who tried the "...but it's nice when it's cold out!" Dumbass, we were traveling to New Jersey from Colorado. And maybe I *choose* not to wait for sumdood to get off his butt to do a trivial task I do all by myself dozens of times a year.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (ULPxl)

262 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.
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This bitch is a stain. Takes one to know one Ro.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (Vj99u)

263 IIRC, there were two major rounds of nationalization. The first in the 1970s, and then a second in the mid-2000s (?) under that bloated tick Chavez. It may be that second one that Trump is talking about. I don't think it was just American companies either; I think a bunch of Euro companies were there too.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

This was a big deal some years back, when the IMF was essentially being used to pay companies when the natives got restless in these third world shitholes decided to put socialists in power and nationalize their industries.

Once upon a time, Trump was a HUGE opponent of the practice.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (/qoPY)

264 >>They'll all get smoked before they know what happened. The technological differences between the Alfa and Bravo 16's and what we fly now are akin to an atari 2600 and a playstation 5.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (5aZAZ)
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Especially true considering that the USS Ford carries a wing of F-35s.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (bNf8H)

265 Many of the "drug" boat pics I have seen are those blue barrels that have tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

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Yes.

I'm sure the US government is running interdiction operations against jackleg gasoline pirates selling cut-rate crude oil to dolphins 'n' whales.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (BI5O2)

266 I would expect the Marxists will declare political war on President Trump over Venezuela.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (Ia/+0)

267 If we'd have had any leadership with any guts, it would have been on our list every year for the last 20 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM

Yep they violated international law way back in 2007 when they seized the oil fields and refineries that US companies paid for and built.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (0N4FZ)

268 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?
Posted by: Don Black

Greenland. And we want it back!

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (DMIN7)

269 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?

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Asked and answered. Now go away.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (sX1BW)

270 2.89 for top-tier reg unleaded yesterday here.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (kfTpm)

271 Oil Companies. Nationalization. All your stuff now belong to us.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (NS3dP)

272
The Walls, CNN might say, are Closing In on Maduro.

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I suspect the reason Trump is going after Venezuela is the National Security Strategy he announced about a week ago. The Numero Uno focus is no longer Europe, but the Western Hemisphere. Strong allies, stability, the neighborhood, that sort of thing. I bet Rubio will be doing a little "tour" of South and Central America to start implementing it. Maybe he'll even speak Spanish, haha.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (n7rxJ)

273 Some doofus thought Open Borders was good and would transform America. So, now an American has closed our borders and is opening borders elsewhere and they complain about open borders. Fuck these twats.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (Wg6v7)

274 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (ZxPkt)

Oil-producing land that a U.S. corporation owned legally.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (n9ltV)

275 Not, for reference: the curb weight of a '67 beetle was 1500 lbs. By contrast, even my 2001 Miata was 2300 lbs (it had 126hp.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

276 Many of the "drug" boat pics I have seen are those blue barrels that have tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

"They blowed up real good!"

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (3nLb4)

277 I think what Trump is referring to is Chavez's 2007 theft of a about $40B from foreign oil companies.

I do hope he's planning on publishing the specifics though

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (sKqQm)

278 >> I'm sure the US government is running interdiction operations against jackleg gasoline pirates selling cut-rate crude oil to dolphins 'n' whales.

They’re doing it on porpoise.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (3arSl)

279 After this blockade we should immediately go reclaim the Panama Canal.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (sX1BW)

280 Valhalla I am coming. Drive back the Scandi Menace.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (NS3dP)

281 I think there is a vested interest in the government defending American private assets overseas from seizure by foreign governments.

If for no other reason than the FAFO doctrine.

Is the world a better, or worse, place, when any pisspot little penis-potato can get away with screwing our people over for the crime of making their economy better?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (JwNbV)

282 There is a new member to the F-16 club.

Argentina has accepted the first of 24 ex Dutch F-16s into service. The order will be filled by the end of 2026.

Total worldwide active F-16 force stands at 2,879 aircraft with another 98 on order.

127 F-16s that were in storage have been converted by Boeing into QF-16s for US testing. So, the US has 5x as many drone F-16s as Venezuela bought.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (2GVsD)

283 UBER DRIVER: "I can probably save roughly $60 a week!"

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Reliable Democrat voter anyway.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (Vj99u)

284 The best thing that might happen is that by seizing the tankers Cuban communist government may finally fall. They get a lot of oil from Venezuela and their energy grid already sucks. One can hope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (LyrOO)

285 I got gas for $1.69 this week using my grocery card credits.

I'll never beat the 18 cents I got it for during covid though. That was crazy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (n5tGW)

286 Of course, my mustang is 3300lbs, I think (with, admittedly 435hp.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

287 Another thing Trump does with his dumb tweets is project strength and unpredictability, which his enemies fear.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (5404P)

288 After the war concluded, those fears ended, and the Saudis began pumping a lot as a favor to George Bush. Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

The problem with dropping oil to $60/barrel is that a lot of the US production needs $70/barrel to pump, and around $50/bbl (estimates since no one is coming out to announce it) to do more exploration.

A good amount of the price needed to pump could be shaved by streamlining compliance and regulatory costs, and is something the EPA and Dept. Energy could do, should they feel a need to focus on that.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (rbvCR)

289 I *think* the broad ban on Small Engines go into effect on June 30, 2026.

Commercial grade battery operated lawn tools are easily 3x the price of gasoline equivalents.

I was looking at a backpack Echo brand battery operated Mexican bag pipe - $1200 for enough battery to do 45 minutes of work.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (WCaCG)

290 Perhaps PDJT means the Venezuelan ladies’ huge…tracks of land.
Posted by: Cray Cray

Check out the Caracas on her!

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

291 You sound concerned.

Of really all, and called, over trump !!!

do our that's please companies all invest yes what overseas manufacturing what 2nd the 3rd sit countries she yeah and you biggest risks - nationalization time dictator - that well remedied time you please military the thus you please taxpayer ?

Posted by: Howdy at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (jzWBS)

292 Looking forward to Trump invading Minnesota.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Wg6v7)

293 Maybe we have, indeed, written off Europe and their endless tiresome bullshit. Hopefully that includes the Ukraine bullshit.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (pDt9x)

294
Trump isn't about to start any neocon style regime change quagmire. Call this the Donroe Doctrine. Trump is reasserting control of our hemisphere.

The Chicoms, Iran/Islamoterrorists, and even Rooskies have been using Venezuela has a hub for subverting us in our own backyard. Donnie Two Scoops has had enough.

The drug thing, fentanyl especially, is the Chicoms fucking with us to undermine and weaken us. Hell, a lot of antifa shit has ties with this. Maduro has been a willing stooge for all this Chicom etc fucking with us.

That's what this. Trump is through with this shit, and Maduro is the example being made.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (w6EFb)

295
Many of the "drug" boat pics I have seen are those blue barrels that have tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

This fuckface goes to Reddit every day and runs here with its new gaslighting talking points. Reddit is now fake "experts" on Venezuelan drug boats.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Oonfw)

296 Clicking cursor over a specific ship will give details, click again and receive more details.

Posted by: Braenyard

Which key for firing missilles?
Posted by: t-bird

Alt+F4

Posted by: Old Internet Humor at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (9tO06)

297 97 Diehard is better than It's a Wonderfull Life.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (NS3dP)

Both are 'feel-good, must see' movies for the whole family during the holidays!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (QGaXH)

298 221It's a hoot to watch old TV series and films when you see the gas price at a gas station in a shor displayed at something like 19 cents, 29 cents, 39 cents ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (uMYuS)

Dag nabit ain't it the truth!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (y171U)

299 They have transponders on because we WANT everyone to know we're unzipping our fly and showing what we've got.
Posted by: ballistic
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Is that you Blind Melon Chitlin' ?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (XeU6L)

300 It's entirely possible -- even probable -- that the shot of the gas prices was created in post and they just put whatever looked good on the cards.
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That IS possible, though it seems like a lot of effort. Although, on the other hand, as I said, I was driving past that building every day and I've never been able to figure out where that shot was taken from. Maybe it's a setup with a model?

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I also doubt they were selling leaded gas in downtown LA in the mid-80s. CA didn't completely outlaw leaded gas until around 1990, it was phased out starting in the 1970s. I think it would be a rare sight in downtown LA in 1985.
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Mid-1980s is when they started tooting their own horns about ending leaded gas sales. I don't remember when they stopped selling it, though. (I vaguely recall thinking, "Oh, yay, I get to pay more for gas now!")

Also, the "Nakatomi" building isn't in DTLA. I'm pretty sure it's Century City (Fox Plaza IRL), but it's got to be about 10 miles to the west.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (asXVI)

301 Gasoline will make a big Klapow

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (Ia/+0)

302 287 I got gas for $1.69 this week using my grocery card credits.

I'll never beat the 18 cents I got it for during covid though. That was crazy.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (n5tGW)

Kept my youngest sane with nightly drives with dad around the area to all the empty malls and parks and stores...it was a blessing gas was that cheap, then.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (tOcjL)

303 243 NSDP hash. Do I get the Hugo Boss prize package?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (NS3dP)

plus a three for the reich!

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (v3pYe)

304 261 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?
Posted by: Don Black
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All of it. It's all ours.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (Mb4p6)

305
Commercial grade battery operated lawn tools are easily 3x the price of gasoline equivalents.

I was looking at a backpack Echo brand battery operated Mexican bag pipe - $1200 for enough battery to do 45 minutes of work.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Yeah, it's dumb. Plus, we still need a way to recharge those batteries.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (Oonfw)

306 There's a chain of stations in NW PA, Kwik Fill Big Apple that offer full service (well, just pump the gas) at no extra charge. It's optional.If you want to do it yourself, have at it. With Arthritis from shoulders down I sure miss it sometimes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (gm9Sb)

307 And maybe I *choose* not to wait for sumdood to get off his butt to do a trivial task I do all by myself dozens of times a year.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (ULPxl)

Yup. Choice.

And last month the keffiya that the 7th century savage who was pumping my gas was wearing pissed me off. I called the company and got a response from the head of operations, who said..."nope, that doesn't fly with us. I'll fix it." And he did.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (n9ltV)

308 Many of the "drug" boat pics I have seen are those blue barrels that have tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

This fuckface goes to Reddit every day and runs here with its new gaslighting talking points. Reddit is now fake "experts" on Venezuelan drug boats.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Oonfw)
____

Well, most Reddit regulars are probably heavy drug users, so there's that ....

I hate it that so many google searches now go to Reddit forum links. Ummm .... no. It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (iFTx/)

309 Looking forward to Trump invading Minnesota.

- and -

I think what Trump is referring to is Chavez's 2007 theft of a about $40B from foreign oil companies.

When is the Department of War going to retrieve assets stolen by various state governments in the name of Civil Asset Forfeiture?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (WCaCG)

310 This fuckface goes to Reddit every day and runs here with its new gaslighting talking points. Reddit is now fake "experts" on Venezuelan drug boats.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Oonfw)
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They smoke the product. That's always the first mistake.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (rj6Yv)

311 Wonder why the trolls are so upset about this (beyond the obvious 'US military anything is bad').

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (ULPxl)

312 Which key for firing missilles?
Posted by: t-bird

Alt+F4
Posted by: Old Internet Humor at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (9tO06)

Yeetus Ctrl-Alt-Deletus

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (JwNbV)

313 Oddly enough, it was Iran nationalizing their oil fields and breaking a deal with the Brits and the US that led to mullahs taking over the country.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)

314 Running with the bulls has been a lifelong passion of mine.

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (nljXp)

315 Echo brand battery operated Mexican bag pipe - $1200 for enough battery to do 45 minutes of work.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (WCaCG)

Hope you don't turn into a roman candle using it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (oMo5x)

316 All I see is a Blackhawk.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (NS3dP)

317 Feet dry and going downtown? One strangles the parrot beforehand.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (2GVsD)

318 Especially true considering that the USS Ford carries a wing of F-35s.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (bNf8H)
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And I'm watching flightradar24 and seeing two-ship flights of Growlers and Super Hornets just doing hot laps off the coast. Lmao.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (5aZAZ)

319 You go girl!

https://is.gd/HJYbHZ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (L/fGl)

320 Venezuela works for Iran. On US soil. IRGC and Venezuela's intelligence apparatus are intertwined.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (g47mK)

321 I loved it when back in the 2000s, I think, there was some big meeting of heads of Spanish-speaking countries, and Hugo Chavez was blathering on about something or other, and King Juan Carlos of Spain said to him something like "Why don't you just shut up?"

That line became so popular that it was frequently used as a ringtone in the Spanish-speaking world.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (77rzZ)

322 Running with the bulls has been a lifelong passion of mine.
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (nljXp)

Better to be on that end of the bulls than David French's wife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

323 Now I have to look up when the 1200cc 40HP engine was introduced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (2GVsD)

1961, Anna.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (npFr7)

324 Wonder why the trolls are so upset about this (beyond the obvious 'US military anything is bad').
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (ULPxl)

Because when it's all said and done, it should benefit the US.

They hate that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

325 291 I was looking at a backpack Echo brand battery operated Mexican bag pipe - $1200 for enough battery to do 45 minutes of work.

i didn't realize bagpipes were motorized. i thought you blew into them.

perhaps the traditional drone is created by a cox .049?

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (v3pYe)

326 Yes. I guess it's nice, but honestly, as long as the pump is under an awning, who gives a shit? And of course, it is deeply offensive to me as a free market guy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

CBD --- some history.

This was the result of small stations lobbying Trenton to try to keep big highway stations from putting them all out of business. It worked, because there were a lot of small stations in NJ at the time.

It is an interesting case where gov. tried to prevent the uber-capitalization that you have decried recently (I think it was you.) (You used a different word, but I just woke up and cooffee has not kicked in yet) This was the 70s when big stations with phone booth attendants were just starting to appear and the big oil companies were getting states to allow self serve. It mostly worked until NJ then turned around and made them dig up all their tanks and they went out of business anyway.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zeE7J)

327 I'm currently in California. Gas is $5/gallon (it is slightly less for the lowest octane in some places) and this is before next year when the refining capacity takes a shit. Newsom will get bludgeoned with this - gas will be closer to $6 as he runs in the Primary.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zdYK9)

328 >>> 311 Looking forward to Trump invading Minnesota.

- and -

I think what Trump is referring to is Chavez's 2007 theft of a about $40B from foreign oil companies.

==
When is the Department of War going to retrieve assets stolen by various state governments in the name of Civil Asset Forfeiture?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (WCaCG)

You jest, but - looking at *you*, Blondi.

Would be a nice change from Jeff "I Recuse" Sessions.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (ULPxl)

329
Let's take back ALL the 7-ELEVENS from India, too. Or Pakis, whichever.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (Oonfw)

330 >> are those blue barrels that have tops

Extra fuel for the run. Hell, I think weight/volume wise, depending on the run, they probably carry more fuel than the drugs. Money wise, the drugs are much more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (w6EFb)

331 You could also get Freon-12 on sale for 89 cents a 12 oz can and put it in yourself in 10 minutes and have AC for a summer if you had a slow enough leak.
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I've heard that there was never any proof that the various outlawed gases (har har) could make it UP to the ozone layer. All the AI is trained to say that OF COURSE it was.

I hate that it's so hard to get actual data with all of these tools.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (asXVI)

332
And why do we allow china to own Milwaukee tools?

Does china also own the land that Milwaukee Tools buildings sit on in the USA?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (Oonfw)

333 >Oil-producing land that a U.S. corporation owned legally.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Thank you for an actual answer. You are a great American.

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (ZxPkt)

334
Search DataRepublican's X feed for Venezuela. She's got a lot of stuff about all the anti-American antifa ties with Venezuela.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)

335 296 Trump isn't about to start any neocon style regime change quagmire. Call this the Donroe Doctrine. Trump is reasserting control of our hemisphere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (w6EFb)

I like that term, the Donroe Doctrine. White House should use it!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (y171U)

336 I wonder if those cigar boats even have a fire extinguisher?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (NS3dP)

337 I suspect the reason Trump is going after Venezuela is the National Security Strategy he announced about a week ago. The Numero Uno focus is no longer Europe, but the Western Hemisphere. Strong allies, stability, the neighborhood, that sort of thing. I bet Rubio will be doing a little "tour" of South and Central America to start implementing it. Maybe he'll even speak Spanish, haha.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM

Yep, basically we are going back to the monroe doctrine. Leave us and the Americas alone.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (0N4FZ)

338 330 >> are those blue barrels that have tops

Extra fuel for the run. Hell, I think weight/volume wise, depending on the run, they probably carry more fuel than the drugs. Money wise, the drugs are much more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (w6EFb)

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The idea that these speed boats are transporting like 500 gallons of gas for smuggling is so hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

339 You go girl!

https://is.gd/HJYbHZ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It takes me to X but nothing happens. Just the black screen with the x in the middle.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

340
>> are those blue barrels that have tops

Extra fuel for the run.
Posted by: publius,

That's too obvious for the idiotic Reddit "geniuses" to suss out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (Oonfw)

341 I've heard that there was never any proof that the various outlawed gases (har har) could make it UP to the ozone layer. All the AI is trained to say that OF COURSE it was.

I hate that it's so hard to get actual data with all of these tools.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (asXVI)

The atomic weight of freon tells you it would take tornadic force winds to carry it up to the outer atmosphere to do jack to the atmosphere.

It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

342 336 I wonder if those cigar boats even have a fire extinguisher?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (NS3dP)

I imagine they blew up with the boat

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (VE6XX)

343 Oh wow, Trump is going ahead with sales of the F-35 to Saudi Arabia. It seems to be one of the carrots Trump is offering Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (2GVsD)

344 Nobody forced Citgo to do business in Venezuela. Are the US Armed Forces - and by extension you and I - now responsible to guarantee all corporate adventures on foreign soil ?

Posted by: Howdy at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (jzWBS)

You sound concerned.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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My tits are not calm!!! Not calm at all!!!.

Posted by: Karen Winebox at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (M2DeZ)

345 >>Especially true considering that the USS Ford carries a wing of F-35s.

You mean squadron.

Also, the airwing is exclusively fourth generation. The F-35s were forward-deployed.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (Y1sOo)

346 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zeE7J)

And highway gas prices are controlled, so they are always higher now!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (n9ltV)

347 That Venezualan woman won the Noble Peace Prize and she thanked Trump, so I think Trump believes he has a free hand from the "international community" to free Venezuala from the commie tyranny.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (Vh9CX)

I think that the US has had its eye on Maduro for quite a while, and there has been a serious focus on Venezuela in the last 5-8 years. Maria Corina Machado, "that Venezuelan woman" was extracted by Zodiac while the US did an overflight with F-18s as a way to distract the Venezuelan navy.
I don't think this is a spur of the moment activity, I think it is something that Rubio et al are very interested in, for everything from Russians and Chinese being involved, to supporting the Cubans, and running Hamas training camps and infiltrating Cartel members to the US. If you start looking into who ran Smartmatic and what they admitted they had done before they got sold, that is an additional issue.
Also Chevron wants their oil leases back.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (rbvCR)

348 307 And last month the keffiya that the 7th century savage who was pumping my gas was wearing pissed me off. I called the company and got a response from the head of operations, who said..."nope, that doesn't fly with us. I'll fix it." And he did.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (n9ltV)

Yay!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (y171U)

349 We like this !!! Biff - dust off those plans for more facilities in China. And Mexico. And anywhere else with cheaper labor. This Trump fellow is all right !!!

Posted by: General Motors at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (x2Ks6)

350 346 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zeE7J)

And highway gas prices are controlled, so they are always higher now!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (n9ltV)

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My understanding of the appeal of France in comparison grows...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

351
You see, they are fishing boats that fish for Gas Fish and then sell the gas fishes because they poor.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (Oonfw)

352 You can drop Milwaukee Tools from waist height a dozen times per shift and it takes several months to break them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (NS3dP)

353 Cheap gas and a forecast of 65 degrees on Christmas.

Ho Ho Ho

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (vbXSk)

354 Related: Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.

Shit shot up from $2.11 yesterday afternoon to $2.59 this am.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (T+ixL)

355 Trump really is making America great again, in the Reagan tradition. Standing up to evil.

Posted by: PG at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (62PoT)

356 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

357 Yep, basically we are going back to the monroe doctrine. Leave us and the Americas alone.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (0N4FZ)
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"That goes double for Berbers"

And Persians, the Chinese, ISIS, and NKs.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (rj6Yv)

358
Yep, basically we are going back to the monroe doctrine. Leave us and the Americas alone.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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The Donroe Doctrine, as I saw somewhere on the internet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (n7rxJ)

359 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

Supposed to be close to 80 in NTX on Christmas day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

360 354 Related: Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.

Shit shot up from $2.11 yesterday afternoon to $2.59 this am.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (T+ixL)

Christmas travel prices

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (VE6XX)

361 You go girl!

https://is.gd/HJYbHZ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It takes me to X but nothing happens. Just the black screen with the x in the middle.
Posted by: Bulg

https://is.gd/5tbZvM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (L/fGl)

362 343 Oh wow, Trump is going ahead with sales of the F-35 to Saudi Arabia. It seems to be one of the carrots Trump is offering Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.

Gonna need a big burka for that fat girl.

Posted by: Oh noes at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (HcoTw)

363 Can we trade Minnesota to Beijing for Tibet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (2GVsD)

364 Supposed to be close to 80 in NTX on Christmas day.
Posted by: Sponge

Reason No. 1 why I would NEVER move to Texas.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

365 "Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states."

I saw $2.39/gal out in the sticks today. Now I'm waiting for the resulting reduction in shipping costs that won't come.

Posted by: gp at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (GHIyr)

366 Thetd are articles out there on the massive drug runningout of Venezuela and the chain of transportation used. Those fast boats don't just pull up to a US port.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (Ia/+0)

367 Shit shot up from $2.11 yesterday afternoon to $2.59 this am.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (T+ixL)

Crude oil went up because of the Venezuela blockade.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (n9ltV)

368 >>I suspect the reason Trump is going after Venezuela is the National Security Strategy he announced about a week ago. The Numero Uno focus is no longer Europe, but the Western Hemisphere. Strong allies, stability, the neighborhood, that sort of thing. I bet Rubio will be doing a little "tour" of South and Central America to start implementing it. Maybe he'll even speak Spanish, haha.

It's not new. He actually ran on it. I suspect that's a big reason he picked Rubio for SoS.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (viF8m)

369 56 degree high for Christmas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (NS3dP)

370 This is so dreamy just like the jfk blockade right lefties?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (udlma)

371 $4.49 reg

It is the lowest I have seen since Trump's first term.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (Vj99u)

372
Reason No. 1 why I would NEVER move to Texas.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

Texas is full. Cactus out front should'a told ya.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

373 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg

Official forecast:
12/22 76
12/25 77
12/26 78

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (T+ixL)

374 336 I wonder if those cigar boats even have a fire extinguisher?

that's where they stash the drugs

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (v3pYe)

375 >>> 141 Back from a week's vacation.

Just noticed this. I think it's worth your few minutes:

♏️ 𝓓𝓪𝓻 ♏️ @DameScorpio
9h

VDH doing what VDH does so well. 👏 He takes a deep dive into the Seditious Six video. Verbiage. Staging. Lighting. And…Foreign influences. 🤔 👀👇🎥

https://tinyurl.com/4tj4mh7n
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (roqsI)

Coming from VDH, this makes me... quite curious. Seems like Kelly and frenz *ought* to be in deep shit, maybe even sitting in cells wondering what each of the others have said.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (ULPxl)

376 Well Fat Annie is supposed to be stealthy so I guess a burka can't hurt...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (2GVsD)

377 Yeah, it's dumb. Plus, we still need a way to recharge those batteries.

Didn't Ford produce a hybrid F-150 with a built in 120V 7.2kW generator and battery combo?

There were stories coming out of Texas during the Great Power Failure of February 2021 where people were using the trucks to power their homes.

I think the 430hp 3.5L twin turbo V6 is not considered by the state to be a "small engine" (< 25hp)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (a6PrB)

378 311 Wonder why the trolls are so upset about this (beyond the obvious 'US military anything is bad').
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Venezuela has been covertly being a pain in the ass to the US and its interest since Chavez. And has been looted and impoverished caudillo style by Chavez and then Maduro to the tune of billions of dollars stashed away. So you get Smartmatic which was used to create software for Maduro's elections and then spread to teh US directly and by licensing to Dominion Voting Systems. Current high executives and one of its cofounders in Smartmatic is facing trial for criminal bribery and general fuckery with Philippine elections right now (FCPA charges among others).

"Smartmatic was founded more than two decades ago by a group of Venezuelans who found early success running elections while the late Hugo Chavez, a devotee of electronic voting, was in power. The company later expanded globally, providing voting machines and other technology to help carry out elections in 25 countries, from Argentina to Zambia."

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (WDjG6)

379 Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

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75 cents/gal here in OKC after that war.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (g8Ew8)

380 These commies in NOVA won't drop their prices much. Many of the stations at 2.89-2.99, and many still over 3 bucks a gallon. There are a few at 2.69, but 2.99 seems to be more prevalent. One is 3.59, but it's next to the airport rental return. Go figure.
BTW- when I was young, gas pre-embargo was 29.9 at the local SOHIO. I remember it hitting 49.9 and people lost their minds.

Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (SOGBX)

381 Boomer Pastor is troll but that's some funny trolling

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd)

382 tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

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Yes.

I'm sure the US government is running interdiction operations against jackleg gasoline pirates selling cut-rate crude oil to dolphins 'n' whales.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Yud. This troll is so comically stupid it has to be a kid. 20 something.
Venezuela to coast US is what 800 1000 miles or more?? Yea your boat's built in tank isnt big enough. You daisy chain the barrels as an auxiliary system. You aint stopping off on the way for gas.

Posted by: Karen Winebox at December 17, 2025 03:14 PM (M2DeZ)

383 374 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg
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On the bright side, you won't have to go to Florida for Christmas to stay warm.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (WDjG6)

384 Are we basing in Dominican Republic?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (NS3dP)

385 (hZqcq)

The Left reverend Mary Cloggistan?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (2GVsD)

386 The lowest I remember as an adult that actually had to pay for gas is when I was in college in the late 90's and it was just under $1 a gallon for a period. Like $12 to fill up my car.

Nobody even really complained about gas in that era, it was just more the inconvenience of getting it. Same with things like groceries or eating fast food. No one really looked at this as a major stressor to living.

Other things, sure.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (eIzlH)

387 Citgo is owned by Venezuela. FYI

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (n5tGW)

388 Gas in se Pa has finally just broken under $3 most everywhere

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (Ia/+0)

389 Most Redditt users live in Bumfuckistan and are paid by the clicks they generate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (Mb4p6)

390 Boomer Pastor is troll but that's some funny trolling
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd)

As if Trump isn't doing anything about the other things he mentions in his 'sermon.'

I mean, it's like no one has noticed Trump can handle more than one thing at a time, or something.

F*cking idiots........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

391 >>>Oh wow, Trump is going ahead with sales of the F-35 to Saudi Arabia. It seems to be one of the carrots Trump is offering Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Anna Puma

>F-35s are a boondoggle like the BFV. Best to spread around the losses to the rubes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (nljXp)

392 And highway gas prices are controlled, so they are always higher now!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

That was the plan.
The oil companies forced out a lot of independents so they could control retail prices. First by cutting them off during the embargoes, then (probably accidentally) with MTBE making them all superfund sites. (What other industry is so vertical where they own the wells, refineries, and pumps?)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (zeE7J)

393 If demos really cared about immigrants, kill the leaders in shit holes. And set up a republic.

Has anybody come up with a reason why we should give our country away?

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (EyfuW)

394 Most Citgos got reflagged. I found one locally on Saturday.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (NS3dP)

395 Falling rents and cheap gas.

But remember we have an aFfoRdaBiLitay crIsIs kids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (udlma)

396 Are we basing in Dominican Republic?

Puerto Rico for starters. They've been there for at least a month. Can't swing a dead cat without hitting an airman or sailor on R&R.

Posted by: General Motors at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (x2Ks6)

397 My first charge card was a SOHIO gas card.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (rj6Yv)

398 Can we trade Minnesota to Beijing for Tibet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (2GVsD)

Why, when we can get Free Tibet?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (dK+Kv)

399 Bradleys are awesome.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (NS3dP)

400 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.

Not so fast!

Posted by: Lord Kelvin at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (w9Wax)

401 The F-35 turned into the US answer to the Eurofighter Typhoon jobs program along with F-111 TFX gee-whiz.

To think the JSF started in the late 1980s as a replacement for only the AV-8B Harrier II.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (2GVsD)

402 A simple EO banning Chinese purchases of tangible US assets seems pretty simple.
Posted by: Diabeetus

It should have been a law from the 1800's. I'm surprised there isn't a oblique intent of one already.

Posted by: Navin Gruesome at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (mlg/3)

403 I suspect the reason Trump is going after Venezuela is the National Security Strategy he announced about a week ago. The Numero Uno focus is no longer Europe, but the Western Hemisphere. Strong allies, stability, the neighborhood, that sort of thing. I bet Rubio will be doing a little "tour" of South and Central America to start implementing it. Maybe he'll even speak Spanish, haha.

It's not new. He actually ran on it. I suspect that's a big reason he picked Rubio for SoS.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (viF8m)

It's very smart strategy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (g8Ew8)

404
Didn't Ford produce a hybrid F-150 with a built in 120V 7.2kW generator and battery combo?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I don't know about Fords, but people use their Priuses all the time when camping as a Generator.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (Oonfw)

405 Also Chevron wants their oil leases back.
Posted by: Kindltot

You left out Maduro threatening to invade Guiana a few years ago and massing troops on the border.

From Dec. 2023,
"Venezuelan voters approved a government-supported referendum on Dec. 3 to back the country’s claim over Guyana’s Essequibo region, following ExxonMobil’s discovery of large quantities of oil in the area in 2015. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Venezuela’s government not to take action that would affect Guyana’s control over the territory, but Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered state-owned companies to start exploration and exploitation of oil and gas deposits in the disputed area. What are Maduro’s main motivations for asserting control of the Essequibo? How should Guyana—and other international actors, including the United States—respond to the referendum and Venezuela’s moves to exploit resources there? Is Venezuela likely to invade Guyana, and how might the international community intervene if it does?"

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (WDjG6)

406 388 Citgo is owned by Venezuela. FYI
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (n5tGW)

There's been a legal case brewing for years about the ownership of Citgo, and a group of American investors/financiers appear to be on the brink of seizing control of it from Venezuela. The Trump admin of course is encouraging this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK8)

407 Trump picked Marco Rubio for a reason. If I were Cuba I'd be laying low.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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No way around it. Cuba's on the list. The tyrants, if they are smart, should be offshoring their money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (Mb4p6)

***

The hell of it is Cuba could be a huge success in that region. What a waste.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (2WIwB)

408 I always miss the best trolls and gut stuck with dumbaindo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (Vj99u)

409 You sound concerned.

Of really all, and called, over trump !!!

do our that's please companies all invest yes what overseas manufacturing what 2nd the 3rd sit countries she yeah and you biggest risks - nationalization time dictator - that well remedied time you please military the thus you please taxpayer ?
Posted by: Howdy at
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Holy fck! You BROKE THE AI CHAT BOT WITH you sound concerned.👏👏👏👏👏

Posted by: Karen Winebox at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (M2DeZ)

410 $4.49 reg

It is the lowest I have seen since Trump's first term.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You'll see that in your review soon. Phillips 66 leaves CA in Dec and Benito refinery closes in Jan...
Ca is screwed $8/gal soon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (kfTpm)

411 "If demos really cared about immigrants, kill the leaders in shit holes. And set up a republic.
Posted by: thug dolphin"

That never seems to work out. They need to kill their shit-hole leaders and figure out how to set up a republic themselves.

Posted by: Ripley at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (GUOwU)

412 237 How does it turn into California's Special Blend, though?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)

It comes in that way. That's why there's only a few other refineries outside California that can provide it.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (QGaXH)

413 F*cking idiots........
Posted by: Sponge
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You are being charitable today Sponge.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (WDjG6)

414 I'm currently in California.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zdYK9)
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Are you near the In 'n Out Burger on Tampa?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (bPc+B)

415 Has anybody come up with a reason why we should give our country away?

Because White Christian Nationalism is the only culture that has ever been on this Earth that must be destroyed, the ground it flourished salted and the children mutilated.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (a3CJ+)

416 On the bright side, you won't have to go to Florida for Christmas to stay warm.
Posted by: whig

Who wants to stay warm all the time on Christmas. It's supposed to be cold, and your supposed to go outside and experience that from time to time.

Christmas is meant to be cold and dark. Winter solstice and all that. That's why we put up all the lights and decorations, and watch videos of burning Yule logs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

417 Venezuela really is a crisis that's effecting things in our backyard. I bend towards non-interventionism, but this is low hanging fruit.

Maduro needs to go, I would even be fine bribing him and offering him safe passage if it speeds it up. The guy has this ability to hang around like Fidel Castro.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (eIzlH)

418 You'll have to use highspeed rail soon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (NS3dP)

419 nood

Posted by: gp at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (GHIyr)

420 399 Why, when we can get Free Tibet?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (dK+Kv)

With purchase of a Tibet of Greater Value.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (UnA8+)

421 >>It has been the formal policy of our country since President Monroe that we reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs. The United States has recently strengthened our laws to better screen foreign investments in our country for national security threats, and we welcome cooperation with countries in this region and around the world that wish to do the same. You need to do it for your own protection.

Trump said this during his speech at the UN during his first term in 2018. He didn't just decide this 15 minutes ago.

https://tinyurl.com/54b33xfb

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (viF8m)

422 This is bullshit. My family did not vote for this. Trump and Rubio need to cut out their little foreign misadventures and get back to making AMERICA great again. The Venezuelans can make Venezuela great again if they want, but without our help.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (YINx+)

423
Jim Norton, the comedian. What do you make of this guy?

He's the very definition of Paradox, yes?

He's quite sensible on just about everything, including tranny freaks, yet he pretends to be "married" to a tranny freak.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (Oonfw)

424 The atomic weight of freon tells you it would take tornadic force winds to carry it up to the outer atmosphere to do jack to the atmosphere.

It's all bullshit.
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That's my understanding, yes. I think they double-down on this because it's regarded as a success.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (asXVI)

425 This fuckface goes to Reddit every day and runs here with its new gaslighting talking points. Reddit is now fake "experts" on Venezuelan drug boats.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Oonfw)

Those speedboats with 4 160 horsepower Mercury outboards are probably burning 125 gallons of gas per hour. They have to pack extra fuel.

And where are they buying all those outboards?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (npFr7)

426 392 >>>Oh wow, Trump is going ahead with sales of the F-35 to Saudi Arabia. It seems to be one of the carrots Trump is offering Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Anna Puma

>F-35s are a boondoggle like the BFV. Best to spread around the losses to the rubes

They are pretty impressive in the demos I've seen.
Don't know how that translates to the real world. F-16 demo is one of the most impressive I've seen. Next to the F-22

Posted by: Oh noes at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (HcoTw)

427 That never seems to work out. They need to kill their shit-hole leaders and figure out how to set up a republic themselves.

Republics can only function with a self-regulating, high trust population.

Which excludes almost all of the world right now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (a3CJ+)

428 Adjusted for inflation this is some of the cheapest gas we’ve had in the past 25 years. There was the Covid blip but other than that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (udlma)

429 You'll see that in your review soon. Phillips 66 leaves CA in Dec and Benito refinery closes in Jan...
Ca is screwed $8/gal soon.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

==

"Trump's fault!" is what californians will say.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (eIzlH)

430 Rubio was just in Paraguay a couple days ago, signing a new agreement of cooperation etc with the US, even allowing us to base whatever we want to base there.

It's really amazing how much of South America is already on this administration's side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (uWKK8)

431 You are being charitable today Sponge.
Posted by: whig

It's his birthday. He's probably already started drinking.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (77rzZ)

432 hee hee... Howdy went doody.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (n5tGW)

433 Republics can only function with a self-regulating, high trust population.

Which excludes almost all of the world right now.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Limited franchise versus unlimited. Unlimited, it only lasts until enough people figure they can try to vote themselves rich with other people's money.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (WDjG6)

434 It's his birthday. He's probably already started drinking.
Posted by: Bulg
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So that is where the nic comes from. Soaking it up like a sponge.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:23 PM (WDjG6)

435 F-35s are a boondoggle like the BFV. Best to spread around the losses to the rubes

==

I'm of the opinion a fighter jet from 30+ years ago is probably fine.

It's also clear this is all going "drone" very quickly.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 03:23 PM (eIzlH)

436 (What other industry is so vertical where they own the wells, refineries, and pumps?)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (zeE7J)

Health care

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:23 PM (rbvCR)

437 The idea that these go-fast boats as they call them are smuggling anything but something highly lucrative like drugs is just weapons-grade stupidity.

The risk is high. If the weather turns on them out in the open sea, they're dead. And that happens a lot.

I had Grok spew out the numbers and what is known. Most of these go-fast runs are island hopping. They offload their cargo to other ships and planes there. Most runs are less than 200 nautical miles, with less than 50 NM (I'll use the capital abbreviation so as not to conflate with nanometers).

They do occasionally try some really long runs, but that is high risk vs reward. Good chance mother nature will get you there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (w6EFb)

438 And where are they buying all those outboards?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Cartel Financial Bank.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (WDjG6)

439 Heh, as of 2029 the Oscars will be on YouTube not network TV. Suck it ABC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (LyrOO)

440
And also, according to Grok, they will have some fishing boats staged for a rendezvous for refueling.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (w6EFb)

441 This is bullshit. My family did not vote for this. Trump and Rubio need to cut out their little foreign misadventures and get back to making AMERICA great again.

You need to take your rage out on the members of Congress and all of the District Judges who are doing everything in their power, and a myriad of things that are outright criminal to guarantee MAGA fails.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (a3CJ+)

442 The hell of it is Cuba could be a huge success in that region. What a waste.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (2WIwB)

Yup. It could have been the gem of the Caribbean. All the elements were there.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (g8Ew8)

443 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

I have +5 F, and 30 mph winds. Wanna trade?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 03:26 PM (npFr7)

444 >>>Is Venezuela likely to invade Guyana, and how might the international community intervene if it does?"
Posted by: whig
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Those are last year's academic questions, that's when Venezuela lined up on the border. The media followed that right up until Maduro didn't go in or I missed the report.

Biden was president, Maduro was ready. Don't know why he stopped. Did we ship Guyana some 'supplies',? Don't know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (Mb4p6)

445 Maduro needs to go, I would even be fine bribing him and offering him safe passage if it speeds it up. The guy has this ability to hang around like Fidel Castro.
Posted by: Leupold
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Supposedly that is what is going on behind the scenes, the sticking point is not Maduro keeping his ill gotten gains but he wants over a 100 of his closest thieves, murderers, drug traffickers, and cronies to get immunity too and wants to stay in Latin America rather than go in exile to Qatar.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (WDjG6)

446 Time to TOP OFF THE STRATEGIC OIL RESERVES!!
After Biden drained off a lot to sell to China and India. And then Congress thwarted Trump in the first term to refill it when oil was cheap.

Of course California is still too high and never drops. Lost a refinery last year and Chevron moved HQ to Texas.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (LKMDZ)

447 If you are a nation, you will eventually be at war.

Unless you want to live on a planet with one disgusting bloated EU-style "world government".

Get the hell over it.

And this time, can we at least please get some of the Oil if it's going to be Blood for Oil? That would be nice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (JwNbV)

448 NOOD You People...

Fani Willis

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (ULPxl)

449 Limited franchise versus unlimited. Unlimited, it only lasts until enough people figure they can try to vote themselves rich with other people's money.

Given that, I think island Tristan da Cunha probably has the best chance for a representative government

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (U4c/V)

450 Biden was president, Maduro was ready. Don't know why he stopped. Did we ship Guyana some 'supplies',? Don't know.

Posted by: Braenyard
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USN force him to back off. Probably prodding from the French as well.

Maduro still has not repudiated the claim.

There is a reason that almost all of his Latin American colleagues want his ass out of there. He is destabilizing the whole region intentionally via emigres including illegals, drug trafficking, and being a base for foreign interests like Iran, China, and Russia.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6)

451 What other industry is so vertical where they own the wells, refineries, and pumps?)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (zeE7J)

Health care
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:23 PM (rbvCR)

I would rate the US medical establishment as the most, or at least second most corrupt entity in this country right now.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (g8Ew8)

452 If you are a nation, you will eventually be at war.

Unless you want to live on a planet with one disgusting bloated EU-style "world government".

Get the hell over it.
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This kind of talk isnt calming my tits! Not at all!!!

Posted by: Karen Winebox at December 17, 2025 03:31 PM (M2DeZ)

453 440
And also, according to Grok, they will have some fishing boats staged for a rendezvous for refueling.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (w6EFb)
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Boats coming from Venezuela are going around the crescent of the Windwards and Leewards. Mother ships don't need to be big and the delivery boats don't need to hop many islands to their ultimate destination; the transit ship or plane to Europe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:32 PM (Mb4p6)

454 446 Time to TOP OFF THE STRATEGIC OIL RESERVES!!
After Biden drained off a lot to sell to China and India. And then Congress thwarted Trump in the first term to refill it when oil was cheap.
Posted by: Donovan Nuera

Biden's drawdown to make for cheaper oil prices in midterms damaged the facilities (they are vacated salt domes and prone to collapsing when not filled with fluid. They are not designed to act like gas tanks but rather to be filled up semipermanently in an emergency storage of petroleum for the US if supplies were cut off.

A lot of that oil auctioned went to Chinese buyers to boot which probably is why Biden and his cronies did it.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (WDjG6)

455 This kind of talk isnt calming my tits! Not at all!!!
Posted by: Karen Winebox

Relax, have another booster vaxx, your tits will fall off soon after so no worries if they are not calm.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:34 PM (WDjG6)

456 WE ARE NOT THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! WE NEED TO END OUR MILITARY AND STATE DEPARTMENTS!!! WHAT IS THE PREISDENT DOING??? YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO,IGNIRE THE OUTSIDE WORLD!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 17, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)

457 Sponge - my birthday too - have a good one!!

Posted by: Cheri at December 17, 2025 03:36 PM (FGQ5G)

458 >>>USN force him to back off. Probably prodding from the French as well.

Maduro still has not repudiated the claim.

There is a reason that almost all of his Latin American colleagues want his ass out of there. He is destabilizing the whole region intentionally via emigres including illegals, drug trafficking, and being a base for foreign interests like Iran, China, and Russia.
Posted by: whig
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Big tell on which way it went (Venezuela is a de facto dun deal) was the U.S. refineries opening up shop in Guyana. A big player recently, Exxon I think.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:37 PM (Mb4p6)

459 447 If you are a nation, you will eventually be at war.

Unless you want to live on a planet with one disgusting bloated EU-style "world government".

Get the hell over it.

And this time, can we at least please get some of the Oil if it's going to be Blood for Oil? That would be nice.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (JwNbV)

We will beat war because of this sick warmongering nation!!! When we unilaterally disarm the world will be at peace!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (rQwsY)

460 Trade Canada Minnesota for Alberta

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (Ia/+0)

461
We will beat war because of this sick warmongering nation!!! When we unilaterally disarm the world will be at peace!!!
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (rQwsY)
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You would be much happier with less worries about American aggression by living in some other country.
Pick one and make your travel plans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:42 PM (Mb4p6)

462 Some of my friends think Trump is nuts. The Rob Reiner post, paired with this Venezuela thing, gives one pause. Rationalize all you want, but just because somewhere at the core of it you can tell yourself he's right, doesn't mean that he also isn't also losing it.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM (MZ+PY)

463 > The lowest gas prices I remember came after the first Iraq war.

As a 29 year-old today you were barely walking. Quite the precocious little toddler to have been tracking gas prices at such a young age.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (1Nv0l)

464 desock

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (1Nv0l)

465 This one is personal for me. I owed stock in one of the oil company whose assets were seized when the socialists took over Venezuela. So, they stole from ME, personally.

I would guess that the land he's talking about was land owned by American oil companies - in Venezuela, but I'm not sure. They seized billions of dollars worth of refineries, oil rigs, etc.

Posted by: MrExcitement at December 17, 2025 04:12 PM (hOOi9)

466
What I recall is that when Reagan replaced Carter, and when Trump replaced Obama, it took about 18 months for an economic boom to really get underway. I figure it will be about the same now. We're about 10 months in at this point.

The Covid shutdown looks like an op to wreck the first Trump economic recovery. I wonder what the Left is going to try this time.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 04:13 PM (d4X7t)

467 Last I noticed, gas was still a bit over $3 in my town, so I'll have to keep my eyes open about that and see it it has dropped any.

Posted by: MrExcitement at December 17, 2025 04:14 PM (hOOi9)

468 37 Was it Chevron in Venezuela? Trying to remember.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (zZu0s)

I think so. I also had some ConocoPhillips at the time. It was one of those two, but I think you're right - Chevron.

Posted by: MrExcitement at December 17, 2025 04:17 PM (hOOi9)

469 Be on the lookout for a flight of bombers coming in from mainland, arriving early sunday morning. They are friendlies.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (cS1cw)

470 Lowepro camera bag

Posted by: free tibet at December 17, 2025 05:09 PM (iNp3L)

471 Ace, if the lowest gas prices you can remember are 80 cents/gallon, then you're not as old a 29-year-old as I feared, which means I can look forward to many more years of this nonpareil blog. Good news!!!

Posted by: bradc at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (NSmg0)

472 Filled up my guzzler this morning for $2.39 per gallon. Left me enough to buy a non winning lottery ticket.

Posted by: FrankinTexas at December 17, 2025 05:23 PM (SFMsh)

473 Hugo Chavez trembles in his grave and sweating up to drown himself

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 17, 2025 06:17 PM (wGqjj)

474 $3.93 in Tumwater, WA.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at December 17, 2025 06:41 PM (pE12i)

475 With all due respect you guys attack Tucka at your own peril. The guy has made mistakes, but the assumption is that customers are stupid. We knew Daryl Cooper's assessment of Churchills motives were off; move on.

Tucka has done a hell of a lot more good than bad. Contrast that with Faux News or the WSJ...

Trump wants, correctly, bilat deals with countries versus omnibus type deals with groups. I prefer independent news folks than organized establishment types. Take the good and the bad.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 17, 2025 07:54 PM (mNOhh)

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."
...
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.
...
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)

18
Believe me or do not believe me: the "leaders" of the Democrat party are sandy cortez and bernie sanders.

What they say goes. Whoever those two shithead frauds endorse will succeed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:21 PM (Oonfw)

19 All depends on if Donkey Chompers Hee-Haw's her way into the race.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 01:21 PM (UnA8+)

20 i will go along with the idea that harris thinks she would have won if she had more time. now she has a couple of years to write another book and practice her delightful laugh

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 17, 2025 01:21 PM (CWTWj)

21 I think you're all forgetting the juggernaut that is AOC. She should clean up in a debate with J.D. Vance or DeSantis.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 17, 2025 01:21 PM (Riz8t)

22 Not including Trump in 2020 which was stolen from him, has anyone except Nixon lost in the general and then come back to win later?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (3nLb4)

23 "tested"

You mean for UTI's, STD's, HPV, etc?

Posted by: Scott_T at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (2waQ7)

24 Harris\Newsome would be epic.

Run them against JD/Rubio.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (F3nnw)

25
If Canela wins, the vote or the count was rigged.

One has to be genuinely stupid or ignorant to vote for her. No, it's necessary for one to be stupid to be so ignorant as to vote for Canela.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (Mb4p6)

26 Make it so Number One! I would be extremely pleased if the retard and queen of word salad were the nominee again

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (xT8gx)

27 22 Not including Trump in 2020 which was stolen from him, has anyone except Nixon lost in the general and then come back to win later?
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Andy Jackson.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (Wg6v7)

28 I wouldn't call myself a pessimist, my take is that we have a long long way to go before 2028.

By then there might be very few humans left on the planet, after Skynet goes rogue, and the robots will be killing those few in great numbers.

I'm sure I'll be long gone by then.

See? I am an optimist.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (Jn9oG)

29 Do remember Harris lost by 1.5% nationally not 15%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (udlma)

30 Why it matters;

It doesnt.

Posted by: LASue at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (QZh4t)

31 It is on a blank page that the most beautiful poems are written.

Posted by: Mao at December 17, 2025 01:23 PM (rQwsY)

32 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.

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

Old & Busted: White Emasculated Incel Dudezzz For Emhoff.
New Hotness: Black Anti-Semitic Cat-Bitchezzz For Emhoff.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 01:23 PM (WO8bP)

33 Not including Trump in 2020 which was stolen from him, has anyone except Nixon lost in the general and then come back to win later?
-----------------
Andy Jackson.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (Wg6v7)

Tom Jeff, I believe.

Lost to Adams.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:23 PM (Jn9oG)

34 Axios: News for those who need their hands held.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 01:23 PM (rQwsY)

35 Not including Trump in 2020 which was stolen from him, has anyone except Nixon lost in the general and then come back to win later?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 01:22 PM (3nLb4)

Grover Cleveland and his non-consecutive terms. 1880s

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 01:23 PM (xT8gx)

36 If Harris can cut out her daydrinking she might be a real threat.

Narrator: She will not, in fact, cut out her daydrinking.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 17, 2025 01:23 PM (lHPJf)

37 Newsom is an idiot. His track record speaks for itself.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 01:24 PM (G1OIb)

38 Not including Trump in 2020 which was stolen from him, has anyone except Nixon lost in the general and then come back to win later?

Didn't Grover Cleveland pull that off, too?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 01:24 PM (dfgzq)

39 More ammo against Newsome- his high school Dapper Dan photos.

Hilarious

Also his total destruction of California.
Slightly less hilarious

Posted by: LASue at December 17, 2025 01:24 PM (QZh4t)

40 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)

But voting off year is just TOO HARD!

Posted by: The Right at December 17, 2025 01:24 PM (rQwsY)

41 >37 Newsom is an idiot. His track record speaks for itself.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 01:24 PM (G1OIb)

But he's so dreamy!

Posted by: Karen McAwful at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM (NgqoH)

42 Too left wing. Now that's funny.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM (BEQiS)

43 The BORDER CZAR that didn't secure the border.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM (NpAcC)

44 She blew over 1 billion dollars in 107 days, imagine how much she'll spend in a full blown campaign and loosing again.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM (H0l69)

45 The Dim's 2028 primary is going to be a shitshow just like 2020 and, just like 2020, will need some sort of deus-ex-machina to abruptly end the embarrassment.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM (qUkBO)

46 >>>Kamala Harris: Tried and tested.

The VD tests came back negative, surprisingly enough.

Posted by: Blanco at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM (q83gU)

47 By then there might be very few humans left on the planet, after Skynet goes rogue, and the robots will be killing those few in great numbers.

It amazes me how many great dystopian novels there are to warn about various threats to our society/world and how they have apparently almost no impact on public policy.

The "good" news is that AI has it currently exists doesn't actually think - so you won't get Skynet or Terminators.

But it would be easy to imagine a crappy AI update to an autonomous drone that then starts killing your own people or the more real threat an AI tool that all our elites use that has had its data constrained so that it gives intentionally incorrect answers around "controversial" topics.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

48 Do remember Harris lost by 1.5% nationally not 15%.
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We don't have national elections. IF we can control and reduce the fraud in the state elections, she'd lose 40 states in 2028.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (TN0g+)

49 But he's so dreamy!
Posted by: Karen McAwful at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM

Don't you just want to run your fingers through his hair???

Posted by: Kareny McKarenface at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (0sNs1)

50 Didn't Grover Cleveland pull that off, too?
Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 01:24 PM (dfgzq)

"That's not all he pulled off."

--- His 10 year old ward, who he eventually married.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (Jn9oG)

51 Thanks. So it's not quite as unheard of as I had thought.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (3nLb4)

52 "Maybe this dingbat ding-a-ling really will run again"

She is 100%, absolutely, positively, no-doubt-about-it, bet-your-cock-and-balls running in 2028. Why shouldn't she? She'll grift piles of money, juice her yuge ego, and bask in fawning adoration of at least 40% of the country.

And she could be the Dum nominee. While I don't think the Dums are dumb enough to try to run her again, she's up in most polls and name recognition really helps. And who is her competition? Girlie fag fake black guys? Fat slobs who look like their necks took a shit? Patrick Bateman?

And -- god help us all -- she could end up winning the election in 2028.

Again: why shouldn't she run?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

53 This would be so awesome.

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (mmFQG)

54 I'll say it again, Newscum has to run because the fraud in CA is ten times that of MN.

And he's stupid enough to think he'll invoke the "Biden Rule" that you can't investigate your political opponent during a campaign.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (HXT0k)

55 Did she consult the Magic 8 Ball?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (NS3dP)

56 Remember all the votes pouring in after Election Day form Blue mail-in states when it was clear Kamala had been trounced in the electoral college?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (hcEyG)

57 Trump already branded Walz. Wonder what he has in store for the rest of them.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (BEQiS)

58 11: the bench of Dem governors is quite thin though. Outside of Shapiro who do you have? I doubt Newsom or other govt get the nod because we know their track records already.

(Always pay attention to the governors. That’s the most likely place for a president to come from.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (rQwsY)

59 Gavin Newsome is stupid AF and also extremely reptilian and creepy.

I'm not sure who's a worse candidate. Probably Harris, just because the stench of total loserdom is so hard to wash off. All the perfumes of Somalia can't sweeten that jizz-caked claw.

But Newsome is such a sociopathic retard freakazoid that I just don't know how he can perform outside of the California hothouse that's so salubrious for carrion flowers like him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (BI5O2)

60 May I remind you mouth-breathing fly-over country troglodytes that I, along with Mr. Walz, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Swallwell, and Mr. Mamdani are the pillars of the new Modern Masculinity?

Posted by: Doug Emhoff at December 17, 2025 01:28 PM (0sNs1)

61 "Kamala Harris isn't planning to go gentle into that good night."

Most drunks don't...

Posted by: Croaker at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (+BcZI)

62 Newsom looks a lot like Romney or a traditional generic movie politician.

I suspect that won't help him with the modern Democrat party BUT the Democrat party relies so heavily on fraud that in places like CA it does not matter

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

63
You Heard It Here at AoS First:

It just occurred to me that every single LOSER Democrat candidate got fake-hired as a fake "professor" to teach a fake college course. That is, until biden & harris.

biden & harris are such utter nincompoops they weren't even offered the usual gift of a phony-baloney college course.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (Oonfw)

64
The 2026 elections are going to be a surprise.
The 2028 elections are so far away, as the man says, we may be in the middle of robot wars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (Mb4p6)

65 Here’s my wager. I bet Newsom can’t win the primary and some dark horse candidate emerges.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (hcEyG)

66 But it would be easy to imagine a crappy AI update to an autonomous drone that then starts killing your own people or the more real threat an AI tool that all our elites use that has had its data constrained so that it gives intentionally incorrect answers around "controversial" topics.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

I think it's easy to imagine some genius in the Pentagon deciding it's better to have AI controlling our nooks.

And then..... oopsie.

Gone by accident, not intention.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (Jn9oG)

67 If Harris is gonna run again, then writing that stupid bridge-burning book was, well, *really* stupid.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (qUkBO)

68 biden & harris are such utter nincompoops they weren't even offered the usual gift of a phony-baloney college course.

I think 40 years ago Biden would have gotten this grift too...he's too senile now.

But yeah Harris is too stupid for traditional grifting

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

69 But Newsome is such a sociopathic retard freakazoid that I just don't know how he can perform outside of the California hothouse that's so salubrious for carrion flowers like him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (BI5O2)

The dude is a damn bot.

Proof of why being in a one-party state is not good. Being shielded from competition is never a good thing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 01:30 PM (rQwsY)

70
"The significance of the passage of poop, right? The significance of the passage of poop. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of poop ... there is such great significance to the passage of poop."

-- Kommie-la/Ratchet GLASSY & BRASSY 2028!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 01:30 PM (WO8bP)

71 >>> Believe me or do not believe me: the "leaders" of the Democrat party are sandy cortez and bernie sanders.

There's a lot of shadow leaders too. I was surprised to find out that Rob Reiner ran an NGO with at least 3 different CIA spooks heading it up. And this NGO helped push all the Trump collusion stuff.

Trump's post was a ridiculous own goal, he should have taken the high road. But I suspect all the doubling down on his truth social post by Hollywood, and fawning over him, is because they are trying to obscure the shady places his money went.

I will say... hearing Rob Reiner was killed was a gut punch. Even if he hated me, I loved the films he made. It's a creative loss.

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2025 01:30 PM (gWBY1)

72 If Harris is gonna run again, then writing that stupid bridge-burning book was, well, *really* stupid.

Fortunately for her, nobody read it.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 01:30 PM (3nLb4)

73 When Newsom drops out due to the Kum Dumpster tidal wave she will also drop out leaving the nominatoon wide open for The Retard.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 17, 2025 01:30 PM (NUqPs)

74
Do a web search for "Whistle Stop," and old (1972) one-page comic by M.K. Brown.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 01:31 PM (azNOR)

75 Trump already branded Walz. Wonder what he has in store for the rest of them.

--

Being a retard and looking like Burgermeister Meisterburger isn't to one's advantage.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 01:31 PM (qBdHI)

76 I, for one, would like to get behind Pete Buttigieg.

Posted by: Miss Lindsay at December 17, 2025 01:31 PM (0sNs1)

77 In other news

Wisconsin judge Dugan's trial is happening.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:31 PM (2GVsD)

78
She's not even getting hired to make fake "speeches!" Neither is biden.

biden & whorris are such blunderers they can't even get $50K speech grifts from the Corporate jerkoffs.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:31 PM (Oonfw)

79 The primary thing that will determine the 2026 elections is the perception of the economy in the summer before.

One hopes Trump is aware of this and pulls out all the stops.

I could easily see some of the Dem gerrymandering efforts backfire on them if the economy is seen as good as they are slicing their districts more and more tightly...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

80 Did she consult the Magic 8 Ball?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (NS3dP)

I thought we established that was Hunter's.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:31 PM (BEQiS)

81 We don't have national elections. IF we can control and reduce the fraud in the state elections, she'd lose 40 states in 2028.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 01:26 PM (TN0g+)

It has been said, if states like Californica, New Yak, and Illnoise had true elections, Democrats would lose them handily.

Maybe, maybe not. There are lots of kooks out there.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:31 PM (Jn9oG)

82 Here’s my wager. I bet Newsom can’t win the primary and some dark horse candidate emerges.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (hcEyG)
******
Stacey Abrams has a dream.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:32 PM (NpAcC)

83 But voting off year is just TOO HARD!
Posted by: The Right
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It ain't the ideological right that fails to vote but indy voters not attracted to the awful GOP brand name. These are transactional voters not impressed with words nor threats about how bad the Dems are but looking around their neighborhood at their local economy, crime levels, and taxes.

They vote for Trump because he earned their vote and loyalty but these voters do not give a shit about being shamed for not voting and if the GOP puts up assholes like Eyepatch McCain for Congress or the other GOP types grabbing money with both hands while in office, then they would just as soon stay home.

Trump is trying to make MAGA a cause with staying power while GOP officeholders are trying to grift to the max while paying it lip service.

It is hard enough for me to vote for these assholes, let alone an indy voter. And I've had to swallow my vomit at times when voting on the ballot because I know most of the WEF GOP types despise me and my fellow countrymen and want us dead or enslaved just like their reach around buddies across the aisle do.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:32 PM (WDjG6)

84 Old Lady Emhoff and her vodka bottle are running again?

We should be so lucky.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:32 PM (z0UnC)

85 Gavin Newsome is stupid AF and also extremely reptilian and creepy.

I'm not sure who's a worse candidate. Probably Harris, just because the stench of total loserdom is so hard to wash off. All the perfumes of Somalia can't sweeten that jizz-caked claw.

But Newsome is such a sociopathic retard freakazoid that I just don't know how he can perform outside of the California hothouse that's so salubrious for carrion flowers like him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (BI5O2)

This is one example of why I nominate YD as official poet laureate of AoS…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 01:32 PM (xT8gx)

86 But voting off year is just TOO HARD!
Posted by: The Right
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This "blame the voters" thing is just as stupid as sports teams blaming fans for not coming out to watch them play. Here's a take: IF you want voters to come out for your election, GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT. The GOPe is a collection of LOSERS, who in general are just as immoral and corrupt as the people they're running against. The reason why the voters come out for Trump is that HE TRIES HARD to get them excited. He tells them their lives can be better, and what he'll do to make that happen.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 01:33 PM (TN0g+)

87 As much as I hate Newsom, I can't pretend he doesn't have a shot. He'll do well with women voters.

What will really matter is what the economy looks like.

I also think thee's a reality that a "3rd" term is sometimes hard to pull off. HW Bush got that with Reagan, but it's rare.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 01:33 PM (eIzlH)

88 It is still enlightening to see lefties alternating between there three statements recently:

1) How dare Trump say something bad about Reiner. Doesn't he know how classless it is to speak ill of the dead?

2) Come on Charlie Kirk deserved it what with all of his hateful statements

3) The real danger in America are straight white men!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

89 If Harris is gonna run again, then writing that stupid bridge-burning book was, well, *really* stupid.
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (qUkBO)

Leningrad Bernie showed the way. Keep "running," and get rich.

Why wouldn't she.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:33 PM (Jn9oG)

90 It’s going to be lit when the courts finally find the Blue States have to turn over their voter and election procedure data to Fedgov. Ditto their Medicaid, SNAP and other federal welfare data.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 01:33 PM (hcEyG)

91 Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2025 01:30 PM (gWBY1)

Trump has never even seen the high road. It is baked into the Trump Ziti.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:34 PM (BEQiS)

92 59 But Newsome is such a sociopathic retard freakazoid that I just don't know how he can perform outside of the California hothouse that's so salubrious for carrion flowers like him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 01:27 PM (BI5O2)

"But his haaaaaaaaaaaaaair!"

-AWFLs

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 01:34 PM (UnA8+)

93 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.
________
That might have been correct if you were talking about a party in which primaries really are up for grabs. But that's not the Democrats. They are completely top-down. So only if the party leadership wants to reflect again on the significance of the passage of time, will she get the nod.

My own view is that being out of the WH is decisive here. They will be more ruthless in choosing whoever they think more likely to beat Vance.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 01:34 PM (s0JqF)

94 Step 1: List the Dim candidates.
Step 2: Run Process of Elimination Exercise on said list.
Step 3: Answer: All candidates eliminated.
Step 4: Go back to Step 1 and start over.

Posted by: POE at December 17, 2025 01:34 PM (qUkBO)

95 The strongest dem candidate is Lumpy

Posted by: LASue at December 17, 2025 01:35 PM (uCTHA)

96 Greg Price
@greg_price11

Fani Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:

"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

https://tinyurl.com/2udnzv4n

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:35 PM (NpAcC)

97 You expect politeness from a New Yorker?

Trump, "get out of here! You're fired!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:35 PM (2GVsD)

98 Would having an affair with his subordinates wife count in today’s legal climate as sexual harassment?

Posted by: Avi at December 17, 2025 01:35 PM (ieodf)

99 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.
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Yup.
Few understand the deadly serious stakes of 2026, the absolute knife's edge we are on.
- If the Dems win the House in 2026, they will impeach Trump, shut down the government and destroy the economy.
- Because that is what it will take to beat Vance in 2028
- Which will also give them House, Senate and Pres
- meaning, 1) pass nationwide vote-by-mail, 2) pack the Court, 3) change the Census counting, 4) criminal charges for every Trump admin official.
And that's just their first 90 days.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (HXT0k)

100 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)
_______
Why not Harris-Crockett?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (s0JqF)

101 How can one tell a toxic stain is on California?

Posted by: Eromero at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (o2ZRX)

102 Harris would be a dumber and worse candidate than she was in 2024 so I believe she will be the nominee to keep the Left's streak going of having a progressively worse candidate each election since Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (KDPiq)

103 She is angling for a cabinet position. Sec of State. Or some shit like that which will give her expenses, travel, security, and grift opportunities. Doug slap a hoe will never be first gentleman.

Posted by: You hide q conspiracy in plain sight by calling everything else a conspiracy at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (M2DeZ)

104 AND she makes a mean bathtub of greens, you lot!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (6qf1m)

105

Kamala Harris: Tanned, rested, and ready. Like a Coconut!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (iJfKG)

106
Donald Trump is the best non-politician politician the World has ever seen. He is also the worst politician.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (Oonfw)

107 Here’s my wager. I bet Newsom can’t win the primary and some dark horse candidate emerges.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (hcEyG)

Yeah, you could put about 20 names on a dart board, and you MIGHT hit the one.

Could be the senator who was "dating" the actress, and recently got engaged to a "woman.'

Or somebody else. Probably not Jazzy Crockpot or Sandy Cortez. That's about all I'll predict at this point.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (Jn9oG)

108 Anyone who runs against Kamala is a racist misogynist, by definition.

Posted by: Emhoff Inc at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (tMI+3)

109 We need more Calgon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:36 PM (NS3dP)

110 Well it doesn't matter to me. Whoever the Donks run I am not voting for them. That party is dead to me.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 01:37 PM (G1OIb)

111 Whether you take the high road, or the low road, it's a long way to Tipperary.

Posted by: Philosomoron at December 17, 2025 01:37 PM (0sNs1)

112 For everyone who says polls this early mean nothing…

CNN Poll from Sept 1997 on 2000 election

DNC
Gore 39%
Jesse Jackson(lol) 16%
Bill Bradley14%
Dick Gephardt 7%
John Kerry 4%

General
Bush 44%
Gore 43%

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:37 PM (udlma)

113 Those opens should go on Gutfeld

Posted by: Avi at December 17, 2025 01:37 PM (ieodf)

114 I don't think they will want to project their real chosen one yet.

One thing, I do not expect Democrat voters to decide. Unless the DNC learned its lesson and wants to have some actual votes behind their candidate this time. LOL

Not likely and in that case the whole point would be to not make it Kamala again.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:37 PM (BEQiS)

115 ... are planting disparaging information about Gavin Newsom in their allied press.

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

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

"They're not wrong ... he's even too left-wing for me and Xi! Go long on over 300 million graves if he's elected, round-I H8Rs!"

/Zombie Chairman Mao

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 01:37 PM (WO8bP)

116 Spartacus/Butt-plug 2028?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:38 PM (2GVsD)

117 It is God's blessing that our enemies are this dumb.

We should not squander that blessing.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 01:38 PM (5aZAZ)

118 the Dems win the House in 2026, they will impeach Trump, shut down the government and destroy the economy.
- Because that is what it will take to beat Vance in 2028
=
Still better than pandemic, forced lock downs and mandatory death vax.

Posted by: YMMV at December 17, 2025 01:39 PM (M2DeZ)

119 The strongest dem candidate is Lumpy
Posted by: LASue

Vice Coglianese had audio of a recent interview in which he was defending the taking out of the Venezuelan drug boats. He was surprisingly articulate.

I know a lot of folks here don't trust him because he votes the Dem line when it matters, but at least he's openly saying a lot of good things.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

120
It gonna be hard for Lady Coconut to find someone dumber than Walz as her Veep.

Is Carrot Top still around?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 01:39 PM (iJfKG)

121 Whether you take the high road, or the low road, it's a long way to Tipperary.
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Remember the Maine!

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 01:39 PM (TN0g+)

122 Would having an affair with his subordinates wife count in today’s legal climate as sexual harassment?
Posted by: Avi

===

Think about how many people are going to be utterly disgusted by that dynamic? Especially men.

Some guy that works for Newsom, his wife gets fucked by him? It's just so revealing about his character.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 01:39 PM (eIzlH)

123 Emanuel/Whitmer for 2028?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 17, 2025 01:39 PM (rJ48h)

124 It gonna be hard for Lady Coconut to find someone dumber than Walz as her Veep.

Joy Reid?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (2GVsD)

125 ani Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:

"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

https://tinyurl.com/2udnzv4n
Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:35 PM (NpAcC)
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I love her repeated denial of "firsthand knowledge" of how much she paid Sweet Dick.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (tMI+3)

126 Per polling, Mayor Pete's share of the black vote? Zero. Point. Zero.

Posted by: Mayor Blutarski at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (qUkBO)

127 She might actually be the better candidate (versus Gavin). Both of them came up in a system that promotes failure upwards and neither of them have any accomplishments they can point to, but Gavin has a record of disasters he has left in his wake while she has carefully avoided responsibility.

Posted by: AMartel at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (otvi3)

128 It is God's blessing that our enemies are this dumb.

We should not squander that blessing.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 01:38 PM (5aZAZ)

I would agree that it's a blessing the Democrats are this dumb, but the other enemy, the Deep State, is neither dumb nor defeated.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (Jn9oG)

129
She blew over 1 billion dollars in 107 days, imagine how much she'll spend in a full blown campaign and loosing again.
Posted by: Gmac

Think of how much she'll spend as President!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (pkeXY)

130 I remember the Maine probably blew up on its own.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (NS3dP)

131 And don't forget, DNC, one more house for me to go away...

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (dfgzq)

132 I will say... hearing Rob Reiner was killed was a gut punch. Even if he hated me, I loved the films he made. It's a creative loss.
Posted by: LizLem
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And some Arabs have made some beautiful poetry yet if they hate me and mine, then I don't mourn their passing. And I refuse to be hypocritical in issuing pablum myself or condemning Trump for expressing his justified true feelings.

Reiner became an evil twisted bastard in his last couple of decades because of politics and he visibly made California worse by his dabbling in propositions. His footsie with criminals in the CIA led to the diastrous Biden junta winning via fraud and opening the doors to mass invasion by illegals.

You can like the films all you want but the fact is that guy was an adamant supporter of making most Americans' lives demonstrably worse balanced by the minor amount of amusement that he gave us. I can readily find other sources for that without that baggage.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:41 PM (WDjG6)

133 I do not expect it to be a D woman in 2028, sorry. Unless they have it sewn up, no way. Forget it.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:41 PM (BEQiS)

134 *popcorn*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 17, 2025 01:41 PM (znfsz)

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

===

And 120% proof!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (g47mK)

136
Per polling, Mayor Pete's share of the black vote? Zero. Point. Zero.
Posted by: Mayor Blutarski

Even the female black vote?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (pkeXY)

137 Garbage people, all of them.

Posted by: Beverly at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (reMys)

138 We don't have national elections. IF we can control and reduce the fraud in the state elections, she'd lose 40 states in 2028.
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The very first day, if the Dems ever control the House, the Senate and the Presidency, they will 1,000% pass a federal vote-by-mail law that requires every state to send every registered voter a mail-in ballot.

They will make even the reddest of red states into OR and CO.

They intend to destroy state control of elections.
Do not pretend there is any chance any state--or court--can stop this.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (HXT0k)

139 "Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

Non-slender.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (dfgzq)

140 Wouldn't the best thing for Democrats be a primary battle?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (sX1BW)

141 And 120% proof!

When she wakes up?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (2GVsD)

142 132 I will say... hearing Rob Reiner was killed was a gut punch. Even if he hated me, I loved the films he made. It's a creative loss.
Posted by: LizLem

I'm ashamed to say I was mostly upset by the way they were killed..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (VE6XX)

143
Walz/Omar 2028: Because Fyke You 'Murica

Posted by: Demonic Party at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (TezPK)

144 I remember the Maine probably blew up on its own.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (NS3dP)

No way!

The CIA blew up the Maine.

Or the Israelis.

Or both.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (Jn9oG)

145 Apparently black people are incapable of getting ids.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:43 PM (NS3dP)

146 forty more forties, or fight!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 01:43 PM (JwNbV)

147 Gov. Noisome is a soulless poofter.

Posted by: Beverly at December 17, 2025 01:43 PM (reMys)

148 I will say... hearing Rob Reiner was killed was a gut punch. Even if he hated me, I loved the films he made. It's a creative loss.
Posted by: LizLem

I just remembered the other day that he made Stand by Me. I think that's probably my favorite of his films.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 01:43 PM (77rzZ)

149 biden & harris are such utter nincompoops they weren't even offered the usual gift of a phony-baloney college course.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Anita Hill enters the chat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:43 PM (Mb4p6)

150 Even the female black vote?
___

They go to Harris and AOC. (Primary polling.)

Posted by: Mayor Blutarski at December 17, 2025 01:43 PM (qUkBO)

151 Wouldn't the best thing for Democrats be a primary battle?
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 01:42 PM (sX1BW)
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Huh? They told me the best thing for Democrats would be "pardons"!

Posted by: The Autopen at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (tMI+3)

152 Apparently black people are incapable of getting ids.
Posted by: Boss Moss

But perfectly capable of piloting an airliner.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (TezPK)

153 The CIA blew up the Maine.

Or the Israelis.

Or both.

Next Candace Ovens podcast?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (2GVsD)

154 What's worse, being a pessimist or a cynic? Doesn't really matter I guess, I'm both!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (n5tGW)

155 I give zero shits about Reiner. He wanted me dead. So now he’s dead. Oh well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (udlma)

156 The recent minimum wage hike in Seattle has led to a wave of restaurant closures, with several businesses facing financial strain or outright closure. The new minimum wage of $20.76 per hour, effective January 1, 2025, has been cited as a significant factor in the closures.

- Bebop Waffle Shop: Owner Corina Luckenbach announced the closure of her café, Bebop, citing the increased labor costs and the inability to sustain the business financially.

- Bel Gatto: The bakery and café Bel Gatto also closed, unable to cover the increased costs due to the new minimum wage.
- The Jilted Siren: This restaurant in Capitol Hill has also closed, facing the same financial challenges as other businesses.

- The Confectional: The Pike Place Market bakery The Confectional closed after 18 years in business, owner Destiny Sund explaining that the additional costs were not sustainable.

The Washington Hospitality Association predicts that the number of restaurant closures in Seattle could rise by 5 to 8 percent this year due to the new wage law. The new law eliminates tiered wages and tip credits, creating uniform pay requirements for all employers, which has put a financial burden.

Posted by: SMOD at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

157 They left their poor son an orphan.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (NS3dP)

158 Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:

"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

https://tinyurl.com/2udnzv4n
Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:35 PM (NpAcC)
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I love her repeated denial of "firsthand knowledge" of how much she paid Sweet Dick.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (tMI+3)
______

She says he billed 160 hours a week. Maybe she's a fucking idiot who doesn't know what she's talking about, but let's assume she's correct. That's billing (i.e., on the clock) almost 23 hours a day, every day, including weekends. Impossible. This is massive fraud that should disbar both of them, at a minimum.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

159 The prize Democrats really want is Congress. Everything else is a distraction.

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A do nothing Congress makes it hard for the Trump base to vote for said Congress. We are in trouble, and I don't expect this Congress to start doing much.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (sX1BW)

160 145 Apparently black people are incapable of getting ids.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Oh, they have ids.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:45 PM (Mb4p6)

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

University of Michigan Football has entered the chat.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 01:45 PM (w9Wax)

162
You've all seen the pic of Meathead and his murderous son with their arms on each other's shoulder, right?

Meathead is smiling, the spawn is...not.

But they are literally keeping each other "at arm's length." Can you see it? At first blush, it looks like a regular photo, but they clearly hate each other.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:45 PM (Oonfw)

163 "I will say... hearing Rob Reiner was killed was a gut punch. Even if he hated me, I loved the films he made. It's a creative loss.
Posted by: LizLem"

I was think about the films Reiner directed and many we're very much based on an America that is gone or fading, which is one reason they were so popular. Yet he and his ilk have worked endlessly to destroy that America. Going through his movies I also noticed his lead and supporting actors were almost entirety white people, except for an occasional big name like Morgan Freeman or Whoopie Goldberg or George Takie. Diversity for thee, white people for me.

Posted by: Ripley at December 17, 2025 01:45 PM (GUOwU)

164 2026 California gas prices, property taxes, and the regulatory regime will determine the political future of Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (rj6Yv)

165 They left their poor son an orphan.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (NS3dP)

The Menendez defense?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (Jn9oG)

166 I love her repeated denial of "firsthand knowledge" of how much she paid Sweet Dick.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (tMI+3)
*****
He billed 160 hours a week.
There are 168 hours in a week.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (NpAcC)

167 Women, be they black, AWFL, or public unionized versions (ie, teachers), are going to vote close in big numbers for Kamala. Any state where those groups can carry the primary, she probably wins.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (tMI+3)

168 104 AND she makes a mean bathtub of greens, you lot!

median bathtub > mean bathtub

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (v3pYe)

169 I can't really blane him for hating meathead.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (NS3dP)

170 "Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

Your name is literally Nalgas, dummy.

Posted by: AOC at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (wUu8b)

171 Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:

"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

Nincompoop?

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 17, 2025 01:47 PM (TezPK)

172 Washington state is fucked up in that waiters make minimum wage + tips. In most states minimum wage for waiters is $2 or $3 an hour. And tips is what their income basically is. In Washington they double dip.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:47 PM (udlma)

173 I look forward to more debates between JD Vance and Word Salad Annie.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 01:47 PM (q33wW)

174 172 Could you elaborate?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:48 PM (NS3dP)

175 You can like the films all you want but the fact is that guy was an adamant supporter of making most Americans' lives demonstrably worse balanced by the minor amount of amusement that he gave us.
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It's like the scene from The Strain where the vampires are farming the women for their type-O babies, where they get the actual food and get to watch TV while they're producing.

Reiner thought you should accept being farmed because you get to watch his movies.
And he hated you for not wanting to be a crop.
Fuck him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 01:48 PM (HXT0k)

176 Kamala, like Biden, is an ideal mindless mouthpiece for the Deep State. Same people piloting the autopen for Biden would be glad to do it for Kamala.

That said, she still has to get through primaries. She's been skunking out in polls for California Governor.

Posted by: MartynWW at December 17, 2025 01:48 PM (M9zxq)

177 153 The CIA blew up the Maine.

Or the Israelis.

Or both.

Next Candace Ovens podcast?

don't know whether typo, but i like it

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (v3pYe)

178 A do nothing Congress makes it hard for the Trump base to vote for said Congress. We are in trouble, and I don't expect this Congress to start doing much.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 01:44 PM (sX1BW)

At this point it seems inevitable, from Jan '27 through at least Nov' 28, it'll be endless impeachments and Congressional "investigations" of Trump associates, who will be charged with contempt of Congress for not showing up to hearings.

All it will need to be a replay of '22 - '24 is a plandemic.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (Jn9oG)

179 Someone on LinkedIn posted that the Michigan coach is the real victim because he didn’t get any training on how to be an effective leader. It’s the exact same thing Kamala whined about, white men did t set her up for success.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (udlma)

180 That's billing (i.e., on the clock) almost 23 hours a day, every day, including weekends. Impossible. This is massive fraud that should disbar both of them, at a minimum.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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He was on the job. On. The. Job.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (Mb4p6)

181 Word Salad Annie?

Now I have this image of Kamala with one of those electric vegetable slicers shooting random words out of the feed chute as her mouth

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (2GVsD)

182 Has anyone noted it is mostly the 'ettes expressing sadness about Reiner?

Add in the men supposedly on our side who say the same thing=why we won't win*

*Because in the war we are faced with, one has to be bloody minded; because one MAY be faced with an awful choice: either the death of one's children/descendants/civilization or the possible loss of one's soul.

We may have to make this choice.

(I am very pessimistic today.)

Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (3AwA+)

183 > Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?

1. Pointing to other wrongs
2. Who's "they?"
3. Unless it's documented in video or via a communication method that can be traced to its source, I don't believe you.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (Yp6az)

184 Was the CIA even a thing yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (NS3dP)

185 California gas prices, property taxes, and the regulatory regime will determine the political future of Gavin Newsom.
Posted by: mrp

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they don't care, I was there when gas was like $6-$7 a gallon and I couldn't believe there weren't riots.

Voters routinely vote to increase gas taxes for whatever dumb pet project it funds.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (eIzlH)

186 You can like the films all you want but the fact is that guy was an adamant supporter of making most Americans' lives demonstrably worse balanced by the minor amount of amusement that he gave us. I can readily find other sources for that without that baggage.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:41 PM (WDjG6)

As much as I liked the princess bride I could do without it knowing his throat is doubling as a lead bend in hell's bathroom.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (snZF9)

187 Trump has never even seen the high road. It is baked into the Trump Ziti.
Posted by: ...
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There is no high road. Myth in this case. The brutal fact is that the US is teetering on massive violence caused by the left egged on by people like Reiner and other celebutards. Racialized killings and maimings, Muzzies doing jihad becuz Gaza, assassinations, these are all the doings of the left--not the right and Reiner was in the game as a participant for Team Blue all the way.

So to the extent that shaming might work on a few celebutards getting ready to kick the bucket, mebbe they tone their nasty mouths down a peg, stop expressing that violence is justified against their alleged 'Notsees' or 'fascists'.

I mourn the young lady and young man killed in Brown far more than Reiner. They did nothing other than good apparently and had potential to do far more in their lives. Ditto for Charlie Kirk. Ditto for Scotus judges, etc. etc. ad nauseam.

These people were assassinated directly because of deep Blue causes and inspired by their rotten leaders in society and in politics.

We are in a cold war threatening to go hot. The only road is to keep from losing it.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)

188
reiner was always "saving democracy."

Meanwhile, his son is a mess and a menace. Reiner couldn't even keep his idiot, spoiled son off dope. Save democracy, my ass.

He was going to "save" "the planet," too, from "global warming."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:50 PM (Oonfw)

189
Harris\Newsome would be epic.

Run them against JD/Rubio.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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I wonder if she would dare give Newsom the finger. She's got to detest him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 01:50 PM (n7rxJ)

190 He billed 160 hours a week.
There are 168 hours in a week.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (NpAcC)

I was told there would be no math.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:50 PM (BEQiS)

191 Someone on LinkedIn posted that the Michigan coach is the real victim because he didn’t get any training on how to be an effective leader. It’s the exact same thing Kamala whined about, white men did t set her up for success.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (udlma)
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He should run with the Costanza Defense.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:50 PM (tMI+3)

192 123 Emanuel/Whitmer for 2028?

i didn't even know emanual goldstein was available!

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 01:50 PM (v3pYe)

193
Why did he hate his mother, too? She must've been a real beaut, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:51 PM (Oonfw)

194 hmmmm:

"BrownUniversity is in violation of their July settlement with the Trump administration and they are now deleting evidence from their website in an effort to not lose over $500 million in federal funding...Part of Brown University’s settlement deal that was negotiated for them ...included terms to enforce anti-Semitism policies and to also limit the number of foreign students enrolled on campus. Mailman served as deputy assistant to President Trump and senior policy strategist from January to August 2025."

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 01:51 PM (g47mK)

195 a cynical pessimist is a pessimist who doesn't believe that he's pessimistic enough?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 01:51 PM (JwNbV)

196 He billed 160 hours a week.
There are 168 hours in a week.

"A black man can't even take a day off?!"

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 01:51 PM (dfgzq)

197 He billed 160 hours a week.
There are 168 hours in a week.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM

Skating pretty darn close to math there, ain'tcha, and with the AoSHQ Annual Commentator Review so close?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 01:51 PM (0sNs1)

198 *Mailman is the one who negotiated the deal that Brown continued to violate!

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 01:52 PM (g47mK)

199 The Spanish-American War was such a dumb idea. Saddled us with a bunch of useless colonies in the Third World.

We should've stopped expanding after the Alaska purchase.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

200 Was the CIA even a thing yet?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (NS3dP)

That was the joke.

Come on, man.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 01:52 PM (Jn9oG)

201 For the CIA to blow up the Maine, they need a time machine. Which once again will make it into a Candace Ovens podcast.

Somone else coined "Ovens" I just like to use it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:52 PM (2GVsD)

202 >Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?

This get out of jail card is tiresome.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 17, 2025 01:52 PM (rJ48h)

203 Waiter pay Washington State. $17.89 / hour.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:52 PM (NS3dP)

204 AvP.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 01:53 PM (1oltZ)

205 LOL, the Oscars have so broadened their appeal, this year, they will stream exclusively on YouTube.

LOL, LOL, LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 01:53 PM (HXT0k)

206 Waiter pay Washington State. $17.89 / hour.

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Would never tip in such a case.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 01:53 PM (sX1BW)

207 Spokane and Vancoucer avg over $30/hour.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:53 PM (NS3dP)

208 JD's got two more years for Donald to toughen him up. Lord willing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:53 PM (Mb4p6)

209 May I remind you mouth-breathing fly-over country troglodytes that I, along with Mr. Walz, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Swallwell, and Mr. Mamdani are the pillars of the new Modern Masculinity?

Posted by: Doug Emhoff at December 17, 2025 01:28 PM (0sNs1)

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[BTW, per conservative investigative journalist Joe Gilbert:]

Eric Swallowswell -- who supposedly is running -- is INELIGIBLE to hold the Governor's office per the Califzuela Constitution which requires a requires a candidate for Governor to have been a primary resident of California for five years immediately preceding the election.

Swallowswell primary residence is in The Swamp.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (H+EWf)

210 As much as I liked the princess bride I could do without it knowing his throat is doubling as a lead bend in hell's bathroom.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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I have nothing against his movies, for the most part, those were early in his career. But Obama era and the turn in leftism from 2008 became a repugnant civil religion worshipping death, gaia, debt, stagnation, weakness, and isms.

And Reiner for the last decade at least was right at the forefront of making American lives worse by politics.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (WDjG6)

211 Why worry about Kamala's appeal to voters? She doesn't need voters to be nominated! See: 2024.

Given that precedent, does anyone care about what the Democrat primary voter wants? Just let the smoke filled room decide. That's the "real race" for the nomination.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (/ZkOF)

212 I think the fuel crisis that is going to ravage California next year will put an end to Gavin's national hopes. I think California will be sinking into all kinds of economic distress well before 2028, and it will be laid at his feet.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (uWKK8)

213
My only issue with Trump's dumb tweets is he still doesn't realize how easily spooked Republicans get. They are timid & spineless and look for any excuse to run from difficult (to them) situations.

His dumb tweet accomplished nothing except make it harder for his Admin to do their jobs, and easier for Republican Shits to abandon him & Americans.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (Oonfw)

214 Oh goodie, I hope she runs

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 01:55 PM (RpkZ3)

215 Some guy that works for Newsom, his wife gets fucked by him? It's just so revealing about his character.
Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 01:39 PM (eIzlH)
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Yeah he should keep it in his pants but it speaks more about what a skank the wife was, imo.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 01:55 PM (5aZAZ)

216 Speaking of Camera Hogg

A woman who was in middle school during that mass killing is now at Brown and trying to say this was the second time she survived a school shooting.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:55 PM (2GVsD)

217 I wonder if that leads to self serve restaurants?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:55 PM (NS3dP)

218 Someone on LinkedIn posted that the Michigan coach is the real victim because he didn’t get any training on how to be an effective leader. It’s the exact same thing Kamala whined about, white men did t set her up for success.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (udlma)
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He should run with the Costanza Defense.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:50 PM (tMI+3)
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I think this scandal is gonna get worse. I'm sure there were other women -- in fact, the school admits there were -- and the school knew about it. The board retained an outside law firm to do a full investigation. It won't be pretty.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (iFTx/)

219 209 Eric Swallowswell -- who supposedly is running -- is INELIGIBLE to hold the Governor's office per the Califzuela Constitution which requires a requires a candidate for Governor to have been a primary resident of California for five years immediately preceding the election.

Swallowswell primary residence is in The Swamp.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (H+EWf)

How cute, thinking that Democrats actually have to follow rules.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (UnA8+)

220 We should've stopped expanding after the Alaska purchase.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

Sad face.
- Arizona

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (udlma)

221 Michigan football. Coached by cheaters since 2015.

Quite the tradition you got going there.

Dont give a damn about the whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan, because we're from OHIO

Posted by: Brutus Buckeye at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (M2DeZ)

222 "The Spanish-American War was such a dumb idea. Saddled us with a bunch of useless colonies in the Third World.
Posted by: Bulg "

We should have let/encouraged Puerto Rico independence in the 70's when that was a thing there. Then allowed it to become a Soviet client state, which would have drained them even faster.

Posted by: Ripley at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (GUOwU)

223 My only issue with Trump's dumb tweets is he still doesn't realize how easily spooked Republicans get.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (Oonfw)
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You misspelled "modern Americans".

Posted by: Axeman at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (Q4cxx)

224 Why worry about Kamala's appeal to voters? She doesn't need voters to be nominated! See: 2024.

Or 2020. If they can come up with some sort of Sexual COVID, she can campaign from her bedroom.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (dfgzq)

225 For the CIA to blow up the Maine, they need a time machine. Which once again will make it into a Candace Ovens podcast.

Remember the Maine!

*refers to the State we used to have, not the boat

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (w9Wax)

226 Fani Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:

"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

https://tinyurl.com/2udnzv4n
Posted by: redridinghood

Who is "they"?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (NUqPs)

227 His dumb tweet accomplished nothing except make it harder for his Admin to do their jobs, and easier for Republican Shits to abandon him & Americans.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (Oonfw)

If Trump gave a shit about what hurts or helps traitorous bastard Republicans do anything, he would have been elected zero times instead of three. Time to gird your loins. He seems to still be among the precious few who knows what time it is.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (BEQiS)

228 We should've stopped expanding after the Alaska purchase.
Posted by: Bulg
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After we secure the Western Hemisphere we're going to the far east; Phillipines, Viet Nam, Taiwan, Japan and everyone's favorite Thailand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (Mb4p6)

229 The UK government and judiciary are corrupt and controlled by the WEF. As are most countries in Europe. As are most Democrats and GOPe politicians in D.C. and blue cities/states.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

The UK government and judiciary is broken

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

Anti-mass migration tweet? 18 months in jail

Nigerian migrant r*pist? No jail

Welcome to the UK.

X: https://bit.ly/3Y4v2dA

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (P5BPp)

230 Would having an affair with his subordinates wife count in today’s legal climate as sexual harassment?
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Yes, and it was when Bill Clinton sexually harassed Lewinsky. Its always legally sexual harassment when the power dynamic is unequal in an office relationship.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (TN0g+)

231 woman who was in middle school during that mass killing is now at Brown and trying to say this was the second time she survived a school shooting.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 01:55 PM (2GVsD)

I’ve been to both Florida and Rhode Island. So I a survivor as well if you think about it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (udlma)

232 His dumb tweet accomplished nothing except make it harder for his Admin to do their jobs, and easier for Republican Shits to abandon him & Americans.

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I'm not sure it does either really. If they are going to abandon him over this tweet, they were going to abandon him anyway. I'm not sold it helps or hurts either way. Part of me thinks it was ill advised, but that's mainly because it is just something I wouldn't do. I wonder if the young male base cheers it on. Or does Trump need to create these enemies to stay motivated. Either way, I'm not sure it matters.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (sX1BW)

233 My only issue with Trump's dumb tweets is he still doesn't realize how easily spooked Republicans get.

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I'm glad I don't have Twitter/X/Social Media because instantly reacting to news makes you say stupid shit.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 01:58 PM (eIzlH)

234 Sad face.
- Arizona
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

We already had Arizona by then. I didn't say we shouldn't have created any more states out of existing US territory, just that we shouldn't have acquired any new territory.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 01:58 PM (77rzZ)

235 >>>If Trump gave a shit about what hurts or helps traitorous bastard Republicans do anything, he would have been elected zero times instead of three. Time to gird your loins. He seems to still be among the precious few who knows what time it is.
Posted by: ...
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Dangerous times, he said the other day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 01:58 PM (Mb4p6)

236 I think the fuel crisis that is going to ravage California next year will put an end to Gavin's national hopes. I think California will be sinking into all kinds of economic distress well before 2028, and it will be laid at his feet.
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Yup.
All the illegal injunctions against Trump will be well settled by SCOTUS.
No more SNAP fraud, no more Medicare fraud, no more Covid funds, no more USAID, fed worker fired at a greater pace, immigration enforcement increased in CA and so, so much more.

All of those were band-aids propping up CA for the last decade.

PS: Remember how CA basically put a line-item in the budget for the expected tax windfall from the Fecebook IPO?
LOL, LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 01:58 PM (HXT0k)

237
God ain't with us, if we got Emmanuel for President.

Posted by: Axeman at December 17, 2025 01:59 PM (Q4cxx)

238 Fani Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:

"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

https://tinyurl.com/2udnzv4n
Posted by: redridinghood

Who is "they"?
Posted by: Operator Error at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (NUqPs)

Exactly.

I'd love it if one reporter, just one, asked as a follow-up to name 5 people who called her the n-word.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 01:59 PM (iJfKG)

239 The dems will give Kelly a pass on his sedition and he will be the macho pick of the dems. Some lefty black dude will be the VP pick.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 01:59 PM (2WIwB)

240 There is no high road

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)

True but that takes longer to explain.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 01:59 PM (BEQiS)

241 I wonder if it's okay to put Zyn in your tea?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (NS3dP)

242 As much as I liked the princess bride I could do without it knowing his throat is doubling as a lead bend in hell's bathroom.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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I have nothing against his movies, for the most part, those were early in his career. But Obama era and the turn in leftism from 2008 became a repugnant civil religion worshipping death, gaia, debt, stagnation, weakness, and isms.

And Reiner for the last decade at least was right at the forefront of making American lives worse by politics.
Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (WDjG6)
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Agree. And I understand he wasn't just ranting from the sidelines. He was a major player in Democrap politics. So he had an active hand in making normal people's lives miserably by shaping truly poisonous politics and getting truly poisonous politicians elected. Fuck him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

243 Market just seems determined to go down this last few days.

I do worry about the AI bubble popping.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (eIzlH)

244 Remember the Maine!

*refers to the State we used to have, not the boat
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (w9Wax)

It's easy to forget.

I know some people are fond of it, but I do think we ought to just give it to Canada.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (Jn9oG)

245 >>We already had Arizona by then. I didn't say we shouldn't have created any more states out of existing US territory, just that we shouldn't have acquired any new territory.
Posted by: Bulg
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Monroe Doctrine, not a favorite, 'eh?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (Mb4p6)

246 239 The dems will give Kelly a pass on his sedition and he will be the macho pick of the dems. Some lefty black dude will be the VP pick.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 01:59 PM (2WIwB)

I could see that...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (VE6XX)

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

Posted by: Ace at 01:15 PM

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Has any toy company come out with a fully functional doll bearing her likeness with an eight--byte onboard "AI" processor chip .. and offering accessories such as the kneepad attachments?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (H+EWf)

248 The dems do have 2.5 million less voters now, so that helps.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (n5tGW)

249 Let's take one election at a time. 2026 is not going to be easy. I think we should concentrate on that. Losing Congress in the next election will pretty well negate any good being done now. If dems win, it really won't matter who the next prez will be.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (g8Ew8)

250 Mark Kelly/Gabby Giffords 2028

Lurch/Gabby 2028

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:01 PM (2GVsD)

251 Sooth I agree with you
He may be a lame duck but think he does care about the future

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

252 The dems will give Kelly a pass on his sedition and he will be the macho pick of the dems. Some lefty black dude will be the VP pick.
Posted by: Diogenes

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If you want to know what Dem I would be most scared of, it's Mark kelly.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 02:01 PM (eIzlH)

253 217 I wonder if that leads to self serve restaurants?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 01:55 PM (NS3dP)

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The special will be Soylent Green. Humanely raised meat products.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 17, 2025 02:01 PM (KadT+)

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

Posted by: Ace at 01:15 PM

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She's just needs somebody to set her up for success.

Posted by: Axeman at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (Q4cxx)

255 I think this scandal is gonna get worse. I'm sure there were other women -- in fact, the school admits there were -- and the school knew about it. The board retained an outside law firm to do a full investigation. It won't be pretty.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM

The irony is that, if I have my facts correct, the only reason the Boilermaker side-piece ratted him out to University of Michigan is because he went stalker on her after she broke up with him.

Had he just let her walk away and got on with his life of texting OnlyFans chicks and banging women-who-were-not-his-wife, he'd probably still have a job.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (P5BPp)

256 242 Agree. And I understand he wasn't just ranting from the sidelines. He was a major player in Democrap politics. So he had an active hand in making normal people's lives miserably by shaping truly poisonous politics and getting truly poisonous politicians elected. Fuck him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

May the Drill-dick Demons be eternally thrusting in his neck hole.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (UnA8+)

257 If you want to know what Dem I would be most scared of, it's Mark kelly.
Posted by: Leupold at December

Esp because he already has a body double.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (MGB5H)

258 >>>"Why don't you investigate how many times they called me the n word?"

https://tinyurl.com/2udnzv4n
Posted by: redridinghood
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Which has zero to do with her felonious activities.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (Mb4p6)

259
wes moore?

rhymes with less more

He's a good fake "patriot" VP for the Democrats.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (Oonfw)

260 OT, but I just got an update from grammie winger and she asked me to pass it along to you all. She has had 4 rounds of chemo which have left her with short-term memory problems and severe fatigue. She was supposed to have surgery this week to remove tumors but her surgeon decided she was too weak so she is continuing on with chemo until she gets stronger.

She asked me to pass on her Christmas greetings to all. Please keep praying for her, that the chemo works, that she regains her strength and her memory, and that she can be fully healed (those are all my words, not hers). She said she will come back to the HQ when she is able.

Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (79pEw)

261 When I was a kid, I incredibly naive enough to believe that the President of the United States had to be exceptional. I've since learned that it is perfectly normal for the candidate for that office to be less qualified and less prepared than a vast majority of people they would represent.

Kamala Harris highlights that truth more so than anyone. She's dumb (visibly so). She's socially inept (even more visibly so). And, by association (because I don't think she has the tools to be so on her own), she's corrupt.

She's not just unexceptional. She's the antithesis of a qualified candidate. I, literally, would not hire her into any form of decision making position. No wonder she's leading the Democrat polls.

Posted by: Orson at December 17, 2025 02:03 PM (dIske)

262 And they should put the n word on trial along with cracker and all the other FORBIDDEN WORDS.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:03 PM (Mb4p6)

263 If you want to know what Dem I would be most scared of, it's Mark kelly.

Posted by: Leupold at December

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a.k.a., Buff Smeagol.

Posted by: Axeman at December 17, 2025 02:03 PM (Q4cxx)

264 The irony is that, if I have my facts correct, the only reason the Boilermaker side-piece ratted him out to University of Michigan is because he went stalker on her after she broke up with him.

Had he just let her walk away and got on with his life of texting OnlyFans chicks and banging women-who-were-not-his-wife, he'd probably still have a job.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at

Yup she already received her payoff money and everything.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 02:03 PM (MGB5H)

265
btw, "rhymes" is one of the hardest words for me to spell

And I can speel good.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:03 PM (Oonfw)

266
She asked me to pass on her Christmas greetings to all. Please keep praying for her, that the chemo works, that she regains her strength and her memory, and that she can be fully healed (those are all my words, not hers). She said she will come back to the HQ when she is able.
Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (79pEw)

Prayers

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 02:03 PM (VE6XX)

267 This "blame the voters" thing is just as stupid as sports teams blaming fans for not coming out to watch them play. Here's a take: IF you want voters to come out for your election, GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT. The GOPe is a collection of LOSERS, who in general are just as immoral and corrupt as the people they're running against. The reason why the voters come out for Trump is that HE TRIES HARD to get them excited. He tells them their lives can be better, and what he'll do to make that happen.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 01:33 PM (TN0g+)
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Sad but true

Posted by: Metallica at December 17, 2025 02:03 PM (ZiWmd)

268 Yikes! I have a raging no-shit blizzard going here right now. 5 degrees F, 30 mph North wind, and it's snowing like a MFer. I cannot even see the trees at the south end of my lot.

Imma stay indoors, at least until the wind moderates.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (npFr7)

269 Thank you for the update, Bluebell.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

270 Which has zero to do with her felonious activities.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM

What do you think drove me to it?

Posted by: Fani at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (0sNs1)

271 Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 01:57 PM (sX1BW)

Trump prefers to direct a story rather than fall victim to the narrative they would enjoy spinning.

Think hard about why that would be advantageous for Trump and us.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (BEQiS)

272 Dick van Dyke is still alive.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (NS3dP)

273 If you want to know what Dem I would be most scared of, it's Mark kelly.

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Boomers will be all for a white astronaut.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (sX1BW)

274 239 The dems will give Kelly a pass on his sedition and he will be the macho pick of the dems. Some lefty black dude will be the VP pick.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 01:59 PM (2WIwB)
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That's some pretty good prognostication for sure.

Mark Kelly is what passes for masculine in today's Dem party.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (5aZAZ)

275
That damn "h" in ryhmes. My brain doesn't know where it should go.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (Oonfw)

276 We are in a cold war threatening to go hot. The only road is to keep from losing it.
Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)
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I don't think people on our side realize just how close we are to losing it.

If they did, there wouldn't be such low turnout from the Republicans in the recent elections

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (NpAcC)

277 Go long on fainting couches and barbituates.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (YlWIZ)

278 Imma stay indoors, at least until the wind moderates.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (npFr7)
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Hunker down, AOP! Knowing you, I'm sure you're well-prepared.

Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (79pEw)

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

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Oh, gosh.

So surprising.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

280 JD Vance will make Kelly look even more like a swishy poof than he already does.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (5aZAZ)

281 OT, but I just got an update from grammie winger and she asked me to pass it along to you all. She has had 4 rounds of chemo which have left her with short-term memory problems and severe fatigue. She was supposed to have surgery this week to remove tumors but her surgeon decided she was too weak so she is continuing on with chemo until she gets stronger.

She asked me to pass on her Christmas greetings to all. Please keep praying for her, that the chemo works, that she regains her strength and her memory, and that she can be fully healed (those are all my words, not hers). She said she will come back to the HQ when she is able.

Posted by: bluebell

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Oh dear. I did not know, as I don't frequent as much as normal. I hope she gets well in time for baseball season.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (sX1BW)

282 Trump chums the water in a way he feels will hurt less than if they were to weaponize the story against him themselves. And it WORKS.

Or he's just stupid and never thinks. One or the other. But that involves him as the single luckiest being in history.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (BEQiS)

283 It doesn't matter who wants to run, it matters who the moneybags want to fund.

Polls don't mean sh*t right now, either.

The socialist nominee for 2028 won't be found on the list of Harris, Booty, Pritzbese, Newscum, or Spartacus. They will run because they can't do anything else - they're like bucks during the rut; the urge cannot be denied even if it doesn't make sense.

Meanwhile, the election ballot counting machinery is perfecting their next election in preparation for fraud bigger than the margin of error.

Posted by: p-squared at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (0prFs)

284 190 He billed 160 hours a week.
There are 168 hours in a week.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (NpAcC)

I was told there would be no math.
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So he slept with her after servicing her? That should be billed as double time.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (Wg6v7)

285 Prayers for recovery to Gammie Winger.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (2GVsD)

286 276 I don't think people on our side realize just how close we are to losing it.

If they did, there wouldn't be such low turnout from the Republicans in the recent elections
Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 02:04 PM (NpAcC)

They're not going to fight until they have nothing to lose.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (UnA8+)

287 Harris can join William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson as repeat Dem loooosers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (LyrOO)

288 I think this scandal is gonna get worse. I'm sure there were other women -- in fact, the school admits there were -- and the school knew about it. The board retained an outside law firm to do a full investigation. It won't be pretty.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM

The irony is that, if I have my facts correct, the only reason the Boilermaker side-piece ratted him out to University of Michigan is because he went stalker on her after she broke up with him.

Had he just let her walk away and got on with his life of texting OnlyFans chicks and banging women-who-were-not-his-wife, he'd probably still have a job.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (P5BPp)
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Yea. I also think he was dumb enough to fire her after the school told him to knock it off. I think she then ratted him out and the school realized they couldn't look the other way any more. So the school said "enough of this idiot" and fired him. Then he went nuts.

But yea, had he just let this girl walk away he'd still have a job.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

289 When I was a kid, I incredibly naive enough to believe that the President of the United States had to be exceptional. I've since learned that it is perfectly normal for the candidate for that office to be less qualified and less prepared than a vast majority of people they would represent.

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They kind of were this way. Obviously all sorts of scandals we learn of later, but name all the Presidents before Obama or Dubya Bush of the 20th century, most of them fit the part.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (eIzlH)

290
I saw Rob Reiner interviewed a couple of times about political matters. My impression of him was that he was an overbearing butthead who simply didn't listen to points of view he disagreed with.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (HLgI3)

291 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

292 Yikes! I have a raging no-shit blizzard going here right now. 5 degrees F, 30 mph North wind, and it's snowing like a MFer. I cannot even see the trees at the south end of my lot.

Imma stay indoors, at least until the wind moderates.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Why aren't you in Arizona by now?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

293 Posted by: bluebell

Thank you bluebell. Grammie is a treasure. And so are you.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (BEQiS)

294 If you want to know what Dem I would be most scared of, it's Mark kelly.
Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 02:01 PM (eIzlH)

Naa.
He's a bully and a punk. His ego will trip him up early, and often.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (2WIwB)

295
~~Dick~~ Penis van ~~Dyke~~ Lesbian is still alive.

Fixed for Woketards.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (iJfKG)

296 The man has no testicles.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (v0R5T)

297
I miss mama winger.

Get well, grammie.

I just asked about her the other day, because I thought it was her "Rev" who was ill.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (Oonfw)

298 Colored women and AWFLs for getting Kumallah off her knees and into the donkey candidate.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 17, 2025 02:07 PM (xvV+O)

299 I know some people are fond of it, but I do think we ought to just give it to Canada.
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Maine has too many Somalians. We'd go bankrupt within a year. Hard pass.

Posted by: China at December 17, 2025 02:07 PM (Dv3i1)

300 Newsom is an idiot. His track record speaks for itself.
Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 01:24 PM (G1OIb)

Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:07 PM (npFr7)

301 Imagine your bench being so deep, your top candidates are Kumswala Harris and Gavin Newsom.

Either one of these make it to the election and garner over 30% of the vote, we're a failing country.

Imagine falling for a certifiable retard and a lying, grifting snake oil salesman.

You decide which is which.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

302 283 It doesn't matter who wants to run, it matters who the moneybags want to fund.

Polls don't mean sh*t right now, either.

The socialist nominee for 2028 won't be found on the list of Harris, Booty, Pritzbese, Newscum, or Spartacus. They will run because they can't do anything else - they're like bucks during the rut; the urge cannot be denied even if it doesn't make sense.

Meanwhile, the election ballot counting machinery is perfecting their next election in preparation for fraud bigger than the margin of error.

Posted by: p-squared at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (0prFs)

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This is why Kamala was the nominee in 2020. I mean Beto. I mean Warren. I mean Buttigieg.

Or,...it's amazing how little power donors have over presidential primaries when black women make up almost a majority of the electorate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

303 Have ya no decency mon?

Posted by: Reggae Harris at December 17, 2025 02:07 PM (ufJfM)

304 I saw Rob Reiner interviewed a couple of times about political matters. My impression of him was that he was an overbearing butthead who simply didn't listen to points of view he disagreed with.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

He wasn't acting in All in the Family.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 02:07 PM (MGB5H)

305 I just asked about her the other day, because I thought it was her "Rev" who was ill.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (Oonfw)
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I think it was last year that he had a lot of issues. I think he is doing well health-wise, just worried about his sweet wife.

Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM (79pEw)

306 There is only 168 hours in a week.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM (NS3dP)

307 Spanish American War established US Naval dominance in the Pacific. We had to fight to keep it in WW2, but it has been a hugely significant part of the countries economic development. Without the Spanish American War, the US after 1940 would have been facing a very powerful Japanese Empire which would have absorbed much of the area easily.

Of course that's where alternate histories get tricky - what would be the result when the Japanese Empire went up against Mao directly?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM (uWKK8)

308 Prayers for healing for Grammie Winger.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM (ix8EF)

309 When I was a kid, I incredibly naive enough to believe that the President of the United States had to be exceptional. I've since learned that it is perfectly normal for the candidate for that office to be less qualified and less prepared than a vast majority of people they would represent.

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Clinton getting fellatioed in the Oval Office settled that for me.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM (sX1BW)

310 She asked me to pass on her Christmas greetings to all. Please keep praying for her, that the chemo works, that she regains her strength and her memory, and that she can be fully healed (those are all my words, not hers). She said she will come back to the HQ when she is able.
Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (79pEw)

Godspeed to you both.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

311 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.

This turned out to be the optimistic scenario, as it happened, because we got to run against a drunken fool instead of just a fool.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 02:09 PM (gKWVE)

312 How cute, thinking that Democrats actually have to follow rules.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 01:56 PM (UnA8+)

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Yeah, was gonna make the same snark but forgot.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:09 PM (H+EWf)

313 I think it was last year that he had a lot of issues. I think he is doing well health-wise, just worried about his sweet wife.
Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM (79pEw)

I know how he feels. Virtual *fistbump* to him. It's a long and arduous road he's on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

314 There is no high road.

We are in a cold war threatening to go hot. The only road is to keep from losing it.
Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)
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Good stuff, whig....this is why I get so tired of the tempest-in-a-teapot media BS about Trump's Mean Tweets/Truths. Would I, personally, say something like he said about a guy who was just brutally murdered by his own son? No. Do I really care that Donald Trump did? Also no. If you were a loudmouth asshole while you were alive, you don't get a magical talisman that means nobody is allowed to point that out when you die. Reiner certainly earned that title, and for that matter so has Trump, but nobody is under any illusion that there won't be a conga line of lefty shitheels tap-dancing on Trump's grave when he shuffles off this mortal coil.

I'm tired of being a conservative and always having to climb the hill to a high road that doesn't even exist.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (5aZAZ)

315 She asked me to pass on her Christmas greetings to all. Please keep praying for her, that the chemo works, that she regains her strength and her memory, and that she can be fully healed (those are all my words, not hers). She said she will come back to the HQ when she is able.
Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (79pEw)

Prayers
Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 02:03 PM (VE6XX)
******
Praying!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (NpAcC)

316 Naa.
He's a bully and a punk. His ego will trip him up early, and often.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (2WIwB)

He was supposed to be the leader of the Seditious Six, you could tell that part of it was a plan to bolster Kelly's name ID and credibility - he failed. His claims were ineffective, and he came off looking like a stuffy idiot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (uWKK8)

317 Archie Bunker was supposed to be the laughingstock and Meathead the real star.

Funny that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (2GVsD)

318 And I sent grammie's update to Annie's Stew for inclusion in the Saturday morning prayer thread.

Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (79pEw)

319 I think I'm gonna change my college-football allegiance to Virginia Tech, my son's alma mater. That new coach they got from Penn State looks like he's gonna be pretty good.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

320 Saying prayers for recovery for grammie, teresa and Jim in kalifornia and all other ailing Hordians

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (LyrOO)

321 290
I saw Rob Reiner interviewed a couple of times about political matters. My impression of him was that he was an overbearing butthead who simply didn't listen to points of view he disagreed with.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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As LizLem mentioned, he was deeply involved in the Russia Russia issue with CIA types in several organizations that he was a big wheel in. He was a political player in California on several bad proposition votes during the Arnold era, etc.

And he called people in the right fascists, racists, justified violence, etc. just like the rest of his celebutard friendz did in Whorrywood.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (WDjG6)

322 JD Vance will make Kelly look even more like a swishy poof than he already does.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:05 PM (5aZAZ)

Concur. Kelly won't be able to help himself and will pull rank, trying to make Vance look like some stumbling Marine private. He will fail.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (2WIwB)

323 She asked me to pass on her Christmas greetings to all. Please keep praying for her, that the chemo works, that she regains her strength and her memory, and that she can be fully healed (those are all my words, not hers). She said she will come back to the HQ when she is able.
Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (79pEw)

Thank you for the update. Prayers sent, and looking forward to her return.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (p5Ey8)

324 .>>>She asked me to pass on her Christmas greetings to all. Please keep praying for her, that the chemo works, that she regains her strength and her memory, and that she can be fully healed (those are all my words, not hers). She said she will come back to the HQ when she is able.
Posted by: bluebell
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grammie, our prayers and thoughts are with you.
Hang tight and be back soon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (Mb4p6)

325 There is only 168 hours in a week.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM

On Earth. Other planets have different rotational periods.

Some, like Mercury, have none at all.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (0sNs1)

326 Naa.
He's a bully and a punk. His ego will trip him up early, and often.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (2WIwB)

He was supposed to be the leader of the Seditious Six, you could tell that part of it was a plan to bolster Kelly's name ID and credibility - he failed. His claims were ineffective, and he came off looking like a stuffy idiot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (uWKK

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This. I think his career beyond the Senate is dead. He's a creepy shitheel cocksucker that nobody likes, and his political instincts are shit.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

327 Archie Bunker was supposed to be the laughingstock and Meathead the real star.

Funny that.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (2GVsD)

Happens allllllllll the time in Hollywood. Ron Swanson, Jack Donaghy to name a couple.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (MGB5H)

328 Wasn't Reiner the one who said he was gonna check himself into a psych ward if Trump won in 2024?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

329 Hegseth already punked Kelly by ridiculing him on his incorrect medals rack.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (2GVsD)

330 326 This. I think his career beyond the Senate is dead. He's a creepy shitheel cocksucker that nobody likes, and his political instincts are shit.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

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And that's not good enough for Democrat politics because...?

He just needs to be in the right place at the right time like Biden in 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

331 Clinton getting fellatioed in the Oval Office settled that for me.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:08 PM (sX1BW)
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Spending five years working in the Senate and realizing that most people in Congress are extremely unimpressive people disabused me of any starry-eyed credulity I had about our government. Most of them are stone-cold morons.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (5aZAZ)

332 Thanxs for the update Bluebell.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (2WIwB)

333 Meathead's dad was involved in The Dick van Dyke Show.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (NS3dP)

334 Don't forget about me!
Posted by: Josh Shapiro at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (NgqoH)
*******
May have a problem with the "Free Palestine" crowd.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (NpAcC)

335 Would I, personally, say something like he said about a guy who was just brutally murdered by his own son? No. Do I really care that Donald Trump did? Also no. If you were a loudmouth asshole while you were alive, you don't get a magical talisman that means nobody is allowed to point that out when you die. Reiner certainly earned that title, and for that matter so has Trump, but nobody is under any illusion that there won't be a conga line of lefty shitheels tap-dancing on Trump's grave when he shuffles off this mortal coil.

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This is well said and pretty much sums up my thoughts on it. I still like many of his films.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (sX1BW)

336 319 I think I'm gonna change my college-football allegiance to Virginia Tech, my son's alma mater. That new coach they got from Penn State looks like he's gonna be pretty good.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

I'm never not going to associate VT with "Richard McBeef".

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:13 PM (UnA8+)

337 333 Meathead's dad was involved in The Dick van Dyke Show.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (NS3dP)

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Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks were best friends for decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

338 Whomever the DNC runs has 45% of the vote from day one. Thats the problem.

Posted by: Howdy at December 17, 2025 02:13 PM (jzWBS)

339 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:13 PM (NS3dP)

340 334 Don't forget about me!
Posted by: Josh Shapiro at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (NgqoH)
*******
May have a problem with the "Free Palestine" crowd.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (NpAcC)

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Look, if someone regularly gets 0-1% black support, they're not going anywhere in Democrat presidential politics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

341 Thanks Blue Bell

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 02:13 PM (Ia/+0)

342 @328 I think he went away for a while. Don't know if it was to a booby hatch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:13 PM (LyrOO)

343 >>I saw Rob Reiner interviewed a couple of times about political matters. My impression of him was that he was an overbearing butthead who simply didn't listen to points of view he disagreed with.

In 2017, Reiner set up a group with Clapper and Brennan to investigate Russian interference in our elections. Obviously, he was working with former intel heads to smear Trump.

I don't wish his end on anyone but I'm already tired of hearing what a great guy he was. No, he was not.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:14 PM (viF8m)

344 he came off looking like a stuffy idiot.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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He looked like a talking circumcized penis. And he acts like the dickhead he resembles. Some reported that the Obamas are pushing him so you know he is a thorough piece of shit like they are. As if his antics with his anti gun group demonstrated after his wife was shot. And it is reported that he treats her like dirt now too.

And he is one of the big beneficiaries of smurfing political funds to the tune of millions of bucks attributed to old retired people that deny giving that money to him.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 02:14 PM (WDjG6)

345 333 Meathead's dad was involved in The Dick van Dyke Show.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (NS3dP)

"Involved in"??? He created it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:14 PM (uWKK8)

346 321 As LizLem mentioned, he was deeply involved in the Russia Russia issue with CIA types in several organizations that he was a big wheel in. He was a political player in California on several bad proposition votes during the Arnold era, etc.

And he called people in the right fascists, racists, justified violence, etc. just like the rest of his celebutard friendz did in Whorrywood.
Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (WDjG6)

He was part of Pelosi's J6 "Documentary".

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:14 PM (UnA8+)

347 Ron Swanson I think they realized pretty quickly he was cool. The irony is Oferman(sp?) Is a lib jackass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

348 >>>321 290
I saw Rob Reiner interviewed a couple of times about political matters. My impression of him was that he was an overbearing butthead who simply didn't listen to points of view he disagreed with.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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He was a straight up liar and political fraud.
Radio played clips of him. He was delusional stated as, trust me, fact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (Mb4p6)

349 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

For those that don't know, today is this youngin's wedding anniversary. He actually did find a woman to put up with his movie obsession AND bear his children.

For that, congratulations are in order.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

350 347 Ron Swanson I think they realized pretty quickly he was cool. The irony is Oferman(sp?) Is a lib jackass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

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He gets a happy ending in Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

351 Friends, countrymen; lend me your ears. We come here not to praise Rob Reiner but to bury him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (2GVsD)

352 Meathead's dad was involved in The Dick van Dyke Show.

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As I recall, Mary Tyler Moore told of the story of a young Meathead being on set of the Dick Van Dyke show and grabbing her behind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (qBdHI)

353 Gavin certainly does not have any leadership cred due to running California into the ground with tent cities, and billions spent on a train to no where.Plus the fires burning up LA as he shimmied and smiled.

Not that Kam has any type of leadership cred. She was, after all, the border czar that allowed millions of illegals into our country. So there's that she can brag about!

"I, as Vice President, allowed millions of unvetted illegals from all over the world to come to our country and give us culture. Granted, the culture was murder and eating kitty cats, but it is more than Gavin did."

Then she will launch into a future of her leadership, which will be the best of all time and fruitful and wonderful and vapid adjectives circling back to herself. She will have a look of stoned wonder on her goofy face while she yammers insipidly and occasionally clicks on her radio earrings.

VP Vance will destroy her in a debate. So, bring it on!

I have to be honest,however, that politics three years from now is in the future and I live for today. "Sha,la,lalalala, live for today."

https://tinyurl.com/5yka2tns

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (WONhk)

354 349
For those that don't know, today is this youngin's wedding anniversary. He actually did find a woman to put up with his movie obsession AND bear his children.

For that, congratulations are in order.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

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Even she liked and subscribed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

355 Don't be exoplanetaryphobic.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (0sNs1)

356 My favorite character on the Dick Van Dyke show was the Morrie Amsterdam one.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (77rzZ)

357 I remember Rhoda as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:16 PM (NS3dP)

358 This. I think his career beyond the Senate is dead. He's a creepy shitheel cocksucker that nobody likes, and his political instincts are shit.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

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And that's not good enough for Democrat politics because...?

He just needs to be in the right place at the right time like Biden in 2020.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
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Biden was a special case because of his name recognition, being Gay Lightbringer's VP, and the inexplicable belief of a substantial number of Democraps that he was a calming moderate.

He also had the benefit of running against even worse candidates who didn't really want to win (Bernie).

Joey Shithead is the exception, not the rule.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

359 In 2017, Reiner set up a group with Clapper and Brennan to investigate Russian interference in our elections. Obviously, he was working with former intel heads to smear Trump.

I don't wish his end on anyone but I'm already tired of hearing what a great guy he was. No, he was not.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:14 PM (viF8m)

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Odds he was a CIA Asset?

The betting line opens at 95% ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:16 PM (2pWt+)

360 Meathead's dad was involved in The Dick van Dyke Show.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (NS3dP)

"Involved in"??? He created it!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:14 PM

That is where a young (14, I believe) Rob learned how to treat women in hollywood because he walked up and grabbed Mary Tyler Moore's ass while on set.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

361 >>> Agree. And I understand he wasn't just ranting from the sidelines. He was a major player in Democrap politics.

Yeah. But Reiner... is there any writer/director/producer in Hollywood that worked in such wildly massive genres and had such monster hits, or movies that have held up over time, as he did? Fantasy, thriller, Romantic comedy, horror, coming of age...it felt like he got involved in every genre and did it well, in his peak years.

He also did films that appealed to everyone. Even normie schlubs. It's too bad he stopped caring about the schlubs later on, and only worked on helping the elites.

His son is so messed up even after he did so much to help him...there's a lot of guilt there. Some rumblings online in the background are wondering if he failed to protect his kid from Hollywood's worst ilk, and it messed him up, and so dad tried to pay penance for that. (I wish someone would spill what they were fighting about at during Conan's holiday party.)

If so, clean up your own house before you throw stones at MAGA and tell them how to live their lives.

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (gWBY1)

362
Even she liked and subscribed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

Woah! A win win!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

363 358 Biden was a special case because of his name recognition, being Gay Lightbringer's VP, and the inexplicable belief of a substantial number of Democraps that he was a calming moderate.

He also had the benefit of running against even worse candidates who didn't really want to win (Bernie).

Joey Shithead is the exception, not the rule.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

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And if Kamala chooses him for VP and Kamala wins the presidency...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

364
I think the fuel crisis that is going to ravage California next year will put an end to Gavin's national hopes. I think California will be sinking into all kinds of economic distress well before 2028, and it will be laid at his feet.

But you're talking about Californians. It'll all be "Life In Trump's America". Not a chance in hell that they'll put the blame on Gov HairProduct's plate. And if there's a couple of semi-honest Californians that acknowledge that Newsom had anything to do with it, they'll STILL vote for Newsom, because they won't vote for Republican cooties.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (y9nCu)

365
As I recall, Mary Tyler Moore told of the story of a young Meathead being on set of the Dick Van Dyke show and grabbing her behind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (qBdHI)

So, you're saying that at one point in his life, Meathead had good judgement?

Huh...

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (iJfKG)

366 He was part of Pelosi's J6 "Documentary".
Posted by: XTC
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Fits with his California friendz. The Palisades burned because of people like him running California. Nutjob burning a Bible started the whole shebang.

How's the job search going XTC, anything I can do to help?

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

367 I remember Rhoda as well.
Posted by: Boss Moss

My wife and I were talking about the name "Carlton" the other day, and reminiscing about Carlton the Doorman.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:18 PM (77rzZ)

368 364 But you're talking about Californians. It'll all be "Life In Trump's America". Not a chance in hell that they'll put the blame on Gov HairProduct's plate. And if there's a couple of semi-honest Californians that acknowledge that Newsom had anything to do with it, they'll STILL vote for Newsom, because they won't vote for Republican cooties.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (y9nCu)

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He has literally no chance in the Dem primary in 2028.

Kamala is going to win SC by 30-50 points. It won't matter at all what NH says after that, and the Iowa caucuses are fake and no one believes them anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

369 This is well said and pretty much sums up my thoughts on it. I still like many of his films.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (sX1BW)
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I don't consume a lot of media, especially films, but I do my best to separate the artist's work from the artist in all cases.

Like Steve Earle. I love his music but he's a lefty asshole, and I try to forget the latter fact when "Guitar Town" comes on.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:18 PM (5aZAZ)

370 Do not speak ill of the spread.

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at December 17, 2025 02:18 PM (BEQiS)

371 I don't buy "Kamala automatically wins because South Carolina".

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:19 PM (UnA8+)

372 sanity check:

What will the people whining about what Trump said about Meathead themselves say when Trump eventually kicks the proverbial bucket?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:19 PM (JwNbV)

373 Rob's father, learning of what the youngster had done, told him he shouldn't do that, but then high fived him for doing what every man on set wanted to do.

The Reiner's have been absolute trash for a long time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

374 369 This is well said and pretty much sums up my thoughts on it. I still like many of his films.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM (sX1BW)
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I don't consume a lot of media, especially films, but I do my best to separate the artist's work from the artist in all cases.

Like Steve Earle. I love his music but he's a lefty asshole, and I try to forget the latter fact when "Guitar Town" comes on.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:18 PM (5aZAZ)

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Ishiro Honda, the father of Godzilla, was an apologist for Imperial Japan during WWII.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

375
Preacher:

"Do you [name] take [name] to be your lawfully-married husband, through sickness and health, etc., etc.? If so, please hit "Like" and subscribe to his channel."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 02:19 PM (0sNs1)

376 Biden was a special case because of his name recognition, being Gay Lightbringer's VP, and the inexplicable belief of a substantial number of Democraps that he was a calming moderate.

He also had the benefit of running against even worse candidates who didn't really want to win (Bernie).

Joey Shithead is the exception, not the rule.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

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And if Kamala chooses him for VP and Kamala wins the presidency...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

The first hypothetical ain't never gonna happen. The second is unlikely to happen (without him), but who knows where we'll be in 2028. As much as I like JDV and think he'll be a great president, he is not Trump and I worry about his ability to appeal to those Trump-only voters.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

377 A Kamala/Gruesome ticket?

1. Would she accept the VP slot after being VP already?

2. If (when) they win - have we ever had someone be VP in two different administrations?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (QGaXH)

378 366 How's the job search going XTC, anything I can do to help?

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

Not searching for a job. Searching for marketable skills.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (UnA8+)

379 no one believes them anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I believe!!!! [lighting a cigarette lighter and holding it aloft swaying.]

Posted by: Petey Bootygig at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (WDjG6)

380 Who was the Mother of Godzilla?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (NS3dP)

381 Do not speak ill of the spread.
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at December 17, 2025 02:18 PM

This.

Posted by: Legs at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (0sNs1)

382 Ishiro Honda, the father of Godzilla, was an apologist for Imperial Japan during WWII.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't Kurosawa make propaganda films during the war for the Japanese Army?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

383 He gets a happy ending in Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

I don't wanna see that!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

384 I do not give a Tinker's Damn on what President Trump said about Reiner. Reiner was an ass. As I've said before, no one should die like that, but at at the end of the day, that was his kid, thus, his problem. But I just don't care. When I see what he said about Charlie Kirk, Rush Limbaugh, and what he has said about the President since 2015, his death drops off my Giv-O-Shit list.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (2WIwB)

385 Not searching for a job. Searching for marketable skills.
Posted by: XTC

Okay, what do you want to do? And what employment is hot in your area or do you plan to relocate?

Posted by: Petey Bootygig at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)

386
Lizlem,

What is a normie schlub?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (3ek7K)

387 376 The first hypothetical ain't never gonna happen. The second is unlikely to happen (without him), but who knows where we'll be in 2028. As much as I like JDV and think he'll be a great president, he is not Trump and I worry about his ability to appeal to those Trump-only voters.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

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I'm just sayin'...

I don't think Kelly has a future outside the Senate (eh...he could probably win the governorship if the opportunity presented itself), but Biden was viewed as dumber and worse than Kelly is now, and he lucked into the VP slot and then got the name-recognition and proximity to beloved Obama to ride his way to the WH himself.

It could happen.

Looking stupid in Democrat politics is not a killer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

388
"Do you [name] take [name] to be your lawfully-married husband, through sickness and health, etc., etc.? If so, please hit "Like" and subscribe to his channel."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 02:19 PM (0sNs1)

Don't forget to tip your pastor on the way out by clicking on the appropriate percentage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

389 >>Biden was a special case because of his name recognition, being Gay Lightbringer's VP, and the inexplicable belief of a substantial number of Democraps that he was a calming moderate.

Biden's one claim to fame that got him both the VP slot and then the Presidential nomination was his longtime association with the US foreign policy apparatus. And by that I mean mostly the CIA.

Why do you think Obama put him in charge of Ukraine and China? Why do you think he pushed Ukraine NATO membership when anyone who really knew the situation knew it would lead to war?

The shadow government that gets talked about every so often is not a conspiracy theory. It's very real. That's what the uniparty works for.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (viF8m)

390 Nood.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (3nLb4)

391 377 A Kamala/Gruesome ticket?

1. Would she accept the VP slot after being VP already?

2. If (when) they win - have we ever had someone be VP in two different administrations?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (QGaXH)

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They reportedly hate each other, and 2028 is going to be Kamala's revenge tour.

She's more likely to choose Crockett, fresh off her big loss in TX, than Newsom.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

392 380 Who was the Mother of Godzilla?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (NS3dP)

The Theotokyos?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (JwNbV)

393 PowerBall is over a $1 Billion tonight.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (NS3dP)

394 Looking stupid in Democrat politics is not a killer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM

Thank goodness!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Wig (D-CA) at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (0sNs1)

395 363 358 Biden was a special case because of his name recognition, being Gay Lightbringer's VP, and the inexplicable belief of a substantial number of Democraps that he was a calming moderate.

He also had the benefit of ...
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push carts of ready made Biden ballots under the table and pre-programed flash drives for the electronic booths.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (Mb4p6)

396 Nobody's mentioned it yet but, as I read the situation, the only things between Kamala and the presidency is she needs bigger tits.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (HTCU3)

397 I cansee Kameltoe winning squat, even in Leftifonia

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (Ia/+0)

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

Haha, Ace, you just made my day!

Posted by: pookysgirl's church is online but not in that way at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (Wt5PA)

399 382 Ishiro Honda, the father of Godzilla, was an apologist for Imperial Japan during WWII.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't Kurosawa make propaganda films during the war for the Japanese Army?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

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He made one: The Most Beautiful (women working in a wartime factory), and he regretted it afterwards, justifying it because he had just gotten the job of director at Toho and had to do what he was told.

(There was a labor dispute at the same time that split off to make Shintoho, which he didn't join...Kurosawa was actually a Marxist by theory but practical when it came to his own career.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

400
You do realize that if ANYONE else besides his son killed him, WE'D be blamed?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (Oonfw)

401 385 Okay, what do you want to do? And what employment is hot in your area or do you plan to relocate?
Posted by: Petey Bootygig at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)

Nothing is hot here. It's a dead area.

And as much as I don't think I'd mind moving, my father, COPD and all, would drive out to wherever I went and drag me back here. Even when I lived 45 minutes away from him, he bitched that it was too far away for the level of control he wanted to have over my decisions.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (UnA8+)

402 This is only a test.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (QGaXH)

403 Friends, countrymen; lend me your ears. We come here not to praise Rob Reiner but to bury him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (2GVsD)

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The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their scalp hair (or lack thereof);
So let it be with Reiner. The noble Nicholas
Hath told you his father drove him batshit crazy ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (uMYuS)

404 Kamala is going to win SC by 30-50 points. It won't matter at all what NH says after that, and the Iowa caucuses are fake and no one believes them anyway.
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How hard is it to count hands and write it down and add? Iowa was stolen by Big Tech. First time they used computers and cell phones to count the votes and it was all fucked up. No one won Iowa.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (Wg6v7)

405 404 How hard is it to count hands and write it down and add? Iowa was stolen by Big Tech. First time they used computers and cell phones to count the votes and it was all fucked up. No one won Iowa.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (Wg6v7)

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Caucuses are about 100 people running around a room, not about ballot counting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

406 372 sanity check:

What will the people whining about what Trump said about Meathead themselves say when Trump eventually kicks the proverbial bucket?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

1776 had a poignant moment in the movie just before the vote,
"Dr. Benjamin Franklin: John? I beg you consider what you're doing.

John Adams: Mark me, Franklin... if we give in on this issue (slavery condemnation), posterity will never forgive us.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin: That's probably true, but we won't hear a thing, we'll be long gone. Besides, what would posterity think we were? Demi-gods? We're men, no more no less, trying to get a nation started against greater odds than a more generous God would have allowed. First things first, John. Independence; America. If we don't secure that, what difference will the rest make?"

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (WDjG6)

407 I still don't buy "Kamala automatically wins because South Carolina".

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (UnA8+)

408 Looking at the pics of the Reiners its obvious the murderous son looks like his mom.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (Wg6v7)

409
Yeah. But Reiner... is there any writer/director/producer in Hollywood that worked in such wildly massive genres and had such monster hits, or movies that have held up over time, as he did? Fantasy, thriller, Romantic comedy, horror, coming of age...it felt like he got involved in every genre and did it well, in his peak years.

The thing is, he had a single hit film in the last 30 years, some forgettable rom-com that I can't even remember the name of. He picked a bunch of really good scripts in his early days as a director, from a bunch of really good writers. But his output was largely either shit or ordinary at best after A Few Good Men.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (y9nCu)

410 Caucuses are about 100 people running around a room, not about ballot counting.
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They count hands. Same deal. Maff.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (Wg6v7)

411 As I recall, Mary Tyler Moore told of the story of a young Meathead being on set of the Dick Van Dyke show and grabbing her behind.
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The only Dick Van Dyke show episodes that are worth watching are the "office" episodes, because that means Mary Tyler Moore doesn't get much screen time. I dislike her character, and every second she's onscreen she's either whining or crying or acting jealous or some combination of those things.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (TN0g+)

412
328 Wasn't Reiner the one who said he was gonna check himself into a psych ward if Trump won in 2024?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:12 PM

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I don't remember what his histrionic 2024 election vow was, he always had one. But after the 2024 election, there was an announcement that he was checking into some kind of inpatient facility.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (Ijbq0)

413
nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (Oonfw)

414 She asked me to pass on her Christmas greetings to all. Please keep praying for her, that the chemo works, that she regains her strength and her memory, and that she can be fully healed (those are all my words, not hers). She said she will come back to the HQ when she is able.
Posted by: bluebell at December 17, 2025 02:02 PM (79pEw)

Thank you, bluebell.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (npFr7)

415 Its hard to have any sympathy for some bastard who would want me in a Gulag

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (Ia/+0)

416 And as much as I don't think I'd mind moving, my father, COPD and all, would drive out to wherever I went and drag me back here. Even when I lived 45 minutes away from him, he bitched that it was too far away for the level of control he wanted to have over my decisions.
Posted by: XTC
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Off sock dammit,
Sorry to hear that. White collar work or blue collar? If white collar, sales if you are a good people person is a way in. Even route salesman for checking supermarkets, etc. If you can sell one product, it is generally easier then to lateral shift.

Blue collar, the trades. Plumbing, electrical, mechanic, heavy equipment operation, all have apprenticeship programs.

There may also be some CDL positions opening up for truck driving due to illegals being driven out of the industry. Robert here, I think is or was a long haul driver but there are short hauls too if you have a good driving record.

One trick is to enlist in the Nat. Guard or better yet Naval Reserve or Air National Guard. Often depending on the state, they get education benefits at state institutions as well as a lesser GI Bill. Aim for a slot that trains for a job with civilian applications.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (WDjG6)

417 Kamala / Trump's former Chief of Staff: 2028

This solves the daunting challenge of finding a VP candidate that wouldn't outshine the numero uno!

We knew there had to be somebody dumber than Kamala, and now we've found them!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (FpP3s)

418 Why aren't you in Arizona by now?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

Still have things to do.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (npFr7)

419 On Earth. Other planets have different rotational periods.

Some, like Mercury, have none at all.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 17, 2025 02:11 PM (0sNs1)

Wrongo, kid. Mercury rotates 3 times for every two orbits it makes around the Sun.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (npFr7)

420 Not searching for a job. Searching for marketable skills.
Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:20 PM (UnA8+)

There should be plenty of openings for truck drivers. Go to a reputable school, and get your CDL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (npFr7)

421 LOL!!! They're attacking Newsome NOW ?

As if any of this matters. She ran in 2020 as well and dropped out without getting a single delegate from any primary. She has ZERO chance of being the nominee in an open primary. She's simply too dumb.

Posted by: deadrody at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (jdWAw)

422 167 Women, be they black, AWFL, or public unionized versions (ie, teachers), are going to vote close in big numbers for Kamala. Any state where those groups can carry the primary, she probably wins.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (tMI+3)
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LOL!!! Why didn't that work in 2020 ? Oh, right, because it was an open primary and not two hand selected nitwits where Dems only have to choose between Newsom and Harris.

The AWFLs may be dumb as rocks, but they're actually smart enough to get behind another candidate that isn't a word salad spewing moron.

Posted by: deadrody at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (jdWAw)

423 He has literally no chance in the Dem primary in 2028.

Kamala is going to win SC by 30-50 points. It won't matter at all what NH says after that, and the Iowa caucuses are fake and no one believes them anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

She'll win the super-delegate primary....common voters be damned. It's the democrat way.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (g8Ew8)

424 Kamala the drunk Aunt excited about the color yellow..

No way they run her again. The doners have spoken already

However, the left has a way of learning with its face, so go for it dum dums

Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 17, 2025 03:14 PM (61TgR)

425 How Gavin (GAYYYYYY) Newsome has the audacity to run for anything after completely demolishing CA is something to behold. How does anyone look at that state and come to the conclusion that the rest of the country should be just as devastated? That little limp wristed turd burglar should be the solo candidate for a one-way trip to Mars

Couldn't possibly fuck that up

Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (61TgR)

426 From CTH,

"As originally reported in August 2025 , a group of far-left human rights advocates sent a letter to 150 U.S. colleges and universities asking them to disable the CCTV systems to protect “free expression and academic freedom across the country,” because “the Trump administration has launched an aggressive campaign against US academic institutions.”

The motive for the request to disable CCTV systems as stated: “Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists’ right to anonymity––a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation.”

The letter from ‘Fight For The Future‘ (August, 2025) came after an earlier campaign by the same group seeking to stop the use of facial recognition cameras on college campuses. "

Source: Fightforthefuture dot org.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)

427 She is better off running to the Bar and mess up her mind in Bottled Poison/Alcohol

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 17, 2025 06:20 PM (wGqjj)

428 "Kamala Harris isn't planning to go gentle into that good night."

I hate this shit from supposed well educated intellectual translators of reality for the common man who is too stupid to understand by demonstrating how fucking smart I am by quoting the most boring fucking line, not from the poem, but from the fucking movie I watched 10 years ago.

Posted by: wickedpinto at December 18, 2025 02:23 AM (2a0yj)

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?
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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
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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)

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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)
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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)
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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)
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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.
---
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)
====

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/)

======

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)

======

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.
---
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
___

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?
-----

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?
-----

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?
---

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 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

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 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 01:20 PM (+DEP/)

341 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.
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It's not easy to discuss.
But, it takes an actual psychopath to be able to look down a gun scope and shoot another man.
Especially over and over.
We have built a military that has gotten very, very good at getting ordinary men past that hard moral stop, to pull the trigger.
Other cultures use intense hatred, dehumanization, drugs, dissociation, or comradery to push.
We now do it with cold, professional calculation and precision.
Because it's necessary.
We like to pretend, but the whole world would turn on us in an instant if they thought they had a chance.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 01:21 PM (HXT0k)

342 315 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)

Don’t be too sure. This is a country where envy, hatred and resentment are seen as great moral virtues.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 17, 2025 01:21 PM (rQwsY)

343 I assume our NYC high hotel rates were a result of the city housing illegals in many hotels thus driving up tourist cost.

Posted by: Goatweed at December 17, 2025 01:23 PM (jK3NL)

344 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

We have to wait and see. What is also unpredictable is how Trump's serious chopping of regulatory rules is going to affect the economy. Drag on investments, etc. from regulations is a highly speculative number. Liberals claim little effect, conservative economists, a lot, in part because of unseen diversions in investing strategies and the cost of substitution effects to counteract regulations.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:23 PM (WDjG6)

345 343 I assume our NYC high hotel rates were a result of the city housing illegals in many hotels thus driving up tourist cost.
Posted by: Goatweed
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I suspect under Mamdani, tourism to NYC is going to shrivel up just like in the 70's under Lindsay and Abe Beame.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 01:24 PM (WDjG6)

346 322 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

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I regularly visit relatives near Greenville, S.C., and see new or underway crappy-looking cluster subdivisions every time. ... I'd like to think the surplus will temper prices, but I'd wager on continued inflated prices and more soul-crushing eyesores.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM (NYInA)

347 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)
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Neither of them were Grant's choices. They were Lincoln's. Grant wanted Sedgwick to command in the Valley, and anyone else but Butler for the Army of the James. Sedgwick came from an old Democrat family and was not trusted by the Radical Republicans, and Butler was a Democrat who came out in support of Lincoln during the 1860 campaign. Out of uniform, Butler would have been a threat during the 1864 presidential campaign.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 01:25 PM (rj6Yv)

348 Private payrolls are what matters. You can easily get to zero unemployment by hiring all the unemployed to a government job, or a government funded NGO.

A lot of the "weak" Trump job numbers are the firing of useless government workers and cutting off the spigot of government money.

If you have an excellent quarter of private sector hiring, but you also cut a lot of government jobs, it makes the quarter look bad.

Posted by: Vick King at December 17, 2025 01:29 PM (6wd9j)

349 224 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/)
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As they used to say on talk radio: "Dittos."

If a job was lost because the employee is no longer present to work, but a USC (US Citizen, per Linked In job postings requesting "non"-USC) replacement is put in place, is that a gain? Or a wash?

And what is the current rate of "discouraged workers"? Those who aren't counted in unemployment numbers, because they stopped trying to find employment? The Unemployment rate apparently went up. But if there's more demand for jobs now, even with the drop of employed immigrants, then it may be that the 'reservoir' of lost Americans has been opened. A new supply to replace immigrants, including illegal ones that were paid under the table and not properly taxed on income.

The question

Posted by: Another Anon at December 17, 2025 01:40 PM (4h45B)

350 @160 And the adding and removing of stuff does not make for a better narrative flow.

I saw it and agree with you except for one thing. The removal of the stinger at the end of Vol, 1 that (SPOILER ALERT) The Bride's daughter is still alive makes us as shocked as she is when she shows up near the end of Vol. 2.

It doesn't make a difference to you or me, who've seen the movie plenty, but to a new viewer I bet it would be a pretty big deal.

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at December 17, 2025 02:15 PM (S/j/E)

351 Lets deport the Democrats as well

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 17, 2025 06:21 PM (wGqjj)

352 "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."

But as at #25 noted, federal employment was gutted at the same time. so the fed lost something like 100K, and the private market made that up, PLUS 64K, which means the PRIVATE market dded 164K, the vast majority being US Citizens, native born.

Posted by: wickedpinto at December 18, 2025 02:27 AM (2a0yj)

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!
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4 Mannix!
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 11:01 AM

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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)
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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)

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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. "

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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!
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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)

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
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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.
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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"
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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)
______

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)

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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.
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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
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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)

420 In our forseeable AI-panopticon future the price of a hamburger will be based on your income, location, credit score and your blood sugar level. But the chip in your head will ensure that you'll LOVE it !

Posted by: Zek at December 17, 2025 01:46 PM (5FPX4)

421 Arbitrary and opaque pricing differences are completely counter to the entire concept of prices

Now do airline ticketing...

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 17, 2025 01:54 PM (bufu1)

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!

-----------

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

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

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)

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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)

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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+)

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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+)

379 Can he play Tip-Toe through the Tulips?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 17, 2025 06:23 PM (wGqjj)

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.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

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.
=====

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.
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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)
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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
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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)
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It's real.

https://tinyurl.com/tc8axszh

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 10:30 AM (xmTG8)

294 Chuck E. Sleaze wants more stupid Gun Control Laws despite the fact they don't work once again he throws Gasoline on a Fire and the Flashback burns his lilywhite arms

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 17, 2025 06:30 PM (wGqjj)

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

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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)

-------

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."
---
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

----

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
----------------
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)

------

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.
------------
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)
-----------
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)

----

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!

***

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

============

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

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)
-------------

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
-------------------------------------------
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?"
---

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
these methods to your won web site.

Posted by: Dab Pen at December 17, 2025 11:31 AM (T9Kfu)

132 Thank God Hillary never was, and never will be, President.

Posted by: RebeccaH at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (VFung)

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)

325 There was a time when I thought Candace Owens was pretty cool, but now I realize she’s just another bugnutz big mouth.

Posted by: RebeccaH at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (VFung)

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)

======

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)
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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)

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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)
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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 (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)

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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)

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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
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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)

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